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by Violet Winspear

Loves Prisoner by Violet Winspear released on Feb 22, 1979 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Harlequin Presents, Harlequin, Romance

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Violet Winspear was a British author renowned for her prolific output of romance novels, publishing seventy titles with Mills & Boon between 1961 and 1987. In 1973, she became a launch author for the Mills & Boon-Harlequin Presents line, known for its more sexually explicit content, alongside Anne Mather and Anne Hampson, two of the most popular and prolific British romance writers of the time. Winspear began writing while working in a factory and became a full-time novelist in 1963, producing her works from her home in South East England, researching exotic settings at her local library. She famously described her heroes as lean, strong, and captivating, “in need of love but capable of breathtaking passion and potency,” a characterization that provoked controversy in 1970 when she stated that her male protagonists were “capable of rape,” leading to considerable public backlash. Her novels are celebrated for their vivid, globe-spanning settings and dramatic tension, often employing sexual antagonism to heighten conflict between the alpha male hero and the heroine, who is frequently portrayed as naïve or overwhelmed by his dominance. Winspear never married or had children, and she passed away in January 1989 after a long battle with cancer, leaving a lasting influence on the romance genre.

Reviews

[Jacqueline J · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this one even though the heroine and hero were only peripherally in each other's lives. They meet but that same day he meets and asks out her older sister, eventually proposing marriage to the gold digging sister. The whole book the heroine hides her love for the hero. They were hardly in each other's presence at all. The only way you know it's a romance is because it's an HP and you know how it's going to end. The end is just a couple of pages long and not incredibly romantic. There really should have been more hair tearing on the part of the hero and explanations and kisses and what not. Still there was something very readable about it.

This is the second Violet Winspear I've read this week and it is very different in feel. I was wondering if all her early stuff was so gothic feeling as Bride of Lucifer. And just FYI this one wasn't. Other than the fact that the hero and heroine were only alone together for the duration of two car rides, it was much more modern in feel. As least as too writing style. However, I really need to read a book written in the last 5 years to cleanse my palette.

4 stars because it was such an oddly riveting read for all that. I didn't get bored. One more down in my quest to read the first 100 HPs.

[sbf20112011 · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise and the characters had promise...but it's just barely a romance at all. The heroine secretly pines for the hero until the end, when -- surprise! He loves her too. And they kiss/interact in a vaguely romantic way for the first time in the whole novel. I guess this is what passed for romance in 1974, but to me leaving the sole romantic encounter for the last couple of pages is not engaging enough.

[Darshini Evelyn]

DNF at 37%.

This book just wasn’t doing it for me. The writing style was pretty choppy and the story didn’t flow well. I personally feel like the love story was a little shallow too.

Maybe other books by Mills and Boon would be better.

[Bea Tea · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so tired. I started reading this in the evening and was so gripped I couldn't put it down, ended up reading till almost 1 because no way could I sleep with this story unfinished!

This is a book about unrequited love, and also misdirected love. Our h is a very sweet, very kind young woman who is in love with her sister's fiance. The sister is secretly in love with another man, and another man is madly in love with the h (and there is another woman who is madly in love with him!). There is so much longing, and what-ifs, and charged looks over dinner tables. Love hurts seems to be the message of the day here.

Honestly unlike anything I've ever read. The melodrama was off the charts, and the writing was simply amazing. My only minor gripe was I wish our h and H had more than a few pages to resolve their feelings. The author spends so much time tying up all the other love-lines in this book but honestly all I really care about is our h and H. I sorta resented that side character b got a whole chapter for her HEA and our main couple got like 4 pages.

[RomLibrary]

Eden loved Lafe, but Gale wanted him

The two sisters were aptly named. Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding; Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind.

Gale found the money, power and luxury she wanted when she met wealthy, handsome and magnetic Lafe Sheridan. But it was Eden who saw behind Lafe's facade to the lonely poverty-stricken Irish boy he had once been. She loved him for the qualities he tried grimly to hide.

It was a situation that threatened heartbreak--for all of them!

[Tota Elbakry · Rating 1 out of 5]

شبه روايات عبير !

[LadyAileen]

In Italia pubblicato con il titolo Eden

[Myrna · Rating 1 out of 5]

The most indistinct Winspear's book.

A teenager meets a tycoon, they fall in love and he proposes to her sister because

1) she reminds him of the h
2) she is older

[Rasha Fahad · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s OK

[Wendy Darling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story is mid, but the writing is surprisingly lovely.

[Erica Matthews · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me, this was not the usual Violet Winspear story. It really seemed to drag at times and I wasn't tempted to keep reading. There just wasn't any chemistry between the characters.

[Bookaddict · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 1/2 ⭐️⭐️No romance until the last few pages of the book, about 96%. It was very boring!! #36 of top 100.

[PAINTED BOX]

Eden loved Lafe, but Gale wanted him

The two sisters were aptly named. Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding; Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind.

Gale found the money, power and luxury she wanted when she met wealthy, handsome and magnetic Lafe Sheridan. But it was Eden who saw behind Lafe's facade to the lonely poverty-stricken Irish boy he had once been. She loved him for the qualities he tried grimly to hide.

It was a situation that threatened heartbreak--for all of them!