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Out of the Night
There was nothing else she could do
Stranded in a border-hills snowstorm, Emily Blacklaw had to accept the handsome stranger's offer of help--even though it meant sharing the warmth of Matt Slater's sleeping bag.
It was a turning point for Emily, and the desires and passions they'd shared haunted her through the days and months that followed.
Now Matt was back--and living in the same house. And Emily found it difficult to reject Matt's demands, especially since they were the same demands she secretly harbored....
Stranded in a border-hills snowstorm, Emily Blacklaw had to accept the handsome stranger's offer of help--even though it meant sharing the warmth of Matt Slater's sleeping bag.
It was a turning point for Emily, and the desires and passions they'd shared haunted her through the days and months that followed.
Now Matt was back--and living in the same house. And Emily found it difficult to reject Matt's demands, especially since they were the same demands she secretly harbored....
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Penny Jordan
1,126 books668 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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February 2, 2021
This is the Penny Jordan i know well.As entrapped the main-characters was in the bliss of love,i got trapped together within the story and never once took my eyes off the pages.Emily Blacklaw is a lovely heroine quite different from her family that are full of independent adventurers,she is quite the romantic and dreams of a husband and children.Fate declares that she get stranded in a snowstorm together with the hunky and much irritated Matthew Slater,and having no other choice than to share his sleeping bag,both are aware of the sparkling flames of desire between them and they just can`t resist making hot love with each other that night.
I really came to love this romantic tale.Emily isn`t one of PJ´s cynical shrews and knew what she wanted but was very much afraid to act upon it due to fear of rejection since another man had cruelly rejected and humiliated her before.She was very self-pitying a lot of times,but it didn`t quite bother me because of the sexual tension between her and Matthew dominated too much of the romance for me to even care.We get much of Matthew`s POV also,and i loved the strange vulnerability we saw through his heart,and his obvious smitten behaviour really melted my heart.He was such a sweet alpha-male,and I thought the combination of it to be so irresistible.I love the way he is after her,and the epiluge was totally sweet!"Out of the Night" is another keeper by PJ!
I really came to love this romantic tale.Emily isn`t one of PJ´s cynical shrews and knew what she wanted but was very much afraid to act upon it due to fear of rejection since another man had cruelly rejected and humiliated her before.She was very self-pitying a lot of times,but it didn`t quite bother me because of the sexual tension between her and Matthew dominated too much of the romance for me to even care.We get much of Matthew`s POV also,and i loved the strange vulnerability we saw through his heart,and his obvious smitten behaviour really melted my heart.He was such a sweet alpha-male,and I thought the combination of it to be so irresistible.I love the way he is after her,and the epiluge was totally sweet!"Out of the Night" is another keeper by PJ!
September 4, 2017
Re Out of the Night - Penny Jordan is back with a really sweet story that features a totally dingbat h and a very sweet H that only wants to lurve her forever. But our h just isn't seeing that cause she was too busy living out her seekrit Tarty McTartlett fantasy and then it all backfired.
The H and h meet when they get stranded together in a big snowstorm and the H has to rescue her in his trusty Range Rover - the nice kind with heated leather seats and walnut paneling. It is cold, the H has a little h lecture moment over her lack of suitable snow clothing and the H is also really, really handsome. Since the h is really the shy domestic engineer type and not the adventuring woman conquer the world type, she has a bit of inner insecurity as she thinks her family looks down on her.
However huddled up with Mr. Delectable H in the middle of a raging blizzard leads her mind down strange pathways and Mr. Delectable H manages to score a big hit lurve club mojo with the h in the dark of the lonely night. It is fabulous, so fabulous that the h is mortified and embarrassed and lies about her name before she vanishes for what she thinks is forever. This is PJ's HPlandia tho, so we know it is really a parting only until the next chapter.
The h returns to her uncle's home where she is general dogsbody and research assistant on Ancient Egypt and is soon settled back into her normal household routine. Then her uncle brings a colleague home to stay for a while and guess who is now being showed into the guest room accompanied by a pink cheeked and near fainting h? Yep, it is Mr. Delectable H himself and the h is so flustered when he questions her lurve em and leave him actions that the h just has to lie.
She tells him she is engaged to a man who is actually her sister's fiance. Cause that just makes so much sense in the h's newly acquired Tarty McTarlet channeling. Instead of her just brazening it out and admitting that she had a one night fantasy of twisting Mr. Delectable H into a lurve club pretzel but she doesn't want to do it again. This throws the H, cause he wants more lurve club mojo pretzel twisting and so a game of cat and mouse in the nicest possible way begins. Especially when the h's sister and the man who is really her fiance show up and the H quickly realizes he has been fibbed to by the h.
This H may be sweet, but he isn't dumb and so to save the h some imagined humiliation over having her sister steal her pretend man, the H announces their engagement. This totally ruins the h's little inner fantasy Tarty McTartlett impersonation and after some more roofie kisses and fibs and gardening and homemaking duties, the h confesses that she loves the H and since we already know he is mad about her, they finally agree to make the engagement a real one for the big PJ HEA.
This one is sweet, but the h is truly very dingy, she just can't help herself and luckily the H was there to help her out. This one is a good read if you can get over the h and it is fairly funny too, tho it probably isn't nice to laugh at a girl who is so mixed up. I did like how she at least tried to be a Tartlett, even tho she wasn't very good at it and it got her the Mr. Delectable in the end so it was a good PJ HP outing.
The H and h meet when they get stranded together in a big snowstorm and the H has to rescue her in his trusty Range Rover - the nice kind with heated leather seats and walnut paneling. It is cold, the H has a little h lecture moment over her lack of suitable snow clothing and the H is also really, really handsome. Since the h is really the shy domestic engineer type and not the adventuring woman conquer the world type, she has a bit of inner insecurity as she thinks her family looks down on her.
However huddled up with Mr. Delectable H in the middle of a raging blizzard leads her mind down strange pathways and Mr. Delectable H manages to score a big hit lurve club mojo with the h in the dark of the lonely night. It is fabulous, so fabulous that the h is mortified and embarrassed and lies about her name before she vanishes for what she thinks is forever. This is PJ's HPlandia tho, so we know it is really a parting only until the next chapter.
The h returns to her uncle's home where she is general dogsbody and research assistant on Ancient Egypt and is soon settled back into her normal household routine. Then her uncle brings a colleague home to stay for a while and guess who is now being showed into the guest room accompanied by a pink cheeked and near fainting h? Yep, it is Mr. Delectable H himself and the h is so flustered when he questions her lurve em and leave him actions that the h just has to lie.
She tells him she is engaged to a man who is actually her sister's fiance. Cause that just makes so much sense in the h's newly acquired Tarty McTarlet channeling. Instead of her just brazening it out and admitting that she had a one night fantasy of twisting Mr. Delectable H into a lurve club pretzel but she doesn't want to do it again. This throws the H, cause he wants more lurve club mojo pretzel twisting and so a game of cat and mouse in the nicest possible way begins. Especially when the h's sister and the man who is really her fiance show up and the H quickly realizes he has been fibbed to by the h.
This H may be sweet, but he isn't dumb and so to save the h some imagined humiliation over having her sister steal her pretend man, the H announces their engagement. This totally ruins the h's little inner fantasy Tarty McTartlett impersonation and after some more roofie kisses and fibs and gardening and homemaking duties, the h confesses that she loves the H and since we already know he is mad about her, they finally agree to make the engagement a real one for the big PJ HEA.
This one is sweet, but the h is truly very dingy, she just can't help herself and luckily the H was there to help her out. This one is a good read if you can get over the h and it is fairly funny too, tho it probably isn't nice to laugh at a girl who is so mixed up. I did like how she at least tried to be a Tartlett, even tho she wasn't very good at it and it got her the Mr. Delectable in the end so it was a good PJ HP outing.
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January 14, 2020
This was a departure from the majority of Penny Jordan's pre-1990s romances in that the author gives readers access to the hero's point of view and, instead of her usual alpha, Penny Jordan introduces one of the first of her many wonderful and gentle beta heroes.
I really liked how besotted Matt was and how patient he was with Emily—to the point of earning him a sainthood IMO. Emily's low-self esteem led to the Big and Terrible Misunderstanding.
If you're familiar with this author you'll be familiar then with her tendency to write heroines who sometimes can be extremely insecure and therefore annoying, but my tolerance for this one must have been high as I ended up enjoying the book overall!
I really liked how besotted Matt was and how patient he was with Emily—to the point of earning him a sainthood IMO. Emily's low-self esteem led to the Big and Terrible Misunderstanding.
If you're familiar with this author you'll be familiar then with her tendency to write heroines who sometimes can be extremely insecure and therefore annoying, but my tolerance for this one must have been high as I ended up enjoying the book overall!
March 25, 2019
"Out of the Night" is the story of Emily and Matt.
Our h and H meet when one night, they both get stranded on a range rover due to a snow storm. They end up sharing more than body heat, and have an insane night of passion. Next day, they go their separate ways, both believing the other does not want to take things further. The h was a virgin, and gave the H her second, less known name, hence he has no ways of tracing her.
We move to one month later.
The h and H meet. The h pretends to be engaged to her sister's fiance and that the night meant nothing. The H keeps trying to pursue and seduce her, but she keeps pushing him away.
Both have reasons to be wary, thanks to their exes- the h's ex played a cruel joke on her by trying to seduce her due to a bet, the H's ex cheated on him before their wedding. Both suffer in VAIN, running away and wasting time until the h's vivacious sister comes and reveals the truth. They have confession time and find their HEA.
Pfft.
Super naive/ stupid/ Mary Sue heroine who spends the whole book wallowing in self pity and being scared. She wants to be a homebody, hates adventures and is a giant wuss.
The H is a sweet beta hero who keeps pursuing this giant wall of idiocy.
It just dragged on at points and got on my nerves.
Safe
2/5
Our h and H meet when one night, they both get stranded on a range rover due to a snow storm. They end up sharing more than body heat, and have an insane night of passion. Next day, they go their separate ways, both believing the other does not want to take things further. The h was a virgin, and gave the H her second, less known name, hence he has no ways of tracing her.
We move to one month later.
The h and H meet. The h pretends to be engaged to her sister's fiance and that the night meant nothing. The H keeps trying to pursue and seduce her, but she keeps pushing him away.
Both have reasons to be wary, thanks to their exes- the h's ex played a cruel joke on her by trying to seduce her due to a bet, the H's ex cheated on him before their wedding. Both suffer in VAIN, running away and wasting time until the h's vivacious sister comes and reveals the truth. They have confession time and find their HEA.
Pfft.
Super naive/ stupid/ Mary Sue heroine who spends the whole book wallowing in self pity and being scared. She wants to be a homebody, hates adventures and is a giant wuss.
The H is a sweet beta hero who keeps pursuing this giant wall of idiocy.
It just dragged on at points and got on my nerves.
Safe
2/5
February 28, 2017
I loved this! I am a hardcore Jordan fan and her books never fail me. This hero was different than her other heroes though. He was sweet, gentle, kind and beta. Not your usual alpha Penny Jordan hero. Heroine was insecure and she caused many misunderstandings but I loved the angst and how vulnerable she was. Loving characters and a really sweet ending!
May 18, 2020
There was nothing else she could do
Stranded in a border-hills snowstorm, Emily Blacklaw had to accept the handsome stranger's offer of help--even though it meant sharing the warmth of Matt Slater's sleeping bag.
It was a turning point for Emily, and the desires and passions they'd shared haunted her through the days and months that followed.
Now Matt was back--and living in the same house. And Emily found it difficult to reject Matt's demands, especially since they were the same demands she secretly harbored..
Stranded in a border-hills snowstorm, Emily Blacklaw had to accept the handsome stranger's offer of help--even though it meant sharing the warmth of Matt Slater's sleeping bag.
It was a turning point for Emily, and the desires and passions they'd shared haunted her through the days and months that followed.
Now Matt was back--and living in the same house. And Emily found it difficult to reject Matt's demands, especially since they were the same demands she secretly harbored..
May 21, 2018
I loved the sweetness of this book.
There was no other woman/man. No angst. No big drama. Just two people who had to work out the truth about their feelings for each other. And for two intelligent people, it took them a long time. Lol
Penny Jordan’s writing never disappoints. She will always be my favorite Harlequin/Mills & Boon author. She may be gone, but her work will keep us happy for years to come.
There was no other woman/man. No angst. No big drama. Just two people who had to work out the truth about their feelings for each other. And for two intelligent people, it took them a long time. Lol
Penny Jordan’s writing never disappoints. She will always be my favorite Harlequin/Mills & Boon author. She may be gone, but her work will keep us happy for years to come.
December 22, 2014
I’ve obviously read far too many Penny Jordan romances, because when I first started this one (and met Emily, stranded in the snow and about to be rescued by the darkly forbidding hero) I thought I’d read it before. It turns out it’s just remarkably similar to at least three other Jordan romances where the heroine gets caught out in the snow and rescued by (you’ve guessed it!) a darkly forbidding hero.
This particular darkly forbidding hero (Matt) rescues her in his land rover, berates her for a while for being so stupid as to try and drive over the moors in the snow whilst “dressed for a city disco” and then deflowers her in the back of his land rover. (I’ll just put in at this point that my husband has a land rover and that’s the last thing you’d want to get up to in the back of one - they're not even comfortable to drive, never mind sleep in...) However, for Emily, it’s a life-changing experience – not least because it frees her up from her normal stolid self to tell a few fibs, change her name and act in a manner which is totally out of character.
Once the snow has melted though, it’s back to her normal boring life, being a secretary-cum-researcher-cum-housekeeper-cum-slave to her Uncle John, whilst simultaneously making the unreadable book he’s written somewhat more approachable for a reading public. She’s quite happily plodding along doing this when – who would have guessed it – Matt turns up again as the new academic in town and moves in to Uncle John’s house, leaving him free to harass her, uncover the fact that she’s told him a pack of lies, lie a bit to her himself before coercing her into an engagement with him.
Yes, it’s ridiculous – but what struck me most about it is how Jordan’s heroines always end up victims of situations entirely of their own making. Emily could have made life easy for herself by (a) not telling him a pack of lies in the first place; (b) not being so soppy that she ends up accepting his proposal because she’s too polite to know how to turn him down and extricate herself from this situation without losing face. However, after reading I don’t know how many of these romances, I’ve noticed that all of Jordan’s heroines are too polite to stand up for themselves and virtually all of them end up in situations like this because they don’t know how to say no.
This isn’t a great example of Jordan’s work, but it’s readable and funny in places. Worth it if you are (like me) a hardcore Jordan fan.
This particular darkly forbidding hero (Matt) rescues her in his land rover, berates her for a while for being so stupid as to try and drive over the moors in the snow whilst “dressed for a city disco” and then deflowers her in the back of his land rover. (I’ll just put in at this point that my husband has a land rover and that’s the last thing you’d want to get up to in the back of one - they're not even comfortable to drive, never mind sleep in...) However, for Emily, it’s a life-changing experience – not least because it frees her up from her normal stolid self to tell a few fibs, change her name and act in a manner which is totally out of character.
Once the snow has melted though, it’s back to her normal boring life, being a secretary-cum-researcher-cum-housekeeper-cum-slave to her Uncle John, whilst simultaneously making the unreadable book he’s written somewhat more approachable for a reading public. She’s quite happily plodding along doing this when – who would have guessed it – Matt turns up again as the new academic in town and moves in to Uncle John’s house, leaving him free to harass her, uncover the fact that she’s told him a pack of lies, lie a bit to her himself before coercing her into an engagement with him.
Yes, it’s ridiculous – but what struck me most about it is how Jordan’s heroines always end up victims of situations entirely of their own making. Emily could have made life easy for herself by (a) not telling him a pack of lies in the first place; (b) not being so soppy that she ends up accepting his proposal because she’s too polite to know how to turn him down and extricate herself from this situation without losing face. However, after reading I don’t know how many of these romances, I’ve noticed that all of Jordan’s heroines are too polite to stand up for themselves and virtually all of them end up in situations like this because they don’t know how to say no.
This isn’t a great example of Jordan’s work, but it’s readable and funny in places. Worth it if you are (like me) a hardcore Jordan fan.
March 24, 2017
Emily is a bit of a dweeb, so when she gets stranded with a hotty in the middle of a snowstorm, she gets a bit carried away. Then she has second thoughts and starts telling lies to Matt never thinking that she would have to see him again.
Which of course she does. Matt turns out to be the new hotty in town and a colleague to her academic uncle who she slaves for in ninety different ways. This is a hero in pursuit story but Matt isn't one of those jerkface alpha's. He's a nice guy and if Emily had been such a dweeb and started lying, she would have saved herself no end of trouble. But then the book would have ended at the end of chapter two.
Fun story with a satisfactory ending.
Which of course she does. Matt turns out to be the new hotty in town and a colleague to her academic uncle who she slaves for in ninety different ways. This is a hero in pursuit story but Matt isn't one of those jerkface alpha's. He's a nice guy and if Emily had been such a dweeb and started lying, she would have saved herself no end of trouble. But then the book would have ended at the end of chapter two.
Fun story with a satisfactory ending.
March 27, 2021
3.75 stars
I like that the hero in this book helps the heroine with "domestic" chores and verbalizes that he doesn't like how his mentor/her uncle expects her to act as an unpaid housekeeper. He cleans up after himself and does yard work to show his appreciation to the uncle for staying with him. A thoughtful guest is A+ in my book!
The plot is that the MCs meet when the H rescues the h during a snowstorm and they end up sharing a sleeping bag and have a ONS. The introverted heroine has trauma from a failed/fake relationship in college and withdrew into herself. Sleeping with the H was very uncharacteristic of her but she was swept away by desire for him. Weeks later, the H returns to her life as a guest of her uncle's. She tells him she's engaged to keep him at a distance. Over a period of a few weeks, they get to know each other better but the h maintains her lies to keep him at a distance. There's a wee bit of slut-shaming because the H thinks the h is a cheater and he knows he was her first and he's tormented that their ONS meant more to him than her. A little communication could have cleared up all their misunderstandings fairly quickly but then there wouldn't be a book. I don't love books where the main conflict can be solved with one honest conversation but overall, this was a pleasant way to pass time.
I like that the hero in this book helps the heroine with "domestic" chores and verbalizes that he doesn't like how his mentor/her uncle expects her to act as an unpaid housekeeper. He cleans up after himself and does yard work to show his appreciation to the uncle for staying with him. A thoughtful guest is A+ in my book!
The plot is that the MCs meet when the H rescues the h during a snowstorm and they end up sharing a sleeping bag and have a ONS. The introverted heroine has trauma from a failed/fake relationship in college and withdrew into herself. Sleeping with the H was very uncharacteristic of her but she was swept away by desire for him. Weeks later, the H returns to her life as a guest of her uncle's. She tells him she's engaged to keep him at a distance. Over a period of a few weeks, they get to know each other better but the h maintains her lies to keep him at a distance. There's a wee bit of slut-shaming because the H thinks the h is a cheater and he knows he was her first and he's tormented that their ONS meant more to him than her. A little communication could have cleared up all their misunderstandings fairly quickly but then there wouldn't be a book. I don't love books where the main conflict can be solved with one honest conversation but overall, this was a pleasant way to pass time.
April 24, 2022
I like PJ & sometimes I just don’t... The heroine came off whiny in the opening scene. Ranting about her lack of love life/beauty/personality/passion/goals/Gerry. She was low-key jealous of her pretty sister, moreover she was kind of annoyed with her adventurous parents, too.
It gets worst when the hero is introduced in the next page or so. Maybe, just maybe I would much enjoy it have we not got the hero’s POV. He was cranky, instantly calling her an idiot/idiotic woman. He kept parroting it to her in like every other sentence and several more times to her face & some extra times in his head. We kind of see that hero has slight hang ups on his ex-fiancee, meanwhile heroine stopped being whiny but then she started acting on lusty instincts. Yikes! The ONS was horrible, it just didn’t align with neither characters at this point. Even if they were in the mood/feeling spontaneous, it was more desperate/cringy than anything. They both came off desperate in a sorry way, acting like teenagers. She was eager to take the cake when it was offered without a sense of anything.
Although, truth be told, it was about time homegirl got laid, she was started to sound bitter with all that restless energy going about in her head.
It gets worst when the hero is introduced in the next page or so. Maybe, just maybe I would much enjoy it have we not got the hero’s POV. He was cranky, instantly calling her an idiot/idiotic woman. He kept parroting it to her in like every other sentence and several more times to her face & some extra times in his head. We kind of see that hero has slight hang ups on his ex-fiancee, meanwhile heroine stopped being whiny but then she started acting on lusty instincts. Yikes! The ONS was horrible, it just didn’t align with neither characters at this point. Even if they were in the mood/feeling spontaneous, it was more desperate/cringy than anything. They both came off desperate in a sorry way, acting like teenagers. She was eager to take the cake when it was offered without a sense of anything.
Although, truth be told, it was about time homegirl got laid, she was started to sound bitter with all that restless energy going about in her head.
July 13, 2020
It was really the most absurd book I have ever read. Here is an example of the absurdity. The H knows he is her first lover and obviously the h knows it as well as she was the one who consented to have sex and she knows she hasn't had previous lovers. They just go round and round in circles not admitting this simple fact with each other! “If she couldn’t bring herself to admit to him that he was her first lover, then there was no way he could force that knowledge on her.”
With two idiots as protagonists, you can't have anything but an absurd plot line with idiotic twists. Very famously on learning that a man actually stands to gain money to sleep with her, she actually pays him when he sneers at her for not turning him on rather than thanking her stars and throwing him out! I can't believe this book has been rated over 3 stars on average by other readers!!!
With two idiots as protagonists, you can't have anything but an absurd plot line with idiotic twists. Very famously on learning that a man actually stands to gain money to sleep with her, she actually pays him when he sneers at her for not turning him on rather than thanking her stars and throwing him out! I can't believe this book has been rated over 3 stars on average by other readers!!!
May 19, 2022
This h lies a lot and she assumes a lot.
Penny Jordan always writes a lot about her h’s inner world, her thoughts and feelings. I skimmed those parts.
The H is a nice beta H. I don’t know why he fell in love with this lying woman. I can’t imagine falling in love with a man who tells me so many lies and who insults me the way this h does.
It’s an okay read. A bit boring at times. Not one of Penny Jordan’s best in my opinion.
Penny Jordan always writes a lot about her h’s inner world, her thoughts and feelings. I skimmed those parts.
The H is a nice beta H. I don’t know why he fell in love with this lying woman. I can’t imagine falling in love with a man who tells me so many lies and who insults me the way this h does.
It’s an okay read. A bit boring at times. Not one of Penny Jordan’s best in my opinion.
June 9, 2018
Boring story, boring characters, no events and long monologue. I stopped reading at 85%.
September 28, 2018
It was okay, kind of boring.
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May 17, 2020
Sympathetic characters but we spend too much time inside Emily's head, as author tells the story by telling us what Emily thinks.
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January 31, 2018amazing book
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