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السيف بيننا
عندما تتحول الثروة إلى لعنة على صـــاحبهـا , وعندمــا تصبح
الشهرة باباً إلى الجحيم , فهـل يعود هناك من مجال لنتحكم
بمصيرنـا ؟
نادين الفتاة الثــرية المدللة تواعـــدت مع قـدرهــا : كــان رجــلاً
طويلاً سـاحراً كـحلم , وغرقت نادين في غموض عينية منذ
النظــرة الأولى , دون أن تتروى . . . ولـم تدرك أن مــــا تخفيه
عيناه ليس مـشاعره هو , وإنمــا وعود الموت , الموت لها . . .
عندمــا عرفت نادين اللعـــبة كان قد فات الأوان , فقد أصبحت
رهينة بين يدي خاطفين قساة لا يعرفون الرحمــة , ولم يبق لـها
إلا انتظـــار الموت . . . على يد من تحب !
الشهرة باباً إلى الجحيم , فهـل يعود هناك من مجال لنتحكم
بمصيرنـا ؟
نادين الفتاة الثــرية المدللة تواعـــدت مع قـدرهــا : كــان رجــلاً
طويلاً سـاحراً كـحلم , وغرقت نادين في غموض عينية منذ
النظــرة الأولى , دون أن تتروى . . . ولـم تدرك أن مــــا تخفيه
عيناه ليس مـشاعره هو , وإنمــا وعود الموت , الموت لها . . .
عندمــا عرفت نادين اللعـــبة كان قد فات الأوان , فقد أصبحت
رهينة بين يدي خاطفين قساة لا يعرفون الرحمــة , ولم يبق لـها
إلا انتظـــار الموت . . . على يد من تحب !
156 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 11, 1983
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Penny Jordan
1,125 books668 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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June 18, 2020
I'm not a fan of kidnapping stories - Stockholm syndrome really isn't my thing. But this story did keep me interested. I think it's the ending that disappointed me the most, however.
So heroine is a poor little rich girl who is just now having a real relationship with her father. Her father blames himself for going off the deep end after his wife died and not paying any attention to his daughter. The heroine was kind of reckless in her youth in the hopes of getting her father's attention, but a drug overdose by one of her friends made her smarten up. She is a virgin and adept at hiding her feelings (or so she thinks).
She meets the hero at a party. He is a flirtatious Italian male, but has some angry vibes that the heroine blithely ignores. When her father is called away on business, the heroine goes for an outing with hero is and kidnapped. He's the ring leader of a group of communists who have killed one Englishman in their custody and are willing to kill the heroine if her father doesn't come up with the money.
The heroine is upset that her flirty Italian turned on her and she feels jealousy when the female captor tells her that she is the H's lover. There are threats of rape from the male captors, her hair being cut, hostage tapes to make, a knife wound to be stitched up - her days in captivity are busy, busy, busy. The hero comes and goes and kisses the heroine just to show her who is boss, etc. . .
After the heroine is attacked by one of the captors she begs the hero to make love to her so she won't die a virgin and that her last glimpse of sex is a happy one, not a rapey one. The hero succumbs to her wiles. The first time isn't great, but after some humiliation talk, the H/h have a mutual orgasm. Not the stuff of romance. Luckily, the SAS or whomever the good guys are, show up and there is a gun battle. The hero is "killed" or that's what they tell the heroine.
Um. Yeah. NO. What kind of father allows his daughter to subjected to that kind of treatment for an entire month? And how can the heroine think the hero is any way heroic by taking her virginity and then deciding to stay away for her own good?
The heroine was the rock star here and if she wants to forgive the hero and her father, that's fine. But I'm not buying it.
I enjoyed the first half, but everything after the gun battle was a little disjointed and glossed over. Action scenes aren't really PJ's thing and it shows.
So heroine is a poor little rich girl who is just now having a real relationship with her father. Her father blames himself for going off the deep end after his wife died and not paying any attention to his daughter. The heroine was kind of reckless in her youth in the hopes of getting her father's attention, but a drug overdose by one of her friends made her smarten up. She is a virgin and adept at hiding her feelings (or so she thinks).
She meets the hero at a party. He is a flirtatious Italian male, but has some angry vibes that the heroine blithely ignores. When her father is called away on business, the heroine goes for an outing with hero is and kidnapped. He's the ring leader of a group of communists who have killed one Englishman in their custody and are willing to kill the heroine if her father doesn't come up with the money.
The heroine is upset that her flirty Italian turned on her and she feels jealousy when the female captor tells her that she is the H's lover. There are threats of rape from the male captors, her hair being cut, hostage tapes to make, a knife wound to be stitched up - her days in captivity are busy, busy, busy. The hero comes and goes and kisses the heroine just to show her who is boss, etc. . .
After the heroine is attacked by one of the captors she begs the hero to make love to her so she won't die a virgin and that her last glimpse of sex is a happy one, not a rapey one. The hero succumbs to her wiles. The first time isn't great, but after some humiliation talk, the H/h have a mutual orgasm. Not the stuff of romance. Luckily, the SAS or whomever the good guys are, show up and there is a gun battle. The hero is "killed" or that's what they tell the heroine.
Um. Yeah. NO. What kind of father allows his daughter to subjected to that kind of treatment for an entire month? And how can the heroine think the hero is any way heroic by taking her virginity and then deciding to stay away for her own good?
The heroine was the rock star here and if she wants to forgive the hero and her father, that's fine. But I'm not buying it.
I enjoyed the first half, but everything after the gun battle was a little disjointed and glossed over. Action scenes aren't really PJ's thing and it shows.
September 28, 2020
Not much romance to be found in this vintage Harlequin Presents, but if WTFery is your thing then look no further (some spoilers):
1. Hero, a former SAS soldier, is so smooth he's able to infiltrate a terrorist organization single-handedly and then have the SAS on standby even though he only practices law now. James Bond who?
2. Heroine is a perfect match with "000" because she too is a skilled member of a specialized team, the Heroine Ninny Ops Team*, that is. Her area of expertise? Excessive Fainting.
3. Heroine's father allows his only child, heroine, to be used as bait without her knowledge and never apologizes for his complicities. (Oh, yes. There's more than one betrayal.) The weaseldick instead lets Triple Zero do all the mansplaining, but only after vanishing into the English mists like he's Merlin the damned Magician.
4. Socialite heroine is kidnapped, forced into domestic servitude, threatened with death, and is almost raped by one of her captors, but forgives Triple Zero for instigating it all after he utters the three magic words every victim of Stockholm Syndrome wants to hear from their kidnapper. (Hint: It's not "I am sorry." ) Turns out heroine's father isn't the only wizard in town!
*Thanks to SandraTheMoodyOne for this jewel.
1. Hero, a former SAS soldier, is so smooth he's able to infiltrate a terrorist organization single-handedly and then have the SAS on standby even though he only practices law now. James Bond who?
2. Heroine is a perfect match with "000" because she too is a skilled member of a specialized team, the Heroine Ninny Ops Team*, that is. Her area of expertise? Excessive Fainting.
3. Heroine's father allows his only child, heroine, to be used as bait without her knowledge and never apologizes for his complicities. (Oh, yes. There's more than one betrayal.) The weaseldick instead lets Triple Zero do all the mansplaining, but only after vanishing into the English mists like he's Merlin the damned Magician.
4. Socialite heroine is kidnapped, forced into domestic servitude, threatened with death, and is almost raped by one of her captors, but forgives Triple Zero for instigating it all after he utters the three magic words every victim of Stockholm Syndrome wants to hear from their kidnapper. (Hint: It's not "I am sorry." ) Turns out heroine's father isn't the only wizard in town!
*Thanks to SandraTheMoodyOne for this jewel.
March 29, 2023
I didn’t enjoy this book too much.
It certainly is different from usual Hp romance and it’s definitely very angsty.
And for me it was painful because it deals with a period of time that for my country was definitely very dark and difficult, that is the 70-80 when there were more that one criminal organizations that kidnapped rich people on order to get money.
And actually this book names more than one of these organizations like the red brigade, communists people that became terrorists and killed innocent people to change society.
They often kidnapped kids, women, old men and kept them in hidden places where it was impossible for the police to find them, they sometimes mutilated their victims and kept them in dark holes for months where they couldn’t even stand and some of them never came home.
It was awful.
I remember some of these fact even if I was very young, they were so traumatic that it’s been impossible to remove them from my memory.
So the heroine is a young British heiress on holiday in Rome where she meets the hero, a young charming Italian that asks her to spend some time with her on her Italian villa.
Sadly he’s a member of a gang who kidnaps rich people and asks for money they want to use to build a communist society.
She’s abused and mistreated by the member of the band and one of them tries twice to rape her.
She gets attached to the hero because he’s the leader and he’s the one who prevents her from being too much abused.
Typical syndrome of kidnapped people.
The man is also rude and abusive, he often slaps her and slut shames her, he manhandles her repeatedly and the worst thing is that she doesn’t even try to resist.
Awful because I couldn’t stop thinking to those people kidnapped and abused that suffered and certainly didn’t enjoy being abused or mutilated or raped.
It was impossible for me to believe there was a genuine feeling for her kidnapper that wasn’t due to the reaction to her imprisonment.
Eventually she’s freed by both Italian and British police.
I suspected that the hero wasn’t really a member of the band since the start.
It wouldn’t have been possible to redeem him since the criminals of the band killed a man the year before and he would have been guilty without doubts.
I thought he was one of the heroic policemen that sometimes risk their own life infiltrating among those criminals and I was almost right.
He was the godson of the same man this organization killed the year before.
But he was also a lawyer, and an ex op. Meh.
Really?
Those people spend years training to be accepted by the criminals as one of their own, I don’t understand how he could hide between them so easily.
Then there was the heroine’s kidnapping.
I hoped he was one of the good ones that helped to set her free but sadly the whole kidnapping thing was organized with her father’s approval and she was used as a bait to catch the criminals.
So the hero allowed her to be abused and traumatized for weeks and then he tells her he’s so much in love with her?
Are. You. Kidding. Me?
I appreciated the different setting and the very high angst level - because the heroine was really hurting snd PJ is very good with emotions and feelings- but I can’t tell that the book was pleasant to read.
It certainly is different from usual Hp romance and it’s definitely very angsty.
And for me it was painful because it deals with a period of time that for my country was definitely very dark and difficult, that is the 70-80 when there were more that one criminal organizations that kidnapped rich people on order to get money.
And actually this book names more than one of these organizations like the red brigade, communists people that became terrorists and killed innocent people to change society.
They often kidnapped kids, women, old men and kept them in hidden places where it was impossible for the police to find them, they sometimes mutilated their victims and kept them in dark holes for months where they couldn’t even stand and some of them never came home.
It was awful.
I remember some of these fact even if I was very young, they were so traumatic that it’s been impossible to remove them from my memory.
So the heroine is a young British heiress on holiday in Rome where she meets the hero, a young charming Italian that asks her to spend some time with her on her Italian villa.
Sadly he’s a member of a gang who kidnaps rich people and asks for money they want to use to build a communist society.
She’s abused and mistreated by the member of the band and one of them tries twice to rape her.
She gets attached to the hero because he’s the leader and he’s the one who prevents her from being too much abused.
Typical syndrome of kidnapped people.
The man is also rude and abusive, he often slaps her and slut shames her, he manhandles her repeatedly and the worst thing is that she doesn’t even try to resist.
Awful because I couldn’t stop thinking to those people kidnapped and abused that suffered and certainly didn’t enjoy being abused or mutilated or raped.
It was impossible for me to believe there was a genuine feeling for her kidnapper that wasn’t due to the reaction to her imprisonment.
Eventually she’s freed by both Italian and British police.
I suspected that the hero wasn’t really a member of the band since the start.
It wouldn’t have been possible to redeem him since the criminals of the band killed a man the year before and he would have been guilty without doubts.
I thought he was one of the heroic policemen that sometimes risk their own life infiltrating among those criminals and I was almost right.
He was the godson of the same man this organization killed the year before.
But he was also a lawyer, and an ex op. Meh.
Really?
Those people spend years training to be accepted by the criminals as one of their own, I don’t understand how he could hide between them so easily.
Then there was the heroine’s kidnapping.
I hoped he was one of the good ones that helped to set her free but sadly the whole kidnapping thing was organized with her father’s approval and she was used as a bait to catch the criminals.
So the hero allowed her to be abused and traumatized for weeks and then he tells her he’s so much in love with her?
Are. You. Kidding. Me?
I appreciated the different setting and the very high angst level - because the heroine was really hurting snd PJ is very good with emotions and feelings- but I can’t tell that the book was pleasant to read.
January 15, 2013
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm a big fan of Penny Jordan but even I have to concede this has to have been written in one of her off moments. It basically tells the story of Saffron, daughter of a millionaire business man who meets, is smitten by and then kidnapped by Nico, a tall, dark handsome Italian stranger. From there it's your basic tale of girl meets boy, boy kidnaps girl, boy subjects girl to all kinds of humiliations, girl falls in love with boy, boy seemingly gets shot in girl's rescue by the SAS, boy turns out to be part of the SAS, and girl and boy live happily ever after. Okay, so it's not your average Mills and Boon. There's quite a few shades of sado-masochism in this, and at times, it seems, Saffron is enjoying her kidnap ordeal a little too much. Still, at least she's entering into the spirit of the occasion.
Saffron's character is, to be honest, the one strong point in the book. She is vulnerable, touchingly innocent, believeably easily-led. Indeed, for a Mills and Boon, she's refreshingly like the rest of us. Nico is less likable. He's basically a bit of a bastard who's using his apparent good looks to manouevre poor easily-swayed Saffron into whatever situation he wants to place her in.
The ending is disenfranchised from the main plot of the book - she loves him... No, she hates him..., no she definitely loves him this time,... No, actually, she can't stand him... Oh, go on then, she'll marry him and probably have twins with him (why does it always end in twins???).
The moral of this tale, if there is one, it is don't trust a handsome Italian stranger who arrives on a lonely beach "wearing ragged denim shorts, and a gold medallion on a fine chain..." The medallion should have been a dead giveaway.
Still, this is, as I have said, just that little bit different for a Mills and Boon and it's available for one whole English pence on Amazon - at that price it's worth it for the laugh factor alone.
Saffron's character is, to be honest, the one strong point in the book. She is vulnerable, touchingly innocent, believeably easily-led. Indeed, for a Mills and Boon, she's refreshingly like the rest of us. Nico is less likable. He's basically a bit of a bastard who's using his apparent good looks to manouevre poor easily-swayed Saffron into whatever situation he wants to place her in.
The ending is disenfranchised from the main plot of the book - she loves him... No, she hates him..., no she definitely loves him this time,... No, actually, she can't stand him... Oh, go on then, she'll marry him and probably have twins with him (why does it always end in twins???).
The moral of this tale, if there is one, it is don't trust a handsome Italian stranger who arrives on a lonely beach "wearing ragged denim shorts, and a gold medallion on a fine chain..." The medallion should have been a dead giveaway.
Still, this is, as I have said, just that little bit different for a Mills and Boon and it's available for one whole English pence on Amazon - at that price it's worth it for the laugh factor alone.
September 20, 2019
2.5 stars
November 19, 2013
if you want to read a hook about love in stockholm's syndrome this is perfect. I actually liked Saffron, her actions and feelings in the face of her kidnapping seemed heartwrenchingly real. But Nico...... ugh! he has no merits as a hero whatsoever. 1 star for heroine and zero stars for the terrible romance.
June 8, 2021
Revenge! Being kidnapped by political terrorists was the realization of Saffron Wykeham's worst nightmares. And to be taken to an isolated primitive farmhouse and subjected to the volatile dangerous temperaments of her captors was worse than she ever could have imagined
For Nico Doranti, the man she loved, the one man to whom her whole being responded, had manipulated her descent into hell.
Though calculating and callous, he was her only hope for escape-and for future happiness
For Nico Doranti, the man she loved, the one man to whom her whole being responded, had manipulated her descent into hell.
Though calculating and callous, he was her only hope for escape-and for future happiness
January 1, 2014
One of my favourite novel of all time.....I Love all the works done by Penelope "Penny" Jones, but this is by far the best...
Its beautiful and definetly recommended!
Its beautiful and definetly recommended!
May 20, 2016
A történet hozta a szokásos PJ-színvonalat. Igaz, néhány helyen most is érezhető volt, hogy kihagytak részleteket a történetből, de ezen már nem lepődöm meg ahogy a szokásos névváltoztatáson sem, mert Lilian az eredeti történetben Saffron. Penny Jordan most egy krimivel szőtte egybe a szokásos romantikus szálat. Mi történik akkor, ha egy elrabolt lány beleszeret a fogvatartójába? Nem kell pszichológiai mélységekre gondolni – nyilván egy Harlequin-történettől nem is lehet ilyet várni –, de azért megpendítik benne, hogy az elrabolt emberek sokszor szeretetet éreznek az elrablóik iránt. Vajon erről van most szó, vagy igaz szerelemről? Ez persze csak költői kérdés, hiszen az ilyen történeteknél mindig borítékolható a befejezés. A műfajhoz mérten viszont egész jól körbejárta a témát, és persze azt is tegyük hozzá, hogy a bandavezér 'ahhoz képest' nem bánt rosszul a lánnyal. Egyetlen dolog, ami számomra hihetetlen . A befejezés talán kicsit túl hirtelen volt, viszont tartogatott érdekes fordulatokat a történet, így ehhez mérten adom a csillagozást. ;)
April 22, 2019
So many conflicting emotions. Saffron meets Nico, is entranced by him, he seems entranced by her. He takes her on a picnic. Next thing she knows three more people show up and she's taken hostage at gunpoint. And Nico is the leader of the gang of kidnappers.
So despite the kidnapping, and the ruthless way he treated her while she was held captive, I knew Nico was the hero. No other man is mentioned in the synopsis on the back cover. So he had to be. But I just couldn't see how. For the entire book I just couldn't figure out he could possibly redeem himself and not end up in jail. Because obviously if he repented for his deeds and went to jail in the end, there wouldn't be an HEA. Unless the book jumped forward to his release. But that just didn't seem plausible. If one of the other men had lured her to the remote area where she was kidnapped, then I could easily assume right off the bat that Nico was working with the kidnappers in an undercover capacity. Perfectly plausible. But he engineered the kidnapping.
Of course it all works out in the end. But after learning the truth, the whole truth, I was outraged on Saffron's behalf. Outraged that her father had allowed Nico to kidnap her. Outraged that Saffron seemed to harbor no anger at her father for allowing her to be put in that situation. In my head I wrote an epilogue in which, after the initial joy of being reunited with Nico and learning he was actually one of the good guys had worn off, Saffron would vent her anger on both Nico and her father. Oh, she'd still marry Nico, of course. But she would hold their actions over both their heads for awhile and make them both grovel for her forgiveness.
Whew. Ok. Now that I got that out of the way. I read the majority for this book in one day. I liked Saffron. She was strong. She was frightened but defiant. She was attracted to Nico and hated him for it. She was shrewd in her observations of Olivia, the female kidnapper who was jealous of her and the hold she seemed to have over Nico. And of course I liked Nico as well. I mean, I knew the anger he often took out on Saffron wasn't out of meanness, it was for show around the other members of the gang, and it was his own defense against the feelings he felt for her.
Ugh. I'm not a hundred percent sure I even liked the book. No, that's a lie. I did like it. But I'm not proud of that.
So despite the kidnapping, and the ruthless way he treated her while she was held captive, I knew Nico was the hero. No other man is mentioned in the synopsis on the back cover. So he had to be. But I just couldn't see how. For the entire book I just couldn't figure out he could possibly redeem himself and not end up in jail. Because obviously if he repented for his deeds and went to jail in the end, there wouldn't be an HEA. Unless the book jumped forward to his release. But that just didn't seem plausible. If one of the other men had lured her to the remote area where she was kidnapped, then I could easily assume right off the bat that Nico was working with the kidnappers in an undercover capacity. Perfectly plausible. But he engineered the kidnapping.
Of course it all works out in the end. But after learning the truth, the whole truth, I was outraged on Saffron's behalf. Outraged that her father had allowed Nico to kidnap her. Outraged that Saffron seemed to harbor no anger at her father for allowing her to be put in that situation. In my head I wrote an epilogue in which, after the initial joy of being reunited with Nico and learning he was actually one of the good guys had worn off, Saffron would vent her anger on both Nico and her father. Oh, she'd still marry Nico, of course. But she would hold their actions over both their heads for awhile and make them both grovel for her forgiveness.
Whew. Ok. Now that I got that out of the way. I read the majority for this book in one day. I liked Saffron. She was strong. She was frightened but defiant. She was attracted to Nico and hated him for it. She was shrewd in her observations of Olivia, the female kidnapper who was jealous of her and the hold she seemed to have over Nico. And of course I liked Nico as well. I mean, I knew the anger he often took out on Saffron wasn't out of meanness, it was for show around the other members of the gang, and it was his own defense against the feelings he felt for her.
Ugh. I'm not a hundred percent sure I even liked the book. No, that's a lie. I did like it. But I'm not proud of that.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 16, 2024
“- Nu-i așa că n-a fost așa precum te așteptai? o întrebă el sec. Am încercat să te previn. N-are importanță, își râse el de ea… data viitoare o să fie altfel.”
Ea: “Îl iubea pe Nico!”
El: “Vroiam să te conving că ceea ce s-a petrecut între noi a fost ceva special și vrei sau nu, intenționez să devin un personaj permanent în viața ta, chiar să te și șantajez la nevoie.”
Asta ar fi pe scurt marea poveste de iubire. Ea- săraca fată bogată, orfană de mamă, fără frați, răpită in timpul vacantei în Italia.
El- mare macho, se dovedește a face parte din banda răpitorilor daaar cum este mare șmecher, aparențele sunt înșelătoare și de fapt este fost membru al trupelor SAS, pornit în misiune. Autoritățile italiene n-au reușit să se ocupe de mafioți așa că a luat problema-n propriile mâine. Sau labe, că la cât de ghiolban este mi l-am închipuit nu o dată ca pe-un neanderthalian.
La final s-au căsătorit, doar nu erau să lase să moară dragostea lor nemuritoare. Așa, pe degeaba.
După ce-am terminat cărțulia am băgat de seamă că-i Alcris. Nu c-ar fi asta o scuză pentru timpul irosit.
Ea: “Îl iubea pe Nico!”
El: “Vroiam să te conving că ceea ce s-a petrecut între noi a fost ceva special și vrei sau nu, intenționez să devin un personaj permanent în viața ta, chiar să te și șantajez la nevoie.”
Asta ar fi pe scurt marea poveste de iubire. Ea- săraca fată bogată, orfană de mamă, fără frați, răpită in timpul vacantei în Italia.
El- mare macho, se dovedește a face parte din banda răpitorilor daaar cum este mare șmecher, aparențele sunt înșelătoare și de fapt este fost membru al trupelor SAS, pornit în misiune. Autoritățile italiene n-au reușit să se ocupe de mafioți așa că a luat problema-n propriile mâine. Sau labe, că la cât de ghiolban este mi l-am închipuit nu o dată ca pe-un neanderthalian.
La final s-au căsătorit, doar nu erau să lase să moară dragostea lor nemuritoare. Așa, pe degeaba.
După ce-am terminat cărțulia am băgat de seamă că-i Alcris. Nu c-ar fi asta o scuză pentru timpul irosit.
July 29, 2021
Its Penny Jordan. I love her writing. It's an older book and women were perceived differently. I'm ok with that cause Harlequins always portrayed women as the damsel... if that bugs you, don't read it, but its an interesting storyline and it's classic PJ and Harlequin.
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February 11, 2024Esse livro é horrível, cheio de vilões onde o principal foi o pai que com certeza esperava que a h não retornasse. Esse Pai nunca amou a filha e como ela sobreviveu, devolveu ao seu algoz, que por sinal se chama Herói. Eca.
November 26, 2017
I liked Saffron. I didn’t like much else. Definitely not Nico. He could go eff off in his denim cut-offs and his sleazy gold medallion.
May 8, 2019
Dated and some wierd plot holes.
October 14, 2025
Two stars for the different plot. The father and Nico the hero were both tools. I enjoyed the heroine in this although she forgave the hero way too easily.
May 29, 2016
نادين فتاة مدللة و غنية تتعرض للاختطاف من رجل اعجبت به سيرجيو و بعدين تكتشف انه من الشرطة
ماكو احداث مميزة بالرواية لكن ممتعة نوعما ما
ماكو احداث مميزة بالرواية لكن ممتعة نوعما ما
December 9, 2016
فتاة ثرية كانت ترى العالم من منظور ضيق و تمارس الحرية لهواً ، تستعيد نفسها بعد أن اكتسبت سمعة سيئة ، و تواجه الاختطاف من عصابة خطيرة و تقع في حب قائدهم .
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