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An adult love
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187 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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December 31, 2020
"An Adult Love" is another harlequin romance by Sarah Holland where she once again explores the battle of love between two individuals who are so pride-ful that they had rather hide their feelings for each other.I enjoyed imagining the fashion style Vicky Foxdale had,i mean tops and miniskirts with long black boots sounds stunning!Then we have the enigmatic and forceful tycoon Scott Thornton who takes her back to her hometown Challarran to reunite with her sick father,and who also irritates and angers her at every turn.And calls her sexy,LOL!I knew from the second he announced that they are going to get married that this man have fallen hard and fast for her,not to mention his strong jealousy towards her cousin Charles.This made for a angsty and entertaining trainwreck-and the confession of love from Scott in the end actually made me smile,he sounded as if he HATED being in love with her!
July 24, 2017
Re An Adult Love - Sarah Holland channels 1970 HPlandia with the tart shaming, multiple forced seduction attempts, lurve club tease accusations and every male over 10 just can't take no from the h in this one. Seriously we may as well just call this An Adolescent Lust.
The h is 23 and hasn't been home or spoken to her abusive, domineering father for five years. She works for a music mag in London and finds out that because she is blonde and built and dresses fashionably, her male co-workers think she should offer herself up on a platter for the regular rotating piking service. Then the H shows up right as she is fighting one persistent co-worker off.
He bullies her into visiting her father who is in hospital. Apparently near death experiences are supposed to make this h regret that she hasn't spent the last five years groveling in bad clothes at her father's feet and paying for her mother's crimes of being an attractive and personable person or her own crimes for getting conned at 18 into a brief flirtation with a married man.
So the h, as all good jellyblob h's do, goes back to ye olde Homestead with the H, who has now taken over the family firm and the aforementioned homestead. There is a jealous cousin OW who has been gettin' some loving with the H heatin' her oven and apparently the h's male cousin seems to thinks she is a tasty tart for the taking too. He tries to seduce her on a day out after they run into car trouble.
This leads to the H forcibly announcing his and the h's engagement, which from what I can tell is what her abusive father wants anyway - the H is apparently the only one who can run the company and the father's health is going, so the h is going to be the seal on the deal and then we get five chapters of punishing kisses, H forced seduction attempts, many, many accusations of trampy tease tartyness and the H going off to several OW when the h won't bang him on the parlor floor.
Eventually the main OW witchy cousin wanders up during the h's engagement party to throw a wobbly about the H not heating her oven anymore and the h decides the H loves her and she flings herself upon him - and never really has any sort of closure with her father either, he just kinda disappears into the upstairs mist. This H is not a fool and realizes a willing tart is better than a resentful floozy tease, so he claims to love her too and says he wasn't REALLY banging every babe between the house the and M25 for the big HEA.
This book is an utter wreck, but it is a wildly exuberant wreck and if you just loved the HP Alpha Bully H complete with bratty defiant jellyblob h from way, way back in the day, then this might be an HP outing time travel adventure for you.
The h is 23 and hasn't been home or spoken to her abusive, domineering father for five years. She works for a music mag in London and finds out that because she is blonde and built and dresses fashionably, her male co-workers think she should offer herself up on a platter for the regular rotating piking service. Then the H shows up right as she is fighting one persistent co-worker off.
He bullies her into visiting her father who is in hospital. Apparently near death experiences are supposed to make this h regret that she hasn't spent the last five years groveling in bad clothes at her father's feet and paying for her mother's crimes of being an attractive and personable person or her own crimes for getting conned at 18 into a brief flirtation with a married man.
So the h, as all good jellyblob h's do, goes back to ye olde Homestead with the H, who has now taken over the family firm and the aforementioned homestead. There is a jealous cousin OW who has been gettin' some loving with the H heatin' her oven and apparently the h's male cousin seems to thinks she is a tasty tart for the taking too. He tries to seduce her on a day out after they run into car trouble.
This leads to the H forcibly announcing his and the h's engagement, which from what I can tell is what her abusive father wants anyway - the H is apparently the only one who can run the company and the father's health is going, so the h is going to be the seal on the deal and then we get five chapters of punishing kisses, H forced seduction attempts, many, many accusations of trampy tease tartyness and the H going off to several OW when the h won't bang him on the parlor floor.
Eventually the main OW witchy cousin wanders up during the h's engagement party to throw a wobbly about the H not heating her oven anymore and the h decides the H loves her and she flings herself upon him - and never really has any sort of closure with her father either, he just kinda disappears into the upstairs mist. This H is not a fool and realizes a willing tart is better than a resentful floozy tease, so he claims to love her too and says he wasn't REALLY banging every babe between the house the and M25 for the big HEA.
This book is an utter wreck, but it is a wildly exuberant wreck and if you just loved the HP Alpha Bully H complete with bratty defiant jellyblob h from way, way back in the day, then this might be an HP outing time travel adventure for you.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 31, 2017
Ok so this got a lot of horrible reviews but I figured I'd give it a try anyway because I really enjoyed reading Confrontation by this author. I kinda enjoyed Sarah Holland's obsessed, slightly deranged with lust and full of alphahole possessiveness and jealousy type of H. The H in this novel stated at the end that he was a total goner for the heroine from the minute he met her; in retrospect, it explained a lot of the bullshit things he said and did although it didn't excuse them. Like the H in Confrontation, Scott lacks impulse control around his heroine. It was interesting to read about Scott's over the top angst filled lust for Vicky. He thought he was hiding it by trying to play cool but it was so obvious. Sarah Holland made it very clear with her apt descriptions of how Scott's facial and body expressions would change slightly whenever he got bitten by the possessive alpha jealousy bug ( which was often ) over the many men who were also obsessed with the heroine.
That brings me to the heroine Vicky. She was portrayed like Cornwall's own Helen of Troy because her beauty and sex appeal apparently brought men to their knees and made them do things they wouldn't want to do to another woman. Ok, maybe I'm over doing it here but the heroine's beauty was in fact a huge problem for her and it did create a lot of unfair slut shaming because people judged her only on her physical appearance, on her clothing and on who her mother had been. Her mother had been branded the village whore because she had deserted her husband for another man. When Vicky was just a teen she had developed a crush on a guy she hadn't known was married and this scandalous "relationship" was blown all out of proportion after her father disowned her. Vicky hadn't even had a sexual relationship with the lying married guy and it awful for a teenager to be kicked out of her home just like that. What the hell kind of father does that to a teenage girl ? Even Archie Bunker wouldn't have done that to Gloria ( All In The Family sitcom ).
In this novel the heroine returns to her home after her tyrant dad has a heart attack ( guess he had a heart after all ). The father actually welcomes her home now and things have changed a lot because the H seems to be the one in control of the family firm and the family mansion. Vicky resents this and she doesn't cower or submit to Scott's excessively masterful attempts to seduce and dominate. I did have a problem with Scott's outlandish behavior at times. He criticized Vicky's outfits because he thought she was dressing to tempt all mankind. I think he was just so far gone in his possessive jealous alphahole behavior that he forgot to act like a civilized man. His crazy jealousy over her cousin Charles was also another hint of his lack of control over his feelings for
Vicky. He tried to play cool by flirting with the heroine's snotty cow of a cousin Annabel. The one thing that made me take away one star from this review is the fact that Scott had been in a FWB relationship with Annabel before Vicky had returned. They were cousins so I found it icky that Scott would dump one for the other - which is what he did.
Scott manages to blackmail Vicky into a marriage, by using her father's health as leverage and he seems to spiral a little out of control the more she denies him sex. He keeps accusing her of being a tease and taunts her with the fact that he can always turn to Annabel for sex. In fact, he makes it appear as if he had been turning to Annabel but he had actually been going for long lonesome midnight drives and walks. That made me laugh when he finally confessed it all to Vicky at the end, because I had really despised him when I thought he was spending time with Annabel. He had no choice but to confess because he knew that Annabel had already told Vicky that nothing had been going on between them since Vicky's return. I almost felt sorry for Scott because his huge ego was destroyed when he could no longer pretend that he was nonchalantly fooling around with Annabel. His passionate confession of love was really intense too. He acted as if he had lost some major war when he had to confess his true love for Vicky. The guy acted like if confessing to love a woman was a major weakness. Scott, like a lot of these old school alpha H's, was characterized by much false pride.
It was a drama filled, angsty, crazy romance novel and I did enjoy it - though not as much as I had enjoyed Confrontation. I think it's because in Confrontation the H's former OW was not a relative of the heroine. What I did enjoy in this novel was Annabel's spiteful, crying and jealous tantrum at the end when she realized that she was neither becoming Scott's wife nor earning the role as the future lady of Challa. What can I say? I love seeing OW get their comeuppance.
That brings me to the heroine Vicky. She was portrayed like Cornwall's own Helen of Troy because her beauty and sex appeal apparently brought men to their knees and made them do things they wouldn't want to do to another woman. Ok, maybe I'm over doing it here but the heroine's beauty was in fact a huge problem for her and it did create a lot of unfair slut shaming because people judged her only on her physical appearance, on her clothing and on who her mother had been. Her mother had been branded the village whore because she had deserted her husband for another man. When Vicky was just a teen she had developed a crush on a guy she hadn't known was married and this scandalous "relationship" was blown all out of proportion after her father disowned her. Vicky hadn't even had a sexual relationship with the lying married guy and it awful for a teenager to be kicked out of her home just like that. What the hell kind of father does that to a teenage girl ? Even Archie Bunker wouldn't have done that to Gloria ( All In The Family sitcom ).
In this novel the heroine returns to her home after her tyrant dad has a heart attack ( guess he had a heart after all ). The father actually welcomes her home now and things have changed a lot because the H seems to be the one in control of the family firm and the family mansion. Vicky resents this and she doesn't cower or submit to Scott's excessively masterful attempts to seduce and dominate. I did have a problem with Scott's outlandish behavior at times. He criticized Vicky's outfits because he thought she was dressing to tempt all mankind. I think he was just so far gone in his possessive jealous alphahole behavior that he forgot to act like a civilized man. His crazy jealousy over her cousin Charles was also another hint of his lack of control over his feelings for
Vicky. He tried to play cool by flirting with the heroine's snotty cow of a cousin Annabel. The one thing that made me take away one star from this review is the fact that Scott had been in a FWB relationship with Annabel before Vicky had returned. They were cousins so I found it icky that Scott would dump one for the other - which is what he did.
Scott manages to blackmail Vicky into a marriage, by using her father's health as leverage and he seems to spiral a little out of control the more she denies him sex. He keeps accusing her of being a tease and taunts her with the fact that he can always turn to Annabel for sex. In fact, he makes it appear as if he had been turning to Annabel but he had actually been going for long lonesome midnight drives and walks. That made me laugh when he finally confessed it all to Vicky at the end, because I had really despised him when I thought he was spending time with Annabel. He had no choice but to confess because he knew that Annabel had already told Vicky that nothing had been going on between them since Vicky's return. I almost felt sorry for Scott because his huge ego was destroyed when he could no longer pretend that he was nonchalantly fooling around with Annabel. His passionate confession of love was really intense too. He acted as if he had lost some major war when he had to confess his true love for Vicky. The guy acted like if confessing to love a woman was a major weakness. Scott, like a lot of these old school alpha H's, was characterized by much false pride.
It was a drama filled, angsty, crazy romance novel and I did enjoy it - though not as much as I had enjoyed Confrontation. I think it's because in Confrontation the H's former OW was not a relative of the heroine. What I did enjoy in this novel was Annabel's spiteful, crying and jealous tantrum at the end when she realized that she was neither becoming Scott's wife nor earning the role as the future lady of Challa. What can I say? I love seeing OW get their comeuppance.
February 10, 2014
2 Stars ~ Growing up Vicky had been judged as "just like her mother", a beautiful woman with a vivacious personality. Her father had dominated her, forced her to wear plain, ugly clothes and wear her hair pulled back severely. But when she turned 14, Vicky suddenly began to blossom and she'd leave the house a plain-jane but soon transformed herself into the carefree young girl she longed to be. When at 18, she fell in love with a young man who turned out to be married, she brought scandal to her father's house. No longer willing to live with his dominance, she packed her suitcases and fled with her father's words for her to never to return. When her father suffers a heart attack he sends Scott to find her. Scott's the son of family friends, a man who, after making his own millions in New York, is now chairman of Vicky's father's company. Returning to the family fold is the last thing Vicky wants, but Scott insists that should her father die she'd regret it forever. Back in the family mansion, Vicky is astounded by how much Scott has taken over, not just the company but the family home too. When scandal again threatens her, Scott jumps in and announces that he and Vicky are to be married, which forces Vicky into a corner. Either she agree, or she risk another heart attack for her father.
Okay this is truly a trainwreck! Vicky at 23 is no more mature than she'd been with she was 14 or 18. Scott, I couldn't figure out. First he's a gallant white knight with a fun sense of humour, and next he's a despicable brute. Ms. Holland uses such silly plot devices to try to create tension, what she produced was groans and my wonder at how this book ever made it past an editor. Vicky must look like a whore because every man she encounters seems to want to seduce her. When Vicky realizes that "She was a tease without knowing it. She would find herself raped one day.", I nearly threw the book against the wall. This is a one star read (there is some entertainment value) and it earned the second star simply because Ms. Holland somehow managed to shock me into reading right through to the end. Which, btw, was really over the top!
Okay this is truly a trainwreck! Vicky at 23 is no more mature than she'd been with she was 14 or 18. Scott, I couldn't figure out. First he's a gallant white knight with a fun sense of humour, and next he's a despicable brute. Ms. Holland uses such silly plot devices to try to create tension, what she produced was groans and my wonder at how this book ever made it past an editor. Vicky must look like a whore because every man she encounters seems to want to seduce her. When Vicky realizes that "She was a tease without knowing it. She would find herself raped one day.", I nearly threw the book against the wall. This is a one star read (there is some entertainment value) and it earned the second star simply because Ms. Holland somehow managed to shock me into reading right through to the end. Which, btw, was really over the top!
December 19, 2021
Rating: ** 2.5 stars **
Oh! the irony cause there was nothing adult about their love except the sexual aspect. I have seen teenage romance have more depth and reasoning than this couple.
Vicki is the dream girl every man aspires for in his life. Wherever she goes the men line up in a queue to assault and salivate over her and the girl keeps being clueless in every encounter and bursts into tears and behaves even more clueless as to why the men behaved with her that way. The girl is just one spoilt brat and an annoying one at that.
The ML is this domineering in-charge sort of guy whose love is obviously shallow cause there wasn't one thing likable about the girl and still this guy professes his desperate undying love to her, It's all lust/ infatuation 🙄
'...I couldn't believe it was the same little
girl I'd known at Challa all those years ago. You hit me like a truck,
Vicky. I just looked at your face and fell like a ton of bricks ...'
And then to add a little spice we have some manhandling, rough kisses and endearments of "slut" and " a tease" doing rounds.😃 And yeah with our FL being a virgin and a stunning lady, it automatically translates to her having a HEA irrespective of her having an annoying personality and rocks for brains.
✨ How I love old HQNs where the FLs can with either be beautiful and bratty or doormats and dowdy
Oh! the irony cause there was nothing adult about their love except the sexual aspect. I have seen teenage romance have more depth and reasoning than this couple.
Vicki is the
The ML is this domineering in-charge sort of guy whose love is obviously shallow cause there wasn't one thing likable about the girl and still this guy professes his desperate undying love to her, It's all lust/ infatuation 🙄
'...I couldn't believe it was the same little
girl I'd known at Challa all those years ago. You hit me like a truck,
Vicky. I just looked at your face and fell like a ton of bricks ...'
And then to add a little spice we have some manhandling, rough kisses and endearments of "slut" and " a tease" doing rounds.😃 And yeah with our FL being a virgin and a stunning lady, it automatically translates to her having a HEA irrespective of her having an annoying personality and rocks for brains.
✨ How I love old HQNs where the FLs can with either be beautiful and bratty or doormats and dowdy
March 14, 2011
Review:
UGH! I mean, really? was there anything good about this book? (apparently no)...
"You frigid little bitch" and "You tease!" liberally spread over the course of this book. Apparently there was some scandal (I didn't even care cuz I was actually skipping pages in a hurry to be done with this crappy book) about the heroine's mother which I think is the scandal the heroine was worried about.
Plus, do you know those guys who go steady with one girl and then some hoochy mama(HM) shows up and they drop girl no. 1 and take up/get married to the HM? Je Veux Presente: Our Hero....
I know it might not be as bad as I make it out to be but it sure felt it.
October 18, 2015
8/10 - enjoyed the story. Unlike the other reviews on this book here, I actually liked this book. Vicky returns to her childhood home and town after hearing of her fathers illness. Once home she discovers the extent of all the changes which have taken place since she's been gone and how much the hero Scott has taken over. Romance ensues and due to the scandal involving Vicky and her cousin, she and Scott announce their engagement which she only accepted to overshadow the scandal and avoid her fathers I'll health returning Throughout the story there is humour and drama. The only downside/letdown to the story is there is a lot of 'bitch' calling and attempted raping and Vicky being seduced by her cousin of all people. Thats a bit on the repulsive side but despite those issues I followed along easily with the storyline. During the story Vicky notices all the changes to her hometown since she left, despite only being gone five years (?!). I would've liked more input from the father either during or at the end of the book to hear his side of the story regarding Scott's depth of involvement within the company. His thoughts on Scott, something to convince the reader and Vicky that Scotts presence is actually appreciated by him etc. We do get second hand information relayed from the cousin - a conversation he overheard but I would've preferred to hear the fathers own opinions. A solo visit to him in hospital by Vicky and a bedside conversation to close loose ends on their relationship and the way she left home five years earlier, the issues he had with her mother wouldve fitted in well too. Despite the couple of letdowns overall this book was an enjoyable read.
May 27, 2021
Enjoyable read.
First of all: for the first time in a Harlequin book I liked what the woman was wearing. She was wearing sexy clothes. Miniskirts and high boots, yes.
The man is jealous and possessive. From the start of the book he is besotted. He tells her over and over again how beautiful she is and how sexy she looks.
The woman is naive for giving her cousin the chance to abuse her physically. And not once, but three, four times.
I especially like the dialogue between the man and the woman. He is a strong male and she is a sassy female.
First of all: for the first time in a Harlequin book I liked what the woman was wearing. She was wearing sexy clothes. Miniskirts and high boots, yes.
The man is jealous and possessive. From the start of the book he is besotted. He tells her over and over again how beautiful she is and how sexy she looks.
The woman is naive for giving her cousin the chance to abuse her physically. And not once, but three, four times.
I especially like the dialogue between the man and the woman. He is a strong male and she is a sassy female.
January 17, 2020
There was only one way to cope-leave !! And that's what Vicki had done when life with her family became too difficult. London had seemed like a haven. Until Scott Thornton turned up on her doorstep insisting that she visit her father in the hospital. Vicki was shocked. Even worse, she discovered, was how much Scott had taken over-her father's business, the family home-and now he wanted Vicki, too. Vicki dug her heels in, then. But Scott was just as determined to win the encounter.
September 20, 2020
3,5 stars
It was a enjoyable and quick read.The h behaved like a emotional teenager..but Scott made me drool with his brutish alpha behaviour.Ahh i did like him and i am not ashamed by that.Want more books like this one!
Pss:I would have hated this hero in real life.
It was a enjoyable and quick read.The h behaved like a emotional teenager..but Scott made me drool with his brutish alpha behaviour.Ahh i did like him and i am not ashamed by that.Want more books like this one!
Pss:I would have hated this hero in real life.
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