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A Touch of Honey
Before she took a job as secretary to the author Robert Dean, Cadie had been told how devastating he was--but that wasn't at all the impression he made on her when she met him. Conceitedly superior, was how she summed him up.
Thank goodness his stepbrother Gordon Charles was so much more attractive!
Thank goodness his stepbrother Gordon Charles was so much more attractive!
- GenresHarlequin Romance
190 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1973
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May 24, 2020
Bad enough that heroine dates 2 brothers throughout the majority of the story, 1 brother “the hero” being her boss and the other brother being the assistant to the hero. Wow it’s all in the family, business AND pleasure. Excuse me while I barf.
But the truly tacky moment was that “hero” asked her to wear the same sexy silver dress and same sexy perfume on his date that she wore on her last date with his brother, a date which he happened to gatecrash by the way. The turdy hero also wasn’t above dangling the OW before the heroine or should I say dangling the heroine before OW’s nose, since he was technically dating the OW before the heroine came on the scene. I can only count my blessings that the OW wasn’t blood-related to this bunch. I predict a brother-heroine-brother sandwich for the honeymoon 🤢
But the truly tacky moment was that “hero” asked her to wear the same sexy silver dress and same sexy perfume on his date that she wore on her last date with his brother, a date which he happened to gatecrash by the way. The turdy hero also wasn’t above dangling the OW before the heroine or should I say dangling the heroine before OW’s nose, since he was technically dating the OW before the heroine came on the scene. I can only count my blessings that the OW wasn’t blood-related to this bunch. I predict a brother-heroine-brother sandwich for the honeymoon 🤢
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July 20, 2022
Another glorious Swank and Smarm cover from Jac Mars for M&B. Both models are sexy; she's buoyant—he has ONS written all over him—neither look as though they're about to lose themselves to love anytime soon. Some interesting details here: all that unfilled negative space initially reads as clean and casually sophisticated but that image isn't just a ragged copy. As printed the whitish ground is actually covered with faint scrapes and scuff marks and what appear to be grease stains. A fitting metaphor for this story.
The Bern Smith cover for Harlequin is also a good one. Less immediately eye-catching but yeah, something about those white pants captures this H too!
A trite battle-of-the-sexes story. It's 1973—hero's chauvinism and heroine's objections are topical but treated as mere fodder for bickering. The "feminist" issue Cadie cares about most is her boss Robert's trivial remarks about women drivers. I waited in vain for her to notice she's being infantilized, sexualized and fought over like a tasty bone by hero and his stepbrother in the workplace: grabbed by the chin and forced to look at hero while he lectures her about her work responsibilities or told to wear a certain outfit and perfume because they arouse him...
And the allegedly famous but easy-going playwright hero? He spends most of his time trolling everyone: heroine, stepbrother, OW—he's trying to get a rise out of them mainly for his own nasty amusement. I didn't actually count but Robert had to have "softly laughed" after infuriating someone about 20 times. Somewhat surprisingly the last half improved after I reminded myself that as I wasn't twelve yrs old I didn't have to rise to the bait as easily as the heroine did.
I wanted more background info about the brothers as their fractious fraternal relationship interested me more than either Cadie & Robert's or Cadie & Gordon's romantic relationship did. And in no way do I believe that that triangle has been flattened into a line simply because Robert says it has; not when at the end neither Robert nor Cadie even say ILY.
The Bern Smith cover for Harlequin is also a good one. Less immediately eye-catching but yeah, something about those white pants captures this H too!
A trite battle-of-the-sexes story. It's 1973—hero's chauvinism and heroine's objections are topical but treated as mere fodder for bickering. The "feminist" issue Cadie cares about most is her boss Robert's trivial remarks about women drivers. I waited in vain for her to notice she's being infantilized, sexualized and fought over like a tasty bone by hero and his stepbrother in the workplace: grabbed by the chin and forced to look at hero while he lectures her about her work responsibilities or told to wear a certain outfit and perfume because they arouse him...
And the allegedly famous but easy-going playwright hero? He spends most of his time trolling everyone: heroine, stepbrother, OW—he's trying to get a rise out of them mainly for his own nasty amusement. I didn't actually count but Robert had to have "softly laughed" after infuriating someone about 20 times. Somewhat surprisingly the last half improved after I reminded myself that as I wasn't twelve yrs old I didn't have to rise to the bait as easily as the heroine did.
I wanted more background info about the brothers as their fractious fraternal relationship interested me more than either Cadie & Robert's or Cadie & Gordon's romantic relationship did. And in no way do I believe that that triangle has been flattened into a line simply because Robert says it has; not when at the end neither Robert nor Cadie even say ILY.
October 3, 2018
A lovely told story and it was in my top 10 Lucy Gillen books and it remains a keeper in my book collection to this day. I much prefer the UK book cover version of this novel to the one shown here in good reads. Far better art work in my opinion. This was another I managed to pick up from a local bookstall this time in Lincoln called Chapter & Verse. Like so many this no longer exists now. Happy times being able to loses myself browsing in book heaven!
February 28, 2024
More like 2 1/2 stars really.
The setting had no depth, like the hero. I kept waiting for him to have a deeper side, but he had no interest in anything really. There is not much interaction so show love developing. There are lots of instances of the OW butting in, and he admits the heroine was second best choice fir a date about half way through. The ending was rushed, and if he really thought a woman would accept an engagement ring when he's never properly dated her, or shown a marked interest for her AND whilst she is dating his stepbrother, then he's arrogant and unworthy. The heroine is ok, lots of focus on her pretty dress and so forth, but she seems a tad vacuous.
Normally (not always) I enjoy the author's heroes, so this was a disappointment.
The setting had no depth, like the hero. I kept waiting for him to have a deeper side, but he had no interest in anything really. There is not much interaction so show love developing. There are lots of instances of the OW butting in, and he admits the heroine was second best choice fir a date about half way through. The ending was rushed, and if he really thought a woman would accept an engagement ring when he's never properly dated her, or shown a marked interest for her AND whilst she is dating his stepbrother, then he's arrogant and unworthy. The heroine is ok, lots of focus on her pretty dress and so forth, but she seems a tad vacuous.
Normally (not always) I enjoy the author's heroes, so this was a disappointment.
April 29, 2013
I didn't much care for this novel. For an oldie, it wasn't a goodie in my opinion. 1.5 stars.
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