Брулещите ветрове на любовта

by Barbara Cartland, Барбара Картланд

Барбара Картланд, кралицата на любовния роман разказва увлекателната история за трудния път към щастието на две жени, които съдбата отвежда под жаркото слънце на Кайро.

Genres: Romance

172 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Nadia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure what it was but that was a really strange one. Hero is practically not interacting with the heroine and spent mb 15 minutes together in total. But suddenly they are madly in love with each other.
Never mind that I couldn't see who is the hero in this story until it was too late. Heroine was quite clear from the beginning, but hero not so much.
This book is full of strange characters...

[Josefine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worst book Barbara Cartland wrote. It’s not worth reading whatsoever. It’s not even funny trashy it’s just bad. Also very unnecessarily racist. The Idea that the only Egyptian character has somewhat of a palace where he does nothing but rape women is just not pleasant. The characters act completely with no motives and the male love interest to the female protagonists wasn’t clear until the very end as they both did not interact more than 2 sentences throughout the entire book and then randomly fell madly in love. It seems as though halfway throughout the book Cartland lost interest in writing it. I do not recommend at all. Also very boring.

[Valdemar Atterdag · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is really racist. Don't read it. It's not even a good trashy read - it's just trash.

I also hate how the author uses rape as a plot device in order to make the noble (English) guy seem like a gentleman just by comparison. Like, seeing someone as husband material solely because they're English and doesn't rape you... is ridiculous.

And if you're going to use rape to further the plot - how about not letting your character forget all about it in a (for the author) very convenient way?
How about some real character development instead?
I'm not saying that you can't write about rape. But using it so frequently and nonchalant as Barbara Cartland does completely undermines the subject, the characters and the plot.

And I get that the book is set in the 30s, and that racism/colonialism still was fashionable... But the author doesn't have to be racist herself in order to write racist characters.
The notion that people in the Middle East are dirty/don't know shit about hygiene is complete bullshit. But I guess Cartland couldn't be bothered to do any research at all.

This is the worst book by Barbara Cartland I've read. Would give it less than one star if possible.

[Jamie · Rating 1 out of 5]

It would seem that I am not the only reviewer that was left dumbfounded by this book. There are several love stories between multiple main and secondary characters, and every single one makes zero sense. It reads as though there are entire chapters missing. May be a disastrously bad attempt at rewriting Jane Eyre...?

[Asia Destro · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was helpful to practice my English. Just that.

[B_becka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just going to say: What happened???
But still two stars because I really liked Lydia, even though the love part of the story was the weirdest thing ever.