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Bezig met laden... Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women) (editie 2021)door Evie Dunmore (Auteur)
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HTML:The Instant USA Today Bestseller! A BuzzFeed Best Romance of 2021! One of Marie Claireâ??s most anticipated romances of 2021! One of Cosmopolitan's most anticipated fall books of 2021! Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do? London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life: 1. Acclaim as an artist. 2. A noble cause. 3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman. Why then does this Oxford scholar find herself at the altar with the darkly attractive financier Lucian Blackstone, whose murky past and ruthless business practices strike fear in the hearts of Britain's peerage? Trust Hattie to take an invigorating little adventure too far. Now she's stuck with a churlish Scot who just might be the end of her ambitions.... When the daughter of his business rival all but falls into his lap, Lucian sees opportunity. As a self-made man, he has vast wealth but holds little power, and Hattie might be the key to finally setting long-harbored political plans in motion. Driven by an old desire for revenge, he has no room for his new wife's apprehensions or romantic notions, bewitching as he finds her. But a sudden journey to Scotland paints everything in a different light. Hattie slowly sees the real Lucian and realizes she could win everythingâ??as long as she is prepared to lose her Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It started out alright. I don't love extremely feminist characters in general since most are annoying, but I thought I'd give this a try since it is about women being able to vote (and it has an artist). I quickly ran into issues though.
Hattie REFUSES to take any accountability for her own actions. She is a perpetual victim and blames her decisions on someone else EVERY SINGLE TIME. As you can imagine, this got old fast.
There is so much inner monologue about politics and feminism. It was exhausting. 200 pages could have easily been edited out just by shortening the inner monologues. As a reader, I don't want to be beaten over the head with the message since the storyline always suffers.
What really bothered me though was when the author when full Karl Marx socialist. Suddenly, everything became about socialism and needed commentary. The characters spent multiple pages in many sections of the book explaining in detail why one must agree with it.
Also, the whole "a woman's salary should be double that of a man's" is BS. The author went on about this multiple times, justifying it with the fact that women do work in the house after work. I hate to break it to her but men do work at home as well. It just often looks a little different in traditional settings.
I forgot to mention earlier, but why in the world should we let people who attempt to murder others walk free in the streets?
Anywho, I won't ever be picking up another book by this author. It is my firm belief that when an author wants to present her beliefs, she should show and not tell. Alas, this book felt like listening to a 16-hour lecture.
(Yes, I realize that this review is more about the messages the author presented rather than the story, but the politics overtook the story for the majority of the book.)
1 Star ( )