Just enjoying the moment
Oct. 11th, 2012 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrDoes anyone else have the thing where they like the premise of a story so much they stop reading for a while to wallow in feels in case it gets executed badly?
I am currently reading "Unclaimed" by Courtney Milan, and it's a wonderful flip of the typical regency romance: the hero is a virgin who wrote a book on male chastity, while the heroine is a bitter, emotionally repressed courtesan set on seducing him for money. She assumed he was some uptight judgemental hypocrite, but instead he spends his time irritated at everyone using his work as justification for conservative slut shaming and affably declining her attempts to seduce him, since male chastity is about men being chaste, not men being smug about how much women suck.
She's all woobieish while he's (mostly) cheerful and kind and I just...*happy sigh* I've had a soft spot for the hero, Mark, since he showed up in the previous book about his brother, Unveiled (which I didn't like so much) Their mother was a devout christian who became unbalanced and gave all their money away to charity, and so as Mark tries to be a moralist himself her shadow always gives him pause. This situation resonates for me just a little.
Anyway, odds are something about it will annoy me at some point, but I am enjoying the place the book is in right now. Also I guess this is a counterpoint to all the times I ranted about how much a book/show was annoying me only to start liking it more later :)
EDIT: Finished it, really liked it, hurrah.
I am currently reading "Unclaimed" by Courtney Milan, and it's a wonderful flip of the typical regency romance: the hero is a virgin who wrote a book on male chastity, while the heroine is a bitter, emotionally repressed courtesan set on seducing him for money. She assumed he was some uptight judgemental hypocrite, but instead he spends his time irritated at everyone using his work as justification for conservative slut shaming and affably declining her attempts to seduce him, since male chastity is about men being chaste, not men being smug about how much women suck.
She's all woobieish while he's (mostly) cheerful and kind and I just...*happy sigh* I've had a soft spot for the hero, Mark, since he showed up in the previous book about his brother, Unveiled (which I didn't like so much) Their mother was a devout christian who became unbalanced and gave all their money away to charity, and so as Mark tries to be a moralist himself her shadow always gives him pause. This situation resonates for me just a little.
Anyway, odds are something about it will annoy me at some point, but I am enjoying the place the book is in right now. Also I guess this is a counterpoint to all the times I ranted about how much a book/show was annoying me only to start liking it more later :)
EDIT: Finished it, really liked it, hurrah.
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Date: 2012-10-11 06:09 am (UTC)...wait, they do eventually have sex, right?
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