Read Online Patience (Passion Quartet, #2) Originated By Lisa Valdez Paperback

toyed with not even acknowledging that I read this book so annoyed by it that I was, But I am finishing abooks for the year challenge, so I am including it,

I read Valdez's previous book sitelinkPassion, And while I thought the sex scenes were badly and often hilariously written, I thought the story was great, I thought Passion and Mark's love for each other and their longing to be together was a nice counterweight to the execrable sex scenes.
So it made that book, if not a hit out the ball park, at least a somewhat affecting romance novel,

Patience doesn't even have that going for it, The 'romance' between Matthew and Patience is paper thin, There is no tension in their relationship, There is no real obstacle or anything else that gives their romance any weight or heft, There is a largely convoluted plot about Matthew's exfiancee's father trying to ruin him, But this has no bearing on him pursuing a relationship with Passion, Take away the sex scenes again, horribly written and what do you have left Nothing of any substance really,

Which brings me to the sex scenes, There are a lot of them and they are light BDSM, If I had a preference of what types of sex scenes to read BDSM scenes would be at the rock bottom, That said, I read some BDSM erotica where the scenes of submission weren't quite so, degrading. It just strikes the wrong tone with me that in one memorable 'love' scene Matt should bring Patience to the point of climax over and over again but not let her get any relief.
Until finally, after much torture, he condescendingly allows her to hump his boot and she jumps at the choice which much joy while her clitoris ruptures.
Seriously.

And even worse it is all couched in terms of religion, Each chapter is prefaced with a Song of Solomon quote, Matt tells Patience she is being remade into Eve, a woman who was created solely for the pleasure of her master, Adam any guesses on who Adam is in this scenario Anyone Bueller.
And Valdez isn't picky about which religion she's using, sometimes Patience is Eve, sometimes she Persephone, And sometimes she's both even in the same sentence,

And it is made clear that his dick is some sort of holy object or rather 'Organ of Dominon' that she is lucky to get communion from.
Yes, fellating him is a form of taking communion, it is right there on the page, I have no words

And the prose was so purple I kept expecting Prince to jump out and start serenading me as I was reading,

I'd give this negative if I could, PATIENCE is the story of two strongwilled, independent creatures that have each been betrayed by those whom they trustingly gave their hearts only to be found lacking.
Now, having brutally learned their lesson, neither is interested in repeating their previous pain but thankfully there's an undeniable pull that draws these two fated beings together.
And once in each others arms, their well fortified walls begin crumble as if so much dust,

An incomparable beauty, Patience Emmalina Dare is coveted by all the male members of the ton, As they preen, peck and squawk their candidacy as potential suitors, they know not that their efforts fall upon deaf ears for Patience has no desire to belong to any man.
Instead, her heart her everything belongs to her cello and the music she persuades from its strings for you see, her instrument could never forsake her, can never ever leave her thus providing the perfect guard against any who contrive to poach upon her love.
However, despite Patience's instrumental guard, she also recognizes a deepseeded yearning for one man that has the very real potential to obliterate all that she is but the secrets he dangles before her are utter temptation and they have her leaping for a glimpse of the freedom he offers.


Matthew Morgan Hawkmore, formally the second son of an earl but now a known bastard and recent social pariah of the ton, is grasping with white knuckles to the remaining pieces of his former life that he can still call his own.
But there are those that would glory at seeing his financial demise and none is more hungry for that than Archibald Benchley the Earl of Benchley and Matthew's would be fatherinlaw if news of his bastard birth had never made light.
Accused of withholding his bastardy from "good society", Matthew has been snubbed by those he had once called friends and now to have his name and his honor slandered atop of the fierce financial crush that Benchley has heaped upon him, the desire for revenge has him swirling in an all encompassing darkness of anger and hatred.
There is only one light capable of piercing through the black that is now Matthew's tarnished soul and that is Patience, Her goodness and her light calls to him, beckoning with sensual promise as well as soothing acceptance,

It's really no surprise that from an early age, Matthew recognized and cultivated a burning need and desire to sexually dominate, With evidence of his already controlling nature, his role as a sexual dominant is no coincidence for he's a man that inherently seeks control needs control and in his current uncontrollable and crumbling world this unequivocal need to dominate gravitates him on a very primal level towards Patience.
As if viewing a mirror image of himself, Matthew recognizes a deepseeded and complicated pain within her and his reaction to it is fierce.
Ultimately, Matthew desperately craves Patience's absolute surrender to strip her of all her fortified walls, crumble her resistance, and tear asunder the pain that has burdened her so greatly.
Perhaps by unleashing and healing Patience, Matthew can heal his own dark pain and the only way he knows how to do this is by requiring her complete and utter submission.


Patience, nervous and unsure of the submission Matthew is demanding, follows him with a tentative trust, No man has ever demanded anything of her and while she should be affronted by his commands, instead Matthew brings to light a curious feeling that she's never before felt one that awakens a previously dormant and unknown faucet of her

nature that ultimately causes her to grasp hold of it with desperate hands and an aching heart.
Soon, Patience finds solace in her submissive bonds, She no longer has to control her thoughts or maintain her strict independence for in truth they're not her nature, She was meant to be a nurturer, a calm example but instead she became closed off, seemingly unneeding of anyone but her cello, For years Patience has unknowingly forced herself into something she's not and with Matthew's help she's released from these constricting bonds of her own making and instead basks in the silken bonds of his dominance.


However, while Patience unveils hidden aspects of her personality, hauntingly painful moments in her past, as well as gifted Matthew with her complete trust, he's hidden a plan from her that could potentially tear apart their burgeoning relationship.
His revenge scheme for his enemy, Archibald Bentley, has escalated to such a high degree that Matthew recognizes no moral bounds, It's kill or be killed in his mind and he has every intention of beating Benchley to the punch despite the fact that his conscience is saying he's wrong.
There's strong evidence of this because Matthew does his absolute best to make sure that Patience is kept completely in the dark from his nefarious plotting.
She is everything that is good and beautiful in his world and to make his plans known to her would only spell his doom.
Instead, Matthew is so twisted with anger and hatred that he becomes nearly blinded by the revenge he seeks rather than the cling to the love he's already been given by the woman that longs to lighten his world.


My Thoughts:

Truly, what I think surprised me the most about PATIENCE, and it's not the unbelievable depths that Valdez explored with the D/s relationship between Matthew and Patience, but the fact that it didn't resemble PASSION in any way.
Instead, the novel is compellingly unique and held its own superbly against its famous predecessor, That accomplishment in and of itself is rare and quite splendid, Bravo Ms. Valdez!

That being said, I must admit that I'm shocked at the negative reviews this novel has received, This was a daring work of art that was, for me at least, incredibly moving and beautiful to experience, Every moment meant something and I basked in the depth that Valdez took her characters as each and every barrier is sensually stripped to reveal the true Matthew and Patience.
Even more shocking was that people were perplexed that Matthew discerns Patience's submissiveness seemingly "out of the blue", I disagree. There were plenty examples of Patience's unknown desire to submit, It was in her voice, her words, her false independence, and most importantly it was her reaction to Matthew, Extending beyond that, the relationship was explored slowly with Matthew giving Patience every chance to leave, How else could she have known of this desire It's not like she knew the lifestyle existed, What did readers expect Matthew to do, ask her directly about a subject she knows nothing about Have a discussion over tea He's a sexual dominant who knows that he must dominate.
He's been practicing for years thus helping him to recognize Patience's hidden nature,

The negativity, in my opinion, stems mostly from a simple dislike of D/s, I believe that you must have at least an appreciation for the Dominant/submissive dynamic in order to fully enjoy a novel of this nature.
If this is not something you enjoy or desire to read, then you're only going to see it as derogatory and your inner feminist will rear its head and scream foul.
The relationship that Valdez has written is fluent with the D/s stories that I've read and loved from the masters and to read it in a historical setting by such a passionate author was an absolute dream and one I will not be forgetting soon.


I've also had a friend email me saying that she didn't see the romance at all in PATIENCE and again, I'm shocked.
For me, every word spoken, every touch bestowed, taken and demanded was romance, This is a novel that focuses nearly completely on the hero, heroine and their struggle, Its dissected and explored with graphic but sensual sex scenes that will most definitely leave you breathless if not squirming in your seat, From beginning to end, PATIENCE is romance, one that I will most certainly be returning to for seconds, thirds and more,

If you love intense romance with graphic sex, xrated language, an uber alpha hero who also happens to be a sexual dominant, and a complex heroine who lives and breathes to submit to her hero, than PATIENCE is the historical romance for you.
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