![]() He tries to kill, Celine, but she stabs him in self-defense and runs away. Celine returns home and discovers her guardian murdered by a lovesick client. Just in case you hadn’t already figured out she’s a Mary Sue, let’s throw some purple eyeballs into the mix. Oh yeah: Celine has “haunting amethyst eyes.” Yup. Celine also has the Sight or somesuch psychic ability that allows her to read people’s memories/emotions when she touches them. ![]() ![]() Celine, by the way, is the orphaned daughter of a London whore and a roaming gypsy, and her current guardian is a gypsy fortune teller. Jumping back to the beginning, once Celine is done waxing poetic about how much she loves slave labor, she returns to her house. And just all-around inane, a fact I will now demonstrate. The whole time I was reading this book, I just kept thinking “why, Jill? Why are you doing this to me?” And the thing is, this book isn’t even terrible-it’s just really, really mediocre. Honestly, I found this 1996 publication rather more upsetting than any number of Old School “bodice rippers” I’ve had the chance to sample. ![]() Alas, hindsight.ĭay Dreamer, as one might have gathered already, isn’t a book that stands up well to the test of time. That should have been my clue to Get The Fuck Out. The book opens with the heroine, Celine, walking through New Orleans and and thinking to herself about what a “pleasure” it was to see the slaves and freedmen working together so efficiently. ![]()
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