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Significant Others #1
Beyond Reach
Blondes were usually more fun....
But Troy Donovan was proving to be the exception to the rule! He was tough, uncompromising and off-limits. He had no intention of letting anyone get close to him again. And that included Lucy--especially Lucy. He'd made it clear that whatever her relaxed interpretation of her new job was, it didn't include bedroom duties.
Lucy Barnes was a brunette...and as far as she was concerned she could make her own rules. She may have traveled to the Caribbean on a whim but impulsiveness was only one of Lucy's weaknesses. The other was for tall blond men--and Troy was one of the sexiest she had ever met! He'd told her he didn't believe in mixing business with pleasure...and that was fine with Lucy. Why let business get in the way of anything?
But Troy Donovan was proving to be the exception to the rule! He was tough, uncompromising and off-limits. He had no intention of letting anyone get close to him again. And that included Lucy--especially Lucy. He'd made it clear that whatever her relaxed interpretation of her new job was, it didn't include bedroom duties.
Lucy Barnes was a brunette...and as far as she was concerned she could make her own rules. She may have traveled to the Caribbean on a whim but impulsiveness was only one of Lucy's weaknesses. The other was for tall blond men--and Troy was one of the sexiest she had ever met! He'd told her he didn't believe in mixing business with pleasure...and that was fine with Lucy. Why let business get in the way of anything?
188 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1995
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Sandra Field
212 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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October 4, 2018
Re Beyond Reach - Sandra Field brings us the first book of a three book mini-series Significant Others in April 1996's HPlandia.
The first two books feature the same couple, an event that hasn't happened since Janet Dailey's 1970's HP outings No Quarter Asked and For Bitter or Worse featuring Cord and Stacy.
BR features the beginning of the relationship between Troy, a big blonde burly guy skippering a chartered yacht around the British Virgin Islands when the story starts and Lucy, a Canadian massage therapist who decided to have a little island escape to plan a change of life.
Lucy is 25 and comes from an all female family of very determined and assertive medical doctors. Lucy is not the MD type, where her sisters and her mother are all business, Lucy likes to emote and she is very impetuous.
It is that impetuosity that led her to answer a newspaper add for a man on the island needing a massage therapist. Except what the guy really wanted was a traveling tart. So when we first meet Lucy, she has recently dropped a very pricey jade figurine and crawled out a window to escape Mr. Advertising Under False Pretenses Guy and she is asking Troy about a job.
Troy needs a cook, first mate and deckhand and Lucy manages to convince him she will be great for the job. Troy has his doubts, but Lucy is a good sailor and she manages to cook a pretty nice gourmet dinner for Troy and one of his friends - tho Troy lets her stock up on gourmet deli foods for the actual chartered cruises.
It takes Lucy four days to fall in love with Troy, which is remarkable because Troy is SF's usual enigmatic and emotionally unavailable male. But in between the Troy and Lucy arguments, the British Virgin Island sightseeing and Lucy reheating gourmet deli foods, there is a lot of roofie kissing going on.
There is also some entertaining couples who charter the yacht. The first pair are newlyweds and Troy and Lucy's Lurve Force Mojo meter rises as the honeymooner's manage to turn the yacht into a floating bordello.
The next group is a family with a very distant father, a disgruntled teen daughter and son and pretty nice mother who is at the end of her rope and maybe her marriage. SF uses the family to demonstrate that Lucy is all about feelings and exploring them and that Troy is distant and withdrawn.
We soon learn that Troy is really a plastic surgeon on vacation and helping out a friend and that he has some dark trauma in his life. Lucy is determined to sort her going nowhere path out and hopefully bully Troy into loving her back.
There is Lucy pushing Troy into emoting, Lucy realizing that her thing for big burly blonde guys is based on the fact that her big burly blonde father died when she was three and she has been looking for his replacement ever since and finally Lucy and Troy helping the disconnected family reconnect and emotionally renew their family ties.
Then we have a visit to Troy's family island villa and the big lurve club event explodes. But as soon as the passion has simmered down, Troy is back to being distant. We get a hint that his distance involves some grief over a loss when Troy thinks Lucy is dead while she is watching a lizard do a mating dance in a hammock.
Lucy doesn't like Troy distancing himself. Her motto is that since she loves him, he should be loving her back and Lucy is really persistent in trying to dig deep into Troy's psyche. When the last charter group arrives and Troy seems to fixate on the young adult blonde daughter, we finally learn Troy's dark seekrit.
Six months earlier, Troy's flute playing, pretty, petite blonde sister went to a convenience store and was shot during a robbery attempt. Troy and his parents fell apart and now Troy is trying to heal his bleeding, grieving heart and find a way to move on.
Lucy isn't content with that tho, she has to push and push Troy to respond to her in more than just a physical comfort kinda way and that leads to some very tense moments as they both also have to keep crewing the yacht for the charter.
Then Lucy's mother calls and the normally cool and collected lady is an emotional wreck. Lucy's middle sister Cat got into a bad car accident and Lucy is needed at home ASAP. So Troy rushes Lucy to the airport and tries to get her to give him her contact info.
But Lucy is in a sulk and writes a mean note saying that Troy is an obstructive wall instead and then she goes home. Troy doesn't give up tho, he hunts Lucy down via his medical contacts and wins over Lucy's sisters and her mother.
Cat is in recovery and Lucy and her mother have emotionally reconnected when Troy finally shows up. He declares big' I Love You's' to Lucy, who had been doing the HP Mopey Moment while also being emotionally supportive to her mother and sisters.
Since most of what Lucy was moping about was being in love with Troy when he did not love her back, Troy's announcement quickly cheers Lucy up and with big expressions of Purple Passion, Lucy and Troy decide to get married and move to the Canadian Coast for the big HEA.
This one is okay, tho Lucy is much more aggressive in her pursuit of Troy than the average HP h. Troy plays the coy unicorn groomer type in this - tho he is definitely NOT hanging out in the rainbow unicorn stables. Overall it is a nice HP Virgin Islands adventure and not a bad way to hang out in the HP office.
The next book in the series Second Honeymoon, will be in our HPlandia August 1996 lineup and we will find out what Troy and Lucy have been up to for five years of HP time. Fair warning for the next one, based on the back blurb Troy and Lucy may have some stormy weather ahead...
The first two books feature the same couple, an event that hasn't happened since Janet Dailey's 1970's HP outings No Quarter Asked and For Bitter or Worse featuring Cord and Stacy.
BR features the beginning of the relationship between Troy, a big blonde burly guy skippering a chartered yacht around the British Virgin Islands when the story starts and Lucy, a Canadian massage therapist who decided to have a little island escape to plan a change of life.
Lucy is 25 and comes from an all female family of very determined and assertive medical doctors. Lucy is not the MD type, where her sisters and her mother are all business, Lucy likes to emote and she is very impetuous.
It is that impetuosity that led her to answer a newspaper add for a man on the island needing a massage therapist. Except what the guy really wanted was a traveling tart. So when we first meet Lucy, she has recently dropped a very pricey jade figurine and crawled out a window to escape Mr. Advertising Under False Pretenses Guy and she is asking Troy about a job.
Troy needs a cook, first mate and deckhand and Lucy manages to convince him she will be great for the job. Troy has his doubts, but Lucy is a good sailor and she manages to cook a pretty nice gourmet dinner for Troy and one of his friends - tho Troy lets her stock up on gourmet deli foods for the actual chartered cruises.
It takes Lucy four days to fall in love with Troy, which is remarkable because Troy is SF's usual enigmatic and emotionally unavailable male. But in between the Troy and Lucy arguments, the British Virgin Island sightseeing and Lucy reheating gourmet deli foods, there is a lot of roofie kissing going on.
There is also some entertaining couples who charter the yacht. The first pair are newlyweds and Troy and Lucy's Lurve Force Mojo meter rises as the honeymooner's manage to turn the yacht into a floating bordello.
The next group is a family with a very distant father, a disgruntled teen daughter and son and pretty nice mother who is at the end of her rope and maybe her marriage. SF uses the family to demonstrate that Lucy is all about feelings and exploring them and that Troy is distant and withdrawn.
We soon learn that Troy is really a plastic surgeon on vacation and helping out a friend and that he has some dark trauma in his life. Lucy is determined to sort her going nowhere path out and hopefully bully Troy into loving her back.
There is Lucy pushing Troy into emoting, Lucy realizing that her thing for big burly blonde guys is based on the fact that her big burly blonde father died when she was three and she has been looking for his replacement ever since and finally Lucy and Troy helping the disconnected family reconnect and emotionally renew their family ties.
Then we have a visit to Troy's family island villa and the big lurve club event explodes. But as soon as the passion has simmered down, Troy is back to being distant. We get a hint that his distance involves some grief over a loss when Troy thinks Lucy is dead while she is watching a lizard do a mating dance in a hammock.
Lucy doesn't like Troy distancing himself. Her motto is that since she loves him, he should be loving her back and Lucy is really persistent in trying to dig deep into Troy's psyche. When the last charter group arrives and Troy seems to fixate on the young adult blonde daughter, we finally learn Troy's dark seekrit.
Six months earlier, Troy's flute playing, pretty, petite blonde sister went to a convenience store and was shot during a robbery attempt. Troy and his parents fell apart and now Troy is trying to heal his bleeding, grieving heart and find a way to move on.
Lucy isn't content with that tho, she has to push and push Troy to respond to her in more than just a physical comfort kinda way and that leads to some very tense moments as they both also have to keep crewing the yacht for the charter.
Then Lucy's mother calls and the normally cool and collected lady is an emotional wreck. Lucy's middle sister Cat got into a bad car accident and Lucy is needed at home ASAP. So Troy rushes Lucy to the airport and tries to get her to give him her contact info.
But Lucy is in a sulk and writes a mean note saying that Troy is an obstructive wall instead and then she goes home. Troy doesn't give up tho, he hunts Lucy down via his medical contacts and wins over Lucy's sisters and her mother.
Cat is in recovery and Lucy and her mother have emotionally reconnected when Troy finally shows up. He declares big' I Love You's' to Lucy, who had been doing the HP Mopey Moment while also being emotionally supportive to her mother and sisters.
Since most of what Lucy was moping about was being in love with Troy when he did not love her back, Troy's announcement quickly cheers Lucy up and with big expressions of Purple Passion, Lucy and Troy decide to get married and move to the Canadian Coast for the big HEA.
This one is okay, tho Lucy is much more aggressive in her pursuit of Troy than the average HP h. Troy plays the coy unicorn groomer type in this - tho he is definitely NOT hanging out in the rainbow unicorn stables. Overall it is a nice HP Virgin Islands adventure and not a bad way to hang out in the HP office.
The next book in the series Second Honeymoon, will be in our HPlandia August 1996 lineup and we will find out what Troy and Lucy have been up to for five years of HP time. Fair warning for the next one, based on the back blurb Troy and Lucy may have some stormy weather ahead...
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December 23, 2019
Idiot heroine takes off for parts unknown to work for a family she has never met to be a "live-in masseuse" for them. When she shows up, she is SHOCKED that there is no family waiting to be massaged for the summer, just a lecherous old man who thinks "masseuse" is a euphemism for "call-girl."
After that great life decision, heroine decides it would be a great idea to get a job as live-in assistant skipper on a yacht working for another man she has never met before.
The man is a tall, blond hunk, exactly heroine's type. And he is making googly eyes at her like she is Jessica Rabbit in a red bikini.
In between epic fights where they both tell each other they are VERY NOT INTERESTED, they kiss, grope, make out, and finally go to bed together. In their free time, they somehow manage to crew for guests who chartered their boat for a vacation on the high seas. It's a wonder the boat didn't sink!
The heroine's epiphany is that she has been looking for her dad, the OG tall, blond hunk of her childhood memories, all her life. But now that one of the yacht's guests gave her a five minute pop psychology diagnosis, she is finally able to exorcise her demons and love the hero for who he is, rather than who he represents.
The hero is not psychologically ready to accept the heroine's love because he is still grieving for his murdered sister. Since he has not had the benefit of impromptu, lightning round of pop psychology counseling, he shouts at the heroine to get out of his life.
She returns home only to have the contrite hero chase her down with mucho grovel and undying love declarations. After getting his promise that he will never shut her out of his emotions again, heroine accepts his proposal for the HEA ending...
...which according to reviews of the sequel to this book, Second Honeymoon, is just an HFN ending.
I am definitely not interested enough in this tedious couple to trudge through episode two of their unending bickerfest :~{
After that great life decision, heroine decides it would be a great idea to get a job as live-in assistant skipper on a yacht working for another man she has never met before.
The man is a tall, blond hunk, exactly heroine's type. And he is making googly eyes at her like she is Jessica Rabbit in a red bikini.
In between epic fights where they both tell each other they are VERY NOT INTERESTED, they kiss, grope, make out, and finally go to bed together. In their free time, they somehow manage to crew for guests who chartered their boat for a vacation on the high seas. It's a wonder the boat didn't sink!
The heroine's epiphany is that she has been looking for her dad, the OG tall, blond hunk of her childhood memories, all her life. But now that one of the yacht's guests gave her a five minute pop psychology diagnosis, she is finally able to exorcise her demons and love the hero for who he is, rather than who he represents.
The hero is not psychologically ready to accept the heroine's love because he is still grieving for his murdered sister. Since he has not had the benefit of impromptu, lightning round of pop psychology counseling, he shouts at the heroine to get out of his life.
She returns home only to have the contrite hero chase her down with mucho grovel and undying love declarations. After getting his promise that he will never shut her out of his emotions again, heroine accepts his proposal for the HEA ending...
...which according to reviews of the sequel to this book, Second Honeymoon, is just an HFN ending.
I am definitely not interested enough in this tedious couple to trudge through episode two of their unending bickerfest :~{
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 3, 2016
Despite that very risque cover (I had to look twice to make sure his hand wasn't just covering up the midsection of a dress), this book was incredibly tame. There's a good reason that HP readers get all dreamy about Lynne Graham's heroes, who are, without exception, all insanely crazy in love with the heroine. There's also a reason that I've never heard anyone wax lyrical about Sandra Field's leading men: they're pretty useless in the romance department.
Cue the story. Sandra Field has her stories set all over the world, such as "The Land of Maybe," which is set on the Faroes Isles. Pretty darn cool. This one takes place aboard a charter sailboat, and the heroine is no stranger to sailing, and the terms ring true. Lucy also has a compelling reason for wanting to sail with Troy Donovan. She sees an employment ad requesting cook/crew member and jumps at the chance. It's no wonder she does so, because her last job opp in this same place has gone up in smoke when her employer turns out to be some sexually-molesting violent mafia-seeming creep. She sees Troy Donovan, who, besides his extremely masculine hero-man name, is also a sex god of tall and blond proportions. They have cute banter; he warns her off having designs on him; she returns with some shots of her own. The book is off to a good start.
And then?
And then the book fizzles. Because like all other Sandra Field books, the hero is determinedly (or just plain) not interested in the heroine. I found myself frowning and thinking, "If this guy were a girl, the guy would definitely be calling her a tease and a slut." Because this guy makes hot eyes at her and then determinedly says NO! to having an affair. Because this guy kisses her hotly and then determinedly says NO! to having an affair. Because this guy rubs her up hotly in her blankets and then leaves her determinedly, having said NO! to having an affair. Seriously, the girl is not even asking for a commitment. She just didn't want to be kicked off the boat and wouldn't mind some extra kissy-face-time with him. Plus, he turns hot and cold with incredible (and unattractive) moodiness. Good grief, dude, she's doing you a freaking favor, working hard as blazes and cooking up a storm.
(That was another thing. She was able to suddenly start preparing haute cuisine (like four course meals) having watched her mother entertain dinner guests 10 years ago? That seems...odd. She suddenly was churning out incredible pastries and breads and desserts in this tiny (I'm assuming) galley of a kitchen after two days of shopping when I've had to run out to the store because the recipe called for one ingredient instead of another? Stretching it just a tad. Yes, you can cook by following a recipe, but how many recipes could you follow to the letter without doing substitutions, halving the recipe without sometimes disastrous results, or adjusting for variations in oven temperature or even pan differences? Come ON!)
Cue the story. Sandra Field has her stories set all over the world, such as "The Land of Maybe," which is set on the Faroes Isles. Pretty darn cool. This one takes place aboard a charter sailboat, and the heroine is no stranger to sailing, and the terms ring true. Lucy also has a compelling reason for wanting to sail with Troy Donovan. She sees an employment ad requesting cook/crew member and jumps at the chance. It's no wonder she does so, because her last job opp in this same place has gone up in smoke when her employer turns out to be some sexually-molesting violent mafia-seeming creep. She sees Troy Donovan, who, besides his extremely masculine hero-man name, is also a sex god of tall and blond proportions. They have cute banter; he warns her off having designs on him; she returns with some shots of her own. The book is off to a good start.
And then?
And then the book fizzles. Because like all other Sandra Field books, the hero is determinedly (or just plain) not interested in the heroine. I found myself frowning and thinking, "If this guy were a girl, the guy would definitely be calling her a tease and a slut." Because this guy makes hot eyes at her and then determinedly says NO! to having an affair. Because this guy kisses her hotly and then determinedly says NO! to having an affair. Because this guy rubs her up hotly in her blankets and then leaves her determinedly, having said NO! to having an affair. Seriously, the girl is not even asking for a commitment. She just didn't want to be kicked off the boat and wouldn't mind some extra kissy-face-time with him. Plus, he turns hot and cold with incredible (and unattractive) moodiness. Good grief, dude, she's doing you a freaking favor, working hard as blazes and cooking up a storm.
(That was another thing. She was able to suddenly start preparing haute cuisine (like four course meals) having watched her mother entertain dinner guests 10 years ago? That seems...odd. She suddenly was churning out incredible pastries and breads and desserts in this tiny (I'm assuming) galley of a kitchen after two days of shopping when I've had to run out to the store because the recipe called for one ingredient instead of another? Stretching it just a tad. Yes, you can cook by following a recipe, but how many recipes could you follow to the letter without doing substitutions, halving the recipe without sometimes disastrous results, or adjusting for variations in oven temperature or even pan differences? Come ON!)
March 30, 2022
3.5 stars The heroine behaves incredibly impulsively, probably even foolishly, at the beginning. The second rash decision puts her on a boat as cook and crew, even though she isn’t a cook and hasn’t even been on a boat for ten years—and means she will be traveling alone with a man she’s never met before.
Once all that is out of the way, however (she adapts weirdly well and quickly to cooking even without experience), I enjoyed the way she takes on her new job, as well as her interactions with the guests. The relationship also unfolds in a compelling way, and develops into an unexpectedly poignant part of his history. I liked how their relationship comes together in the end, and I liked how she develops a better relationship with her mother and sisters as well.
This one is interesting in that a direct sequel was released just a few months afterwards. I read it directly after this one, so I’ll put some thoughts on that review.
Once all that is out of the way, however (she adapts weirdly well and quickly to cooking even without experience), I enjoyed the way she takes on her new job, as well as her interactions with the guests. The relationship also unfolds in a compelling way, and develops into an unexpectedly poignant part of his history. I liked how their relationship comes together in the end, and I liked how she develops a better relationship with her mother and sisters as well.
This one is interesting in that a direct sequel was released just a few months afterwards. I read it directly after this one, so I’ll put some thoughts on that review.
February 14, 2012
4 1/2 Stars! ~ Having felt like a misfit in her family all of her life, Lucy decides it's time to shake things up and leaves her home in Ottawa for the warm trade winds of the West Indies. She's ecstatic when she hires on as a cook and crew member on a 50 foot sail boat. With passengers arriving the next day, Troy hires Lucy against his better judgement. One look at her, and he knows he's in trouble. There is an instant connection between them, and keeping their attraction under check proves impossible. Lucy knows there's something eating away a Troy, but each time she tries to get him to open up he slams all his invisible doors brutally in her face.
I instantly fell in love with these two. Troy's inner turmoil makes him a very angry, bitter man; and at times he's brutal with Lucy's emotions. I was proud of Lucy when she recognizes that his anger is too strong, and that though she loves him with all her heart she can't be with him. I love a gorgeous tortured hero, and Troy fills that bill very well. Happily I don't have to say goodbye to Lucy and Troy, as Ms. Fields brings them back again in her next book, Second Honeymoon
I instantly fell in love with these two. Troy's inner turmoil makes him a very angry, bitter man; and at times he's brutal with Lucy's emotions. I was proud of Lucy when she recognizes that his anger is too strong, and that though she loves him with all her heart she can't be with him. I love a gorgeous tortured hero, and Troy fills that bill very well. Happily I don't have to say goodbye to Lucy and Troy, as Ms. Fields brings them back again in her next book, Second Honeymoon
January 1, 2012
This was very romantic, deeply emotional and all in all pretty well written. Some emotional developments were a tiny little bit rushed, but I enjoyed reading this book.
Troy was hard to resist, even when I wanted to hate him sometimes- he's pretty mean to Lucy in the beginning, but it makes the HEA all the sweeter.
All in all, an enjoyable read with a gorgeous blond hero!
Troy was hard to resist, even when I wanted to hate him sometimes- he's pretty mean to Lucy in the beginning, but it makes the HEA all the sweeter.
All in all, an enjoyable read with a gorgeous blond hero!
June 5, 2018
"We'll get along even if it kill us."
To Lucy's horror she heard herself say, "You mean you'll actually be nice to me?"
"I've never in my life met a woman as contentious as you! Don't you ever let up?"
"I wouldn't be so cranky if you'd act like human being," she retorted, "It's because you're so-so unreachable."
"Unreachable is exactly what I am, and what I intend to remain,' Troy answered grimly.
"And don't, if you value living, ask why."
To Lucy's horror she heard herself say, "You mean you'll actually be nice to me?"
"I've never in my life met a woman as contentious as you! Don't you ever let up?"
"I wouldn't be so cranky if you'd act like human being," she retorted, "It's because you're so-so unreachable."
"Unreachable is exactly what I am, and what I intend to remain,' Troy answered grimly.
"And don't, if you value living, ask why."
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November 29, 2024
Μετριο. Δε με ενθουσίασε.
Δε θυμαμαι αν εχω ξαναδιαβασει βιβλίο της Σαντρα Φιλντ αλλά, αν αυτό που είδα, ειναι γενικά το συγγραφικό της στιλ, δε νομίζω ότι θα το ξανακανω.
Μου θυμισε βιβλια της Ρόμπιν Ντόναλντ που εχω βαλει σε βαλει σε μαυρη λίστα, αρκετά χρόνια πριν.
Δε θυμαμαι αν εχω ξαναδιαβασει βιβλίο της Σαντρα Φιλντ αλλά, αν αυτό που είδα, ειναι γενικά το συγγραφικό της στιλ, δε νομίζω ότι θα το ξανακανω.
Μου θυμισε βιβλια της Ρόμπιν Ντόναλντ που εχω βαλει σε βαλει σε μαυρη λίστα, αρκετά χρόνια πριν.
August 6, 2014
a classic harleyquinn
February 25, 2016
Can't wait to read the sequel "second honeymoon"
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