![]() ![]() I’m sure that almost everything that has read Stormfire would agree that there is no question of forced seduction or rape. That book is one that doesn’t neatly fit into the “romance” slot it’s supposed to. Hello? Have these reviewers ever read Stormfire by Christine Monson? That is indisputably rape. ![]() One reviewer told her that CtC was a throwback to the bodice-rippers of the 80’s. Whether it was rape is another story altogether. There are several reviews on Amazon taking the author to task for daring to call her book a romance when the hero rapes the heroine. (I’ve since finished it and hope to have my review up in a few days.) Holly asked if CtC had the “forced seduction” in it, which yes, it does. The topic came up when I mentioned that I was going to start reading Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell. Casee: The other night, Holly and I started talking about the ever controversial topic–rape in romance novels. This was originally posted February 25, 2008. If anything, I think we’ve seen even more of this in contemporary novels. A lot has changed in publishing since 2008, but forced seduction and rape haven’t gone away. ![]()
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