Ριψοκινδυνος ερωτας

by Jayne Bauling

"Tell," she whispers and draws the blue fabric close around her childish body.
Chabi finds herself in conflict with her father when a new immigrant family move into E Eights. But she and her friends are determined to help Hawa and her parents. What happens next leaves its mark on them all.

Genres: Harlequin Presents

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Jayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was shortlisted for the same award in 2014. In 2011 she also won the inaugural African Writing flash fiction prize for Settling. She has twice been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another youth novel Our Side of the Wall was shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize. Her adult short stories have appeared in The Bed Book of Short Stories (Modjaji Books), The Edge of Things (Dye Hard Press), African Pens 2011 (Jacana), Feast, Famine & Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), the e-anthology Behind the Shadows, and (the stories An Inappropriate Woman and Witch and Bitch)in the People Opposing Women Abuse Breaking the Silence annual anthologies (Jacana). Rage and Misfortune, her retelling of the OT Samson story was published online by Ludic Press. Poetry: Symbiosis won SAFM's Express Yourself prize, Fist was placed 3rd in the 2008 POWA Women's Writing Project and published in Murmurs of the Girl in Me, while Unschooled was published in POWA's 2010 anthology Stories of the Othere(ed) Woman and The Ladies Take Tea in POWA's 2012 anthology Sisterhood. More poetry in ouroboros review, Markings, poetandgeek, Ons Klyntji, Litnet and the Lowvelder.
Her latest novel is Soccer Secrets (Cover2Cover Books).
Visit her Facebook page Jayne Bauling Writer or follow her on Twitter @JayneBauling

Reviews

[Raffaella · Rating 1 out of 5]

Definitely no.
The hero is a jaded playboy but this is not even his worst fault.
He slut shames the heroine because she supposedly had an affair with a married man, her previous boss.
Of course she’s a virgin and the man had a crush on her but since she’s a woman it’s her fault by default.
While he shags everything with a hole.
And he should be one who loves woman.
But it’s not even true since he keeps saying his last mistress is stupid.
He is with his latest mistress through the majority of the book and only gets rid of her because he wants to have an affair with the heroine. You see, he’s been salivating over her since she was basically in her nappies but since she was a virgin he couldn’t do her.
Now that she’s sullied and is used goods he can make her his mistress.
This hero is hateful and un redeemable. In the end he dumps her because she’s a virgin and he doesn’t do virgin.
Then he does some sort of proposal but he’s so unwilling and sorry to give up his freedom that I didn’t really understand what the heroine found in him.
Maybe she had bad examples of parents.
Maybe the women in her life were pushover and destroyed her self esteem.
I don’t know and I don’t care.
I only know that the final scene the hero has married the heroine two minutes before, literally and he’s already salivating after a pretty girl with a miniskirt.
And the author makes it as if it’s funny.
Sorry, this seems to be a bad romance.
And I am always optimistic but this time Im sure that he will already be cheating on her during their honeymoon.
Most disgusting piece of craps I’ve read recently.

[Floqueta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tipical story where the h. (Fee) has had a teenager crush on Simon, the H. When they meet again, Fee tries to keep cool because she is afraid of the attraction she feels for the H. The fact is now Simon wants to have a short affair with her, as she may be considered an “easy-lay”, since her “reputation” has been ruined by her former boss in Australia, Vance Sheldon, a married man who tried to begin an affair with her during a business travel where Fee had to accompany him. And the worst was that the press aired the whole “affair” and Fee had to leave and return to her home city, Hong Kong. Now her former boss is still harassing her by phone. And at the same time, she does her best not to give in to Simon’s amorous advances.
As usual in Harlequin romances, Fee is still virgin and Simon finally seems to give up on her, but surprising news arrive from Australia and Fee realizes that Simon really cares for her, although he is not very willing to marry.
An average read with a too difficult progress to the HEA, especially on the second half of the book. So I give it only 3 stars.

[Fizzydrinks · Rating 1 out of 5]

H is a major manwhore who has slept with nearly every female in Hong Kong, and frequently hops onto a plane to sleep with women all over the globe in his vacation time. He openly tells the h that he can't have just one because "He loves women." Brutal tongue that whips her to shreds in two major scenes early on, and the author decides to show him checking out a hot blonde in a mini skirt minutes after the H marries the h in a fancy wedding. The h catches him eyeing the girl, and this is a direct quote in her inner monologue:
"He might look, but he would never look at anyone else the way he was looking at her now"

Pass.

[RomLibrary]

"Love doesn't last."

As a shy awkward teenager, Fee had been careful to avoid Simon Rhode's brand of arrogant good looks and cynical charm. Now circumstances had forced her hand and, returning to Hong Kong four years later, she was appalled to discover that his forceful magnetism affected her more than ever. But since Simon had made it clear that a casual relationship was all he would ever be able to offer, Fee knew she would only be risking her heart if she was ever to put her trust in him completely.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 1 out of 5]

After 5 or 6 tries I managed to get about 40% through and couldn’t stick with it anymore. Skimmed a bit then read last 2 chapters.

Lame plot, hideous selfish H, silly h and boring.