Ooh...I want to read this. I'm going to have to do this trilogy..soon. I had passed on it previously - because it looked a bit too angsty. But your review intrigues me.
Particularly this:
Love -- while wonderful -- doesn't do that. At least not love alone. You cannot (truly) 'rescue' another person, not from themselves. It's actually quite patronizing to think that you can.
This was my problem with a lot of romance novels I've read. Often the heroine or hero is saving the guy or gal...their love redeems him/her or saves him/her from their demons. And while love can help to a degree, it can't fix you.
Too many people believe it can - that they can save people.
And it's a rare to show the male hero not being able to save the heroine. Or fix her. Too many novels have the guy doing just that. Milan once again is playing with that trope. She also plays with it in the Duchess War, Heiress Effect, and Countess Conspiracy...in all three, the characters have to fix themselves. Those novels are less angsty though.
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Date: 2014-02-13 02:43 am (UTC)Particularly this:
Love -- while wonderful -- doesn't do that. At least not love alone. You cannot (truly) 'rescue' another person, not from themselves. It's actually quite patronizing to think that you can.
This was my problem with a lot of romance novels I've read. Often the heroine or hero is saving the guy or gal...their love redeems him/her or saves him/her from their demons. And while love can help to a degree, it can't fix you.
Too many people believe it can - that they can save people.
And it's a rare to show the male hero not being able to save the heroine.
Or fix her. Too many novels have the guy doing just that. Milan once again is playing with that trope. She also plays with it in the Duchess War, Heiress Effect, and Countess Conspiracy...in all three, the characters have to fix themselves. Those novels are less angsty though.