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Comme Si C'Etait Vrai
"Impalavlei is just a business to you!"
Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort--as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'd said, start making money.
Jenny thought it strange that a man so heartless had helped her father so much--and now owned Impalavlei. She had no choice but to watch him "improve" her beloved park and take over the running of the business.
But her real problems began when Joshua also took over her heart!
Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort--as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'd said, start making money.
Jenny thought it strange that a man so heartless had helped her father so much--and now owned Impalavlei. She had no choice but to watch him "improve" her beloved park and take over the running of the business.
But her real problems began when Joshua also took over her heart!
154 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1981
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July 2, 2019
Idiot heroine would rather see all the animals in her African game park die from starvation and dehydration than listen to the hero's reasonable plans to bring water to the area via technology and make other improvements.
I will remember this one for the campy scene where hero deflowers heroine while a pissed off lion roars ferociously outside their cabin.
I will remember this one for the campy scene where hero deflowers heroine while a pissed off lion roars ferociously outside their cabin.
October 28, 2019
My disappointment knows no bounds with this one in fact I’m wondering if I have the last few pages missing?
It went from “I’m leaving you” to “no you’re not,” “Marry me”’ “ok”. Literally that was all in the last page and a half.
At no point did either of them declare their feelings to the other or have any kind of conversation about their issues with one another. If anyone has a copy please let me know if I’m missing something because that is just plain odd.
The h was such a bloody ingrate and childish to boot that I was kind of hoping she would get mauled by a lion but alas my wish was not granted. I also thought she was rather spiteful not wanting the H involved in anyway and poo pooing his ideas just because she could. She could have argued her point far more logically and with facts the reasons why she didn’t want certain changes made. (South Africans do tend to take all their own gear to braai and are pretty self contained when in the bush) The H seemed ok but we never really found out anything about him so just came across as a bossy tycoon type who for some strange reason fancied the shrewish h. Also,
considering these 2 knew each other as children that wasn’t capitalised on at all.
The story then went completely bonkers when the H rescued an impala, those things are bigger than you would imagine and there is no way a truly wild one would let the H man handle it like he did even if a lion was coming for it in fact that would have made it even more skittish. Also FYI lions can actually climb trees so I’m not really sure why they felt all smug on their little platform. I’m sure if I had a hungry and angry lion trapping me up a tree platform with its impala dinner next to me the last thing in my mind would be getting naked for sexy times. Even if that H was Tom Hiddleston.
If I were the impala at this point I would have taken my chances with the hungry lion and hurled myself off the platform in disgust at what these humans were up to in front of my innocent and traumatised bambi eyes.
Needless to say this book did not give me any kind of Safari Encounter and I’m off back to Yvonne Whittal for my fix.
It went from “I’m leaving you” to “no you’re not,” “Marry me”’ “ok”. Literally that was all in the last page and a half.
At no point did either of them declare their feelings to the other or have any kind of conversation about their issues with one another. If anyone has a copy please let me know if I’m missing something because that is just plain odd.
The h was such a bloody ingrate and childish to boot that I was kind of hoping she would get mauled by a lion but alas my wish was not granted. I also thought she was rather spiteful not wanting the H involved in anyway and poo pooing his ideas just because she could. She could have argued her point far more logically and with facts the reasons why she didn’t want certain changes made. (South Africans do tend to take all their own gear to braai and are pretty self contained when in the bush) The H seemed ok but we never really found out anything about him so just came across as a bossy tycoon type who for some strange reason fancied the shrewish h. Also,
considering these 2 knew each other as children that wasn’t capitalised on at all.
The story then went completely bonkers when the H rescued an impala, those things are bigger than you would imagine and there is no way a truly wild one would let the H man handle it like he did even if a lion was coming for it in fact that would have made it even more skittish. Also FYI lions can actually climb trees so I’m not really sure why they felt all smug on their little platform. I’m sure if I had a hungry and angry lion trapping me up a tree platform with its impala dinner next to me the last thing in my mind would be getting naked for sexy times. Even if that H was Tom Hiddleston.
If I were the impala at this point I would have taken my chances with the hungry lion and hurled myself off the platform in disgust at what these humans were up to in front of my innocent and traumatised bambi eyes.
Needless to say this book did not give me any kind of Safari Encounter and I’m off back to Yvonne Whittal for my fix.
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May 22, 2019
Impalavlei is just a business to you!"
Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort--as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'd said, start making money.
Jenny thought it strange that a man so heartless had helped her father so much--and now owned Impalavlei. She had no choice but to watch him "improve" her beloved park and take over the running of the business.
But her real problems began when Joshua also took over her heart! (l
Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort--as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'd said, start making money.
Jenny thought it strange that a man so heartless had helped her father so much--and now owned Impalavlei. She had no choice but to watch him "improve" her beloved park and take over the running of the business.
But her real problems began when Joshua also took over her heart! (l
September 9, 2016
Typical HP with the business savvy hero and the heroine who objects to change just because it's change. Nice setting though.
January 24, 2022
I enjoyed the chemistry between the MCs and how the romance progressed, generally. I also thought the om/ow were too negligent in their impact because the the attraction between the h and the H was showcased effectively. However, the ending was rushed, in my opinion, and i wish there was just a few more pages to it.
March 17, 2021
I read it a long time back. Not so good
December 5, 2014
This girl has a lot on her shoulders and then mister "macho" shows up and tries to bulldoze her father's dream. She isn't going to stand for it.
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