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What's Right
Ruth and Tray Hampton met - it was as simple as that. Simple, too, was the feeling of the utter rightness of it all, of their love for one another, of their being together, of feeling as if they had always known each other. It was as if they had loved without ever having met and now was the fulfillment of a timeless promise.But there was Christie, and Tray's sense of duty towards the life he had ruined...and no matter how right he and Ruth were together there could not be no betrayal---no deceit.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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June 9, 2013
If ever an HP had the potential to become a menage story, this one was it LOL!! And I would have cheered them on =)
"She looked up a the two men joined by their hands [handshake], and was struck by the illusion which cloaked each one. Elliot, magnetic and mysterious, for all his brooding darkness was still light inside, relatively unmarred by life's experience, still innocent and open, like an expectant boy. Yet Hampton, golden and bronze, almost godlike in white, concealed with his light appearance a dark, tormented mind, scarred by misery and wounded by guilt. Enigmas, both; and Ruth felt the very separate loves she felt for each well up inside until she could barely contain them."
For a short while after this part, I could see either man being the hero. I felt the need to skip to the last page to verify that, indeed, Hampton was the hero.
However, Elloit was easily distracted by Ruth's assistant and soon out of the picture as a romantic interest.
Very enjoyable!
"She looked up a the two men joined by their hands [handshake], and was struck by the illusion which cloaked each one. Elliot, magnetic and mysterious, for all his brooding darkness was still light inside, relatively unmarred by life's experience, still innocent and open, like an expectant boy. Yet Hampton, golden and bronze, almost godlike in white, concealed with his light appearance a dark, tormented mind, scarred by misery and wounded by guilt. Enigmas, both; and Ruth felt the very separate loves she felt for each well up inside until she could barely contain them."
For a short while after this part, I could see either man being the hero. I felt the need to skip to the last page to verify that, indeed, Hampton was the hero.
However, Elloit was easily distracted by Ruth's assistant and soon out of the picture as a romantic interest.
Very enjoyable!
October 6, 2013
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April 11, 2016
Re What's Right - MC brings us an angst fest with a creative interior designer h and an H who is waaay to naive to be a top HPlandia Alpha.
The story starts with our highly creative but anti-social h getting fired from her interior design job. She isn't too unhappy about it cause her mentor whom she originally worked for has died and his sorta slimy son has taken over the business. The h is very, very good at her job and when she gets the chance to design for a wealthy elite captain of the industry, she leaps at the chance - even though she has never met the client.
She sees his handwriting on the house plans and falls into instant love. She designs her heart out based on the feelings the handwriting engenders and so it is a horrible shock when the client sends over a plan for the medieval castle's main foyer that is absolutely hideous and won't work with her design. In a fit of artistic temperament, she rips up the client's drawing and promptly gets fired.
Except Mr. Uber businessman catches her on the way out the door and bullies/coerces her into designing his interiors under her own company. She looks into his eyes and is more in love than ever. It is the Coup de foudre and she is convinced the H feels it too. She asks him why he would buy such a hideous home that is so unsuited for him. He says mysteriously that he has his reasons.
They begin the interior process and the H plies her with champagne, then they start a passionate kissing session which the H breaks off and he takes her to his other 'special place' which turns out to be a nice meadow that he is building a separate house on and she will design the interior. Apparently the H is very attracted to the h, but the big barrier is he has been engaged for the last 15 (yep fifteen!) years to another woman. He doesn't plan to have his fiancee live in the home he is designing for himself.
When he was a sorta wild 21 yr old, he took a girl out after a few drinks and wrapped the car around a pole. The girl was the most popular deb of the season and her looks were messed up and she was paralyzed and had two broken legs. In a fit of remorse, he proposed and she accepted - they are just waiting for the final operations to be completed before the wedding takes place so the H "doesn't have to marry a monster".
The h is completely naive about the hidden motives of people, she thinks the H's fiancee must be a wonderful girl and admires the H for his commitment to her comfort and care. Even though it means they can never be together, she can't help admiring two such nice and honorable people. The H then introduces his avant guarde architect, who will build his dream house and all three have a magical bond right away. (Hmm, could be getting the very first HP menage here?)
Not really, cause try as they might, the h and the architect just can't make themselves fall in love. Even with the H's seemingly nice, but really horrible, fiancee's explicit encouragement over a few social occasions where they all meet as a four-some.
The H and h have to confine their longing glances to sideways looks under the cover of eye lashes and the fiancee says several things that can be construed in a variety of wicked and evil ways. The architect and the h's assistant compare the fiancee to a vampire, but the H doesn't believe that and the h can't see it, she just feels sorry for everyone and a bit guilty cause she and the H seem to keep locking lips for the strangest reasons.
Finally, after pages of angst and longing and wondering just who the H actually IS in this one, the original H and our h consummate the relationship. Then both promptly pretend that they don't mean anything to each other. In fact the H is convinced that the h's old mentor and the architect were or are her lovers. The H runs off for a few weeks, but the architect is not a man to give up, while falling in love with the h's assistant, he has done some serious snooping and boy did he find a lot.
After a big stagey scene, where the architect is pretending he is the h's new lover and the H almost breaks his jaw, he drags the fearsome foursome (with the h's assistant included) to a cozy little diner in a remote but nice New England town. There everyone stares in wonder as the H's fiancee walks in (no wheelchair or paralysis in evidence) and calmly sits down with her brother to plot her divorce from the H. (You would think that she would have made sure the wedding had taken place, but I guess she thought it was good to strategize in advance.)
The whole group walks over to confront the woman and the ugly truth comes out. The fiance hates the H but needed him for his money and so has pretended to be paralyzed, faked hospital stays when the H came to visit her in Switzerland every six months, and has basically partied her tail off for the last 14 years--up to and including marrying another man and having a child and then dumping them. Her family was bankrupt when she hooked into the H, so she kept him dangling but now the money has run out and besides, he owes her for a year spent in surgery and therapy.
The H dumps her like a hot potato. So it is HEA's and increasing the population all around, as the happy foursome all ride off into the HPLandia sunset, with a small side comment on the highly valuable wine collection the h's old mentor left her, cause she was like a daughter to him and a comment from the H on how silly it is to fall in love with someone's handwriting. But since that all worked out in his favor, he isn't complaining too much.
This one was entertaining, it was angsty and dramatic and had the requisite craziness that was saved from total doom by the inclusion of the secondary characters. Cause obviously the H and h were both clueless. At least they had excellent friends via mystical bonds to help see the HPLandia sunset light of HEAness for all the GOOD people in this one. The evil fiancee got left at the diner crying her eyes out.
The story starts with our highly creative but anti-social h getting fired from her interior design job. She isn't too unhappy about it cause her mentor whom she originally worked for has died and his sorta slimy son has taken over the business. The h is very, very good at her job and when she gets the chance to design for a wealthy elite captain of the industry, she leaps at the chance - even though she has never met the client.
She sees his handwriting on the house plans and falls into instant love. She designs her heart out based on the feelings the handwriting engenders and so it is a horrible shock when the client sends over a plan for the medieval castle's main foyer that is absolutely hideous and won't work with her design. In a fit of artistic temperament, she rips up the client's drawing and promptly gets fired.
Except Mr. Uber businessman catches her on the way out the door and bullies/coerces her into designing his interiors under her own company. She looks into his eyes and is more in love than ever. It is the Coup de foudre and she is convinced the H feels it too. She asks him why he would buy such a hideous home that is so unsuited for him. He says mysteriously that he has his reasons.
They begin the interior process and the H plies her with champagne, then they start a passionate kissing session which the H breaks off and he takes her to his other 'special place' which turns out to be a nice meadow that he is building a separate house on and she will design the interior. Apparently the H is very attracted to the h, but the big barrier is he has been engaged for the last 15 (yep fifteen!) years to another woman. He doesn't plan to have his fiancee live in the home he is designing for himself.
When he was a sorta wild 21 yr old, he took a girl out after a few drinks and wrapped the car around a pole. The girl was the most popular deb of the season and her looks were messed up and she was paralyzed and had two broken legs. In a fit of remorse, he proposed and she accepted - they are just waiting for the final operations to be completed before the wedding takes place so the H "doesn't have to marry a monster".
The h is completely naive about the hidden motives of people, she thinks the H's fiancee must be a wonderful girl and admires the H for his commitment to her comfort and care. Even though it means they can never be together, she can't help admiring two such nice and honorable people. The H then introduces his avant guarde architect, who will build his dream house and all three have a magical bond right away. (Hmm, could be getting the very first HP menage here?)
Not really, cause try as they might, the h and the architect just can't make themselves fall in love. Even with the H's seemingly nice, but really horrible, fiancee's explicit encouragement over a few social occasions where they all meet as a four-some.
The H and h have to confine their longing glances to sideways looks under the cover of eye lashes and the fiancee says several things that can be construed in a variety of wicked and evil ways. The architect and the h's assistant compare the fiancee to a vampire, but the H doesn't believe that and the h can't see it, she just feels sorry for everyone and a bit guilty cause she and the H seem to keep locking lips for the strangest reasons.
Finally, after pages of angst and longing and wondering just who the H actually IS in this one, the original H and our h consummate the relationship. Then both promptly pretend that they don't mean anything to each other. In fact the H is convinced that the h's old mentor and the architect were or are her lovers. The H runs off for a few weeks, but the architect is not a man to give up, while falling in love with the h's assistant, he has done some serious snooping and boy did he find a lot.
After a big stagey scene, where the architect is pretending he is the h's new lover and the H almost breaks his jaw, he drags the fearsome foursome (with the h's assistant included) to a cozy little diner in a remote but nice New England town. There everyone stares in wonder as the H's fiancee walks in (no wheelchair or paralysis in evidence) and calmly sits down with her brother to plot her divorce from the H. (You would think that she would have made sure the wedding had taken place, but I guess she thought it was good to strategize in advance.)
The whole group walks over to confront the woman and the ugly truth comes out. The fiance hates the H but needed him for his money and so has pretended to be paralyzed, faked hospital stays when the H came to visit her in Switzerland every six months, and has basically partied her tail off for the last 14 years--up to and including marrying another man and having a child and then dumping them. Her family was bankrupt when she hooked into the H, so she kept him dangling but now the money has run out and besides, he owes her for a year spent in surgery and therapy.
The H dumps her like a hot potato. So it is HEA's and increasing the population all around, as the happy foursome all ride off into the HPLandia sunset, with a small side comment on the highly valuable wine collection the h's old mentor left her, cause she was like a daughter to him and a comment from the H on how silly it is to fall in love with someone's handwriting. But since that all worked out in his favor, he isn't complaining too much.
This one was entertaining, it was angsty and dramatic and had the requisite craziness that was saved from total doom by the inclusion of the secondary characters. Cause obviously the H and h were both clueless. At least they had excellent friends via mystical bonds to help see the HPLandia sunset light of HEAness for all the GOOD people in this one. The evil fiancee got left at the diner crying her eyes out.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 25, 2013
Rating 3.5 stars
This book was all kinds of wacky and stupid. We are made to believe that the heroine is a highly successful interior designer, great at her job but oblivious to people. So, when she gets a job to design for a truly hideous house she throws herself heart and soul into it, falling in love with a man's handwriting, the man who commissioned the design. She is fired by her boss when she disagrees on the foyer design, the hero catches her of course and there is this instant knowing, that they are meant for each other. But wait there's a catch, the hero is engaged to another woman, whose choice was that hideous house.
Then weird writing which leads us to believe that the heroine was in love with her late boss and then it is revealed that it was a father-daughter love. WTH!
Hero lurrrrrrves her but he caused his fiancee's accident 15 years ago, all amped up in lust, so he owes her. Both the h/H act noble and try to stay away from each other but somehow their lips keep connecting and other things. Everyone tells the heroine that the fiancee is EVIL and is hiding something but no she won't hear a word of it, that poor woman has suffered enough.
Then an architect comes into the picture and it turns into a weird triangle. For a few chapters the heroine still loving the hero but knowing he can't be hers is drawn to the other guy Elliot's animal charisma, then bam she bangs the hero and that disappears. I didn't understand this part of the plot at all.
The hero at that point wants to end it with the OW, but no, the heroine won't hurt that poor girl. More drama, more hidden glances, angst and then bam Elliot exposes the fiance's fraud. She was only bed ridden for few months after the accident and strings the hero along for fun and his money. She is no paralyzed virgin but has had many affairs.
And HEA for our couple. Man this book could be exhausting with all the drama thrown in. Phew!
This book was all kinds of wacky and stupid. We are made to believe that the heroine is a highly successful interior designer, great at her job but oblivious to people. So, when she gets a job to design for a truly hideous house she throws herself heart and soul into it, falling in love with a man's handwriting, the man who commissioned the design. She is fired by her boss when she disagrees on the foyer design, the hero catches her of course and there is this instant knowing, that they are meant for each other. But wait there's a catch, the hero is engaged to another woman, whose choice was that hideous house.
Then weird writing which leads us to believe that the heroine was in love with her late boss and then it is revealed that it was a father-daughter love. WTH!
Hero lurrrrrrves her but he caused his fiancee's accident 15 years ago, all amped up in lust, so he owes her. Both the h/H act noble and try to stay away from each other but somehow their lips keep connecting and other things. Everyone tells the heroine that the fiancee is EVIL and is hiding something but no she won't hear a word of it, that poor woman has suffered enough.
Then an architect comes into the picture and it turns into a weird triangle. For a few chapters the heroine still loving the hero but knowing he can't be hers is drawn to the other guy Elliot's animal charisma, then bam she bangs the hero and that disappears. I didn't understand this part of the plot at all.
The hero at that point wants to end it with the OW, but no, the heroine won't hurt that poor girl. More drama, more hidden glances, angst and then bam Elliot exposes the fiance's fraud. She was only bed ridden for few months after the accident and strings the hero along for fun and his money. She is no paralyzed virgin but has had many affairs.
And HEA for our couple. Man this book could be exhausting with all the drama thrown in. Phew!
June 13, 2013
3.5 stars. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but I found this one too melodramatic. The heroine supposedly fell in love with the hero just from seeing his handwriting! Still, it was engaging enough, if too long, with a fun evil OW plot.
May 6, 2021
I get the concept this book was going for but it didn't execute it strong enough. The high drama at the end was worth it, even if a little unbelievable. Wish the hero and heroine had more than instant love to build a relationship off of. Ah well. Read for the trash factor, skip for the good taste factor.
June 13, 2023
All I'll say about this is what I usually say about parts of other books, but in this case, about the entire novel:
OH, COME ON!!!!!!
Don't EVER insult my intelligence like this again!
OH, COME ON!!!!!!
Don't EVER insult my intelligence like this again!
July 8, 2013
realistic and fun.
November 20, 2014
I really liked this. Very well written and kind of deep for a HP. I wish it had been longer.
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