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Cinta Sejati Sang Pangeran [The Prince's Chambermaid]
Cathy hanyalah pelayan di sebuah hotel. Namun di tengah kesedihannya karena dicampakkan tunangannya, ia bertemu dengan seorang pangeran dari sebuah kerajaan. Mereka terlibat dalam hubungan gelap, namun Pangeran Xaviero menegaskan bahwa kebersamaan mereka hanyalah sementara. Dan saat Xaviero akhirnya pergi, Cathy merasakan luka amat dalam di hatinya.
Saat Raja Zaffirinthos jatuh sakit, Xaviero ditunjuk untuk memerintah kerajaan tersebut. Xaviero memutuskan untuk menikahi Cathy, karena merasa dirinya membutuhkan pendamping. Namun, suatu hal tak terduga membuat Cathy merasa dia tak lagi berguna di sana. Dan dia memutuskan mengakhiri pernikahan itu.
Saat Raja Zaffirinthos jatuh sakit, Xaviero ditunjuk untuk memerintah kerajaan tersebut. Xaviero memutuskan untuk menikahi Cathy, karena merasa dirinya membutuhkan pendamping. Namun, suatu hal tak terduga membuat Cathy merasa dia tak lagi berguna di sana. Dan dia memutuskan mengakhiri pernikahan itu.
256 pages, ebook
Published May 26, 2013
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About the author
Sharon Kendrick
1,224 books454 followersI was told off as a child for making up stories—little did I know that one day I’d earn my living by writing them!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
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October 3, 2014
Goodreads member Timendu probably has the best, most concise review of this with the simple "I did this to myself". I'll also add the dreaded: "I wasted an Audible credit on this crap!"
Good merciful heavens this was stupid and I have no one to blame but myself. The title sounds like a cheesy porn and the content wasn't much more substantial. I am embarrassed for myself.
Quick synopsis: The hero thinks he's better than the heroine and spends the book saying the most snobbish offensive things ever. The heroine takes it. Inside she's angry, but she NEVER defends herself. He's a prince, that's just how he is...
PUKE.
Good merciful heavens this was stupid and I have no one to blame but myself. The title sounds like a cheesy porn and the content wasn't much more substantial. I am embarrassed for myself.
Quick synopsis: The hero thinks he's better than the heroine and spends the book saying the most snobbish offensive things ever. The heroine takes it. Inside she's angry, but she NEVER defends herself. He's a prince, that's just how he is...
PUKE.
December 19, 2011
Dangit! I should have read the reviews before I burned a credit on this one!
OMGoodness this is just plain meh! Seriously? LOL All I can do is say...it helped get me through the day while mostly laid up with a serious sinus infection.
OMGoodness this is just plain meh! Seriously? LOL All I can do is say...it helped get me through the day while mostly laid up with a serious sinus infection.
February 21, 2021
Minggu lalu saya dpt berita shared di WhatsApp Group ttg seorang gadis Tionghoa bernama Li Ran yg menikahi seorang pangeran dari keluarga bangsawan di Belgia, Pangeran Charles yg juga seorang desainer di Paris. Kisah Ran seperti kisah Cinderella di dunia nyata!
Gadis "Tionghoa" Jadi "Putri Bangsawan Belgia"!? Kisahnya Menginspirasi!
Tapi novel ini, Cathy (walaupun namanya sama dgn saya, BLEH!!) ini beneran cuma beruntung saja. Gak ada daya upaya, cuma dari pelayan hotel yg mengandalkan tubuh semoknya, dia berhasil menggaet Xaviero, pangeran yg gemar main-main dgn menyamar sbg org biasa.
Bukan cuma karakter Cathy yg menjengkelkan saking submisifnya dan jiwa babunya yg kelewat menggelora (pokoknya apapun yg diperintah si tiran Xaviero ini, pasti diiyakan oleh Cathy), saya juga merasa sifat Xaviero ini sama parahnya. Xaviero digambarkan sbg pangeran arogan dominan alpha yg agak misoginis kynya. Dari awal dia hanya menganggap Cathy itu obyek seksual, sebatas selir saja, spt yg dia kerap ucapkan. Jelas kecocokan mereka hanya di ranjang saja. Cathy juga sempat diusir tapi langsung manut datang lagi saat dipanggil, tanpa banyak cingcong secuil patah pun.
Dan di ending beneran sungguh aneh dan mustahal dgn perubahan sikap Xaviero 180 derajat berbeda. Ky ada jin yg merasuki pikirannya, gak jelas juga kenapa tiba-tiba berubah. Walau ini cerita Harlequin dan pendek, paling nggak saya ingin romansa yg bisa menjelaskan dgn logika, bukan dgn mood swing yg kapan aja dia mau boleh-boleh aja berubah. Duh, sekian dulu ngomel-ngomelnya.
Gadis "Tionghoa" Jadi "Putri Bangsawan Belgia"!? Kisahnya Menginspirasi!
Tapi novel ini, Cathy (walaupun namanya sama dgn saya, BLEH!!) ini beneran cuma beruntung saja. Gak ada daya upaya, cuma dari pelayan hotel yg mengandalkan tubuh semoknya, dia berhasil menggaet Xaviero, pangeran yg gemar main-main dgn menyamar sbg org biasa.
Bukan cuma karakter Cathy yg menjengkelkan saking submisifnya dan jiwa babunya yg kelewat menggelora (pokoknya apapun yg diperintah si tiran Xaviero ini, pasti diiyakan oleh Cathy), saya juga merasa sifat Xaviero ini sama parahnya. Xaviero digambarkan sbg pangeran arogan dominan alpha yg agak misoginis kynya. Dari awal dia hanya menganggap Cathy itu obyek seksual, sebatas selir saja, spt yg dia kerap ucapkan. Jelas kecocokan mereka hanya di ranjang saja. Cathy juga sempat diusir tapi langsung manut datang lagi saat dipanggil, tanpa banyak cingcong secuil patah pun.
Dan di ending beneran sungguh aneh dan mustahal dgn perubahan sikap Xaviero 180 derajat berbeda. Ky ada jin yg merasuki pikirannya, gak jelas juga kenapa tiba-tiba berubah. Walau ini cerita Harlequin dan pendek, paling nggak saya ingin romansa yg bisa menjelaskan dgn logika, bukan dgn mood swing yg kapan aja dia mau boleh-boleh aja berubah. Duh, sekian dulu ngomel-ngomelnya.
June 17, 2013
The hero was so silly and one dimensional I couldn't stop laughing. Plus a future epilogue without babies? Epic fail!
December 14, 2015
Ok, this was much more what I was looking for when I decided I wanted books on domestic servants and the posh men who can’t resist them. Sharon Kendrick can reliably produce a hero who lives in his own fantasy world of royal entitlement, and a heroine who tolerates it for the great sex.
Cathy wasn’t much chop at school, and is working as a chambermaid at a shabby pretentious hotel. One day her sexual-harassment-lawsuit-if-Cathy-could-be-bothered boss informs Cathy that their little hotel is expecting a royal visitor. No one you’ll have ever heard of, you common but alluring pair of boobs, her boss tells her. Cathy dutifully Googles the unknown royal, rather than proudly asserting that it’s her democratic right not to have heard of jumped up royals of made up countries no one cares about. Before she can check out pics, a sexy man in muddy jeans enters the hotel lobby.
‘You cannot come in here dressed like that,’ Cathy says, embarrassed once again by the snobbish pretention of her horrible boss. She’s also a bit emotionally vulnerable, because her fiancé has broken up with her in a letter. He’s marrying another girl, on account of having got her preggers. Cathy’s not broken hearted, just really disappointed. Good thing a sexy man has turned up. The sexy man smoulders at her a little, and Cathy decides that he must be a tradie, so she takes him off to look at the room he’s to paint. Then they snog.
The sexy man is Prince Xaviero, and I spent the remainder of my reading experience arguing with myself about how I was supposed to pronounce his name. If his made up island of gold mines had been close to Spain I’d have gone with an ‘h’ sound (and possibly still been wrong), but given he was born somewhere between Italy and Greece, it’s probably a ‘z’ sound, but how will I ever know for sure unless I stop being lazy and try looking it up? Such torture I endured.
Anyway, Xaviero is instantly attracted to Cathy’s blonde hair and tight little shape and alluring boobs. He is going to tap that. She will be on her knees, oh yes, for he’s sure he can charm her and get some of that downtown action. Except, girls who immediately melt into his arms are too easy, it’s just not right. ‘I want a bit of fight, next time,’ he tells Cathy. She’s remarkably sanguine in the face of this, the first of his many insults.
In fact, Cathy is a master at tactical ignoring. Sure, maybe sometimes she should have taken Xaviero to task for being disgusting, but then she might have had to spend time arguing rather than having great sex, and Cathy is a woman with her priorities straight. Her turn on is great sex not hate sex.
Look, I suppose Cathy might seem like a bit of a doormat. She does put her man’s needs above her own, but I chose to see her as a woman with subtle strengths. She wasn’t wailing about how terribly neglected and badly treated she was, even though she was doing everything for a man who would never love her as much as she loved him. She was incredibly resilient, and I liked her. She was also a gardener, which is something I can’t do but think is fairly amazing, and she took every new experience Xaviero threw at her in her stride.
Xaviero is cartoonish in his male arrogance. He doesn’t quite top Kaliq from ‘The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable-Girl’ because it turns out he has some semi-human qualities, but he comes close. He skates a really fine line between being amusingly arrogant and verbally abusive. My comfort factor with them is that I’ve never picked up an undertone of violence beneath their arrogance, and they are super into making sure a woman has the best sex of her life, because they believe (bless them) that this adds authenticity to their reputations as lovers.
I couldn’t take Xaviero seriously. I think possibly I was conflating him with Rogelio from Jane the Virgin, so even at his worst I thought he was just on the edge of being outrageously charming. A couple of halfway decent emotional moments towards the end were enough to keep me happy, and I just enjoyed how funny he was.
Although there was no sneering hussy to make Cathy feel like a dirty ignorant peasant, this book was exactly what I was in the mood to read, and I enjoyed it heaps.
Cathy wasn’t much chop at school, and is working as a chambermaid at a shabby pretentious hotel. One day her sexual-harassment-lawsuit-if-Cathy-could-be-bothered boss informs Cathy that their little hotel is expecting a royal visitor. No one you’ll have ever heard of, you common but alluring pair of boobs, her boss tells her. Cathy dutifully Googles the unknown royal, rather than proudly asserting that it’s her democratic right not to have heard of jumped up royals of made up countries no one cares about. Before she can check out pics, a sexy man in muddy jeans enters the hotel lobby.
‘You cannot come in here dressed like that,’ Cathy says, embarrassed once again by the snobbish pretention of her horrible boss. She’s also a bit emotionally vulnerable, because her fiancé has broken up with her in a letter. He’s marrying another girl, on account of having got her preggers. Cathy’s not broken hearted, just really disappointed. Good thing a sexy man has turned up. The sexy man smoulders at her a little, and Cathy decides that he must be a tradie, so she takes him off to look at the room he’s to paint. Then they snog.
The sexy man is Prince Xaviero, and I spent the remainder of my reading experience arguing with myself about how I was supposed to pronounce his name. If his made up island of gold mines had been close to Spain I’d have gone with an ‘h’ sound (and possibly still been wrong), but given he was born somewhere between Italy and Greece, it’s probably a ‘z’ sound, but how will I ever know for sure unless I stop being lazy and try looking it up? Such torture I endured.
Anyway, Xaviero is instantly attracted to Cathy’s blonde hair and tight little shape and alluring boobs. He is going to tap that. She will be on her knees, oh yes, for he’s sure he can charm her and get some of that downtown action. Except, girls who immediately melt into his arms are too easy, it’s just not right. ‘I want a bit of fight, next time,’ he tells Cathy. She’s remarkably sanguine in the face of this, the first of his many insults.
In fact, Cathy is a master at tactical ignoring. Sure, maybe sometimes she should have taken Xaviero to task for being disgusting, but then she might have had to spend time arguing rather than having great sex, and Cathy is a woman with her priorities straight. Her turn on is great sex not hate sex.
Look, I suppose Cathy might seem like a bit of a doormat. She does put her man’s needs above her own, but I chose to see her as a woman with subtle strengths. She wasn’t wailing about how terribly neglected and badly treated she was, even though she was doing everything for a man who would never love her as much as she loved him. She was incredibly resilient, and I liked her. She was also a gardener, which is something I can’t do but think is fairly amazing, and she took every new experience Xaviero threw at her in her stride.
Xaviero is cartoonish in his male arrogance. He doesn’t quite top Kaliq from ‘The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable-Girl’ because it turns out he has some semi-human qualities, but he comes close. He skates a really fine line between being amusingly arrogant and verbally abusive. My comfort factor with them is that I’ve never picked up an undertone of violence beneath their arrogance, and they are super into making sure a woman has the best sex of her life, because they believe (bless them) that this adds authenticity to their reputations as lovers.
I couldn’t take Xaviero seriously. I think possibly I was conflating him with Rogelio from Jane the Virgin, so even at his worst I thought he was just on the edge of being outrageously charming. A couple of halfway decent emotional moments towards the end were enough to keep me happy, and I just enjoyed how funny he was.
Although there was no sneering hussy to make Cathy feel like a dirty ignorant peasant, this book was exactly what I was in the mood to read, and I enjoyed it heaps.
March 13, 2019
This is epically awful. The heroine is a chambermaid for a local hotel and is shy and dowdy. In walks this domineering man pretending to be a workman and he corners her and kisses the daylights out of her then walks away insulting her because he's disgusted at how easy she was. She finds out he's Prince Xaviero and he's coming for a visit the following week and she ends up his reluctant guide. He's less disgusted now because he didn't get to finish what he started with her, so he goes ahead and has sex with her, thinking she's a whore. She apparently doesn't care that he's insulted her in every way and has thus far treated her like she's a cheaply bought foregone conclusion - she eagerly hands over her virginity. And meanwhile, he's thought nothing of the fact that he's like ruined her reputation in town and basically made it so she can't work there (since he knew he was buying the hotel and she'd end up working for the boss she just slept with - asshole).
He's pissed that she duped him, but decides to make her his mistress...as she has no other value to him...and he's absolutely clear that this is all she's good for. Does she put up a fight? Get indignant that he's so insulting to her? Even consider saying no? Yeah, that's a no to all of the above.
And this is how the rest of it goes. He's a prince so he can do whatever he wants. She gets internally angry about being bossed around, but she listens and does whatever the fuck he tells her to do, whether she wants to do it or not. And if it's sexual, her libido strips her of all pride and self-esteem. He of course continues to treat her like she's some sort of prostitute that he's bought and paid for. He doesn't want her opinions or her personality - she's a mistress, there for one purpose only. And it bothered me to no end that she wasn't as incensed as I was. And for some reason she becomes so attached to the douchebag that she starts looking for ways to be his long-term mistress, because naturally she doesn't have enough self-respect to demand anything more. He clearly doesn't love her, but she'll take any crumbs she can get. She's so depserate and doormatty that when he asks her to fly to his country, giving her no reason and no indication of any feelings (not even the courtesy of any answers to her questions), she just hops on a plane and goes. Really at his beck and call.
That's when his brother ends up in a coma and he decides to marry her out of convenience (though he later claims that it was because he loved her but wasn't ready to admit it...which is bullshit because he brought the woman he claims to love into the royal life that he hates and it's clear that she hates it too). His reasons in the moment though had to do with how "mouldable" she was - to which she internally takes offense, but really? Why would she? She's been nothing but malleable the whole book! It's a wonder she walks upright when she's lacking her spine. And this is even more evidenced by the fact that she agrees to marry him even with his ridiculous reasons. She gets so dazed by the unexpected (and truly unromantic) proposal that she just says, "yes." And this after he admitting that what she'll get out of the marriage is some great sex - and evidently that's enough for her...crumbs and all. Next thing they're in an awful marriage, but at least the sex is specactular.
She does manage to find several vertebrae before the end of the book (at least enough to walk away when the hero hasn't declared any feelings), but it was way too late. And I didn't feel like our prince charming really made any progress towards becoming a decent human being...at least in the way he treats peons and women who are beneath him. So, since I hated the hero and facepalmed everytime the heroine did whatever he told her to do, I did not enjoy this book. It didn't work as a romance because I honestly didn't want either of them to be happy together...she needed to go off on her own to search for a new backbone and he needed to learn how the other half lived.
He's pissed that she duped him, but decides to make her his mistress...as she has no other value to him...and he's absolutely clear that this is all she's good for. Does she put up a fight? Get indignant that he's so insulting to her? Even consider saying no? Yeah, that's a no to all of the above.
And this is how the rest of it goes. He's a prince so he can do whatever he wants. She gets internally angry about being bossed around, but she listens and does whatever the fuck he tells her to do, whether she wants to do it or not. And if it's sexual, her libido strips her of all pride and self-esteem. He of course continues to treat her like she's some sort of prostitute that he's bought and paid for. He doesn't want her opinions or her personality - she's a mistress, there for one purpose only. And it bothered me to no end that she wasn't as incensed as I was. And for some reason she becomes so attached to the douchebag that she starts looking for ways to be his long-term mistress, because naturally she doesn't have enough self-respect to demand anything more. He clearly doesn't love her, but she'll take any crumbs she can get. She's so depserate and doormatty that when he asks her to fly to his country, giving her no reason and no indication of any feelings (not even the courtesy of any answers to her questions), she just hops on a plane and goes. Really at his beck and call.
That's when his brother ends up in a coma and he decides to marry her out of convenience (though he later claims that it was because he loved her but wasn't ready to admit it...which is bullshit because he brought the woman he claims to love into the royal life that he hates and it's clear that she hates it too). His reasons in the moment though had to do with how "mouldable" she was - to which she internally takes offense, but really? Why would she? She's been nothing but malleable the whole book! It's a wonder she walks upright when she's lacking her spine. And this is even more evidenced by the fact that she agrees to marry him even with his ridiculous reasons. She gets so dazed by the unexpected (and truly unromantic) proposal that she just says, "yes." And this after he admitting that what she'll get out of the marriage is some great sex - and evidently that's enough for her...crumbs and all. Next thing they're in an awful marriage, but at least the sex is specactular.
She does manage to find several vertebrae before the end of the book (at least enough to walk away when the hero hasn't declared any feelings), but it was way too late. And I didn't feel like our prince charming really made any progress towards becoming a decent human being...at least in the way he treats peons and women who are beneath him. So, since I hated the hero and facepalmed everytime the heroine did whatever he told her to do, I did not enjoy this book. It didn't work as a romance because I honestly didn't want either of them to be happy together...she needed to go off on her own to search for a new backbone and he needed to learn how the other half lived.
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February 16, 2016
Esta es una relectura.
Primero de todo: el prota merece una patada en las gónadas. Fuerte, que le duela, que le sirva para que no pueda reproducirse (?). Qué dennso este héroe, todo haciéndose el divo y mostrando la p¡ja grande y diciendo "mirá lo que es mi miembro, mirá lo que te vas a comer",como si nada. No, no. Bien puedo ponerlo en la categoría de los héroes de Jacqueline Baird, por lo tarado y egocéntrico.
La protagonista es muy sumisa, muy boluda, pero al final sentí que hizo madurar al estúpido del héroe. Él le dice "Ven aquí, linda camarerita", y ella va sonriente. ¡Noo! Querete un poco, querida, hacelo laburar, no le des todo tan fácil, estuve gritándole durante toda la novela. No me escuchó, obviamente.
Primero de todo: el prota merece una patada en las gónadas. Fuerte, que le duela, que le sirva para que no pueda reproducirse (?). Qué dennso este héroe, todo haciéndose el divo y mostrando la p¡ja grande y diciendo "mirá lo que es mi miembro, mirá lo que te vas a comer",como si nada. No, no. Bien puedo ponerlo en la categoría de los héroes de Jacqueline Baird, por lo tarado y egocéntrico.
La protagonista es muy sumisa, muy boluda, pero al final sentí que hizo madurar al estúpido del héroe. Él le dice "Ven aquí, linda camarerita", y ella va sonriente. ¡Noo! Querete un poco, querida, hacelo laburar, no le des todo tan fácil, estuve gritándole durante toda la novela. No me escuchó, obviamente.
September 25, 2014
This is the (as I've seen another reviewer's description of this type of book) douchebag hero type book. The "hero" is arrogant, sexist Mediterranean prince. The heroine a quiet, timid English rose who works in a hotel, who you'd think was finally going to properly stickup for herself (you'll get teased by her "sort of" actions) but no, she'll backdown.
Yes, it all ends happily ever after but it was a struggle to get finish the (audio)book personally.
The first Sharon Kendrick book I've had to struggle through.
Yes, it all ends happily ever after but it was a struggle to get finish the (audio)book personally.
The first Sharon Kendrick book I've had to struggle through.
June 9, 2016
The heroine was the doormat to rival all doormats in the world. The Hero was an absolute asshole who loved himself more than he loved the h tbh.
"Usually, he liked to run through an entire repertoire of his considerable sensual skills—something which completely captivated all his lovers. Women thought him unselfish, and in many ways he was—although he was always accused of holding back emotionally. But he was aware that giving them so much pleasure was also a kind of sexual boast—an innate need to surpass every other man that they might have known."
WTF IS THIS GUYY?
"Didn’t she realize that even a man of his calibre found her tight, lush body irresistible? Up until now those sinful curves had been woefully under-used—but not for much longer."
"A place where he had been able to shrug off privilege and position with his biddable little virgin whom he’d transformed into a near-perfect lover. And another man would one day benefit from all his tuition, he thought—with a sudden and unexpected spear of jealousy."
UGH THIS GUY JUST MADE ME SOO MAD!!!
Wont be reading this author again anytime soon. LOL harlequins dont usually make me so angry...huh
"Usually, he liked to run through an entire repertoire of his considerable sensual skills—something which completely captivated all his lovers. Women thought him unselfish, and in many ways he was—although he was always accused of holding back emotionally. But he was aware that giving them so much pleasure was also a kind of sexual boast—an innate need to surpass every other man that they might have known."
WTF IS THIS GUYY?
"Didn’t she realize that even a man of his calibre found her tight, lush body irresistible? Up until now those sinful curves had been woefully under-used—but not for much longer."
"A place where he had been able to shrug off privilege and position with his biddable little virgin whom he’d transformed into a near-perfect lover. And another man would one day benefit from all his tuition, he thought—with a sudden and unexpected spear of jealousy."
UGH THIS GUY JUST MADE ME SOO MAD!!!
Wont be reading this author again anytime soon. LOL harlequins dont usually make me so angry...huh
February 27, 2025
Davvero banale, altro che lezioni proibite..
La protagonista è una cameriera vessata dal titolare, che inspiegabilmente si comporta come una schiava senza mai protestare, zerbino assoluto di questo fantasioso principe che dovrebbe insegnarle il sesso (e anche di questo, se ne vede poco, pochissimo).
Il principe in questione è un anaffettivo di prima categoria, ciò nonostante la nostra dubbia eroina continua ad assecondarlo in tutto e per tutto, sposandolo non si capisce bene perchè.
Un lieto fine insulso chiude sto patetico libercolo.
Insomma, sconsigliatissimo.
La protagonista è una cameriera vessata dal titolare, che inspiegabilmente si comporta come una schiava senza mai protestare, zerbino assoluto di questo fantasioso principe che dovrebbe insegnarle il sesso (e anche di questo, se ne vede poco, pochissimo).
Il principe in questione è un anaffettivo di prima categoria, ciò nonostante la nostra dubbia eroina continua ad assecondarlo in tutto e per tutto, sposandolo non si capisce bene perchè.
Un lieto fine insulso chiude sto patetico libercolo.
Insomma, sconsigliatissimo.
March 19, 2013
Asli gw baca novel ini tuh kayak nonton sinetron Indonesia yg ga berbobot. Siyok euy dg cerita SK yg ini. Berasa ga nerima gt gw dg karakter heroinenya yg "pelayan kamar" tp dideskripsi spt HBL (Haus belaian lelaki) sama bodohnya ga ketulungan. Apa yg dibilang si Hero walo itu nyakitin hatinya dan membuat harga dirinya jatuh, tetap aja nurutin apa kata si Hero...itu heroine apa toh weeeyyy *ketok kepala si Cathy,,trs jedutin ke tembok* #mendadakganas
Gw malah mo kasih 0.5 bintang krn emang emosi jiwanya luar biasa lihat si heroine ini legowo wae, tapi di ending cerita ada perlawanan walo cmn seletup doang makanya jd ksh 1 bintang aja deh.
Tidak disarankan utk membaca novel ini *trs digebuk sama penerbitnya*
Gw malah mo kasih 0.5 bintang krn emang emosi jiwanya luar biasa lihat si heroine ini legowo wae, tapi di ending cerita ada perlawanan walo cmn seletup doang makanya jd ksh 1 bintang aja deh.
Tidak disarankan utk membaca novel ini *trs digebuk sama penerbitnya*
August 1, 2013
Usually i'd spend time writing an actual review for a book. I just have nothing really to say about this one. It was just lame. The characters were flat, the plot was predictable and stupid and overall I just feel like this was a waste of time.
Want to read
December 19, 2011Another man who shows emotion "only at night." I really should NOT have burned a credit on this one, but I did it for the cause. The cause of more HPs on Audible.com.
Want to read
December 9, 2011Here's crossing toes, fingers & hair that the H/h don't have corpse to corpse chemistry a la Ralph Fiennes & JLo of "Maid in Manhattan" Hall of shame.
February 24, 2017
Completely awful! I wasted two hours of my day.
September 7, 2013
Okay, that was waaay better than I was expecting. Loved the character growth.
October 15, 2024
Mi hija no lee este tipo de novelas románticas y me pidió prestadas algunas para conocerlas. Resultó que leyó esta historia primero y no le gustó para nada... generalizando a todo el mundo de estos libros.
Ella estaba muy enojada con la personalidad engreída de Xaviero y consideraba que trataba muy, muy mal a Cathy. Recuerdo que se sentó junto a mí y me leyó una parte de la historia que le había parecido super graciosa. En la misma hablaba Xaviero y decía (imaginen en qué contexto): "-Grande, ¿No? -preguntó con satisfacción, subiendo a la cama y guiando la mano de ella a su erección."
¿Yo que tengo en la cabeza? ¿Quizás demasiadas lecturas de estos libros? Porque a mi me gustó... es engreído si... pero... ¡es un príncipe! Un príncipe que creció solo... sin modelos de amor. El personaje de Cathy me gustó mucho, con una paciencia y una resilencia que yo... nunca tendría...
Y no puedo dejar de destacar que hacia el final el comprende los orígenes de su personalidad fría para empezar un camino de cambio... le tengo fe.
Quizás lo que no me gustó es que ella nublara totalmente su autoestima frente al sexo... No creo que la calentura sea tan represora!!
HEA para ambos... y su niño Casimiro que aparece en otro libro.
-Leído en carne y hueso-
Ella estaba muy enojada con la personalidad engreída de Xaviero y consideraba que trataba muy, muy mal a Cathy. Recuerdo que se sentó junto a mí y me leyó una parte de la historia que le había parecido super graciosa. En la misma hablaba Xaviero y decía (imaginen en qué contexto): "-Grande, ¿No? -preguntó con satisfacción, subiendo a la cama y guiando la mano de ella a su erección."
¿Yo que tengo en la cabeza? ¿Quizás demasiadas lecturas de estos libros? Porque a mi me gustó... es engreído si... pero... ¡es un príncipe! Un príncipe que creció solo... sin modelos de amor. El personaje de Cathy me gustó mucho, con una paciencia y una resilencia que yo... nunca tendría...
Y no puedo dejar de destacar que hacia el final el comprende los orígenes de su personalidad fría para empezar un camino de cambio... le tengo fe.
Quizás lo que no me gustó es que ella nublara totalmente su autoestima frente al sexo... No creo que la calentura sea tan represora!!
HEA para ambos... y su niño Casimiro que aparece en otro libro.
-Leído en carne y hueso-
December 8, 2022
Brutto ma proprio brutto. Non solo il modo di raccontare le cose ma anche i comportamenti che i personaggi hanno. È un mix di stereotipi, maschilismo e stupidità a livello puro. Lui è un imbecille macho man classico etero che è piuttosto evidente non sa stare al mondo, narcisista dall'ego smisurato; lei è la classica ragazza timida e vissuta nella severità sottomessa ingenua che ti diventa pantera ossessiva. Il resto dei personaggi è ininfluente, non ci sono storie di sottofondo, figurarsi non c'è manco un accenno di trama decente con un senso!
Non mi aspettavo un capolavoro ma nemmeno uno spreco di tempo e soldi. Non ne augurerei la lettura neanche al mio peggior nemico.
Non mi aspettavo un capolavoro ma nemmeno uno spreco di tempo e soldi. Non ne augurerei la lettura neanche al mio peggior nemico.
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January 27, 2023
I didn't like anything about it. The connection was only physical and I don't even believe they were in love by the end (at least I don't believe he loved her).
"Hero" was a nightmare with his self importance and arrogance, he treated everyone (especially heroine) less than and had zero character growth by the end.
Heroine was just a doormat, she might as well have been a doll doing whatever he wanted whenever he wanted.
Their first meeting she almost sleeps with him, he calls her easy and doesn't respect her, then their second meeting she sleeps with him. She just let's him say whatever he wants to her because he's a Prince and she's so attracted to him. Np.
"Hero" was a nightmare with his self importance and arrogance, he treated everyone (especially heroine) less than and had zero character growth by the end.
Heroine was just a doormat, she might as well have been a doll doing whatever he wanted whenever he wanted.
Their first meeting she almost sleeps with him, he calls her easy and doesn't respect her, then their second meeting she sleeps with him. She just let's him say whatever he wants to her because he's a Prince and she's so attracted to him. Np.
August 10, 2018
The hero is a spectacularly awful jackass - he thinks the heroine is a whore, then after he's deprived her of her virginity decides to "reward" her by teaching her about sex, i.e. making her his mistress; while the heroine is such a doormat that she goes along with all of this; then the hero decides to marry the heroine for... no reason that I can determine, and she goes along with that too although she finds that being promoted from chambermaid to princess is realistically awful (people are snobby, she's really bored), and it's just like... why. These people are both awful.
November 6, 2019
Didn’t mind the heroine in this. Her whirlwind circumstances made her reactions or lack of reactions to things very sensible. Oh princely hero on the other hand, wow. He wants to be treated like a normal person but treats others like puppets. “Do this, do that” and if a person doesn’t jump at his requests “how DARE you!!” Dude pick a lane. He likes to drag the heroine around and calls her perfectly ‘compliant’ ouch. And the heroine isn’t she is just absorbing all the madness around her. Didn’t believe that the hero loved the heroine so the ending rang false. Eh, still recommend reading.
April 26, 2021
Une romance légère, teintée d’un soupçon d’érotisme, qui permet de passer le temps agréablement sans se prendre la tête. Certes la mince intrigue n’est pas des plus crédibles, certes il y a des caricatures, certes les rebondissements et le dénouement final sont cousus de fil blanc, mais le roman fait son job : Gratuit via l’application, il permet de s’évader le temps de 115 pages. C’est tout ce qu’on lui demande.
March 31, 2024
i think this author really hates women in general. cos this one is a second book from the same author--that i read--which portrayed a heroine who has a big problem with self-esteem n self dignity; who fall blindly and madly in lust n then has sex with someone practically a complete stranger. if even a whore have sex with strangers with an aim of being paid i dont know whats to call this type of heroine
July 15, 2021
I never read a book in which h had been a doormat from the very start to the end. While I am reading I feel like throw my book. She don't have self respect even when H completely insult her after having sex with her for being a virgin. After treated like that how can she ever imagine to have sex with him or even reacted to his touches it makes me sick.
March 15, 2019
too little too late on the guy stopping being an ass
May 7, 2019
pretty good
September 7, 2020
Audible Romance Package
AUDIOBOOK: Read 6 September 2020
5hrs 35min
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin does a good job
I liked this one a lot.
AUDIOBOOK: Read 6 September 2020
5hrs 35min
Narrator: Jenny Sterlin does a good job
I liked this one a lot.
February 15, 2022
hardly a romance.
May 31, 2023
OTT misogynistic prince who redeems himself, but a bit much
April 14, 2024
Bon mais sans plus, je trouvais le personnage de Cathy un peu tiré par les cheveux à certains moments.
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