Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: how times have changed

I've only started reading romance in the last year or two, and if this is an example of what romance books were like in the eighties, I would have hated them then.The heroin is completely under the thumb of the various men in the story, and in particular under the 'hero's' - it seems more like an abusive relationship than a love story: he decides everything and she gives a token protest and then surrenders.If you're interested in seeing how romance has evolved in the last quarter century, then read it, but that's about the only thing it's worth reading for.