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Permission to Love
True love needs no approval
Lucas had always urged Lindsay to take charge of her own life, even though it meant defying her father's wishes. All that changed, however, the day Lucas was left in charge of Lindsay's inheritance--and her fate.
Quite suddenly Lucas withdrew his support and directed Lindsay to marry according to her father's will. He made it painfully clear that Lindsay could no longer turn to him for warmth and affection.
But by the time she'd resigned herself to a future without passion with a man she did not love, Lucas changed his mind again.
Lucas had always urged Lindsay to take charge of her own life, even though it meant defying her father's wishes. All that changed, however, the day Lucas was left in charge of Lindsay's inheritance--and her fate.
Quite suddenly Lucas withdrew his support and directed Lindsay to marry according to her father's will. He made it painfully clear that Lindsay could no longer turn to him for warmth and affection.
But by the time she'd resigned herself to a future without passion with a man she did not love, Lucas changed his mind again.
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 13, 1985
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Penny Jordan
1,125 books666 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 25, 2016
Re Permission to Love or Seven Years of Celibacy Makes an HP H REALLY Cranky.
Yep, that is right PJ does the unthinkable, she gives us an H whose Mighty Club of Lurve is the little noodle of doodle. This unfortunate state of events was caused when the H looked at the h at 17 and realized she was not a child, but a woman --and it thrust him into a nightmare of unrelieved lust and longing. Even marriage to a hot-blooded vixen with more moves than the English Rugby team could not give rise to his Tower of Power.
Is it any wonder the H is really, really Mr. Crankypants for 155 pages of this book? The poor man was about to expire from sheer frustration and being the typical HPlandia H in ever other way, he is NOT in a good mood. And it really is all the h's fault. Rule #1 is definitively proven in this one.
The h is an orphan whose mum died when she was seven and all she had was her beloved, but srsly messed up father. Since her mum abandoned the Landed Gentry to marry her beloved, the h's dad. Then died right as he was on the brink of glorious financial success without ever sampling the fruits of his labors - the H's dad has told the h all her life that she has to marry into the "Right" social circles. This means a title, or at least an estate that has been in the family since Cromwell - if not earlier.
After mum died, the h's dad married his housekeeper three years later and the h got a new mum figure she really liked along with a step-brother she adored. The dad liked him too, and the h feels that her beloved step-brother, now Mr. Crankypants H, was the son he always wanted. She likes that they are all so happy together and the only shadow on her horizon is her dad keeps trying to ship her off to finishing school and she wants to go to University instead.
But in the Shire of PJ parents are obstacles to be removed as quickly as possible, and when the h was 16, dear old dad and wonderful step mum were moved to another plane of existence. Leaving the h lonely and bereft, as her adored step-brother morphed overnight into Mr. Crankypants and even worse, married the local town upper class good time girl in part to disperse the gossip that he and the h were having an illicit relationship. The new Vixen wife, who spread the rumors to begin with and has NO love for the h, soon drives her out of her own home and then proceeds to call in the decorators from Hades to ruin the lovely ambiance of the family homestead.
To make things even more dire for our lovely innocent h, Dear old dad put it in his will that the h will have no control of her inheritance, Mr. Crankypants will manage it, until she marries a man her dad would approve of (meaning a certain Upper Social Circle type,) and then all that lovely lucre will go to the Classy fortune hunter, er lucky guy.
What a dad this one is to be sure, with all the loses and the appearance of the Vixen and Mr.
Crankypants, the h finally gets some gumption and runs away to London. There she exists, with the requisite grotty flat and eating beans from a tin, until the Mr. Crankypants hunts her down and buys her a nice Regency flat with a suitably appropriate roommate.
The now 24 yr old h gets herself a job selling shares in a manged UK mutual fund (a Unit Trust), and is actually making a pretty good living - turns out she is REALLY good at business. Hopeless at men of course, (she has TERRIBLE taste in men, but this IS PJ, so we just have to roll with it.)
The h even gets herself engaged - to the dad approved RIGHT sort of man - she doesn't love him and his kisses remind her of a Dover Sole, but she has lots of toning blouses to go with her skirts to worry about, (pretty much every chapter has her picking out a top that is "toning" with her skirt,) and she is doing great at her job - which her fiance wants her to give up when they marry.
This is a cause for concern with the h, as is the fact that she can't stand her new fiance's parents. The h flat out states that her fiance is marrying her for her money, but since she can't seem to feel anything but a vague affection for any man anyways, she figures she may as well do what daddy wanted. Mr. Crankypants already tried to marry her off to one of the local landowner's son around her home village. Which was another reason she went to London.
The bigger cause for the h's concern is that she has to take her new fiance to meet Mr. Crankypants, his approval is needed in order for the h's inheritance to be released. She makes arrangements to vist Mr. C and his Vixen wife over the weekend, but the fiance backs out at the last minute - supposedly to see a client, but who knows what Mr. Fish Kisser is really up to? The h winds up going alone and when she arrives, no one is there to meet her.
The h is puzzled but makes herself at home, it IS still her home - she and Mr. C own it jointly - no matter what the Vixen wife says and does. Then Mr. C shows up and he and the h get into it over her new Fish Kisser fiance. Mr. C is really mean and taunting and the h just wants some peace, but she manages to hold her own with Mr. C's verbal barbs, at least until it is time to go to bed.
The h gets another shock when Mr. C tells her that the Vixen and he are divorced. The h takes in Mr. C's shattered appearance and believes that he is mourning the loss of his true Vixen love. Apparently she cheated on Mr. C - and the h just doesn't understand THAT.
The h is wandering around, planning on abandoning the family homestead first thing in the AM, when she hears Mr. C in distress - she goes to check and finds Mr. C in the grip of a recurrent Raging African Fever - a remainder of Mr. C's boyhood in Africa which intermittently reoccurs when Mr. C is under severe stress. Mr. C is rambling about a business contract and calling the h's name and making grabby hands when the h gets too near.
As she is sponging down the manly chest of Mr. C - per the Dr.'s strict instructions- it occurs to her that she is really, really hot and it isn't because they have no air-conditioning. She is in love with Mr. C - no matter how cranky he may be to her, she can't help herself. This makes sponging away the fever a trial of h endurance and it is with some relief that Mr. C. pulls her into bed with him and the punishing kisses commence.
Mr. C really is too ill to do anything major tho and the h is horrified at her wantonness, she wants to run away, but she has a manly chest to sponge, er, a family duty to nurse Mr. C, the housekeeper is off to her car crashed sister and there just isn't anyone else. She takes a week off work to make sure she gets all the sponging done.
Mr. C gradually comes out of his African Raging Fever delirium and the h breathes a sigh of thankfulness when it appears that he has no memory of sponging or punishing kisses. Mr. C needs her to stay to play hostess to a Very Important American Client. He tells her he will have to reduce hours for a third of the family business's workforce if this deal doesn't go through, and emotional blackmail is a guaranteed PJ h manipulation device, so the h goes off to sort the guest suite out.
Mr. C. taunts her with her passionate response to his punishing kisses as she is set to play hostess, so the h now has to contend with an ill Mr. C, an unknown guest and total neurosis over the H knowing she is wanting to do more sponging. This makes for a tense, anxious h and when the VIAP arrives, he thinks she is Mr. C's wife instead of his stepsister and the anxiety tension ratchets up a bit higher.
Mr. C actually seems happy for some reason, but the h is a neurotic mess. Mr. C quickly gets cranky again when he finds out the h was visiting the old family friend solicitor, he thinks she is trying to overturn dear old dad's will to get her inheritance - she really went to talk to the old family friend about her love for Mr. C.
The Very Important American Client is so happy with the new business deal and the h's scones, that he wants to take the charming couple out to dinner. They go and then more disaster strikes. The h and Mr. C and VIAC run into the woman Fish Kisser's family really wanted him to marry. When she imposes herself at their table, making sheep eyes at Mr. C in a way too tight dress, VIAC mentions that Mr. C and the h are married. The h knows she is in for it now, cause Fish Kisser doesn't know that she is planning to throw him back and cut bait.
The VIAC leaves, Mr. C gets crankier, and the h knows she has to go break up with Fish Kisser. She is girding her loins, trying not think of sponging, when Fish Kisser shows at the family homestead and Mr. C sweeps the towel clad h into his arms right in front of Fish Kisser. Who promptly accuses the h of having an affair under his nose and in his rage to accuse, taunts the h that Mr. C would only be marrying her for her money - forgetting that her money is the inducement for him too. He rages off and that Fish Kisser is now chum, and thus no longer important to the story.
The h and Mr. C get into a big fight and of course they wind up in bed and the Mighty Club of Love is Back. Is is the best, ever. Then the H (he is sorta nice now that that the noodle is no longer a doodle,) has to go take care of business and the Vixen shows up.
In her rush to leave the unpleasant company of Mr. C - who never sexed her fabulous Vixen self up in four years of marriage, to her intense frustration - she left behind all the glorious sparkly jewels she acquired from other lovers over the course of her marriage to Mr. C and so she needs to collect them. With a parting shot that Mr. C was permanently impotent, will never be able to make love to a real woman and it was all the h's fault, she takes off and the h once again girds her loins.
After another visit with the old family friend solicitor, who swears the H loves only her, the h is planning to emphasize just how much sponging she wants to do with the H in the future. She finds another toning top for her skirt and makes a nice dinner with the special china and confesses her true love. Mr. C is back in the H's place and he firmly rejects her tender loving care and any possible future sponging.
The h leaves, heartbroken, but after the tears are shed, she is ready to force Mr. C to disavow his love verbatim - she heads back to the family homestead and finds Mr. C passed out in bed. She strips everybody naked, preps the sponge and basin for just in case, and climbs into bed. Mr. C wakes up to a delicious armful of sweetly scented h and the H is back with his Tower of Power amping out the wattage.
There is passionate kissing and lots of sponging, among other things, and true love is avowed in spite of dear old dad's wishes. They marry and the final gift is a letter from dear old dad delivered by the old family friend solicitor - seems DOD had a change of heart before he died and left a letter giving his blessing and hoping that his two beloved children would make a match of it. Seems the H was just the "right" type of man DOD wanted after all.
With great joy and kissing and plenty of sponging on the agenda, we leave the happy couple wringing out an HPlandia HEA once again.
Kudos to PJ on this one, HP H celibacy is very rare, and the fact that he stayed that way since he first realized he was in love with the h, even through a marriage to a OW, makes his meanness pretty forgivable.
PJ goes that extra mile to make us understand that he is truly into the h in a major way - so this book is a true win in spite of the very odd plotting and machinations. It has a certain charm that is frequently missing in other forays into HPlandia. Take a chance on this one if you like PJ or just like H's to not be sampling the endless HP OW buffet - it is worth the read for the novelty alone.
Yep, that is right PJ does the unthinkable, she gives us an H whose Mighty Club of Lurve is the little noodle of doodle. This unfortunate state of events was caused when the H looked at the h at 17 and realized she was not a child, but a woman --and it thrust him into a nightmare of unrelieved lust and longing. Even marriage to a hot-blooded vixen with more moves than the English Rugby team could not give rise to his Tower of Power.
Is it any wonder the H is really, really Mr. Crankypants for 155 pages of this book? The poor man was about to expire from sheer frustration and being the typical HPlandia H in ever other way, he is NOT in a good mood. And it really is all the h's fault. Rule #1 is definitively proven in this one.
The h is an orphan whose mum died when she was seven and all she had was her beloved, but srsly messed up father. Since her mum abandoned the Landed Gentry to marry her beloved, the h's dad. Then died right as he was on the brink of glorious financial success without ever sampling the fruits of his labors - the H's dad has told the h all her life that she has to marry into the "Right" social circles. This means a title, or at least an estate that has been in the family since Cromwell - if not earlier.
After mum died, the h's dad married his housekeeper three years later and the h got a new mum figure she really liked along with a step-brother she adored. The dad liked him too, and the h feels that her beloved step-brother, now Mr. Crankypants H, was the son he always wanted. She likes that they are all so happy together and the only shadow on her horizon is her dad keeps trying to ship her off to finishing school and she wants to go to University instead.
But in the Shire of PJ parents are obstacles to be removed as quickly as possible, and when the h was 16, dear old dad and wonderful step mum were moved to another plane of existence. Leaving the h lonely and bereft, as her adored step-brother morphed overnight into Mr. Crankypants and even worse, married the local town upper class good time girl in part to disperse the gossip that he and the h were having an illicit relationship. The new Vixen wife, who spread the rumors to begin with and has NO love for the h, soon drives her out of her own home and then proceeds to call in the decorators from Hades to ruin the lovely ambiance of the family homestead.
To make things even more dire for our lovely innocent h, Dear old dad put it in his will that the h will have no control of her inheritance, Mr. Crankypants will manage it, until she marries a man her dad would approve of (meaning a certain Upper Social Circle type,) and then all that lovely lucre will go to the Classy fortune hunter, er lucky guy.
What a dad this one is to be sure, with all the loses and the appearance of the Vixen and Mr.
Crankypants, the h finally gets some gumption and runs away to London. There she exists, with the requisite grotty flat and eating beans from a tin, until the Mr. Crankypants hunts her down and buys her a nice Regency flat with a suitably appropriate roommate.
The now 24 yr old h gets herself a job selling shares in a manged UK mutual fund (a Unit Trust), and is actually making a pretty good living - turns out she is REALLY good at business. Hopeless at men of course, (she has TERRIBLE taste in men, but this IS PJ, so we just have to roll with it.)
The h even gets herself engaged - to the dad approved RIGHT sort of man - she doesn't love him and his kisses remind her of a Dover Sole, but she has lots of toning blouses to go with her skirts to worry about, (pretty much every chapter has her picking out a top that is "toning" with her skirt,) and she is doing great at her job - which her fiance wants her to give up when they marry.
This is a cause for concern with the h, as is the fact that she can't stand her new fiance's parents. The h flat out states that her fiance is marrying her for her money, but since she can't seem to feel anything but a vague affection for any man anyways, she figures she may as well do what daddy wanted. Mr. Crankypants already tried to marry her off to one of the local landowner's son around her home village. Which was another reason she went to London.
The bigger cause for the h's concern is that she has to take her new fiance to meet Mr. Crankypants, his approval is needed in order for the h's inheritance to be released. She makes arrangements to vist Mr. C and his Vixen wife over the weekend, but the fiance backs out at the last minute - supposedly to see a client, but who knows what Mr. Fish Kisser is really up to? The h winds up going alone and when she arrives, no one is there to meet her.
The h is puzzled but makes herself at home, it IS still her home - she and Mr. C own it jointly - no matter what the Vixen wife says and does. Then Mr. C shows up and he and the h get into it over her new Fish Kisser fiance. Mr. C is really mean and taunting and the h just wants some peace, but she manages to hold her own with Mr. C's verbal barbs, at least until it is time to go to bed.
The h gets another shock when Mr. C tells her that the Vixen and he are divorced. The h takes in Mr. C's shattered appearance and believes that he is mourning the loss of his true Vixen love. Apparently she cheated on Mr. C - and the h just doesn't understand THAT.
The h is wandering around, planning on abandoning the family homestead first thing in the AM, when she hears Mr. C in distress - she goes to check and finds Mr. C in the grip of a recurrent Raging African Fever - a remainder of Mr. C's boyhood in Africa which intermittently reoccurs when Mr. C is under severe stress. Mr. C is rambling about a business contract and calling the h's name and making grabby hands when the h gets too near.
As she is sponging down the manly chest of Mr. C - per the Dr.'s strict instructions- it occurs to her that she is really, really hot and it isn't because they have no air-conditioning. She is in love with Mr. C - no matter how cranky he may be to her, she can't help herself. This makes sponging away the fever a trial of h endurance and it is with some relief that Mr. C. pulls her into bed with him and the punishing kisses commence.
Mr. C really is too ill to do anything major tho and the h is horrified at her wantonness, she wants to run away, but she has a manly chest to sponge, er, a family duty to nurse Mr. C, the housekeeper is off to her car crashed sister and there just isn't anyone else. She takes a week off work to make sure she gets all the sponging done.
Mr. C gradually comes out of his African Raging Fever delirium and the h breathes a sigh of thankfulness when it appears that he has no memory of sponging or punishing kisses. Mr. C needs her to stay to play hostess to a Very Important American Client. He tells her he will have to reduce hours for a third of the family business's workforce if this deal doesn't go through, and emotional blackmail is a guaranteed PJ h manipulation device, so the h goes off to sort the guest suite out.
Mr. C. taunts her with her passionate response to his punishing kisses as she is set to play hostess, so the h now has to contend with an ill Mr. C, an unknown guest and total neurosis over the H knowing she is wanting to do more sponging. This makes for a tense, anxious h and when the VIAP arrives, he thinks she is Mr. C's wife instead of his stepsister and the anxiety tension ratchets up a bit higher.
Mr. C actually seems happy for some reason, but the h is a neurotic mess. Mr. C quickly gets cranky again when he finds out the h was visiting the old family friend solicitor, he thinks she is trying to overturn dear old dad's will to get her inheritance - she really went to talk to the old family friend about her love for Mr. C.
The Very Important American Client is so happy with the new business deal and the h's scones, that he wants to take the charming couple out to dinner. They go and then more disaster strikes. The h and Mr. C and VIAC run into the woman Fish Kisser's family really wanted him to marry. When she imposes herself at their table, making sheep eyes at Mr. C in a way too tight dress, VIAC mentions that Mr. C and the h are married. The h knows she is in for it now, cause Fish Kisser doesn't know that she is planning to throw him back and cut bait.
The VIAC leaves, Mr. C gets crankier, and the h knows she has to go break up with Fish Kisser. She is girding her loins, trying not think of sponging, when Fish Kisser shows at the family homestead and Mr. C sweeps the towel clad h into his arms right in front of Fish Kisser. Who promptly accuses the h of having an affair under his nose and in his rage to accuse, taunts the h that Mr. C would only be marrying her for her money - forgetting that her money is the inducement for him too. He rages off and that Fish Kisser is now chum, and thus no longer important to the story.
The h and Mr. C get into a big fight and of course they wind up in bed and the Mighty Club of Love is Back. Is is the best, ever. Then the H (he is sorta nice now that that the noodle is no longer a doodle,) has to go take care of business and the Vixen shows up.
In her rush to leave the unpleasant company of Mr. C - who never sexed her fabulous Vixen self up in four years of marriage, to her intense frustration - she left behind all the glorious sparkly jewels she acquired from other lovers over the course of her marriage to Mr. C and so she needs to collect them. With a parting shot that Mr. C was permanently impotent, will never be able to make love to a real woman and it was all the h's fault, she takes off and the h once again girds her loins.
After another visit with the old family friend solicitor, who swears the H loves only her, the h is planning to emphasize just how much sponging she wants to do with the H in the future. She finds another toning top for her skirt and makes a nice dinner with the special china and confesses her true love. Mr. C is back in the H's place and he firmly rejects her tender loving care and any possible future sponging.
The h leaves, heartbroken, but after the tears are shed, she is ready to force Mr. C to disavow his love verbatim - she heads back to the family homestead and finds Mr. C passed out in bed. She strips everybody naked, preps the sponge and basin for just in case, and climbs into bed. Mr. C wakes up to a delicious armful of sweetly scented h and the H is back with his Tower of Power amping out the wattage.
There is passionate kissing and lots of sponging, among other things, and true love is avowed in spite of dear old dad's wishes. They marry and the final gift is a letter from dear old dad delivered by the old family friend solicitor - seems DOD had a change of heart before he died and left a letter giving his blessing and hoping that his two beloved children would make a match of it. Seems the H was just the "right" type of man DOD wanted after all.
With great joy and kissing and plenty of sponging on the agenda, we leave the happy couple wringing out an HPlandia HEA once again.
Kudos to PJ on this one, HP H celibacy is very rare, and the fact that he stayed that way since he first realized he was in love with the h, even through a marriage to a OW, makes his meanness pretty forgivable.
PJ goes that extra mile to make us understand that he is truly into the h in a major way - so this book is a true win in spite of the very odd plotting and machinations. It has a certain charm that is frequently missing in other forays into HPlandia. Take a chance on this one if you like PJ or just like H's to not be sampling the endless HP OW buffet - it is worth the read for the novelty alone.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 2, 2017
Wow - this H/h were so entrenched in their roles of "we can't be together" that even a five page sponging scene couldn't get them past their impasse. Thank goodness for indiscreet lawyers and a heroine who was finally awake to her own feelings and could goad the hero out of his noble sacrifice.
So what am I talking about? H/h have loved each other forever. They're step-siblings 8 years apart. The heroine's father deathbed wish is that he wants the heroine to marry a title or someone in society. Hero is not of that class - so he doesn't pursue the heroine. In fact he marries in order to keep himself from the heroine. That marriage is never consummated.
Yes, hero is celibate for 7 years and is planning on remaining that way for the rest of his days if he can't have the heroine.
Of course the heroine doesn't know that. Hero is cruel to her and she's given up trying to make nice. She's decided to marry a dry old stick so she can at least have a home and family. But after sponging and nursing the hero she realizes she can't go through with it. It's the hero or nothing.
While I admire this sort of single-minded devotion, I found the story kind of depressing. Both the H/h put way too much emphasis on the dead father's wishes. It's even more ironic when the lawyer presents them with a new letter from the dead guy on the day of their wedding. Turns out he changed his mind about the title and wishes the two of them would marry. He didn't have a chance to tell them that before he died, so they wasted a lot of time.
So what am I talking about? H/h have loved each other forever. They're step-siblings 8 years apart. The heroine's father deathbed wish is that he wants the heroine to marry a title or someone in society. Hero is not of that class - so he doesn't pursue the heroine. In fact he marries in order to keep himself from the heroine. That marriage is never consummated.
Yes, hero is celibate for 7 years and is planning on remaining that way for the rest of his days if he can't have the heroine.
Of course the heroine doesn't know that. Hero is cruel to her and she's given up trying to make nice. She's decided to marry a dry old stick so she can at least have a home and family. But after sponging and nursing the hero she realizes she can't go through with it. It's the hero or nothing.
While I admire this sort of single-minded devotion, I found the story kind of depressing. Both the H/h put way too much emphasis on the dead father's wishes. It's even more ironic when the lawyer presents them with a new letter from the dead guy on the day of their wedding. Turns out he changed his mind about the title and wishes the two of them would marry. He didn't have a chance to tell them that before he died, so they wasted a lot of time.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 8, 2022
"What are you trying to do Lindsay? Convince me that we were both playing a game of make- believe? That you thought I was your precious Jeremy?'
He smiled with cruel savagery. 'Don't lie to me Lindsay, you knew exactly who I was, and what I was doing . . . and you didn't want me to stop either did you . . . Did you?' He released her chin to shake her again. The blood roared back through her veins and for a moment she thought she was going to faint.
'Lucas. . .I've got to leave here.' She was barely aware of saying the words, until his hands moved from her shoulders to her waist.
'Oh no you don't,' he denied harshly, 'You're staying here. You're not going to leave me in the lurch now Lindsay . .
***
Penny Jordan is a awesome writer when it comes to contemporary romantic novels that will melt your heart away.It was a great deal of pleasure following the beautiful heroine Lindsay and her sexy step-brother that happens to be the hero, the rich businessman Lucas Armitage.
Lucas Armitage is a wonderful hero i fell in love with at first sight.You could easily see that he loved her deeply and quite madly and i knew he had a reason for pushing Lindsay away, and i could hardly blame him.I was glad when Lindsay admitted to herself that she loves him and i rooted for her to fight for her love to him,and how easily she won.Love this book, the characters and the plot is very romantic and hot at the same time.I truly love Lucas and Lindsays deep relationship from their childhood until adulthood. Lucas is everything i wish for in a man.
He smiled with cruel savagery. 'Don't lie to me Lindsay, you knew exactly who I was, and what I was doing . . . and you didn't want me to stop either did you . . . Did you?' He released her chin to shake her again. The blood roared back through her veins and for a moment she thought she was going to faint.
'Lucas. . .I've got to leave here.' She was barely aware of saying the words, until his hands moved from her shoulders to her waist.
'Oh no you don't,' he denied harshly, 'You're staying here. You're not going to leave me in the lurch now Lindsay . .
***
Penny Jordan is a awesome writer when it comes to contemporary romantic novels that will melt your heart away.It was a great deal of pleasure following the beautiful heroine Lindsay and her sexy step-brother that happens to be the hero, the rich businessman Lucas Armitage.
Lucas Armitage is a wonderful hero i fell in love with at first sight.You could easily see that he loved her deeply and quite madly and i knew he had a reason for pushing Lindsay away, and i could hardly blame him.I was glad when Lindsay admitted to herself that she loves him and i rooted for her to fight for her love to him,and how easily she won.Love this book, the characters and the plot is very romantic and hot at the same time.I truly love Lucas and Lindsays deep relationship from their childhood until adulthood. Lucas is everything i wish for in a man.
January 11, 2020
"Permission to Love" is the story of Lindsay and Lucas.
Ooooh YES!!
An angsty stepsibling romance, with an angry but crazy in love stepbrother, the smitten and woeful stepsister, a spineless fiance, a catty wife, an empty mansion, loads of heated kisses and passionate lovemaking in the throes of feverish nightmares, inability to let go, crazy jealousy, solicitors, disapprovals, heartfelt confessions and HEA.
Absolute trainwreck but oh so sexy and delicious! I mean, he kept it in his pants for 6 YEARS to protect her and that is quite an accomplishment.
Safe for me
3.75/5
Ooooh YES!!
An angsty stepsibling romance, with an angry but crazy in love stepbrother, the smitten and woeful stepsister, a spineless fiance, a catty wife, an empty mansion, loads of heated kisses and passionate lovemaking in the throes of feverish nightmares, inability to let go, crazy jealousy, solicitors, disapprovals, heartfelt confessions and HEA.
Absolute trainwreck but oh so sexy and delicious! I mean, he kept it in his pants for 6 YEARS to protect her and that is quite an accomplishment.
Safe for me
3.75/5
January 21, 2014
SPOILERS IN HERE - This is definitely not one of Penny Jordan's best works from the 80s. Dated 1985, this one details the story of Lindsay, a rich girl who must marry the type of man her father would approve of in order to come into her inheritance. Her father is dead (Jordan novels are notable by the absence of parents - most parents are usually wiped out during the early stages of the heroine's life in some horrific and unlikely accident: plane crashes, yachts sinking, outbreaks of disease, anything, in other words, that renders the heroine alone and vulnerable is great); and therefore her step-brother, Lucas is left to be the one who judges whether her father would approve of her marriage choice. Unfortunately, there's something not quite right about Lucas - he's violent, aggressive and just plain nasty. First off, he tries to sell her off to the first bidder. Then he makes hints that he's using her inheritance himself to keep his business afloat. Next, he refuses to grant his approbation to Lindsay's choice of Jeremy (not that we can blame him there, but still... what this novel will go onto prove is that Lindsay has TERRIBLE taste in men). In the end, of course, we'll learn that Lucas is being so cruel because he loves her, and wants him for herself. (No surprise there really - it's a mills and boon after all).
This seems to be a hastily written and shambolic affair - the storyline - to be blunt - is crap. Anyone with anything about them, upon learning the terms of inheritance, would be down to the nearest solicitor and getting it sorted out. I mean, your parents don't get to dictate who you marry in this country really, even in the 1980s ... and definitely not from beyond the grave. Lindsay seems to be waking up and smelling the coffee, but every time she is tricked somehow again into falling in with Lucas's machinations. He even conveniently gets a fever at one point, to prevent her leaving and so that she has to give him a sponge bath. The fever might be real, but he seems to keep having suspicious periods of lucidity, during one of which he nearly manages to deflower her. There's an American businessman who comes to stay and Lindsay, guess what? Gets tricked into acting as the hostess and cooking meals for him as well. At one point in the story, the American originally named "Don" turns into "Sam" on p. 122, prompting the question, did the editors even read this before they sent it out?
Still, it's not all bad. Jordan does that "baring the device" thing she is so good at in her novels. Consider: ""My, my what a romantic little mind you’re hiding away under that modern exterior. Do tell me how you managed to deduce from the brief facts available to you, this marvellous theory that I’m in love with you? That was what you said wasn’t it?” he asked with cool irony. “Fantastic... Ever thought of taking up fiction writing for a living?”" These almost self-conscious asides in her work, seem to act as an almost mockery of her own genre, and raises it just that bit higher than your usual M&B. Lindsay also asks a very pertinent question at the end of Lucas, the man who is supposedly protecting her: "‘Do you really want to see me married to someone like Jeremy. Forced to make the same mistakes in my marriage that you made in yours. Only women aren’t men Lucas,’ she reminded him cruelly. ‘Their bodies don’t protect them from the consequences of their actions. Unlike yours my marriage would have to be consummated.’ p. 185 It's the single moment of lucidity Lindsay seems to have in the entire text. It's almost as if she's the one with the fever, utterly besotted with her step-brother. And that's the other thing - he's her step-brother!!! She grew up with him!!! Ewwwww. It's just wrong. NOT one of Jordan's best.
This seems to be a hastily written and shambolic affair - the storyline - to be blunt - is crap. Anyone with anything about them, upon learning the terms of inheritance, would be down to the nearest solicitor and getting it sorted out. I mean, your parents don't get to dictate who you marry in this country really, even in the 1980s ... and definitely not from beyond the grave. Lindsay seems to be waking up and smelling the coffee, but every time she is tricked somehow again into falling in with Lucas's machinations. He even conveniently gets a fever at one point, to prevent her leaving and so that she has to give him a sponge bath. The fever might be real, but he seems to keep having suspicious periods of lucidity, during one of which he nearly manages to deflower her. There's an American businessman who comes to stay and Lindsay, guess what? Gets tricked into acting as the hostess and cooking meals for him as well. At one point in the story, the American originally named "Don" turns into "Sam" on p. 122, prompting the question, did the editors even read this before they sent it out?
Still, it's not all bad. Jordan does that "baring the device" thing she is so good at in her novels. Consider: ""My, my what a romantic little mind you’re hiding away under that modern exterior. Do tell me how you managed to deduce from the brief facts available to you, this marvellous theory that I’m in love with you? That was what you said wasn’t it?” he asked with cool irony. “Fantastic... Ever thought of taking up fiction writing for a living?”" These almost self-conscious asides in her work, seem to act as an almost mockery of her own genre, and raises it just that bit higher than your usual M&B. Lindsay also asks a very pertinent question at the end of Lucas, the man who is supposedly protecting her: "‘Do you really want to see me married to someone like Jeremy. Forced to make the same mistakes in my marriage that you made in yours. Only women aren’t men Lucas,’ she reminded him cruelly. ‘Their bodies don’t protect them from the consequences of their actions. Unlike yours my marriage would have to be consummated.’ p. 185 It's the single moment of lucidity Lindsay seems to have in the entire text. It's almost as if she's the one with the fever, utterly besotted with her step-brother. And that's the other thing - he's her step-brother!!! She grew up with him!!! Ewwwww. It's just wrong. NOT one of Jordan's best.
October 4, 2022
Lots of great reviews for this one, and I have been off grid. I read this a few weeks ago and some details are fuzzy. Thank goodness I can rely on the excellent reviews of Boogenhagen, Stmargarets, Azet and many more!
Do you like step sibling romance?
OR a hero who tries hard to fight his attraction to a teenager, because you know that is a little pervy…
How about a nice dose of unrequited love?
Still on the fence? Maybe some good ole fashion celibacy will be your cuppa tea….
Not to mention that the hero is frustrated, angry, and wound so tight from wanting that he is about to explode.
Plus, you have a silly promise made to a now dead character….a vanilla om, a disgruntled ex-wife, and of course misunderstandings or wrong assumptions.
Of course the lawyer had some great advice without giving up client/lawyer privileges (although I wish he would have)…
Lindsey our heroine is lamenting over the hero and Tom the lawyer aka therapist has this gem:
'Perhaps you should try asking him,' Tom suggested mildly. 'People who ask questions have been known occasionally to get answers.'
Obviously, Tom should never try his hand at writing romance books since lack of communication is the crux to most of them.
Bottom line: another PJ winner for me!!!
Do you like step sibling romance?
OR a hero who tries hard to fight his attraction to a teenager, because you know that is a little pervy…
How about a nice dose of unrequited love?
Still on the fence? Maybe some good ole fashion celibacy will be your cuppa tea….
Not to mention that the hero is frustrated, angry, and wound so tight from wanting that he is about to explode.
Plus, you have a silly promise made to a now dead character….a vanilla om, a disgruntled ex-wife, and of course misunderstandings or wrong assumptions.
Of course the lawyer had some great advice without giving up client/lawyer privileges (although I wish he would have)…
Lindsey our heroine is lamenting over the hero and Tom the lawyer aka therapist has this gem:
'Perhaps you should try asking him,' Tom suggested mildly. 'People who ask questions have been known occasionally to get answers.'
Obviously, Tom should never try his hand at writing romance books since lack of communication is the crux to most of them.
Bottom line: another PJ winner for me!!!
August 2, 2017
3.5 stars
December 14, 2022
Classical PJ with sponge job, stubborn but celibate ❤️ H and dumb h!
April 20, 2023
Extremely indulgent PJ fluff. Easy reading with amazing MCs who had burning chemistry and hotly sparred over anything. The H was brooding and cruel and hurled the darnedest insults at the h and she fought back with integrity. The h was not a stuttering trembling mess and not either needy and impulsive. She was just perfect. I will go for a re-read!
This permission to love was a little over done. The H is guardian to his step sister and had promised the h’s father to find some other great man for her. He assumed that he could never be that man despite the h’s father loving him like a son and leaving all business empire to him. Also despite that he was obsessed with her but couldn’t quite give in to his desire when he’d given word to her father. Whatevs.
Sweet HEA with a nice surprise to put closure to this mother of a ‘permission’.
This permission to love was a little over done. The H is guardian to his step sister and had promised the h’s father to find some other great man for her. He assumed that he could never be that man despite the h’s father loving him like a son and leaving all business empire to him. Also despite that he was obsessed with her but couldn’t quite give in to his desire when he’d given word to her father. Whatevs.
Sweet HEA with a nice surprise to put closure to this mother of a ‘permission’.
November 17, 2016
Es una novelita muy antigua de Penny Jordan y terriblemente adictiva. La llevé conmigo a trabajar y no quería continuar leyendo para no "quemar" tan rápido la historia y que durara más.
El héroe es un tipo atormentado, que durante todo el libro más parece que odiara a la protagonista, porque no tiene su POV, y las cosas que dice de él la heroína te hacen dudar si la quiere o la detesta. Tal vez, ambas cosas ^_-
Luca es un tipo medio histérico, pero se ganó mi corazoncito. Otro young Marlon Brando desesperanzado y nostálgico como a mí me gustan :3
El héroe es un tipo atormentado, que durante todo el libro más parece que odiara a la protagonista, porque no tiene su POV, y las cosas que dice de él la heroína te hacen dudar si la quiere o la detesta. Tal vez, ambas cosas ^_-
Luca es un tipo medio histérico, pero se ganó mi corazoncito. Otro young Marlon Brando desesperanzado y nostálgico como a mí me gustan :3
Want to read
December 18, 2015"Permiso para amar"
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August 7, 2025E' per colpa di questo libro che mi innamorai dei forbidden a 14 anni
January 20, 2020
Angsts and passionate romance: denied love/lust; an (apparently) cruel H, married (??) to OW and a h engaged to a dull OM.
Forced proximity brings out all hidden truths: anger, jealousy, unrequited love, conflict between duty and desire.
Protagonists are step-siblings but with no blood relation
Great old school HP by one of my favorite author
Forced proximity brings out all hidden truths: anger, jealousy, unrequited love, conflict between duty and desire.
Protagonists are step-siblings but with no blood relation
Great old school HP by one of my favorite author
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 18, 2016
Just OK, wasn't too impressed with hero's reasoning 3 1/2, November 9, 2011
My thoughts: SPOILERS: I read two REALLY GREAT Penny Jordan books, then I read this one, so my review could be a little skewed. I thought the hero's reason for keeping the heroine and himself apart was kinda "ehh" and plus he was a little wishywashy/confusing. He wasn't sticking to the plan or should I say the plan he was forced to do. He loved the heroine and kissed her when she was a teenager and then after the heroine's father died and the will said that he was the guardian and heroine must marry someone with good standing, etc. he decides to forsake his love for her and even does something ultimate just to protect her, etc. However, he doesn't really do a good job because he says this and but then does that, etc. etc. I was going to give it 2 1/2 stars but I didn't because, I liked the fact that hero was SO devoted and in love with the heroine. He actually (GASP) marries someone else BUUUUTTT can't consumate because of the heroine! (Basically, the "villain" calls the hero impotent, LOL) As for the heroine, I wasn't too impressed with her either. Her reasoning for getting married was also dumb. I mean, really, you kinda know your fiance is the way he is and you really think its going to work?? Yes, i initially got this book also because it was one of those stepbrother themes, but otherwise, I only "ok" with the book and storyline. As usual with Penny Jordan, the love scenes were hot. But the story/hero's reasoning, etc. I wasn't too impressed. Also, the "unexpected surprise" from the hero's father was kind of predictable and almost just put in there so the hero/heroine doesn't feel too bad that they hooked up. Anyway, OK book. I might re-read it one more time just to see if I didn't give it a fair chance and I may have read it too fast/skimmed, but for now my rating is 3 1/2 stars.
My thoughts: SPOILERS: I read two REALLY GREAT Penny Jordan books, then I read this one, so my review could be a little skewed. I thought the hero's reason for keeping the heroine and himself apart was kinda "ehh" and plus he was a little wishywashy/confusing. He wasn't sticking to the plan or should I say the plan he was forced to do. He loved the heroine and kissed her when she was a teenager and then after the heroine's father died and the will said that he was the guardian and heroine must marry someone with good standing, etc. he decides to forsake his love for her and even does something ultimate just to protect her, etc. However, he doesn't really do a good job because he says this and but then does that, etc. etc. I was going to give it 2 1/2 stars but I didn't because, I liked the fact that hero was SO devoted and in love with the heroine. He actually (GASP) marries someone else BUUUUTTT can't consumate because of the heroine! (Basically, the "villain" calls the hero impotent, LOL) As for the heroine, I wasn't too impressed with her either. Her reasoning for getting married was also dumb. I mean, really, you kinda know your fiance is the way he is and you really think its going to work?? Yes, i initially got this book also because it was one of those stepbrother themes, but otherwise, I only "ok" with the book and storyline. As usual with Penny Jordan, the love scenes were hot. But the story/hero's reasoning, etc. I wasn't too impressed. Also, the "unexpected surprise" from the hero's father was kind of predictable and almost just put in there so the hero/heroine doesn't feel too bad that they hooked up. Anyway, OK book. I might re-read it one more time just to see if I didn't give it a fair chance and I may have read it too fast/skimmed, but for now my rating is 3 1/2 stars.
November 26, 2016
Penny Jordan az a Harlequin-írónő, akire mindig számíthatok, ha jobb fajta füzetecskét szeretnék olvasni. Most is így történt.
Egy mogorva, ám mégis kedvelhető pasi, aki elég makacsul védi azt, amit jónak hisz, és egy lány, aki majdnem hibát követ el ugyan, ami megváltoztatná az egész életét, de még időben sikerül jó döntést hoznia, és képes lesz harcolni a saját boldogságáért.
A szokásos félreértés itt is megvan, bár az olvasó számára nyilvánvaló, hogy Lucas miért viselkedik olyan furcsán Lindsey-vel. ;)
Az igaz, hogy én inkább azt vártam volna, , de így is jól meg volt írva a történet. A kémia végig érezhető a két főhős között, és a kellő izgalom és feszültség is megvolt ahhoz, hogy izgulni lehessen értük. Ez a történet 5 csillag, nem kevesebb. :)
Egy mogorva, ám mégis kedvelhető pasi, aki elég makacsul védi azt, amit jónak hisz, és egy lány, aki majdnem hibát követ el ugyan, ami megváltoztatná az egész életét, de még időben sikerül jó döntést hoznia, és képes lesz harcolni a saját boldogságáért.
A szokásos félreértés itt is megvan, bár az olvasó számára nyilvánvaló, hogy Lucas miért viselkedik olyan furcsán Lindsey-vel. ;)
Az igaz, hogy én inkább azt vártam volna, , de így is jól meg volt írva a történet. A kémia végig érezhető a két főhős között, és a kellő izgalom és feszültség is megvolt ahhoz, hogy izgulni lehessen értük. Ez a történet 5 csillag, nem kevesebb. :)
August 30, 2012
3.5 stars. I'm not sure why I didn't like this one more -- normally I really like Penny Jordan books with a plot where the hero has been in love with the heroine since childhood. This one just didn't grab me though. Maybe I've been reading too many Penny Jordans lately, but the hero's feelings seemed too obvious -- not enough emotional tension. I think also maybe I don't like it when the heroine decides she's in love too early on -- I like an imbalance where the hero is more smitten than the heroine. This was a decent story though, and maybe if I'd read it on a different day I would have liked it more.
October 26, 2019
Permission to love…his ward?
Lindsay Ferris had always thought sexy older man Lucas Armitage was on her side against her tyrannical and controlling father. Lucas had urged to live her own life and make her own choices. But that was before her father died - leaving Lucas in charge of her inheritance and all of her choices!
It seems her father’s trust in Lucas now makes him feel duty bound to honour her father’s wishes. Which means marrying a man she does not love and a life without passion… And when it comes to it, Lucas can’t consign her to this fate…not when he’s always wanted her for himself!
Lindsay Ferris had always thought sexy older man Lucas Armitage was on her side against her tyrannical and controlling father. Lucas had urged to live her own life and make her own choices. But that was before her father died - leaving Lucas in charge of her inheritance and all of her choices!
It seems her father’s trust in Lucas now makes him feel duty bound to honour her father’s wishes. Which means marrying a man she does not love and a life without passion… And when it comes to it, Lucas can’t consign her to this fate…not when he’s always wanted her for himself!
March 2, 2023
So many things went wrong with this one...
First, the story begun like an info dump all at once. We get a dull reminiscent of her childhood, a long passage of her present time to her deepest thoughts to her supposed future with her soon to be fiancé (who neither of them truly love each other but hey, they got mutual respect so it’s all good in the hood). We then dived into her career life, more family background stuff to her large inheritance, to step-bro to Gwen aka the nonexistent OW aka hero’s wife, yada yada. (Btw, these info are overly repeated throughout the book.)
Second, hero was a strange one. He barely does anything 3/4 of the book. He lay in bed sick with a reoccurring tropical fever & Lindsay played his nurse. He would come in & out of a feverish state, like 3-4 times. As the story attempts to carry on everything fell in a rabbit hole of repetitiveness. It is so bad! They all seems to say, think, do the same stuff. Heroine frequents over the same troubles & thoughts all the freaking time; seriously could have been edited out. Hero doesn’t even come off like a righteous man so why wasn’t even pursuing her now that he’s single?
Because Lindsay must marry a man who her late father would naturally approved of, Lucas was stuck in an iffy situation. Nevertheless, he soon rid of the roadside fiance to finally getting intimate with her. Yet, he was inconsistent & undetermined in his most unrequited love. He still refused to accept her at the end, therefore she really have to do all the work to really get him. But, foremost she tried & was brutally rejected before attempting one last time in that final scene. Although, let’s not forget that it happened as she found Lucas ill again before they succumbed to their mutual feelings. Oh, the consistency then!
First, the story begun like an info dump all at once. We get a dull reminiscent of her childhood, a long passage of her present time to her deepest thoughts to her supposed future with her soon to be fiancé (who neither of them truly love each other but hey, they got mutual respect so it’s all good in the hood). We then dived into her career life, more family background stuff to her large inheritance, to step-bro to Gwen aka the nonexistent OW aka hero’s wife, yada yada. (Btw, these info are overly repeated throughout the book.)
Second, hero was a strange one. He barely does anything 3/4 of the book. He lay in bed sick with a reoccurring tropical fever & Lindsay played his nurse. He would come in & out of a feverish state, like 3-4 times. As the story attempts to carry on everything fell in a rabbit hole of repetitiveness. It is so bad! They all seems to say, think, do the same stuff. Heroine frequents over the same troubles & thoughts all the freaking time; seriously could have been edited out. Hero doesn’t even come off like a righteous man so why wasn’t even pursuing her now that he’s single?
Because Lindsay must marry a man who her late father would naturally approved of, Lucas was stuck in an iffy situation. Nevertheless, he soon rid of the roadside fiance to finally getting intimate with her. Yet, he was inconsistent & undetermined in his most unrequited love. He still refused to accept her at the end, therefore she really have to do all the work to really get him. But, foremost she tried & was brutally rejected before attempting one last time in that final scene. Although, let’s not forget that it happened as she found Lucas ill again before they succumbed to their mutual feelings. Oh, the consistency then!
June 25, 2017
Non saprei come presentare questo libro. È strano che io mi trovi a scrivere una recensione, soprattutto vista la mia scriteriata reading challenge e la mia relativa fame di Harmony.
Dunque, la storia è insolita, due fratellastri senza legami di sangue che fanno sentire odore di incesto, ma in realtà è tutto legale. Lui è il classico superfigo degli Harmony, preso dalla sua vita e dagli affari e (inaspettatamente) sembra detestare lei, che è una ricca ereditiera non troppo bella con una valanga di problemi di pare mentali. Dopo un sacco di tempo lei si scopre innamorata e fa una cosa sensata! Decide di non dirglielo.
Quando lui lo scopre le tira addosso fango e insulti e lei se ne va, niente spoiler per il finale, ma è stato, diciamo, weird. Strano, ma strano come dicono gli americani.
Lei non fa altro che soffrire come un cane per tutto il tempo mentre lui la insulta in tutti i modi; il quasi fidanzato di lei che mi sembra un povero idiota dall'inizio alla fine.
Quattro stelle forse sono troppe, ma vale più della solita banalità delle tre. Questa review è fin troppo lunga, a presto :)
Dunque, la storia è insolita, due fratellastri senza legami di sangue che fanno sentire odore di incesto, ma in realtà è tutto legale. Lui è il classico superfigo degli Harmony, preso dalla sua vita e dagli affari e (inaspettatamente) sembra detestare lei, che è una ricca ereditiera non troppo bella con una valanga di problemi di pare mentali. Dopo un sacco di tempo lei si scopre innamorata e fa una cosa sensata! Decide di non dirglielo.
Quando lui lo scopre le tira addosso fango e insulti e lei se ne va, niente spoiler per il finale, ma è stato, diciamo, weird. Strano, ma strano come dicono gli americani.
Lei non fa altro che soffrire come un cane per tutto il tempo mentre lui la insulta in tutti i modi; il quasi fidanzato di lei che mi sembra un povero idiota dall'inizio alla fine.
Quattro stelle forse sono troppe, ma vale più della solita banalità delle tre. Questa review è fin troppo lunga, a presto :)
July 6, 2020
Not one of her best.
October 10, 2024
5 stars
10/10 🤩
10/10 🤩
August 27, 2024
Both the hero and heroine kept harping on the father’s illogical wish till I swear I was very uncomfortable that they did get together. It really seemed as if they’re doing something terribly wrong.
It was quite icky to me.
That hero is being sponged by his step sister and becomes inappropriate.
That a business related guest assumes that they’re husband and wife and they don’t disabuse him of this notion.
Somehow I was very uncomfortable.
Everyone is so much in love with how brooding the hero was and how he marries to protect the heroine from himself and from gossip.
But what a bastard he was to his wife? Did anyone realise that?
The heroine was just plain stupid. She never realised she was in love with him. How?
The plot was threadbare. Not many other characters. The hero. The heroine. Both of them just being icky. A lawyer. A doctor. A haunted ok not haunted but an empty house in which the two lived.
It gave very very 80s vibes. Don’t know how. Perhaps it was the stuffed mushrooms as appetisers. Also he keeps going to work all man like. She keeps whipping up meals and drinks and laying the table.
I find this book unpleasant. Inappropriate.
The way the hero behaves all wrong.
Somehow it just does not do it for me.
What a cheating bitch the heroine is too. She has a fiancé who she forgets all about.
Really? Both of you. Get some morals. Don’t cheat maybe.
I know. It was all very moving. Supposedly.
But with more maturity I have gained more understanding.
I’m shocked that people think this is like Heathcliffe and Catherine
One star I say.
It was quite icky to me.
That hero is being sponged by his step sister and becomes inappropriate.
That a business related guest assumes that they’re husband and wife and they don’t disabuse him of this notion.
Somehow I was very uncomfortable.
Everyone is so much in love with how brooding the hero was and how he marries to protect the heroine from himself and from gossip.
But what a bastard he was to his wife? Did anyone realise that?
The heroine was just plain stupid. She never realised she was in love with him. How?
The plot was threadbare. Not many other characters. The hero. The heroine. Both of them just being icky. A lawyer. A doctor. A haunted ok not haunted but an empty house in which the two lived.
It gave very very 80s vibes. Don’t know how. Perhaps it was the stuffed mushrooms as appetisers. Also he keeps going to work all man like. She keeps whipping up meals and drinks and laying the table.
I find this book unpleasant. Inappropriate.
The way the hero behaves all wrong.
Somehow it just does not do it for me.
What a cheating bitch the heroine is too. She has a fiancé who she forgets all about.
Really? Both of you. Get some morals. Don’t cheat maybe.
I know. It was all very moving. Supposedly.
But with more maturity I have gained more understanding.
I’m shocked that people think this is like Heathcliffe and Catherine
One star I say.
January 13, 2023
This was almost a DNF, but I wanted credit for it on my book challenge. There is a squick element to this that made me unable to like it as much as I wanted to. The H fell In love/lust with her when she was 16, maybe younger. It is the same way I feel toward guardian trope romances. She adored him as a brother from age of 10 on up, when did his feelings start shifting? It just makes me cringe.
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December 8, 2015
It packs a punch. The plot is very full for this short read. He is her stepbrother who has been in love with her, but he couldn't act upon it till his breaking point.
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