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Fever Pitch
She didn't even have to know his name
An inner voice told Louisa her life had been utterly transformed the moment she'd met Jacey. Although they were total strangers, something in his panther-like eyes told her he knew her better than she knew herself.
United by a powerful attraction, they became closer than either thought possible. Then Jacey went away.
Not knowing if he'd return, Louisa let her stubborn will to survive lead her into the arms of another man. Yet even though she should be happy, it was as if half of her was missing...
An inner voice told Louisa her life had been utterly transformed the moment she'd met Jacey. Although they were total strangers, something in his panther-like eyes told her he knew her better than she knew herself.
United by a powerful attraction, they became closer than either thought possible. Then Jacey went away.
Not knowing if he'd return, Louisa let her stubborn will to survive lead her into the arms of another man. Yet even though she should be happy, it was as if half of her was missing...
187 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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December 24, 2019
Toxic relationship - they were better off not together.
February 14, 2019
I feel sick giving it 2 stars because I am SO opposed to the sheer amount of physical and emotional domestic violence in the story. At the end of course, everything is allllll better and it was just her silly pride getting in the way! He only hit her because he loved her, and now that she's being honest with him, he will never touch her again! I think we all know that in a realistic sequel, they would find her body at the foot of the stairs.
The stupid thing is really compelling though. Now excuse me while I burn it.
The stupid thing is really compelling though. Now excuse me while I burn it.
November 22, 2021
This h is one of the most annoying h’s ever. She is so fickle, weak, deceitful and TSTL.
She can’t live on her own (without any of the two men that are chasing her) because such a life would be ‘cold and lonely’. Omg.
She goes back and forth from the H to the OM to the H to the OM to the H. And if that isn’t enough, she lies to the H that she is with the OM for the OM’s money.
She marries the H knowing how bad he thinks of her. He doesn’t blackmail her into marrying him. It’s just that she doesn’t want to live her life alone.
In one of the other reviews I read that he hit her. But it was the other way around: she hit him.
Anyway, she’s annoying, but he isn’t a prize either. They deserve each other.
She can’t live on her own (without any of the two men that are chasing her) because such a life would be ‘cold and lonely’. Omg.
She goes back and forth from the H to the OM to the H to the OM to the H. And if that isn’t enough, she lies to the H that she is with the OM for the OM’s money.
She marries the H knowing how bad he thinks of her. He doesn’t blackmail her into marrying him. It’s just that she doesn’t want to live her life alone.
In one of the other reviews I read that he hit her. But it was the other way around: she hit him.
Anyway, she’s annoying, but he isn’t a prize either. They deserve each other.
May 27, 2023
" Έρωτας και μίσος" - Σάρα Χόλαντ, Συλλογή 457, έτος έκδοσης: 1983
"Ώστε σε μισώ; " είπε αγριεμένος ο Τζάσι και ξαφνικά σήκωσε το χέρι του και τη χτύπησε δυνατά στο πρόσωπο. Η Λουίζα φώναξε πονεμένα κι έπεσε ξέπνοη στο κρεβάτι. "Κάποτε σ' αγαπούσα όσο τίποτα στον κόσμο", συνέχισε "κι εσύ με πρόδωσες!" Η Λουίζα τον κοίταξε με μάτια δακρυσμένα κι αναθυμόταν τον καιρό που αγαπιόνταν τρελά. Όταν έλιωναν κι οι δύο μέσα στο παράφορο πάθος που τους συγκλόνιζε. Και να τώρα το ίδιο αυτό πάθος τους έσπρωχνε να πληγώνουν βαθιά ο ένας τον άλλο. Άραγε θα ξανάρχονταν ποτέ οι ασυννέφιαστες μέρες της ευτυχίας τους;
Μια συγγραφέας που πιστεύω είτε σου αρέσουν τα βιβλία της πολύ, είτε όχι. Δεν υπάρχει μέση κατάσταση! Το συγκεκριμένο ήταν το δεύτερο βιβλίο της που διάβασα (το πρώτο ήταν "Η ώρα της τιμωρίας" και μου είχε αρέσει πολύ). Και αυτό το βιβλίο της μου άρεσε αρκετά!!!! Η Σάρα Χόλαντ, είναι μια συγγραφέας που διακρίνεται για τον αυθόρμητο και ορμητικό χαρακτήρα των ηρώων της, που δίνουν στα βιβλία της μια ξεχωριστή ζωντάνια!!!!
"Ώστε σε μισώ; " είπε αγριεμένος ο Τζάσι και ξαφνικά σήκωσε το χέρι του και τη χτύπησε δυνατά στο πρόσωπο. Η Λουίζα φώναξε πονεμένα κι έπεσε ξέπνοη στο κρεβάτι. "Κάποτε σ' αγαπούσα όσο τίποτα στον κόσμο", συνέχισε "κι εσύ με πρόδωσες!" Η Λουίζα τον κοίταξε με μάτια δακρυσμένα κι αναθυμόταν τον καιρό που αγαπιόνταν τρελά. Όταν έλιωναν κι οι δύο μέσα στο παράφορο πάθος που τους συγκλόνιζε. Και να τώρα το ίδιο αυτό πάθος τους έσπρωχνε να πληγώνουν βαθιά ο ένας τον άλλο. Άραγε θα ξανάρχονταν ποτέ οι ασυννέφιαστες μέρες της ευτυχίας τους;
Μια συγγραφέας που πιστεύω είτε σου αρέσουν τα βιβλία της πολύ, είτε όχι. Δεν υπάρχει μέση κατάσταση! Το συγκεκριμένο ήταν το δεύτερο βιβλίο της που διάβασα (το πρώτο ήταν "Η ώρα της τιμωρίας" και μου είχε αρέσει πολύ). Και αυτό το βιβλίο της μου άρεσε αρκετά!!!! Η Σάρα Χόλαντ, είναι μια συγγραφέας που διακρίνεται για τον αυθόρμητο και ορμητικό χαρακτήρα των ηρώων της, που δίνουν στα βιβλία της μια ξεχωριστή ζωντάνια!!!!
May 5, 2019
She didn't even have to know his name. An inner voice told Louisa her life had been utterly transformed the moment she'd met Jacey. Although they were total strangers, something in his panther-like eyes told her he knew her better than she knew herself. United by a powerful attraction, they became closer than either thought possible. Then Jacey went away. Not knowing if he'd return, Louisa let her stubborn will to survive lead her into the arms of another man. Yet even though she should be happy, it was as if half of her was missing...
July 27, 2025
This author has a thing for creating very flawed, very troubled, very mentally unstable characters. If people write from life experience, she must have spent several years on a psychiatrist's couch!
The H needed help, and I mean HELP! He had major issues with anger, kept secrets (like the fact that he was married, though separated), would leave and then return, never saying where he was going or when he'd be back, was living a false persona, and expected the h to be patient and understanding and wait for him (even after a major argument where it seemed like it was all over and he disappears for three months.
The h is hypersensitive about being illegitimate, hides this fact, ran away from home at 17 and never mentions her mother and stepfather, (the author stretches the imagination by having us believe that no sooner did this penniless teenager with no job prospects arrive in London than an elderly bookshop owner feels sorry for her and gives her a job), turns to the OM on the rebound when the H pulls his disappearing act and ends up engaged (though she doesn't love the guy), then dumps him to get back with the H, who turns out to be wealthy (like the OM), making the H believe she's nothing but a gold-digger. Out of hurt, anger and pride (because she still loves him and thinks he only lusts after her) she tells him it's the truth, then feels trapped when the H insists that she marry him, since he has more money than the OM, and can't convince him that she really loves him and only turned to the OM when she thought she'd lost him, that it was love and security she wanted, not the money. He can't get rid of the major chip on his shoulder (put there by his slutty estranged wife, who recently died, along with his father (hence his disappearance, which he never explained to the h at the time), acts angry, menacing, insulting and thoroughly unpleasant, and the h can't reach him, making her cry oner minute and have a temper tantrum the next.
There are eccentric neighbors and ridiculous relatives thrown in (all unnecessary), and a persistent OM who just doesn't want to give up (ruining one of the best exit lines when she broke up with him, shades of Rhett Butler, which should have been his exit from the story). Twice he gets the h into hot water with her husband and almost gets them both killed in a car accident when he decides to kidnap her "for her own good". That earned him a (well-deserved) punch from the H!
This couple had way too many issues for readers to believe they suddenly solved everything and will have their HEA. They both needed counseling (especially the H with his hair trigger temper) and more time to get to really know each other without all the lies, false personas, and stubborn pride.
And it's never explained why the h turned her back on her mother. It wasn't her fault the h's father dumped her when she was pregnant instead of marrying her. She didn't like her stepfather, but you don't know why. Was he too "friendly" and her mom ignored this? That would explain her wanting to leave and not come back, but her just being a so-called "bastard" was hardly a reason at the time this book was written (mid 1980'). Had it been written 20 years earlier (maybe even 10) it would have made more sense.
Then again, a lot of this book didn't make sense.
It could have been a much better story.
The H needed help, and I mean HELP! He had major issues with anger, kept secrets (like the fact that he was married, though separated), would leave and then return, never saying where he was going or when he'd be back, was living a false persona, and expected the h to be patient and understanding and wait for him (even after a major argument where it seemed like it was all over and he disappears for three months.
The h is hypersensitive about being illegitimate, hides this fact, ran away from home at 17 and never mentions her mother and stepfather, (the author stretches the imagination by having us believe that no sooner did this penniless teenager with no job prospects arrive in London than an elderly bookshop owner feels sorry for her and gives her a job), turns to the OM on the rebound when the H pulls his disappearing act and ends up engaged (though she doesn't love the guy), then dumps him to get back with the H, who turns out to be wealthy (like the OM), making the H believe she's nothing but a gold-digger. Out of hurt, anger and pride (because she still loves him and thinks he only lusts after her) she tells him it's the truth, then feels trapped when the H insists that she marry him, since he has more money than the OM, and can't convince him that she really loves him and only turned to the OM when she thought she'd lost him, that it was love and security she wanted, not the money. He can't get rid of the major chip on his shoulder (put there by his slutty estranged wife, who recently died, along with his father (hence his disappearance, which he never explained to the h at the time), acts angry, menacing, insulting and thoroughly unpleasant, and the h can't reach him, making her cry oner minute and have a temper tantrum the next.
There are eccentric neighbors and ridiculous relatives thrown in (all unnecessary), and a persistent OM who just doesn't want to give up (ruining one of the best exit lines when she broke up with him, shades of Rhett Butler, which should have been his exit from the story). Twice he gets the h into hot water with her husband and almost gets them both killed in a car accident when he decides to kidnap her "for her own good". That earned him a (well-deserved) punch from the H!
This couple had way too many issues for readers to believe they suddenly solved everything and will have their HEA. They both needed counseling (especially the H with his hair trigger temper) and more time to get to really know each other without all the lies, false personas, and stubborn pride.
And it's never explained why the h turned her back on her mother. It wasn't her fault the h's father dumped her when she was pregnant instead of marrying her. She didn't like her stepfather, but you don't know why. Was he too "friendly" and her mom ignored this? That would explain her wanting to leave and not come back, but her just being a so-called "bastard" was hardly a reason at the time this book was written (mid 1980'). Had it been written 20 years earlier (maybe even 10) it would have made more sense.
Then again, a lot of this book didn't make sense.
It could have been a much better story.
August 1, 2019
Έρωτας και μίσος...
November 29, 2013
TRÊS AMORES (Fever Pitch) - Sarah Holland
O herói é um ogro... violento e ciumento. Ele dá umas bolachas na mocinha e praticamente estupra ela...
Ela é uma cabeça dura, mas aceita todas as maldades que ele faz pra ela...
Credo!
O herói é um ogro... violento e ciumento. Ele dá umas bolachas na mocinha e praticamente estupra ela...
Ela é uma cabeça dura, mas aceita todas as maldades que ele faz pra ela...
Credo!
August 31, 2016
A very old harlequin and a quite fast read. Even the events are predictable.
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