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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I still can't get past the hundred-year-old man part. Seriously, your great-great-grandfather hitting on a teenager is bad ... unless he's posing as a teenager, then it's okay? That just creeps me out.
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Curious. I imagine others think she's a money-grubber hunting after the older man (although it could be a long wait for him to die and leave her his riches). This is far from the first book about a couple with a big difference in their ages, but with the added convenience of him not looking old ... and dare I say it? Curmudgeonly?
As long as both involved are adults I don't find an age difference to be much of problem. (17 seemed close-enough in this context - in the books in particular Bella is a very mature seeming 17yo.)
As a contrast I have found some of Piers Anthony's work a little creepy in this regard, even though I like some of what he has done otherwise. Robert Heinlein is another one.