I read this one for the first time in May of 2015. It’s not my first reread for Gothic In a Bath, but it is my most recent. I’ll share my tweets from my last reading before I dive in!
I have trouble picturing these men, as Laurice perceives them.
Laurice thought Albert was immediately repellent, but she didn’t think that others would think so. So I’m trying to picture him as generally handsome? But you know that he will confirm her first instincts by being slimy later.
And like the description of Albert uses words like revulsion and says he is handsome, our presumed hero, Courtney is described with attractive adjectives attached to the word “ugly.”
Light eyes and dark skin is super hot? High cheekbones? 🔥 What is a firm mouth if not chiselled lips? He is HOT, Laurice, you dumb dumb. Courtney is HOT.
What other genres does this happen in, outside of the Gothic romance?
The kind of woman who would have a room like this — Meredith was that kind of woman.
This book. It’s really actually quite good until the very end where it turns out all the tension and danger was about (spoiler for a book written in 1973!?) marijuana smuggling and not a buried pirate treasure worth $3 million. Until the villain was the villain because he was “from bad stock”. It could have been more than it was, but I still really enjoyed the first 200 pages or so!
Originally Published October 2021 – June 2022
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