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Η Τρέλα του Έρωτα - Άρλεκιν Συλλογή #862
Όλοι εκτός από τη Βικτόρια, πίστευαν ότι ο έρωτας της για το νεαρό ηθοποιό Γκάβιν Γκριντ ήταν μια παροδική νεανική τρέλα μιας ανώριμης τινέιτζερ. Μια τρέλα που την πλήγωνε όμως βαθιά γιατί αντιμετώπιζε και τα ειρωνικά σχόλια του Γκάβιν.
Αλλά όταν μετά από χρόνια ξανασυναντιόνται είναι η σειρά της Βικτόρια να του ανταποδώσει το χτύπημα.
Μια και ο Γκάβιν είναι τώρα εκείνος που αποζητά παθιασμένα τον έρωτά της κι εκείνη τον αποδιώχνει. Γιατί, μόλο που η καρδιά της χτυπά ακόμα για τον διάσημο πια ηθοποιό του κινηματογράφου, είναι αποφασισμένη να μην τον αφήσει να την ξαναπληγώσει ...
Αλλά όταν μετά από χρόνια ξανασυναντιόνται είναι η σειρά της Βικτόρια να του ανταποδώσει το χτύπημα.
Μια και ο Γκάβιν είναι τώρα εκείνος που αποζητά παθιασμένα τον έρωτά της κι εκείνη τον αποδιώχνει. Γιατί, μόλο που η καρδιά της χτυπά ακόμα για τον διάσημο πια ηθοποιό του κινηματογράφου, είναι αποφασισμένη να μην τον αφήσει να την ξαναπληγώσει ...
- GenresHarlequin RomanceRomance
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
About the author
Catherine George
449 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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January 10, 2025
A nice heroine unfortunately meets with a creepy hero. Victoria is a heroine who knows her own worth and deals with the epic wallops that life deals her with dignity and fortitude. The hero is an actor who rose to matinee idol status by appearing in a popular British TV series playing the character of a sexy....Nazi???!!! Eeeekkk.
He offers her a marriage of convenience because he finds her hot and... not much else. His plan is that she keep home for him while he is off gallivanting to his international movie star duties. Heroine gives him an epic set down: she deserves much much more than to be any man's convenience, thank you very much. Bravo!
Which is why the conclusion of the book was so disappointing. Goodbye English countryside and makeshift family of orphan brothers, hello Greek island with a cartoonish ensemble cast of unlikable secondary characters. Why was the heroine suddenly willing to let the hero ride roughshod over her, when basically none of the issues she objected to previously were resolved and he was still a creep?
I really wish the author had given this heroine a better story and hero :(
He offers her a marriage of convenience because he finds her hot and... not much else. His plan is that she keep home for him while he is off gallivanting to his international movie star duties. Heroine gives him an epic set down: she deserves much much more than to be any man's convenience, thank you very much. Bravo!
Which is why the conclusion of the book was so disappointing. Goodbye English countryside and makeshift family of orphan brothers, hello Greek island with a cartoonish ensemble cast of unlikable secondary characters. Why was the heroine suddenly willing to let the hero ride roughshod over her, when basically none of the issues she objected to previously were resolved and he was still a creep?
I really wish the author had given this heroine a better story and hero :(
April 22, 2024
I read the OL large print of this. Not sure whether the psychology of 290 pages rather than 190 was the reason, but this felt quite slow. Initially I liked the h, Victoria, who was bright, sparky and independent but the constant resistance to thespian H Gavin became a bit wearing after a while. Hats off to her for withstanding all the tragedies that left her alone with 3 brothers to raise and retaining her sangfroid in the face of Gavin's stardom and muscular physique (he's a redhead and, somewhat unusually, also bronzed). The hea on location on a Greek island was a long time coming.
November 26, 2010
DNF.
I normally like Catherine George but there was something about this bk that appealed and detracted at the same time.
I liked that the heroine didnt throw herself at the hero, even in the throws of her schoolgirl crush. She was very self-contained without being abrasive or witchy.
This novel had a very oldfashioned vibe. Characters casually threw in Latin phrases in everyday conversation which is something you usually see in bks from the 1960s and older, not necessarily from 1987.
The hero is a famous actor and while he seemed to be an okay sort, I didnt really find him all that interesting to keep on reading.
I normally like Catherine George but there was something about this bk that appealed and detracted at the same time.
I liked that the heroine didnt throw herself at the hero, even in the throws of her schoolgirl crush. She was very self-contained without being abrasive or witchy.
This novel had a very oldfashioned vibe. Characters casually threw in Latin phrases in everyday conversation which is something you usually see in bks from the 1960s and older, not necessarily from 1987.
The hero is a famous actor and while he seemed to be an okay sort, I didnt really find him all that interesting to keep on reading.
May 24, 2019
I’m happy to say I loved this book today as much as I did 30 years ago. Totally worth the effort of buying it
September 17, 2023
My reasoning for less ratings have nothing to do other than the story.
It didn't come across as romance to me, though i laud the h, she was great at beginning the way she handled the H initially and later on his proposal but even at the end she seemed to come under the spell of H more due to machinations of others than on the strength of H's love.
Coming to the H his feelings for the h didn't seem love more as compassionate or friendly benevolence.
He seem to want to help her and then it as she was domesticated enough she seemed a good choice rather than any feelings per se.
I didn't feel the love.
It didn't come across as romance to me, though i laud the h, she was great at beginning the way she handled the H initially and later on his proposal but even at the end she seemed to come under the spell of H more due to machinations of others than on the strength of H's love.
Coming to the H his feelings for the h didn't seem love more as compassionate or friendly benevolence.
He seem to want to help her and then it as she was domesticated enough she seemed a good choice rather than any feelings per se.
I didn't feel the love.
July 23, 2021
It's truly a lovely book. I've reread it several times.
When they met the first time the jobless actor didn't have it in him to make a commitment to a girl barely out of the schoolroom. He was tempted and she was in love but the circumstances shaped the end of their relationship.
Now seven years later he wants to make amends.
I love the heroine. She's so level-headed and sweet. When the hero proposes saying he wants a ready-made family and a wife keeping the fort for him, the heroine goes like "One more male to mend socks for? No!"
When they met the first time the jobless actor didn't have it in him to make a commitment to a girl barely out of the schoolroom. He was tempted and she was in love but the circumstances shaped the end of their relationship.
Now seven years later he wants to make amends.
I love the heroine. She's so level-headed and sweet. When the hero proposes saying he wants a ready-made family and a wife keeping the fort for him, the heroine goes like "One more male to mend socks for? No!"
abrierto-to-read-hr-other
March 8, 2021His proposal reeked of guilt--and pity
Victoria fell in love with Gavin Creed when she was a teenager and he was an aspiring actor who thought she was some sort of Lolita.
It took her years to recover from his ruthless--but very effective--way of removing the stardust from her eyes, and by the time they met again their lives were drastically different.
For one thing, Gavin had become a television sex symbol, and for another, he wanted Victoria to marry him
Victoria fell in love with Gavin Creed when she was a teenager and he was an aspiring actor who thought she was some sort of Lolita.
It took her years to recover from his ruthless--but very effective--way of removing the stardust from her eyes, and by the time they met again their lives were drastically different.
For one thing, Gavin had become a television sex symbol, and for another, he wanted Victoria to marry him
July 31, 2019
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August 29, 2015
I read this when I was a teenager. I really loved it and i still do.
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