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A review by codalion
The Conqueror by Brenda Joyce
2.0
This book is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s. And it’s profoundly awful, but I feel like one star is reserved for things I struggled to finish, and this dragged me along like some kind of horribly mesmerizing tugboat.
For starters, it’s an old school bodice ripper in the vein of The Wolf and the Dove, but more sexually explicit and more brutally rapey, if that’s even possible: and yes, it is possible. It is basically one long violent rape fantasy in the guise of a Stockholm love story, no holds barred. It makes all the creepy sexist FSoG dubcon look incredibly tame; that’s the history of the romance genre for you! That all being said, it’s also unintentionally funny a lot of the time, so at least there’s that?
For starters, it’s an old school bodice ripper in the vein of The Wolf and the Dove, but more sexually explicit and more brutally rapey, if that’s even possible: and yes, it is possible. It is basically one long violent rape fantasy in the guise of a Stockholm love story, no holds barred. It makes all the creepy sexist FSoG dubcon look incredibly tame; that’s the history of the romance genre for you! That all being said, it’s also unintentionally funny a lot of the time, so at least there’s that?