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His pride made him believe the worst!
Five years ago, Lisa Hayward had fled her exotic island home of St. Martin's, leaving her just begun marriage in ruins.
Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The child was all that remained of that bitter, beautiful time.
Now Rorke had found her again, and intended to take her back--but not for love. He still believed Robbie couldn't be his!
Why couldn't he remember that storm-shattered night they had spent lost at sea?
Five years ago, Lisa Hayward had fled her exotic island home of St. Martin's, leaving her just begun marriage in ruins.
Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The child was all that remained of that bitter, beautiful time.
Now Rorke had found her again, and intended to take her back--but not for love. He still believed Robbie couldn't be his!
Why couldn't he remember that storm-shattered night they had spent lost at sea?
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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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June 30, 2018
Gotta love selective amnesia.
And a heroine who gets knocked up at 16.
And her stepbrother hero who can't remember having sex with her on his sailboat because he had a concussion.
And a five year-old with an unusual blood type who is raised in England and meets his daddy for the first time when the story opens.
And a robo-OW who was there before the heroine got knocked up and is still there five years later trying to reel in the hero.
This might all sound a little . . . ahem . . . far-fetched and not at all PJ's usual fare. But if you replace PJ's usual neurotic heroine with the hero, then it fits the PJ mold perfectly. The hero has hysterical amnesia because he loved the heroine so much and wanted to wait for their wedding day - and since he didn't wait, he can't live with the guilt.
The heroine, on the other hand, just keeps repeating her story hoping it will eventually wear down the ridiculous hero like water on a rock.
Thank goodness for homicidal OWs who force the H to provide blood for the heroine's rare-blood type son.
And thank goodness for heroines who actually make the hero work for forgiveness. (Hey - it was two pages - that's epic compared to some.)
And thank goodness as well for the absence of statutory rape laws and the ability for children under 18 to marry on whatever island this was. And that a 17 year-old can earn her way in LONDON for five years with no education and a child to raise. Good Lord - 16? What were you smoking PJ? This was the 80's - the crazy 70's were over.
And a heroine who gets knocked up at 16.
And her stepbrother hero who can't remember having sex with her on his sailboat because he had a concussion.
And a five year-old with an unusual blood type who is raised in England and meets his daddy for the first time when the story opens.
And a robo-OW who was there before the heroine got knocked up and is still there five years later trying to reel in the hero.
This might all sound a little . . . ahem . . . far-fetched and not at all PJ's usual fare. But if you replace PJ's usual neurotic heroine with the hero, then it fits the PJ mold perfectly. The hero has hysterical amnesia because he loved the heroine so much and wanted to wait for their wedding day - and since he didn't wait, he can't live with the guilt.
The heroine, on the other hand, just keeps repeating her story hoping it will eventually wear down the ridiculous hero like water on a rock.
Thank goodness for homicidal OWs who force the H to provide blood for the heroine's rare-blood type son.
And thank goodness for heroines who actually make the hero work for forgiveness. (Hey - it was two pages - that's epic compared to some.)
And thank goodness as well for the absence of statutory rape laws and the ability for children under 18 to marry on whatever island this was. And that a 17 year-old can earn her way in LONDON for five years with no education and a child to raise. Good Lord - 16? What were you smoking PJ? This was the 80's - the crazy 70's were over.
September 12, 2013
PJ has ruined me for other authors. She was such a flawless author. I love her crazy heroes and her saintly heroines.
This book is full of angst, drama and passion! It's a reunion story about a married couple who break up when hero thinks heroine cheated on him and got herself pregnant with another man's child. Poor heroine 17 year old and pregnant abandons him and moves to London.
Five years later heroine is back in her husband's home to visit her sick father in law. Hero still believes Robbie is not his child and he is crazy with jealousy of his wife having an army of lovers and super possessive. I thought he was a wacko but I love such heroes!
Evil batshit crazy OW gets in the mix and tries to kill little Robbie who is a very smart kid by the way. Robbie needs blood transfusion and since he has a rare blood type like his father only Rorke can help him. Rorke realizes he was an asshole denying his own child and Lisa being the saint she is she forgives him.
Lisa has seriously a heart of gold. I would never be so compassionate towards the woman who tried to kill my child and cling to my husband like this!
Also little Robbie is so cute jealous and possessive of his mommy. He adores Lisa and he doesn't like to share. I thought his reaction to finding his parents together in bed was hilarious! Cutest Harlequin child ever! Lol
This book is full of angst, drama and passion! It's a reunion story about a married couple who break up when hero thinks heroine cheated on him and got herself pregnant with another man's child. Poor heroine 17 year old and pregnant abandons him and moves to London.
Five years later heroine is back in her husband's home to visit her sick father in law. Hero still believes Robbie is not his child and he is crazy with jealousy of his wife having an army of lovers and super possessive. I thought he was a wacko but I love such heroes!
Evil batshit crazy OW gets in the mix and tries to kill little Robbie who is a very smart kid by the way. Robbie needs blood transfusion and since he has a rare blood type like his father only Rorke can help him. Rorke realizes he was an asshole denying his own child and Lisa being the saint she is she forgives him.
Lisa has seriously a heart of gold. I would never be so compassionate towards the woman who tried to kill my child and cling to my husband like this!
Also little Robbie is so cute jealous and possessive of his mommy. He adores Lisa and he doesn't like to share. I thought his reaction to finding his parents together in bed was hilarious! Cutest Harlequin child ever! Lol
September 12, 2013
I have to say that the age difference between the hero and heroine somewhat bothered me when this couple first came together sexually.She being,16, not quite 17 and the hero being 27!
This is typical old school Penny Jordan which had all the angst and drama which her books were known for.She will be missed.
I did enjoy this read and had one of my fav tropes of second chance love and a child.Not a secret child ,as the hero knew about the boy,but he thought was another man's child.
I wished the evil OW got her comeuppence,afterall she tried to injure the couple's child.
I wished that there was an epilogue,cause I am such a glutton for them.I like to see their hea complete with their family.
3.5*** read.
This is typical old school Penny Jordan which had all the angst and drama which her books were known for.She will be missed.
I did enjoy this read and had one of my fav tropes of second chance love and a child.Not a secret child ,as the hero knew about the boy,but he thought was another man's child.
I wished the evil OW got her comeuppence,afterall she tried to injure the couple's child.
I wished that there was an epilogue,cause I am such a glutton for them.I like to see their hea complete with their family.
3.5*** read.
August 17, 2021
Nice mess this one.
The hero is stepbrother and heroine is in love with him since forever.
When she’s 16 the hero, who is much older, suddenly starts having wicked thoughts about her and once when they are alone he kisses her passionately and asks her to marry him. He is unsettled because he wanted to wait a bit longer but he burns for her and wants her for himself.
One day they go out with his boat and during a storm he hits his head and has a concussion. The heroine helps him and they have great sex, after which he sleeps and doesn’t remember anything.
Heroine, instead of telling him, decides to wait and one month later she finds out she’s pregnant. There’s another woman, his former mistress, who is a venomous and jealous snake.
After marriage he asks her if she’s a virgin and she says they had sex before. Hero is appalled and doesn’t believe her, when she says she’s pregnant he thinks the baby is another man’s. She runs away.
Five years later he finds her and ask her ( threatens her) to come home since his father is dying and refuses to have surgery if she doesn’t come back.
He treats her as dirt and doesn’t believe the baby is his.
Of course the baby is his spitting image and everyone knows it but him.
Forced seduction and slut shaming follows, where the hero treats the h as the w***e of Babylon, the ow throws nasty remarks, and even pushes the child over the coral barrier where he’s seriously hurt and requires transfusion.
There his dumb father finds out he’s the father and apologizes to the heroine.
He even remembers that they had sex.
He was so ashamed that he had sex with her because she was 16 and he promised his father he’d have waited.
He wrote her letters, but she never received them, and the heroine wrote his father but he never received her letter.
Many unresolved matters and inconsistencies.
- the heroine runs away when she was 16. How could she travel around the world being under age of consent?
- the hero claims not to know where she was, but he wrote her letters. Where did he send them??
- the ow. Was she the Hero’s mistress while he was estranged from his wife? He never tells. And his cryptic sentence that she is not the heroine’s concern could mean everything.
- and where are all those letters??? The ow took them? Were they lost in space?
- was the sf really ill?
- the hero tells her he only looked for her because his father refused the surgery, then he claims he was looking for her but couldn’t find her.
Whatever. Concussed stupid hero and helpless dumb heroine.
The hero is stepbrother and heroine is in love with him since forever.
When she’s 16 the hero, who is much older, suddenly starts having wicked thoughts about her and once when they are alone he kisses her passionately and asks her to marry him. He is unsettled because he wanted to wait a bit longer but he burns for her and wants her for himself.
One day they go out with his boat and during a storm he hits his head and has a concussion. The heroine helps him and they have great sex, after which he sleeps and doesn’t remember anything.
Heroine, instead of telling him, decides to wait and one month later she finds out she’s pregnant. There’s another woman, his former mistress, who is a venomous and jealous snake.
After marriage he asks her if she’s a virgin and she says they had sex before. Hero is appalled and doesn’t believe her, when she says she’s pregnant he thinks the baby is another man’s. She runs away.
Five years later he finds her and ask her ( threatens her) to come home since his father is dying and refuses to have surgery if she doesn’t come back.
He treats her as dirt and doesn’t believe the baby is his.
Of course the baby is his spitting image and everyone knows it but him.
Forced seduction and slut shaming follows, where the hero treats the h as the w***e of Babylon, the ow throws nasty remarks, and even pushes the child over the coral barrier where he’s seriously hurt and requires transfusion.
There his dumb father finds out he’s the father and apologizes to the heroine.
He even remembers that they had sex.
He was so ashamed that he had sex with her because she was 16 and he promised his father he’d have waited.
He wrote her letters, but she never received them, and the heroine wrote his father but he never received her letter.
Many unresolved matters and inconsistencies.
- the heroine runs away when she was 16. How could she travel around the world being under age of consent?
- the hero claims not to know where she was, but he wrote her letters. Where did he send them??
- the ow. Was she the Hero’s mistress while he was estranged from his wife? He never tells. And his cryptic sentence that she is not the heroine’s concern could mean everything.
- and where are all those letters??? The ow took them? Were they lost in space?
- was the sf really ill?
- the hero tells her he only looked for her because his father refused the surgery, then he claims he was looking for her but couldn’t find her.
Whatever. Concussed stupid hero and helpless dumb heroine.
April 20, 2011
Finally i finished it ,it was a little difficult cause the plot was good and interesting and had laods of potential but the author spolit it with unsolved issues which left till the end
Lisa is 16 years old when she and her stepbrother hook up. But she never said she was 16. All age questions were answered with nearly 17 or almost 17,Rorke has a girlfriend Helen who sleeps with whoever she wants whenever she wants. While he's visiting this girlfriend with Lisa in tow, they confess their feelings for each other and are going to get married
Helen convinces him that Lisa is getting it on with the local doctor and he believes it. When Lisa tells him the truth of what happens he denies it.
Years later they meet again and every time she tries to tell Rorke the truth, he says there's no way it could be true because he wouldn't be able to live with himself if it was. So never mind his son growing up with his dad ignoring him and Lisa being an outcast as long as he doesn't have to question his judgment the world can keep turning. Heaven forbid he feel bad about what he did.
And when they come back together, guess who is still in the picture? Helen,She's still there, and Rorke tells Lisa that she doesn't get to say anything about the other woman.
first when Lisa-Rourke get hooked up Lisa basically didn't care at all that his girlfriend is still in the picture. later Lisa is shown to be jealous and insecure
Helen it was shown a possibility that she pushed their child from the terrace yet she is not confronted or they did'nt even try to dig up the truth,Lisa is quiet sure she did it but no one believes her,even after Rourke has his memory back he does nothing that Helen still has freedom on the entire island and can still walk into the house and Lisa's room whenever she wants
Rourke he is such a Pigheaded,GFN(good for nothing) Lousy lover,boyfriend,husband and a worst father any child can have,when Lisa is so worried and cries for her son when he falls down he is jealous,angry and bitter that Lisa is destroying herself over another man's child and even when he gets his memory back and knows its his child no reaction nothing,he tries to talk to Lisa but she says its 5 years too late he gets angry that he is not forgiven and leaves,did'nt like him he thinks only about himself
so many issues left the age issue whether Lisa is 16 or 17 never was solved,Helen has all her freedom and she gets away with everything for saying bad things abt Lisa whom he says he loves and cause of her lies he rejected his child but nothing is done
I usually like amnesia stories but this one was just frustrating
Lisa is 16 years old when she and her stepbrother hook up. But she never said she was 16. All age questions were answered with nearly 17 or almost 17,Rorke has a girlfriend Helen who sleeps with whoever she wants whenever she wants. While he's visiting this girlfriend with Lisa in tow, they confess their feelings for each other and are going to get married
Helen convinces him that Lisa is getting it on with the local doctor and he believes it. When Lisa tells him the truth of what happens he denies it.
Years later they meet again and every time she tries to tell Rorke the truth, he says there's no way it could be true because he wouldn't be able to live with himself if it was. So never mind his son growing up with his dad ignoring him and Lisa being an outcast as long as he doesn't have to question his judgment the world can keep turning. Heaven forbid he feel bad about what he did.
And when they come back together, guess who is still in the picture? Helen,She's still there, and Rorke tells Lisa that she doesn't get to say anything about the other woman.
first when Lisa-Rourke get hooked up Lisa basically didn't care at all that his girlfriend is still in the picture. later Lisa is shown to be jealous and insecure
Helen it was shown a possibility that she pushed their child from the terrace yet she is not confronted or they did'nt even try to dig up the truth,Lisa is quiet sure she did it but no one believes her,even after Rourke has his memory back he does nothing that Helen still has freedom on the entire island and can still walk into the house and Lisa's room whenever she wants
Rourke he is such a Pigheaded,GFN(good for nothing) Lousy lover,boyfriend,husband and a worst father any child can have,when Lisa is so worried and cries for her son when he falls down he is jealous,angry and bitter that Lisa is destroying herself over another man's child and even when he gets his memory back and knows its his child no reaction nothing,he tries to talk to Lisa but she says its 5 years too late he gets angry that he is not forgiven and leaves,did'nt like him he thinks only about himself
so many issues left the age issue whether Lisa is 16 or 17 never was solved,Helen has all her freedom and she gets away with everything for saying bad things abt Lisa whom he says he loves and cause of her lies he rejected his child but nothing is done
I usually like amnesia stories but this one was just frustrating
November 3, 2020
Being a main character in HPlandia, you have to possess not much brain cells but being a vintage MC, you need less. I don't want to talk about my brain cells. LOL
May 26, 2017
Don't even. The ick factor is too high. She's 16! 16! And plus he's her stepbrother! The H was unbearable with his over-active conscience. And the solution to being unable to control himself was marriage to.. can I say it again.. a 16-year-old! Penny J is one my favourite authors to escape real world problems but this was too much. Heroine's repetitive stance and his pig-headed denials about being the father of their child set my teeth grinding. I was so annoyed with the stupidity of both h and H that I couldn't wait to go back to my real life.
August 22, 2010
An older HP, told totally from the heroine's POV. Heroine is 16, hero is 27 when books starts. He knocks her up and then forgets about it. When she fesses up on the wedding night he refuses to believe her. She runs. The story picks up 5 years later. He finally finds out the boy is his and feels like a heel. He should have felt like a heel much earlier. Decent writing within the formula. At least the plot felt like it was full rather than a skeleton of a plot which is how most of the newer HPs feel to me. But the whole knocking up and marrying a 16 year old just creeped me out. Did I think that was okay when I was reading these the first time around when I was 15, 16, 17? I don't remember. This book was published when I was 21 years old. I think even then I would have found it a bit iffy.
February 24, 2016
Wow really it took him 5 years to figure out that he had sex wth her!?? Come on that just stupid! The kid was a little old for his age and I can to tell ya I did not like the hero at all for treating a pregnant 17 year old like that. He lost all my respect and I think he needed to make a grand jester to put things right for 5 years of neglect. Shit my heart just bleeds when I think of the poor naive girl or 17 having a kid after just one night with an asshole who kicked her when she was down. I felt more then a little empathy for her and none for him. He deserves more then what he got. However, he needed to do more to make it up for her and writing some letters and waiting for her call really jerk!
June 12, 2018
"Forgotten Passion" is the story of Lisa and Rorke.
A extremely dramatic amnesia trope with a forgotten night of passion, an unexpected pregnancy, angsty love between May-December step-siblings, smart child, uber-evil OW, kind step father and loads of slut-shaming+ bruising kisses+ OM taunting.
If it wasnt for that 5 year old child discussion with naked mommy self monologue the author randomly added, followed by the hero being jealous of the child drama, this would have been a pleasant theatrical read.
Safe?
2.75/5
A extremely dramatic amnesia trope with a forgotten night of passion, an unexpected pregnancy, angsty love between May-December step-siblings, smart child, uber-evil OW, kind step father and loads of slut-shaming+ bruising kisses+ OM taunting.
If it wasnt for that 5 year old child discussion with naked mommy self monologue the author randomly added, followed by the hero being jealous of the child drama, this would have been a pleasant theatrical read.
Safe?
2.75/5
August 15, 2021
Synopsis:
27-year old step-brother takes virginity and impregnates 16-year old step-sister, but he has a concussion and does not remember. He was already planning to marry her. On the wedding night, she tells him that she's pregnant and explains what happened. He refused to believe her and accuses her of being with the local doctor guy who is her friend. Heroine flees, has her son, and somehow gets lucky and falls into a career as a children's book artist.
5-years later hero finds her and demands to return to their island because his dad (the step-father) was having health issues and needed some surgery. Hero continues to not believe the heroine. Meanwhile, their is an other woman still hanging around and in pursuit of the hero. Other woman pushes the son (so he says and she denies) and he gets hurt and needs a blood transfusion. The son has a rare blood type, same as the hero, which leads to the "ah ha" moment for the hero to finally realize the heroine has been telling the truth.
Just a few thoughts...
If the hero really loved her, he would have believed the heroine. It's not like he didn't already know her, she was his step-sister after all, and his father adored her as well. She had no reason to lie. It is not like she would have been kicked out of the house or something if she really did get knocked up by another guy, as I'm sure her step-father would have supported her no matter what. Also, the hero showed no signs of being excited about the wedding, which I'm assuming was due to his guilt over her being so young, but still it made the heroine a little disheartened.
What happened to the letter the heroine sent to the step-dad to explain why she left? Also, what happened to the letters the step-dad said he sent to the heroine? Plus, allegedly they could not find where the heroine went at first... so then how did the step-dad write to her? AND, when they did actually find out where she was, why did no one come to her sooner? Lots of mysteries and holes there.
While we know the heroine never was with another man, it is unclear if the hero was celibate during the separation. He has still been hanging out with the other woman this whole time... I mean, 5-years is a LONG time... I'm sure something went down. However, the hero also says at one point that is has been a long, long time for him... so who knows?
Lastly, if some other woman was after my husband and intentionally hurt MY CHILD, the only safe place for her would be in hell. But both the hero and heroine kind of brush it off and let it go. Really?
27-year old step-brother takes virginity and impregnates 16-year old step-sister, but he has a concussion and does not remember. He was already planning to marry her. On the wedding night, she tells him that she's pregnant and explains what happened. He refused to believe her and accuses her of being with the local doctor guy who is her friend. Heroine flees, has her son, and somehow gets lucky and falls into a career as a children's book artist.
5-years later hero finds her and demands to return to their island because his dad (the step-father) was having health issues and needed some surgery. Hero continues to not believe the heroine. Meanwhile, their is an other woman still hanging around and in pursuit of the hero. Other woman pushes the son (so he says and she denies) and he gets hurt and needs a blood transfusion. The son has a rare blood type, same as the hero, which leads to the "ah ha" moment for the hero to finally realize the heroine has been telling the truth.
Just a few thoughts...
If the hero really loved her, he would have believed the heroine. It's not like he didn't already know her, she was his step-sister after all, and his father adored her as well. She had no reason to lie. It is not like she would have been kicked out of the house or something if she really did get knocked up by another guy, as I'm sure her step-father would have supported her no matter what. Also, the hero showed no signs of being excited about the wedding, which I'm assuming was due to his guilt over her being so young, but still it made the heroine a little disheartened.
What happened to the letter the heroine sent to the step-dad to explain why she left? Also, what happened to the letters the step-dad said he sent to the heroine? Plus, allegedly they could not find where the heroine went at first... so then how did the step-dad write to her? AND, when they did actually find out where she was, why did no one come to her sooner? Lots of mysteries and holes there.
While we know the heroine never was with another man, it is unclear if the hero was celibate during the separation. He has still been hanging out with the other woman this whole time... I mean, 5-years is a LONG time... I'm sure something went down. However, the hero also says at one point that is has been a long, long time for him... so who knows?
Lastly, if some other woman was after my husband and intentionally hurt MY CHILD, the only safe place for her would be in hell. But both the hero and heroine kind of brush it off and let it go. Really?
August 15, 2021
A bad choice of a day to start a PJ book. With piles of chores screaming blatantly at my face, I had no choice but to ignore them and keep reading anyways. PJ writes the kind of angst that leaves you without a bone in your body. Sigh
Lisa is a sweet girl loved by her step father after her mother passes away. Her growing attachment to him is only hindered by the ever brooding watchful eyes of another man, the step brother. Rourke is bothered by his uncontrollable desire for Lisa and with the deep bond between her and his father, there isn’t a rock left for him to find and hide under.
There’s also the OW who’s the H’s mistress/friend. The h and H however are in close quarters most of the times and one eventful weekend their ONS initiates.. but sadly there’s a bit of a theatrical accident situation and much to Lisa’s mortification, Rourke can’t remember ever touching her with a ten foot pole.
Present day the h and H meet again and Lisa has a shock in waiting for the H, the sweet boy who was conceived on that fateful night. With all kinds of livid accusations that he could think of, the H still holds the h as a woman of loose morals who sleeps around and is sure the boy isn’t his. How could he be when he has no memory of it.
Tbh this was a little too angsty for my liking. The h and H can barely have a sentence come out before they are interrupted from someone or the other. Also some extreme cringe distasteful scenes in the book.
I dislike that PJ must in all her books give one scene where the h sheds all her clothes for some excuse or the other: taking a dip, sleeping comfortably, feeling too hot.. etc.
There’s the little boy who’s not so little (5 years too old) to be looking at his mother without a stitch of clothing. Passing her the towel in the bathroom, walking in on mommy and daddy and then clambering up to mummy while she’s still in her birthday suit and “mummy being okay with it” ...
Another place where she’s being indecently intimately being grabbed on by her husband and her father in law/ step father steps in and he’s privy to all that and he doesn’t walk/ look away.
Well I still kept going waiting for the climax to break. There was no mention of all those lost letters that both the h and H never received. The OW is not made to come back and face repercussion for her evil. And really, what mother trusts such a monstrous OW with her son who also pushes him off a cliff (well into the water anyways).
There isn’t enough love in this book. The arguments and bickering between the mcs is excessive and incessantly disrupted. There’s almost no grovel and absolutely no epilogue. There was much potential and wish PJ could’ve wrapped up all these loose endings.
Lisa is a sweet girl loved by her step father after her mother passes away. Her growing attachment to him is only hindered by the ever brooding watchful eyes of another man, the step brother. Rourke is bothered by his uncontrollable desire for Lisa and with the deep bond between her and his father, there isn’t a rock left for him to find and hide under.
There’s also the OW who’s the H’s mistress/friend. The h and H however are in close quarters most of the times and one eventful weekend their ONS initiates.. but sadly there’s a bit of a theatrical accident situation and much to Lisa’s mortification, Rourke can’t remember ever touching her with a ten foot pole.
Present day the h and H meet again and Lisa has a shock in waiting for the H, the sweet boy who was conceived on that fateful night. With all kinds of livid accusations that he could think of, the H still holds the h as a woman of loose morals who sleeps around and is sure the boy isn’t his. How could he be when he has no memory of it.
Tbh this was a little too angsty for my liking. The h and H can barely have a sentence come out before they are interrupted from someone or the other. Also some extreme cringe distasteful scenes in the book.
I dislike that PJ must in all her books give one scene where the h sheds all her clothes for some excuse or the other: taking a dip, sleeping comfortably, feeling too hot.. etc.
There’s the little boy who’s not so little (5 years too old) to be looking at his mother without a stitch of clothing. Passing her the towel in the bathroom, walking in on mommy and daddy and then clambering up to mummy while she’s still in her birthday suit and “mummy being okay with it” ...
Another place where she’s being indecently intimately being grabbed on by her husband and her father in law/ step father steps in and he’s privy to all that and he doesn’t walk/ look away.
Well I still kept going waiting for the climax to break. There was no mention of all those lost letters that both the h and H never received. The OW is not made to come back and face repercussion for her evil. And really, what mother trusts such a monstrous OW with her son who also pushes him off a cliff (well into the water anyways).
There isn’t enough love in this book. The arguments and bickering between the mcs is excessive and incessantly disrupted. There’s almost no grovel and absolutely no epilogue. There was much potential and wish PJ could’ve wrapped up all these loose endings.
February 16, 2011
Idiots...all of them! The wanna be other woman pushes my child off a coral reef and he needs to have a transfusion as a result, and we don't open a can of whoop-as& on her?
Freaking BS!!
I'm tired of wanna be and really was OW getting away with the crap they dish out!!
BTW, you'll need a lobotomy to beleive some of the crapola in this one.
Oh...and don't get me started on the whole blocking out ONLY the part where they made love and THAT'S the main reason he doesn't believe the kid is his!! Give me a a break!
Freaking BS!!
I'm tired of wanna be and really was OW getting away with the crap they dish out!!
BTW, you'll need a lobotomy to beleive some of the crapola in this one.
Oh...and don't get me started on the whole blocking out ONLY the part where they made love and THAT'S the main reason he doesn't believe the kid is his!! Give me a a break!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 5, 2012
I did like the book but I wanted to smack the hero a bunch of times. He was so stupid about his attitude towards the heroine. He should of trusted her and used his head. Instead he failed her and his son in so many ways. The ending was abrupt and kind of sucked though.
January 30, 2015
This story was written in 1983, and it hasn't aged well.
Sometimes old skool HQ have charm or crazy drama that can still be appreciated 3 decades afterward, but I'd say this one doesn't hit that mark.
Basic plot, H(in his late 20's) marries h(who has been raised since she was very little as his baby sister, and has only just turned 17). On their wedding night he finds out she's not a virgin(gasp) and that she's preggo (double gasp!) and kicks her out! Alas, fool that he is, hit his head and doesn't remember seducing the h(btw she was 16 in this scene) and so of course that baby is his. The book picks up 5 years later, when the H father is sick and demanding the h come home.
So, right off the bat, some things that were skeevy, sorta incest( and weirdly I've found this is a common theme in old Hq .. Whats up with that!?) and a h who starts the book as a child. 16 is just too young to be getting engaged and knocked up by the H( buts it's ok cuz her birthday is only a month away! She'll be 17 then! O.o)
Then the book proceeds in typical HQ style, with the cruel brooding H, the confused fragil h (who even manages to have some sort of mental break somewhere near the end) and of course the evillllll OW. That wouldn't have been so bad if the author wasn't constantly thrusting their 5 year old son into the drama. The H uses him to bring the h to heel, announcing to him that's he's his daddy, even though he doesn't believe it and resents the boys very existence. The h agrees to take the boy and go with the H, even though she believes the H will reject the child later( I'm sure he'll get over being tossed aside by his new found dad). Also the author uses the boy in several scenes as a "buffer". The H/h have several very adult discussions in front of him(even talking about the paternity question), yelling and occasionally crying. We aren't to forget he's there because he often looks up pitifully and asks what's wrong or seems confused and distressed by the tension. Bad parenting is so romantic. /endsarcasm
So yeah .. The writing was good but the plot left me feeling like I needed a shower and wondering if they had CPS in 1983.
Sometimes old skool HQ have charm or crazy drama that can still be appreciated 3 decades afterward, but I'd say this one doesn't hit that mark.
Basic plot, H(in his late 20's) marries h(who has been raised since she was very little as his baby sister, and has only just turned 17). On their wedding night he finds out she's not a virgin(gasp) and that she's preggo (double gasp!) and kicks her out! Alas, fool that he is, hit his head and doesn't remember seducing the h(btw she was 16 in this scene) and so of course that baby is his. The book picks up 5 years later, when the H father is sick and demanding the h come home.
So, right off the bat, some things that were skeevy, sorta incest( and weirdly I've found this is a common theme in old Hq .. Whats up with that!?) and a h who starts the book as a child. 16 is just too young to be getting engaged and knocked up by the H( buts it's ok cuz her birthday is only a month away! She'll be 17 then! O.o)
Then the book proceeds in typical HQ style, with the cruel brooding H, the confused fragil h (who even manages to have some sort of mental break somewhere near the end) and of course the evillllll OW. That wouldn't have been so bad if the author wasn't constantly thrusting their 5 year old son into the drama. The H uses him to bring the h to heel, announcing to him that's he's his daddy, even though he doesn't believe it and resents the boys very existence. The h agrees to take the boy and go with the H, even though she believes the H will reject the child later( I'm sure he'll get over being tossed aside by his new found dad). Also the author uses the boy in several scenes as a "buffer". The H/h have several very adult discussions in front of him(even talking about the paternity question), yelling and occasionally crying. We aren't to forget he's there because he often looks up pitifully and asks what's wrong or seems confused and distressed by the tension. Bad parenting is so romantic. /endsarcasm
So yeah .. The writing was good but the plot left me feeling like I needed a shower and wondering if they had CPS in 1983.
August 3, 2021
His pride made him believe the worst!Five years ago, Lisa Hayward had fled her exotic island home of St. Martin's, leaving her just begun marriage in ruins.
Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The child was all that remained of that bitter, beautiful time.
Now Rorke had found her again, and intended to take her back--but not for love. He still believed Robbie couldn't be his!Why couldn't he remember that storm-shattered night they had spent lost at sea?
Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The child was all that remained of that bitter, beautiful time.
Now Rorke had found her again, and intended to take her back--but not for love. He still believed Robbie couldn't be his!Why couldn't he remember that storm-shattered night they had spent lost at sea?
November 6, 2015
This book should have had a grovel just no
Want to read
December 18, 2015"Pasión olvidada"
May 18, 2017
Warning - somewhat ranting and rambling review ahead.
The Hero and heroine grew up together with the hero's father in the Caribbean. When the heroine is 16 (no, "almost" 17 doesn't make it better), she tags along with the Hero and his girlfriend for a night out. The Hero can't keep his hands to himself while dancing with the heroine in front of said girlfriend. They decide to get married.
Hero has a lot of hang ups about the heroine being so young and something or other about his father wanting him to give the heroine time, but that doesn't happen and guilt or something? I dunno. I spent a lot of time just pissed off at everyone while reading this.
While with the heroine on his boat, they go through a storm and the Hero gets smacked in the head. He proceeds to have sex with the "almost" 17 yo virgin heroine while suffering the effects of concussion. So, of course he doesn't remember any of it the next day.
They marry, there's the ex-OW causing trouble, an OM who is the heroine's doctor friend, the Hero won't touch her even though they're married now because of his dad, blah, blah, blah. Surprise! She's pregnant! And he still doesn't remember that they had sex. She goes to the OM-doctor-friend for a physical examination in his house where she has to remove clothes (like ya do, cause I guess they didn't have pregnancy tests at the corner store?) and the Hero finds out, jumps to conclusions, accuses her of cheating, so she leaves the island five-evah!
Fast forward about five years and she has been raising her son alone with no contact from the Hero until he shows up to force her to return home to try to convince his sick dad to have an operation. She goes with him, takes the kid with her, constantly fights with the Hero because he is an asshole who never divorced her or acknowledged his son (because he thinks she's a lying liar whore-bag), there's a racist caricature of a housekeeper, the ailing dad, an inheritance, the same OW who pushes a 5 yo kid off a coral reef (and she never gets in trouble for this! I mean, I'd have at least ripped her pubic hair out and poured turpentine on it for hurting my kid, but that's just me), lots of accusations and yawn yawn yawn.
Even I got tired of hearing the heroine constantly saying "He's your son!" over and over. Because apparently - not only are there no home pregnancy tests, there are no DNA tests, no legal things that can be done re: paternity or child support. I know this is an older HP, but for once - just once - I'd like to see a heroine who's been done wrong by the Hero, ends up pregnant, who then takes his ass to court to get child support.
But I digress.
The grovel, when it came, wasn't nearly good enough to make up for anything. I didn't want these two to get back together. I didn't want the heroine to waste her time on the creep. None of what she went through - being accused at every turn, raising a kid alone - none of it was more important than the Hero's moral crisis if he actually had to remember what he'd done. Ugh!!!
And can I mention again the racist-stereotype-housekeeper?!?
I just can't with this book! And I usually have a sort of love to hate thing with some - not all - of PJ's books. But this one was so frustrating!
It hath made me grumpy. 😡
The Hero and heroine grew up together with the hero's father in the Caribbean. When the heroine is 16 (no, "almost" 17 doesn't make it better), she tags along with the Hero and his girlfriend for a night out. The Hero can't keep his hands to himself while dancing with the heroine in front of said girlfriend. They decide to get married.
Hero has a lot of hang ups about the heroine being so young and something or other about his father wanting him to give the heroine time, but that doesn't happen and guilt or something? I dunno. I spent a lot of time just pissed off at everyone while reading this.
While with the heroine on his boat, they go through a storm and the Hero gets smacked in the head. He proceeds to have sex with the "almost" 17 yo virgin heroine while suffering the effects of concussion. So, of course he doesn't remember any of it the next day.
They marry, there's the ex-OW causing trouble, an OM who is the heroine's doctor friend, the Hero won't touch her even though they're married now because of his dad, blah, blah, blah. Surprise! She's pregnant! And he still doesn't remember that they had sex. She goes to the OM-doctor-friend for a physical examination in his house where she has to remove clothes (like ya do, cause I guess they didn't have pregnancy tests at the corner store?) and the Hero finds out, jumps to conclusions, accuses her of cheating, so she leaves the island five-evah!
Fast forward about five years and she has been raising her son alone with no contact from the Hero until he shows up to force her to return home to try to convince his sick dad to have an operation. She goes with him, takes the kid with her, constantly fights with the Hero because he is an asshole who never divorced her or acknowledged his son (because he thinks she's a lying liar whore-bag), there's a racist caricature of a housekeeper, the ailing dad, an inheritance, the same OW who pushes a 5 yo kid off a coral reef (and she never gets in trouble for this! I mean, I'd have at least ripped her pubic hair out and poured turpentine on it for hurting my kid, but that's just me), lots of accusations and yawn yawn yawn.
Even I got tired of hearing the heroine constantly saying "He's your son!" over and over. Because apparently - not only are there no home pregnancy tests, there are no DNA tests, no legal things that can be done re: paternity or child support. I know this is an older HP, but for once - just once - I'd like to see a heroine who's been done wrong by the Hero, ends up pregnant, who then takes his ass to court to get child support.
But I digress.
The grovel, when it came, wasn't nearly good enough to make up for anything. I didn't want these two to get back together. I didn't want the heroine to waste her time on the creep. None of what she went through - being accused at every turn, raising a kid alone - none of it was more important than the Hero's moral crisis if he actually had to remember what he'd done. Ugh!!!
And can I mention again the racist-stereotype-housekeeper?!?
I just can't with this book! And I usually have a sort of love to hate thing with some - not all - of PJ's books. But this one was so frustrating!
It hath made me grumpy. 😡
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 5, 2014
Awful, both the book and the characters.
August 16, 2021
Penny Jordan is delicious! I have to shake my head at some of the ott implausibility of certain circumstances, but in the end I revel in its ludicrousness.
So in this romp that takes us back to the 80’s, we have step siblings. The h is 16 and the hero is 27.
But it’s all good because many of the island girls are married by 15. Ok, but seriously, the H realizes that this is a little pervy, and he really is trying to fight temptation. When they are on the hero’s boat he gets knocked out by the jib. After coming to, the h and H succumb to their forbidden passion. It was already discussed that they would marry, and the H was going to wait, but his head was probably all fuzzy etc…Anyway, after the sex, the H falls asleep and the bunk really isn’t big enough for 2 so the h returns to her own bunk. In the morning the H brings the h coffee and she is a smitten kitten while he is man in control, while rubbing his noggin, he tells the h the last thing he remembers is getting knocked in the head. She thinks he is joking, but he is not. So, she decides she will tell him later about him making her a woman.
They are now engaged….then she finds out she is pregnant from Dr. Mchotty. The H sees her with the Dr. who he is jealous of, plus the ow is whispering ideas in his ear. So, I guess the H finds out about his impending daddy hood on his wedding night before they consummate the marriage and cannot believe the tale she weaves him about having sex on the boat. She leaves the island, goes to London, and becomes a well respected illustrator of children’s books. (Stmargaret’s pointed out how implausible this scenario would be for a pregnant 17 year old, I agree. I mean at 17 I was still learning how to parallel park, ok bad example, I am still learning how to parallel park.) It is now 5 years later. She has a son that looks like his papa. The hero is telling the h that she needs to come back to the island as his dad, her stepdad, is in ill health. That is, if she can pull herself away from her many lovers. He then tells her he will take up the role of daddy dearest even though the wee one isn’t his.
Our h stays firm in her boat story throughout the whole story, never wavering. Our H keeps insisting she needs to give it up, while shaking with wanting her so much. I guess he wrote her several letters but she never got them, and there was a bank account, but she refused to touch the money. The “your a liar but I still want you” continues, the H gets closer to the child, and eventually the h and H end up having sex. (And no this still doesn’t jog his memory)
The story ends up with the H believing the h after an “accident” and the OW gets banned from visiting the island ever again. The story ends with the 2 making love and the H professing “I remember this, and I remember this, and oh my this too etc….
I enjoyed this love story and believed in its happily ever after. I could easily picture this same scenario on Dallas or All My Children back in the 80’s. It was like a trip down memory lane!!!
So in this romp that takes us back to the 80’s, we have step siblings. The h is 16 and the hero is 27.
But it’s all good because many of the island girls are married by 15. Ok, but seriously, the H realizes that this is a little pervy, and he really is trying to fight temptation. When they are on the hero’s boat he gets knocked out by the jib. After coming to, the h and H succumb to their forbidden passion. It was already discussed that they would marry, and the H was going to wait, but his head was probably all fuzzy etc…Anyway, after the sex, the H falls asleep and the bunk really isn’t big enough for 2 so the h returns to her own bunk. In the morning the H brings the h coffee and she is a smitten kitten while he is man in control, while rubbing his noggin, he tells the h the last thing he remembers is getting knocked in the head. She thinks he is joking, but he is not. So, she decides she will tell him later about him making her a woman.
They are now engaged….then she finds out she is pregnant from Dr. Mchotty. The H sees her with the Dr. who he is jealous of, plus the ow is whispering ideas in his ear. So, I guess the H finds out about his impending daddy hood on his wedding night before they consummate the marriage and cannot believe the tale she weaves him about having sex on the boat. She leaves the island, goes to London, and becomes a well respected illustrator of children’s books. (Stmargaret’s pointed out how implausible this scenario would be for a pregnant 17 year old, I agree. I mean at 17 I was still learning how to parallel park, ok bad example, I am still learning how to parallel park.) It is now 5 years later. She has a son that looks like his papa. The hero is telling the h that she needs to come back to the island as his dad, her stepdad, is in ill health. That is, if she can pull herself away from her many lovers. He then tells her he will take up the role of daddy dearest even though the wee one isn’t his.
Our h stays firm in her boat story throughout the whole story, never wavering. Our H keeps insisting she needs to give it up, while shaking with wanting her so much. I guess he wrote her several letters but she never got them, and there was a bank account, but she refused to touch the money. The “your a liar but I still want you” continues, the H gets closer to the child, and eventually the h and H end up having sex. (And no this still doesn’t jog his memory)
The story ends up with the H believing the h after an “accident” and the OW gets banned from visiting the island ever again. The story ends with the 2 making love and the H professing “I remember this, and I remember this, and oh my this too etc….
I enjoyed this love story and believed in its happily ever after. I could easily picture this same scenario on Dallas or All My Children back in the 80’s. It was like a trip down memory lane!!!
April 30, 2018
So, it’s 1983 and once again in the oeuvre of the wonderful Penny Jordan, I’ve stumbled across another novel that should never have been written. The story is as follows: Lisa is living in a small house in the East end of London with her son Robbie. When she bought the house, the area was unfashionable, but unfortunately for Lisa, it’s now up and coming and a series of very irritating hipster neighbours have moved in who keep bothering her (nearly everyone will be able to relate to this).
Anyway, one evening, Robbie’s father, Rourke, who Lisa hasn’t seen for five years turns up and demands that she return to their home of St. Martins in the Caribbean with him, as his father is dying and wants to see her. This is where it gets complicated. Robbie’s father (Leigh) is also Lisa’s step-father – so Rourke is her step-brother as well as being her husband (yak). Five years ago, Rourke had taken Lisa out sailing, declared his undying love for her, got caught in a storm and hit on the head by a swinging jib on a boat and then suffering from concussion, deflowered Lisa, before then waking up and remembering nothing about this. Therefore, when Lisa marries him and he asks her if this will be her first time on her wedding night, Lisa is quite surprised and says ‘No, of course not’ But Rourke can’t remember deflowering her and accuses Lisa of sleeping with the local doctor. Lisa, already pregnant with Rourke’s child, flees for the east end of London and a future of torment at the hands of her hipster neighbours (who no doubt will keep parking their Audi across their drive, which is what happened to me when I had neighbours like that).
When Rourke arrives, Lisa realises she’s still in love with him (why? why? – he was a nasty piece of work before the whole deflowering in a storm/can’t remember the deflowering incident/vile accusations of getting up to all kinds of shenanigans with the local doctor and he seems even worse when he arrives on the scene now). When Rourke arrives, he is a very embittered, angry and arrogant man and he pretty much stays that way throughout the entire novel. He makes terrible accusations against poor Lisa and Lisa just sucks it up and doesn’t even make him grovel when his memories start to return to him. Plus she puts up with the other woman just showing up whenever she feels like it and the other woman endangering her child’s life. Lisa is a terrible sap in other words, Rourke is a nasty piece of work, and in some ways, the happy ending in this novel (i.e. them staying together and having a second chance at their romance) is no happy ending at all.
This is a disappointing offering from Jordan’s usually excellent corpus and has very few redeeming features. In fact, I can’t think of any – the characters are terrible – even the subsidiary characters (like the Caribbean housekeeper) are dreadfully stereotyped and not realised well. The bit about the neighbours made me laugh though. When the chap with the Audi moved house, we nearly had a street party, we were that relieved to get rid of him. I could totally relate to Lisa’s pain in her neighbours, and in some ways, maybe the whole thing (going back to vile Rourke and the other woman who won’t take no for an answer and just go away) is worth it to have a life of luxury in the Caribbean, where no one is going to park their Audi across your drive.
Anyway, one evening, Robbie’s father, Rourke, who Lisa hasn’t seen for five years turns up and demands that she return to their home of St. Martins in the Caribbean with him, as his father is dying and wants to see her. This is where it gets complicated. Robbie’s father (Leigh) is also Lisa’s step-father – so Rourke is her step-brother as well as being her husband (yak). Five years ago, Rourke had taken Lisa out sailing, declared his undying love for her, got caught in a storm and hit on the head by a swinging jib on a boat and then suffering from concussion, deflowered Lisa, before then waking up and remembering nothing about this. Therefore, when Lisa marries him and he asks her if this will be her first time on her wedding night, Lisa is quite surprised and says ‘No, of course not’ But Rourke can’t remember deflowering her and accuses Lisa of sleeping with the local doctor. Lisa, already pregnant with Rourke’s child, flees for the east end of London and a future of torment at the hands of her hipster neighbours (who no doubt will keep parking their Audi across their drive, which is what happened to me when I had neighbours like that).
When Rourke arrives, Lisa realises she’s still in love with him (why? why? – he was a nasty piece of work before the whole deflowering in a storm/can’t remember the deflowering incident/vile accusations of getting up to all kinds of shenanigans with the local doctor and he seems even worse when he arrives on the scene now). When Rourke arrives, he is a very embittered, angry and arrogant man and he pretty much stays that way throughout the entire novel. He makes terrible accusations against poor Lisa and Lisa just sucks it up and doesn’t even make him grovel when his memories start to return to him. Plus she puts up with the other woman just showing up whenever she feels like it and the other woman endangering her child’s life. Lisa is a terrible sap in other words, Rourke is a nasty piece of work, and in some ways, the happy ending in this novel (i.e. them staying together and having a second chance at their romance) is no happy ending at all.
This is a disappointing offering from Jordan’s usually excellent corpus and has very few redeeming features. In fact, I can’t think of any – the characters are terrible – even the subsidiary characters (like the Caribbean housekeeper) are dreadfully stereotyped and not realised well. The bit about the neighbours made me laugh though. When the chap with the Audi moved house, we nearly had a street party, we were that relieved to get rid of him. I could totally relate to Lisa’s pain in her neighbours, and in some ways, maybe the whole thing (going back to vile Rourke and the other woman who won’t take no for an answer and just go away) is worth it to have a life of luxury in the Caribbean, where no one is going to park their Audi across your drive.
February 25, 2019
This one's just too sad for me, personally. Stubborn Macho Alpha aside, as mad as he seems about the child, it turns out in the end that he had been writing letters to her the last five years begging her to return, child or no child. All attempts to find her thwarted, he collected her books like a lovesick puppy because that was "all he had" of her. It's not until Leigh almost dies that he hires a P.I. to find her. I'm, personally, not into that kind of agony. I hate years-long separations enough, without a twist of fate (mostly, it's that she never got his letters cause she never went to the bank or touched the money) keeping them apart. I can't stand opening, ardent pining on both sides and something so simple keeping them apart. (Whereas if she had found the letters and made the choice to ignore them, that would be different).
(Wanna be OW aside, who was apparently constantly put in her place by him, but was still annoyingly persistent and a potential attempted murderist-All THAT is standard HP though).
(Wanna be OW aside, who was apparently constantly put in her place by him, but was still annoyingly persistent and a potential attempted murderist-All THAT is standard HP though).
October 1, 2018
Know this going in it seems most characters in this get physically injured. It is written as if all the lead characters have brain trama. Serious the flashbacks aren't well written so you don't realize that your reading one til it's over. The hero is such a jerk, having a head injury is his excuse I guess. Heroine is so limp, she isn't strong and she doesn't handle any interactions well. Just lets everyone tell her what to do. The only thing she puts her foot down on is her son's father, because duh, it's the memory phobic hero. The hero, before finding out that his son is his blatantly miss leads the kid 'you're going to go to school there', 'I'm your father even though, I myself do not believe such a thing', he says this stuff knowing full well he is going to dump him and his mom when he gets the chance. The freaking villain INJURES their son annnnnnnnd nothing happens. Bad, unless you like characters who are brain issues.
December 12, 2022
I hated when the protagonist is so weak to the hero's "attractiveness and charm". In the whole book I didn't find a single deep conversation between these two. The was never laughter or a good moment. Rourke was always bad-tempered and condescending. And the worst sin of all: she was 16! The author made so much emphasis on her being almost 17, but the book was about a 16 yo girl marrying a 27 yo man. Give me a break.
I get that the book was published 40 years ago but it has been reissued. Change the age to at least 18 for goodness sake. It's disgusting how much advantage the hero has over Lisa. And, have you ever heard about paternity tests? Oh, and let's not forget how a 16yo gave birth to a child and her tutors were never called and she was able to get a fantastic job that let her pay rent and support her child. As if.
I get that the book was published 40 years ago but it has been reissued. Change the age to at least 18 for goodness sake. It's disgusting how much advantage the hero has over Lisa. And, have you ever heard about paternity tests? Oh, and let's not forget how a 16yo gave birth to a child and her tutors were never called and she was able to get a fantastic job that let her pay rent and support her child. As if.
March 1, 2019
The H is a hypocritical sadist who ends up impregnating h when she is 16 years old(a month shy of 17) but still! marries her but knowing she is pregnant and not believing it to be his, throws her out considering she is 17. He has a convenient lapse in memory of their having sex and that makes it alright that she is thrown out and he is an adult male in his late 20s! There are so many things wrong in this whole book that I didn't actually go beyond the first couple of chapters and even there skimmed it but I don't know what the author was thinking of!
August 6, 2018
This book was a complexity in itself, with a lot missunderestanding, trying to protect the feelings and the young itself from a more than adult like relationship that defenitely would have been a little too early for our main female.
I loved how the characters came to realise that in fact their loves was reciprocated and that the only thing separating them was pride and a lot missunderstandings- I loved how the sisters played their part in making the couple reconciliated with each other.
I loved how the characters came to realise that in fact their loves was reciprocated and that the only thing separating them was pride and a lot missunderstandings- I loved how the sisters played their part in making the couple reconciliated with each other.
April 19, 2018
I loved this book except the ending it left me wanting more this one definitely needed an epilogue and I would have given it 5 stars I wished the current books were more like these old one they truly suck me in and I can't put it down for anything
November 16, 2018
Super crazy but that's what love will do to you.
February 12, 2019
Trashy and entertaining, like watching Dr. Phil with PewDiePie.
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