For the past couple of years I have avoided het romance like the plague. I am seriously sick of the female leads that are so popular today; they are either blushing virgins or complete bitches. I mean really, when did the term “strong female lead” get changed to “raging cuntmuffin”? I didn’t get the memo, and some of these dragon ladies make me want to cover the book in salt then set it aflame. You can never be too cautious when dealing with hell spawns, so a dash of purification with your exorcism can’t hurt, right?Now I was in between books, so I thought I would go check to see what Amazon had for recommendations for me. They have brought to my attention quite a few books I am not sure I would have found otherwise. What I wasn’t expecting was to find a het romance book there; I have been buying a lot of mm romances so Amazons algorithm should have been tossing urban fantasy or mm in my direction. Amazon now had my curiosity piqued, not only was the cover pretty, the book sounded interesting.In reading the sample I got to know the main character, Robyn, enough to know that she was going to be a fun. It also gave me enough time to know that this wasn’t a typical romance, the main character was deaf, and didn’t think of herself as ugly, just kind of boring with her brown hair, brown eyes, and perpetually tan body. This leads me to my issues with the cover, my first impression was that it was pretty, that is until I read the main characters description. Recently I read a blog post where publishers have been “white washing” the characters on the cover of books. This makes me sad, because this book is doing the same thing. Robyn is of dark hair, and complexion like I said above and the woman on the cover is a pale woman with dirty blond hair. I know this is not the authors fault, and will not rate the book with this in mind; it was just an irritation I needed to vent on.Now I have to go on about my love for the sex scenes in this book. I give the author mad props for using words real people would use, and not euphemisms for everything. I have had my fill of both male and female body parts likened to fabric, flowers, and metal. Though I do think there is one instance that the word steel is used, but having it in here only once or twice is not big thing when most romance has two or more of the three in every sex scene.So I really enjoyed this book, and reading TJ’s story in book three.
