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A Bride for His Majesty's Pleasure - Pengantin Impian Sang Pangeran
Kebebasan Ionanthe dirampas saat ia diharuskan pulang ke Pulau Fortenegro dan menikah dengan pangeran baru yang sepertinya memiliki pandangan hidup konservatif.
Ionanthe menolak pasrah kepada keadaan tak terduga tersebut, dan bertekad menggunakan posisi barunya untuk memodernisasikan pandangan dan meningkatkan kehidupan rakyat yang selama ini terbelenggu oleh nilai-nilai kuno Fortenegro. Yang harus Ionanthe ingat hanyalah bertindak dengan kepala dingin dan bukannya terbuai oleh setiap senyuman dan belaian sang pangeran seksi. Hal yang cukup susah dilakukan… mengingat gairah yang semakin meningkat di antara mereka.
Ionanthe menolak pasrah kepada keadaan tak terduga tersebut, dan bertekad menggunakan posisi barunya untuk memodernisasikan pandangan dan meningkatkan kehidupan rakyat yang selama ini terbelenggu oleh nilai-nilai kuno Fortenegro. Yang harus Ionanthe ingat hanyalah bertindak dengan kepala dingin dan bukannya terbuai oleh setiap senyuman dan belaian sang pangeran seksi. Hal yang cukup susah dilakukan… mengingat gairah yang semakin meningkat di antara mereka.
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
About the author
Penny Jordan
1,159 books677 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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February 5, 2020
I laughed on more than one occasion, but I seriously doubt PJ meant this oh-so earnest R-O-M-A-N-C-E as a comedy of manners.
Penny Jordan creates an alternate dark universe for this manufactured angsty romance as if the manners and rules of HPland aren’t bizarre enough.
The hero has inherited a kingdom that is so archaic they want to and could stone the heroine to death for the adultery and general vapid behavior of her sister unless she dun dun dunnnnnn marries the H. She’s lured back by an evil Count to marry the
Stoning aside, these two aren’t a couple you want at a dinner party. Oh, they won’t steal the silver, they are too busy patting themselves on the back for being upright, forthright and honorable. They will, unfortunately, suck all the oxygen from the room when the heroine is not in a snit over some imagined slight like the hero passing the salt to someone else.
Heroine”
‘Once it was my dream and my hope that I might work for the Veritas Foundation and learn from such a master. That was not to be, but there is something I can do for the people of Fortenegro, even if it is merely a small shadow of what he has done. Just as he educates the children of today so that they can grow to be to the leaders of tomorrow, I thought that as your wife I could provide Fortenegro with the ruler it so desperately needs.’
I hoped to conceive and raise a son who would be all the things that he will need to be to help this island. That was my hidden agenda in marrying you. No scheming to sell off the minerals that lie beneath the mountains,’ Ionanthe told him on a slightly shaky breath.
Guess who the awesome, self-sacrificing man she worships. Yep, the hero. This really shouldn’t be a problem, but it is.
Max simply did not know what to say or do to make things right. He knew what he wanted to say; he knew what he wanted to do. But he also knew that the very last thing Ionanthe would want to hear from him right now was that her hero—the man she admired more than any other, the man she had placed on a pedestal and at whose feet she had openly and proudly confessed she yearned to sit and learn—was no other than himself.
When she finds out that she’s married to the man she thinks is totally awesome, does she say, “Yay!” Heck no.
Her pride stung, as though it had received a thousand savage cuts.
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How Max must have inwardly laughed at her when she had confided to him her admiration for the head of Veritas, unknowingly extolling his virtues, for all the world like some naive teenager filled with hero-worship. All she had to hold on to now was her pride. But she had survived before without love, without anyone to turn to.
He wasn’t. Laughing that is.
HEA eventually, but only after a laughable but daring feat of derring where the hero rescues a plot moppet from a scary downhill fall on a snowy mountain. No bruise or pain can keep them from their love!
The passionate couple
Alternate ending
Glad I did not get too attached to these two as I have no doubt that the evil Count will pop them off after the heir and maybe the spare come along. Then we can get a nice damaged hero and his story of revenge on the downtrodden daughter of the evil Count who is either really downtrodden and pathetic or merely hiding her downtroddenness under a facade of bad party girl. Reader's choice.
2 stars for the romance
3 stars for the ridiculousness of the tropes and angst
December 10, 2009
Man, I got so excited when I read the blurb for this book. Sadly, I was a bit blah about it. This is not a bad book. It's pretty good in fact, but it failed to come to life for me. I felt like there was way too much internal dialog, and too little action. Don't get me wrong, I love being inside the character's head, but I needed to have some 'doing' to go with it.
There were some parts I really liked. Such as the delayed wedding night. "Phew!" I guess he showed her what to do with her passionless sex to create the needed male heir. I also liked how he refused to have her bow down and kiss his feet at the wedding, as expected (I almost threw up in mouth on that part when she was supposed to that). My opinion of him was pretty good, but it went up significantly after that. I liked how their values were very similar although they didn't realize it at the time of the marriage.
Overall, I think Ms. Jordan (a long time favorite author in this line, although not as much now) did a great job with the royalty/arranged marriage theme, but this book needed to 'pop' more. I refuse to believe that it takes a jerk hero for these books to knock your socks off. So I hope that more authors in this line can use a 21st century man, but bring that "Wow" factor to these books. Nice book, all in all.
There were some parts I really liked. Such as the delayed wedding night. "Phew!" I guess he showed her what to do with her passionless sex to create the needed male heir. I also liked how he refused to have her bow down and kiss his feet at the wedding, as expected (I almost threw up in mouth on that part when she was supposed to that). My opinion of him was pretty good, but it went up significantly after that. I liked how their values were very similar although they didn't realize it at the time of the marriage.
Overall, I think Ms. Jordan (a long time favorite author in this line, although not as much now) did a great job with the royalty/arranged marriage theme, but this book needed to 'pop' more. I refuse to believe that it takes a jerk hero for these books to knock your socks off. So I hope that more authors in this line can use a 21st century man, but bring that "Wow" factor to these books. Nice book, all in all.
November 5, 2015
I was pleasantly surprised by this because royalty romances are not my preferred cup of tea (sheik romances are the exception). The heroes are almost always extremely arrogant. Max, however, was not an insufferable jerk or as ruthless as the blurb described. He had a good heart, and wanted only the best for his country and people. With the big exception of forcing Ionanthe into marriage, I never felt Max lorded his position of power over her.
Ionanthe was a sensitive and insecure heroine but not overly so. I found her insecurities believable. So it was a relief to Ionanthe and, myself, to discover that Max didn't do this with his late wife.
Max and Ionanthe were virtual strangers when they married, so much of the conflict revolved around them learning to open up and trust the other. They believed each only had their own interests at heart which was ironic since they both shared common goals. It's only after consummating their marriage that their emotional walls slowly crumbled. Despite wanting to remain aloof (Max was afraid of losing control, while Ionanthe intended to only use sex to beget the next heir) they found themselves unable to do so as their chemistry was off the charts, resulting in some hot love scenes.
An enjoyable romance with two strangers finding love amongst duty!
Ionanthe was a sensitive and insecure heroine but not overly so. I found her insecurities believable. So it was a relief to Ionanthe and, myself, to discover that Max didn't do this with his late wife.
Max and Ionanthe were virtual strangers when they married, so much of the conflict revolved around them learning to open up and trust the other. They believed each only had their own interests at heart which was ironic since they both shared common goals. It's only after consummating their marriage that their emotional walls slowly crumbled. Despite wanting to remain aloof (Max was afraid of losing control, while Ionanthe intended to only use sex to beget the next heir) they found themselves unable to do so as their chemistry was off the charts, resulting in some hot love scenes.
An enjoyable romance with two strangers finding love amongst duty!
June 24, 2013
I've read a lot of Penny Jordan books and I agree with the another reviewer of this book (featured on Amazon reviews); she was a great writer who wrote thoughtful well-written books which have brought her many readers a lot of pleasure. However, this is not one of them.
The book begins with the ridiculous premise that Prince Max becomes the new ruler of the fiercely patriarchal, and basically third world dictatorship led principality called Fortenegro. Everyone lives in poverty, herding sheep, not educating their children, tugging forelocks to the rich elite and stoning women to death in their free time. As an act of vengeance for the fact that his first wife cheated on him and failed to provide an heir, he gets to demand the body of her sister for his new bride. She either has to marry him or become the next live entertainment and get stoned to death.
From this unpromising (and distinctly unromantic) setting, Max and Ionanthe are thrust together, fall in love, and end up thrusting together quite a lot (sod the peasants). No, but it's okay, because Max is basically an enlightened dictator and he's going to bring equality to the peasants (when he manages to get out of bed with Ionanthe) and Ionanthe is going to fight to bring peace and justice there too (when she eventually gets out of bed too).
As if hurrying to regain lost romantic ground, the latter part of the story is set in a fairytale castle where they get snowed in for Christmas. There's an awful lot more sensuality in this story than some of the others of Jordan's works and it's not a great book for it. There's a very uncomfortable scene with some figs which it pains me to recall. Consider Max's fantasies: "Even without closing his eyes and focusing his senses he could imagine the silky softness of her hair against his own skin, its scent - her scent - heated by desire to release its erotic frangrance into the air, filling his nostrils. Her head would be thrown back against his arm, her eyes a passion-glazed glitter between thick dark lashes, her lips swollen from their shared kisses and eagerly parted, proclaiming her pleasure and her desire for more as she smiled invitingly up at him." What a load of rubbish. To be frank, Prince/Dictator Max has been reading far too many Mills and Boons.
My overall feeling was that Jordan had attemped an overly ambitious attempt at romance in a too serious setting and it just hasn't worked. In short, she should have stuck to nannies and secretaries falling for their bosses in the typing pool!
There are a few romantic lines towards the end of the book, but generally it doesn't sit too comfortably together what with the peasants and all the undernourished children running about. I've got to say this is one of the worst Penny Jordan books I've ever read and I normally love all her stuff - v. disappointing. It left me feeling that, like Max, I'd read one too many Mills and Boons as well.
The book begins with the ridiculous premise that Prince Max becomes the new ruler of the fiercely patriarchal, and basically third world dictatorship led principality called Fortenegro. Everyone lives in poverty, herding sheep, not educating their children, tugging forelocks to the rich elite and stoning women to death in their free time. As an act of vengeance for the fact that his first wife cheated on him and failed to provide an heir, he gets to demand the body of her sister for his new bride. She either has to marry him or become the next live entertainment and get stoned to death.
From this unpromising (and distinctly unromantic) setting, Max and Ionanthe are thrust together, fall in love, and end up thrusting together quite a lot (sod the peasants). No, but it's okay, because Max is basically an enlightened dictator and he's going to bring equality to the peasants (when he manages to get out of bed with Ionanthe) and Ionanthe is going to fight to bring peace and justice there too (when she eventually gets out of bed too).
As if hurrying to regain lost romantic ground, the latter part of the story is set in a fairytale castle where they get snowed in for Christmas. There's an awful lot more sensuality in this story than some of the others of Jordan's works and it's not a great book for it. There's a very uncomfortable scene with some figs which it pains me to recall. Consider Max's fantasies: "Even without closing his eyes and focusing his senses he could imagine the silky softness of her hair against his own skin, its scent - her scent - heated by desire to release its erotic frangrance into the air, filling his nostrils. Her head would be thrown back against his arm, her eyes a passion-glazed glitter between thick dark lashes, her lips swollen from their shared kisses and eagerly parted, proclaiming her pleasure and her desire for more as she smiled invitingly up at him." What a load of rubbish. To be frank, Prince/Dictator Max has been reading far too many Mills and Boons.
My overall feeling was that Jordan had attemped an overly ambitious attempt at romance in a too serious setting and it just hasn't worked. In short, she should have stuck to nannies and secretaries falling for their bosses in the typing pool!
There are a few romantic lines towards the end of the book, but generally it doesn't sit too comfortably together what with the peasants and all the undernourished children running about. I've got to say this is one of the worst Penny Jordan books I've ever read and I normally love all her stuff - v. disappointing. It left me feeling that, like Max, I'd read one too many Mills and Boons as well.
April 24, 2017
Leído el 01/10/2010
September 1, 2013
Unlikable characters and a predictable story line made this a DNF for me. From the beginning the interaction with the hero and heroine was absurd. I managed to get halfway through it before I gave up.
January 7, 2016
2.75 Stars
Yah paling kagak ini mayanlah buat dibaca gratis di gramed *ditabok* :P
Yah paling kagak ini mayanlah buat dibaca gratis di gramed *ditabok* :P
January 12, 2018
Sebenarnya tidak ada yang salah dengan buku ini. Premisnya lebih menarik, setidaknya cukup menarik buatku. Tapi yang aku sesali adalah, terlalu banyak pembicaraan antara si hero atau heroine dengan diri mereka sendiri. Dan itu bisa lebih dari satu lembar. Membosankan buatku. Aku me-skip sebagian besar. Bahkan ada beberapa bagian yang hanya aku baca dialognya saja. Belum lagi praduga-praduga antara satu sama lain yang sangat menyebalkan. Aku jadi ingin menjitak kedua tokoh utama karena praduga mereka yang cenderung menyebalkan antara satu sama lain.
Ionanthe (heroine) sangat menyebalkan. Itu suami sudah sangat baik begitu, tapi pikirannya melanglang buana ke memori masa kecilnya, di mana dia diperlakukan seolah terpinggirkan oleh si kakek dan Eloise (kakak perempuan Ionanthe). Tapi ketika dia sudah berhasil melihat kebaikan-kebaikan kecil dari suaminya, dia justru mensetting pikirannya agar tidak jatuh ke dalam pesona sang suami. Ini yang membuat si suami menjadi menjauh. Ah, menyebalkan lha jadinya. >.< Sayang banget. =.=a
Ionanthe (heroine) sangat menyebalkan. Itu suami sudah sangat baik begitu, tapi pikirannya melanglang buana ke memori masa kecilnya, di mana dia diperlakukan seolah terpinggirkan oleh si kakek dan Eloise (kakak perempuan Ionanthe). Tapi ketika dia sudah berhasil melihat kebaikan-kebaikan kecil dari suaminya, dia justru mensetting pikirannya agar tidak jatuh ke dalam pesona sang suami. Ini yang membuat si suami menjadi menjauh. Ah, menyebalkan lha jadinya. >.< Sayang banget. =.=a
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June 11, 2017
3.5 stars.
October 1, 2017
Konflik awal cukup bagus.. Tpi penyelesaian yang membosankan. Gak heran perlu tiga hari buat selesai
December 27, 2017
3 e mezzo!
April 24, 2019
okayish and fast read, a very cliché but entertaining story , the only reason i gave it 3 stars it is because the main female lead got on my nerves a couple of times
July 2, 2019
I felt some things were left unspoken and unsolved. Ionanthe didn't open all her feelings since she was a little kid. Some ends are left open too in my opinion.
December 17, 2019
This is a huge miss by Penny Jordan. It sounds like it's going to be good, but comes off stilted and boring.
July 2, 2021
Why did they have to be so mean to each other?! She was devious and he was a brute- they lived happily ever after and that’s an almost rhyming truth
February 17, 2024
The first three star review you get while looking at the reviews shares my sentiments regarding this book. Not my type of romance.
February 4, 2016
Max is the ruler of a very antiquated country and after his wife dies with another man, the people of his country demand that her sister pay the price of honor. So, Ionanthe, the sister, is trapped into marrying Max and providing him with an heir. She decides she's willing if only to conceive a son whom she will raise to be an enlightened ruler who will change things for her country. But what she doesn't realize is that Max is already that enlightened ruler.
Ionanthe was ridiculous. Straight up idiot. I disliked her. This stubborn woman - I couldn't decide if she was TSTL or what. First she decides to approach her marriage with this godawful notion of conceiving a ruler... the way she dreams about it was just weird. Most women think about having a baby, someone to love and nurture. She dreams about birthing a king. And for some reason she wants the whole procreation deal to be cold and clinical, despite Max's insistence on it being pleasurable for both of them. She comes across as the greatest shrew in the world, challening his masculinity at every turn and generally being a bitch. And after 8 nights of his not showing up, she wonders why he's a no show. Could it be her behavior? A little bit. In reality, Max is some kind of turned on by this shrewish behavior and doesn't want to risk his heart. Then there's her refusal to see Max's goodness - despite AMPLE evidence of his reforming nature, she keeps thinking he's some sort of conservative despot. And I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out why she got so upset with Max when he told her he was the head of the foundation...as though it were some big secret or something. One would think that if she was so enamored with the foundation and its good deeds and actually wanted to work for them, she'd have done the research to find out who the head honcho was, right? He didn't actually keep anything from her, so why the anger? Because he didn't trust her? She was guilty of the same things.
I don't know. This book just didn't make sense. Or maybe it was that the heroine didn't make any sense. I couldn't enjoy it because I kept getting distracted by her weird ass behavior. To be fair, I did like Max and wish he had a much better heroine. He seemed somewhat reasonable (except for falling in love with Ionanthe) and was reasonably suspicious of a woman he didn't know.
Ionanthe was ridiculous. Straight up idiot. I disliked her. This stubborn woman - I couldn't decide if she was TSTL or what. First she decides to approach her marriage with this godawful notion of conceiving a ruler... the way she dreams about it was just weird. Most women think about having a baby, someone to love and nurture. She dreams about birthing a king. And for some reason she wants the whole procreation deal to be cold and clinical, despite Max's insistence on it being pleasurable for both of them. She comes across as the greatest shrew in the world, challening his masculinity at every turn and generally being a bitch. And after 8 nights of his not showing up, she wonders why he's a no show. Could it be her behavior? A little bit. In reality, Max is some kind of turned on by this shrewish behavior and doesn't want to risk his heart. Then there's her refusal to see Max's goodness - despite AMPLE evidence of his reforming nature, she keeps thinking he's some sort of conservative despot. And I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out why she got so upset with Max when he told her he was the head of the foundation...as though it were some big secret or something. One would think that if she was so enamored with the foundation and its good deeds and actually wanted to work for them, she'd have done the research to find out who the head honcho was, right? He didn't actually keep anything from her, so why the anger? Because he didn't trust her? She was guilty of the same things.
I don't know. This book just didn't make sense. Or maybe it was that the heroine didn't make any sense. I couldn't enjoy it because I kept getting distracted by her weird ass behavior. To be fair, I did like Max and wish he had a much better heroine. He seemed somewhat reasonable (except for falling in love with Ionanthe) and was reasonably suspicious of a woman he didn't know.
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April 18, 2011
First book ever where i felt sorry for the hero
Heroin has to marry the brother-in-law because her sister cheated on her husband. The heroine has an inferior complex believing that everyone likes her sister more than her. Set in an unbelievable setting - an island ruled by a prince who has honourable vision for his country but marrying sister-in-law as revenge to please his people
you actually dislike the heroine, she's spoiled, with a real complex of inferiority and she judge the people around her before getting to know them. and insult the male lead and then get offended if he insults her back, besides her having her own personal agenda and has the nerve to accuse him of having one too,She is unnecessarily rude and sarcastic to the hero for no particular reason
Somehow i completed the book
Heroin has to marry the brother-in-law because her sister cheated on her husband. The heroine has an inferior complex believing that everyone likes her sister more than her. Set in an unbelievable setting - an island ruled by a prince who has honourable vision for his country but marrying sister-in-law as revenge to please his people
you actually dislike the heroine, she's spoiled, with a real complex of inferiority and she judge the people around her before getting to know them. and insult the male lead and then get offended if he insults her back, besides her having her own personal agenda and has the nerve to accuse him of having one too,She is unnecessarily rude and sarcastic to the hero for no particular reason
Somehow i completed the book
June 9, 2012
There is something different about this familiar tale. There's this restrained quality that both the hero and heroine have that made their passion even more combustible when finally ignited.
I tried to read this title twice before and couldn't get past the prologue but this morning it was the right moment. I can see where it's not the typical Presents royal bride story, but there is more here than just it's stereotypical conventions. Both characters' devotion to philanthropy never felt forced or false. In fact, I think the idea of each falling in love never even occurred to either of them because it would have taken their focus away from their desire to help the needy and afflicted.
I'm making no sense here but whether or not I did, I highly recommend.
I tried to read this title twice before and couldn't get past the prologue but this morning it was the right moment. I can see where it's not the typical Presents royal bride story, but there is more here than just it's stereotypical conventions. Both characters' devotion to philanthropy never felt forced or false. In fact, I think the idea of each falling in love never even occurred to either of them because it would have taken their focus away from their desire to help the needy and afflicted.
I'm making no sense here but whether or not I did, I highly recommend.
April 5, 2015
My first Penny Jordan. How do I say this...I feel that each sentence is too long and complex. While they mean to describe the situation, they end up annoying me. Despite that, I like how the writer portrays misunderstanding. No, it's not the usual "cruel hero, misunderstood heroine". I like that they both misundertand one another. At some point, I even pity the hero and almost snapped at the heroine. Oh, and it feels more like a historical than harlequin to me.
May 3, 2013
Helps to pass the time but not worth to purchase at full price... Something's missing in this novel... Seems like there were parts that were cut-off...
December 28, 2014
Insta-sex, insta-mistrust and insta-love. Stop thinking/having/agonising over sex and go help the poor people! !!
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January 27, 2015MY FIRST EVER BOOK. I REMEMBER BEING SUPER CRAZY ABOUT THE STORYLINE. ALTHOUGH I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY IT ENDED. MARATHON READ.
April 22, 2015
Got a little tiresome with the "oh, he's X" and "She's such a conniving X"...but the redemption was lovely and the chemistry...wowser.
March 25, 2018
well, lumayan
April 27, 2018
Awal cerita mengundang rasa penasaran dan dipikir bakal bagus nih krn blurb-nya oke. Ternyata? Semakin lama kok semakin membosankan? Karakter Ionanthe yg keras kepala ga ketulungan dan ga ada perubahan sama sekali (kecuali di detik akhir jelang tamat) menjadikan cerita ini (bagi saya pribadi) tidak berkembang.
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