I just started Third Degree by Greg Iles...my new favorite author. But, I have found one thing that I don't like about his writing. Every woman is a harlot who either cheats on her husband and/or has an affair with a married man. In all 3 of his books that I have read, the main character finds herself fighting with her inner harlot. In the first one, "Blood Memory", the hero of the story was pregnant with a married man's child and fought her desires for him throughout the entire story.
In the second book, "True Evil", the main character carried an unending grief over the death of a man whom she loved and whom loved her. He was married though and, while he never cheated on his wife with her, they made their love known to one another just before his death.
And, now in "Third Degree", the main character is struggling after she finds herself pregnant with another man's baby. Both of them are married to someone else.
Why is Greg Iles so obsessed with married men and their mistresses? Why do all the main characters have some illicit relationship with a married man? In 2 of the 3 cases, the woman beats herself up about it while the man has this quiet heroic quality. Why does it seem like she is always a little more guilty of this transgression than the man. And, why is the wife always some evil, high-gloss, uncaring bitch who seems to deserve her husband's roving libido?
Don't get me wrong. I really love Greg Iles' work but, I feel he could give the misunderstood tragic harlot role a break.
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