Why? Because otherwise we'd have to keep reading it!
Good morning! We're starting off with Travilla and Daddy D. talking.
( Read more... )**Curious to see if Finley changed her views, in which case I wanted to be fair, I skipped to the 24th book and I'll admit skimmed it, looking for changes of her opinions or refinement of her stances or other mellowing. I found: father with daughter putting off marriage so she could stay his little girl, lover feeling entitled to marry her, lone black servant character needing to be translated to other white characters, everyone concealing from a sick woman the fact that she was dying, about a hundred pages of frickin'
wedding planning, and a last page where we're told a prisoner with a grudge against one of the female leads suddenly escaped from prison, which I can only deduce is slang for "a more interesting book you are not reading," and she now needs a bodyguard and they must travel with friends.
Short answer: No.