Ratings233
Average rating3.3
So this is my second Julia Quinn book and I decided to read it because of the hype of the new Netflix show of course. I'm so beyond disappointed. I was actually really enjoying this book, I thought the couple was cute and it was a decent lighthearted read to listen to on my drive to work. But then then the author ruined it. I could look past Daphne getting suddenly ridiculously naive about sex despite being portrayed as more knowledgeable than most women due to her brothers throughout the book. But I can't get past the scene where she doesn't let Simon pull out. At this point they've been fighting about having children or not and so when he's drunk Daphne decides to take advantage of Simon. Already a red flag that had me cringing, but he seems to get into it, and I get it lots of people do enjoy having sex while drunk, fine... but then she knowingly stops him from pulling out and tries to force having a baby on him. This is in no way okay. I can't believe how many reviewers below are justifying this action and saying it's fine because they are married. I know marriage was treated differently in history than modern times, but I'm personally not interested in reading about toxic abuse portrayed as a romance. I've also since seen that the Netflix adaptation has kept this scene in so I will be skipping that as well sadly.