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Jungle Lover
There was more than one type of jungle predator
Chrissy had expected danger. After all, collecting rare botanical specimens in the steamy Amazon rain forest almost guaranteed it.
She hadn't prepared herself, however, for Rodrigo Garcia Montada--the arrogant, autocratic owner of more hectares of lush green vegetation than Chrissy could fathom. Somehow he seemed to feel this gave him the right to take control of her work--and her heart.
Even more infuriating were the very definite ideas Rodrigo had about separating love from marriage... and into which of those compartments he intended to fit Chrissy!
Chrissy had expected danger. After all, collecting rare botanical specimens in the steamy Amazon rain forest almost guaranteed it.
She hadn't prepared herself, however, for Rodrigo Garcia Montada--the arrogant, autocratic owner of more hectares of lush green vegetation than Chrissy could fathom. Somehow he seemed to feel this gave him the right to take control of her work--and her heart.
Even more infuriating were the very definite ideas Rodrigo had about separating love from marriage... and into which of those compartments he intended to fit Chrissy!
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Sally Heywood
31 books4 followersSally Heywood was born in Yorkshire, England, UK. After leaving university, she had several jobs, including running an art gallery, a guest house and a boutique. As playwright, she has written several plays for theater, television and radio. 'Bringing the Last Boat Home' was part of the BBC's IGNITE programme, to encourage professional writers to think in terms of sound. She has published over twenty-five romantic novels for Mills & Boon, she also signed her novels as Sandra Clark. Her special interests are sailing, reading, fashion, interior decorating and helping in a children's nursery. She lives in Staithes and London.
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September 18, 2017
RE Jungle Lover - Sally Heywood takes us to the Amazon - probably the ever handy fictitious HP country of San Cristobal, tho SH never names the place- HPlandia's San Cristobal has gotten yet another beautiful blonde botanist taking over for a man who fell ill. Again we find another macho, dictatorial, diabolically handsome H who owns the land the research station is on and he is full of insults and roofie kisses for the h.
They first meet when the book opens and the h and her guide are trekking through the jungle to the research area. They stop to take a rest and a nap and the h is awoken by a domineering, bullying but very handsome man who looks Portuguese but has blue eyes. He yells at her to get up and get moving and then takes off. The h and crew make it the research station and the h, very disturbed by the magnetic personality of the man who yelled at her, assumes he was some kind of forest ranger or something.
They meet again when the h is doing her research on trees in the area and decides she needs to climb up into the canopy to really investigate things, as the trees all look the same from the ground and can only be identified by their flowers, which only grow 50 feet up. The H shows up and refuses to let the h climb the shaky rope arrangement that the researches use to get in the tree tops. The h is outraged, she has already been accused of being tarty by the H and accused of trying to temp the guide who took her thru the forest as it was oppressively hot and she opened a few buttons on her shirt.
The h starts a protest and then is told that it is the H's land, it has been in his family for hundreds of years and he can pretty much dictate whatever he wants. The h gets into another argument with the H and since they are all staying in the same house, the H and h meet again late at night in the kitchen and there is a roofie kissing moment. The H wears a big heavy gold ring and the h assumes he is married. She is outraged, but she is also very attracted and mad with passion, so she resolves to keep her distance from the H.
The h is a pure and virtuous girl who accidentally won a beauty contest while waiting to her about her botanist results and her friends entered her into it on whim. This led to problems with her new boss when she got a job, cause he was the pervy, groper type and so it was with some serious relief that the prior botanist got ill and the h was the only one able to take his place. Now she has another pervy, groper H to worry about, but at least he is attractive and she doesn't mind the groping so much.
The H asks her to be his mistress and the h has to tell him off. He wanders off to do H things and the h decides to climb up into the jungle canopy by herself. She is happily occupying herself in the trees when the H shows up again and this time he is ready to haul her off to his hacienda near the main town. It seems two of the researchers left for some reason and a third researcher fell out of his tree and may have broken his back. The H got him to the hospital, but now there are no more researchers but the h and she can't stay in the research area alone.
The H has a girl with him who wears the same sort of ring with the crest that he does and the h assumes that is his wife. The H takes the h back to his hacienda and sets her up to finish her research there. By now the h is totally in love with the H, but keeping her misery and her distance, until the H confronts her and she yells at him that he needs to respect his wife - who left several days earlier and hasn't been back.
The H is shocked, cause the girl wasn't his wife, she was his niece, but the h still refuses the H cause she doesn't do casual affairs, she is still petting unicorns. The H tells her that English women don't survive life in the forest and that his own mother abandoned him and his father when he was seven and she never came back - so the H refuses to ask the h to marry him. The h is upset about that, but then the H sets up a job for her in his own botanical pharmaceutical division of his huge business and the h is thinking things might work out after all.
Until the H brings a woman he claims is his fiancee to his house and the h is even more hurt and wounded cause she thought they were starting a real relationship. There is angry h words and the H is acting like nitwit until they have a big fight while there is dancing and the h runs off into the forest. She gets lost and the H has to come find her. He was panicking that she left him and disappeared and he can't bear to lose her, so he proposes and explains that the OW was just his old friend and she is actually engaged to someone else who kept delaying the wedding.
The OW and the H had talked about marrying, the H since he couldn't bear to love and lose the h when she became discontented as all his family's foreign brides seem to do and the OW cause the man she loved kept delaying the wedding. The OW's guy came up to the mark right quick with a wedding date when she went off with the H and now things are peachy keen for her, she is off to marry her man and sorry for upsetting the h.
The h tells the H that she read his father's journals and his mother's and the whole thing came down to the H's father being an even bigger tyrant than the H and never listening to his wife. The H's mum felt completely isolated on the H's big estate and never had visitors or friends and the H's dad never talked to her much or tried to see how she felt about things and he left her alone a lot.
Then when she left, the H's dad was too stubborn to go after her and tell her he missed her or let her come back home, even tho they both really loved each other. The h explains that if she and the H can just talk to each other and explain things and maybe she can visit her mum in England every so often, they should be just fine together cause she loves the forest and the botany research and the H is happy she wants to stay so they decide to marry for the HEA.
This one was pretty slow and nothing really happens for about nine chapters. The whole fiancee OW thing happens in the last chapter and then it is a big rush to the HEA. The last chapter was great and very dramatic, but it took a long time to get there, so this may not be the greatest HPlandia outing for a real HP wild ride experience. .
They first meet when the book opens and the h and her guide are trekking through the jungle to the research area. They stop to take a rest and a nap and the h is awoken by a domineering, bullying but very handsome man who looks Portuguese but has blue eyes. He yells at her to get up and get moving and then takes off. The h and crew make it the research station and the h, very disturbed by the magnetic personality of the man who yelled at her, assumes he was some kind of forest ranger or something.
They meet again when the h is doing her research on trees in the area and decides she needs to climb up into the canopy to really investigate things, as the trees all look the same from the ground and can only be identified by their flowers, which only grow 50 feet up. The H shows up and refuses to let the h climb the shaky rope arrangement that the researches use to get in the tree tops. The h is outraged, she has already been accused of being tarty by the H and accused of trying to temp the guide who took her thru the forest as it was oppressively hot and she opened a few buttons on her shirt.
The h starts a protest and then is told that it is the H's land, it has been in his family for hundreds of years and he can pretty much dictate whatever he wants. The h gets into another argument with the H and since they are all staying in the same house, the H and h meet again late at night in the kitchen and there is a roofie kissing moment. The H wears a big heavy gold ring and the h assumes he is married. She is outraged, but she is also very attracted and mad with passion, so she resolves to keep her distance from the H.
The h is a pure and virtuous girl who accidentally won a beauty contest while waiting to her about her botanist results and her friends entered her into it on whim. This led to problems with her new boss when she got a job, cause he was the pervy, groper type and so it was with some serious relief that the prior botanist got ill and the h was the only one able to take his place. Now she has another pervy, groper H to worry about, but at least he is attractive and she doesn't mind the groping so much.
The H asks her to be his mistress and the h has to tell him off. He wanders off to do H things and the h decides to climb up into the jungle canopy by herself. She is happily occupying herself in the trees when the H shows up again and this time he is ready to haul her off to his hacienda near the main town. It seems two of the researchers left for some reason and a third researcher fell out of his tree and may have broken his back. The H got him to the hospital, but now there are no more researchers but the h and she can't stay in the research area alone.
The H has a girl with him who wears the same sort of ring with the crest that he does and the h assumes that is his wife. The H takes the h back to his hacienda and sets her up to finish her research there. By now the h is totally in love with the H, but keeping her misery and her distance, until the H confronts her and she yells at him that he needs to respect his wife - who left several days earlier and hasn't been back.
The H is shocked, cause the girl wasn't his wife, she was his niece, but the h still refuses the H cause she doesn't do casual affairs, she is still petting unicorns. The H tells her that English women don't survive life in the forest and that his own mother abandoned him and his father when he was seven and she never came back - so the H refuses to ask the h to marry him. The h is upset about that, but then the H sets up a job for her in his own botanical pharmaceutical division of his huge business and the h is thinking things might work out after all.
Until the H brings a woman he claims is his fiancee to his house and the h is even more hurt and wounded cause she thought they were starting a real relationship. There is angry h words and the H is acting like nitwit until they have a big fight while there is dancing and the h runs off into the forest. She gets lost and the H has to come find her. He was panicking that she left him and disappeared and he can't bear to lose her, so he proposes and explains that the OW was just his old friend and she is actually engaged to someone else who kept delaying the wedding.
The OW and the H had talked about marrying, the H since he couldn't bear to love and lose the h when she became discontented as all his family's foreign brides seem to do and the OW cause the man she loved kept delaying the wedding. The OW's guy came up to the mark right quick with a wedding date when she went off with the H and now things are peachy keen for her, she is off to marry her man and sorry for upsetting the h.
The h tells the H that she read his father's journals and his mother's and the whole thing came down to the H's father being an even bigger tyrant than the H and never listening to his wife. The H's mum felt completely isolated on the H's big estate and never had visitors or friends and the H's dad never talked to her much or tried to see how she felt about things and he left her alone a lot.
Then when she left, the H's dad was too stubborn to go after her and tell her he missed her or let her come back home, even tho they both really loved each other. The h explains that if she and the H can just talk to each other and explain things and maybe she can visit her mum in England every so often, they should be just fine together cause she loves the forest and the botany research and the H is happy she wants to stay so they decide to marry for the HEA.
This one was pretty slow and nothing really happens for about nine chapters. The whole fiancee OW thing happens in the last chapter and then it is a big rush to the HEA. The last chapter was great and very dramatic, but it took a long time to get there, so this may not be the greatest HPlandia outing for a real HP wild ride experience. .
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 12, 2021
There was more than one type of jungle predator
Chrissy had expected danger. After all, collecting rare botanical specimens in the steamy Amazon rain forest almost guaranteed it.
She hadn't prepared herself, however, for Rodrigo Garcia Montada--the arrogant, autocratic owner of more hectares of lush green vegetation than Chrissy could fathom. Somehow he seemed to feel this gave him the right to take control of her work--and her heart.
Even more infuriating were the very definite ideas Rodrigo had about separating love from marriage... and into which of those compartments he intended to fit Chrissy! (less)
Chrissy had expected danger. After all, collecting rare botanical specimens in the steamy Amazon rain forest almost guaranteed it.
She hadn't prepared herself, however, for Rodrigo Garcia Montada--the arrogant, autocratic owner of more hectares of lush green vegetation than Chrissy could fathom. Somehow he seemed to feel this gave him the right to take control of her work--and her heart.
Even more infuriating were the very definite ideas Rodrigo had about separating love from marriage... and into which of those compartments he intended to fit Chrissy! (less)
June 13, 2021
Chrissy was fed up with people looking at her beauty and dismissing her intellect. Therefore, when she had the chance to take the place of a follow researcher in the Amazon rainforest after he fell sick, she was more than willing to go. She was supposed to organize his work, but she thought of furthering her career by searching for rare trees species. It was this notion that got her in trouble with Rodrigo Garcia Montana, the Senhor who owned the lands which she and the other scientists are using as their base laboratory. She thought of him as an extremely insufferable man, yet she was attracted to him against her will.
The story is fine, yet it's not one I'd like to read again. The two main characters gave it away. The hero is too dominating and the heroine is too fiery for a reader to like them.
The story is fine, yet it's not one I'd like to read again. The two main characters gave it away. The hero is too dominating and the heroine is too fiery for a reader to like them.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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August 6, 2017Well I am not that much of romantic novel reader but I had the book laying around so I just gave it a try, the environment detail and the way of girl how they are was represented so good but the male protagonist was a bit dramatic and stuck up guy, overall the book is okay enough to read for those who are into love story. As I am hopeless and unlucky enough in romantic love so I am not that fond of such genre.
October 26, 2021
Classical Harlequin.
3.5 stars
Chrissy is a beautiful blonde botanist on assignment in the jungle where she meets the local senhor who makes no secret of his attraction or contempt.
3.5 stars
Chrissy is a beautiful blonde botanist on assignment in the jungle where she meets the local senhor who makes no secret of his attraction or contempt.
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