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Tasha estaba encantada de haberse quedado embarazada, pero decirle al empresario australiano Jared North que iba a ser padre sería lo más difícil que tendría que hacer en su vida. Llevaban tres años teniendo una apasionada relación, pero el matrimonio jamás había figurado en sus planes.
Pero entonces Jared sorprendió a Tasha pidiéndole que se casara con él, y todo cambió. Tasha rechazó la petición convencida de que él solo lo hacía porque era lo más adecuado para el bebé, no porque la amara.
Tasha estaba encantada de haberse quedado embarazada, pero decirle al empresario australiano Jared North que iba a ser padre sería lo más difícil que tendría que hacer en su vida. Llevaban tres años teniendo una apasionada relación, pero el matrimonio jamás había figurado en sus planes.
Pero entonces Jared sorprendió a Tasha pidiéndole que se casara con él, y todo cambió. Tasha rechazó la petición convencida de que él solo lo hacía porque era lo más adecuado para el bebé, no porque la amara.
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Helen Bianchin
380 books228 followersHelen Shirley was born on February 20 1939 in New Zealand, where she grew up, an only child possessed by a vivid imagination and a love for reading. She wrote stories for amusement in her early teenage years, and when she left leaving school, she took a secretarial job at a father-and-son legal firm.
At age twenty-one Helen joined a girlfriend and embarked on a working holiday in Australia, travelling via cruise ship from Auckland to Melbourne. Alas, no shipboard romance, as she spent all four days in her cabin suffering from sea-sickness! After fifteen months working in Melbourne, Helen and her friend bought a vehicle and took three months to drive the length and breadth of Australia, choosing to work in Cairns in order to fund the final leg of our journey to Sydney.
It was in Cairns that Helen met her future husband, Danilo Bianchin, an Italian immigrant from Treviso. He was a tobacco sharefarmer from the tobacco farming community of Mareeba. His English was pitiful, and her command of Italian was nil. Six months later they married, and Helen was flung into cooking for up to nine tobacco pickers, stringing tobacco, feeding 200 chickens, a few turkeys, ducks... plus killing, cleaning and cooking the same! Her knowledge of Italian improved, and there were hilarious moments in retrospect. Some of what she endured was cooking on a wood-burning stove, having no running hot water, a primitive shower and toilet facilities, washing uniforms for two soccer teams during the soccer season... floods, horrendous hailstone damage to tobacco crops, hardship, and the stillbirth of their first child. Then, to their joy, Helen's daughter, Lucia, was born. Three years later the couple returned to New Zealand, where they settled for sixteen years. During those early years, they added two sons, Angelo and Peter, to the family.
With multiple anecdotes of farm life in an Italian community to friends, the idea of writing a book occurred. A romance, set on a tobacco farm in Australia's far north, Queensland, featuring an Italian hero. Helen says, "the background was authentic, believe me!" However the hero was rich and owned the farm artistic license! It took her a year to complete a passable manuscript, typed on a portable typewriter at the dining room table. That first effort was deemed too short with insufficient detail. Helen rewrote it. This time it was considered too long with too much extraneous detail. She revised, then sent it to London. Four months later she received a telegram from Alan Boon (Mills & Boon) to say they intended to publish and a contract would be sent in the mail. It was the most wonderful news!
Helen wrote ten more books while living in New Zealand, then in 1981, her family resettled in Australia, on Queensland's Gold Coast. She has since published twenty-five more books. Today, with computer technology, the mechanics of writing are much easier. However, the writing process doesn't change. Helen says that she's having a good day if she can achieve 5 good pages, which she is likely to change, edit and rewrite the following day.
She loves creating characters, giving them life and providing a situation where their emotions are tested and love wins out. For her, the greatest praise is for a reader to say they couldn't put the book down... then Helen knows that she has achieved what she set out to do -- "create a moving enjoyable story which holds the reader entertained from beginning to end."
Helen's hobbies are tennis, table-tennis, judo, reading. She loves movies, and leads an active social life.
At age twenty-one Helen joined a girlfriend and embarked on a working holiday in Australia, travelling via cruise ship from Auckland to Melbourne. Alas, no shipboard romance, as she spent all four days in her cabin suffering from sea-sickness! After fifteen months working in Melbourne, Helen and her friend bought a vehicle and took three months to drive the length and breadth of Australia, choosing to work in Cairns in order to fund the final leg of our journey to Sydney.
It was in Cairns that Helen met her future husband, Danilo Bianchin, an Italian immigrant from Treviso. He was a tobacco sharefarmer from the tobacco farming community of Mareeba. His English was pitiful, and her command of Italian was nil. Six months later they married, and Helen was flung into cooking for up to nine tobacco pickers, stringing tobacco, feeding 200 chickens, a few turkeys, ducks... plus killing, cleaning and cooking the same! Her knowledge of Italian improved, and there were hilarious moments in retrospect. Some of what she endured was cooking on a wood-burning stove, having no running hot water, a primitive shower and toilet facilities, washing uniforms for two soccer teams during the soccer season... floods, horrendous hailstone damage to tobacco crops, hardship, and the stillbirth of their first child. Then, to their joy, Helen's daughter, Lucia, was born. Three years later the couple returned to New Zealand, where they settled for sixteen years. During those early years, they added two sons, Angelo and Peter, to the family.
With multiple anecdotes of farm life in an Italian community to friends, the idea of writing a book occurred. A romance, set on a tobacco farm in Australia's far north, Queensland, featuring an Italian hero. Helen says, "the background was authentic, believe me!" However the hero was rich and owned the farm artistic license! It took her a year to complete a passable manuscript, typed on a portable typewriter at the dining room table. That first effort was deemed too short with insufficient detail. Helen rewrote it. This time it was considered too long with too much extraneous detail. She revised, then sent it to London. Four months later she received a telegram from Alan Boon (Mills & Boon) to say they intended to publish and a contract would be sent in the mail. It was the most wonderful news!
Helen wrote ten more books while living in New Zealand, then in 1981, her family resettled in Australia, on Queensland's Gold Coast. She has since published twenty-five more books. Today, with computer technology, the mechanics of writing are much easier. However, the writing process doesn't change. Helen says that she's having a good day if she can achieve 5 good pages, which she is likely to change, edit and rewrite the following day.
She loves creating characters, giving them life and providing a situation where their emotions are tested and love wins out. For her, the greatest praise is for a reader to say they couldn't put the book down... then Helen knows that she has achieved what she set out to do -- "create a moving enjoyable story which holds the reader entertained from beginning to end."
Helen's hobbies are tennis, table-tennis, judo, reading. She loves movies, and leads an active social life.
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October 31, 2020
I was all ready to be sympathetic to the heroine in this one: she’s pregnant! By some guy who won’t commit! Except… oh, wait… they moved in together six months into the relationship (and have been together for years since) and have never actually discussed marriage or commitment. Um, okay. She’s not willing to consider an abortion - fine, her choice. But surely he’s going to say something really sneery and category romance hero-y about the pregnancy, like “as soon as we’ve done the DNA test” - no? No, he’s just going to say “well, let’s get married then”? So she must be pleased - oh, no, she’s really upset because she loves him too much to want a “second-best marriage” so she’s going to sleep in the guest room and, uh, break up with this guy and move out. Um. Yeah, I’m having some difficulty here. I mean, it’s not that she can’t make these choices, I just don’t understand why she’s making them. Like, this is not our earth logic here. The heroine is too much of a dingbat - and remains too much of a dingbat throughout - for the book to be very interesting.
June 28, 2016
Stupid book and stupid woman, I've never been able to understand the whole internalizing thing, saying what you feel to yourself, yea that helps and then making unanimous decisions out of sheer stubbornness... Maybe I'm just being pissy but honestly women who do this get no pity from me, then again, I guess that's what the whole Harlequin franchise is built on.
Also Harlequin has made a generation of women believe that 3 words 'I LOVE YOU' Cures all that ails... Actions speak louder than words is my philosophy! But hey it's fiction sooo read on
Also Harlequin has made a generation of women believe that 3 words 'I LOVE YOU' Cures all that ails... Actions speak louder than words is my philosophy! But hey it's fiction sooo read on
July 17, 2018
This was sweet.
No threats or demands that she marry him or else. It was a really calm long game to get her to marry him. He said the L word and she melted. It was nice. Men could learn something from how he reacted and treated her freak out. There was no name calling, no implying she can't look after herself he just rang every day made sure he had excuses to see her and won her over. Made her see sense that they love each other.
This was nice.
No threats or demands that she marry him or else. It was a really calm long game to get her to marry him. He said the L word and she melted. It was nice. Men could learn something from how he reacted and treated her freak out. There was no name calling, no implying she can't look after herself he just rang every day made sure he had excuses to see her and won her over. Made her see sense that they love each other.
This was nice.
February 16, 2019
Not going to say anything different than the other reviews. The conflict arises from a manufactured construct in Tasha's head. She doesn't want to get married because of the baby, but refuses to continue living together. The story focuses so much on showing that the characters are busy successful people that it fails to make them people at all. They are just sketches that I filled in to have some feelings about this story other than annoyance. There are no emotional scenes it's all very civilized. Even when a situation cries out for an emotionally moving moment. This book just lacks courage and was painful to read.
March 16, 2019
This was a bit better than the last Harlequin I read. Jared is not super possessive, but the conflict is not really well done. There is no basis for Tasha to think he does not love her. If you like romances, this is a quick read with a happy ending, but I can't recommend it for anyone else.
January 18, 2018
Berharap buku ini menggemaskan saat membaca sinopsisnya, tapi agaknya menggemaskan hanya di bagian awal halaman saja. >.< Karena semakin ke belakang, entah bagaimana tokoh utama perempuannya mendadak menjadi sangat menyebalkan. =.=a Tarik ulurnya koq jatuhnya jadi menyebalkan sekali ya. Apa aku saja yang merasa demikian? Seperti dipaksa untuk memenuhi jumlah target halaman. :( Belum bagian klimaksnya yang terkesan seperti 'maksa'. =.=a Huhuhu. Sedih deh bacanya. >.<
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September 13, 2024
🖇️ Pinangan Sang Miliader
🍁Helen Bianchin
📖 iPekanbaru
⭐ 2,7/5
Review: HAAAAAAH. Harusnya bisa lebih emosional😞😞 Aku gak suka banget sama FL nya yang keliatan horny banget wkwkwk. I mean, lu itu lagi hamil cuyyy. Mikirin kek bayi lu. Malah mikirin sentuhan, ciuman, apalah itu😭😭😭😭 tp kayaknya aku lagi zonk aja sih dapet yang weird yang kayak gini.
🍁Helen Bianchin
📖 iPekanbaru
⭐ 2,7/5
Review: HAAAAAAH. Harusnya bisa lebih emosional😞😞 Aku gak suka banget sama FL nya yang keliatan horny banget wkwkwk. I mean, lu itu lagi hamil cuyyy. Mikirin kek bayi lu. Malah mikirin sentuhan, ciuman, apalah itu😭😭😭😭 tp kayaknya aku lagi zonk aja sih dapet yang weird yang kayak gini.
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February 14, 2024
This story wasn't a bad one. It was just very boring. The Hero of this story is a sweetheart, and the heroine a stubborn jackass who won't pull her head out of her butt long enough to see what she has in front of her. So boring and frustrating.
February 16, 2018
Cerita wattpad kebanyakan terinspirasi dari novel harlequinn yak
August 6, 2018
If I wanted a make believe boyfriend Jared would be him. He is lovely. Tasha was a bit annoying but she wasn't sure about their relationship. Great ending.
January 16, 2020
Una Boda por Amor
July 3, 2022
I knew the book is old but it not an excuse the make the dumbest pathetic heroine character in harlequin, dear author. All the stars credited for Jared as patience boyfriend
November 22, 2023
Really enjoyed it, h had spunk…loved it and I read it in English.
September 7, 2007
(ceritanya lagi pengakuan dosa):
Iya... aku beli (lagi-lagi) karena covernya. Maaf... maaf.... Abis, waktu liat, posenya gimana gitu. Hehe... ya tergoda deh. Tapi isinya? Hehh... kurang memenuhi ekspektasi. Flat banget. Bahkan gue nggak bisa masuk ke dalam emosi si cewek yang mati-matian menolak pinangan si Jared karena yakin cowok itu nikahin dia karena tanggung jawab doang. Biasa aja nih buku... tapi lumayan lah buat ukuran bacaan ringan.
Iya... aku beli (lagi-lagi) karena covernya. Maaf... maaf.... Abis, waktu liat, posenya gimana gitu. Hehe... ya tergoda deh. Tapi isinya? Hehh... kurang memenuhi ekspektasi. Flat banget. Bahkan gue nggak bisa masuk ke dalam emosi si cewek yang mati-matian menolak pinangan si Jared karena yakin cowok itu nikahin dia karena tanggung jawab doang. Biasa aja nih buku... tapi lumayan lah buat ukuran bacaan ringan.
March 20, 2011
Tasha and Jared have been living together for 2 years when Tasha gets pregnant. Jared proposes but Tasha thinks it's just because of the baby and moves out.
I didn't feel any real chemistry between the two characters. I found Tasha to be somewhat cold.
The book could have benefited from a chapter or two about them before the pregnancy. Did they really care about each other or were they just roommates that slept together?
I didn't feel any real chemistry between the two characters. I found Tasha to be somewhat cold.
The book could have benefited from a chapter or two about them before the pregnancy. Did they really care about each other or were they just roommates that slept together?
July 4, 2007
Meskipun alur ceritanya agak monoton, aku suka ma si Jared yg romantis n gigih banget merebut kembali hati-nya Tasha... Menurutku bagian cerita waktu Jared hampir kena bom kurang mengkhawatirkan... tp secara keseluruhan oke-lah... apalagi covernya, jadi pengen foto dengan gaya kayak gt deh, hehehe...
August 1, 2012
This is one of my more favorite of the author's books because while he may be totally alpha, as all her H's are, he's definitely more fallible and more real than most of the others. I like that he realized he'd taken the h and their live-in relationship for granted and that he was determined to win back her heart, and to trust in his love again.
April 24, 2013
Liked it ? Not so much. The heroine lived with the guy for two years. There is an accidental pregnancy and he proposes afterwards. Her answer big no. She moves out of the house. Well why did she stay for so long with the guy if she didn't trust him ? In the end there is a blast and she fears she lost her guy. Wakes up and tells him that she loves him blabla bla.
March 19, 2022
The Pregnancy Proposal
In typical Bianchin fashion the H is totally involved with the h. He wants her, as she wants him. But neither communicate with the other. So also is the presence of the other woman who wants him. Throw in an unplanned pregnancy and emotions run high. This is an older story. Have enjoyed reading books by this author for the predictable ending.
In typical Bianchin fashion the H is totally involved with the h. He wants her, as she wants him. But neither communicate with the other. So also is the presence of the other woman who wants him. Throw in an unplanned pregnancy and emotions run high. This is an older story. Have enjoyed reading books by this author for the predictable ending.
January 9, 2023
They have lived together for several years, but after finding out she is pregnant, she leaves him. She wants to find her own apartment now that she is pregnant, even though he asks her to marry him.
She is silly and annoying and I don’t understand her reasoning. But he is hot and wonderful, so two stars.
She is silly and annoying and I don’t understand her reasoning. But he is hot and wonderful, so two stars.
December 7, 2019
Something about this particular story made me wish it was 100 pages or so longer, I enjoyed reading it and am going to check out some other books by Helen Bianchin.
P.S a believable story - with a sweet hero (opposed to the usual cruel ones - though I still love them)
P.S a believable story - with a sweet hero (opposed to the usual cruel ones - though I still love them)
December 28, 2007
This book is steamy and a good pocket read. Although, I don't read many novels like this, once in a while is fine.
December 12, 2010
Sangat membosankan! Mengulang2 kata yg sama dr awal smp akhir sampe trs bertanya2 kapan ni buku abisnya?? Penyiksaan bngt deh bacanya....
October 28, 2012
Otra tonta, de aquellas que tienes ganas de pegarle una buena paliza. La historia es estropeada pela estupidez de Tasha.
July 28, 2011
Sebetulnya saya suka ide ceritanya, tapi saya nggak suka sama Tasha-nya. Sorry, darling. :p
December 27, 2012
This one was pretty great. The hero, no matter what the heroine did refused to be parted with her. It was all quite romantic and emotional.
November 14, 2014
Agak gak 'ngeh' sama si Tasha kenapa dia mati-matian nolak di Jared buat nikahin..
June 15, 2021
Tasha is surprised to discover that she's pregnant, now she has to tell her lover Jared
May 2, 2018
Lo siento pero no puedo con esto, en serio ella hace esto y se la pasa casi todo el bendito libro arrepintiendose pero igual sigue sin entrar en razon.
De hace rato la hubiera mandado bien lejos
De hace rato la hubiera mandado bien lejos
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