حلم الربيع الجبلي

by Grace Green, غريس جرين

Lindsay and Gideon met in a restaurant - so far, so normal.

The difficulty was, Lindsay was with Gideon's father, Alex, and they had been seeing each other for two years. Lindsay wanted to stop for the sake of Laura, Alex's wife, and Gideon insisted on it. Instead, Gideon offered to improve on whatever his father had offered - but Lindsay could not accept. After all, the tension between them was electric and she was the Damaris Woman - spotless and without stain.

Genres: Harlequin Presents

Unknown Binding

First published June 1, 1994

Reviews

[Preeti ♥︎ Her Bookshelves · Rating 3 out of 5]

One tropey eyeroller.
We have misunderstandings galore with amnesia thrown in to prolong matters.

The same old plot where the h meets her biological father for the first time and bonds with him secretly so as not to hurt his wife….and their foster son (cannot be otherwise!) finds out and of course, misconstrues. - ‘You tramp, you! I can satisfy your pretty little body if you want. Just leave my foster dad alone’ follows!
The dad has a heart attack and there’s more hell to pay.
The h flees to Scotland in terror and the H follows – only to get in an accident. He’s hurt, amnesiac but manages to do all that within sight of her doorstep. She takes him in and nurses him. He’s appreciative and they get close – but not that close as he’s not sure whether he’s married or not in view of his amnesia. (I appreciated that about him.)
So he goes back. She follows – they get intimate, she flees, they meet again, he remembers and revenge mode is back on – with a vengeance!

[StMargarets · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like Preeti said, this is one tropey story.

The tropes?
I'm the secret baby all grown up but not his mistress (the hero thinks the h is having an affair with his adopted father)

Amnesia (the hero after a car accident.)

Snowbound in an isolated cottage together

Revenge (the hero after he realizes that he had a ONS with the heroine during his amnesia period)

The heroine is The Damaris Woman - a perfume ad icon that no one recognizes in real life because she wears a turban, sunglasses, and heavy make- up.

And that is about as realistic as any of this gets.

This had all of my favorite tropes, but it sadly fell flat. The heroine didn't have a lot of personality _ her whole identity was "mother's shame" and "secret identity." The hero was either raging or putting the moves on the heroine.

[Diya✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was great read. I liked this book very much and it was very moving. Left me feeling warm and fuzzy inside! The ending was sweet. Recommend this highly.

[Mareli · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first time they meet she's with his father, holding hands. The second time, she's in a villa, where his father had a heart attack and he comes and sees her in desabillè on his father bed, well, he understands something... but wrong! And then they meet again at his father hospital.

The next time they meet he just had a car accident and he's suffering of memory loss. So they spend some time together, she knows who he is but he doesn't recognize her.

Adding the fact his father and her have a very special relationship (guess! I already knew it at page 3 what kind of relationship it was...).

After their night of passion she disappears... and then he's the reason of her job loss...

We have all the elements of a HP OLDIE (Another strange thing is she wears a suspender belt, the story is from 1994, I know for sure we didn't use it, then! ). Not bad but she was tooooooooo doormat for me, to really love the story!

[Wendy Darling · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars Secret baby, misunderstandings, she’s branded a slut by the hero, he has an accident and has amnesia, she needs a spotless reputation as a model for a perfume company hah! etc, etc. A little by the book, except it feels like a few books jammed into one with so many tropes. Good chemistry, though, when he’s not sneering at her morals. 🙄

[ANGELIA · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, what do you know??? I found it!!! After suffering through two of this author's books, where the H and h have kids with other people, I said I'd like to discover if she writes one where they have a kid with each other. And I found one! Well, the kid won't arrive for some time, but it's on the way.,

I also said I'd like to discover if she's written a book worth more than one star. Well, we can't have it all!

With a ridiculous story of amnesia and the OM turning out to be Daddy, I think you get the idea!

There used to be a term in Hollywood for when an actor starred in one dud movie after another: "Box Office Poison". Perhaps shit author should be called "Publishing Poison"? "Bookshop Poison"? "Paperback Poison"?

Or just plain "POISON"??? Yeah, I like that one! And the antidote is one I'll gladly take: NEVER READ ONE OF HER BOOKS AGAIN!

[Diamond]

حلم الربيع الجبلي - غريس غرين