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Sweet Revenge
by
Nora Roberts
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy.Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next.But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge.As a child, she could only watch the...more
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge.As a child, she could only watch the...more
Paperback, 376 pages
Published
December 1st 1988
by Bantam
(first published 1987)
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THIS WAS AN AWESOME BOOK! after reading this book,im glad i dont live in a place like Jaquir. women have no rights, and they dont do anything. all they're good for is serving men and giving birth to more men. now i appreciate the freedom women have in America. *WARNING..CONTAINTS SPOLERS*** anyway...im glad for Addy. her dad was cruel, and he hated her just becase she was half american. but HE is the one that married the american. he thought Addy was a punishment for marrying the American actres...more
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Adrianne is a princess, with jewels, power and lots of money. She also happens to be one of the world’s greatest thieves and she has been practicing for years to take revenge on her father. Philip used to be a thief and now he is a cop, he catches thieves, but he can’t seem to stop wanting Adrianne. When Philip finds out that Adrianne plans to steal what was supposed to be her mothers’ dowry back from her father, he decides to help her. Now he and Adrianne have to decide whether they want to mak...more
Apr 02, 2010
Jasmin
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People who wants a little thrill plus romance on the side
This book was sitting on my shelves for so long, I completely forgot I ever bought it. And it was completely my loss. Have I known earlier that this book would make me love it so much, I would have devoured it in one sitting.
This is also the first ever Nora Roberts book I ever read, and I have to say, I completely loved it. Once I started reading it, I had a very hard time trying to put it down. Instead of sleeping really early, I opted for reading it more, trying to finish it sooner.
This book m...more
This is also the first ever Nora Roberts book I ever read, and I have to say, I completely loved it. Once I started reading it, I had a very hard time trying to put it down. Instead of sleeping really early, I opted for reading it more, trying to finish it sooner.
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Un poco de romance para el día a día.
Me gustan los libros de romance de esta autora porque casi siempre están enfocados a una carrera y le da importancia a esta fasceta de los personajes.
En esta ocasión tenemos a dos ladrones de piedras, así como una parte de la trama que se desarrolla dentro de un harém. Esto hace que veas parte de lo que sucede en estos dos aspectos, por un lado la decadencia de la vida dentro de una jaula de oro y por otro el aprecio de las joyas, cómo se tasan, qué es lo que...more
Me gustan los libros de romance de esta autora porque casi siempre están enfocados a una carrera y le da importancia a esta fasceta de los personajes.
En esta ocasión tenemos a dos ladrones de piedras, así como una parte de la trama que se desarrolla dentro de un harém. Esto hace que veas parte de lo que sucede en estos dos aspectos, por un lado la decadencia de la vida dentro de una jaula de oro y por otro el aprecio de las joyas, cómo se tasan, qué es lo que...more
I have been buying books for the last year from a used-books seller, and I had passed it over on several occasions before I finally decided to buy it over the summer. Then I put off reading it for a couple of months before finally starting last month. And it was definitely worth the wait!
"Sweet Revenge" gave me a glimpse into the life of an aspect of Muslim culture that I've heard a bit of but never have really understood. Phoebe Spring,an American actress at the height of her fame, becomes enam...more
"Sweet Revenge" gave me a glimpse into the life of an aspect of Muslim culture that I've heard a bit of but never have really understood. Phoebe Spring,an American actress at the height of her fame, becomes enam...more
I like Nora Roberts! I think she is a great story teller and I think that she develops the wittiest relationships in her stories.
This one is about a King of the Middle East who married a Hollywood Actress (kind of a Grace Kelly bit). Well when the King took his Queen back to the middle east, everything changed when she gave him a daughter and then could not bare any more children. She could not give him an heir. He turned cruel. He raped and physically abused his wife and had no love for his dau...more
This one is about a King of the Middle East who married a Hollywood Actress (kind of a Grace Kelly bit). Well when the King took his Queen back to the middle east, everything changed when she gave him a daughter and then could not bare any more children. She could not give him an heir. He turned cruel. He raped and physically abused his wife and had no love for his dau...more
This was my very first Nora Roberts book, and I can frankly say, she had me from the first sentence. After I picked up this book, I have read tons of Nora books, in fact I'm currently half way through the 44 book In Death Series. Well the books starts on a sad note, but we get motive, good motive, we get a clear picture. Then the books jumps to Addy being 25, and since in the beginning of the book she saw what she saw, we now understand what she does, steal. Steal for her mother, for preparation...more
While it needs to be acknowledged that atrocities have been committed against women overseas in the name of Islam, it also needs to be acknowledged that such practices have no basis in the religion itself. More than 1400 years ago Islam afforded women rights comparable to those in our contemporary international human rights documents. It is not Islam but other factors, notably cultural practices alien to the religion itself, which are the cause of the mistreatment of women. (Sydney Morning Heral...more
I am not going to review every Nora Roberts book that I have read in the past because she is quite prolific and it would get redundant and I honestly cannot remember all the plots. I think someone finds someone else attractive but at least one cannot admit it so there is sexual tension, then lots of sex, and then they live happily ever after? Sometimes there is some magic , a family legacy, or a mystery. Certainly not great works of literature (however still 100% better than “the grapes of wrath...more
i really liked this book. it was the first one of roberts that i read and i liked the story, the characters. i cried a lot for addy and her mother, she was one of those people who suffer all the time. i liked the romance. after this book i started reading other books from this author but they weren´t the same. they don´t deserve a review in my opinion. the were too obvious, the only important thing in the book was the love story. that´s the difference between this one and the others i´ve read. t...more
Feb 29, 2012
Dawid Piaskowski
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I am not pregnant nor planning to be in the near future, but I was interested in reading about how these children are different from others. Picked it up and didn't put it down. The cadre and adult-centered child rearing sounds practical and do-able. It makes me believe that I could hypothetically raise children guilt-free, without feeling I'm doing it "wrong", but somehow I get the feeling that raising kids the French way is practical if you are actually in France: if nurseries or day-cares are...more
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Picked it up, and had a really hard time putting it down. The story is beautifully backed up as we get to know Addy and her mother, coming to understand exactly what has framed Addy to be the person she is. Suspense and tension build as she encounters an ex-catburgler and we discover her plot for 'sweet revenge'.
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As said, the tension builds perfectly and I was hanging on every word as Philip and Adrienne performed their final job. Unfortunately, that tension leads to a...more
Spoilers beyond this point:
As said, the tension builds perfectly and I was hanging on every word as Philip and Adrienne performed their final job. Unfortunately, that tension leads to a...more
I loved this book. It was so heartbreaking and sad in the beginning. The mother, Sophie, a great actress, married a prince in Jaquir and thought she had the fairytale life until she couldn't produce a male heir. She was treated horribly. She fled finally with her daughter, only to be shunned by Hollywood and left to try and provide for her daughter. She dies a few years later and leaves her daughter, Adrianne.
Adrianne, so full of anger, decides for revenge against her so called father and it is...more
Adrianne, so full of anger, decides for revenge against her so called father and it is...more
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to make her famous fat...more
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to make her famous fat...more
Great book!! Entertaining, dynamic, thrilling and romantic, like only Nora Roberts can. A history full of mixed feelings, and also so opposite at the same time, develop in differents countries and during a long period of time (Adrianne's entire life). With a muslim culture and the way they treat women; family issues or more specific father issues and of course a romantic history that develops in the middle of a revenge plan.
I like the characters: I feel sympathetic with Adrianne, as I usually do...more
I like the characters: I feel sympathetic with Adrianne, as I usually do...more
An early book by NR and a favorite.
Celebrated actress Phoebe marries King Abdu of Jaqir. He falls insanely in love with her, gives her a precious, celebrated jewel, the Sun and the Stars, marries her and whisks her away to live in his country. But what first attracts him to her also, strangely, repulses him. Her sexiness is unseemly in his muslim country and, worst of all, after the difficult birth of their daughter Adrienne, Phoebe can't give him a son.
What follows is years of abuse and misery...more
Celebrated actress Phoebe marries King Abdu of Jaqir. He falls insanely in love with her, gives her a precious, celebrated jewel, the Sun and the Stars, marries her and whisks her away to live in his country. But what first attracts him to her also, strangely, repulses him. Her sexiness is unseemly in his muslim country and, worst of all, after the difficult birth of their daughter Adrienne, Phoebe can't give him a son.
What follows is years of abuse and misery...more
The story starts like most Nora Roberts' books: with excellent story telling and character development. Roberts could teach a master class in a full, well-rounded character. However, this books falls into unrealistic territory about half way through. It simply becomes flat out unbelievable. I don't like when Nora Roberts teeters into fantasy with her characters. I like a plausible story that has a beginning, middle, and end beautifully orchestrated. This book was a rare miss on her part.
She took her time introducing the characters and setting up the background story. It was different from the other stories that I've read from NR. It wasn't a bad thing, just different. When the main characters finally meet, and the real "story" starts being told, then that's when everything gets better. Worth the read because it's NR and you will never be disappointed with her.
If you feel like it's taking forever in the beginning, just hang in there. The information is all relative to the story...more
If you feel like it's taking forever in the beginning, just hang in there. The information is all relative to the story...more
Oct 21, 2008
Cyrisse
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3 of 5 stars
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romance readers
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From the moment Phillip Chamberlain saw gorgeous, chic, twenty-five year old Princess Adrianne, he knows she is the one behind all the robberies going on. The question is, why? She certainly doesn't need the money. Adrianne only knows one thing: revenge. Revenge for the fairytale that really wasn't a fairytale that her movie-star mother had to endure while married to her father, the king. Beatings and sexual molestations were what her mother had to live with when she married the king that believ...more
This book was a little too long to maintain my interest. This book reached peaks a few times and then it felt like story is still developing. I am more used to story developing in the beginning, reaching its peak and then maintaining pace. Having said that, the scenes in this story have been depicted marvelously! At times, I felt like I was in the room with the characters conversing with each other. Also, the main characters in the story have been depicted extremely well. Characters moving aroun...more
I love the days when Nora Roberts books had 2 words in the title. those are the good ones. I like that Adrian? is ethnic at a time when most Roberts characters are not. The storyline of The movie star Grace Kelly or Rita Hayworth type marriage to a prince doesn't have a happy ending. The flaws of the mom help build the character of the princess daughter. Revenge is sweet isn't it Daddy?
Not Nora's best, but an entertaining story. The main character wasn't entirely likeable, but she grew on me by the end of the book and I enjoyed her relationship with her grandmother. Her mother's plight and illness drew me in as well. I wouldn't run right out to the store to buy this if you haven't read it, but if there's nothing better to do on a lazy afternoon, go ahead and pick it up.
Not an ordinary love novel.
It was quite different from the rest of Nora Roberts books in my opinion. It showed life's bitter half very closely and I was surprised about the details that were given, it's like the author has been through it herself.
I enjoyed it very much - the book had a little more psychology to it than usual lovestories.
Read it, and you'll know what I mean! :)
It was quite different from the rest of Nora Roberts books in my opinion. It showed life's bitter half very closely and I was surprised about the details that were given, it's like the author has been through it herself.
I enjoyed it very much - the book had a little more psychology to it than usual lovestories.
Read it, and you'll know what I mean! :)
Roberts has certainly improved her writing over the years! This is some early work and while it wasn't as good as I thought it should have been for a Nora Roberts novel I could feel the potential in it. Nothing earth shattering, just a simple reading-escape love story with some REVENGE thrown in (and yes, that was a reference to the FANTASTIC show on TV).
Why did I read this? It is easy to digest and easy to forget. You can put the book down for a couple days, come back to it and its not that hard to remember what had happened previously. I didn't get into the book and it was okay. Just a quick read to get my book count back up for this year.
Also the kindle version is riddled with some awful typos, has proof reading been forgotten in the digital age?
Also the kindle version is riddled with some awful typos, has proof reading been forgotten in the digital age?
At best this book was ok. I got it as a birthday present so i promised to read it( I never was much into Norha Roberts). I don't know why but i felt like i had to suffer to get my way through it and finally gave up. I gave it a chance and it bored the hell out of me. I've read much better. I don't really plan on reading her again anytime soon.
This book was good, I love her books. This had an interesting back story of Adrianne growing up a child of Allah trapped in Jaquir with her mother. The thievery was ok, not necessary to make a good story but I guess interesting enough. I wish that Phoebe would have survived to see Adrianne's revenge on King Abdur.
I lost myself in this book. The characters were striking, spunky, and you are rooting for them from the beginning. The story itself covers several decades and does not suffer for it. Perhaps some of the richness of this book and its success for me comes from the deep relationships the main characters have with others, and some of the tragic reality found in those relationships.
This is definitely a worthy pick if you are looking to escape into a new world of customs and emotionally driven purpos...more
This is definitely a worthy pick if you are looking to escape into a new world of customs and emotionally driven purpos...more
Breath-taking. One of the best books I have ever read. It makes you think about other cultures in a different light, whether that culture is an imaginary country in the middle east or Hollywood. It also makes thievery appealing in a way...an odd thought that. Spectacularly written and a total page-turner.
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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sopho...more
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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sopho...more
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“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne
"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”
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"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”
“love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”
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