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Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer

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emotional hopeful slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I picked this book up because it's my mom's favorite book, and to be honest I wasn't expecting much from it. Overall, this was a very odd reading experience. This book came out in the late 80s and I think much of the time you can feel its age. In particular its attitude towards female sexuality is pretty abhorrent. A lot of how this book conceptualizes women falls into the trope of the Madonna/whore dichotomy, and that's very uncomfortable to read from a modern standpoint. This is also unique, amongst my romance reading at least, because this is a romance novel that focuses primarily on the male perspective. Luckily I liked Will as a character, and he's not overbearing or alpha enough to make being in his head uncomfortable. Still, it was weird to be so separated from the heroine for so much of the book. Further, this book goes to a lot of dark places that I didn't expect from a genre romance, and it can be a bit graphic at times, which I wasn't necessarily prepared for. All of that said, I found myself engaging emotionally with this book much more than I expected. Spencer's writing it's quite beautiful and her character work is excellent (at least as far as the main characters go). For those reasons, I can't say that I didn't have a good time. I wouldn't recommend this to a modern romance reader necessarily (at least not without a lot of stipulation and trigger warnings), but I enjoyed my experience with the book, and, given that it's my mom's favorite book, I'm glad that I read it. 
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