Γαλάζιοι Ορίζοντες - Άρλεκιν Bianca #299

by Carole Buck

Ο Άντρας του Νοεμβρίου!

Εκείνος: Κάιλ Γκόρντον. Πρώην αστροναύτης και πιλότος της Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας.
Εκείνη: Σούζαν Μπρουκς. Χήρα και εργαζόμενη μητέρα.
Κοινό σημείο: Η ακατανίκητη δύναμη που τους φέρνει ολοένα και πιο κοντά ...

Μετά το ατύχημα που του στοίχησε τη δουλειά του, ο Κάιλ επιστρέφει στην πόλη που μεγάλωσε. Εκεί, έχει ν' αντιμετωπίσει το πάθος του θείου του για τους εξωγήινους, τον υπερβολικό θαυμασμό ενός μικρού αγοριού και ... τη Σούζαν!
Τι ήταν αυτό που την ενοχλούσε τόσο πολύ σ' εκείνον, ώστε να μη θέλει ούτε να τον βλέπει;

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Carole Buckland obtained a BA in Political Science at University of Connecticut. She worked as reporter, writer by CNN, and "Larry King Live" producer. She wrote romance novels under the penname Carole Buck.

Reviews

[Tracey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Every year I set myself a reading challenge, to try a genre that I have not been overly exposed to and this year I thought I would give the world of romance a go. So I brought a stack, probably 20 books from a op shop and thought it is time to give them a crack. I want to read a stack of them because sometimes you have to immerse yourself in a genre.

Anyway this book our hero Kyle once was a big shot astronaut/fighter pilot who has had his wings clipped and can no longer fly. So he returns to the small town he came from and befriends 10 year old Charlie, son of his now deceased best friend and the mother of the child who he has the hots for on the two previous occasions they have met. Being the wedding day when she 21 and at the funeral, not considered the best times to pick up. So we are two year after the death and he is back.

There is a lot of internalising in here, more than I could handle of why does she not love me, why is he such a bastard, lots of talking to friends about feelings etc.

The characters were well crafted but the aliens - shit that is when the book flying across the room with a WTF! The orbs and the bliss ball are mentioned through out the book and they play the part at the end but if this was an attempt at Mulder and Scully type thing it failed badly. Aliens I am still grappling with that one.

Oh and the other thing that made me laugh was one of the 'romantic bits'. There is Susan giving Kyle the ride of his life in the great outdoors (if you know what I mean) and remember he is a fighter pilot who is grounded
"She felt Kyle shudder at the same time. Looking down, she saw he was he was staring up at the night sky.
'Fly...with...me!'she gasped.
The soared, together.
The touched the stars the same way."
Anyone got a bucket? Also the use of the term hot dog, I dont why but ít really irked me.

[Jan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm a fan of category romance. I can be critical of them, but I've read and reread so many of them when I was a teenager that they have a soft spot in my heart. Today, when I'm in need of a comfort pick-me up category romance is still something I turn to, because of the instant gratification factor.

So I've read quite a lot of them, liked quite a lot of them, hated a couple, and have a whole bunch that were simply unmemorable. A couple turned the tables on me however, and were so much made of WTFery I never really recovered. You see, category romance is very much set in the realistic for me. I can handle the occasional historical category, but mostly I like them to be contemporary. And when I read them, I expect realistic situations (no matter if they star gazillionairs, tycoons and supermodel secretaries, I expect a realistic plot and set-up).

And now that I'm cataloging all my old categories, I'm starting to notice that quite a bit of the ones I hated are the ones that fail against this expectation of realism. So I'm adding them dutifully to the Craziest Harlequins list, and putting them in the donation box.

This one had one of the bigger NO WAY moments I encountered (and that includes the dude from Atlantis, the spirit sex, the reincarnated hero, and the virgin sex-advisor). Because well, the resolution involves aliens. And not the on television or imaginary kind (alas, neither the Ripley Aliens kind, because that would have been kind of awesome). So yeah, didn't buy it, didn't like it, and wasn't comforted.

[Elgyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

V roce 1992 snily hrdinky o superhrdinovi v plášti a přiléhavých plavkách? Takže ostatní muži to neměli snadné - s. 52 opravdu to vadí, že se jí chce smát, když si ho představí v sametovém plášti a v plavkách s emblémem blesku? Při takové představě se mi chce spíš zvracet, ale u hrdinky byl v problém v tom, na kom si to představovala. Na hrdinovi by plavky „z aluminiové folie“ viděla vskutku ráda.
Konspirační teorie s mimozemšťany byla IMHO zbytečná.