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不動産業界で働くキャリーは、地区の再開発を考え直してもらうため、業者の会長を訪ねた。だが現れた人物を見て、キャリーは恐怖と驚きにあえいだ。夫のニックが会長ですって？業者を買収したというの？挙式直後、夫の浮気現場を目撃し、屋敷を飛び出して一年。職を転々と変えながら行方をくらましたつもりだったけれど、夫の用意周到な罠に、ついに捕らわれてしまった。屋敷に戻って彼の跡継ぎを産めとニックは言う。素直に従えば、望みどおり地区の再開発を見直すとも。愛してもいないくせに、子供を産む道具として利用するつもりなのね！だが彼女には、もはや抵抗する力など残っていなかった。
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First published January 1, 2005
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Sara Craven
494 books269 followersAnne Bushell was born on October 1938 in South Devon, England, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorites books are: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Divorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.
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October 15, 2016
4 SAY SOMETHING STARS
Cally is a sweet young girl who through no fault of her own marries the man of her dreams and predictably turns into a nightmare.
She runs away from her husband Nicholas on their wedding day after finding him with other woman in some very questionable circumstances. He wants his wife back set out to find her and claim his right as her husband.
"You made promises and now you must honor them...and me.
This is story the could have been cleared up in about a 20 minute honest conversation...but Hello where is the fun in that!?
This is way more interesting and seriously enjoyable.
The fact that he was faithful made my day but his reasons for wanting a child...I just melted.
This book was truly well written and engaging! This is the type of book HP should aim to produce now. Well maybe a little less drama, but close enough.
I am just happy these oldies are still available to those who want to read them.
Keeper worth a read and several rereads for me. I read it 4 times already.
Safety: before they get together he sleeps with others during their year apart but not after they are truly together and she is a virgin. It has drama lama with the other woman and some other man at the beginning. No condoms and some pushing and pulling. So it's safe for me but not completely safe!
Cally is a sweet young girl who through no fault of her own marries the man of her dreams and predictably turns into a nightmare.
She runs away from her husband Nicholas on their wedding day after finding him with other woman in some very questionable circumstances. He wants his wife back set out to find her and claim his right as her husband.
"You made promises and now you must honor them...and me.
This is story the could have been cleared up in about a 20 minute honest conversation...but Hello where is the fun in that!?
This is way more interesting and seriously enjoyable.
The fact that he was faithful made my day but his reasons for wanting a child...I just melted.
This book was truly well written and engaging! This is the type of book HP should aim to produce now. Well maybe a little less drama, but close enough.
I am just happy these oldies are still available to those who want to read them.
Keeper worth a read and several rereads for me. I read it 4 times already.
Safety: before they get together he sleeps with others during their year apart but not after they are truly together and she is a virgin. It has drama lama with the other woman and some other man at the beginning. No condoms and some pushing and pulling. So it's safe for me but not completely safe!
June 25, 2024
HAIKU BOOK REVIEW: His Wedding-Night Heir, by Sara Craven
It all boils down to
him putting sister and mom
before his own wife :(
It all boils down to
him putting sister and mom
before his own wife :(
September 17, 2017
Runaway virgin wife spends a year working in a children's center and helping disadvantaged people build their lives until her big bad builder/investor husband arrives on the scene to tear down their houses for a shopping mall. He blackmails her back to his side by offering to incorporate the children's center into his latest development.
The children's center and those characters are completely forgotten once the h is back at the manor house with a scheming dowager who tells the heroine all kinds of lies about the hero and his OW. There are lots of tense scenes with the heroine waiting for her delayed wedding night and the hero talking to her at cross purposes.
They eventually do the deed with the heroine hiding her true feelings. There is an ancient horse who had been the orphaned heroine's comfort and solace for years. The hero buys him back as a wedding gift. There's a Jack Russell terrier stuck in a rabbit hole. A bit of forced abstinence because of the heroine's pregnancy. A confrontation with the enigmatic OW and finally the truth coming out when the heroine starts throwing figurines around in a fit of anger and betrayal.
The truth is that the OW is the hero's half sister - from his father's affair with his secretary. His mother wasn't supposed to know - but - surprise! She's known all along. That little misunderstanding is cleared up. The hero has packed the dowager off to the South of France, so another problem is solved. The hero hopes the heroine can be friends with his half-sister whose husband is in a coma. HEA.
The heroine was only 18 when she met the much older hero so her actions are silly, but understandable. Hero was obviously smitten the entire time. This was very old skool with its reliance on misunderstandings, dramatic irony and flash backs to bring out the angst and move the plot.
The children's center and those characters are completely forgotten once the h is back at the manor house with a scheming dowager who tells the heroine all kinds of lies about the hero and his OW. There are lots of tense scenes with the heroine waiting for her delayed wedding night and the hero talking to her at cross purposes.
They eventually do the deed with the heroine hiding her true feelings. There is an ancient horse who had been the orphaned heroine's comfort and solace for years. The hero buys him back as a wedding gift. There's a Jack Russell terrier stuck in a rabbit hole. A bit of forced abstinence because of the heroine's pregnancy. A confrontation with the enigmatic OW and finally the truth coming out when the heroine starts throwing figurines around in a fit of anger and betrayal.
The truth is that the OW is the hero's half sister - from his father's affair with his secretary. His mother wasn't supposed to know - but - surprise! She's known all along. That little misunderstanding is cleared up. The hero has packed the dowager off to the South of France, so another problem is solved. The hero hopes the heroine can be friends with his half-sister whose husband is in a coma. HEA.
The heroine was only 18 when she met the much older hero so her actions are silly, but understandable. Hero was obviously smitten the entire time. This was very old skool with its reliance on misunderstandings, dramatic irony and flash backs to bring out the angst and move the plot.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 13, 2013
Cally left Nick on their wedding day, after she mistakenly thinks he is cheating on her. She made a new life for herself but she can't get over him. A year later the hero finds her and blackmails her into staying with him until she has his child and heir.
Sweet romance with likable characters and a beautiful HEA :)
Sweet romance with likable characters and a beautiful HEA :)
October 17, 2010
this one was okay but most of the story could have been solved by the heroine speaking up when she thinks she has discovered her husband has a mistress. But if she did that then there would be no story. The rest of the story involved him, not knowing what her issue was, trying to create some semblance of a normal marriage and her just being plain mean and spiteful to him. Thus making things even worse for herself as she reaped what she sowed in acrimony. Not my favorite sort of read but I stuck with it.
October 26, 2020
Thanks God my husband and I didn't fall in love with each other at the first sight like this MCs. Amen.
March 25, 2012
This was not a terrible read...just your very typical misunderstanding aided and abetted by the evil relative. However, what would have been a 3 or even a 3 and a half the whole thing is ruined in the end when in the post coital cuddle they are discussing the H's half-sister who is kinda holding a grudge against the h, the H responds with, "…and 'she' listened patiently when I tore myself in pieces over waking up next to some girl whose name I couldn't even remember.'
Now, I don't usually have a problem with the split up unfaithfulness...don't like it, but whatever but this went one step too far.
Now, I don't usually have a problem with the split up unfaithfulness...don't like it, but whatever but this went one step too far.
October 26, 2020
This brings us the tale of a runaway virgin bride. There’s blackmail, OW drama, family secrets, and ASSumptions galore. We also have an entire plot based on a misunderstanding, and the “I hate you, but won’t tell you why” attitude, which can get frustrating after 100+ pages. IMO, it’s really going to boil down to how patient you are with young h’s and their overdramatic ways.
Cally is only 18 (I believe) when they marry, so her naïve/immature/silly/stupid behaviors are understandable… BUT… it gets old, and I had to skim a bit. She’s also a pro at being miserable; she lives in her head, and it’s a negative, messed-up place.
Nick for his part has the patience of a saint while dealing with his child bride. There’s a 12-year age gap that feels like 20, and I felt a smidge sorry for him. Cally’s stubborn refusal to tell Nick why she hates him/ran away leaves him completely clueless, and he's left to do all of the heavy lifting in trying to sort out their relationship. He isn’t totally innocent though; he does blackmail her into returning, and was with OW during the separation. We only get a couple sentences next to the last page, so there’s no anger and it’s brushed off.
Bottom Line- Dealing with immature h’s is not in my wheelhouse, and Cally drove me bonkers forcing me to skim chunks, which negated any chance at a 4**** rating. Even the two potential OWs couldn’t keep me going, because much of the book takes place with Cally’s inner thoughts…which are typically pessimistic. In her defense, I will say I found Vanessa’s actions quite selfish as well. It was her wedding night, and you can’t tell me V didn’t realize that when she saw Nick in his tux. Regardless, the larger issue for me was that these two didn’t seem compatible except in bed, which doesn’t make for a great HEA.
Cally is only 18 (I believe) when they marry, so her naïve/immature/silly/stupid behaviors are understandable… BUT… it gets old, and I had to skim a bit. She’s also a pro at being miserable; she lives in her head, and it’s a negative, messed-up place.
Nick for his part has the patience of a saint while dealing with his child bride. There’s a 12-year age gap that feels like 20, and I felt a smidge sorry for him. Cally’s stubborn refusal to tell Nick why she hates him/ran away leaves him completely clueless, and he's left to do all of the heavy lifting in trying to sort out their relationship. He isn’t totally innocent though; he does blackmail her into returning, and was with OW during the separation. We only get a couple sentences next to the last page, so there’s no anger and it’s brushed off.
Bottom Line- Dealing with immature h’s is not in my wheelhouse, and Cally drove me bonkers forcing me to skim chunks, which negated any chance at a 4**** rating. Even the two potential OWs couldn’t keep me going, because much of the book takes place with Cally’s inner thoughts…which are typically pessimistic. In her defense, I will say I found Vanessa’s actions quite selfish as well. It was her wedding night, and you can’t tell me V didn’t realize that when she saw Nick in his tux. Regardless, the larger issue for me was that these two didn’t seem compatible except in bed, which doesn’t make for a great HEA.
January 29, 2015
Cally’s existence is bleak. She moves every few months, taking jobs for basic wages, living in pokey damp rooms and having nightmares about being pursued. She’s all thin and dressed in ugly clothes and so very miserable, but what other choice does she have?
She’s now in some nowhere place with maybe a seaside or something, and the place where she works has been sold off to evil capitalist land developers. She’s still hanging around for the moment, rejecting the tepid advances of her boss, when he decides that he’s going to confront the evil capitalist land developers and politely request that they permit the people living on part of the redevelopment land to stay put. He takes Cally and one of the residents along to a swanky town hall meeting, and it turns out that Cally knows the head evil capitalist. He’s all ‘hello darling, tell the nice people who I am.’ She’s all ‘that’s Sir Nick, Baronet. He’s my husband.’ Twelve months ago she ran away on their wedding day, and she’s been running ever since.
Sir Nick, Baronet, is angry and sardonically pleased to see his errant wife again. Sir Nick is a typical 90s kid and can’t say anything without sounding ironic and suave. Cally’s got that softer young person vibe of being all about the super feels, and she rarely finds Sir Nick funny. There’s an age gap of 12 years between them, they have incompatible temperaments, and in the relationship, Sir Nick does all the heavy lifting of trying to work out what his partner is thinking. Cally just assumes she knows what Sir Nick’s thinking: the worst.
Sir Nick is Very Annoyed that Cally ran away, and he issues his ultimatum: she’s to come back and do sex and have a baby and then they can get a divorce, or he’ll turf everyone out of their homes and build a sludge factory or something. Cally, of course, cannot permit this to happen – she has no other choice but to take Sir Nick’s deal.
Cally abandoned her marriage to the man she loved for the perfectly usual and erroneous reasons. She can’t have a big dramatic scene and tell him why because then he’ll know that she cares, and she couldn’t live with herself if that happened. This is the ‘never be the first to admit your feelings’ game. There’s also this kind of messy logic going on that if she says it out loud it becomes 100% real, rather than maybe the 90% real that she’s operating within, where she 90% hates him for what he’s done, but 10% thinks maybe he didn’t do it after all. The 10% has a vested interest in not having it all proved either way, while the 90% knows what it knows.
Her lady bits operate within that 10%, which is why she can have plenty of orgasms on him, but then immediately swap back to miserable bitch mode in the 90% space. I never quite understand what’s going on here, because the 10% space is often not mentioned until the revelation, and I think it’s basically there to justify the orgasms. I mean in theory, I couldn’t continue to be on board with the premise that this is definitely true love because it’s the best sex ever if I was coping with the distracting question of how the heroine could continue to have orgasms when she was clearly filled with such deep self-loathing for not sticking to her ‘I hate you but won’t tell you why’ approach. As the self-loathing increases, at some stage those orgasms would surely become less orgasmic, right?
Cally is a champion at being miserable. She’s an orphan and she lived with her grandfather, who would tell her that she was plain and not up to much. And he sold her horse without telling her. And their house burned down and they were in it, and he hadn’t paid the insurance. Then he died, and she was alone in the world. The only thing that ever went right for her was falling in love with Sir Nick, and then of course that was ruined too. Here is an example of what she was thinking, as she and the hero drove back to their marital home: ‘The car was her cage. The motorway her path to her own personal hell.’ (p84). I am in awe of anyone who can wallow like this and not, I don’t know, start to feel kind of silly, or burst into heart wrenching sobs or jump out of the car.
The story does that lovely build up where Cally struggles with just giving up on her objections so that she can at least have a few moments of happiness, and Sir Nick sorrowfully realises that he will never persuade her to be happy, and he must let her go. What I think elevates this above some other books in the same mode is that Craven puts in some effort to make Sir Nick convincing as a man who genuinely loves and cares for Cally, but is completely at sea on what more he could possibly do to get her to realise it.
She’s now in some nowhere place with maybe a seaside or something, and the place where she works has been sold off to evil capitalist land developers. She’s still hanging around for the moment, rejecting the tepid advances of her boss, when he decides that he’s going to confront the evil capitalist land developers and politely request that they permit the people living on part of the redevelopment land to stay put. He takes Cally and one of the residents along to a swanky town hall meeting, and it turns out that Cally knows the head evil capitalist. He’s all ‘hello darling, tell the nice people who I am.’ She’s all ‘that’s Sir Nick, Baronet. He’s my husband.’ Twelve months ago she ran away on their wedding day, and she’s been running ever since.
Sir Nick, Baronet, is angry and sardonically pleased to see his errant wife again. Sir Nick is a typical 90s kid and can’t say anything without sounding ironic and suave. Cally’s got that softer young person vibe of being all about the super feels, and she rarely finds Sir Nick funny. There’s an age gap of 12 years between them, they have incompatible temperaments, and in the relationship, Sir Nick does all the heavy lifting of trying to work out what his partner is thinking. Cally just assumes she knows what Sir Nick’s thinking: the worst.
Sir Nick is Very Annoyed that Cally ran away, and he issues his ultimatum: she’s to come back and do sex and have a baby and then they can get a divorce, or he’ll turf everyone out of their homes and build a sludge factory or something. Cally, of course, cannot permit this to happen – she has no other choice but to take Sir Nick’s deal.
Cally abandoned her marriage to the man she loved for the perfectly usual and erroneous reasons. She can’t have a big dramatic scene and tell him why because then he’ll know that she cares, and she couldn’t live with herself if that happened. This is the ‘never be the first to admit your feelings’ game. There’s also this kind of messy logic going on that if she says it out loud it becomes 100% real, rather than maybe the 90% real that she’s operating within, where she 90% hates him for what he’s done, but 10% thinks maybe he didn’t do it after all. The 10% has a vested interest in not having it all proved either way, while the 90% knows what it knows.
Her lady bits operate within that 10%, which is why she can have plenty of orgasms on him, but then immediately swap back to miserable bitch mode in the 90% space. I never quite understand what’s going on here, because the 10% space is often not mentioned until the revelation, and I think it’s basically there to justify the orgasms. I mean in theory, I couldn’t continue to be on board with the premise that this is definitely true love because it’s the best sex ever if I was coping with the distracting question of how the heroine could continue to have orgasms when she was clearly filled with such deep self-loathing for not sticking to her ‘I hate you but won’t tell you why’ approach. As the self-loathing increases, at some stage those orgasms would surely become less orgasmic, right?
Cally is a champion at being miserable. She’s an orphan and she lived with her grandfather, who would tell her that she was plain and not up to much. And he sold her horse without telling her. And their house burned down and they were in it, and he hadn’t paid the insurance. Then he died, and she was alone in the world. The only thing that ever went right for her was falling in love with Sir Nick, and then of course that was ruined too. Here is an example of what she was thinking, as she and the hero drove back to their marital home: ‘The car was her cage. The motorway her path to her own personal hell.’ (p84). I am in awe of anyone who can wallow like this and not, I don’t know, start to feel kind of silly, or burst into heart wrenching sobs or jump out of the car.
The story does that lovely build up where Cally struggles with just giving up on her objections so that she can at least have a few moments of happiness, and Sir Nick sorrowfully realises that he will never persuade her to be happy, and he must let her go. What I think elevates this above some other books in the same mode is that Craven puts in some effort to make Sir Nick convincing as a man who genuinely loves and cares for Cally, but is completely at sea on what more he could possibly do to get her to realise it.
November 22, 2011
Innocent Caroline “Cally” Maitland married Nicholas Tempest for love. She thought they would have a HEA, but was disillusioned when she saw him in the arms of OW consoling her. Being terribly hurt she ran and continued to run for over twelve months.
Nicholas had some secrets that he should have shared with his virginal wife, but for some reason didn’t feel that they were his secrets to tell. He paid the price for not being upfront with her. Dealing with anger and embarrassment at his bride’s abandonment shortly after their marriage, Nicholas at first doesn’t seek her out. Gradually he starts to realize that he needs to find Caroline and put an end to the whole fiasco.
Nice romance, truly believed that Nicholas cared for Caroline. He was distraught when she had disappeared like that and while I didn’t condone him sleeping with other women I found the fact that he did quite believable. She was gone for so long and he didn’t know where he was or what he was really doing since he would drown his sorrows in a bottle and the women . . . he was just using them. Once he has her back he does blackmail her back into his life, but he really loved her and he wasn’t going to force her to keep up her end of the bargain in the end. He just didn’t seem to know how to handle her or why she ran away. She doesn’t tell him until the end. But he was honest in admitting about the other woman and the HEA . . . was very believable. Believed he loved her because of the way he fought for even against her grandfather.
Nicholas had some secrets that he should have shared with his virginal wife, but for some reason didn’t feel that they were his secrets to tell. He paid the price for not being upfront with her. Dealing with anger and embarrassment at his bride’s abandonment shortly after their marriage, Nicholas at first doesn’t seek her out. Gradually he starts to realize that he needs to find Caroline and put an end to the whole fiasco.
Nice romance, truly believed that Nicholas cared for Caroline. He was distraught when she had disappeared like that and while I didn’t condone him sleeping with other women I found the fact that he did quite believable. She was gone for so long and he didn’t know where he was or what he was really doing since he would drown his sorrows in a bottle and the women . . . he was just using them. Once he has her back he does blackmail her back into his life, but he really loved her and he wasn’t going to force her to keep up her end of the bargain in the end. He just didn’t seem to know how to handle her or why she ran away. She doesn’t tell him until the end. But he was honest in admitting about the other woman and the HEA . . . was very believable. Believed he loved her because of the way he fought for even against her grandfather.
August 14, 2011
The heroine Cally has been running for the last year, moving from place to place never spending much time in any one place. All that comes to an end when her husband Nick, the hero, finds her and tells her that it's time for her to come back and fulfil her duty. Cally tries telling him she doesn't want to be married and his reply is that if she gives him an heir then he will give her her freedom. As the story progresses we learn how Cally and Nick met and married, as well as the reasons why Cally ran from the marriage on their wedding day. Cally does her best to get through the days, but with constant reminders of the reason she left in the first place she often finds it difficult. Nick's attempts to talk to her are often stonewalled and this causes rifts between them, that get bigger and bigger as time goes on.
I really like this story. It has some very traditional 'Sara Craven' elements but it was also a slightly different plot. I really liked the character of Cally and how she tried so hard to be strong. Her reasons for believing what she did are well detailed and understandable. I do think the book should have included the hero's point of view, I felt it was lacking from his side. The interaction between the characters does, at times, feel a little forced but the conflict, when it comes, is executed brilliantly.
Another enjoyable Sara Craven book.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
I really like this story. It has some very traditional 'Sara Craven' elements but it was also a slightly different plot. I really liked the character of Cally and how she tried so hard to be strong. Her reasons for believing what she did are well detailed and understandable. I do think the book should have included the hero's point of view, I felt it was lacking from his side. The interaction between the characters does, at times, feel a little forced but the conflict, when it comes, is executed brilliantly.
Another enjoyable Sara Craven book.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
August 30, 2012
I can honestly say I wasn't too happy about this novel. It wasn't horrible or anything just dreadfully boring. The heroine was really shy and immature for a long time and the hero was overbearing. It was kind of weird.
May 19, 2018
So much angst!!!
Cally ran from her new hubby in their wedding day because she saw him in the arms of a woman who was supposed to be his side chick.
She lived a year of scraping by on the run until the day he finally caught up with and threatened to make her friends homeless if she didn’t return to him as his wife and give him an heir.
There are two OWs in the book. The older one who wanted Nick so desperately that she was willing to destroy his life if it gave her a clear road to him and the OW hidden away in a cottage in the woods. Shady!
Turns out things are not what they seem and Cally learns the truth over a year later. I really enjoy the level of angst in this book. The h could have solved all her problems with a 5 minute conversation. But she didn’t and I got to call her a dumbass all through the book.
Cally ran from her new hubby in their wedding day because she saw him in the arms of a woman who was supposed to be his side chick.
She lived a year of scraping by on the run until the day he finally caught up with and threatened to make her friends homeless if she didn’t return to him as his wife and give him an heir.
There are two OWs in the book. The older one who wanted Nick so desperately that she was willing to destroy his life if it gave her a clear road to him and the OW hidden away in a cottage in the woods. Shady!
Turns out things are not what they seem and Cally learns the truth over a year later. I really enjoy the level of angst in this book. The h could have solved all her problems with a 5 minute conversation. But she didn’t and I got to call her a dumbass all through the book.
March 6, 2018
What romance novels taught me is that communication is the key as is trust. In 90% stories all comes down to a problem of not speaking honestly to each other. More often than not heroine has some made up problem in her head that hero is not aware of or it was suggested to her by some "concerned" relative therefore instead of speaking up and confronting it she starts hide and sulk without saying a word. Hero feels something is off but unless he has some magical mind-reading power he is not able to guess what's wrong as problem is almost always imagined but not real. And instead of speaking up heroine is having inner dialogue that spoken out loud would solve problem immediately. No she suffers herself and make hero suffer.
June 13, 2020
leído abril 2014
Meh!!
Meh!!
September 9, 2022
Young, virgin bride Cally absconded on her wedding day when she saw her husband, Nick with an ow. A year later he catches up with her and brings her back to the big house so that they can consummate the marriage and he can get an heir. If she agrees he will allow a social housing development to go ahead.
The plot hinges on a misconception (of course) as to the nature of the OW's relationship with the H. I must have been distracted as I didn't work out the exact nature of it until the big reveal.
There's a rather nice Indiana Jones style mother in law and an evil occupant of the Dower House thrown in as pot stirrer.
Maybe a shade over 3 stars.
The plot hinges on a misconception (of course) as to the nature of the OW's relationship with the H. I must have been distracted as I didn't work out the exact nature of it until the big reveal.
There's a rather nice Indiana Jones style mother in law and an evil occupant of the Dower House thrown in as pot stirrer.
Maybe a shade over 3 stars.
April 12, 2020
This is a historical in contemporary clothing.
July 11, 2018
story based on big misunderstanding which was obvious to the reader at the outset.
Hero Sir Nick possibly deserves a medal for bloody minded perseverance in the face of incredible odds/ immaturity.
It's all very 1980s home counties which hapless heroine Cally , who is of course a naive and innocent virgin finding herself attracted to the worldly Nick.
Things come to a head when Cally's grandfather dies leaving them in debt and Nick proposes. However on her wedding day, a poisonous acquaintance informs her that Nick is having an affair with a neighbour Venessa. Cally finds Nick in a compromising situation but instead of confronting him, as would seem rational, she decides to run away.
Nick eventually finds her, blackmails her into coming back and making a baby ( as you do) but despite this overall appears generally to have the patience of a saint.
Cally's angst and stubborn refusal to tell Nick why she ran away are just frustrating/annoying.
Frankly it is hard to have much sympathy for her frozen attitude although Nick continues to try and reach out to her throughout the book.
This wasn't even a bickerfest as you couldn't saw that they ever really talked to each other and every time Nick tries he just gets shut down by Cally.
In the end it is all resolved happily but it was kind of hard to care...
Hero Sir Nick possibly deserves a medal for bloody minded perseverance in the face of incredible odds/ immaturity.
It's all very 1980s home counties which hapless heroine Cally , who is of course a naive and innocent virgin finding herself attracted to the worldly Nick.
Things come to a head when Cally's grandfather dies leaving them in debt and Nick proposes. However on her wedding day, a poisonous acquaintance informs her that Nick is having an affair with a neighbour Venessa. Cally finds Nick in a compromising situation but instead of confronting him, as would seem rational, she decides to run away.
Nick eventually finds her, blackmails her into coming back and making a baby ( as you do) but despite this overall appears generally to have the patience of a saint.
Cally's angst and stubborn refusal to tell Nick why she ran away are just frustrating/annoying.
Frankly it is hard to have much sympathy for her frozen attitude although Nick continues to try and reach out to her throughout the book.
This wasn't even a bickerfest as you couldn't saw that they ever really talked to each other and every time Nick tries he just gets shut down by Cally.
In the end it is all resolved happily but it was kind of hard to care...
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June 9, 2024
It pisses me off when heroes are knowingly in love with the heroine but sleep with OW anyways.
The heroine left him without a clue (because of some missunderstanding) and he was "destroyed", drowning his sorrows in alcohol and sleeping with unknown other women, but afterwards when they were reunited he fought hard for them being together and at the end said he fall in love with her the first time he saw her.
I prefer Heroes being assholes who don't know their own hearts and do stupid things, until they do and can't stand being with someone else, to heroes who are so in love with the heroine but sleep with OWs anyways in their weak state of heartbreak.
Also the heroine was very childish, but she was 18-19, so...
The mention of the random OWs at the end so lightly and without a reproach from the Heroine's part was not my cup of tea.
A book under a very similar trope I liked better was
The heroine left him without a clue (because of some missunderstanding) and he was "destroyed", drowning his sorrows in alcohol and sleeping with unknown other women, but afterwards when they were reunited he fought hard for them being together and at the end said he fall in love with her the first time he saw her.
I prefer Heroes being assholes who don't know their own hearts and do stupid things, until they do and can't stand being with someone else, to heroes who are so in love with the heroine but sleep with OWs anyways in their weak state of heartbreak.
Also the heroine was very childish, but she was 18-19, so...
The mention of the random OWs at the end so lightly and without a reproach from the Heroine's part was not my cup of tea.
A book under a very similar trope I liked better was
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October 23, 2020
I enjoyed this very much. Very old school HP with a virgin h and a rich, alpha male H. I miss that in today’s modern books.
I love the dominant, sexy things he says and does to her. Sara Craven is an outstanding writer.
The H doesn’t know why the h ran away right after the wedding ceremony. The h thinks he has an affair with another woman.
The h turns the H down again and again, because she is scared of being rejected. She on the other hand rejects him all the time.
He asks her again and again for a new beginning for the two of them. He buys her as a wedding gift her favourite horse that her grandfather had sold a few years ago. He is so smitten and he is so sweet to her. Omg, I think I am in love with the H, lol.
I love the dominant, sexy things he says and does to her. Sara Craven is an outstanding writer.
The H doesn’t know why the h ran away right after the wedding ceremony. The h thinks he has an affair with another woman.
The h turns the H down again and again, because she is scared of being rejected. She on the other hand rejects him all the time.
He asks her again and again for a new beginning for the two of them. He buys her as a wedding gift her favourite horse that her grandfather had sold a few years ago. He is so smitten and he is so sweet to her. Omg, I think I am in love with the H, lol.
December 25, 2017
3 Stars
Th s was a super quick book to read. It was entertainment book that has HEA with the right amount of drama/angst.
Th s was a super quick book to read. It was entertainment book that has HEA with the right amount of drama/angst.
March 11, 2018
One misunderstanding after another but HEA in the end
December 19, 2018
That the heroine was too immature and afraid to talk things over with the hero made this book possible.
February 14, 2019
Sort of ruined it at the end to hear what he was up to amidst his grief.
June 26, 2019
Why don't they talk already....
February 19, 2020
This is a very good book, it is kind of sad that infidelity took over 90% of it but it was engaging and emotional, especially from a woman's point of view.
It's highly recommended.
It's highly recommended.
May 8, 2020
Predictable, naive woman.
May 17, 2020
TALK TO EACH TOGETHER!!!! That is it, that's all. Why are you people listening to crazy people? Just plain stupid and drawn out. Skip.
June 6, 2020
How wonderful, the hero goes around sleeping with countless women while they are married while the heroine stays faithful and virginal. Fantastic couple, just what every woman wants.
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February 10, 2021
2.5 stars
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