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Tomorrow Began Yesterday
How could she still love such a man?
What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on heron their wedding day!
Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again.
That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again!
What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on heron their wedding day!
Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again.
That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again!
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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December 27, 2019
The Players:
Heroine – 19 and beautiful. Her dad continually cheated on her mother until she divorced him for sleeping with sis.
Hero – 30 something with an OW he has an “understanding” with. He sends her a “Dear Jane” letter after he falls for the h. Unfortunately, the mail is slow in India.
OW – 30 something and angry. She sets up the hero so heroine thinks he’s cheating on his wedding day.
The Plot:
After a quick wedding night rape, the hero is off to NYC. Heroine refuses to see him when he returns.
Fast forward one year.
Hero wants heroine back. Heroine refuses to listen.
Bicker. Bicker.
Trip to Paris.
Bicker. Bicker.
OW finally explains her role.
HEA
The Verdict:
I liken the romance in this HP to artificial banana flavoring. It’s kind of like real bananas or actual HP angst, but not really.
Heroine – 19 and beautiful. Her dad continually cheated on her mother until she divorced him for sleeping with sis.
Hero – 30 something with an OW he has an “understanding” with. He sends her a “Dear Jane” letter after he falls for the h. Unfortunately, the mail is slow in India.
OW – 30 something and angry. She sets up the hero so heroine thinks he’s cheating on his wedding day.
The Plot:
After a quick wedding night rape, the hero is off to NYC. Heroine refuses to see him when he returns.
Fast forward one year.
Hero wants heroine back. Heroine refuses to listen.
Bicker. Bicker.
Trip to Paris.
Bicker. Bicker.
OW finally explains her role.
HEA
The Verdict:
I liken the romance in this HP to artificial banana flavoring. It’s kind of like real bananas or actual HP angst, but not really.
July 8, 2011
Five hours after Laura had married the man of her dreams she found him on his bed, minus his shirt and w/ another woman, Melissa! Waiting for no explanation she ran. Jake Ashton eventually caught up w/ her at her mother’s house and forced his way into the bedroom . . . and on her. I’m sorry but it really sounded more like rape than forced seduction. Ripped nightgown, bruises, fighting tooth and nail trying desperately to prevent the invasion of her body . . . yeah so not seduction, forced or otherwise. Why didn’t mom show up? He leaves when she won’t listen to his explanation – which by the way when we finally get it is so over-the-top and just plain stupid! Seriously you felt sorry for Melissa so you comforted her, and this turned into a kiss which somehow needed to be experienced on the bed! A year later Jake shows up in the now 21 year-old Laura’s life. He wants her back and he wants her to listen to his explanation. Over the following pages we get to read about the borderline abuse – okay it was abuse - and the fact that Laura puts up w/ it! I never heard him apologize for his actions and frankly neither did Melissa. I got tired of Jake blaming Laura’s father for her lack of trust in him. She trusted him enough to marry him w/in two months of meeting him and it wasn’t her father that she caught in that bed w/ Melissa. Jake never seemed to take any blame but Laura had to shoulder it all. Oh and the real kicker – he is trying to win his estranged wife back but somehow he thinks it would be a good idea to run off to get Melissa, show up separately as Laura is such a dingbat and won’t put that together, then run off w/ Melissa for the entire following day. I also have to say that Melissa was a dingbat because she seemed to forget why Jake had actually invited her there in the end. I never saw any redeeming qualities in Jake – he pretty much agreed to marry Melissa, met Laura, tried to contact Melissa to say it’s off, because he now wants to marry Laura – but never ONCE thought to tell Laura about Melissa – gets caught kissing Melissa and then has a flimsy explanation. Yes, Laura should have listened to the explanation and then she should have walked . . . no RUN away! It should also be noted that Jake was only abusive to Laura and only when others were NOT around. Otherwise he can control himself. He is so very different w/ each woman – caring, tender, and loving w/ Melissa; volatile, abusive, and nasty w/ Laura. I kept thinking Jake should have stuck w/ Melissa and left the young Laura alone, but who knows what his true motives are since we don’t have his POV? I never really warmed up to Jake and I have a very thick pair of rose colored glasses! We do know that he had, “A tender nickname for Melissa – a biting fury every time he came near Laura” – that about sums up their r/s!
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April 7, 2021
A few hours after the wedding ceremony heroine sees the hero in bed kissing another woman.
She is devastated.
The hero tries to justify himself and she does not accept, the hero rapes her and hurt her in her arms and wrists.
They are a year apart, and the hero finds her and he is still rude and violent.
He acts like he's the victim and our heroine is the wrong one.
The hero violently makes our heroine listen his explanations and also the ex-girlfriend.
In the end everything is okay and they discover that love each other.
I think the story was very bad and his explanations are too weak.
And the heroine a doormat with daddy issues. And the hero a rapist.
She is devastated.
The hero tries to justify himself and she does not accept, the hero rapes her and hurt her in her arms and wrists.
They are a year apart, and the hero finds her and he is still rude and violent.
He acts like he's the victim and our heroine is the wrong one.
The hero violently makes our heroine listen his explanations and also the ex-girlfriend.
In the end everything is okay and they discover that love each other.
I think the story was very bad and his explanations are too weak.
And the heroine a doormat with daddy issues. And the hero a rapist.
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October 10, 2012
Read the jacket and you'll know that the hero does something on their wedding day that makes heroine hit the road. Well, she should've stayed there. Though I could kinda sorta see the plausibility of the excuse, when I think of the actual position she found the hero, and then all the stupid situations he created all the while knowing the h didn't trust him, I change my mind and say get rid of the loser. Plus, what he did to his ex-fiancee just proves the dude can't be trusted. However, there was lots of groveling, sort of, if that makes it ok for you. Definitely a good angry, angsty, cheater story.
Oh, forgot to add that there's a pretty significant rape scene that could be very upsetting. Just another reason to hate the H.
Oh, forgot to add that there's a pretty significant rape scene that could be very upsetting. Just another reason to hate the H.
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February 23, 2014
just finished this one and am still furious...lol. Now clarifying the incident in this story takes place before the story begins... you get a flashback putting it on page. But the incident happens on the day Jake and Laura get married...going to dress to leave after the ceremony, she walks in catching her brand new husband in bed with a supermodel..her lips bruised from kissing, her hair mussed...his shirt off and in bed with other woman and her lipstick allover. Yeah.....she leaves, he tried to make it right...explain....justify ..that he is being persecuted because her father was a faithless lout...uh no big boy your being punished because no matter what your excuse you were caught IN BED with another woman after you got married...period. He comes back into her world a year later....thinking he has given her enough time to "get over" it....the fact she would not listen to his explanation that even when explained sounds lame and stupid...I would not have ... you can not unsee things that are seen and with her history only a idiot would allow themselves to be caught or even in that situation. He is a typical 70/80's violent alpha male....threatening her..dragging her...stalking her...kicking in doors...he is a freaking stalker (that would NOT be unwelcome in a horror novel of a runaway wife from a battering husband 2014), even in the last 10 pages he is a monster to her, forcing her to listen to "the perfect docile soft spoken supermodel who is innocent in this whole mess" explain ...uh big boy if I don't want to hear crap from you I sure as heck do not want your former lover telling me a darn thing... so the book is good to put color in your cheeks (of anger) as well as developing arm muscles throwing the book long and far and then going to retrieve it as it is like a car wreck you just HAVE to glance at... Hated Jake...(stalker), hated heroine(idiot), hated perfect docile supermodel WTHeck is there any of those?.... hoped the author takes my suggestion and writes the 2014 story of this couple....it's a lifetime movie thriller in the making...lol...exhale...
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July 9, 2012Do not want to rate this,H abused h physically and emotionally even forced himself on her on their wedding night leaving bruises over her,it is rape in my eyes not a seduction.Very conveniently he blamed everything on h for whatever happened.All i can say is i intensely disliked this book.
Skip It.
Skip It.
October 4, 2015
Agreed this was one stupid book. The hero was not. And I would have taken him to the cleaners and exposed his savage nature to the world if he did not give it to me. Come on woman you're so stupid it hurts.
March 21, 2019
Unbelievable ending it was swift how the h comes around when he says the three words. The story was going in circles. I didn’t know if I believed him either...
January 8, 2014
There was no cheating but it was too repetitive and H/h were fighting nonstop which bored me to tears.
July 7, 2011
I usually like the "big misunderstanding" stories but this one was just (no other way to put it) stupid.
September 24, 2020
What a jerk, cruel hero! He loved her and wanted her to listen to him but his methods were so hateful...yelling, berating, calling her names, attacking her with bruising kisses and painful wrist grabs...really, how could you blame the h when he manhandled her all the time?! All she wanted was to get away from the abuse! Also the explanation to the h finding the H and OW was so lame. H and h dated for 6 months and during that time, he didn't tell her that his gf was in India and expecting marriage when she returned...like, seriously. I felt bad for the OW bc even though she and the H weren't in love, they had an understanding of commitment and marriage. So boo to the H, he could've waited to break things off face-to-face with OW before marrying the h. I can't fault the h for having trust issues when H admitted that he did kiss OW on the wedding day to comfort her...but come on, what kind of goodbye/comfort kiss involves lipstick stains on his chest and disheveled clothing...if h had waited a few more minutes, she'd probably have caught them having actual intercourse. Ugh, so stupid. The h should've gotten a restraining order and left the country...after kicking him in the nuts. She did slap him in front of his friends though. Book not recommended for anyone. Ugh...1 star only bc the h had a little backbone...until she took the cheater back.
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April 8, 2021
Should have been a DNF. At first I thought it had a D/s feel to it, but no, just a ridiculously TSTL heroine and a wedding night rapist hero.
He’s all about making her listen to his explanations about why she found him kissing the OW on their wedding night, but never apologizes for then raping his wife. A year later, they should have cut their losses.
It never gets better.
He’s all about making her listen to his explanations about why she found him kissing the OW on their wedding night, but never apologizes for then raping his wife. A year later, they should have cut their losses.
It never gets better.
November 29, 2014
Oh boy, here I go...
There were so many things in this book that really pissed me off. It's obvious that if Laura hadn't gone in Jake's room to look for him, he would have had sex with Melissa. Supposedly, he was in love with Laura yet he was so easily seduced by Melissa. I wonder, did she take off his shirt or was it already off when she went into the room? It was never explained and I was left wondering.
At times I liked Laura because she did not give in too easily but I really hated the parts where Jake's kisses made her "weak" and she started kissing him back. Come on! The guy cheated on you on your wedding day! Why can't the heroines in these books be strong enough to say no and mean it? Why does she allow him to manhandle her every time they are in a room? I mean, I understand about physical strength but if it would have been me, I would have fought with teeth and nails. My anger would have given me strength to fight back or at least resist. I hated the way she obeyed everything he "commanded" because she didn't want to cause a scene or because she wanted to avoid an argument.
Jake was such an asshole! He manhandled Laura every chance he got, he got angry when she smiled at other men yet he was angry because she didn't trust him enough to let him explain what happened with Melissa. She caught you about to fuck Melissa on your bed on your wedding day and you want her to trust you? He knows how hurt Laura is by what happened and yet he brings Melissa to Terry's house expecting Laura to be as sweet as pie to Melissa. Dude, every sane self-respecting woman would have reacted the same way if they were in that situation. You mock, ridicule and embarrass Laura and yet you want her to not be rude to Melissa. Jake saw how Laura reacted when he saw M but he went out with her the following day and spent the whole with her not even considering Laura's feelings. Why in the world would he stay friends with the woman who hurt the woman he "loved" and almost destroyed your marriage?
Jake's explanation was so lame and only God and the author knows why Laura decided to give him a second chance. Maybe she enjoys being manhandled or getting scared every time he gets angry.
There were so many things in this book that really pissed me off. It's obvious that if Laura hadn't gone in Jake's room to look for him, he would have had sex with Melissa. Supposedly, he was in love with Laura yet he was so easily seduced by Melissa. I wonder, did she take off his shirt or was it already off when she went into the room? It was never explained and I was left wondering.
At times I liked Laura because she did not give in too easily but I really hated the parts where Jake's kisses made her "weak" and she started kissing him back. Come on! The guy cheated on you on your wedding day! Why can't the heroines in these books be strong enough to say no and mean it? Why does she allow him to manhandle her every time they are in a room? I mean, I understand about physical strength but if it would have been me, I would have fought with teeth and nails. My anger would have given me strength to fight back or at least resist. I hated the way she obeyed everything he "commanded" because she didn't want to cause a scene or because she wanted to avoid an argument.
Jake was such an asshole! He manhandled Laura every chance he got, he got angry when she smiled at other men yet he was angry because she didn't trust him enough to let him explain what happened with Melissa. She caught you about to fuck Melissa on your bed on your wedding day and you want her to trust you? He knows how hurt Laura is by what happened and yet he brings Melissa to Terry's house expecting Laura to be as sweet as pie to Melissa. Dude, every sane self-respecting woman would have reacted the same way if they were in that situation. You mock, ridicule and embarrass Laura and yet you want her to not be rude to Melissa. Jake saw how Laura reacted when he saw M but he went out with her the following day and spent the whole with her not even considering Laura's feelings. Why in the world would he stay friends with the woman who hurt the woman he "loved" and almost destroyed your marriage?
Jake's explanation was so lame and only God and the author knows why Laura decided to give him a second chance. Maybe she enjoys being manhandled or getting scared every time he gets angry.
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April 4, 2013
Yet another story where the "other woman" is painted as a sad, pathetic creature who - though she set-out to ruin the relationship between the cheater and his wife (and this on the wedding day, shortly after the wedding ends!!) - is really the victim in all this. Uh, yeah... not buying it. H is a huge jerk who is all Team Other Woman while alleging time and again that he's in love with h. So much in love, in fact, that he invited the OW and flaunted her in h's face and purposely humiliates h at every turn in front of OW. The fact the jerk still persists, even at the end of the book and with OW's admission to seeking to hurt his wife, to have done no wrong and making h feel as if she were insane for not believing she had a right to feel betrayed and bitter. It's books like this that make me wish I could reach into the story and smack some fools around! LOL
October 14, 2019
How could she still love such a man?
What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on heron their wedding day!
Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again.
That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again
What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on heron their wedding day!
Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again.
That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again
September 23, 2015
Another one to add to the "Books I Loathe" list.
January 25, 2018
Are we really calling this a romance? In real life, guys who do what he does end up in jail.
October 22, 2022
Incredibly Incredibly Incredibly abusive H, frankly trigger level. He had been dating OW steadily for 1 year, they decide to wait while OW returns from a 6 month work trip and marry after that. During that time, H meets and woos h and they get married in 1 month. OW finds out and goes to go meet H 5 hours after his marriage, where she berates him, and starts crying. H decides to console her with a hug, and OW decides to kiss him and H kisses her back as he feels rejecting OW will make it worse. h walks in on this: H is shirtless and on the bed, with his hair rumpled and lipstick on his cheeks. If you ask me, they were probably about to do the deed. He pleads with the h alot, but finally goes off to USA for a whole year so the h can "get over her hangups". Oh, one more thing: H immediately rapes the h on what should have been their wedding night, while arguing with her about cheating on h hours into their marriage.
He is incredibly abrasive with the h while trying to woo her back 1 year after he left her, romantic lines like " I'll break your NECK! I'll slap you back twice as hard!!" Etcetera...
These lines by OW sum up how the H ruined 2 women's lives with his manipulation and trigger happy pants:
"I didn't understand what was happening to the world I'd built up around him. I suppose I reacted the same way you did—the way any woman would. I was hurt, and angry. I felt used and humiliated." Note, this is the OW talking.
I DNF around 60%, skipped to the end and the H is still as verbally abusive and manhandling as ever and claiming that the kiss and being half naked was nothing except h over reacting. Considering that the h had major trauma from her dad's visibly flaunting cheating on her mother over 10 long years (H knew this) I wish h had just changed her name and moved away forever.
He is incredibly abrasive with the h while trying to woo her back 1 year after he left her, romantic lines like " I'll break your NECK! I'll slap you back twice as hard!!" Etcetera...
These lines by OW sum up how the H ruined 2 women's lives with his manipulation and trigger happy pants:
"I didn't understand what was happening to the world I'd built up around him. I suppose I reacted the same way you did—the way any woman would. I was hurt, and angry. I felt used and humiliated." Note, this is the OW talking.
I DNF around 60%, skipped to the end and the H is still as verbally abusive and manhandling as ever and claiming that the kiss and being half naked was nothing except h over reacting. Considering that the h had major trauma from her dad's visibly flaunting cheating on her mother over 10 long years (H knew this) I wish h had just changed her name and moved away forever.
August 22, 2021
Well.....! Don't exactly know how to review this one. I would probably have killed him on the wedding day. What a poor excuse for someone who was suppose to love the h: he essentially raped her, stalked her, physically controlled her, failed to explain anything and was a master of manipulation and anger. She should have gotten a restraining order! If that is love, spare me the experience.
January 1, 2023
There are so many things wrong with this book.
August 11, 2025
This book was way over-the-top, even for this way over-the-top author!!
It was a bit of a mess, as well as annoying, and too much time was wasted with the H acting like a bully and the h like a snarky bitch.
If this were real life, I'd say the h needed therapy for her major daddy issues, but the real person responsible was her mother. While it's understandable she'd be angry and bitter because her ex-hubby couldn't keep it in his pants (and it sure didn't help that her own sister dropped her panties for him), she had no right to tell her daughter she should never trust any man, just because hers was a piece of crap.
Because of this, the h kept people at a friendly distance, probably not trusting women either, after the way her aunt had betrayed her mother. When the H comes along and sweeps her off her feet, however, she throws caution to the wind and marries him, only to have a huge "Mother was right!!!" epiphany on her wedding day, which keeps the H and h married but separated for a whole year.
Since the h was young (barely 20) and lived for years with her mother's warped view of men, and saw what looked like a very compromising position between the H and his former fiancée, it's not surprising she'd react the way she did, but if her mother hadn't been so bitter, she'd have stopped to think that a man (even a real horndog) would hardly cheat right after his wedding ceremony, when he's supposed to be leaving on his honeymoon! There had to be some explanation, but instead Mom takes her daughter away, telling her all men are alike, etc. and tries to keep the H away from her. (How come she had no problem with the h marrying the H so soon after they met? You'd think she would have been up in arms over the whirlwind courtship/quick engagement/fast marriage, but apparently, she said nothing then???? Doesn't make much sense.)
Neither does the H's behavior. He was in his early 30's, knew this 20-year-old girl was emotionally vulnerable and had trust issues, yet he rushed their relationship, and neglected to tell her he had a fiancée who was working in India and expected to marry him when she returned! (Well, gee, a little thing like that, you can't blame the guy that it slipped his mind!!!) You would think he'd have told her ASAP, instead of hoping his letters to the OW (that she never got, or his telegrams, which were never forwarded, apparently India has lousy postal service???) would do the trick, so he wouldn't have to mention it! He thought so little of the OW (who was actually nice, just had an emotional reaction at the wrong time) that he thought nothing of sending her a "Dear Jane" letter to break their engagement???
What he should have done was tell the h everything, and suggest they wait until the OW gets back so he can break his engagement properly and then they'll get married. He didn't do this because he was afraid the h's insecurities would make her not trust him and he might lose her, but that's pretty stupid, considering all that happened because he didn't tell her everything.
As for the OW, you could feel sorry for her, except that the way she acted when she got back after learning the H was getting married would have been more acceptable in someone the h's age rather than a 30-year-old woman! To come barging into the bedroom where the H is getting dressed to leave on his honeymoon, throw herself at him and ask for one last kiss??? (Wasn't that a hokey 60's song?) And of course, feeling so guilty, the H didn't stop her from giving him a lip lock while his shirt was half off and that's how the h found them!!!
What a mess!!! But even worse, when the frustrated H later confronts the h, we get a forced seduction scene!! I can understand some forced kisses out of frustration or to prove she still wants him, but that's as far as it should have gone! This was just terrible and of course, it made her feel she hated him even more!
Yet, you find out later that her real reason for "hating" him was because she felt he didn't try hard enough to get her back. A year went by and she thought he had forgotten about her, since she hadn't seen or heard from him all that time until, at a party at a nightclub for her boss, he shows up (he and the boss are business associates) and for someone who wanted to pretend he was a stranger (she had never told anyone about her marriage), all her cold, snarky remarks to the H sure made everyone suspicious!
There's a lot of time wasted with her being snarky, him being domineering, her slapping him, him grabbing her by the wrists and twisting her arm, both of them talking at each other instead of to each other and getting nowhere at all. It gets more ridiculous, like when the H gets jealous when he finds the h in her room (at the house where they're staying for a celebrity interview, part of a job assignment the H got her) with the photographer (the sort of OM) while she's got nothing on but a bath towel (the guy just invited himself in, being a friend and a flirt) and their argument later ends with them in bed, finally having a wedding night, in the middle of the day! Then he gets a phone call, disappears (saying he'd be back in an hour or two), doesn't return until very late (she pretends to be asleep) and the next day, the h finds the OW in the house, and she's the reason the H left so abruptly! Unbelievable!!!
I won't bother to clear up that whole mess, it was just too silly for words. Suffice it to say, you get more melodrama, as well as the reason why the H stayed away a year. He had to leave on an important business trip right after their wedding fiasco and when he got back, he figured her mother would have poisoned her against him and it'd be too late to change her mind. So, I guess he assumed after a year she'd be more receptive? I guess it makes sense, somewhere, another universe, perhaps???
And suddenly, after all her resistance, her determination to believe the worst of him, her assurance that she's right, she does a complete about face and realizes she was wrong, she'd become too determined to believe the worst and she should give him a second chance. That is, if he really loves her and doesn't just want her body! Apparently, that was another issue: she thought he felt lust, not love. So why did she marry him if she felt that way??? That should have been something that needed clearing up before saying those vows, Stupid!
And what about that interview assignment, with the actress whose house they were staying in? The h was supposed to ask the questions, the OM take the pictures, but you don't get any more of that.
And what about the house in New York where the H and h were supposed to live after they got married? Apparently, they had time during that whirlwind courtship/engagement to fly to New York and find the perfect home, all in a few days!!! Most people can't manage that in a few weeks, months or even years!!!
See what I mean about this book????
It was a bit of a mess, as well as annoying, and too much time was wasted with the H acting like a bully and the h like a snarky bitch.
If this were real life, I'd say the h needed therapy for her major daddy issues, but the real person responsible was her mother. While it's understandable she'd be angry and bitter because her ex-hubby couldn't keep it in his pants (and it sure didn't help that her own sister dropped her panties for him), she had no right to tell her daughter she should never trust any man, just because hers was a piece of crap.
Because of this, the h kept people at a friendly distance, probably not trusting women either, after the way her aunt had betrayed her mother. When the H comes along and sweeps her off her feet, however, she throws caution to the wind and marries him, only to have a huge "Mother was right!!!" epiphany on her wedding day, which keeps the H and h married but separated for a whole year.
Since the h was young (barely 20) and lived for years with her mother's warped view of men, and saw what looked like a very compromising position between the H and his former fiancée, it's not surprising she'd react the way she did, but if her mother hadn't been so bitter, she'd have stopped to think that a man (even a real horndog) would hardly cheat right after his wedding ceremony, when he's supposed to be leaving on his honeymoon! There had to be some explanation, but instead Mom takes her daughter away, telling her all men are alike, etc. and tries to keep the H away from her. (How come she had no problem with the h marrying the H so soon after they met? You'd think she would have been up in arms over the whirlwind courtship/quick engagement/fast marriage, but apparently, she said nothing then???? Doesn't make much sense.)
Neither does the H's behavior. He was in his early 30's, knew this 20-year-old girl was emotionally vulnerable and had trust issues, yet he rushed their relationship, and neglected to tell her he had a fiancée who was working in India and expected to marry him when she returned! (Well, gee, a little thing like that, you can't blame the guy that it slipped his mind!!!) You would think he'd have told her ASAP, instead of hoping his letters to the OW (that she never got, or his telegrams, which were never forwarded, apparently India has lousy postal service???) would do the trick, so he wouldn't have to mention it! He thought so little of the OW (who was actually nice, just had an emotional reaction at the wrong time) that he thought nothing of sending her a "Dear Jane" letter to break their engagement???
What he should have done was tell the h everything, and suggest they wait until the OW gets back so he can break his engagement properly and then they'll get married. He didn't do this because he was afraid the h's insecurities would make her not trust him and he might lose her, but that's pretty stupid, considering all that happened because he didn't tell her everything.
As for the OW, you could feel sorry for her, except that the way she acted when she got back after learning the H was getting married would have been more acceptable in someone the h's age rather than a 30-year-old woman! To come barging into the bedroom where the H is getting dressed to leave on his honeymoon, throw herself at him and ask for one last kiss??? (Wasn't that a hokey 60's song?) And of course, feeling so guilty, the H didn't stop her from giving him a lip lock while his shirt was half off and that's how the h found them!!!
What a mess!!! But even worse, when the frustrated H later confronts the h, we get a forced seduction scene!! I can understand some forced kisses out of frustration or to prove she still wants him, but that's as far as it should have gone! This was just terrible and of course, it made her feel she hated him even more!
Yet, you find out later that her real reason for "hating" him was because she felt he didn't try hard enough to get her back. A year went by and she thought he had forgotten about her, since she hadn't seen or heard from him all that time until, at a party at a nightclub for her boss, he shows up (he and the boss are business associates) and for someone who wanted to pretend he was a stranger (she had never told anyone about her marriage), all her cold, snarky remarks to the H sure made everyone suspicious!
There's a lot of time wasted with her being snarky, him being domineering, her slapping him, him grabbing her by the wrists and twisting her arm, both of them talking at each other instead of to each other and getting nowhere at all. It gets more ridiculous, like when the H gets jealous when he finds the h in her room (at the house where they're staying for a celebrity interview, part of a job assignment the H got her) with the photographer (the sort of OM) while she's got nothing on but a bath towel (the guy just invited himself in, being a friend and a flirt) and their argument later ends with them in bed, finally having a wedding night, in the middle of the day! Then he gets a phone call, disappears (saying he'd be back in an hour or two), doesn't return until very late (she pretends to be asleep) and the next day, the h finds the OW in the house, and she's the reason the H left so abruptly! Unbelievable!!!
I won't bother to clear up that whole mess, it was just too silly for words. Suffice it to say, you get more melodrama, as well as the reason why the H stayed away a year. He had to leave on an important business trip right after their wedding fiasco and when he got back, he figured her mother would have poisoned her against him and it'd be too late to change her mind. So, I guess he assumed after a year she'd be more receptive? I guess it makes sense, somewhere, another universe, perhaps???
And suddenly, after all her resistance, her determination to believe the worst of him, her assurance that she's right, she does a complete about face and realizes she was wrong, she'd become too determined to believe the worst and she should give him a second chance. That is, if he really loves her and doesn't just want her body! Apparently, that was another issue: she thought he felt lust, not love. So why did she marry him if she felt that way??? That should have been something that needed clearing up before saying those vows, Stupid!
And what about that interview assignment, with the actress whose house they were staying in? The h was supposed to ask the questions, the OM take the pictures, but you don't get any more of that.
And what about the house in New York where the H and h were supposed to live after they got married? Apparently, they had time during that whirlwind courtship/engagement to fly to New York and find the perfect home, all in a few days!!! Most people can't manage that in a few weeks, months or even years!!!
See what I mean about this book????
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 4, 2022
Infelizmente, é o típico livro da década de oitenta.
Laura, a mocinha, pega seu noivo Jake na cama com outra mulher no dia do seu casamento. Seria o suficiente para acabar com qualquer romance, mas não foi o suficiente. Na mesma noite, a autora ainda faz com que ela seja estuprada por ele.
Sim, esse é mais um daqueles livros que romantizam a violência contra a mulher, com Laura sendo perseguida, ameaçada, diminuída, esnobada, e humilhada a cada turno sobre o pretexto de que ela é muito jovem e inocente e seu marido "não consegue se segurar".
O fato de que a personagem principal tem apenas dezoito anos no início do livro já é extremamente problemático. Além disso, Holland segue tentando banalizar seu sofrimento e cria uma história que não apenas justifica o comportamento nocivo de Jake, mas o apoia.
Veja bem, esse não é um livro fetichista ou trágico, é um romance que pode ser encontrado junto com vários outros estilo água-com-açúcar que eram, e ainda são, vendidos até para adolescentes.
Laura, a mocinha, pega seu noivo Jake na cama com outra mulher no dia do seu casamento. Seria o suficiente para acabar com qualquer romance, mas não foi o suficiente. Na mesma noite, a autora ainda faz com que ela seja estuprada por ele.
Sim, esse é mais um daqueles livros que romantizam a violência contra a mulher, com Laura sendo perseguida, ameaçada, diminuída, esnobada, e humilhada a cada turno sobre o pretexto de que ela é muito jovem e inocente e seu marido "não consegue se segurar".
O fato de que a personagem principal tem apenas dezoito anos no início do livro já é extremamente problemático. Além disso, Holland segue tentando banalizar seu sofrimento e cria uma história que não apenas justifica o comportamento nocivo de Jake, mas o apoia.
Veja bem, esse não é um livro fetichista ou trágico, é um romance que pode ser encontrado junto com vários outros estilo água-com-açúcar que eram, e ainda são, vendidos até para adolescentes.
October 23, 2023
I can’t rate this any higher although I finished it. The H and OW “explain” to h and suddenly all is sweetness and light? No, don’t believe it.
H was on the bed with OW whom he supposedly kissed just once for comfort, yet her lips were bruised and they were holding each other. And how does an accidental kiss to comfort require lying down? H may not have intended to make love with OW th3 but he sure did more than a gentle feel-better kiss to say goodbye.
I can see why he was so angry with h if he truly loved her, although that doesn’t excuse him insulting h and being very physically mean.
Yuck.
H was on the bed with OW whom he supposedly kissed just once for comfort, yet her lips were bruised and they were holding each other. And how does an accidental kiss to comfort require lying down? H may not have intended to make love with OW th3 but he sure did more than a gentle feel-better kiss to say goodbye.
I can see why he was so angry with h if he truly loved her, although that doesn’t excuse him insulting h and being very physically mean.
Yuck.
November 8, 2021
This book was a good idea but the characters! The male main charac7had his heart in the right place but boarded on abuse or actually stepped over the line.
The female main character was so immature but also in need of extensive therapy from emotional garbage her parents saddled her with.
For the time this was written I guess it was the norm.
The female main character was so immature but also in need of extensive therapy from emotional garbage her parents saddled her with.
For the time this was written I guess it was the norm.
July 28, 2021
Vaya par de tóxicos, el por no ser sincero con todo y ella por dar tantos rodeos y no aclarar las cosas, pero sobre todo él, que mal gusto de arruinar tu momento especial y pedir que no te sientas herida, esta loco si piensa así...
January 23, 2018
This is an old book. I couldn't put this train wreck of a book down which is why I gave the book 3 stars.
February 21, 2021
3.5 stars
August 24, 2021
"3.5/5"
not-interested-in-reading
June 21, 2022Did Not Read. Refuse to Read. Not My Cuppa.
November 12, 2023
Reread
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