Glorious

Oh, heaven! Glorious! I've received all of the books I purchased today. Quite at the same time. Amazingly coincidental, isn't it? I'm swirling around like a madwoman with delight right now. How I want to devouur them all, but I'm still reading The Duke and plan to read Princess, also by Gaelen Foley, next. After that, I will heartily relish them.

There is a character, partial antagonist, in The Duke, who I find share quite the same extreme and insanely passionate temperament with Ido in Eon and Eona. The unfortunate thing is that they also share the same fate: eventual death. Dolph was his name. At first, I misjudged him for someone who was just obsessed with Belinda's beauty. But when he died he revealed a passionate, somewhat twisted love for her. He readily issued a duel challenge to Robert to fight for his honor (if there was any left) and his Bel. If Ido was passionate about power, this man was passionate about his love for Bel, to a fault. Passion is admirable, but in those men's cases, it was their downfall. Why is that? Ido desired power to the point that he would stop at nothing to possess it, even if it meant taking advantage of the girl he possibly loved. As for Dolph, his lust and love for Bel drove him to take hectic measures, such as throwing her father into the Fleet, inadvertently causing her to be raped by the warden; bullying the school where she worked as a teacher to dismiss her, resulting in cornering her into the path of a courtesan. They both inevitably hurt the one they cared about with their passion. The conclusion I've drawn is that this so-called passion is more of an unhealthy obsession, and should, therefore, have a brake to it. Today, despite my elation, I mourn for you, Dolph...sorry but I can't seem to recall your last name. No offence.