The Senator's Wife

Rating:
Summary: Superficial character, unimpressive plot
Review: Ronnie must be the most unlikeable character of all the Karen Robards books that I have read. The author kept highlighting how incredibly beautiful and sexy Ronnie was that all men were drawn to her like bees to honey. However, beyond the surface, she was selfish, vain, snobbish, materialistic and displayed a questionable level of intelligence and common sense. There was little character development of how she attracted Tom, except through dressing up sexily and flirting shamelessly. All I could see was that Ronnie was irresistible to the organ on the lower part of Tom's body. She found herself pitiful that there was no love in her marriage, that her husband was sleeping around from the first day of their marriage. Come on! Ronnie did not marry the Senator for love in the first place! She tried to believe that her husband loved her so that it would be less unpalatable to marry him for money. So there was nothing to lament about, she got what she wanted. But Ronnie wanted more from the bargain, she wanted good sex and love but still wanted to enjoy the glamorous lifestyle and money of being the Senator's wife. I really despised her so much that I didn't think she deserved to get what she had in the end.

Tom had the potential to be a real intelligent, magnetic and sexy character. But the author failed to demonstrate how good he was as a political consultant, worse, he appeared to just fall for Ronnie for her looks and body, not to mention his double standard with his wife's adultery and his partner's fling.

All the unmoral and irresponsible actions were almost justified because the characters fell in love with each other. I failed to see love between them other than lust. All I could say that perhaps they really deserved each other, very superficially. For a relationship which lust formed the basis, the sex scenes were unimaginative and stale. If the author decided to write a trashy book, at least make it hot and erotic.

The plot was very amateurish, especially coming from Karen Robards. The sub plot of the murder on board the ship was distracting and converged with the main story too late and too weakly. I always love her books but this one was too disappointing. My advice is: give this book a miss.

Rating:
Summary: Superficial character, unimpressive plot
Review: Ronnie must be the most unlikeable character of all the Karen Robards books that I have read. The author kept highlighting how incredibly beautiful and sexy Ronnie was that all men were drawn to her like bees to honey. However, beyond the surface, she was selfish, vain, snobbish, materialistic and displayed a questionable level of intelligence and common sense. There was little character development of how she attracted Tom, except through dressing up sexily and flirting shamelessly. All I could see was that Ronnie was irresistible to the organ on the lower part of Tom's body. She found herself pitiful that there was no love in her marriage, that her husband was sleeping around from the first day of their marriage. Come on! Ronnie did not marry the Senator for love in the first place! She tried to believe that her husband loved her so that it would be less unpalatable to marry him for money. So there was nothing to lament about, she got what she wanted. But Ronnie wanted more from the bargain, she wanted good sex and love but still wanted to enjoy the glamorous lifestyle and money of being the Senator's wife. I really despised her so much that I didn't think she deserved to get what she had in the end.

Tom had the potential to be a real intelligent, magnetic and sexy character. But the author failed to demonstrate how good he was as a political consultant, worse, he appeared to just fall for Ronnie for her looks and body, not to mention his double standard with his wife's adultery and his partner's fling.

All the unmoral and irresponsible actions were almost justified because the characters fell in love with each other. I failed to see love between them other than lust. All I could say that perhaps they really deserved each other, very superficially. For a relationship which lust formed the basis, the sex scenes were unimaginative and stale. If the author decided to write a trashy book, at least make it hot and erotic.

The plot was very amateurish, especially coming from Karen Robards. The sub plot of the murder on board the ship was distracting and converged with the main story too late and too weakly. I always love her books but this one was too disappointing. My advice is: give this book a miss.

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Summary: This would not be my favorite Karen Robards.....
Review: This is one book by Karen Robards that I cannot whole heartedly recommend. I just could not get past the fact that the "heroine" has an affair and then tries to justify that fact (to the son of her lover) by saying she has not slept with her husband in over a year. If the marriage is that bad, you move on. Ronnie doesn't because she is so materialistic and doesn't want to give up all those millions. Oh, eventually she decides that she is so in love with her lover that she will divorce, but for me that decision came to late. I just did not have a lot of empathy for these characters. Ronnie was supposed to be an intelligent and educated person, so I did not see the need to make her so dependent on her louse of a husband to "keep" her. If you have never read a Karen Robards book, please do not read this one first! Find one of her earlier books and you will see how capable she is of writing, strong, intelligent characters who are worth reading about. I will get off my soapbox now.
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Rating:
Summary: ok
Review: Why do we read romance novels?!?!?! For realism or for the fantasy?!?!?!? Who cares how she dressed, or that she sold her body to the highest bidder...she wanted a better way of life for herself...maybe if her husband was a better person, then maybe she and Tom would not have been together!! Hence there would be no book to write about! I loved this book, it was the first one by Karen Robards that I have ever read. This book made me go out and buy more of her books and I can't get enough of her! I think she is a very imaginative writer and she keeps ME hooked with her outlandish stories... To any one who wants to read this book I think that it is a great read. It's just a book of fiction enjoy it.

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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK!
Review: Why do we read romance novels?!?!?! For realism or for the fantasy?!?!?!? Who cares how she dressed, or that she sold her body to the highest bidder...she wanted a better way of life for herself...maybe if her husband was a better person, then maybe she and Tom would not have been together!! Hence there would be no book to write about! I loved this book, it was the first one by Karen Robards that I have ever read. This book made me go out and buy more of her books and I can't get enough of her! I think she is a very imaginative writer and she keeps ME hooked with her outlandish stories... To any one who wants to read this book I think that it is a great read. It's just a book of fiction enjoy it.