Φλόγες του Πάθους - Άρλεκιν Συλλογή #653

by Elizabeth Graham

Όταν η Λόρα δέχτηκε την πρόσκληση μιας φίλης της μητέρας της να τη φιλοξενήσει στη βίλα της στο Μεξικό, το μόνο που έλειπε ήταν να συγκεντρώσει υλικό για το νέο βιβλίο που έγραφε. Αλλά όταν συνάντησε τον Ρομάν Καστίγιο, τον ανιψιό της οικοδέσποινας που άρχισε να την πολιορκεί, συνειδητοποίησε πως ήταν τρέλα να τον ερωτευτεί.
Μπορεί ο Ρομάν να ήταν εκπληκτικά γοητευτικός, αλλά με κανέναν τρόπο δεν ήταν ο ιδανικός άντρας για να γίνει ένας μόνιμος σύντροφος. Γιατί ήταν φανερό πως καμιά γυναίκα δε θα μπορούσε να μονοπωλήσει για πολύ το ενδιαφέρον του ...

Genres: Harlequin

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 1985

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Elizabeth Graham (1):
E. Schattner wrote as Elizabeth Graham and Emma Church.

Reviews

[boogenhagen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a very unpopular novel, the main reason is that the supposed H locks the h in a room like his ancestor was rumored to do and rapes her. Yep, no bones about it, no forced seduction, it was flat out rape and yet he still winds up with her in the end.

It almost works, but then it doesn't and thus all the one and two stars. Worth reading for the WTF aspect of it cause I know I read out of sheer disbelief.

[Aou · Rating 2 out of 5]

All the romance was in h’s headw!

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don’t be tempted to read this one! Not even for WTFery.

The heroine (22) is initially mildly interesting when she is researching her second novel in Mexico. Then the hero (32) enters. He is a womaniser - a total manwhore, and if we ever find out who the gorgeous blonde was that he was seen dining with right near the end, then I missed it. He has women all over him, and yet he has no discernible charm. The heroine did not want to marry him when he proposed (begrudgingly when she stopped making out when he was in heat after taking her to a nightclub where they had a pervy show on). So romantic. But somehow the belief that she agrees escalates and suddenly she is like - what the hell, I think I love him. NOOOO!!!! Then he gets jealous, gets drunk and drags her by her hair up the stairs into a room (where his ancestor had kept his unfaithful wife locked in for THIRTY years!!) and turns the bright lights on and rapes her. The next morning, he says sorry - the marriage is back on. Ummm, no. No no no no NO! So she escapes and that should be the HEA. But wait, dirty perv pitches up in America, finds her pregnant and it’s back on again. With a lovely (not) ending of him going back to work, whilst she is at home wondering when he will be home.
This SUCKED. The story line is terrible for a publisher that promises a happy story. Plus the writing was superficial, demeaning to women, and it’s a terrible story - the epilogue where she gets sick from an STD and he kills her must have been missing from my version. But it surely happened….

[Leona · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author almost pulls it off, but not quite.

[Safa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Can you believe that I hurt myself
much more than I injured you that night?’





Yes sure
Your rape the poor and say i injured my salf more
She is stupied to take him back

[MissKitty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another Elizabeth Graham novel with a besotted Mexican Hero. Although thankfully there was no amnesia in this one.

Unfortunately the Hero does something unforgivable near the end, and the resolution and final declaration of mutual love was so abruptly done.

[RomLibrary]

Visiting her mothers old friend Isabel Castillo in Mexico, Laura was hoping to draw on local colour as the background for her new novel She did better than that in fact form Isabel's lordly nephew Roman she found the model for her romantic hero. But romantic heroes are not always noted for the more desirable real life qualities of niceness and kindness and nor was Roman She would be very foolish Laura soon realised to fall in love with him For no woman it was clear; not even a wife would hold Roman Castillo's interest for very long

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I personally liked the Mexican setting used by Elizabeth Graham in the second novel i ve read by her , first being "Jacintha point." However, I felt that there was too much cultural difference between the leads and it seemed to me that while 'forced seduction' might be unforgivable for some, according to another mindset it might be routine behaviour.

[FOTINI · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Aishwariya · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one was very vague. The character building of the characters was not enough. I hate the heroin more than the hero, even though she was been raped by the hero.

[Soujanya Murali · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lame, lamer, lamest!

[Νίνα Δοδούδη · Rating 3 out of 5]

"3.5/5"... Φλόγες του πάθους - Ελ. Γκράχαμ, Συλλογή, 653