Angie's June TBR

I seriously almost did not get this one done!

June TBR Challenge

A book you picked up based on someone’s recommendation or the buzz surrounding it.

Title: The Flame and The Flower

Author: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Year published: 1972

Why did you get this book? Because Valeen and Jennifer from TAP picked it for their Remembering the Classics book for June (does that mean I'm double dipping?)

Do you like the cover? It's okay. It's not nearly as bad as could be. At least the setting is appropriate and correlates iwth the book but the models are not what I had pictured of the characters.

Did you enjoy the book? Very much so.

Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? Although Woodiwiss has been around a long time, I've never read her before now.

Are you keeping it or passing it on? Are you kidding? It's going on the Keeper Shelf!

Anything else? I loved the book.

I thought the rape scene was one of the most "horrific" that I have read to date. Horrific as in, the heroine wanted NOTHING to do with it. A lot of times you see a little resistance but some enjoyment found in the act, but not in this book...and twice!

The lack of sex in the rest of the book was sorta annoying but I loved that the h/h stayed together and interacted throughout the entire novel.

Heather definitely had several awful attributes but I felt she grew and came in to her own there at the end.

And I liked Brandon. I like alpha therefore I like Brandon. Of course he is a dufus, he's not supposed to know how to be anything else, but he was quite possessive and protective and...sigh.

Anyway...loved it! And I have already started Elusive Flame which is Beau's (the son) story.

...Fiona...