In Love With The Man

In Love with the Man 
by Marjorie Lewty
Rating: 1 of 5 stars

My Review:
Oh the things you can find at library book sales.  So many books that you're not really sure about, but for 25 to 50 cents, how can you go wrong...

This is the story about "the Man". "The Man" is important. "The Man" makes the decisions. "The Man" is smart and capable and will do what needs to be done. But wait. This is a romance novel from the 80's. There needs to be a female. We need to know all the feelings that she's having. But don't forget, this story is about "The Man".

Any time anything exciting might happen, the heroine is confined to the hotel room while "The Man" takes care of things. One time she's allowed to go and sit in the lobby, drinking tea, while business is taken care of. She's allowed to go because she broke down crying about how alone she felt being left behind.

This woman is really, really a doormat and she's supposedly smart because she got this job as an almost programmer, but we never see her do anything smart. "The Man" even tells her at one point to stop thinking (and not in a "don't over analyze" way, it definitely felt like "you're the woman, I'm the man, so I'll do the thinking for us").

There's a vengeful woman/ex who visits the heroine to imply that the hero is involved already, but one word from the hero and this heroine doesn't care. This book is really good at showing you, quit your job, don't care if the hero is two-timing you, don't ask for explanations, don't tell a man what you want. He's "The Man" and he'll give you what he deems you need and that's as good as it gets.