Pagan gold

by Margaret Rome

Pagan Gold by Margaret Rome released on Feb 21, 1986 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Harlequin Romance

190 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[RomLibrary · Rating 3 out of 5]

She felt an affinity with the brides of the past

Condor de Vivaz welcomed Abbey Temple to his Valley D'Oro home in the Amazon with a warning: "I'm even harder to fool than your erstwhile fiance, who deserves to be congratulated for his escape from a selfish charmer."

The family fortune had been squandered--but without Abbey's knowledge--to attract a man of substance. And Condor blamed Abbey for her aging aunt and uncle's precarious financial footing.

Yet he defended his family's tradition of purchasing

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like the "battle of the sexes" theme ( assertive feminist heroine vs chauvinistic alpha Hero) and constant bickering between the MCs, then this book is perfect. However, since I personally dislike this trope, I could not give it more than three stars as i found it difficult to feel the romance between the leads. Plus, the prose is a bit wordy and it took some time to ingest it. Nonetheless, the story entails an interesting travelogue of the valley of gold to the Amazonian forest where MR sets some scenes of adventure. …Abbey is an orphan, raised by her grandmother, and subsequenly spolied by her. Upon her grandmother s death, abbey discovers that her Grandmother has lost all her wealth in supporting her. Penniless and jilted by a mercenary and greedy om, Abbey leaves for Peru with her consoling aunt who is looking for her husband lost in the amazon searching for some special species of birds. Here, she meets the H, who, it seems, is overly critical of her and accuses her of usurping her uncle and aunts inheritance so that she could live in luxury...? she didn't know this..her aunt then leaves to search for her husband and she is left at the H's house to help him entertain a government official to decide upon the the method of preservation of the "valley of gold" safeguarding the interest of the workers and so on..H keeps making h feel guilty of what shes done to her aunt and uncle????? so, she finally offers herself...she asks him to marry her so she can pay back and make up to her uncle aunt for their retirement. i felt disgusted here. and hero reluctantly agrees... they marry and consummate their marriage in the the jungle as they set off on an adventure in the amazon to find her aunt and uncle...gosh..even then they keep fighting. Finally they rescue the Aunt and uncle from the indian tribe who mistake heroine to be a sun goddess...another cultural travelogue...and they come back safely. At the end, hero is injured in a mine accident, heroine acknowledges her love for hero and they make-up I only wish that …the heroine didn't purpose herself to the seemingly unwillingly H it was so debasing and the h proved such a masochist in spite of her pride. Plus, it was hard to sense any love on the Hero's part...there is also rhetoric concerning pale vs brown skin as i guess its to highlight the alieness of the english blonde heroine amidst sex craved brown men ..but you can think whatever... overall, the book is ok.

[Νίνα Δοδούδη · Rating 2 out of 5]

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