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Enemy Within
Enemy Within by Amanda Browning released on May 25, 1995 is available now for purchase.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 14, 1994
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Amanda Browning
112 books30 followersAmanda Browning (born in Essex, England) is an English writer of over 25 romance novels since 1987.
Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex.
She worked for years in libraries, and when she left her job, she decided began to write. Although her first two manuscripts could not be used, the third was accepted and published in 1987.
She is single and continues living in the old family home on the borders of Essex. She is great-aunt to eighteen nieces and nephews.
Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex.
She worked for years in libraries, and when she left her job, she decided began to write. Although her first two manuscripts could not be used, the third was accepted and published in 1987.
She is single and continues living in the old family home on the borders of Essex. She is great-aunt to eighteen nieces and nephews.
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July 25, 2018
Re Enemy Within - Amanda Browning gets the second HP Plus spot of July 1995 and all she can think to do with it is add pages and pages of frigid tart shaming from a misogynistic H and throw in some extra h screeching and inner shame monologues after the big seduction scene.
This one was dated even in 1995 and I don't mean that in a good way.
The whole story is the h has a famous promiscuous tarty tease mother who made her childhood a misery. When she was nineteen, she unwittingly fell into a big affair with a married man and she discovered that fact when she made the front page of the tabloids and got named in the man's divorce as his mistress. She has now sworn off all relationships and tart shames herself for her "wanton" lust feelings and continues to do so throughout the book.
Her entire family is the usual pimp out, sewer slurping relatives and when the book opens, the h is trying to keep her air cargo/private hire plan business running. The H is a famous photographer and the h believes he hired her company to fly him around taking photos.
The H did not, he lied to the h because her wealthy half sister ran off with his wealthy nephew. Supposedly the H has all this background information on her family and yet he was too stupid to know that her half sister is rich. The H keeps claiming the half sister is a gold digger and that his nephew gets scammed by gold diggers all the time.
The h is forced to help the H search for her sister cause she needs his charter fees to keep from going bankrupt. After a LOT of ugly verbal feminist/chauvinist battles, a lurve club moment or two and a ton of "you're not a real woman" beratements by the H and with the h's inner monologue of tart shaming herself, the sister and nephew are found and the two of them are married and planning on being Dr. Nephew and Wife and the half sister takes the opportunity to tell her sister how wrong she is to cut men out of her life and act frigid.
Then we get to visit the h's absolutely atrocious mother, who has found a new victim to support her lucrative lifestyle and after the mother and the H thoroughly discuss her 'frigid' and untrusting and sexless character at the dinner table in front of her, the h is beaten down enough to run off to another room to have a mopey moment cause she thinks her lust is love for the H and the H chases for the bullying "you will marry me and be my doormat" HEA.
This book was srsly boring, the bickerfest was never ending and I got tired of tropes that were out of date even in the 1970's. I have no clue what anybody even saw in anybody, cause there was nothing to like or love in any of them.
The h was a spineless jelly blobule of self pitying spite, the H was a domineering abusive bully and the h's family was a horror of scum gulping sewer leeches. Read this if you totally need a fix of the old skool vintage Bully H/throw rug h style of story, but be warned it isn't a very entertaining example of it and that makes for a rather tedious HPlandia outing.
This one was dated even in 1995 and I don't mean that in a good way.
The whole story is the h has a famous promiscuous tarty tease mother who made her childhood a misery. When she was nineteen, she unwittingly fell into a big affair with a married man and she discovered that fact when she made the front page of the tabloids and got named in the man's divorce as his mistress. She has now sworn off all relationships and tart shames herself for her "wanton" lust feelings and continues to do so throughout the book.
Her entire family is the usual pimp out, sewer slurping relatives and when the book opens, the h is trying to keep her air cargo/private hire plan business running. The H is a famous photographer and the h believes he hired her company to fly him around taking photos.
The H did not, he lied to the h because her wealthy half sister ran off with his wealthy nephew. Supposedly the H has all this background information on her family and yet he was too stupid to know that her half sister is rich. The H keeps claiming the half sister is a gold digger and that his nephew gets scammed by gold diggers all the time.
The h is forced to help the H search for her sister cause she needs his charter fees to keep from going bankrupt. After a LOT of ugly verbal feminist/chauvinist battles, a lurve club moment or two and a ton of "you're not a real woman" beratements by the H and with the h's inner monologue of tart shaming herself, the sister and nephew are found and the two of them are married and planning on being Dr. Nephew and Wife and the half sister takes the opportunity to tell her sister how wrong she is to cut men out of her life and act frigid.
Then we get to visit the h's absolutely atrocious mother, who has found a new victim to support her lucrative lifestyle and after the mother and the H thoroughly discuss her 'frigid' and untrusting and sexless character at the dinner table in front of her, the h is beaten down enough to run off to another room to have a mopey moment cause she thinks her lust is love for the H and the H chases for the bullying "you will marry me and be my doormat" HEA.
This book was srsly boring, the bickerfest was never ending and I got tired of tropes that were out of date even in the 1970's. I have no clue what anybody even saw in anybody, cause there was nothing to like or love in any of them.
The h was a spineless jelly blobule of self pitying spite, the H was a domineering abusive bully and the h's family was a horror of scum gulping sewer leeches. Read this if you totally need a fix of the old skool vintage Bully H/throw rug h style of story, but be warned it isn't a very entertaining example of it and that makes for a rather tedious HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
dnf
October 26, 2011No hero POV... instant hate... endless bickering... taunts about the heroine trying to not be a real woman... this has the sex scenes of 1994, but otherwise reads like 1974.
October 31, 2021
I detest the sort of plastic characters AB presented in the first half of this story; he’s determined to make everything either a sexual test or a sexual insult and she’s all too ready to fall into his trap.
One of my rating considerations is how much I want to yell at the characters and I was more resigned to the inane nastiness than incensed enough to yell. She wasn’t a doormat exactly but I don’t believe anyone who managed to run a company in a remote area would be so easy to manipulate and many of her responses were not credible.
AB turns on the character development in the second half, just in time to keep me from tossing this story. First half is one star at best and second half is four.
One of my rating considerations is how much I want to yell at the characters and I was more resigned to the inane nastiness than incensed enough to yell. She wasn’t a doormat exactly but I don’t believe anyone who managed to run a company in a remote area would be so easy to manipulate and many of her responses were not credible.
AB turns on the character development in the second half, just in time to keep me from tossing this story. First half is one star at best and second half is four.
November 14, 2024
I’m 19 pages in and I hate the abrasive, patronizing, misogynistic, repugnant, POS male lead. Female lead also has internalized misogyny.
I can’t see how this book could possibly be salvaged.
Tempted to DNF but will attempt to trudge onward.
I can’t see how this book could possibly be salvaged.
Tempted to DNF but will attempt to trudge onward.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 25, 2019
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