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Νέα Υόρκη, Λονδίνο, Παρίσι. Τρεις πόλεις, τρεις πανέμορφες ερωμένες για τον επιχειρηματία Γουλφ Βάινερ. Τι ελπιδες μπορεί να έχει μια γραμματέας έστω κι αν κέρδισε τον τίτλο της καλύτερης γραμματέως της Βρετανίας; Η Σούζι δεν πρέπει να τρέφει αυταπάτες, αυτό της λέει η λογική της. Μήπως δεν την είχε προειδοποιήσει η προηγούμενη γραμματέας του Γουλφ Βάινερ, η Χάνα; Όμως οι ελπίδες και τα όνειρα όπως κι ο έρωτας είναι πράγματα που δεν πάνε χέρι χέρι με τη λογική.
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First published January 1, 1983
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Anne Weale
218 books49 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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November 1, 2021
I love office romances because there is potential for so much fun, usually with a heroine who has a stronger spine than the average HPlandia willowy Mary Sue.
Unfortunately, this did not happen in Anne Weale's Ecstasy, a boss-secretary romance where apart from the a minor conflict at the beginning of their working relationship, we then get a lot of "one month after working with him" and "seven months into the job" etc. If you have read delightful office romances like Emma Darcy's Pattern of Deceit, where it’s the every day banter and sparks that makes it a fun read, you will know what I mean.
Added to that is a rather unlikable, social-climbing heroine who has characteristics that reek of OW types. I didn't like how, after she got a taste of the glam life, champagne and furs and hotels oh my, she became very condescending, looking down her nose at her humble, country village origins. It didn't sit right with me how she treated her parents and siblings like embarrassing, odious bumpkins that she had outgrown nor that she humiliated them in front of her wealthy, classy husband, especially after all their efforts to make him welcome. He actually was light years ahead of her in his civility and overall class.
True, the fact that he kept a mistress for every port, one in New York, one in London, and one in Paris was gross but strangely, it didn't bother me as much as her nouveau riche ways, or her unattractive insecurity and jealousy, even after she succeeded in marrying him. I also hated her for planning to get herself pregnant by him on the sly, without his consent or knowledge, when she was still under the belief that theirs would merely be a temporary affair.
All in all, I did not enjoy this story even though the world building was very believable and the writing compelling, as it always is with AW. Quel dommage :(
P.S. As always, reading AW is a nostalgic throwbacks to the 80s. The hero is super into the burgeoning fitness craze and jogs every morning complete with tracksuit and 80s headband. He encourages the heroine to keep up her muscle tone as he believes the emaciated model look is out and healthy, fit standards of beauty are in and likely to last a long time hehe.
Unfortunately, this did not happen in Anne Weale's Ecstasy, a boss-secretary romance where apart from the a minor conflict at the beginning of their working relationship, we then get a lot of "one month after working with him" and "seven months into the job" etc. If you have read delightful office romances like Emma Darcy's Pattern of Deceit, where it’s the every day banter and sparks that makes it a fun read, you will know what I mean.
Added to that is a rather unlikable, social-climbing heroine who has characteristics that reek of OW types. I didn't like how, after she got a taste of the glam life, champagne and furs and hotels oh my, she became very condescending, looking down her nose at her humble, country village origins. It didn't sit right with me how she treated her parents and siblings like embarrassing, odious bumpkins that she had outgrown nor that she humiliated them in front of her wealthy, classy husband, especially after all their efforts to make him welcome. He actually was light years ahead of her in his civility and overall class.
True, the fact that he kept a mistress for every port, one in New York, one in London, and one in Paris was gross but strangely, it didn't bother me as much as her nouveau riche ways, or her unattractive insecurity and jealousy, even after she succeeded in marrying him. I also hated her for planning to get herself pregnant by him on the sly, without his consent or knowledge, when she was still under the belief that theirs would merely be a temporary affair.
All in all, I did not enjoy this story even though the world building was very believable and the writing compelling, as it always is with AW. Quel dommage :(
P.S. As always, reading AW is a nostalgic throwbacks to the 80s. The hero is super into the burgeoning fitness craze and jogs every morning complete with tracksuit and 80s headband. He encourages the heroine to keep up her muscle tone as he believes the emaciated model look is out and healthy, fit standards of beauty are in and likely to last a long time hehe.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 26, 2012
Innocent virgin secretary lasso's billionaire boss, who by the way, happens to have three mistresses on two continents! What a stud muffin!
Actually, the first half of this book was really well done. I liked the hero. The heroine was fun and feisty with integrity. The retiring, efficient secretary was kind and helpful and the three muses...no mistresses, were cool ladies....who knew the score and actually carried it off with class.
But somewhere about 2/3 of the way through the book, things get dark and the heroine turns creepy. I guess the lifestyle change finally all went to her head...She starts to plot about how to get him into bed in the hopes of getting pregnant. Then she loses all self-respect willing to take any crumb he gives her. She totally turns her back on her family and actually looks down on them. To top it off, she claims she never loved her first husband who tragically died from a car accident on the way to the honeymoon.....This is the same husband she was pining for in the first chapter vowing never to marry again. Is this even the same woman?
Finally, when he does ask her to marry him, she goes for the gold...with gusto Meaning, she marries the lifestyle, not him. At this point, I had more respect for the mistresses.
The hero also does a metamorphosis and the once fun, intriguing man who had me chuckling turns icy cold. He undergoes such a personality change I wondered if he were the same man? But in fairness to him, I think he was just reacting to her machinations................
So given this, the HEA fell flat. However, this actually is a decent book...it's just not a good romance. If the author's point is that money can change the best of people and rob them of true happiness, then she hit a home run. I actually believed the author's message was not about the HEA, but a farce to a much darker point.
On a side note, the whole three mistresses scenario was actually well done and added a very strong element to the story.
Actually, the first half of this book was really well done. I liked the hero. The heroine was fun and feisty with integrity. The retiring, efficient secretary was kind and helpful and the three muses...no mistresses, were cool ladies....who knew the score and actually carried it off with class.
But somewhere about 2/3 of the way through the book, things get dark and the heroine turns creepy. I guess the lifestyle change finally all went to her head...She starts to plot about how to get him into bed in the hopes of getting pregnant. Then she loses all self-respect willing to take any crumb he gives her. She totally turns her back on her family and actually looks down on them. To top it off, she claims she never loved her first husband who tragically died from a car accident on the way to the honeymoon.....This is the same husband she was pining for in the first chapter vowing never to marry again. Is this even the same woman?
Finally, when he does ask her to marry him, she goes for the gold...with gusto Meaning, she marries the lifestyle, not him. At this point, I had more respect for the mistresses.
The hero also does a metamorphosis and the once fun, intriguing man who had me chuckling turns icy cold. He undergoes such a personality change I wondered if he were the same man? But in fairness to him, I think he was just reacting to her machinations................
So given this, the HEA fell flat. However, this actually is a decent book...it's just not a good romance. If the author's point is that money can change the best of people and rob them of true happiness, then she hit a home run. I actually believed the author's message was not about the HEA, but a farce to a much darker point.
On a side note, the whole three mistresses scenario was actually well done and added a very strong element to the story.
April 22, 2009
The ultimate secretary-gets-the-boss story.
The hero is a jet-setting gazillionaire who has a posh penthouse apt AND a mistress each in NYC, London, and Paris. Despite all the hoochie he gets, the hero comes across as almost austere. Due to a creaky old trope (which I won't reveal bc of spoilers), the heroine, a widow, conquers all and you even feel sorry for the last mistress left standing.
Tropes: Boss/Secretary
The hero is a jet-setting gazillionaire who has a posh penthouse apt AND a mistress each in NYC, London, and Paris. Despite all the hoochie he gets, the hero comes across as almost austere. Due to a creaky old trope (which I won't reveal bc of spoilers), the heroine, a widow, conquers all and you even feel sorry for the last mistress left standing.
Tropes: Boss/Secretary
January 17, 2018
I finished this last night and it is just a very odd book. I thought it was pretty weird for an HP written so long ago but it did have forward thinking I guess. She was a widow who never had sex and he was an oversexed egomaniac with three, yes three, mistresses in three different towns. She was his secretary for 7 or 8 months and arranged flowers everything for them. She loved him from the first day she met him. Finally he notices her, gets her all champaagned up takes her virginity, of course he did not know it, and then decides to marry her. The heroine got on my nerves especially how she talked about her family in her home town. She outgrew them she thought. She was just too sophisticated for their rustic living anymore. When she called her sisters fat, I wanted to slap her. But they did have an HEA and I predict in about six to twelve months, he will find another mistress in a town far far away.
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August 8, 2024
I formed the strong impression that AW was laying some cards on the table about women's duty to be thin and beautiful in this tale of secretary snares boss. He, Wolfe, gave me Warren Beatty vibes, with his woman in every port, his several times a day sex (not complaining) and his daily jogging with sweatband (I am picturing the attire in Heaven Can Wait). There's mention of legwarmers and leotards and calisthenics. It's a true early 80s, women still thinking fur coats were glam and a lifetime of calorie counting. She, Suzy, started off fine as a young widow (and virgin. A statistically over-represented type of widow in HPlandia) who has subsumed her early marriage woes in bettering herself professionally as a top secretary. He sees her on TV and headhunts her. They maintain distance for quite a time while we learn about his civilised bonking arrangements with mistresses in London, Paris and New York. When she finally decides to go for it, the physical side is powerful and the marriage proposal fast (just as well as she was going all out for the unprotected sex at least I'll get a baby off him if nothing else - yuck). Their honeymoon was in Salzburg and my thanks to AW for introducing me to the hotel I'm going to book for a holiday some time. The h becomes a sexual sybarite (fair play) but also a bit of a haughty snob with too much of a yen for the finer things in life. Fair play, I guess, we all like nice things and holidays. But she is horrible with her birth family because they are now lardy provincials. Triple yuck. He is coolly remote post-proposal (apart from the sex and the shopping - never too sure about enthusiastic male shoppers myself) until he reveals his hitherto completely invisible insecurity in quite a handbrake turn. It was a good read though. I am left wondering what are the mysterious grooming activities she will now have to be doing in the bathroom when he isn't there. I'm assuming she's meaning plucking and shaving to maintain her feminine mystique of acceptable hairlessness but who knows.
June 1, 2021
I don't even know where to begin. I never bother writing long reviews for these Harlequin romance books because they are often predictable and just quick guilty pleasure reads, which I always rate loosely. BUT OMG WTF WAS THIS. Not only did the author decide to write a fucking history book, she decided to throw in unnecessary details that entirely eclipsed the story.
I went into this book excited because I really loved the premise- jet setting boss whisks secretary away with him and they travel all over working and end up falling in love - until it wasn't quite so anymore and the book veered into fucking history tidbits and lessons and unnecessary name dropping. OMG don't even get me started about the name dropping whew! I do not know who the author was trying to impress, definitely not the reader.
Because the book felt more like the author was on a crusade to reveal all the designers they knew and the places they themselves had visited along with a history lesson to each place.
The story took a huge backseat to the history lessons and endless name dropping. Reading this book was not "Ecstasy," it was AGONY.
I went into this book excited because I really loved the premise- jet setting boss whisks secretary away with him and they travel all over working and end up falling in love - until it wasn't quite so anymore and the book veered into fucking history tidbits and lessons and unnecessary name dropping. OMG don't even get me started about the name dropping whew! I do not know who the author was trying to impress, definitely not the reader.
Because the book felt more like the author was on a crusade to reveal all the designers they knew and the places they themselves had visited along with a history lesson to each place.
The story took a huge backseat to the history lessons and endless name dropping. Reading this book was not "Ecstasy," it was AGONY.
October 17, 2013
4 Stars ~ Suzy is a young woman in a rut. Married at 19, a tragic accident left her marriage unconsummated and then shortly after widowed. Suzy had been living with her parents and working during the day and taking courses at night to better her secretarial career. Completing her final course, she's awarded a gold medal for her achievements and it's this publicity that brings her to Wolfe's attention. He's a tycoon with business bases in London, Paris and New York, and with his private secretary leaving him to get married, he's looking for a replacement. Suzy jumps at the opportunity to finally broaden her horizons and leave her very insular life behind. Wolfe is a demanding employer, not only does he work hard he has a vitality that enables him to play hard too. He works and lives out of permanent hotel suites, and in each city he has a mistress. When Wolfe eliminates the mistress in New York, he finds himself needing an escort for a dinner with a business associate and his wife, so he asks Suzy to step in. This is Suzy's chance to shine and show him what an appealing woman she is. Having fallen in love with Wolfe, Suzy realizes that he's not likely to love her in return, but she's lead a celibate life for far too long and she knows that should he make the move she'll not refuse him. The last thing Wolfe expected to learn the morning after, is that the widow had been a virgin.
In this very early 80's publication, Ms. Weale shows the transition to more sensual storylines and brings Harlequin into the next generation of the non-virgin heroines. In this story, while Suzy is still a virgin, her best friend Alix is far from and encourages Suzy to get a life. Suzy is a warm blooded heroine and she wants nothing more than to shed her virginity but she's still old-fashioned enough to know that her first lover must be someone special. Wolfe, with his three mistresses, comes across as an intensely virile man who though he takes what he wants, he does so with consideration and is far from womanizing. The love scenes are surprisingly scorching for an early HP, aptly supporting the title. Ms. Weale uses Suzy's tragic past marriage to create the conflict, at times this is rather depressing, thankfully, she manages to pull the story around and the HEA is very satisfying
In this very early 80's publication, Ms. Weale shows the transition to more sensual storylines and brings Harlequin into the next generation of the non-virgin heroines. In this story, while Suzy is still a virgin, her best friend Alix is far from and encourages Suzy to get a life. Suzy is a warm blooded heroine and she wants nothing more than to shed her virginity but she's still old-fashioned enough to know that her first lover must be someone special. Wolfe, with his three mistresses, comes across as an intensely virile man who though he takes what he wants, he does so with consideration and is far from womanizing. The love scenes are surprisingly scorching for an early HP, aptly supporting the title. Ms. Weale uses Suzy's tragic past marriage to create the conflict, at times this is rather depressing, thankfully, she manages to pull the story around and the HEA is very satisfying
December 16, 2021
She was a virgin and she didn’t tell him that she didn’t use birth control. She wanted to get pregnant by him. That was creepy to trap a man like that.
And he sleeps around with different women. Why didn’t he use condoms. This is a vintage book, that’s probably the answer. Condoms only became a necessary item for sex after the big HIV scare in the 80’s.
In the beginning of the book he had just slept with one of his women when he had a job interview with her in his hotelsuite. I just wonder why the virgin h was so much better in bed than that other woman that after the first time sex with the h, he is so blown away that he asks her to marry him.
Asked about it, he compares those women and the h. He says that those other women are like caviar and the h is like cheese and apples and you don’t want to eat caviar every day.
Well, I would rather like to eat the most delicious food every day, so I would choose the caviar.
And he sleeps around with different women. Why didn’t he use condoms. This is a vintage book, that’s probably the answer. Condoms only became a necessary item for sex after the big HIV scare in the 80’s.
In the beginning of the book he had just slept with one of his women when he had a job interview with her in his hotelsuite. I just wonder why the virgin h was so much better in bed than that other woman that after the first time sex with the h, he is so blown away that he asks her to marry him.
Asked about it, he compares those women and the h. He says that those other women are like caviar and the h is like cheese and apples and you don’t want to eat caviar every day.
Well, I would rather like to eat the most delicious food every day, so I would choose the caviar.
January 9, 2015
All it was missing was a nice epilogue. btw, I wouldn't mind some of those pink sapphires!
February 25, 2012
It's nice to grow your horizons but to scorn your roots is unexcusable.
December 24, 2022
Hero was a bit of a cool fish
June 1, 2016
Boss secretary romance. Hero is your typical playboy tycoon with mistresses around the globe and heroine is a virgin widow. They had good chemistry but I needed a nice epilogue. We never found out if they had fertility problems after all.
August 12, 2011
Classic Harlequin Presents. Dominant rich man, naive younger woman. It's one of my faves from my high school days. 8-)
March 15, 2025
Susan was interviewed on a TV show after winning Britian's Top Secretary title and because of this interview, multimillionaire Wolfe Vynor wanted her to work as his personal assistant. She accepted at once because she wanted to run away from the conventional life set to her by her rigid family after three years of being a widow. Unfotunately, she fell in love with Wolfe who expressed his rejection of love and had three different mistresses in three different countries! Yet, it did not stop her from seducing him after seven months of being his secretary!
Anne Weale should have titled this book "Fantasy" instead of esctasy. The story is plain with no excitment, strong emotions or real angsty. Many things are left unexplained at the end, especially concerning the hero's relationship with his mistresses and the heroine. He discovered he loved the heroine a week before his confession whereas for 7 long months he did not as much as hinted he liked the heroine or desired her! He didn't even so much as touched her!
Anne Weale should have titled this book "Fantasy" instead of esctasy. The story is plain with no excitment, strong emotions or real angsty. Many things are left unexplained at the end, especially concerning the hero's relationship with his mistresses and the heroine. He discovered he loved the heroine a week before his confession whereas for 7 long months he did not as much as hinted he liked the heroine or desired her! He didn't even so much as touched her!
October 15, 2022
Susan won Britain's Top Secretary and is hired by Wolfe Vyner to replace his current secretary who is getting married. She falls in love with Wolfe and also is in a lifestyle different from what she grew up in. One night Wolfe asks her to go to a business dinner with him to keep the wife occupied while his discusses business with the husband. Their feelings get out of hand that night. Wolfe learns a lot about Susan that night. Will it hurt their business relationship? Will they begin a personal relationship?
I liked this story. It is definitely a romance of the 1980's. I liked Susan and how she took a chance and changed her life. Wolfe is alpha but is vulnerable but only to Susan. It takes both a while to communicate their feelings. I felt cheated because it happens so late in the book plus I feel there was more they could have talked about earlier.
I enjoy Anne Weale's books and look forward to reading the ones on my TBR shelves.
I liked this story. It is definitely a romance of the 1980's. I liked Susan and how she took a chance and changed her life. Wolfe is alpha but is vulnerable but only to Susan. It takes both a while to communicate their feelings. I felt cheated because it happens so late in the book plus I feel there was more they could have talked about earlier.
I enjoy Anne Weale's books and look forward to reading the ones on my TBR shelves.
May 11, 2019
3.5 stars
Boss-assistant romance.
I loved it - the author's style looks almost "detached" but sexual tension and angst between a billionaire/workaholic/playboy/cold H and the young widow is sizzling.
The shift from working relationship into something more is perceivable through little descriptive details, even when each character seems indifferent to the other (H has mistresses in three different locations, h only seems an efficient/demure assistant).
They get married and h desperately falls in love with him but is unable to conceive that he can love her back, considering their different lifestyles and background.
I loved the passion between them - love scenes are really steamy although the novel is an "oldie".
Boss-assistant romance.
I loved it - the author's style looks almost "detached" but sexual tension and angst between a billionaire/workaholic/playboy/cold H and the young widow is sizzling.
The shift from working relationship into something more is perceivable through little descriptive details, even when each character seems indifferent to the other (H has mistresses in three different locations, h only seems an efficient/demure assistant).
They get married and h desperately falls in love with him but is unable to conceive that he can love her back, considering their different lifestyles and background.
I loved the passion between them - love scenes are really steamy although the novel is an "oldie".
August 21, 2023
"Ecstasy" is the story of Suzy and Wolfe.
Heroine is UK's number one secretary (yes she wins an award). She is immediately hired by don juan hero, who loves having women on a carousel. The first half is just him ignoring her, while she is mooning after immediately falling in love with him. Second half has the heroine wanting to join his harem, and then them banging. There's lots and lots of insecurities, but he finally gives her the boon of his attention and the book ends.
I really disliked them both. He was obsessed with her being fit, which leads to her being healthy (Good) but then we bear witness to the heroine body shaming her family and then dismissing them as the hero means everything to her? Girl grow a backbone.
Unsafe
1.5/5
Heroine is UK's number one secretary (yes she wins an award). She is immediately hired by don juan hero, who loves having women on a carousel. The first half is just him ignoring her, while she is mooning after immediately falling in love with him. Second half has the heroine wanting to join his harem, and then them banging. There's lots and lots of insecurities, but he finally gives her the boon of his attention and the book ends.
I really disliked them both. He was obsessed with her being fit, which leads to her being healthy (Good) but then we bear witness to the heroine body shaming her family and then dismissing them as the hero means everything to her? Girl grow a backbone.
Unsafe
1.5/5
September 21, 2021
2021 READ: 4 STARS!
I wish this book was longer. It has a potential to be a slow burning romance.
My review is not for intelligent discussion. It's what I felt/thought while reading the book. For 2021, I would rate the book this way:
1 - DNF'ed
2 - does not exist
3 - did not like
4 - it was okay
5 - I like it / I enjoy reading it (but it doesn't mean I recommend it)
I wish this book was longer. It has a potential to be a slow burning romance.
My review is not for intelligent discussion. It's what I felt/thought while reading the book. For 2021, I would rate the book this way:
1 - DNF'ed
2 - does not exist
3 - did not like
4 - it was okay
5 - I like it / I enjoy reading it (but it doesn't mean I recommend it)
May 10, 2021
How could she help loving such a man?
Winning Britain's Top Secretary award landed Suzy a dream job jetting all over the work private secretary to the financial genius, Wolfe Vyner. Not bad for a girl from a small town in Yorkshire, she thought!
Wolfe was worldly, brilliant, sophisticated--and devastatingly attractive. He was also a confirmed bachelor.
On her first day at work Suzy was warned against falling in love with her handsome new boss--it would be futile. But even then it was too late--Suzy had already lost her heart! (less)
Winning Britain's Top Secretary award landed Suzy a dream job jetting all over the work private secretary to the financial genius, Wolfe Vyner. Not bad for a girl from a small town in Yorkshire, she thought!
Wolfe was worldly, brilliant, sophisticated--and devastatingly attractive. He was also a confirmed bachelor.
On her first day at work Suzy was warned against falling in love with her handsome new boss--it would be futile. But even then it was too late--Suzy had already lost her heart! (less)
November 6, 2014
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