Diamond Cut Diamond

by Jane Donnelly

Was he the problem or the solution?Charlotte couldn't understand why her father didn't like her boyfriend, Jeremy Wylde. Jeremy was wonderful, and she loved him! So what was the problem?Charlotte knew the problem wasn't a "what" so much as a "who" the moment she met handsome tycoon Saul Laurenson. Why her father liked this obnoxious overbearing man was a mystery to her.Then suddenly Charlotte found she'd have to reevaluate everything - including Saul.

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Romance

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Jane Donnelly began earning her living as a writer as a teenage reporter. When she married the editor of the newspaper she freelanced for women's mags for a while. After she was widowed she and her 5 year old daughter moved to Lancashire. She turned to writing fiction to make a living while still caring for her daughter, she sold her first Mills & Boon romance novel as a hard-up singleparent in 1965. She wrote over 60 romance novels for Mills & Boon until 2000. Now she lives in a roses-round-the door cottage near Stratford-upon-Avon, with four dogs and assorted rescued animals. Besides writing she enjoys travelling, swimming, walking and the company of friends.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Charlotte Dunscombe is a spoiled rich girl but she is not a monster. She is kind, doting on her father, her housekeeper, and her circle of friends. She is not mercenary, husband-hunting or even really materialistic despite being showered with designer clothes and the family heirlooms accumulated in her father's generational high-end jewelry business. She likes gardening and riding her horse more than glittering parties. But she is very immature, head strong and prideful.

That pride is taken down swiftly as she realizes her comfortable life is about to implode around her, and that downfall is connected to the appearance of the exasperating tycoon Saul Laurenson.

Jane Donnelly has a knack for writing haughty and annoying yet vulnerable heiresses and pairing them up with great, knights in shining armor, heroes. But this book missed the mark, in my opinion, as it made the transition from hate and contempt into The Great Big Lurve of All Time much too abruptly and did not spend the necessary time to allow the protagonists to evolve or for the reader to warm up to them.

The heroine comes off as unbearably wishy-washy, as she spent almost the entire length of the book exchanging I Love Yous with a weasely fortune hunter even as she is panting after her supposed nemesis. It would have been effective to spend a little more time allowing her to rise up to the disastrous circumstances of her life and stand up on her own two feet after a lifetime of coddling.

And I couldn't get beyond the feeling that Saul, the local, poor village boy turned millionaire, was acquiring her as a boost to the rest of his collections of companies, homes, and treasures. He was justifiably contemptuous of her and expressed many times his disgust at her selfish, impulsive, and downright stupid actions, so what was he really admiring in her if not just her veneer?

So far, JD's The Black Hunter is the only one of her books where she successfully executed this trope and I think that you can't recreate that kind of magic twice.

[RomLibrary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was he the problem or the solution?
Charlotte couldn't understand why her father didn't like her boyfriend, Jeremy Wylde. Jeremy was wonderful, and she loved him! So what was the problem?

Charlotte knew the problem wasn't a "what" so much as a "who" the moment she met handsome tycoon Saul Laurenson. Why her father liked this obnoxious overbearing man was a mystery to her.

Then suddenly Charlotte found she'd have to reevaluate everything - including Saul.

[Melinda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Insights into mind of a ditz. Reading the thoughts and actions of this dumb heroine was very tiring,

[Roub · Rating 3 out of 5]

i did not feel the love at all, how charlotte at the end of the book realised she was in love with saul all along just amazed me. after months of her saying she loved jeremy, loved loved and loved. this demonstrated her great immaturity. saul did not miss an opportunity to show off how he thought charlotte was just a dumb doll. how can you fall in love with someone who does not even think you worthy of talking to cause he thinks you are a dumb spoilt brat !? she overheard him on the phone telling how he thought she had a low IQ or hardly any at all.. which explained to us his behaviour. yes he would reply her in monosyllables at the start of the book, not bother having conversation wih her because he considered her too dumb. neway entertaining book and no sex involved

[Julie Henke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read a few novels by Jane Donnelly in the last month AND while the stories are okay, why does she wait until the last two pages to wrap up all the plot points. Feels very rushy!

[Natasja❤️ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Als een rots in de branding

[Νίνα Δοδούδη · Rating 5 out of 5]

ΠΑΡΑ ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΟ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ΤΟ ΑΓΑΠΩ!!!