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Καρδιά αγγέλου με καμώματα διαβόλου...είναι, ίσως, ο πιο σωστός χαρακτηρισμός για τη Λέσλυ Κρόνζιερ. Χωρίς ψευδαισθήσεις, από τα 16 της χρόνια, μισεί όλους τους άντρες που μόνο το κορμί της ποθούν και δεν ενδιαφέρονται για τα αισθήματά της. Κρατώντας μυστικά τον πόνο και την απογοήτευσή της κρύβεται κάτω απο μια μάσκα σκληρότητας και αδιαντροπιάς...με αποτέλεσμα ο Ράντ Σίνκλερ να έχει τη χειρότερη γνώμη γι' αυτήν. Θα ανακαλύψει, άραγε, ποτέ αυτός ο άνθρωπος ποιά είναι η πραγματική Λέσλυ...και το σπουδαιότερο, θα ενδιαφερθεί εκείνη για τη γνώμη του;
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Jayne Bauling
58 books71 followersJayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was shortlisted for the same award in 2014. In 2011 she also won the inaugural African Writing flash fiction prize for Settling. She has twice been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another youth novel Our Side of the Wall was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. Her adult short stories have appeared in The Bed Book of Short Stories (Modjaji Books), The Edge of Things (Dye Hard Press), African Pens 2011 (Jacana), Feast, Famine & Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), the e-anthology Behind the Shadows, and (the stories An Inappropriate Woman and Witch and Bitch)in the People Opposing Women Abuse Breaking the Silence annual anthologies (Jacana). Rage and Misfortune, her retelling of the OT Samson story was published online by Ludic Press. Poetry: Symbiosis won SAFM's Express Yourself prize, Fist was placed 3rd in the 2008 POWA Women's Writing Project and published in Murmurs of the Girl in Me, while Unschooled was published in POWA's 2010 anthology Stories of the Othere(ed) Woman and The Ladies Take Tea in POWA's 2012 anthology Sisterhood. More poetry in ouroboros review, Markings, poetandgeek, Ons Klyntji, Litnet and the Lowvelder.
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling
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October 27, 2021
The only man to resist her spell...
Lesley wanted to embarrass her wealthy parents, and her efforts were certainly rewarded. All of Johannesburg society was talking about her...the beautiful spoiled nymphomaniac.
No one knew she was actually innocent, and that it was all a bizarre game she played to make fools out of small-minded men. Even Rad Sinclair was taken in--but he rejected her before she could humiliate him!
And much as Lesley told herself it didn't matter--for once it did.
Lesley wanted to embarrass her wealthy parents, and her efforts were certainly rewarded. All of Johannesburg society was talking about her...the beautiful spoiled nymphomaniac.
No one knew she was actually innocent, and that it was all a bizarre game she played to make fools out of small-minded men. Even Rad Sinclair was taken in--but he rejected her before she could humiliate him!
And much as Lesley told herself it didn't matter--for once it did.
March 18, 2024
Angssssttttt! So much angst!
The book is quite good and very very old. I think it’s the first of this author, and the cover is what attracted me first, such beautiful faces and colors, and the title is much appropriate. The heroine a South African socialite, a girl with a reputation if you know what I mean, and she decided that since her father and mother are two insensitive brutes she will treat all the men who are attracted to her teasing them and then rejecting them. The hero of course misjudges her like all the others. He’s a journalist and is the one who discovered his father’s frauds and thefts around the country. As soon as her parents disappears leaving her in deep sh.t, the hero unexpectedly believes her innocence in the matter and takes her with him in a farm where some of his dearest friends live. So we get to know some nice and interesting names, places and habits of South Africans, and the family that hosts her is really the perfect one, mother and father of a girl only two years older than the heroine who acts as Pollyanna thinking to charm the hero with her rustic style. The heroine has also a peculiar ability, she sees other people’s deepest intentions, so she sees the ruse behind the sweet facade of the girl, and the real goodness of her parents, but she can’t understand the hero. I think he was quite transparent, the usual jaded man who saw everything and did everything and is not the man bar boy the heroine usually dates. The heroine is attracted to him like a moth to a flame and he also feels very strongly for her, even if he doesn’t know if she’s innocent as she says she is. Anyway there’s a cute naivety in the heroine because she really has not much experience about more mature and experienced men, and she tries to hide her sweet core with a sophisticated facade. She’s actually quite young herself. They eventually become lovers, but the heroine has a moment of mistrust and they fall apart. In the end of course he will come back to her and all is well.
The book is good, the storm is coming and the hero was quite brutal sometimes but hardly cruel. He’s completely obsessed by her and in the end is the one who comes back and proposes. The girl bar ow is scary and cringy, an actress that I still don’t know how much she was acting and how much she was real.
The book is quite good and very very old. I think it’s the first of this author, and the cover is what attracted me first, such beautiful faces and colors, and the title is much appropriate. The heroine a South African socialite, a girl with a reputation if you know what I mean, and she decided that since her father and mother are two insensitive brutes she will treat all the men who are attracted to her teasing them and then rejecting them. The hero of course misjudges her like all the others. He’s a journalist and is the one who discovered his father’s frauds and thefts around the country. As soon as her parents disappears leaving her in deep sh.t, the hero unexpectedly believes her innocence in the matter and takes her with him in a farm where some of his dearest friends live. So we get to know some nice and interesting names, places and habits of South Africans, and the family that hosts her is really the perfect one, mother and father of a girl only two years older than the heroine who acts as Pollyanna thinking to charm the hero with her rustic style. The heroine has also a peculiar ability, she sees other people’s deepest intentions, so she sees the ruse behind the sweet facade of the girl, and the real goodness of her parents, but she can’t understand the hero. I think he was quite transparent, the usual jaded man who saw everything and did everything and is not the man bar boy the heroine usually dates. The heroine is attracted to him like a moth to a flame and he also feels very strongly for her, even if he doesn’t know if she’s innocent as she says she is. Anyway there’s a cute naivety in the heroine because she really has not much experience about more mature and experienced men, and she tries to hide her sweet core with a sophisticated facade. She’s actually quite young herself. They eventually become lovers, but the heroine has a moment of mistrust and they fall apart. In the end of course he will come back to her and all is well.
The book is good, the storm is coming and the hero was quite brutal sometimes but hardly cruel. He’s completely obsessed by her and in the end is the one who comes back and proposes. The girl bar ow is scary and cringy, an actress that I still don’t know how much she was acting and how much she was real.
December 25, 2025
2.5 stars rounded up because the writing is good. The characters and premise are a little . . . off, though.
Heroine is a Paris Hilton-type socialite. Her vacuous facade is the image she projects to protect her from feeling anything after her grandmother died. Her parents only care about themselves and Granny was the only one who loved her.
Heroine thinks she's frigid, but she's very beautiful and she has a reptuation as a "nephomaniac" based on all the lies 0f the boys/men she has rejected.
Hero is an investigative journalist who meets her at a party where she is holding court. He's not impressed. She is impressed with him and doesn't know how to handle it.
A few days later the hero's story about the fraud her parents perpetuated breaks and heroine is persona non grata. Her parents skip the country and heroine is left penniless. Hero rescues her from her press-besieged house and takes her to an estate in rural South Africa.
There the H/h get to know each other. Neither trusts the other, but the sexual tension wins. The black moment comes when they each think the other betrayed them.
Hero comes to his senses first for an HEA.
The heroine wasn't very likeable. Hero was your typical cruel HP hero. OW was the innocent ingenue with an eye on the main chance. It was interesting to see the heroine acting like a typical man-eating OW, but it didn't make me sympathize with her.
Heroine is a Paris Hilton-type socialite. Her vacuous facade is the image she projects to protect her from feeling anything after her grandmother died. Her parents only care about themselves and Granny was the only one who loved her.
Heroine thinks she's frigid, but she's very beautiful and she has a reptuation as a "nephomaniac" based on all the lies 0f the boys/men she has rejected.
Hero is an investigative journalist who meets her at a party where she is holding court. He's not impressed. She is impressed with him and doesn't know how to handle it.
A few days later the hero's story about the fraud her parents perpetuated breaks and heroine is persona non grata. Her parents skip the country and heroine is left penniless. Hero rescues her from her press-besieged house and takes her to an estate in rural South Africa.
There the H/h get to know each other. Neither trusts the other, but the sexual tension wins. The black moment comes when they each think the other betrayed them.
Hero comes to his senses first for an HEA.
The heroine wasn't very likeable. Hero was your typical cruel HP hero. OW was the innocent ingenue with an eye on the main chance. It was interesting to see the heroine acting like a typical man-eating OW, but it didn't make me sympathize with her.
August 7, 2017
In one word: awful.
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