![]() And I still have the warm fuzzies from that fabulous ending and epilogue. Reader, I cried a little, and that hardly ever happens. (But STILL.) However, her journey is a transformative one, and rest assured she turns into a total badass by the end.ĭespite his laconic nature, Dallas is truly a New Man, giving Dee the freedom she needs to come into her own self after a lifetime of oppression with her father and three brothers. She started out almost TSTL, although I had to keep telling myself to be nice and remember that she was carrying a lot of trauma. His fixation on having a son is the thread running through this book.Ĭordelia was an acquired taste for me. ![]() I loved Dallas from the beginning, the big emotionally constipated dummy. When something big happens, you feel it, because the rest of the book feels *quiet*. I don’t know how Lorraine Heath does it, but she manages to write books that pile on the trauma but that never feel overly dramatic - her clean writing style is straightforward, an effective tool in the right hands. It went on a thing that’s like a rollercoaster but is not a rollercoaster because that is a cliche. ![]() The poor thing has been bruised and battered and then given a bubble bath and wrapped in a thick towel and then chucked naked out into the cold street and then given a fairy godmother to dress it in a fabulous gown. ![]() My heart! Lorraine Heath was not kind to my heart. ![]()
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