Quando Érica olhou para o magnata Don Sands, abafou um grito. Não podia ser verdade. Aquele homem era seu marido, seu amado Kirk, desaparecido num desastre de avião! Foram três anos de buscas, desespero, lágrimas… e, agora que Érica finalmente o encontrou, Kirk estava casado com outra – a riquíssima herdeira Leila Coventry. Seu marido era bígamo! Kirk tinha perdido a memória, ressurgindo do abismo do esquecimento como um novo homem: o frio e calculista Don Sands. E a antiga magia que existia entre eles, aquela paixão que os fundia num único e ardente ser? Érica tinha que reaver o seu Kirk, custasse o que custasse! Mas de que jeito? Don Sands zombava de sua presunção!
Valerie Christine Parv was a popular Australian writer of over 70 romance novels, with more than 34 million sales. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1982.
Amnesia story that starts out strong, but devolves into silliness when the H/h decide to let the OW escape justice when the hero's memory returns because they are so happy.
I also could have done without the rapey co-worker and the h's scenes with him. The author glosses over how passive the hero must have been for three years living with the psycho OW, but we are assured he never had sex with her. For readers who can suspend their sense of disbelief.
Unexpected and very good. It is an amnesia story that is a plot quite common in hp land. I must admit I love book with amnesia because they can convey a nice amount of angst. This one has it. The heroine and the hero have been married for two years, they are happy together and very much in love. He’s a jet pilot, and during a flight his airplane falls into the sea and he’s nowhere to be found. The heroine keeps looking for him and after three years it seems she finally has found him. Of course he doesn’t remember a thing about his past but what’s worse he has another name, another job and guess what? Another wife! Yeah that’s it. A rich heiress who owns the company where he’s the manager. So, our lil unlucky but very strong and determined heroine goes to work just in his company, to have the chance to meet him. When they meet he doesn’t recognize her so she waits for him after work and tells him she’s his wife. The hero doesn’t believe her and asks for proofs but she lost every document and picture of him in a fire some time ago soooooo sorry hero, not a proof at all! Oh and not one person who would testify who he is because apparently they were a very secluded couple and he had no family. This was stretched too much. Because ok she lost all the pictures but he did have a job and what a job, he was a pilot and a pilot is not usually a person who doesn’t meet anyone during his job is he. So here we are into a fantasy book, and I must say that this fact that nobody or nothing in the world would prove who he was is really not realistic and it is one of the few things I found weird and annoying. Anyway the hero kisses the heroine even believing she’s a fraud and thank god their good old chemistry is all there and the man is stunned. The heroine doesn’t give up. She wants her husband back and every chance is good to try and make him remember her. Even if this means to crash a party. Or to invite him to her apartment. Or to seduce him and have sex with him knowing he believes himself to be married to ow. This heroine is really a dog with a bone, the hero keeps telling her he doesn’t believe her and he doesn’t want to believe her but she never ever give up. The hero also gives her a job as his pa, so you can guess this two together… And it’s a rollercoaster of emotions that keeps the angst level very high because one moment the hero seems to be softening to her, a second later he’s cold and resentful and the heroine who really loves him more than life suffers very much. The hero is not much of a man. Ok he was hurt and doesn’t remember and his wife was the only one who was always near him and so he feels guilty because he feels this strong attraction to a woman he doesn’t remember but at the same time he can’t stop seeing her and having feelings for her. He doesn’t really fight too hard to stay away and the fact that he had sex with the heroine being married to another woman was really difficult to digest so as the fact he married ow, and was actually bigamist. And the heroine was really hurt knowing he married ow and thinking about them in bed together. But the book has also some interesting twists. Ow has a riding accident and for some time is paralyzed so the heroine must follow the hero at his house where he will be taking care of his wife while working. There are other passionate moments between them and actually the hero doesn’t really recoil from heroine when she’s around, but eventually ow recover- or better, the heroine finds out she’s pretending her illness and can walk very well- and she tells the heroine how she deceived the hero when she found him unconscious making him believe he was her husband, because she needed a man to run her company. But then she also tells the heroine that he could lose his mind if he recover his memory so now the heroine has to leave him because she can’t do him harm. This woman is really one of the worst bitch in hp story, second only to that one who mowed the heroine with the hero’s car ruining forever her career as a piano player. She tells the hero that heroine is blackmailing her and the heroine can’t deny for fear he would be I’ll. The heroine would also leave the company but ow wants her around to keep an eye on her. Isn’t she a queen bitch??? Unfortunately for her the hero doesn’t want to give up the heroine and asks her to go to a business trip with him. During the journey the heroine has a car accident and the hero recover his memory and all is well. He doesn’t lose his mind and he will leave bitch ow. He was leaving her when heroine had her accident because even his new self was in love with heroine! Sadly the woman has no comeuppance, not enough IMO. But at least even if he was tricked into her evil plan he never had sex with her. In his subconscious mind he couldn’t because he was always in love with this wife. So 4 stars because the book was weird, crazy, angsty but certainly not boring!
Started out very strong, but rapidly went down hill when things just didn't add up and credibility "went out the door" by page 50. The ending was unforgivable.
This book dates from 1983 so it was almost like reading a vintage in terms of technology in the business world. The story follows the heroine Erin as she tracks down her husband who went missing three years ago after an air crash. Now she's found him, CEO of an engineering company, married to an heiress, a different name, and absolutely no memory of his former life. Or has he. Right from the start he is drawn to Erin even believing her to be trying to con him. How his wife responds to her appearance is also cause for serious thought. Valerie Parv takes us through the twists and turns with panache and skill and grips the emotions nicely right until the end. The ending was supremely satisfying and quite justified the five stars. AFter spending the whole book thinking I wasn't going to like it the ending and the revelations therein made me very happy. The criteria is "amazing" and in this case it was. I didn't expect everything to pan out to my personal wishes but they did so well done Valerie.
I'm not sure why the other reviewers have had a problem with this book. I agree with Kaylee that the ending has been misunderstood.
At the beginning I was all - but what about marriage certificates and photographs and witnesses and his pilot buddies and all - whenever she felt she didn't have proof but then slowly I forgot about these things (the author does give somewhat valid explanations that excuse these questions) and fell into the book completely.
The book was full of angst. My God, such an impossible little story if you really think about it. Your husband has had a plane crash and gone missing. The police and everyone around you believe him to be dead but here you are clinging to hope on the basis of a rare connection you two shared and believing he is in fact alive. Your friends and family think you need to move on and slowly you drift apart from all of them because you simply need to cling to this faith or you'll go mad with despair.
I don't know how Erin was able to manage the search for the three long years when everyone believed her husband to be dead. I was so worried about this book because it is such a scary and delicate plot with even one wrong turn the readers could hate it (as seen I guess from other reviews).
Erin finally tracks her missing husband but he's not Kirk anymore. He's Don Sands (yuck, what a pathetic name). He's married to an heiress and the owner of a large company - so different from Kirk Wilding who was a pilot. (But I guess it's only possible in HP that a pilot can so successfully pull off a business).
Now Erin is trying to get through to "Don" - Kirk, who doesn't believe her but is drawn to her for her beauty and some deep connection that keeps tugging him her way.
One thing I didn't like was how much Kirk kissed, danced and flirted with Erin despite having a wife he so supposedly respected so so much. However, I couldn't bring myself to be mad about it because he is actually married to Erin! That was a confusing point. Erin was constantly accused of being the OW or as a sly secretary trying to make it big with the boss from everyone around her - including the boss Kirk himself! That was so annoying and sad to read.
I just felt so bad for Erin's plight. Just imagine being this close to your husband and seeing him with another woman who claims to be his wife and he does not believe you because he has lost his memory and is eternally grateful for this wife who has brought him out of his accident.
But Kirk was not a bad man. He had one or two low points, when he accused Erin of seducing him that was the worst, but he quickly recovered from it all because ultimately he was a nice person, a good man trapped in this situation and he was wonderfully played by Leila, his supposed wife.
I am actually pleased with the ending. Erin decided to not let all the publicity which would follow affect them. It doesn't matter if some people thought of her as the secretary who the boss ran away with because their reality is back in their home.
I would have loved to see Leila suffer actually, but I guess having to fall in love with Don King - a character she created, but then seeing that he had no desire for her and then having Kirk reject everything she made of him and take off with his true love is hurt enough.
This was ok. A decent older HQ, but nothing that had a wow moment for me.
Mostly I wanted to review because a different reviewer put a spoiler in their review that was, well, simply incorrect. The spoiler is kinda major so be warned.
the book just went on and on about the same issue. it was a moot point. erin pursued dirk all throughout the book and he did not even believe her until he got his memory back. yuck! for more details, read leona's review! she wrote a good one!very precise and exactly my thoughts about the book!
The H and his wife accuse, insult and vile h to an extent any sane person should have packed up and left. The h sticks to the story of the H being her husband who is suffering amnesia. Considering H has been living another life with another woman as his wife for three years, h doesn't give up on him at all when its clear H doesn't want to believe in h or at the worst have h as his mistress. Extra star as the plot is bolder than a typical harlequin published in the 1980s.
What would you do if you were told your spouse had died but you felt to your very soul that they were still alive and after years of searching you found him but he didn't remember you and was married to someone else? If you are like Erin the main female character you never give up, like a dog searching for a bone you persevere.
This was Erin until she was told something that devastates her and because she loves Kirk/Don so much she decides to walk away.
The OW in this book wasn't just bad but she was truly evil and did not get any comeuppance for her sins.
In the end there is an HEA but was it with Erin or the OW and was the main male character Kirk or Don? I guess you will have to read to find out!
Holy cow, what else does the heroine have to go through?! Jeez! Just give her back her husband! Wish she had left after the other crazy woman tried to lie to the hero. And she simply give him her wedding ring and moves on, accepting she lost him years ago. Then he comes and gets her in the end, memory restored. Didn't really like the hero. Don't get me wrong he was in a terrible terrible situation but he was kinda a sleaze and we are suppose to forgive him because he is only attracted to the heroine...eh still a sleaze! How crazy was the other coworker?! Yikes, he needs to be in prison. I say read it for the fun factor.
This book got my attention from the start, as not only do I like amnesia stories, but in this one it's the H with amnesia, whereas it's usually the h who suffers from it. But this h did more than her share of suffering anyhow, first losing her beloved husband, who supposedly died when the small plane he piloted crashed, then being told it was foolish to hope he survived even so his body wasn't recovered, then having her (in my opinion, crappy) parents turn their back on her because she wouldn't accept (their version of) reality, then searching for him form three years, only to discover he's alive but married to another woman, and has no idea who she is!!!
I'd say she did more than her share of suffering! And there was more to come!
I like the way the h sets about on a campaign to get her husband back, even though she knows the odds are against her, since at first, he thinks she's another gold-digging con artist (and he's faced many, since his "wife" is wealthy and socially prominent and he's head of a company that's a subsidiary of her late father's business empire), despite her seeming sincerity and despite his undeniable attraction to her.
She's determined to win back her man, while the OW is just as determined to keep him!
I would have given this book another star except for a few points. The first being that the H (notwithstanding his condition) seemed pretty dense when it came to the OW. Everything about her seemed suspicious from the start, and even though he wasn't well for some time after she found him, he just bought everything she said at face value, including the "proof" of their marriage, which was still kind of sketchy. He never wanted to do some research on his own, especially since he never stopped feeling that something was wrong about their marriage, and his amnesia only partially explained that.
Not to mention his instant attraction to the h! He seemed determined to think of her as an opportunist, and didn't question why he had this strong attraction toward her that he didn't have toward his "wife"?
Also: his former career was an airline pilot, now he's CEO of a business and doing very well at it? Are we supposed to believe he had this hidden business acumen all along??? Sounds a bit far- fetched.
And the way the OW was able to manipulate situations (not to mention people) really got on my nerves! She even went so far as to confess everything to the h, confident that she wouldn't be able to do anything about it, and convincing her it would be dangerous to try to get the H to remember as whenever he's made an attempt to get his memories back, he gets terrible headaches (which was true) and they might leave him permanently brain damaged (which wasn't, but she knew the h wouldn't want to chance it). And she excuses her behavior by stating that, although her motives for the lie were selfish (she needed a husband to acquire her late father's company, and he came in handy) she's grown to love him (or her version of love), so that should make it okay. (!!!)
So, the h goes into "cruel to be kind" mode, trying to convince the H she really is a con artist to prevent his trying to remember her (afraid of what might happen if he does), but he doesn't buy it. This whole thing was just so silly, I wish the author had skipped it.
When a dangerous close call with the h (after she runs off, thinking he believes the OW's lies about her) makes him regain his memory, their reunion seems too rushed, and everything is ended too quickly. You don't find out what's going to happen with his job (he was supposed to take over the California branch of the company after it merged with another, owned by the OM, who was only around a short time, as a means to make the H feel jealous) or if he's going to be a pilot again.
What's more, I think it was ridiculous that they decide to let the OW get away with everything, even clearing the way for her to hold onto the company, by making everyone think he abandoned her for the h! So, all sympathy will be with this horrible woman!!! They decide karma will catch up with her eventually. So dumb!!! What they should have done is called a press conference and made public what she did, which would have destroyed her career and served her right!
Even worse, there was a horrible character in the book, a guy who liked getting rough with women and tried to rape the h. (His excuse was that she led him on. She had flirted with him to get him to invite her to a fancy party where the H would be when she first started working at the company, and regretted using him, but the guy was a jerk from the start, and what she did sure didn't justify him trying to force himself on her twice, and she wasn't the only woman he treated that way. Yet (aside from a punch from the H) he gets away with his deeds, just like the OW. I think they should have both ended up in prison!
All in all, it's not a bad book, but it has some flaws that take away from the story.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
"Remember Me, My Love" is the story of Erin and Kirk/ Don.
The heroine's beloved husband went missing in a plane crash. She never gives up looking for him, and two years later she finds his doppelgänger. Turns out he is now "married" to insane OW, and has amnesia! He refuses to recognize her, but that does not stop him from kissing and sleeping with heroine. Also there is a evil OM pawing the heroine, a vindictive OW, and loads of drama.
I hated that both the sh!tty OW and OM didn't get their comeuppance. The ending was not satisfying, the SA attempts ignored and you're asking me to believe he remained celibate for two years?
Liked this one. Although an epilogue would have been better. And also a lot more grovelling on H‘s part given the type of hell the h went through because of his push and pull. I really felt heartbroken for the h though. She went through so much, alone, fighting to find her husband. Although the reason for her having no other evidence of hin being her husband felt a little bit convulated, but it’s fiction so it makes sense.
2.5 It was decent at some places and bad at others, also the ending needed to be better. i mean they wouldn't want to prosecute the OW for her lies and deliberate misdirection.