Jasmine Guillory has an endearing ability to take you home
with her tactile writing and scene incorporation. I was feeeeling summer heat
at the ball park from page one. Which came as a welcome contrast to the frost-bitten
climate I’m presently caged in.
The Proposal has the ability to really shake-up gender stereotypes,
which in retrospect, I admire greatly. The romance genre has a code of clichéd stereotypes
strong enough to burst a steel bodice. Okay, I don’t really know what that
means, but it sounded good. It just plain feels nice to see someone buck the trend.
With that in mind, I worked to keep my bias in check
through chapter one. But after chapter two, I still wasn’t a fan of the main
female character. I found myself wondering, if this were about a guy who hated doing things his girlfriend
did, hated hanging out with her friends, and admitted that he obviously wasn’t
with his sexy girlfriend for the conversation skills, I would have thrown the
book against the wall. Which is incredibly more difficult to do with the kindle
version.
I read on however, searching for redeeming qualities, but I
came up empty-handed after the main character shows no hurt for being ridiculed,
and outright laughs at her love interest when he tells her off for humiliating him at the ballpark.
I’d like to say that I kept the candle burning for this book
in hopes of the female character evolving into a wonderful, caring individual, but
I’m afraid my interest didn’t carry much further than the first few chapters.
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