Wanton Angel

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Summary: She's an innocent, but he thinks she's a whore.
Review: Over-protected to an extreme degree, Susannah leaves her home in St. Louis after the death of her parents to stay with her older sister Lilith, a successful businesswoman. What Susannah does not know, however, is that Lilith's business is a brothel. In fact, Susannah is such a complete innocent that she doesn't even know the first thing about the facts of life.

Consequently, I felt it was reprehensible of Aaron Court, an attorney, to take advantage of her as he did. The first time he thought she was a whore. But even so, she was completely unconscious at the time due to the dose of opium he gave her. (Why did he have it around the house, anyway? Is he a drug addict?) However, after the first time, he KNEW what an innocent she was, and he still continued to hound her and seduce her into falling in love with him when he had absolutely no intention of marrying her. This book should be titled "The Cad" instead of "Wanton Angel," because Susannah is no wanton, no matter how much she loves Aaron. And when she finally breaks it off with him after she finds out that he wants her only for the same lustful passion he has spent on Lilith and her "girls" in the past, Aaron kidnaps her off a train and keeps her his sexual slave for a week, STILL with no intention of ever marrying her.

No, Aaron Court is more a villain than a hero. I could never believe a "happy ever after" ending for Susannah with such a man.

Rating:
Summary: She's an innocent, but he thinks she's a whore.
Review: Over-protected to an extreme degree, Susannah leaves her home in St. Louis after the death of her parents to stay with her older sister Lilith, a successful businesswoman. What Susannah does not know, however, is that Lilith's business is a brothel. In fact, Susannah is such a complete innocent that she doesn't even know the first thing about the facts of life.

Consequently, I felt it was reprehensible of Aaron Court, an attorney, to take advantage of her as he did. The first time he thought she was a whore. But even so, she was completely unconscious at the time due to the dose of opium he gave her. (Why did he have it around the house, anyway? Is he a drug addict?) However, after the first time, he KNEW what an innocent she was, and he still continued to hound her and seduce her into falling in love with him when he had absolutely no intention of marrying her. This book should be titled "The Cad" instead of "Wanton Angel," because Susannah is no wanton, no matter how much she loves Aaron. And when she finally breaks it off with him after she finds out that he wants her only for the same lustful passion he has spent on Lilith and her "girls" in the past, Aaron kidnaps her off a train and keeps her his sexual slave for a week, STILL with no intention of ever marrying her.

No, Aaron Court is more a villain than a hero. I could never believe a "happy ever after" ending for Susannah with such a man.