Another One Down

Recently finished e-book:

• A Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

This one goes up there with the Velvet Series. I guess I read the revised edition, since there's an author's note at the end explaining what all of it has been about. The story was, as usual, love, lust, more professions of undying love that would rival the cheesiness of Edward Cullen's and Bella's, and then sex. But to my surprise, the author actually says that it's about alcoholism!

She aimed to write a piece about alcoholism without mentioning the word itself. She talked about an "alcoholic personality", when one possesses, leads the person to seek out strong people to pull down in order to relieve himself of guilt over his weakness or something.

I really didn't see that explanation coming. Before the explanation, I just found the heroine really stupid and gullible albeit with a warm, generous nature. I liked this one because this time, it's about a female Montgomery who's not so perfect like the male Montgomerys I've read about before. Wait, why did it have to be a female Montgomery to not be perfect? Hmph. Well, come to think of it, she was actually wonderful, but she just didn't know it.

I guess I kind of identify a bit with her low self-esteem, her constant ordeal of having to prove herself worthy and her feeling of being a failure.

As the explanation goes, since this heroine underestimates her worth by a mile, she succumbs to charms of useless men. And then she deluded herself in thinking that the man she was currently living with, a reputable surgeon, loved her, even though he is clearly just using her. Ugh. This is the alcoholic scenario. The surgeon is supposed to be the one with the alcoholic personality, trying to tear another who he views as "high and mighty" down.

In the end, she gets saved by a knight in shining armor, literally. And there's time travel involved. I don't wanna explain everything here, but it was quite an enjoyable read, the best yet after the Velvet series.