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This Man's Magic
"Arrogant, nasty-minded womanizing, devious!"
Sorrel's words left no doubt as to her initial reaction to Lucas Amory. A world-renowned jeweler, he had not only rejected her designs, he had accused her of stealing them from him.
When the air cleared and the misunderstanding was resolved, her feelings toward him had dramatically reversed. Like him, she was aware the chemistry between them could not be ignored.
Every instinct warned her to beware, but her desperate need to be loved was a legacy of an unhappy childhood. Perhaps the brief affair he offered was better than nothing...
Sorrel's words left no doubt as to her initial reaction to Lucas Amory. A world-renowned jeweler, he had not only rejected her designs, he had accused her of stealing them from him.
When the air cleared and the misunderstanding was resolved, her feelings toward him had dramatically reversed. Like him, she was aware the chemistry between them could not be ignored.
Every instinct warned her to beware, but her desperate need to be loved was a legacy of an unhappy childhood. Perhaps the brief affair he offered was better than nothing...
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First published June 1, 1987
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August 29, 2016
Re This Man's Magic or https://www.amazon.com/Sorrel-Valenti... if you prefer French. SW makes a brief foray into HPlandia with a wrecki-drama that proves to be right up there with the HP greats, for which this book gets high marks. HEA believability is another issue alltogether, but more on that later.
The h is for all intents and purposes an orphan, both of her parents have pretty much ignored her existence all her life. Her mother and father met when they were both fairly young, her mother's parents had died and only left a large amount of debt and some family heirloom jewels. Her mother's parents were English aristocracy and the h's father was the young jewel dealer who came to help the mother sell the jewels. They had a brief affair and the mother got preggers with the h. They married but the marriage did not work out, mainly because the h's father was supposed to marry (and loved) his father's business partner's daughter. They own a huge jewel business in London and though each parent eventually married people that they loved, both parents wanted to forget the h ever existed. In fact on her father's side, his wife refuses to even have the father (who is a complete waste of a person,) acknowledge that he has a daughter from a prior marriage.
When the story opens, the h is a jewelry designer, she has a trust fund left to her by the godmother who pretty much raised her, but she needs to be in a collection from a major jewelry house to get her name known. She goes to her father to ask that he introduce her to the head of a big jewelry designer house that he is friends with.
This jewelry house is on par with Bulgari, and the h has some really great ideas for a gothic medieval collection of jewelry, but she needs backing to get them produced. The father refuses to introduce the h in person as his daughter because his wife (who he cheated on when he married the h's mother,) wouldn't like it, acknowledging the h might damage her son's inheritance from their father in the wife's pov. Plus she is just a witch and the h is only one she can take it out on. The h's father is obviously sad that he can't do more and more than a little ashamed of himself that he won't stand up to his wife and ashamed that the h pretty much got abandoned by both parents - the h's mother remarried and the h did not live with them for a long time, so the h was not accepted there either- but he does offer to write a letter to the head of the jewelry house and the h can pitch her designs.
The h accepts all of this with a certain wry amusement, but she needs the introduction and she is empathetic to the man's shame, so she thanks him for the opportunity and takes herself off. Then she tries to meet the head of the design house, who also is the H. She leaves the letter and her designs and gets told that she will be contacted later. The call from the H eventually comes and he totally tears into her, he accuses her of giving him a forged letter of recommendation. There is a huge battle and the h winds up leaving his office as the H refuses to believe she is who she says she is.
Things get even hotter when the h winds up visiting her mother for a charity do and is selling her jewelry at the big party when her half sister shows up and who should she have on her arm, but the H. The half sister and the h's mother are both completely useless - the mother can't even invite the h to dinner. The h puts a stop to her 17 yr old half sister trying it on with the 30 year old H by giving her the earrings the girl was trying to get the H to buy for her and making a point of her age. Then the H accuses her of being a thief, he saw her coming out of his room earlier and thought she was skulking around. The h is delighted to tell him that in fact, that room is hers per her mother, but the sister had the idear of little midnight rendezvous and gave him her room, the H needn't worry tho, she won't be using it if that is what is worrying a middle aged womanizer chasing a girl less than half his age.
She also asks the H if he had contacted her father yet, regarding the letter of introduction. The H says she is lying, that he has known the h's father for years and knows he doesn't have a daughter. The H finagles things so he takes the h home from the party and then he accuses the h of stealing his new designs. The h realizes that the H and his assistant have actually stolen her work and is passing if off as their own. The H liked the designs so much he is doing a major collection in conjunction with a fashion designer and so it is obvious that the H liked the designs even tho he said he never looked at them.
The H claims he went to the h's mother's party with the h's half sister because the sister was wearing a pendant that is a copy of his new collection (which the h actually designed.) The h knows now that she can prove the designs are hers, the sister's pendant was made the year before and because it is a hallmarked piece of jewelry, the stamp date will prove she did it and not the H. The h doesn't get really livid (tho she is,) after her initial response when the H accuses her, she gets her lawyer.
Before the lawyer can get busy tho, the H shows up and drags her off to confront someone, the h thinks it is his assistant but it turns out to be the h's father at his home, which the h has never been to. The H takes this lack of knowledge as further proof the h is lying. The H and h meet an Italian girl there, she is apparently the H's girlfriend. They appear very close and the H is being very rude to the h and drags her into the house, claiming that she will finally get her comeuppance and then be arrested for fraud.
Except he and the h get into the house and the H is warmly greeted, but the h's father is appalled to see her there. Then the h's father does indeed tell the H that she is his daughter. The father's wife comes out and makes a big scene and the h leaves with a great deal of dignity, the H tries to take her home, but the h tells him he can explain why he embarrassed his good friends.
The H's girlfriend follows the h out and gives her a ride home. The h is doing her designs when the H shows up a day later, she asks if he has heard from her lawyer and the H is shocked that a big name solicitor that won't even take him as a client is looking out for the h - the H had previously told her legal aid was pretty much all she was good to get. He then drags the h off again, this time to confront the assistant. The assistant finally confesses and the H offers the h a contract, he pretty much has to at this point. She could probably ruin him if she has her lawyer pursue the theft case and so then the H decides he needs to get the h into bed to reaffirm himself as the ultimate man and keep her designs.
The h is pretty disgusted by this time, but she wants the name recognition she can get from a major house and so she signs the contract but puts off the H's advances. The male fashion designer she works with is interesting and she actually likes the H's girlfriend, who is the designer's model but she doesn't understand why the nice woman puts up with a cheating toe rag for a boyfriend, even tho the woman spends a lot of time flirting with the fashion designer.
The H drags the h out for a lot publicity dates, including one with her father and his wife, and also keeps the pressure for an affair on. The h is reluctant to get intimate, the H is pretty callous about how he uses women and the h just doesn't need that, tho she is attracted, plus she really does like the girlfriend and doesn't do men who are attached. Her two previous relationships did not work out in bad ways, one guy was older and a serial young woman collect and dumper and the other just wanted to use the h for her father's name until he realized that the h and the father were not in much contact.
Finally after the h and the fashion designer go to dinner, the H and his girlfriend show up and both are really angry. The H drags the h off again and they lurve it up, and the H confesses that the girlfriend is really his sister from his dad's mistress. It is a deep dark secret, cause his mother doesn't know anything about his half sister and the H looks after her money. The h swears not to tell anyone, which is rather ironic - cause the H had no problem exposing the h's parentage all over town and it really hurt the h, but this H is going to do whatever he wants and everyone else can just fall into line, no matter how much other people have to suffer.
The big fashion show with the h's jewelry finally happens and the H's mother is present too. After the show the H's mother and the h are backstage when they overhear the H's sister and the fashion designer guy talking about the familial relationship between the H and the sister. The mother passes out and the h doesn't know what to do. The H takes the mother home and then later shows up at the h's and tries to strangle her, he thinks she told the mother about the relationship and he is really, really nasty and says (like he always does, every time he thinks the h does something he did not like), all kinds of nasty names and verbal abuse and then breaks their contract and walks out.
The h has several weeks of moping and then decides she is going to New York, the H's sister calls to tell her she and the fashion designer are engaged and she hasn't heard from the H. The h packs up her stuff and is ready to leave the next day. The H shows up and the h refuses to let him in, she tells him to come back tomorrow when she knows she will be gone. The h's neighbor lets him in, (she thought she was helping the h out, too bad the h hid the strangulation marks when the neighbor first saw her a few weeks earlier.) The H decides he wants the h now that he knows the mother overheard the sister and the h did not say anything to anyone and the h takes him back.
He says he loves her, but I kinda doubt it. Mainly I think it was the h's designs that he broke the contract on, he really couldn't afford to have his behavior exposed and he needed her designs. The h would have gone to court if he had tried to get more designs from her and between that and if his assault on her came out in court, it would probably have ruined his position in the jewelry firm. The scandal would have been tremendous and he would have been thoroughly in the wrong, plus his sister's parentage would have been outed too, and his mother couldn't have stood that, cause then her husband's affair would have been public. The H probably figures by proposing to the h he can contain the secret and keep her designs. I can only dread the headlines when he murders the h because he leaps to the wrong conclusions once again, and that thought pretty much tanks the HEA.
So for me, as far as believability goes, this one has none. The drama was excellent however and if you like the wrecki, this is one to find. I just don't see any possibility of an HEA here tho. The H is too judgmental, domineering and always wrong. Unfortunately when he gets it wrong, the h is the one who gets damaged and she has a ton of dignity, she deserved a lot better than this guy.
The book blurb mentions the h being damaged, and the H seems to think so too. But really this h wasn't damaged at all. She was hurt by her parent's rejection, who wouldn't be? But the h had built up her own life and her own family of the adopted kind with her neighbors, so really the only one who was messed up was the H and the h's parents. They were the really sick people in my view, but this book was too realistic in showing that those kind of parasitic nematode slime sewage slurpers don't really hurt themselves, just everyone around them.
So if you read this book, read for the wrecki, but don't get real invested in the true love wins trope, cause the nefarious actions of the H were just too close to a grim, user male in reality for a true HPlandia HEA and the h in this one is the loser.
The h is for all intents and purposes an orphan, both of her parents have pretty much ignored her existence all her life. Her mother and father met when they were both fairly young, her mother's parents had died and only left a large amount of debt and some family heirloom jewels. Her mother's parents were English aristocracy and the h's father was the young jewel dealer who came to help the mother sell the jewels. They had a brief affair and the mother got preggers with the h. They married but the marriage did not work out, mainly because the h's father was supposed to marry (and loved) his father's business partner's daughter. They own a huge jewel business in London and though each parent eventually married people that they loved, both parents wanted to forget the h ever existed. In fact on her father's side, his wife refuses to even have the father (who is a complete waste of a person,) acknowledge that he has a daughter from a prior marriage.
When the story opens, the h is a jewelry designer, she has a trust fund left to her by the godmother who pretty much raised her, but she needs to be in a collection from a major jewelry house to get her name known. She goes to her father to ask that he introduce her to the head of a big jewelry designer house that he is friends with.
This jewelry house is on par with Bulgari, and the h has some really great ideas for a gothic medieval collection of jewelry, but she needs backing to get them produced. The father refuses to introduce the h in person as his daughter because his wife (who he cheated on when he married the h's mother,) wouldn't like it, acknowledging the h might damage her son's inheritance from their father in the wife's pov. Plus she is just a witch and the h is only one she can take it out on. The h's father is obviously sad that he can't do more and more than a little ashamed of himself that he won't stand up to his wife and ashamed that the h pretty much got abandoned by both parents - the h's mother remarried and the h did not live with them for a long time, so the h was not accepted there either- but he does offer to write a letter to the head of the jewelry house and the h can pitch her designs.
The h accepts all of this with a certain wry amusement, but she needs the introduction and she is empathetic to the man's shame, so she thanks him for the opportunity and takes herself off. Then she tries to meet the head of the design house, who also is the H. She leaves the letter and her designs and gets told that she will be contacted later. The call from the H eventually comes and he totally tears into her, he accuses her of giving him a forged letter of recommendation. There is a huge battle and the h winds up leaving his office as the H refuses to believe she is who she says she is.
Things get even hotter when the h winds up visiting her mother for a charity do and is selling her jewelry at the big party when her half sister shows up and who should she have on her arm, but the H. The half sister and the h's mother are both completely useless - the mother can't even invite the h to dinner. The h puts a stop to her 17 yr old half sister trying it on with the 30 year old H by giving her the earrings the girl was trying to get the H to buy for her and making a point of her age. Then the H accuses her of being a thief, he saw her coming out of his room earlier and thought she was skulking around. The h is delighted to tell him that in fact, that room is hers per her mother, but the sister had the idear of little midnight rendezvous and gave him her room, the H needn't worry tho, she won't be using it if that is what is worrying a middle aged womanizer chasing a girl less than half his age.
She also asks the H if he had contacted her father yet, regarding the letter of introduction. The H says she is lying, that he has known the h's father for years and knows he doesn't have a daughter. The H finagles things so he takes the h home from the party and then he accuses the h of stealing his new designs. The h realizes that the H and his assistant have actually stolen her work and is passing if off as their own. The H liked the designs so much he is doing a major collection in conjunction with a fashion designer and so it is obvious that the H liked the designs even tho he said he never looked at them.
The H claims he went to the h's mother's party with the h's half sister because the sister was wearing a pendant that is a copy of his new collection (which the h actually designed.) The h knows now that she can prove the designs are hers, the sister's pendant was made the year before and because it is a hallmarked piece of jewelry, the stamp date will prove she did it and not the H. The h doesn't get really livid (tho she is,) after her initial response when the H accuses her, she gets her lawyer.
Before the lawyer can get busy tho, the H shows up and drags her off to confront someone, the h thinks it is his assistant but it turns out to be the h's father at his home, which the h has never been to. The H takes this lack of knowledge as further proof the h is lying. The H and h meet an Italian girl there, she is apparently the H's girlfriend. They appear very close and the H is being very rude to the h and drags her into the house, claiming that she will finally get her comeuppance and then be arrested for fraud.
Except he and the h get into the house and the H is warmly greeted, but the h's father is appalled to see her there. Then the h's father does indeed tell the H that she is his daughter. The father's wife comes out and makes a big scene and the h leaves with a great deal of dignity, the H tries to take her home, but the h tells him he can explain why he embarrassed his good friends.
The H's girlfriend follows the h out and gives her a ride home. The h is doing her designs when the H shows up a day later, she asks if he has heard from her lawyer and the H is shocked that a big name solicitor that won't even take him as a client is looking out for the h - the H had previously told her legal aid was pretty much all she was good to get. He then drags the h off again, this time to confront the assistant. The assistant finally confesses and the H offers the h a contract, he pretty much has to at this point. She could probably ruin him if she has her lawyer pursue the theft case and so then the H decides he needs to get the h into bed to reaffirm himself as the ultimate man and keep her designs.
The h is pretty disgusted by this time, but she wants the name recognition she can get from a major house and so she signs the contract but puts off the H's advances. The male fashion designer she works with is interesting and she actually likes the H's girlfriend, who is the designer's model but she doesn't understand why the nice woman puts up with a cheating toe rag for a boyfriend, even tho the woman spends a lot of time flirting with the fashion designer.
The H drags the h out for a lot publicity dates, including one with her father and his wife, and also keeps the pressure for an affair on. The h is reluctant to get intimate, the H is pretty callous about how he uses women and the h just doesn't need that, tho she is attracted, plus she really does like the girlfriend and doesn't do men who are attached. Her two previous relationships did not work out in bad ways, one guy was older and a serial young woman collect and dumper and the other just wanted to use the h for her father's name until he realized that the h and the father were not in much contact.
Finally after the h and the fashion designer go to dinner, the H and his girlfriend show up and both are really angry. The H drags the h off again and they lurve it up, and the H confesses that the girlfriend is really his sister from his dad's mistress. It is a deep dark secret, cause his mother doesn't know anything about his half sister and the H looks after her money. The h swears not to tell anyone, which is rather ironic - cause the H had no problem exposing the h's parentage all over town and it really hurt the h, but this H is going to do whatever he wants and everyone else can just fall into line, no matter how much other people have to suffer.
The big fashion show with the h's jewelry finally happens and the H's mother is present too. After the show the H's mother and the h are backstage when they overhear the H's sister and the fashion designer guy talking about the familial relationship between the H and the sister. The mother passes out and the h doesn't know what to do. The H takes the mother home and then later shows up at the h's and tries to strangle her, he thinks she told the mother about the relationship and he is really, really nasty and says (like he always does, every time he thinks the h does something he did not like), all kinds of nasty names and verbal abuse and then breaks their contract and walks out.
The h has several weeks of moping and then decides she is going to New York, the H's sister calls to tell her she and the fashion designer are engaged and she hasn't heard from the H. The h packs up her stuff and is ready to leave the next day. The H shows up and the h refuses to let him in, she tells him to come back tomorrow when she knows she will be gone. The h's neighbor lets him in, (she thought she was helping the h out, too bad the h hid the strangulation marks when the neighbor first saw her a few weeks earlier.) The H decides he wants the h now that he knows the mother overheard the sister and the h did not say anything to anyone and the h takes him back.
He says he loves her, but I kinda doubt it. Mainly I think it was the h's designs that he broke the contract on, he really couldn't afford to have his behavior exposed and he needed her designs. The h would have gone to court if he had tried to get more designs from her and between that and if his assault on her came out in court, it would probably have ruined his position in the jewelry firm. The scandal would have been tremendous and he would have been thoroughly in the wrong, plus his sister's parentage would have been outed too, and his mother couldn't have stood that, cause then her husband's affair would have been public. The H probably figures by proposing to the h he can contain the secret and keep her designs. I can only dread the headlines when he murders the h because he leaps to the wrong conclusions once again, and that thought pretty much tanks the HEA.
So for me, as far as believability goes, this one has none. The drama was excellent however and if you like the wrecki, this is one to find. I just don't see any possibility of an HEA here tho. The H is too judgmental, domineering and always wrong. Unfortunately when he gets it wrong, the h is the one who gets damaged and she has a ton of dignity, she deserved a lot better than this guy.
The book blurb mentions the h being damaged, and the H seems to think so too. But really this h wasn't damaged at all. She was hurt by her parent's rejection, who wouldn't be? But the h had built up her own life and her own family of the adopted kind with her neighbors, so really the only one who was messed up was the H and the h's parents. They were the really sick people in my view, but this book was too realistic in showing that those kind of parasitic nematode slime sewage slurpers don't really hurt themselves, just everyone around them.
So if you read this book, read for the wrecki, but don't get real invested in the true love wins trope, cause the nefarious actions of the H were just too close to a grim, user male in reality for a true HPlandia HEA and the h in this one is the loser.
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March 16, 2019
If you are an injustice junkie, you'll love this one. Poor little rich girl heroine has been ignored by both her parents for years. They divorced when she was small, married and had families with other people. She is a source of embarrassment and is not welcome in their homes.
Heroine has learned to live with this fact - helped by a trust fund that has allowed her to establish a comfortable home among artist friends and to pursue her dreams of being a jewelry designer.
The trouble starts when the heroine wrangles a letter of introduction from her hen-pecked father to the jewelry empire owner hero. Hero doesn't believe that her father had a daughter since he knows him well. He throws the heroine out and doesn't look at her sketches. The hero's designer looks at them, though. And steals them.
The hero then accuses the heroine of stealing *his* designer's designs when he happens to run across the heroine's jewelry booth at a charity do. He's with the heroine's younger half-sister and is amazed heroine is related to these rich titled people.
Heroine is angry and threatens legal action. At this point the reader doesn't really know just how much money/clout the heroine has. It could be a bluff.
Hero certainly thinks so.
It's all fun and games until the hero arranges for the heroine to attend a party at the heroine's father's house. Heroine has never been there, so doesn't recognize what a lion's den she's walking into. Hero's gotcha moment turns into family drama and the hero feeling bad about his blunder.
Such delicious angst.
From here the story turns and isn't as fun because it's the hero's secrets that are causing the misunderstanding. (His model "girlfriend" is really his half-sister) Still, the fashion designer and heroine's collaboration is interesting, even though it isn't that angsty.
I'm really glad the heroine is a very wealthy woman and I hope that she will shield her assets from the idiot hero - because this guy falls for every misunderstanding in the book. He's ridiculous, but heroine is happy with him.
Heroine has learned to live with this fact - helped by a trust fund that has allowed her to establish a comfortable home among artist friends and to pursue her dreams of being a jewelry designer.
The trouble starts when the heroine wrangles a letter of introduction from her hen-pecked father to the jewelry empire owner hero. Hero doesn't believe that her father had a daughter since he knows him well. He throws the heroine out and doesn't look at her sketches. The hero's designer looks at them, though. And steals them.
The hero then accuses the heroine of stealing *his* designer's designs when he happens to run across the heroine's jewelry booth at a charity do. He's with the heroine's younger half-sister and is amazed heroine is related to these rich titled people.
Heroine is angry and threatens legal action. At this point the reader doesn't really know just how much money/clout the heroine has. It could be a bluff.
Hero certainly thinks so.
It's all fun and games until the hero arranges for the heroine to attend a party at the heroine's father's house. Heroine has never been there, so doesn't recognize what a lion's den she's walking into. Hero's gotcha moment turns into family drama and the hero feeling bad about his blunder.
Such delicious angst.
From here the story turns and isn't as fun because it's the hero's secrets that are causing the misunderstanding. (His model "girlfriend" is really his half-sister) Still, the fashion designer and heroine's collaboration is interesting, even though it isn't that angsty.
I'm really glad the heroine is a very wealthy woman and I hope that she will shield her assets from the idiot hero - because this guy falls for every misunderstanding in the book. He's ridiculous, but heroine is happy with him.
January 26, 2013
I so loved this for the drama and train wreckiness but HEA is questionable.
MY REVIEW:
Sorrel had a horrible family. They married because of her, but soon found that she wasn’t even worth that. Both were guilty of kicking her to the side to stay with someone else so that they wouldn’t have to deal with her at all! Because of this it messed her up and she seeks love and acceptance now. Little did Sorrel know that she wasn’t going to find it with Lucas Amory. LOL! Seems to contradict itself huh?
This was that train wreck drama fest that you love to read but can’t quite buy into the HEA even though you desperately want too!
First off this H, Luc, never seemed to fully trust Sorrel. The beginning made sense, but even after he was proved wrong two and three times he still thought the worst of her! First, who her father was; the jewelry designs, no way could stepmommy be that way, and finally the kicker with his deep dark secret! Sorrel has to be the one at fault, nothing else makes sense at least to Luc. The first few times I could go along with because he didn’t know Sorrel and he knew her father’s family so he gets a pass then. It’s the last one that is the kicker! He knows her now! He has remarked upon her desire to not hurt someone else even at her own expense and still he believes the worst of her, possibly because if he was in her shoes he would hurt his family that way. Nice guy huh? Of course, he feels that her secrets need to see the light of day and he isn’t adverse to seeing that they do, either. Double standards abound again. He gets very HURTFUL with her especially about her father tossing her aside when she was younger. It was low! Very low and Luc didn’t deserve another chance. He had FOUR! I thought perhaps three and you’re out!! He claimed her loved her pretty soon in their relationship, but I guess loving doesn’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt and it’s believing the worst of the other person because it’s what he would have done if he knew her secret….shoot….he did do it! Never mind!
For drama fest train wrecks this ranks right up there because I couldn’t put it down. She started out so suave and cool but then he whips out This Man’s Magic – finally a book that gets the title right – and she is a puddle at his feet!! One other thing the quick acceptance of her father’s family of her after years of treating her like a second class citizen just doesn’t even sound plausible given what is revealed in the story. I’m sure Luc threatened some sort of blackmail on that family to get his way though.
MY REVIEW:
Sorrel had a horrible family. They married because of her, but soon found that she wasn’t even worth that. Both were guilty of kicking her to the side to stay with someone else so that they wouldn’t have to deal with her at all! Because of this it messed her up and she seeks love and acceptance now. Little did Sorrel know that she wasn’t going to find it with Lucas Amory. LOL! Seems to contradict itself huh?
This was that train wreck drama fest that you love to read but can’t quite buy into the HEA even though you desperately want too!
First off this H, Luc, never seemed to fully trust Sorrel. The beginning made sense, but even after he was proved wrong two and three times he still thought the worst of her! First, who her father was; the jewelry designs, no way could stepmommy be that way, and finally the kicker with his deep dark secret! Sorrel has to be the one at fault, nothing else makes sense at least to Luc. The first few times I could go along with because he didn’t know Sorrel and he knew her father’s family so he gets a pass then. It’s the last one that is the kicker! He knows her now! He has remarked upon her desire to not hurt someone else even at her own expense and still he believes the worst of her, possibly because if he was in her shoes he would hurt his family that way. Nice guy huh? Of course, he feels that her secrets need to see the light of day and he isn’t adverse to seeing that they do, either. Double standards abound again. He gets very HURTFUL with her especially about her father tossing her aside when she was younger. It was low! Very low and Luc didn’t deserve another chance. He had FOUR! I thought perhaps three and you’re out!! He claimed her loved her pretty soon in their relationship, but I guess loving doesn’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt and it’s believing the worst of the other person because it’s what he would have done if he knew her secret….shoot….he did do it! Never mind!
For drama fest train wrecks this ranks right up there because I couldn’t put it down. She started out so suave and cool but then he whips out This Man’s Magic – finally a book that gets the title right – and she is a puddle at his feet!! One other thing the quick acceptance of her father’s family of her after years of treating her like a second class citizen just doesn’t even sound plausible given what is revealed in the story. I’m sure Luc threatened some sort of blackmail on that family to get his way though.
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December 10, 2020
The heroine gets 5 stars! She was cool, talented, reasonable, kind, and sensible. Our hero....-5 stars? He is so douche and arrogant, and WRONG about mostly EVERYTHING! Just wow. And he humiliates the heroine, then he won't leave her alone! She should have gone to America in the end. This tool is only going to hurt her. Ugh. Read it but imagine the heroine meeting her true love in America and the hero being a babysitter to his sis and caretaker for his mom forever and being alone!
April 10, 2018
This is one of those books where I feel sorry for the h. The H is an alphahole who has trust issues and jusmps to conclusions all the time. he is overbearing and dictatorial doing what HE thinks is right and sod everybody else. Our h on the other hand is completely the innocent party. She has crap parents on both the mother and family side, then to top it off someone in the H's company steals her work and passes it off as their own dropping her even more in the doodoo.
I have no idea why anyone would think this man has magic so the title is just plain wrong. I could not forgive the H at the end as despite him being proved wrong about everything previously he still jumps to conclusions and hurts the h again by doubting her. its only when someone else lets him know what really happened he comes grovelling back. In this case we have to be happy that our insecure h is happy he really doesn't deserve her.
I have no idea why anyone would think this man has magic so the title is just plain wrong. I could not forgive the H at the end as despite him being proved wrong about everything previously he still jumps to conclusions and hurts the h again by doubting her. its only when someone else lets him know what really happened he comes grovelling back. In this case we have to be happy that our insecure h is happy he really doesn't deserve her.
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May 28, 2020
Arrogant, nasty-minded womanizing, devious!"
Sorrel's words left no doubt as to her initial reaction to Lucas Amory. A world-renowned jeweler, he had not only rejected her designs, he had accused her of stealing them from him.
When the air cleared and the misunderstanding was resolved, her feelings toward him had dramatically reversed. Like him, she was aware the chemistry between them could not be ignored.
Every instinct warned her to beware, but her desperate need to be loved was a legacy of an unhappy childhood. Perhaps the brief affair he offered was better than nothing..
Sorrel's words left no doubt as to her initial reaction to Lucas Amory. A world-renowned jeweler, he had not only rejected her designs, he had accused her of stealing them from him.
When the air cleared and the misunderstanding was resolved, her feelings toward him had dramatically reversed. Like him, she was aware the chemistry between them could not be ignored.
Every instinct warned her to beware, but her desperate need to be loved was a legacy of an unhappy childhood. Perhaps the brief affair he offered was better than nothing..
November 5, 2020
3.5 stars
April 21, 2022
Really liked this book!! Loved both characters!
February 22, 2024
I read it in mother tongue. Another book copied by RC.
September 14, 2025
And THAT my lovelies, is how you end up a statistic!
There was potential as a crime story for this one but as a love story it's horrific. The guy is a real p.o.s. and she his willing victim.
There was potential as a crime story for this one but as a love story it's horrific. The guy is a real p.o.s. and she his willing victim.
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