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Originally Posted by zelda.owns.link
Heather Graham/Shannon Drake comes to mind. I just read Ondine which is being re-released with no editing and I was furious I wrote a lengthy discourse on why it was horrible and sent it to the publisher along with posting on several sites (Amazon, GoodReads). It's one thing to have written nearly thirty years ago, an entirely different scenario to reintroduce the same text and not consider what is known in this day and age of rape.
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I'd prefer no revision just a disclaimer that it was written in the ages of bodice rippers. Seriously to judge a bodice ripper by today's standards it's going to fall political incorrect. Look at Stormfire the mother of all bodice rippers. You couldn't edit it without losing the heart of the story or the impact of the ending. The poor heroine is raped not just by the hero but as the story progresses his brother and later a man her father sells her to. The hero in a drunken state give her to his men after beating her but she gets away. He tortures her thinking she betrayed him and those are just some of the non pc moments. I will never forget this book what the heroine goes through is just horrendous but there is a HEA and Catherine does find peace in the end.
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