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[shadowkat]

Finished Scoundrel's Honor by Rosemary Rodgers - whose writing was comparatively speaking on a purely technical level far and away the best of the bunch. (I tried to read the Connie Brockaway novel afterwards and couldn't deal with all the syntax errors and choppy writing structure. Or simplicity of the word choice. And that was just the first page. May try again later...after I read another Rodgers...this one is about a woman posing as a highwayman to rob from the rich/give to the poor and the gentleman agent attempting to bring her to justice to save his kidnapped brother's life. Rodgers' was influenced by the works of Alexandre Dumas- apparently. There's definitely a Dumas flair in her books and her dialogue is good.) Rodgers clearly has worked hard at the technical aspects of her craft. The typos I found were few and far between and clearly the fault of e-book digitization.

Another bit? This is not your momma's Rodgers. There's no rape in this book. Mention and referred to, yes. The threat of rape? Present - realistic back then, also true of all romance novels I've read, unfortunately. But no actual rape. Neither the heroine nor any of the main characters are raped. It's not a rapemance. Also it's a bit subversive in that the heroine saves the hero a few times, she's independent, and he's a bit of an outlaw, and not a "manly" man so much as sleek - like Spike. Rodgers clearly was a Buffy/Spike fan.
Her heroine? An aging spinster. Her hero - an aging pirate.

At $4.99? Worth the buy.

Comments

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

If the Brockway one is "As You Desire" (0r some variation of that whose title I've forgotten) the opening sequence is a spoof.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No, it's called "The Other Guy's Bride". It's supposed to be a fight scene, poorly written, I think I should have read it before the Rosemary Rodgers one - because it is better written than the Brenda Jackson novel that I gave up on.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed a fair amount of that one, though I wasn't thrilled with the ending. Still, I made it through it, which isn't always the case. If I grow too bored or annoyed, I tune out.