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صديقان.. وشيء ما!
كانت جازلين تعلم أنها لن تتزوج أبداً... وهذا لا يعني أنها تكره الرجال، لكن الحد الأقصى لصداقتها مع أي رجل عادة، هو ثلاثة مواعيد بعدها تدير ظهرها وتبتعد...
وهذا الأمر ناسب هولدن هاتاواي، فهو يريد صديقة تبعد عنه المعجبات المزعجات ولا تبني أوهاماً رومانسية على صداقتها معه.
لكن علاقتهما وصلت الآن إلى مفترق طرق، فقد تمنت جازلين لو ينسى أنها دوماً تطرد "أصدقاءها"، وأخذ خوفها يكبر يوماً بعد يوم من اقتراب "الموعد الأخير"!
وهذا الأمر ناسب هولدن هاتاواي، فهو يريد صديقة تبعد عنه المعجبات المزعجات ولا تبني أوهاماً رومانسية على صداقتها معه.
لكن علاقتهما وصلت الآن إلى مفترق طرق، فقد تمنت جازلين لو ينسى أنها دوماً تطرد "أصدقاءها"، وأخذ خوفها يكبر يوماً بعد يوم من اقتراب "الموعد الأخير"!
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Jessica Steele
339 books112 followersJessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
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June 7, 2022
Not enough conflict, drama, or angst made this a boring read.
I did enjoy seeing every man fall in lust with the stunning h at first glance, including the H. This girls so beautiful that she has guys falling for her left and right.
Catty readers might hate that though 🤷🏻♀️.
Virgin h.
No love scenes. 2nd base.
I did enjoy seeing every man fall in lust with the stunning h at first glance, including the H. This girls so beautiful that she has guys falling for her left and right.
Catty readers might hate that though 🤷🏻♀️.
Virgin h.
No love scenes. 2nd base.
December 12, 2012
Read this one years ago. It's in my "solid Steele box" -- I like to re-read it. Here's the skinny: A Most Eligible Bachelor is steamier than many books in the Hqn Romance line, with Steele's signature instant antagonism and slowly cookin' chemistry. He (wealthy Brit channeling Cary Grant) begins to love her (a virgin of course) ALMOST from the first but can't show it, because she is wary of marriage, due to childhood/parental issues (yup, Steele strikes again with one of her favorite clichés). So, he pretends that he's just lookin' for a friend, and does all he can to win her over. A few tender moments at the cottage, and two steamy love scenes.
I liked this one a lot -- it's lightweight "sweet dreams" material, but then, I'm a fan of Jessica Steele (with some exceptions).
Flaws: Heroine engages in too much introspection. I skim through it. Also, I felt as sexually frustrated as THEY did when the smokin' hot nearly naked love scene ended so abruptly. (Damn!!! Steele is infamous for this.)
Just a quick review this time.
I liked this one a lot -- it's lightweight "sweet dreams" material, but then, I'm a fan of Jessica Steele (with some exceptions).
Flaws: Heroine engages in too much introspection. I skim through it. Also, I felt as sexually frustrated as THEY did when the smokin' hot nearly naked love scene ended so abruptly. (Damn!!! Steele is infamous for this.)
Just a quick review this time.
June 22, 2022
A most ambiguously talkative eligible bachelor. For the life of me it took me half way through the book to grab onto what intentions the H really had. Not one of JS’s best.
Jazzlyn lives with her father and his gf. The gf has money in her family. One fine day a nephew comes to visit who is besotted by the h but wants to play cool and dismissive.
I had massive problems with the h. She dates several men for not more than three times and yet she gets extremely shy and stutter-y later in the book. Where whaaa?
There’s a non-harmful OM who constantly pursues the h, beginning of the book to the extent that her caring thoughtful family offers to help. Her dad’s gf has her promise that the next time around this persuasive OM calls, she would let her father deal with him.
Eventually, it’s the H who offers, while he hasn’t revealed his intentions, that she should “promise” that if OM bothers her again on the phone, she would let him deal with it.
There’s also another place where the h’s dad’s gf’s ex-husband falls ill and her dad offers to play the loving, doting bf and takes her to see to her ex’s needs. Wtf. Nobody in this family has soccer balls.
The H is older and plays elusive and broody. He wasn’t exactly too funny or too hot or too possessive. I didn’t care much for their chemistry since they talked too much all the time.
There are long walks on the beach and some grocery shopping and other mundane activities with absolutely no progress in their relationship barring the last few pages.
Slow and uninteresting. The h was a mess with words and would get into a confused klutzy mode. The H didn’t come back at her with hot sparring. I don’t know why they were wasting their time or mine!
Jazzlyn lives with her father and his gf. The gf has money in her family. One fine day a nephew comes to visit who is besotted by the h but wants to play cool and dismissive.
I had massive problems with the h. She dates several men for not more than three times and yet she gets extremely shy and stutter-y later in the book. Where whaaa?
There’s a non-harmful OM who constantly pursues the h, beginning of the book to the extent that her caring thoughtful family offers to help. Her dad’s gf has her promise that the next time around this persuasive OM calls, she would let her father deal with him.
Eventually, it’s the H who offers, while he hasn’t revealed his intentions, that she should “promise” that if OM bothers her again on the phone, she would let him deal with it.
There’s also another place where the h’s dad’s gf’s ex-husband falls ill and her dad offers to play the loving, doting bf and takes her to see to her ex’s needs. Wtf. Nobody in this family has soccer balls.
The H is older and plays elusive and broody. He wasn’t exactly too funny or too hot or too possessive. I didn’t care much for their chemistry since they talked too much all the time.
There are long walks on the beach and some grocery shopping and other mundane activities with absolutely no progress in their relationship barring the last few pages.
Slow and uninteresting. The h was a mess with words and would get into a confused klutzy mode. The H didn’t come back at her with hot sparring. I don’t know why they were wasting their time or mine!
April 7, 2009
It's not that horrible, but read it only if you have nothing else to do. The 180-degrees change in the hero's character is ridiculous. The ending is so sappy that I almost gagged.
September 4, 2013
I do like the books where the hero is in love from first sight and plots to have her and this falls in the category. I did enjoy reading this one but giving it 3 stars as I found the heroines inner thoughts went on for pages and pages. It could have been shorter there somehow.
Still a good 1 time read.
Still a good 1 time read.
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August 28, 2022Two of a kind – the marrying kind!
Holden Hathaway thought he and Jazzlyn were two of a kind -- that neither of them wanted long-term commitment. On the face of it, Holden was right; before Jazzlyn met him, she'd always ended her relationships after the third date!
However, Holden was the most handsome, eligible man Jazzlyn had ever known and suddenly she wished he didn't believe she always sent men packing. Her chance came when she told an unwanted male admirer that she and Holden were going steady. The odd thing was that Holden -- previously the most confirmed of bachelors -- didn't seem to mind!
Holden Hathaway thought he and Jazzlyn were two of a kind -- that neither of them wanted long-term commitment. On the face of it, Holden was right; before Jazzlyn met him, she'd always ended her relationships after the third date!
However, Holden was the most handsome, eligible man Jazzlyn had ever known and suddenly she wished he didn't believe she always sent men packing. Her chance came when she told an unwanted male admirer that she and Holden were going steady. The odd thing was that Holden -- previously the most confirmed of bachelors -- didn't seem to mind!
June 24, 2024
Loved it!
Typical JS in that the hero is a wealthy businessman who falls in love from the get-go. Heroine is a naive virginal type but in this case she has men falling over themselves to go out with her but she's too scared to last more than three dates. Her introspection and second guessing did get on my nerves a bit though.
Our hero has to be a bit cunning though before we get our happy denoument.
Typical JS in that the hero is a wealthy businessman who falls in love from the get-go. Heroine is a naive virginal type but in this case she has men falling over themselves to go out with her but she's too scared to last more than three dates. Her introspection and second guessing did get on my nerves a bit though.
Our hero has to be a bit cunning though before we get our happy denoument.
July 25, 2017
صديقان وشيء ما
July 31, 2022
Except for the h sharing my annoying habit of overthinking, this was a decent read.
December 17, 2012
Well.. it started off on a good note... But climax was too sweet for my taste.. and also Jazz was getting on my nerves....
This is my second book of Jessica Steele and I am disappointed with her style.... I like good well-written characters... here it was not there.. we just have Jazz's point of view... Where is the Guy's point of view.. so it messes up...
I think.. I like it better from 3rd party point of view.. That way we get to see all the characters.. Here we could not understand Holden much.. we know what Jazz saw him...
This is my second book of Jessica Steele and I am disappointed with her style.... I like good well-written characters... here it was not there.. we just have Jazz's point of view... Where is the Guy's point of view.. so it messes up...
I think.. I like it better from 3rd party point of view.. That way we get to see all the characters.. Here we could not understand Holden much.. we know what Jazz saw him...
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