Push the Past Behind

by Henrietta Reid

Helen had carefully built herself a new life — a life that now seemed to be based on a misunderstanding.

She couldn't help overhearing Max's argument with Corina. Corina had accused Max of using Helen to make her jealous. And Max had not denied it!

Suddenly all the happiness Helen had felt at her growing relationship with Max evaporated — leaving only pain and misery. Surely she wasn't going to be let down again!

Genres: Harlequin Romance

189 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Margo · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book reminds me of a Bible quote: "Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth."

This H really appears to lack any fire. He seems to like the h and kisses her, but then spends months doing nothing to move the relationship forward. His proposal is lackluster and includes praise of the OW. If I wanted a tepid romance, I'd...wait, I NEVER want a tepid romance.

The h should have consigned this relationship to the spittoon.

[Nightwitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slow-paced but sweet. The heroine is vaguely convinced that the hero has a thing for the local Spoiled Little Rich Girl, while the hero, I guess, is interested in the heroine? but also not really interested in pursuing a relationship? Like, he enjoys hanging out with the heroine, but for the most part the book is about everything but the romance - Helen coming into her own, living in a quaint small town, an assortment of entertaining side characters (including realistically-disobedient small children and a petulant teenager... who gets married at the end of the book, so let's just pretend she was in her early twenties), some mild adventures. When the hero proposes it's kind of an afterthought. On the other hand, everyone's pretty pleasant and it's a nice easy read. If you're reading this for some vintage simmering drama you're not going to find it, but as vintage romances go this was pretty nice.

[Toni-Lea Chin · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. The characters were pretty lukewarm and not that memorable.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 1 out of 5]

New author, vintage, sounds good! But this isn’t good. The h is a nitwit, constantly doing silly things for teenage drama type reasons and H is the slowest H ever. OW is a bad stereotype. I DNF and checked ending, same stuff. I didn’t see anything terribly wrong with writing,other than I don’t give a toss for the characters.

[Andi]

Immature heroine annoyed me from the first with her tendency to overreact and lack of sense. OW behaved like a spoiled b****, and blatantly so, you really have to question the H’s judgement.
DNF