A review by onthesamepa9e
Christmas with the Marine by Candace Havens

2.0

Listened in audio bc it was packaged with Her Naughty Holiday by Tiffany Reisz. The writing was well executed, but there were some thematic things I really took issue with. There were just too many moments where I paused & was like “that just sounds too heavily influenced by patriarchy,” mostly in terms of how people interacted with the heroine. I think that *can* be done well if the author used it as a way to turn that on its head & give patriarchy the finger, but that’s not really what happened. I particularly had issue with the way Ainsley’s wealth was like a turn off for the hero-we don’t treat men in romance like that, why would we treat women like that?