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Bittersweet Legacy
Bittersweet Legacy by Jenna Ryan released on Feb 22, 1993 is available now for purchase.
234 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Jenna Ryan
105 books129 followersJenna Ryan was born in Victoria, British Columbia. After long stints in different cities across Canada, she returned home to Vancouver Island where she has lived ever since. She has had thirty-one books published in the Harlequin Intrigue series. Her ideas come from real life, and she is helped in her writing by her sister Kathy.
She enjoys reading and is a big fan of women's fiction, psychological suspense and mystery novels. She also enjoys watching classic suspense movies. She loves strong heroines, heroes with character, romance stories and a good whodunit by the fire on a rainy night.
Her heritage is a blend of English and Irish — which is probably where the gift of blarney comes from. She is unmarried, but involved with a wonderful man. She also has a little white cat named Sheena.
Whenever she is not writing, she travels as much as time and finances will allow. After North America, Europe is her favorite continent to explore, because it was in those countries that many of the myths and legends she drew upon in her early years of writing were born.
Growing up, she considered various careers and dabbled in several of them, including, after university, the travel industry, tourism, sales and modeling. Work in the fashion industry in Toronto and Montreal gave her an interesting peek into various aspects of that world. She learned that where money, power and people come together, there will always be unpredictability — an element she feels is essential to a strong mystery. Add a healthy measure of personal conflict, an intriguing setting and a spicy romance into the mix, and you have the ingredients for what she believes to be the best of all possible stories — a great romantic suspense.
She enjoys reading and is a big fan of women's fiction, psychological suspense and mystery novels. She also enjoys watching classic suspense movies. She loves strong heroines, heroes with character, romance stories and a good whodunit by the fire on a rainy night.
Her heritage is a blend of English and Irish — which is probably where the gift of blarney comes from. She is unmarried, but involved with a wonderful man. She also has a little white cat named Sheena.
Whenever she is not writing, she travels as much as time and finances will allow. After North America, Europe is her favorite continent to explore, because it was in those countries that many of the myths and legends she drew upon in her early years of writing were born.
Growing up, she considered various careers and dabbled in several of them, including, after university, the travel industry, tourism, sales and modeling. Work in the fashion industry in Toronto and Montreal gave her an interesting peek into various aspects of that world. She learned that where money, power and people come together, there will always be unpredictability — an element she feels is essential to a strong mystery. Add a healthy measure of personal conflict, an intriguing setting and a spicy romance into the mix, and you have the ingredients for what she believes to be the best of all possible stories — a great romantic suspense.
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September 24, 2024
Holy moly, thank God that's over. This was gobsmackingly terrible. It was an absolute chore to get through.
Melanie Rossi and Damien McCall are heirs to the Romac airlines fortune, and someone is not happy about it. Melanie and Damien's grandfathers swindled a bunch of business partners out of their money back in the 1930s and now someone wants revenge. Calling himself Rook, he is causing a series of mysterious incidents and leaving the diary pages of Neville McCall at the scene. Melanie and Damien must figure out who is behind the sabotage.
I wanted to like this, because it was a vintage Intrigue book that doesn't feature super-duper private intelligence agencies or cowboys in Texas. However, what we get here is an unmitigated, nonsensical mess. It was badly written. Events and scenes were poorly described. The dialogue was abominable. The hero and heroine had zero spark. And absolutely none of what happened made a lick of sense.
Rook is skimming money from Romac to give to the heirs of the businessmen who were swindled. Damien and his brother Rolf openly acknowledge that despite these losses, Romac won't be hurt financially. So, why is Rook opening himself up to possible exposure by running around in the fog and pulling all these silly stunts instead of just killing Melanie and Damien during the multiple times he has them completely at his mercy???
The book then goes on to have Melanie and Damien being drugged and travelling back to 1936/1937 in their dreams, until it is revealed that it was possibly real time travel because Rook is actually either reincarnating or travelling through time himself. It made my head hurt. I know that's a spoiler but I really think that's something you should be aware about beforehand in a mystery suspense book that, for 75% of its pages, had zero foreshadowing that anything speculative was going on - in a line that 99% of the time avoids supernatural elements.
Even with so much going on, this was extremely dull, and it was a real struggle for me to finish it. It shouldn't take nearly two weeks to read a quickie category romance! This legacy is one that needs to be quickly erased from my memory!
Melanie Rossi and Damien McCall are heirs to the Romac airlines fortune, and someone is not happy about it. Melanie and Damien's grandfathers swindled a bunch of business partners out of their money back in the 1930s and now someone wants revenge. Calling himself Rook, he is causing a series of mysterious incidents and leaving the diary pages of Neville McCall at the scene. Melanie and Damien must figure out who is behind the sabotage.
I wanted to like this, because it was a vintage Intrigue book that doesn't feature super-duper private intelligence agencies or cowboys in Texas. However, what we get here is an unmitigated, nonsensical mess. It was badly written. Events and scenes were poorly described. The dialogue was abominable. The hero and heroine had zero spark. And absolutely none of what happened made a lick of sense.
Rook is skimming money from Romac to give to the heirs of the businessmen who were swindled. Damien and his brother Rolf openly acknowledge that despite these losses, Romac won't be hurt financially. So, why is Rook opening himself up to possible exposure by running around in the fog and pulling all these silly stunts instead of just killing Melanie and Damien during the multiple times he has them completely at his mercy???
The book then goes on to have Melanie and Damien being drugged and travelling back to 1936/1937 in their dreams, until it is revealed that it was possibly real time travel because Rook is actually either reincarnating or travelling through time himself. It made my head hurt. I know that's a spoiler but I really think that's something you should be aware about beforehand in a mystery suspense book that, for 75% of its pages, had zero foreshadowing that anything speculative was going on - in a line that 99% of the time avoids supernatural elements.
Even with so much going on, this was extremely dull, and it was a real struggle for me to finish it. It shouldn't take nearly two weeks to read a quickie category romance! This legacy is one that needs to be quickly erased from my memory!
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