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L'amoureuse de Noël
Aussi doux et scintillant que la neige, l’amour est le plus beau des cadeaux…
À l’idée de suivre la prochaine saison de course automobile, Foxy est folle de joie. Enfin, elle va pouvoir se faire connaître comme photographe ! Mais sa joie fait vite place à la confusion lorsqu’elle croise sur un circuit Lance Matthews… Lance, dont, elle était follement amoureuse alors qu’elle n’était qu’une jeune fille, avant de comprendre que ce séducteur représentait pour elle un trop grand danger. Mais aujourd’hui, alors qu’elle est devenue une femme, n’est-elle pas de taille à vivre la passion qu’il lui inspire, tout comme autrefois ?
À l’idée de suivre la prochaine saison de course automobile, Foxy est folle de joie. Enfin, elle va pouvoir se faire connaître comme photographe ! Mais sa joie fait vite place à la confusion lorsqu’elle croise sur un circuit Lance Matthews… Lance, dont, elle était follement amoureuse alors qu’elle n’était qu’une jeune fille, avant de comprendre que ce séducteur représentait pour elle un trop grand danger. Mais aujourd’hui, alors qu’elle est devenue une femme, n’est-elle pas de taille à vivre la passion qu’il lui inspire, tout comme autrefois ?
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First published November 1, 1982
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Nora Roberts
1,213 books59.9k followersNora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Hideaway, Under Currents, Come Sundown, The Awakening, Legacy, and coming in November 2021 -- The Becoming -- the second book in The Dragon Heart Legacy. She is also the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
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December 25, 2022
A quick romance story with race cars and accidents thrown into the mix. Not bad for one of her earlier books.
May 20, 2018
Well I just found my least favourite so far.
Roberts tried to put in two concurrent love stories but didn't put the extra pages in. Both stories felt rushed and incredibly surface. I didn't feel like I got a good read on any of the characters here. Not to mention that there was a serious return to the domineering asshat hero. When the "intimate" scenes use the word "bruising" as a common verb I find that my disinterest turns into mild disgust. Especially when one of them starts as assault but its "okay" because it turns consensual (I cringed my way through a lot of that chapter - especially when he accidentally saw the bruises he left).
So this one is going in the way-not-my-thing pile and I am returning to Lord of the Rings for a break.
Roberts tried to put in two concurrent love stories but didn't put the extra pages in. Both stories felt rushed and incredibly surface. I didn't feel like I got a good read on any of the characters here. Not to mention that there was a serious return to the domineering asshat hero. When the "intimate" scenes use the word "bruising" as a common verb I find that my disinterest turns into mild disgust. Especially when one of them starts as assault but its "okay" because it turns consensual (I cringed my way through a lot of that chapter - especially when he accidentally saw the bruises he left).
So this one is going in the way-not-my-thing pile and I am returning to Lord of the Rings for a break.
September 17, 2013
*3,5 stars*
This is one of the first books written by Nora Roberts. She wrote it in the early eighties and like many of the Harlequin books written then it focuses mainly on the heroine and not much on the relationship development. Also, the few hot scenes are the fade out kind.
That being said, I really liked her insight into to F1 racing world, Foxy and Lance couple, Foxy relationship with her brother and, how using minimum words, NR managed to create a secondary love story.
I also enjoyed the last part better than the beginning.
May 26, 2012
I love Nora Roberts books. I really do, but this one just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like Foxy, she had great potential as a character. I just found that none of the characters were developed very much. I feel like I was only getting part of the story. It was very rushed and I know it would have done better as a longer story.
November 20, 2022
2,5 estrellas. No es lo mejor que ha escrito la autora ni de lejos y, a pesar de que el punto de partida no está mal, le falta profundidad. El libro está firmado en 1982 y adolece de algunos de los males de la romántica de esa época, con más de una escena controvertida.
#Popsugar22 Reto 13: Un libro ambientado en la década de los 80
#Popsugar22 Reto 13: Un libro ambientado en la década de los 80
September 14, 2021
Another early 1980s romance with an “alpha hole” hero and squicky sex. The heroine was very bland and I finished the book thinking the couple would probably end up divorced within a year.
August 16, 2017
I get it. This was written in a different time, for a different set of people to enjoy.
But, I still don't have to like it.
One of my biggest issues with older romances (and even some newer ones) is the fact that both protagonists seem to hate each other more than anything, and yet that somehow translates as "chemistry". I am okay with a little push-and-pull between the couple, after all I do enjoy some drama in my romantic ventures, but it just didn't feel right this time around. It probably had to do with the serious lack of character development. Just some bare-bones people with no real personality beyond "these two dudes are pricks that force physical intimacy on their love interests" and "these two chicks totally hate the pricks but also totally love them"
The hero is a bit too careless with the heroine, and the heroine apparently flushed her spine down the toilet with her dignity. Seriously, I will never enjoy the teeth-grating trope of a woman crying "NO, not like this" as her "love interest" ignores her protests and "forcefully seduces" her into melting at his touch and enjoying every bit of it. It angers me to no end, because how exactly did it even come into existence? It's not realistic! Correct me if I am wrong, but even in the 80s when has "NO" ever meant "YES"?
Don't even get me started on Pam and Kirk's side-plot romance. Kirk point-blank tells her in their first meeting that she WILL end up sleeping with him by the end of the racing season, that's a guarantee, and her response was NOT to immediately slap him silly and walk out the door. She gets her hackles up, but moons over the pig anyway. And of course, the heart-melting confession that she will ALWAYS be second to his driving-career because reasons. Yeah, lovely.
Sadly, Foxy and Lance don't get married late enough into the book for my liking, so there is a good chunk of the book featuring their marriage with plenty of uninteresting manufactured tension from his family blah blah blah. I would have cared more if I had met any of his family or even heard about them BEFORE the wedding. It's like Lance farted them into existence after saying "I do". Oh well, it's not like I liked Lance's proposal, anyway. Foxy was vulnerable and scared for her brother after a terrifying racing accident, and here pops in Lance, pressuring and hassling her into marrying him. He even admits that he's selfish and doesn't want to give her time to take it all in and think about it properly, right AFTER telling her that her request for a couple days to think about it"sounded reasonable". awwww, true love, I almost liked him there for a second (For the record, I would have said an emphatic "NO" complete with a middle finger erected in his honor).
Although, I will say I love Melissa. She was quirky, clever, and intriguing. I would have loved to see her more, maybe in her own book, but I'm afraid her character would have been neutered, too.
But, I still don't have to like it.
One of my biggest issues with older romances (and even some newer ones) is the fact that both protagonists seem to hate each other more than anything, and yet that somehow translates as "chemistry". I am okay with a little push-and-pull between the couple, after all I do enjoy some drama in my romantic ventures, but it just didn't feel right this time around. It probably had to do with the serious lack of character development. Just some bare-bones people with no real personality beyond "these two dudes are pricks that force physical intimacy on their love interests" and "these two chicks totally hate the pricks but also totally love them"
The hero is a bit too careless with the heroine, and the heroine apparently flushed her spine down the toilet with her dignity. Seriously, I will never enjoy the teeth-grating trope of a woman crying "NO, not like this" as her "love interest" ignores her protests and "forcefully seduces" her into melting at his touch and enjoying every bit of it. It angers me to no end, because how exactly did it even come into existence? It's not realistic! Correct me if I am wrong, but even in the 80s when has "NO" ever meant "YES"?
Don't even get me started on Pam and Kirk's side-plot romance. Kirk point-blank tells her in their first meeting that she WILL end up sleeping with him by the end of the racing season, that's a guarantee, and her response was NOT to immediately slap him silly and walk out the door. She gets her hackles up, but moons over the pig anyway. And of course, the heart-melting confession that she will ALWAYS be second to his driving-career because reasons. Yeah, lovely.
Sadly, Foxy and Lance don't get married late enough into the book for my liking, so there is a good chunk of the book featuring their marriage with plenty of uninteresting manufactured tension from his family blah blah blah. I would have cared more if I had met any of his family or even heard about them BEFORE the wedding. It's like Lance farted them into existence after saying "I do". Oh well, it's not like I liked Lance's proposal, anyway. Foxy was vulnerable and scared for her brother after a terrifying racing accident, and here pops in Lance, pressuring and hassling her into marrying him. He even admits that he's selfish and doesn't want to give her time to take it all in and think about it properly, right AFTER telling her that her request for a couple days to think about it"sounded reasonable". awwww, true love, I almost liked him there for a second (For the record, I would have said an emphatic "NO" complete with a middle finger erected in his honor).
Although, I will say I love Melissa. She was quirky, clever, and intriguing. I would have loved to see her more, maybe in her own book, but I'm afraid her character would have been neutered, too.
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January 2, 2024
"I enjoy watching people do things I haven't the courage to do."
May 10, 2025
3.5 Stars ⭐️ The Heart’s Victory has 2 romances, racing scenes, and crash scenes. Foxy and Lance’s romance was class difference, but they pined for each other. Pam and Kirk’s romance was forced proximity. Both Lance and Kirk are alphaholes who were very domineering and at times dubious consent jackasses. This book was written in 1982. It reads that way. That being said and knowing the type of heroes that were written during this time period, the romances were good. The characters were a little thin, but I did connect with Foxy. For this being Nora’s second or third book, it’s pretty good.
November 9, 2021
(read in french, under the title « L'amoureuse de Noël »)
BEWARE : unlike what the french cover and title suggest, this is absolutely NOT a Christmas romance !
In fact, Christmas is not even spoken about a single time within the story, which ends before winter. We just get a few snowflakes at the end and that's all.
So why on earth did the publisher lied about it ? Did they THAT lacked of wintery Nora Roberts books to sell this as one ? Who knows. Anyway, if you know about it (thank to Sedelina on Babelio for warning in her review), you can't be disappointed. But what if you DON'T know ? Then you can legitimately feel ripped off.
Anyway, let's put those bad pusblishing choices apart and talk about the book.
For the whole first half of the story, I really thought this would be a book-crush. The motorsports truly are part of the plot and we even get a race (briefly summed up, but the atmosphere is here) ! Foxy is passionate about her job, independent, and her half-friendly, half-explosive relationship with Lance feels real.
The age of the book (originally released fourty years ago) doesn't shows itself much except in some details like Foxy's journalist friend using a recorder. So it's funny to see the translation using euros...
However. Past the middle of the novel, everything just falls apart. The characters start acting randomly – and stupidly, to become odious to each other, their quarrels happen more and more often without any reason, we're carried all of a sudden in the middle of Boston's elite society for a chapter where we're extensively introduced to some characters we'll never ever see again...
Clearly, the book should have better ended at page 130 considering how dull what's next ! It's a real shame, because it was almost perfect until then. But, things are how they are, the book is how it is, and leaves an incommensurate feeling of waste.
So, for the rating part, for once, I'll explain it. I was ready to put a 9/10 (5*) for the first half, then it dropped to 4/10 (2*) in the second, making an average of 6,5 which represents the mixed feelings the book gave to me. In the french website, I rounded it up to 7 thanks to the racing part, but here, I just can't push it to 8 (4*). So, it'll be a well-deserved 6 (3*).
BEWARE : unlike what the french cover and title suggest, this is absolutely NOT a Christmas romance !
In fact, Christmas is not even spoken about a single time within the story, which ends before winter. We just get a few snowflakes at the end and that's all.
So why on earth did the publisher lied about it ? Did they THAT lacked of wintery Nora Roberts books to sell this as one ? Who knows. Anyway, if you know about it (thank to Sedelina on Babelio for warning in her review), you can't be disappointed. But what if you DON'T know ? Then you can legitimately feel ripped off.
Anyway, let's put those bad pusblishing choices apart and talk about the book.
For the whole first half of the story, I really thought this would be a book-crush. The motorsports truly are part of the plot and we even get a race (briefly summed up, but the atmosphere is here) ! Foxy is passionate about her job, independent, and her half-friendly, half-explosive relationship with Lance feels real.
The age of the book (originally released fourty years ago) doesn't shows itself much except in some details like Foxy's journalist friend using a recorder. So it's funny to see the translation using euros...
However. Past the middle of the novel, everything just falls apart. The characters start acting randomly – and stupidly, to become odious to each other, their quarrels happen more and more often without any reason, we're carried all of a sudden in the middle of Boston's elite society for a chapter where we're extensively introduced to some characters we'll never ever see again...
Clearly, the book should have better ended at page 130 considering how dull what's next ! It's a real shame, because it was almost perfect until then. But, things are how they are, the book is how it is, and leaves an incommensurate feeling of waste.
So, for the rating part, for once, I'll explain it. I was ready to put a 9/10 (5*) for the first half, then it dropped to 4/10 (2*) in the second, making an average of 6,5 which represents the mixed feelings the book gave to me. In the french website, I rounded it up to 7 thanks to the racing part, but here, I just can't push it to 8 (4*). So, it'll be a well-deserved 6 (3*).
December 20, 2018
The next in line, The Heart's Victory was a little disjointed. The book starts out with Cynthia (Foxy) Fox following her brother Kirk on his quest for a racing championship. As a photographer she is working with a reporter to tell the story of that season of racing. Foxy knows all too well about the circuit as she was raised by her race car driving brother after their parents die in a car accident. At first you get the feeling that Foxy loves the lifestyle, but over the course of the book you come to realize that is not the case. In fact, she hates it and hates that her brother constantly puts his life at risk. Enter Lance or Lancelot Matthews. Lance is Foxy's teenage crush when he was racing, but they haven't seen each other for 6 years. They immediately fall into what I call the NR banter. He is rude, she is offended but deep down loves him. Where this book begins to diverge from the other early books is that for the first time there is a secondary love story, Kirk and Pam (the reporter) and that mid way through the book Foxy changes a bit. No longer the strong, independent career woman, now she is the self-self-concious and struggling wife. The story demands that Foxy change a bit, but I also think that NR loses a bit of ground with the characters after she moves them from the race track to Boston. I can feel her writing beginning to evolve though and I think this book had the first real sex scenes she has written. Still very tame and it takes place after marriage.
July 6, 2014
Este libro es... No me salen las palabras, ¡por Dios!¿dónde estaba mi autora favorita cuando escribió esto?
Última Parada es de lo peor que he leido de esta autora. Hasta la mitad de la novela va bien(sin pasarse, pero todo lo bien que puede ir un harlequin normalito, normalito) pero luego llegamos a la segunda parte y ahí es cuando mi cabeza no consigue casar el nombre de Nora Roberts con "ésto".
Si por algo caracteriza esta autora es por crear protagonistas femeninas fuertes e independientes y machotes que saben como tratarlas y que no ven amenazada su masculinidad porque la protagonista sea más lista, tenga un puesto de trabajo mejor que el de él, etc.
Pero en este libro encontramos todo lo contrario. Foxy es una protagonista normalita que no hay por donde cogerla de las cosas tan raritas que hace. Me ha recordado mucho a cierta protagonista de la trilogia de las corbatas, esposas y lazos, pero sin todo eso, claro está. (Y que conste que no es un alago).
Última Parada es de lo peor que he leido de esta autora. Hasta la mitad de la novela va bien(sin pasarse, pero todo lo bien que puede ir un harlequin normalito, normalito) pero luego llegamos a la segunda parte y ahí es cuando mi cabeza no consigue casar el nombre de Nora Roberts con "ésto".
Si por algo caracteriza esta autora es por crear protagonistas femeninas fuertes e independientes y machotes que saben como tratarlas y que no ven amenazada su masculinidad porque la protagonista sea más lista, tenga un puesto de trabajo mejor que el de él, etc.
Pero en este libro encontramos todo lo contrario. Foxy es una protagonista normalita que no hay por donde cogerla de las cosas tan raritas que hace. Me ha recordado mucho a cierta protagonista de la trilogia de las corbatas, esposas y lazos, pero sin todo eso, claro está. (Y que conste que no es un alago).
September 24, 2020
When her parents died in a car crash at age 13, Cynthia Fox (or Foxy) joined her big brother Kirk on the racing circuit. Now a 23 year old photographer, she returns and is confronted with her teen crush Lance Matthews. Foxy still feels wounded from Lance’s rejection 7 years before, but now the spark ignites between them. This is an early-80s romance, and it shows. The hero is pushy and demanding, taking advantage and making accusations often. However, the drama and conflicts are there for anyone who enjoys them, and Foxy does have an endearing relationship with her brother. To hear a full discussion of The Heart's Victory listen to Season 1, Ep. #2 "Nora Roberts 1982: Blithe Images, Search for Love, Song of the West, Island of Flowers, A Heart’s Victory" of Romancing the Shelf, a Nora Roberts podcast: https://romancingtheshelf.libsyn.com/
March 25, 2016
One of Nora Roberts earliest books. The story is very romantic, a little Rhett Butler. I always love to read the earlier works of my favorite authors. It's so much fun to see how far their writing has improved. Even the best writers keep improving. Especially if they take it seriously, like the great Nora Roberts. The greatest writers are the ones who just keep on writing, and as an avid reader, I say thank you!
March 28, 2013
Este libro me encanta. Es una historia bastante cortita pero muy intensa.
Me gusta Foxy y Lanche. Hacen buena pareja. Una novela contemporánea muy intensa y llena de velocidad.
Te hace pasar un rato divertido y te quedas con ganas de más.
Me gusta Foxy y Lanche. Hacen buena pareja. Una novela contemporánea muy intensa y llena de velocidad.
Te hace pasar un rato divertido y te quedas con ganas de más.
October 29, 2019
I think Nora wishes to talk about how a marriage should be led. She talks about personal adjustments and coming into mutual commitments, agreements and beliefs. This book didn’t surprise me, neither taught me a new lesson.
June 19, 2008
This is my fav book....
Well, I hope I can meet a guy like Lance...
LOL....
Well, I hope I can meet a guy like Lance...
LOL....
December 14, 2021
N'est pas su tout un livre de Noël en plus pendant tout le long de l'histoire on a envie de tuer les personnages principaux qui sont chiants
August 6, 2023
i liked the book right before the accident. after that everything went downhill for me. the most chemistry i felt between the main couple was in monte carlo when they went on that date. after that they were polite strangers at best.
i didn’t like pam & kirk’s storyline. they talked twice and she was already in love with him. 🙄🙄
lance’s marriage proposal and love confession was so abrupt and sudden, it left me confused. at that point i didn’t feel any chemistry between them.
ermmmm……??
red flags just kept coming.
i didn’t like pam & kirk’s storyline. they talked twice and she was already in love with him. 🙄🙄
“Their eyes met for only one brief instant, but abruptly the realization had come to her that she was in love with him.”
lance’s marriage proposal and love confession was so abrupt and sudden, it left me confused. at that point i didn’t feel any chemistry between them.
ermmmm……??
“As he began to carry her to the bed Foxy’s passive acceptance disappeared. “No!” Desperately she tried to free herself from his arms. “Lance, don’t, not like this.” She pushed hard against his chest and felt herself falling. Her small cry of alarm was knocked from her as she hit the mattress. Before she could roll away, he was on top of her.”
red flags just kept coming.
“Fox, you were little more than a child. I was a grown man.”
April 22, 2022
When Cynthia Fox was thirteen, she and her parents were in a car accident on an icy road. Her parents were killed and her twenty-three-year-old brother, Kirk, became her guardian. Since Kirk is a race car driver, that meant Foxy, as Kirk calls her, went with him on the racing circuit.
Ten years later, Kirk is still racing. Foxy has returned to the racing circuit, after staying away for two years. She's kept it a secret but has developed panic attacks watching her brother race. But she is working as a photographer for journalist Pam Anderson, who is writing a series of articles on racing. Kirk's best friend, Lance Matthews, has given up racing but he hasn't given up teasing Foxy and getting under her skin. Lance has moved on from racing to designing and building the cars.
Foxy had a big crush on Lance as a teenager but now she's convinced herself she doesn't like him at all. Well almost convinced herself.
A pleasant read, with a nice secondary romance between Kirk and Pam.
Ten years later, Kirk is still racing. Foxy has returned to the racing circuit, after staying away for two years. She's kept it a secret but has developed panic attacks watching her brother race. But she is working as a photographer for journalist Pam Anderson, who is writing a series of articles on racing. Kirk's best friend, Lance Matthews, has given up racing but he hasn't given up teasing Foxy and getting under her skin. Lance has moved on from racing to designing and building the cars.
Foxy had a big crush on Lance as a teenager but now she's convinced herself she doesn't like him at all. Well almost convinced herself.
A pleasant read, with a nice secondary romance between Kirk and Pam.
March 24, 2021
Ya me leí este libro hace unos años. Me encanta Nora Roberts, como escribe, mezclando el romance con misterio. Sin embargo este libro me ha decepcionado un poco, es un libro que se lee rápido y no te hace pesar, eso está bien si es lo que buscas. Es un relato que no aporta nada, es entretenido pero en mi opinión no está al nivel de otros de sus libros. La relación que hay entre Lance y Foxy avanza demasiado rápido, han estado enamorados el uno del otro desde hace años pero no hay hecho nada para acabar con esa tensión hasta que Kirk tiene un accidente y Lance se aprovecha de que Foxy está vulnerable y desorientada para que se case con él. No me parece la mejor actitud para empezar un matrimonio.
En resumen, el libro es entretenido pero un poco soso si lo comparamos con otros de los libros de la autora, la escritora que tanto me gusta está desaparecida en este libro, o al menos, a partir de la mitad del libro.
En resumen, el libro es entretenido pero un poco soso si lo comparamos con otros de los libros de la autora, la escritora que tanto me gusta está desaparecida en este libro, o al menos, a partir de la mitad del libro.
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September 20, 2022
- Escogí este libro, que es relectura (ya no se cuántas veces lo he leído) dado que no tenía muy claro que leer. No sabía muy bien que me apetecía.
- Novela romántica con un lenguaje sencillo, ágil, entretenido, que hace la lectura muy fluida y que me ha permitido devorar el libro y me ha durado menos de 24 horas.
- Diálogos entretenidos con muchos toques de humor que hacen la lectura muy amena.
- Es una trama que está ambientada en el mundo del motor, las carreras de coches. En el que la familia, las amistades, el amor de la infancia están presentes.
- Personajes con mucho fundamento. Los principales un tanto contradictorios en su comportamiento pero que se complementan y crean un ambiente entretenido y fluido.
- Lo dicho. Para mi es una lectura ligera que me permite desconectar y entretenerme sin tener que estar concentrada. Muy buen recurso para mis momentos de bloqueo lector.
- Valoración: 5/5⭐️
- Novela romántica con un lenguaje sencillo, ágil, entretenido, que hace la lectura muy fluida y que me ha permitido devorar el libro y me ha durado menos de 24 horas.
- Diálogos entretenidos con muchos toques de humor que hacen la lectura muy amena.
- Es una trama que está ambientada en el mundo del motor, las carreras de coches. En el que la familia, las amistades, el amor de la infancia están presentes.
- Personajes con mucho fundamento. Los principales un tanto contradictorios en su comportamiento pero que se complementan y crean un ambiente entretenido y fluido.
- Lo dicho. Para mi es una lectura ligera que me permite desconectar y entretenerme sin tener que estar concentrada. Muy buen recurso para mis momentos de bloqueo lector.
- Valoración: 5/5⭐️
December 11, 2021
I first read The Heart's Victory when it was originally released as a Silhouette romance back when I was a young teen in the early 80s, and despite the fact that the books that Nora Roberts writes now are so much better, this one remains a favorite. It was one of Roberts first books and it shows- it is dated, much too short, and there could have been so much more character development- but there is just something about it that appeals to me, so much so that I've read it dozens of times over the years.
November 22, 2013
Dentro do estilo da Nora achei este dos mais fraquinhos que já li! Não sei, acho que faltou romance e depois todo o universo do livro que é o automobilismo e as corridas de Indianapolis não diz grande coisa coisa ao leitor europeu, acho que é muito próprio dos americanos e ao ler só me lembrava do filme Dias de Tempestade com o Tom Cruise...
Achei aquele volte face do acidente muito previsivel e o casamento da maneira que foi absurdo, gostei daquela referência no final quando ele diz que
Achei aquele volte face do acidente muito previsivel e o casamento da maneira que foi absurdo, gostei daquela referência no final quando ele diz que
November 28, 2021
So, I began my journey as a romance novel reader with Nora Roberts books, and I still hold them dear to my heart. The thing with this book is, the plot has potencial, but since it was written in the late 80s and release in 1991, there are a lot of problems in it, that made me not like it very much (all the misogyny and the macho stuff). I like Fox, I like the F1 background, but Lance is not very well developed, he has anger problems, and he keeps grabbing, pushing and being mean with her. Plus, the whole Kirk and Pam part is just left to the side of the plot after a while.
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July 26, 2019One of Nora’s early books. She wasn’t as adept at defining characters early on so Lance comes across as not the best choice for Foxy - he is rich and used to getting his way. He totally disregards her fear for him and her brother and leaves her to herself to defend against all his snooty relatives! I would have requested a divorce as well!
February 28, 2022
The first half of the book on the race car circuit was good. Foxy and Lance’s relationship was fun to read as it unfolded. Then they got married and their personalities seem to change. Foxy was a totally different person whom I didn’t like. So many issues went unresolved. I liked the secondary couple’s romance better.
November 3, 2022
Bis zur Hälfte war es mega romantisch, richtig knisternd und interessant, danach hat mir irgendwie das Ziel gefehlt und erst als die Familie ins Spiel kam wurde es nochmal kurz interessant. Das Ende war verstörend. Als Erwachsener Mann eine Jugendliche zu lieben ist eine Sache ihr es zu sagen und es als romantisch zu verkaufen einfach cringe.
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February 28, 2017
El libro ha estado bastante bien, aunque si me dicen que es de otra autora me lo creo. Me ha faltado la pizca de Nora Roberts que me gusta... ese enganche que hace con sus protagonistas, no se explicarme
yo le pondria de nota un 8
yo le pondria de nota un 8
February 24, 2019
I never thought much of Nora Roberts way back when, and this is why. Anger instead of attraction, with a hero who constantly manhandles his "true love." Meh. Thank God NR got much better as the years went by.
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