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Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures, I present – The Prizefighter’s Har. Now, is Griffin, an annoyance who despises women or a heartbroken man? THAT is the question. I propose, an arse. 😒
BASICS
Official title: The Prizefighter’s Hart
My title: No One Fights Like Gas-Griffin
Author: Emily Royal
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Fav character: Will
Type: Book – Hart series
3/5
INTRO
Griffin, the hero of this story, at first reads like Gaston. I can even hear him singing the song. Theo reads like one of the village women in the movie, one of the older, EXTRA TIMID, quite silly, spinster ones, who want Gaston, but Gaston in his supposedly super sexy, manly manly, every inch of me is covered in fur, self, ignores this woman – until she is placed neatly in front of him. THEN he is attracted.
A man who believes manly male men should ONLY dominate by over powering and removing options to instill their way. A brute with words; a very successful brute with words. 🤦♀️ All this man had to do was to stop behaving like a jackass and this whole issue with the daughter would have rolled away. It’s everyone’s fault, but his own – you know the type.
REVIEW
Theo has lived a sheltered life as the one who sacrifices for the family. In exchange for not having a season, not being taught the finer arts and not being encouraged to find her beauty, she has reached the rounded age of thirty without the three things she wants the most: a household of her own, a husband and children of her own. As a stabilizing influence, while her brother grew their prospects as a banker and earned a knighthood, Dorothea is always the aunt/servant and never the mother.
She does however have HEATED desires… namely for a prizefighter by the name of Oak, a man, who unbeknownst to her, is seeking a lady to guide his 14 year old daughter, and a banker for all of the money he has made fighting and owning inns. He finds both of these with the Harts. However, this does not mean things will go smoothly.
An indiscretion at Theo’s birthday party FINALLY gives her a shot at what she has always dreamt about… but there a few things standing in her way, namely:
- Louise, the ex-wife, the reason Griffin believes and insists ‘all women are harlots’;
- Griffin being a jackass;
- Rowena being adverse to change, strange people and wanting her father’s love;
- Past issues that won’t stay down;
- The attraction they both fight/avoid in VERY bizarre and awkward ways-
- And the secrets regarding Louise that threatens into 85% of the book.
If you like your heroes brutish and fumbling and your women naive, silly and sheltered, this may be for you.
OBSERVATIONS
▪️DISCLAIMER: I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review).
▪️ I am not one to believe that because a man agrees to match outfits with his wife, that she ‘rules’ him. I like the indulgence. I like the idea of caring for someone, wanting to see them smile, so you go along with something as innocuous as matching clothing. It REALLY does not warrant the disdain it gets.
▪️🥺 Women were so ill treated it this part of the world at these times. People were so rough and mean overall… I MEAN, this WAS the time 13, 16, etc, year olds were hung for theft. Just… ROUGH.
▪️I’ve mentioned this before with – The One Night Stand Next Door – but I despise the idea of drinking alcohol to ‘fuel ones courage’, if nothing else I’m pretty sure it just encourages foolish behaviour. If you CANNOT do it while sober, then you are too WEAK to do it. 😏 *judging you*
▪️ I dislike when female characters in historical fictions are ‘modern’ BUT it just makes them behave like idiots. I also dislike when the woman I am told is intelligent, shows herself to be everything BUT…
CONCLUSION
The attempt here seems to be to write about: a woman, initially timid and overlooked, who finds her spine, her beauty, a family; and a brute of a man who is highly distrustful of women, but who eventually softens to this one woman, that he allows into his heart, house and family, as his spirit gentles-
Instead we get Gaston and an old village groupie who relishes his caveman ways but pretends affront. 🤦♀️ I don’t know- It had potential, but it took too long to clear itself up, Griffin was too much of an ass and Theo was 11/13 and not a sensible 30.
If you like your heroes brutish and complaining, and your women naive and sheltered, this may be for you.
FAV QUOTE
“I meant no offense. | Nonetheless your remark was received as such.” 😉🤣
Pages: 282
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Year: 2021
