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Целувката на пирата
С помощта на свои приятели младата, красива и авантюристично настроена Катлин Ашфорд, облечена като мъж, посещава известен лондонски публичен дом, в който среща красивия и очарователен Гарик Стийли, но бързо е разкрита от бдителната съдържателка. За да избегне скандала, Катлин е принудена от леля си да напусне Лондон за две години. Тази дръзка авантюра е само началото на поредица от опасни и вълнуващи приключения и незабравими любовни мигове.
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First published August 1, 1993
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January 19, 2009
Some nasty stuff here (**shudder shudder**). This is the kind of book that should’ve have been discarded after the first few chapters because it was downhill pretty much right after.
Here you have this London society girl who’s forced to go to St Kitts to be with her father to avoid scandal for something she did on a whim. During her trip down she gets sloshed and sleeps with a pirate who has a “swollen love tool” (!) and all sorts of other “attributes”. I guess you could let that pass even though it happens around page 75. Once in St Kitts she finds out some things that have her suddenly running her dad’s plantation all by herself ---how this is possible for a young woman with no knowledge of anything apart from socializing to go from Society Miss to Plantation Overseer I didn’t quite get but I let it slide. Well that’s where the book went off the deep end because she has these frequent clandestine meetings in her bedroom with her pirate which again seemed unlikely now that she wasn’t drunk. I’m all for the h/h getting together early but make it believable and not so flowery that you just want to skim the steam scenes. There’s also an inane sub-story about a serial killer that is just soooo dumb you’ll be shaking your head saying “gawwwd” every time Mr Wack Job turns up.
The worst though was yet to come because our London Society Girl/Plantation Owner/Sex Goddess becomes an infamous pirate besting the best at sword play, steeling booty from men who’ve been doing this forever and commanding a ship all by her lonesome (!) Pure garbage and poorly written too. Every other sentence had an exclamation mark making everything seem so dramatic when it wasn’t (picture a movie where the heroine puts the back of her hand on her forehead like she’s about to swoon) and there was so much purple prose that it made you feel like gagging more than once. This is your stereotype of the stupid romance novel that non-romance readers poke fun at and think all other romance books are written in the same style and I can understand why.
The only reason I didn’t give it a one star rating is because you get a good feel of the Caribbean and the high seas —also it must take quite a bit of effort to write like that (!).
Skip this pirate drivel unless of course you want a prime example of how a romance novel shouldn’t be written and rarely is today --thank god 8-/
Here you have this London society girl who’s forced to go to St Kitts to be with her father to avoid scandal for something she did on a whim. During her trip down she gets sloshed and sleeps with a pirate who has a “swollen love tool” (!) and all sorts of other “attributes”. I guess you could let that pass even though it happens around page 75. Once in St Kitts she finds out some things that have her suddenly running her dad’s plantation all by herself ---how this is possible for a young woman with no knowledge of anything apart from socializing to go from Society Miss to Plantation Overseer I didn’t quite get but I let it slide. Well that’s where the book went off the deep end because she has these frequent clandestine meetings in her bedroom with her pirate which again seemed unlikely now that she wasn’t drunk. I’m all for the h/h getting together early but make it believable and not so flowery that you just want to skim the steam scenes. There’s also an inane sub-story about a serial killer that is just soooo dumb you’ll be shaking your head saying “gawwwd” every time Mr Wack Job turns up.
The worst though was yet to come because our London Society Girl/Plantation Owner/Sex Goddess becomes an infamous pirate besting the best at sword play, steeling booty from men who’ve been doing this forever and commanding a ship all by her lonesome (!) Pure garbage and poorly written too. Every other sentence had an exclamation mark making everything seem so dramatic when it wasn’t (picture a movie where the heroine puts the back of her hand on her forehead like she’s about to swoon) and there was so much purple prose that it made you feel like gagging more than once. This is your stereotype of the stupid romance novel that non-romance readers poke fun at and think all other romance books are written in the same style and I can understand why.
The only reason I didn’t give it a one star rating is because you get a good feel of the Caribbean and the high seas —also it must take quite a bit of effort to write like that (!).
Skip this pirate drivel unless of course you want a prime example of how a romance novel shouldn’t be written and rarely is today --thank god 8-/
March 7, 2015
Това официално е най-тъпата книга, която съм чела. Няма какво повече да кажа.
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