Comadrin's manga / #Dumb ML(87)

He was a complete a**hole. He kept saying to himself that he wanted to protect her, but all he did was try to drag her into bed 24 and 7. The idiot had all the patience of a customer at a brothel who has already paid his money and made his choice. He also couldn't understand the word no if the letters were 12 inches high, chiseled in stone and shoved down his throat. Old gramps was pretty much a senile moron. I love my granddaughter, so I'll hold a big party peopled with a bunch of folks who either hate her guts or are tawdry gossips and then go to bed and leave her to the hyenas. I couldn't find it in my heart to be overly angry with ML's mother or aunt, though. Both of them, like the FL, were the victims of the selfishness and lack of discipline of the male members of the family. Perhaps a better title for the story would be "The Trouble with Testosterone." I know that it's not original (it was the title of a serious book) but it seems pretty appropriate.

Loved her, hated him. What an a**hole! His "horrible trauma" didn't happen until he was an adult. He brought his father out of bankruptcy and fixed his company, ending up richer than Croesus, and yet he let it color his life. Ergo, he was a frickin' entitled box of rocks. And I don’t believe for a second that 1/2 a billion wasn’t anything he wanted. My experience of the vast majority of rich people (and, yes, I do have a fair amount of experience) is that they can never be rich enough.

Well, he was certainly a complete sap. That "I dumped you cruelly and treated you like trash all for your own sake" has to be the crappiest one in a world of crappy excuses. Sorry, but I don't buy it for a second.

I have decided that the Curse of the Gambrellis is real. The male members of the family are cursed to be stupid! As Heinlein said, "Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever." Also, with apologies to the artist, the dude on the cover looks like a middle-aged axe murderer with a Marlene Dietrich wig on.

Weird... He discovered what his grandfather had done, but still acted like it was all her fault. Does that make sense?

To misquote Archie Bunker, "And stupid is in the head of the viscount." I do understand why he would be upset as the only family member NOT in on the family secret, but that's no reason to boink the girl then abandon her for five years without a goodby or see ya, or anything. And the mighty aristocrat can't figure out why she was cold when he returned? Saying that it's because he's an "all about me" moron is putting it mildly. Saying that he has dreck between his ears is probably closer to the truth.

As Abaddon has said more than once, "Communicate, you Morons!" The FL wasn't the greatest communicator, certainly, but even when I was a testosterone-ridden twenty-something I was more sensitive to my wife's needs than that sap. Throughout the story, it certainly seemed that his method of discussion was, "Pardon me while I whip this out." It's almost like he believed that all women were typical Harlequin FLs who could be mesmerized and conquered by the mere scent of his raging hormones. I guess it was unfair to put him in an HQ and drop an atypical FL on him. Very unkind of the author.

Loved her, but he was a butt-hurt butthead. "I have all these sisters who rely on me, love me, and like to be with me, but I really don't have a family or believe in love." For some reason, that sounds really, really stupid to me. He's also one of the pushiest horndogs in six counties, and kisses her when she says no repeatedly. Where I come from, that's called sexual harassment.

I rather liked it, and the FL was adorable, but the ML was as dense as a neutron star. I guess that in Harlequin World, brains are not necessary for a man to be a total heartthrob.

Dude needed therapy... Lots of it and anti-idiot medication. FL also needed therapy, and her step mother should have met truck-kun.