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Lesson to Learn
Tangled dreams
Gray Phillips had hired Sarah to be his son's nanny out of desperation-she alone could reach and comfort the unhappy child. But Gray made no secret of the fact that he resented her presence in his home and in his life.
Forging a bond between father and son was a near impossible task-as was hiding her growing feelings for a man who'd forsaken love and trust....
Gray Phillips had hired Sarah to be his son's nanny out of desperation-she alone could reach and comfort the unhappy child. But Gray made no secret of the fact that he resented her presence in his home and in his life.
Forging a bond between father and son was a near impossible task-as was hiding her growing feelings for a man who'd forsaken love and trust....
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Penny Jordan
1,120 books659 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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May 9, 2018
Re Lesson to Learn - PJ does her favorite PJisms in this one with a sweet, uber sensitive, caring, tender heart h that becomes a nanny to a snarly, emotionally distant and unavailable workaholic H's son.
The h in this is a failed public school teacher. She was so concerned with sorting out her student's emotional quandaries that she found she had little time to actually teach them anything. Naturally this did not go well with her school's administrative staff, so the h finds herself on hiatus in Shropshire, near the market town of Ludlow and staying with her older cousin.
The h is wandering around the woods and having PJ existential angst over her tender heart and why can't everybody just get along and help each other, when a small boy pops up and asks the way to London.
The h's tender heart goes on red alert, cause the little boy is teary eyed and obviously distressed. We soon learn that the little six year old tyke is Robbie and his mum and his Nana died and he has to live with his dad and he hates that and he is running away.
The h manages to calm Robbie down and is trying to figure out what to do, when a very snarly and handsome man shows up, looking for Robbie. Robbie doesn't want to go and the h is in shock that any parent could be so oblivious. It is very obvious that Mr. Tall, Dark and Snarly would much rather be running his business than having to deal with a recalcitrant six year old who wants his Nana.
The h manages to get Robbie and the H back home without a major meltdown and we also learn that the H was divorced from a real nasty piece of work ex-wife and that she won custody and then proceeded to poison Robbie's mind against her ex husband and prevented the Snarly H from even seeing him. The H was desperate for childcare when Robbie came to him, so he got the biggest child-hating housekeeper in the village to look after him .
It soon becomes clear that the H is clueless and the child-hating housekeeper is horrible. When the tender heart h shows up the next day to visit Robbie, she finds him all alone and trying to make his own cereal for breakfast, cause the child-hater housekeeper has vanished into the HPlandia mists.
Robbie dropped the milk and there is glass everywhere and the tender heart h almost has a fainting moment when she sees there is only pre-packaged frozen dinners in the house. (PJ doesn't hold back on the processed food horrors on this one.)
So the h takes charge. Robbie and the floor are all scooped up and tidied and the h borrowed her cousin's car, so we are off to market to get some fresh vegetables - cause in the usual PJ style, this h is a pro at emergency vegetable carving and nutritious, wholesome and tempting, but low-sugar meals.
The H comes back and the h is feeling the tingly nibbles of the Lurve Mojo Force, but the H is really, really snarly and upset that the h is destroying his workaholic equilibrium. As we all know that the H is going to rope the h into caring for Robbie, we learn that the h got sacked from her teaching position and the H helped the h find a sweet little car and Robbie wants the h for his mentoring and companionship person.
So the h and Robbie settle into a routine. The h refuses to be a live-in mentoring and companion person, she is strictly out call only, and this makes the H snarly too - but the h figures it is a good thing, cause the H's Dark Haired Broody Billy Idol Sneer would give her heart palpitations and fainting spells if she actually had to live with it.
The h and Robbie have conversations and do pictures and Robbie is great at Reading and really bad at Maths - so we can leave future mini H engineer off Robbie's career prospects. The H, who is really attracted to the h, but hiding it cause his ex ruined him for life with her harlotry, is working later and later and the h is missing out on family dinner out invitations cause she is stuck with Robbie all the time.
Eventually the Hidden Lurve Force Mojo Passion between the h and H explodes into a big argument when the h misses yet another planned event because the H is working late and unreachable. The h is also worried that the H and Robbie aren't bonding as they should. The H loses it and fires the h, the h goes back to her cousin's crying and Robbie runs away.
There is a big police search that the H and h don't participate in cause they are told to wait in case Robbie shows up on his own. The H is frantic, cause he really does love his son, and the H and h have a huge tension relieving lurve club purple passion bliss moment, which the h is now going to have to angst about for the next 30 pages.
Robbie is found and the H gets the h to move in and then we have H and h extreme avoidance of any kind of conversation or attempt at a relationship. There is some standard PJ angsting in both the H and h's POV. The H breaks first and he runs away on pretend business for a few weeks.
The h and Robbie are kinda sad, cause Robbie likes his dad now, then the H finally comes back. He declares he loves the h and wants to marry her and his ex was a hideous snot slurper who used Robbie to manipulate the H and then dumped him on her mother. The h is overjoyed that the Snarly H is now transformed into a Beaming Bunnie and she has loved him since she met him.
They both shout their love to the HPlandia heavens and Robbie, then we leave them lurving it up and Robbie sleeping soundly, safe in the knowledge that he gets to keep his tender hearted mentoring and companion person forever.
This one was a pretty standard PJ day at the office. If you aren't a PJ fan, this probably will not appeal, as these two were a little whacked and the most mature person in the book was probably Robbie, who kept trying to leave the situation.
I am a PJ fangirl tho and I don't care if the h and H are uberly whacktastic, I had a fun time with this and thought it was a pretty sweet PJ fix with a nice HEA for my inner junkie.
The h in this is a failed public school teacher. She was so concerned with sorting out her student's emotional quandaries that she found she had little time to actually teach them anything. Naturally this did not go well with her school's administrative staff, so the h finds herself on hiatus in Shropshire, near the market town of Ludlow and staying with her older cousin.
The h is wandering around the woods and having PJ existential angst over her tender heart and why can't everybody just get along and help each other, when a small boy pops up and asks the way to London.
The h's tender heart goes on red alert, cause the little boy is teary eyed and obviously distressed. We soon learn that the little six year old tyke is Robbie and his mum and his Nana died and he has to live with his dad and he hates that and he is running away.
The h manages to calm Robbie down and is trying to figure out what to do, when a very snarly and handsome man shows up, looking for Robbie. Robbie doesn't want to go and the h is in shock that any parent could be so oblivious. It is very obvious that Mr. Tall, Dark and Snarly would much rather be running his business than having to deal with a recalcitrant six year old who wants his Nana.
The h manages to get Robbie and the H back home without a major meltdown and we also learn that the H was divorced from a real nasty piece of work ex-wife and that she won custody and then proceeded to poison Robbie's mind against her ex husband and prevented the Snarly H from even seeing him. The H was desperate for childcare when Robbie came to him, so he got the biggest child-hating housekeeper in the village to look after him .
It soon becomes clear that the H is clueless and the child-hating housekeeper is horrible. When the tender heart h shows up the next day to visit Robbie, she finds him all alone and trying to make his own cereal for breakfast, cause the child-hater housekeeper has vanished into the HPlandia mists.
Robbie dropped the milk and there is glass everywhere and the tender heart h almost has a fainting moment when she sees there is only pre-packaged frozen dinners in the house. (PJ doesn't hold back on the processed food horrors on this one.)
So the h takes charge. Robbie and the floor are all scooped up and tidied and the h borrowed her cousin's car, so we are off to market to get some fresh vegetables - cause in the usual PJ style, this h is a pro at emergency vegetable carving and nutritious, wholesome and tempting, but low-sugar meals.
The H comes back and the h is feeling the tingly nibbles of the Lurve Mojo Force, but the H is really, really snarly and upset that the h is destroying his workaholic equilibrium. As we all know that the H is going to rope the h into caring for Robbie, we learn that the h got sacked from her teaching position and the H helped the h find a sweet little car and Robbie wants the h for his mentoring and companionship person.
So the h and Robbie settle into a routine. The h refuses to be a live-in mentoring and companion person, she is strictly out call only, and this makes the H snarly too - but the h figures it is a good thing, cause the H's Dark Haired Broody Billy Idol Sneer would give her heart palpitations and fainting spells if she actually had to live with it.
The h and Robbie have conversations and do pictures and Robbie is great at Reading and really bad at Maths - so we can leave future mini H engineer off Robbie's career prospects. The H, who is really attracted to the h, but hiding it cause his ex ruined him for life with her harlotry, is working later and later and the h is missing out on family dinner out invitations cause she is stuck with Robbie all the time.
Eventually the Hidden Lurve Force Mojo Passion between the h and H explodes into a big argument when the h misses yet another planned event because the H is working late and unreachable. The h is also worried that the H and Robbie aren't bonding as they should. The H loses it and fires the h, the h goes back to her cousin's crying and Robbie runs away.
There is a big police search that the H and h don't participate in cause they are told to wait in case Robbie shows up on his own. The H is frantic, cause he really does love his son, and the H and h have a huge tension relieving lurve club purple passion bliss moment, which the h is now going to have to angst about for the next 30 pages.
Robbie is found and the H gets the h to move in and then we have H and h extreme avoidance of any kind of conversation or attempt at a relationship. There is some standard PJ angsting in both the H and h's POV. The H breaks first and he runs away on pretend business for a few weeks.
The h and Robbie are kinda sad, cause Robbie likes his dad now, then the H finally comes back. He declares he loves the h and wants to marry her and his ex was a hideous snot slurper who used Robbie to manipulate the H and then dumped him on her mother. The h is overjoyed that the Snarly H is now transformed into a Beaming Bunnie and she has loved him since she met him.
They both shout their love to the HPlandia heavens and Robbie, then we leave them lurving it up and Robbie sleeping soundly, safe in the knowledge that he gets to keep his tender hearted mentoring and companion person forever.
This one was a pretty standard PJ day at the office. If you aren't a PJ fan, this probably will not appeal, as these two were a little whacked and the most mature person in the book was probably Robbie, who kept trying to leave the situation.
I am a PJ fangirl tho and I don't care if the h and H are uberly whacktastic, I had a fun time with this and thought it was a pretty sweet PJ fix with a nice HEA for my inner junkie.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 8, 2014
Meh. I was in the mood for a vintage Harley and this one was lying around. All in all it was a pretty weak book. I never really bought into any of it. The heroine was a school teacher that got fired for being to caring towards her students. She practically had a nervous breakdown because she would get so wrapped up in their lives. So she ends up being a nanny to the hero's son. The hero was also written in a weird unbelievable OTT manner. He had just got his son because the boy's mother had died. He was nasty to the heroine from the get go. Evidently he falls in love with her but never treats her any differently. And she is a wimp who lets him. There are very few scenes where they interact, where the action is spelled out. It's all very telly and rarely showy. In the end, basically out of the blue he goes into this long winded explanation/declaration of love. It was awkward and uncomfortable and unbelievable and didn't ring true at all. Ms. Jordan was really phoning it in for this one.
My advice is skip it.
My advice is skip it.
October 18, 2015
One star is being generous. The last thing on a parent's mind when their six year old child is missing is having sex. That's when I quit this book. The little six year old boy is missing and daddy is bedding the nanny. Yucky.
May 22, 2015
One of seven novels churned out for Mills and Boon in 1992 by Jordan, this one was clearly written in an off moment. So the premise is as follows: Sarah, a vulnerable over-emotional newly qualified teacher (of the type who spend most of their lessons reduced to tears by callous 15 year olds) is staying with her cousin in order to assess her career options. Whilst there, she happens across a little boy called Robbie who is on the run from his Dad. Vulnerable, over-emotional Sarah and vulnerable, over-emotional Robbie naturally form an affinity for each other and before you can say “your P45’s in the post”, Sarah’s been sacked from her job and has been hired by Gray (Robbie’s emotionless, robotic father) to act as a nanny for Robbie.
Now set against this backdrop, with a heroine who spends much of her time teetering on the verge of tears and a hero who acts like Data out of Star Trek, it’s hard to see where the romance comes in – particularly when you throw into the mix the 6 year old child who is just always there clinging tearfully to Sarah’s knees and telling his Dad that he hates him. To be fair, there’s not a lot to like about Gray – he spends all his time at work. As soon as he’s almost blackmailed Sarah into his employment, he goes off to the office for what seems like a several day stretch leaving her alone dealing with his son. The “love scenes” in the novel occur almost accidentally with the first one occurring when Gray is asleep (not sure how this works...) and the second happening when Robbie has run away from home again. The couple excuse themselves by saying that they got carried away with the emotion of the moment, but it’s clear that during the latter part of chapter 8 they’ve forgotten all about little Robbie and the fact that the Police are out looking for him whilst they cavort in the bedroom.
Gray then lures Sarah into living in as a nanny and goes off for a month (yes, a month!!!) leaving her in charge of her son. He returns on page 187 a gaunt shadow of himself, saying he can’t live without her anymore (oh, and Robbie. Who’s Robbie again? It seems Gray has clearly forgotten all about him).
There are some interesting things about this book – first, Sarah makes an overt reference to the state of teaching in 1992 which is interesting from a social history point of view (apparently, according to the press in that time – and Jordan did much of her research using women’s magazines – teachers were leaving the profession in droves during that time). It also contains the most realistic line ever spoken by a Mills and Boon hero – when Gray falls asleep on his son’s bed after comforting him from a nightmare, he says “God, my back!” which is a line many a woman has heard from her husband over the years.
Also, Jordan’s novel may seem like a crime against womankind and feminism but by destroying the hero utterly and only allowing him to function as a fully rounded human being with Sarah at his side, this is actually a feminist text. Without Sarah, Gray, for all his posturing in the office, is nothing. It is only when Sarah agrees to marry him that he is able to become a loving father to his son. There’s a brilliant paragraph in this novel:
“There was no softness about him, no gentle, caring tenderness... no hint that he had absorbed all the lessons that this sex were supposed to have absorbed over the last decade and emerged from that learning process as a caring, thoughtful human being, brought to the humble realisation of how much his sex had sinned against hers over the generations and eager to make amends for those sins.” (p. 60) Well, Jordan’s going to teach him the error of his ways and bring him to his knees with Sarah’s feminine power over him!
This is not the most romantic offering from Jordan I’ve ever read, but it’s got some interesting points from a social history point of view and the feminist argument offered by a number of critics about these books is exemplified nicely.
Now set against this backdrop, with a heroine who spends much of her time teetering on the verge of tears and a hero who acts like Data out of Star Trek, it’s hard to see where the romance comes in – particularly when you throw into the mix the 6 year old child who is just always there clinging tearfully to Sarah’s knees and telling his Dad that he hates him. To be fair, there’s not a lot to like about Gray – he spends all his time at work. As soon as he’s almost blackmailed Sarah into his employment, he goes off to the office for what seems like a several day stretch leaving her alone dealing with his son. The “love scenes” in the novel occur almost accidentally with the first one occurring when Gray is asleep (not sure how this works...) and the second happening when Robbie has run away from home again. The couple excuse themselves by saying that they got carried away with the emotion of the moment, but it’s clear that during the latter part of chapter 8 they’ve forgotten all about little Robbie and the fact that the Police are out looking for him whilst they cavort in the bedroom.
Gray then lures Sarah into living in as a nanny and goes off for a month (yes, a month!!!) leaving her in charge of her son. He returns on page 187 a gaunt shadow of himself, saying he can’t live without her anymore (oh, and Robbie. Who’s Robbie again? It seems Gray has clearly forgotten all about him).
There are some interesting things about this book – first, Sarah makes an overt reference to the state of teaching in 1992 which is interesting from a social history point of view (apparently, according to the press in that time – and Jordan did much of her research using women’s magazines – teachers were leaving the profession in droves during that time). It also contains the most realistic line ever spoken by a Mills and Boon hero – when Gray falls asleep on his son’s bed after comforting him from a nightmare, he says “God, my back!” which is a line many a woman has heard from her husband over the years.
Also, Jordan’s novel may seem like a crime against womankind and feminism but by destroying the hero utterly and only allowing him to function as a fully rounded human being with Sarah at his side, this is actually a feminist text. Without Sarah, Gray, for all his posturing in the office, is nothing. It is only when Sarah agrees to marry him that he is able to become a loving father to his son. There’s a brilliant paragraph in this novel:
“There was no softness about him, no gentle, caring tenderness... no hint that he had absorbed all the lessons that this sex were supposed to have absorbed over the last decade and emerged from that learning process as a caring, thoughtful human being, brought to the humble realisation of how much his sex had sinned against hers over the generations and eager to make amends for those sins.” (p. 60) Well, Jordan’s going to teach him the error of his ways and bring him to his knees with Sarah’s feminine power over him!
This is not the most romantic offering from Jordan I’ve ever read, but it’s got some interesting points from a social history point of view and the feminist argument offered by a number of critics about these books is exemplified nicely.
March 3, 2020
A 6 year old boy has run away and his dad who is the H and h who is an ex-teacher turned nanny have sex for the first time in their relationship. No dating, no flirting, no getting to know each other. The whole book would have been better off if they had either had found 'comfort' so to speak after he was found or if they had had sex earlier before this and just hugged each other when the boy is missing!
March 19, 2023
Quite fond of the premise - remote, frozen, ill-used by ex, single dad Gray hires between jobs, oversensitive teacher, Sarah to look after his damaged young son Robbie. Robbie had encountered Sarah under a tree while he was running away (he's 6).The execution had promise initially but ran out of steam.
Never understand why I can't see the English language version of some of these. The HP I got out of Open Library had the same cover art which has the H looking so expressionless, the h appears to be cradling a shop mannequin. That said, he came across as a bit lifeless in the text, so maybe the artist nailed the brief.
Never understand why I can't see the English language version of some of these. The HP I got out of Open Library had the same cover art which has the H looking so expressionless, the h appears to be cradling a shop mannequin. That said, he came across as a bit lifeless in the text, so maybe the artist nailed the brief.
March 23, 2013
Read this in English, but can't figure out how to fix the title. Very badly written. Essentially, they're in love with each other but afraid to show each other their love. And the picture on the cover is as bad as the book!
June 28, 2022
Read while traveling so here are my quick notes:
Good prose but wordy. Too wordy sometimes.
Cliche to have a hero embittered by one experience with a terrible woman and swear off love forever. But less cliche to have when he's paired with a heroine who only knows how to fall in love.
The sudden head hop to Gray (hero) two-thirds in is jarring. I suppose we -had to know- what he felt and wanted their kiss, and more, too. Thing is, we already did, and Jordan let herself down in not trusting that she got us there -- or thinking the punch of his wanting was worth more than the heroine feeling it through that kiss.
They both believe they want cerebral / emotional connections, but are extra hot for and aware of each other, which is beyond anything they've experienced before. I do like a good bit of "only with you am I..." as a dynamic.
Nice crackles of emotion.
Eddies around far too long doing not much and then suddenly is hugely tormentingly everything.
Great crashing waves of everything, though, and then well handled in the confessions, sharing declarations, and entry to their HEA.
Good prose but wordy. Too wordy sometimes.
Cliche to have a hero embittered by one experience with a terrible woman and swear off love forever. But less cliche to have when he's paired with a heroine who only knows how to fall in love.
The sudden head hop to Gray (hero) two-thirds in is jarring. I suppose we -had to know- what he felt and wanted their kiss, and more, too. Thing is, we already did, and Jordan let herself down in not trusting that she got us there -- or thinking the punch of his wanting was worth more than the heroine feeling it through that kiss.
They both believe they want cerebral / emotional connections, but are extra hot for and aware of each other, which is beyond anything they've experienced before. I do like a good bit of "only with you am I..." as a dynamic.
Nice crackles of emotion.
Eddies around far too long doing not much and then suddenly is hugely tormentingly everything.
Great crashing waves of everything, though, and then well handled in the confessions, sharing declarations, and entry to their HEA.
October 9, 2020
I enjoyed the idea of the story but there was just the erotic bit that was just wrong....
Son goes missing and that's when they get erotic in his bedroom! I just couldn't get into it after that plus when you're worried?? I wouldn't be thinking of that at all.
It would have been better if he saw how precious people was and how quick they can run away that he should have told her feelings after he found him and then have the erotic scene.
But the way it was just felt wrong.
Son goes missing and that's when they get erotic in his bedroom! I just couldn't get into it after that plus when you're worried?? I wouldn't be thinking of that at all.
It would have been better if he saw how precious people was and how quick they can run away that he should have told her feelings after he found him and then have the erotic scene.
But the way it was just felt wrong.
June 22, 2021
This book was worth what I paid for it, which was twenty-five cents, but not much more than that. It's a very Penny Jordan novel, which is true about most Penny Jordan novels; this one involves a teacher who's been fired for Loving Her Students Too Much, an abandoned child who's recently lost his spectacularly evil mother (fought for sole custody, then dumped kid with her elderly mom), and a stoic businessman who No Longer Trusts Womankind. Huge meh.
July 23, 2020
I read this in English. Plot is predictable and the characters lack much substance.
June 30, 2008
Novel Hq pertama yang saya baca. Kisahnya bagus, tentang Sarah yang menjadi nanny untuk Robby --anak Grey-- dan selanjutnya Sarah dan Grey menjadi saling tertarik dan akhirnya menikah.
Dikisahkan Sarah bertemu dengan Robby, saat anak ini "tersesat". Saat ditanyai oleh Sarah, Robby mengaku ingin pulang ke London. Tak dinyana, Grey datang dan membawa pulang Robby ke rumah Grey. Menyadari Robby yang memang butuh seseorang, Grey pun menyewa Sarah sebagai nanny untuk Robby.
Terus terang saat baca novel ini, saya sedang ngefans berat dengan pesepak bola dari Jerman -Mehmet Scholl- sehingga bayangan saya tentang karakter Grey adalah.. ya Mehmet Scholl itu sendiri... Tapi it's okay, penggambaran karakter sang tokoh bisa macam-macam sesuai imajinasi pembaca... Coba, siapa yang Anda bayangkan ketika membaca cerita Pelajaran Cinta ini?
Dikisahkan Sarah bertemu dengan Robby, saat anak ini "tersesat". Saat ditanyai oleh Sarah, Robby mengaku ingin pulang ke London. Tak dinyana, Grey datang dan membawa pulang Robby ke rumah Grey. Menyadari Robby yang memang butuh seseorang, Grey pun menyewa Sarah sebagai nanny untuk Robby.
Terus terang saat baca novel ini, saya sedang ngefans berat dengan pesepak bola dari Jerman -Mehmet Scholl- sehingga bayangan saya tentang karakter Grey adalah.. ya Mehmet Scholl itu sendiri... Tapi it's okay, penggambaran karakter sang tokoh bisa macam-macam sesuai imajinasi pembaca... Coba, siapa yang Anda bayangkan ketika membaca cerita Pelajaran Cinta ini?
March 29, 2011
Novel Hq pertama yang saya baca. Kisahnya bagus, tentang Sarah yang menjadi nanny untuk Robby --anak Grey-- dan selanjutnya Sarah dan Grey menjadi saling tertarik dan akhirnya menikah. Terus terang saat baca novel ini, saya sedang ngefans berat dengan pesepak bola dari Jerman -Mehmet Scholl- sehingga bayangan saya tentang karakter Grey adalah.. ya Mehmet Scholl itu sendiri... Tapi it's okay, penggambaran karakter sang tokoh bisa macam-macam sesuai imajinasi pembaca... Coba, siapa yang Anda bayangkan ketika membaca cerita Pelajaran Cinta ini?
Ini udah dibaca yang keberapa kali ya? 3 or 4 kali deh. Tapi, tetep, bintang 4 buat buku ini. Ceritanya bagus... dan terus terang, novel novel harlequin terbitan awal dari GPU inilah yang emang the best. Bagus bagus semuanya...
Ini udah dibaca yang keberapa kali ya? 3 or 4 kali deh. Tapi, tetep, bintang 4 buat buku ini. Ceritanya bagus... dan terus terang, novel novel harlequin terbitan awal dari GPU inilah yang emang the best. Bagus bagus semuanya...
September 4, 2012
Ugh. Okay so the hero is a dick or at least he is in the first half of the novel if not more. He hires the heroine to deal with his son but the heroine ends up falling in love with him in the process of getting the hero to bond with his son. Drama ensues and passions ignite.
May 23, 2010
lumayan buat HQ jadul
July 10, 2020
This book is like 90% tell and 10% show.
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June 21, 2018Tangled dreams
Gray Phillips had hired Sarah to be his son's nanny out of desperation-she alone could reach and comfort the unhappy child. But Gray made no secret of the fact that he resented her presence in his home and in his life.
Forging a bond between father and son was a near impossible task-as was hiding her growing feelings for a man who'd forsaken love and trust....
Gray Phillips had hired Sarah to be his son's nanny out of desperation-she alone could reach and comfort the unhappy child. But Gray made no secret of the fact that he resented her presence in his home and in his life.
Forging a bond between father and son was a near impossible task-as was hiding her growing feelings for a man who'd forsaken love and trust....
September 27, 2018
Read in English, Lesson to learn
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