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An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance
4.0
18th century setting where women is considered "hysterical" when they show an emotion other than obedient, meek and tamed. I always have avoided this kind of story and plot because it makes my blood boil. Its suffocating. Imagined the discoveries, music, arts and so much more if women in these day and age had the liberty to choose their paths.
The story started with Lucy and her husband William in a doctor's office where she was being advised that her last option of getting better is being admitted to an asylum. In the beginning it was already infuriating that they said the cause of her mood swings is because she hasn't conceive. Like having a baby is the only answer to every marital problem.
To cut the story. They met the infamous doctor Victor Seth he is a neurologist this field hasn't been officially introduced to society and one of his method of treatment is hypnotism which has a stigma and being compared to mesmerism. Victor was enticed by Lucy in which she is easily put in trance and intensely suggestible.
The power over someone is enthralling for Victor. He saw he was making another woman out of Lucy. She's waking her hunger for sensual passion and love for art. I firmly believe that Victor truly fell in love with Lucy she's no longer just her "creation" and in the other hand Lucy was beginning to get used with Victor's hypnotism she makes him believe he can still control her but that was long gone when she put a hole in her husband's chest.
That ending was good. I'm glad that Lucy has finally has rein over her own life.
The story started with Lucy and her husband William in a doctor's office where she was being advised that her last option of getting better is being admitted to an asylum. In the beginning it was already infuriating that they said the cause of her mood swings is because she hasn't conceive. Like having a baby is the only answer to every marital problem.
To cut the story. They met the infamous doctor Victor Seth he is a neurologist this field hasn't been officially introduced to society and one of his method of treatment is hypnotism which has a stigma and being compared to mesmerism. Victor was enticed by Lucy in which she is easily put in trance and intensely suggestible.
The power over someone is enthralling for Victor. He saw he was making another woman out of Lucy. She's waking her hunger for sensual passion and love for art. I firmly believe that Victor truly fell in love with Lucy she's no longer just her "creation" and in the other hand Lucy was beginning to get used with Victor's hypnotism she makes him believe he can still control her but that was long gone when she put a hole in her husband's chest.
That ending was good. I'm glad that Lucy has finally has rein over her own life.