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Lädt ... Brittle Bondagevon Anne Mather
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Wedlocked? Rachel's marriage had ended in bitterness and tears. Ben had been unfaithful to her, she was sure, though, of course, he had denied it. Now their only point of contact was their small daughter, Daisy, and that suited Rachel. But when she announced, "Ben, I want a divorce. I've met someone else and we want to get married," her ex-husband's reaction was very surprising! Ben seemed reluctant to accept that their relationship was finally over and apparently had very definite ideas about where Rachel's future happiness lay. Did Rachel dare to believe that the brittle bonds still tying her to Ben could ever be the basis for a lifetime of loving...' Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The answer is... pretty much as you would expect. So it's an easy read, and within its own framework it has romance, sex, and a happy ending.
But it would be wrong to say that the suck fairy has not spread her wings over it. The plot is that Rachel, down and depressed after numerous miscarriages, kicks out her husband after finding their au pair naked in their bed. After two years of bringing up their child on her own, she has found someone else and is ready to move on, but will Ben her husband let her have the divorce she wants?
The Other Man is painted as bad for lots of reasons, some valid, but there is endless belittling of the fact he's a Farmer, and a farmer who actually wants to sleep with his girlfriend before committing to spending the rest of his life with her, and neither of those things actually felt that bad to me.
Ben is Not Evil because it turns out poor pregnant teenagers are Snares of Entrapment, and he has been totally set up by her. You do end up thinking that given how blatantly obvious this is (at the point when Rachel actually starts to check out Ben's story, the evidence trail is a mile wide) they could have talked to each other about it at some point previously. [Also, it's a Ridiculous plan - in what world does 'huzzah, I have scared your wife off by saying we are having an affair, now you will look after me because I'm pregnant' stand _any_ chance of working?]
Still, I could almost have suspended my disbelief and enjoyed the Happy Ever After, if it wasn't that after everything, we're supposed to be rooting for him as the Good Guy now, he casually says 'Oh, I had a couple of duplicate keys made while your mother was staying here. At her suggestion.' Like, WTF? If your ex changes the locks so you can't get into their house, you respect that as a perfectly normal boundary,you don't sneak a copy in cahoots with their mother!
I guess I mostly ended up being very relieved I wasn't living in a small gossipy village where women's lives were heavily policed to the point where if a car was parked outside your house all night your boyfriend knew about it the next day.
Oh, and if you're reading it because the title led you to at least hope for a bit of bondage, no luck here. Although it's quite rapey dub-con in places!
Overall, it is very much of its time, and I think a good example of how the world has changed since the 1990s. 30 years turns out to be a lot! ( )