A real disappointment, extremely tedious.

The Hero spends his whole time bemoaning the fact that he lost his first wife and child to illness. How everyone he has ever loved has left him. How he would never love again etc, etc........
He would bed his new wife as he has needs, but she mustn't fall in love with him, it is just sex and so on.......
The heroine who has been locked in a small room, since she was 9 years old, has stopped talking. Thankfully, she doesn't keep "chewing the cud", instead, she is needy and pines for a guy who can't love. The reasons for keeping this silence, first from her husband and then friends, make no sense. Especially as she talks to her dog and sings, assuming all those around her are deaf.
However, it is the way the story is extended with chapters of angst that become tedious and the reams of gratuitous sex.
There are plenty of anomalies, such as death, which was part of life in those times (his father is onto his fifth wife), yet he acts as though it is unusal, a real "self-pitying jerk". Going onto a battlefield to see who had won. However, it was the self-pity of the hero who destroyed the story.

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