Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I know everyone keeps leaving all these reviews justifying the beating he gives her as historically accurate, blah, blah, blah. If that's your thing then, fine, buy the book, read it, enjoy. There are still those of us out there who don't want to read about a woman who gets hit by a man and thinks she had it coming. I'm one of those people and, if you are too, DON'T read this book. I wish I had been given some sort of warning so I would have known not to buy this. If Claire was a woman I knew, I'd tell her to get out of there and I hope the majority of the people leaving this weak little excuse for a hero 5 stars would do the same. As to the historical argument, I'll just say that beating slaves was also all the rage a few hundred years ago and "everybody did it" but you don't find many books depicting the good guy who beat his slaves bloody and bruised. It's generally agreed upon that if the guy had the heart to be so vicious towards another human being, he's not a hero. He's not even an anti-hero, he's the bad guy. If a movie company were to make a movie today about the really great slave holder who was a super guy (which Jamie is depicted as) who beat his slaves and they all said "well, we guess we did have it coming," EVERYONE would be up in arms. It would be considered racism, the NAACP would be going ballistic. So what does it say about society, and women ourselves, that we're the ones giving this book rave reviews?