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My issue with the book is more an issue with me, I guess. To be honest, I'm a big fan of traditional gender roles and am probably on NOW's hate list, but Ross's close-mindedness wasn't something I could get past. I'd be fine if he preferred to have a wife who wanted to be the perfect homemaker, but to act like a woman with modern values, someone who was liberal and realistic about things was some kind of threat to society was too much for me to take. His vehement opposition to the idea that a sexually liberated woman who didn't spend her days cooking and cleaning was a big turn-off. To me, there's a fine line between embracing tradition and forcing limitations on someone, and with Ross, it felt like the latter. By the time he fell in love with her, only to realize Macie was not at all the woman he thought she was, there's just wasn't enough time left in the book to convince me that he loved her for the real Macie.
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