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First published January 1, 1982
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Penny Jordan
1,125 books666 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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November 6, 2017
I couldn't decide between 2 and 3 stars. The story kept me reading, but there were some problems. We don't meet the hero in the flesh for the first few chapters (we just hear about him) and there is a drugged forced seduction.
The heroine is the English step daughter of a rich sheikh. He has planned an arranged marriage to his nephew since his nephew saw her picture when she was 14. The heroine refuses to even meet him because she heard rumors from a French diplomat's son (OM) about what a womanizer he was. Her stepfather asks her to at least go to his made-up home country as a diplomatic act of good will.
It's all pretty silly and we don't really get to know the hero at all beyond the forced seduction. Since the heroine had been raised to be a houseplant (decorative and useless) she seems to fit right in with the cloistered women who are "educated" and have "debates among themselves about world topics." Oh, joy. I don't think any romance writer is going to sell me on this lifestyle. Still, the story moved right along and kept me interested.
The heroine is the English step daughter of a rich sheikh. He has planned an arranged marriage to his nephew since his nephew saw her picture when she was 14. The heroine refuses to even meet him because she heard rumors from a French diplomat's son (OM) about what a womanizer he was. Her stepfather asks her to at least go to his made-up home country as a diplomatic act of good will.
It's all pretty silly and we don't really get to know the hero at all beyond the forced seduction. Since the heroine had been raised to be a houseplant (decorative and useless) she seems to fit right in with the cloistered women who are "educated" and have "debates among themselves about world topics." Oh, joy. I don't think any romance writer is going to sell me on this lifestyle. Still, the story moved right along and kept me interested.
September 6, 2016
Not very PC but it's a good old school story with lots of drama and action. I liked it. Guy was macho the girl was innocent. They married by force but it worked somehow.
February 2, 2016
I think this must have been written by a melodramatic 13 year old and PJ just let her publish under her name. It lept around from unbelievable situation to unbelievable situation. First of all the hero and heroine didn't meet until page 63 which is totally unacceptable in a 189 page romance novel. Even in 1982 that must have been obvious. The heroine was an absolute ignorant ninny. The hero was a mustache twirling insane man child. The first time he meets her in his uncle the sheikh's house, he unbuttons this 20 year old stranger's dress and gropes and kisses her breasts? WTF? These two deserved each other I guess. She decided on hearsay that he was the worst kind of playboy and when she meets him, insults him and then when he gropes her she trembles too much to fight back. Then there is the drugging and forced marriage and wedding night rape that she turns out to enjoy. I know, it sounds like an interesting trainwreck but trust me it is so poorly written and so poorly plotted and the characterizations are so poorly realized that you can't even enjoy the rubbernecking.
January 18, 2016
Hmmm.....
One star or four. It could go either way. I sort of feel like the sorting hat in Harry Potter.
The resolution was too fast and there was a total lack of grovelling. I don't get why she fell so quickly in love with her attacker...errrr....husband.
Still lots of angst and drama that a classic HP provides.
One star or four. It could go either way. I sort of feel like the sorting hat in Harry Potter.
The resolution was too fast and there was a total lack of grovelling. I don't get why she fell so quickly in love with her attacker...errrr....husband.
Still lots of angst and drama that a classic HP provides.
October 25, 2013
I love a good MOC story and as always PJ delivers. I liked the angst, the evil exes who tried to ruin the protagonists fragile marriage and the final revelation that hero had been in love with heroine since forever. 3.5 stars.
January 20, 2018
If you’re easily offended by arranged marriages and cultural norms exaggeratedly twisted for the sake of drama, I’d suggest to skip this. I read all the reviews and went into it eyes wide open so enjoyed it for the unintentionally hilarious WTF ride that it was.
First, be forewarned that there are drawn-out details of Hassan, the heroine’s stepfather in the beginning; the politics, the magnificent things he did for his country, what a wonderful husband, stepfather blah blah blah. Seriously, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. Hassan looked at his stepdaughter inappropriately when she asserts that she is a “grown woman.” Yes, he checked her out. Twice. He looked at her lovely lady lumps to the point that she blushed. Dude, I don’t care how much you’ve done for your mythical land, it doesn’t make up for being a dirty old perv.
Thankfully perv Hassan only makes his appearance for the first few pages while dropping the bombshell that he wants his stepdaughter to marry his nephew whom she’s never met. She is flabbergasted and shoots down all his attempts to extol the virtues of the Hero as she values her own independence which unfortunately includes being a bit of a judgemental twat. She’s heard a few stories about H’s reputation and decides she has an intense dislike for him.
Her mother, who obviously slept through the feminist movement, chastises her daughter for hurting her stepfather’s feelings with her rebellion and convinces her to fly out to meet perv Hassan’s family and sooth ruffled feathers. Because in romance land that’s what all good mamas do: send your one and only daughter out to a strange land, all by herself, to plead her case on why she doesn’t want an arranged marriage to a stranger.
There is another long, drawn-out description of the tradition and customs which would make the more acquainted roll their eyes. For me, it just added on to the anticipation of meeting the H and he did not disappoint with his first appearance. Honestly, I could not decide if I wanted to fuck him or kill him.
Heroine is partially drugged and is unable to protest when she is forced into a marriage ceremony. Appalling obviously, but what floored me more was that it was clearly intimated that her mother and perv Hassan gave the family blessings to go ahead with this drugged arrangement. After their first night together when she explodes in uncontrollable passion, she angrily assumes that he must have drugged her again. He didn’t and she has to deal with the fact that she enjoyed having sex with someone she despises.
Then comes the face-palm moment. After all the posturing about her independence and hatred for H, she does an about turn and decides he is the love of her life and she can’t live without him. Obviously, the G-spot talking. She tries to escape, he finds her; steamy oasis sex later, she flounces and pines for him wondering how they could make it work. In the background, stirring the pot, were a French brother-sister OM-OW tag team who played too easily on their insecurities and almost made idiots out of the H and h.
I prefer to judge books by their publication date and one could argue this was written for its time though for me, it wasn’t in the same class as Falcon’s Prey. But I did see glimpses of the Penny J magic that would make her an excellent writer in the future so I enjoyed that.
Read only if you have a craving for vintage OTT absurdity and madness.
First, be forewarned that there are drawn-out details of Hassan, the heroine’s stepfather in the beginning; the politics, the magnificent things he did for his country, what a wonderful husband, stepfather blah blah blah. Seriously, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. Hassan looked at his stepdaughter inappropriately when she asserts that she is a “grown woman.” Yes, he checked her out. Twice. He looked at her lovely lady lumps to the point that she blushed. Dude, I don’t care how much you’ve done for your mythical land, it doesn’t make up for being a dirty old perv.
Thankfully perv Hassan only makes his appearance for the first few pages while dropping the bombshell that he wants his stepdaughter to marry his nephew whom she’s never met. She is flabbergasted and shoots down all his attempts to extol the virtues of the Hero as she values her own independence which unfortunately includes being a bit of a judgemental twat. She’s heard a few stories about H’s reputation and decides she has an intense dislike for him.
Her mother, who obviously slept through the feminist movement, chastises her daughter for hurting her stepfather’s feelings with her rebellion and convinces her to fly out to meet perv Hassan’s family and sooth ruffled feathers. Because in romance land that’s what all good mamas do: send your one and only daughter out to a strange land, all by herself, to plead her case on why she doesn’t want an arranged marriage to a stranger.
There is another long, drawn-out description of the tradition and customs which would make the more acquainted roll their eyes. For me, it just added on to the anticipation of meeting the H and he did not disappoint with his first appearance. Honestly, I could not decide if I wanted to fuck him or kill him.
Heroine is partially drugged and is unable to protest when she is forced into a marriage ceremony. Appalling obviously, but what floored me more was that it was clearly intimated that her mother and perv Hassan gave the family blessings to go ahead with this drugged arrangement. After their first night together when she explodes in uncontrollable passion, she angrily assumes that he must have drugged her again. He didn’t and she has to deal with the fact that she enjoyed having sex with someone she despises.
Then comes the face-palm moment. After all the posturing about her independence and hatred for H, she does an about turn and decides he is the love of her life and she can’t live without him. Obviously, the G-spot talking. She tries to escape, he finds her; steamy oasis sex later, she flounces and pines for him wondering how they could make it work. In the background, stirring the pot, were a French brother-sister OM-OW tag team who played too easily on their insecurities and almost made idiots out of the H and h.
I prefer to judge books by their publication date and one could argue this was written for its time though for me, it wasn’t in the same class as Falcon’s Prey. But I did see glimpses of the Penny J magic that would make her an excellent writer in the future so I enjoyed that.
Read only if you have a craving for vintage OTT absurdity and madness.
July 15, 2016
My feelings about this book are complicated. liked the first part and then it all - seemingly- went downhill with the appearance of the OW and the wannabe OM (coz the h was never actually interested in him ); only to pick up again towards the end. The writing itself was interesting and very much reflected the perceptions and preconceived notions of the west about people from the east - it may even qualify as slightly racist by today's standards. But still, not a bad read; although there were some things that I would have preferred to have resolved (like what exactly was the nature of the H's relationship with the OW and was he just hanging out with her to make the h jealous?)
Would I recommend it? Probably.
3 of 5 stars.
Would I recommend it? Probably.
3 of 5 stars.
August 14, 2016
This novel was wrong on so many levels. Especially morally. I disagree with a lot of things stated in the novel and I also felt sick to my stomach at other points. Regardless of if the hero and heroine love each other in the end, what the hero did was drug and rape the heroine. He also wed her without consent and forced her into a place of unhappiness. I wanted to smack him senseless.
July 9, 2017
"Daughter of Hassan" is Danielle and Jourdans book.
Danielle is the stepdaughter of Hassan, a Sheikh who married her mother when she was young. As she grows up under their loving care, she never expects her stepfather would want her married to his nephew, the notorious Jourdan!!
When a trip of their kingdom exposes her to his culture, one night of wandering leads her to Jourdan and passion explodes. Soon she's whisked away into an unwilling marriage- and while she vehemently denies her feelings, soon she falls for her husband.
There are minor hitches with a snooty brother and sister intruding on their marriage, as well as occasions of Jourdan acting like a chauvinistic pig and Danielle stubbornly denying her feelings- but the reveal at the end is worth the read.
If you love Sheikh books, hot sex and insane passion- this one is for you.
I'd have given it 5 stars if it wasn't for those cringeworthy comparisons, i.e. Pears of Chastity, You blush like the rose blooms in inner courtyard, You are as timid as the gazelle that grazes by the oasis- that made me laugh harder than I should have.
Safe with exceptions
4.5/5
Danielle is the stepdaughter of Hassan, a Sheikh who married her mother when she was young. As she grows up under their loving care, she never expects her stepfather would want her married to his nephew, the notorious Jourdan!!
When a trip of their kingdom exposes her to his culture, one night of wandering leads her to Jourdan and passion explodes. Soon she's whisked away into an unwilling marriage- and while she vehemently denies her feelings, soon she falls for her husband.
There are minor hitches with a snooty brother and sister intruding on their marriage, as well as occasions of Jourdan acting like a chauvinistic pig and Danielle stubbornly denying her feelings- but the reveal at the end is worth the read.
If you love Sheikh books, hot sex and insane passion- this one is for you.
I'd have given it 5 stars if it wasn't for those cringeworthy comparisons, i.e. Pears of Chastity, You blush like the rose blooms in inner courtyard, You are as timid as the gazelle that grazes by the oasis- that made me laugh harder than I should have.
Safe with exceptions
4.5/5
November 4, 2015
Have to rate it 5 stars ONLY because it is a classic Harlequin that brings back good memories.
September 4, 2018
So, it’s 1982 and this early offering from Penny Jordan is, quite frankly, pretty dire. The premise is as follows: Danielle is the spoiled stepdaughter of ‘Hassan’ of Qu’hari (a fictional tiny oil-rich country wedged in between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia). Hassan owns most of the oil in the country but after his death the company will go back to his conflicted Qu’hari relations. This may well lead to civil unrest in the country as other more powerful countries attempt to move in on the smaller country’s oil holdings whilst the family is in turmoil. With this in view, Hassan decides to marry his step-daughter off to Jourdain (his nephew) who is described as being pretty astute business-wise. Obviously, Danielle (who has an English background and mother) is pretty upset about this as she wants to choose a husband for herself. However, she agrees to go and visit the family whilst her mum and step-dad go off to visit America on a coast to coast tour. However, as soon as Danielle is in the country, she is pretty much held captive by Jourdain’s family before being forced to marry him against her will.
Now here’s where it gets a bit sketchy. Danielle, despite being extremely voluble in not wanting to marry Jourdain (who, although very physically attractive, really is horrible to her) somehow just goes with the flow in the wedding ceremony. It’s as if she doesn’t want to offend anyone’s feelings. I’ve noticed this before about Jordan’s heroines – that they quite often just go along with things because they daren’t speak up in case they upset someone (how very British of them!) However, there may be another aspect to this. In many of Jordan’s books (and other M&B writers’ novels) the heroine knows what she wants from the very outset and manipulates events in order to achieve this. In Danielle’s case, she wants Jourdain and so she sets out to win him over by first appearing as a reluctant virgin and then appearing unattainable (basically by hiding in her bedroom) after the wedding night is over. When she does decide she’s in need of some attention, she gets it on her own terms by ‘accidentally’ wandering into Jourdain’s private quarters in order to get his attention – something which she justifies to herself by the flimsiest of excuses ("I just wanted to see the view from your room" – yeah, right). There are also supporting characters in the text who make the point that women can win the day, even in a country where they are apparently repressed, so there is an undertone of a feminist message here about how women can outsmart the hero of the text.
This isn’t a great book however for sizzling romantic chemistry – Jourdain is just horrible and it’s very difficult to see just why Danielle decides she is in love with him by page 100. By page 158, he’s only spoken to her a dozen times (on that very page, she acknowledges that a speech of two paragraphs is ‘the most he has ever said to her.’ Not a great foundation for a lasting relationship).
The plot thickens when Catherine and her horrible brother Phillipe turn up (in the middle of the desert) and try to split them up for their own financial gain. Jourdain (who clearly isn’t as astute as he reckons on being) falls into this plot all too easily whilst Danielle becomes increasingly miserable. Eventually she tries to flee from him – now at this point, the hero would ordinarily realise he can’t live without the heroine and confess his undying love – but Jourdain refuses to stick to type and instead insults her. It’s only the very last pages that we learn that Jourdain himself has organised the marriage between Danielle and himself with her step-father as he fell in love with her when she was a child (with all the troubling and very unromantic implications that involves). He’s loved her all along though – so that’s okay, isn’t it?
In reality, there’s nothing very much okay about this early offering from Jordan except perhaps the hint of future greatness to come in the subtle messages which are just discernible in this novel. Later on in her career, Jordan will go on to develop heroines who can fully manipulate any situation to their own advantage – Danielle is just the prototype for these future heroines. With this in view, this novel is interesting to read to get a taste of things to come. The other aspect of this novel which might strike readers/researchers as interesting is the setting and the reference to the potential conflict to come over oil reserves – in this, Jordan was obviously very prescient. I can’t remember when the Gulf war was but problems probably started around this point and we’re still living with a legacy of conflict in the Middle East, which Jordan (according to critic Amira Jarmakhani) attempted to solve by romancing her way out of the world’s problems. Interesting stuff.
Now here’s where it gets a bit sketchy. Danielle, despite being extremely voluble in not wanting to marry Jourdain (who, although very physically attractive, really is horrible to her) somehow just goes with the flow in the wedding ceremony. It’s as if she doesn’t want to offend anyone’s feelings. I’ve noticed this before about Jordan’s heroines – that they quite often just go along with things because they daren’t speak up in case they upset someone (how very British of them!) However, there may be another aspect to this. In many of Jordan’s books (and other M&B writers’ novels) the heroine knows what she wants from the very outset and manipulates events in order to achieve this. In Danielle’s case, she wants Jourdain and so she sets out to win him over by first appearing as a reluctant virgin and then appearing unattainable (basically by hiding in her bedroom) after the wedding night is over. When she does decide she’s in need of some attention, she gets it on her own terms by ‘accidentally’ wandering into Jourdain’s private quarters in order to get his attention – something which she justifies to herself by the flimsiest of excuses ("I just wanted to see the view from your room" – yeah, right). There are also supporting characters in the text who make the point that women can win the day, even in a country where they are apparently repressed, so there is an undertone of a feminist message here about how women can outsmart the hero of the text.
This isn’t a great book however for sizzling romantic chemistry – Jourdain is just horrible and it’s very difficult to see just why Danielle decides she is in love with him by page 100. By page 158, he’s only spoken to her a dozen times (on that very page, she acknowledges that a speech of two paragraphs is ‘the most he has ever said to her.’ Not a great foundation for a lasting relationship).
The plot thickens when Catherine and her horrible brother Phillipe turn up (in the middle of the desert) and try to split them up for their own financial gain. Jourdain (who clearly isn’t as astute as he reckons on being) falls into this plot all too easily whilst Danielle becomes increasingly miserable. Eventually she tries to flee from him – now at this point, the hero would ordinarily realise he can’t live without the heroine and confess his undying love – but Jourdain refuses to stick to type and instead insults her. It’s only the very last pages that we learn that Jourdain himself has organised the marriage between Danielle and himself with her step-father as he fell in love with her when she was a child (with all the troubling and very unromantic implications that involves). He’s loved her all along though – so that’s okay, isn’t it?
In reality, there’s nothing very much okay about this early offering from Jordan except perhaps the hint of future greatness to come in the subtle messages which are just discernible in this novel. Later on in her career, Jordan will go on to develop heroines who can fully manipulate any situation to their own advantage – Danielle is just the prototype for these future heroines. With this in view, this novel is interesting to read to get a taste of things to come. The other aspect of this novel which might strike readers/researchers as interesting is the setting and the reference to the potential conflict to come over oil reserves – in this, Jordan was obviously very prescient. I can’t remember when the Gulf war was but problems probably started around this point and we’re still living with a legacy of conflict in the Middle East, which Jordan (according to critic Amira Jarmakhani) attempted to solve by romancing her way out of the world’s problems. Interesting stuff.
March 16, 2017
First of all - that book cover! My initial reaction was ... OMG! WTH?!
Then I read the book, and it's actually a decent representation of the story within.
That said, I don't know how I feel about this book. Logically, I understand that it was written in a different time and about a different place buuut -- I am repulsed by the way the H treated the h. The whole wedding fiasco with the tea laced with opium - noooope! Then there was the wedding night - that was another huge no for me.
I kept wondering where the hell her loving parents were when this was all happening. They couldn't call and see if she was well? If she made it there ok. If she was enjoying her time there and meeting family?! She's in a foreign country with freaking strangers! Shouldn't they be concerned?
Penny Jordan accomplished what she set out to do, she lured you into the story and kept you reading. Even if you found the H absolutely repulsive.
I gave the book 3 stars ✨ because I was kept enthralled and it was a damn good story - even if I didn't agree with some of the actions of the characters. Would I read it again - nooope! Uh uh! Not again.
Then I read the book, and it's actually a decent representation of the story within.
That said, I don't know how I feel about this book. Logically, I understand that it was written in a different time and about a different place buuut -- I am repulsed by the way the H treated the h. The whole wedding fiasco with the tea laced with opium - noooope! Then there was the wedding night - that was another huge no for me.
I kept wondering where the hell her loving parents were when this was all happening. They couldn't call and see if she was well? If she made it there ok. If she was enjoying her time there and meeting family?! She's in a foreign country with freaking strangers! Shouldn't they be concerned?
Penny Jordan accomplished what she set out to do, she lured you into the story and kept you reading. Even if you found the H absolutely repulsive.
I gave the book 3 stars ✨ because I was kept enthralled and it was a damn good story - even if I didn't agree with some of the actions of the characters. Would I read it again - nooope! Uh uh! Not again.
December 3, 2015
Penny Jordan , after building up an enigma around the hero for the first few pages, you just let him fizzle into a sex freak. Madly obsessed with the girl since she was 14 , really ! Oh, that dint stop him from having concubines and women friends, but his pristine love is reserved for the heroine...
And how does he go about winning her ? He molests her at first sight. Gets her kidnapped and marries her forcibly. Even drugs her a little. Then stays away from her for inexplicable reasons. Gets an ex into the house. And finally comes running to declare his undying love spanning decades !!
And the girl's side of the story is no less preposterous. She detests the arranged marriage concept, think herself as emancipated. But gets married while being kidnapped without much protest. She secretly enjoys the hero molesting her. He does it a few more times, molest that is. And she starts to call it love !!
Oh, 2 stars only because the whole filthy rich sheikh routine is kind of kinky and fun. And the basic premise of the step father and his love for his family and country, is sort of nice.
And how does he go about winning her ? He molests her at first sight. Gets her kidnapped and marries her forcibly. Even drugs her a little. Then stays away from her for inexplicable reasons. Gets an ex into the house. And finally comes running to declare his undying love spanning decades !!
And the girl's side of the story is no less preposterous. She detests the arranged marriage concept, think herself as emancipated. But gets married while being kidnapped without much protest. She secretly enjoys the hero molesting her. He does it a few more times, molest that is. And she starts to call it love !!
Oh, 2 stars only because the whole filthy rich sheikh routine is kind of kinky and fun. And the basic premise of the step father and his love for his family and country, is sort of nice.
April 26, 2021
She would not be told to marry anyone!
Much as she loved and respected her Arab stepfather and wanted to please him, Danielle was horrified to learn he was arranging a marriage for her, Arab fashion, to his nephew, Jourdan.
Danielle refused outright. And meeting Jourdan only confirmed her decision.
He was dashing and bold and handsome, and she soon fell in love with him, but he was a man of the East, brought up to think of a woman's place as within palace walls. Marriage to such a man could only eventually destroy her...
Much as she loved and respected her Arab stepfather and wanted to please him, Danielle was horrified to learn he was arranging a marriage for her, Arab fashion, to his nephew, Jourdan.
Danielle refused outright. And meeting Jourdan only confirmed her decision.
He was dashing and bold and handsome, and she soon fell in love with him, but he was a man of the East, brought up to think of a woman's place as within palace walls. Marriage to such a man could only eventually destroy her...
August 14, 2014
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April 18, 2018
Lucky me! I have the PJ's classics
when you have read all you kindle's library and you have just awful book in your currently reading shelf go back to classic :)
when you have read all you kindle's library and you have just awful book in your currently reading shelf go back to classic :)
December 8, 2015
She would not be told to marry anyone!
Much as she loved and respected her Arab stepfather and wanted to please him, Danielle was horrified to learn he was arranging a marriage for her, Arab fashion, to his nephew, Jourdan.
Danielle refused outright. And meeting Jourdan only confirmed her decision.
He was dashing and bold and handsome, and she soon fell in love with him, but he was a man of the East, brought up to think of a woman's place as within palace walls. Marriage to such a man could only eventually destroy her....
Much as she loved and respected her Arab stepfather and wanted to please him, Danielle was horrified to learn he was arranging a marriage for her, Arab fashion, to his nephew, Jourdan.
Danielle refused outright. And meeting Jourdan only confirmed her decision.
He was dashing and bold and handsome, and she soon fell in love with him, but he was a man of the East, brought up to think of a woman's place as within palace walls. Marriage to such a man could only eventually destroy her....
January 29, 2013
this book was ok for me, not amazing but it didn't totally suck
Despite everything that he did, I liked jourdan I did not like danielle
i felt she was to childish and way to well stupid to live !!!!
she ruined the whole book for me, how she refused to consider a point of view different from hers and regarded the middle east's culture inferior to hers!!
Despite everything that he did, I liked jourdan I did not like danielle
i felt she was to childish and way to well stupid to live !!!!
she ruined the whole book for me, how she refused to consider a point of view different from hers and regarded the middle east's culture inferior to hers!!
October 19, 2021
Wtf!!! Forced into marriage, drugged, rapped, betrayed by everyone. Dying in the desert would of been a kindness for this h, instead of the mindless, abused doll she ends up being.
But I love the M&B cover.
But I love the M&B cover.
September 6, 2012
I loved it! I am such a sucker for these stories by Penny! She is one of my Favourite romance writes. Will miss her deeeply!
April 23, 2017
A heroína é drogada para casar com o herói sem causar problemas... meio idiota a situação toda. Ela é muito infantil e sem experiência alguma.
November 1, 2018
I enjoyed the book enough to finish it. Penny Jordan is a really good author there. However, there was a lot of wtf-ery going on in this book. As another reviewer has said, we really don't get a chance to get to know the hero at all, beyond him trying to seduce, or rather, force the heroine to bend to his will. So he's just kind of...there. And doing a whole lot of objectionable actions, though since this is an older Harlequin, that's not really a surprise.
The heroine, on the other hand, did have potential. She is initially introduced to be someone who was educated and wanted to open her own restaurant. She didn't want to be pushed into an arranged marriage at all. But once she goes to visit her step-father's made-up country, *all* of that flew out the window. I kept wanting her to reiterate her desire to open her own restaurant, to be someone beyond just a woman hidden behind the scenes of her husband. She never did. She became an absolute doormat once she reached the made-up country, which was incredibly irritating.
Ultimately, the book is okay, but hard for a modern audience to stomach.
The heroine, on the other hand, did have potential. She is initially introduced to be someone who was educated and wanted to open her own restaurant. She didn't want to be pushed into an arranged marriage at all. But once she goes to visit her step-father's made-up country, *all* of that flew out the window. I kept wanting her to reiterate her desire to open her own restaurant, to be someone beyond just a woman hidden behind the scenes of her husband. She never did. She became an absolute doormat once she reached the made-up country, which was incredibly irritating.
Ultimately, the book is okay, but hard for a modern audience to stomach.
July 18, 2024
First, you should have known that this novel was written in 1982 !!!
ต้องเข้าใจก่อนว่านิยายเรื่องนี้มันเก่ามากกกก
ฉะนั้นมันจะมีความแปลกไปหมด จะมาเอาตรรกะอะไรมาก
บริบทมันต่างไปในยุคปจจแล้ว ต้องเข้าใจตรงนี้
และกุ ผู้ซึ่งไม่เคยแตะนิยายเก่าเลย
ก็ชอบในความน้ำเน่า 555555 น้ำเน่ามากกกก
มากกกก นางเอกอะง้องแง้ง ไม่เท่าไหร่
การิมแม่งดันโง่วด้วย แต่ที่มันทำให้เรื่องโอเคคือ
การิมบอกว่า ปกติก็ไม่โง่หรอก แต่พอได้ยินชื่อเธอแ���้ว
ฉันสมองหลุดไปเลย (อันนี้กุเกลาสำนวนเอง)
คือมึ้งงงง กุนิเขิลเยยย ไอ้บ้าาาา 5555
แล้วอีกอย่าง ฉบับที่กุได้อะ พิมพ์ในปี 2538
คือกุค่อนข้างทึ่งในสำนวนมาก -ละซี -ฉะอ้อน -นาฑี -ผลลัพท์
คืออันนี้เค้าพิมพ์ผิดหรือว่ามันเป็นคำในยุคนั้นก็ไม่รู้
แต่อ่านแล้วยิ้มๆ เท่ดี555
ต้องเข้าใจก่อนว่านิยายเรื่องนี้มันเก่ามากกกก
ฉะนั้นมันจะมีความแปลกไปหมด จะมาเอาตรรกะอะไรมาก
บริบทมันต่างไปในยุคปจจแล้ว ต้องเข้าใจตรงนี้
และกุ ผู้ซึ่งไม่เคยแตะนิยายเก่าเลย
ก็ชอบในความน้ำเน่า 555555 น้ำเน่ามากกกก
มากกกก นางเอกอะง้องแง้ง ไม่เท่าไหร่
การิมแม่งดันโง่วด้วย แต่ที่มันทำให้เรื่องโอเคคือ
การิมบอกว่า ปกติก็ไม่โง่หรอก แต่พอได้ยินชื่อเธอแ���้ว
ฉันสมองหลุดไปเลย (อันนี้กุเกลาสำนวนเอง)
คือมึ้งงงง กุนิเขิลเยยย ไอ้บ้าาาา 5555
แล้วอีกอย่าง ฉบับที่กุได้อะ พิมพ์ในปี 2538
คือกุค่อนข้างทึ่งในสำนวนมาก -ละซี -ฉะอ้อน -นาฑี -ผลลัพท์
คืออันนี้เค้าพิมพ์ผิดหรือว่ามันเป็นคำในยุคนั้นก็ไม่รู้
แต่อ่านแล้วยิ้มๆ เท่ดี555
February 14, 2022
4/5 จังหวะนิย๊ายนิยาย ตัวร้ายโผล่มาตอนทั้งคู่รู้ตัวว่ารักกันแล้ว🤣
หวานเลี่ยนๆ อ่านงานของอ.นิดาครั้งแรก ประทับใจค่ะ ภาษาสวยได้อรรถรส เข้าใจเลยทำไมใครๆถึงยอมซื้อปกเพื่อนดีแบบแพงๆ
หวานเลี่ยนๆ อ่านงานของอ.นิดาครั้งแรก ประทับใจค่ะ ภาษาสวยได้อรรถรส เข้าใจเลยทำไมใครๆถึงยอมซื้อปกเพื่อนดีแบบแพงๆ
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 27, 2020
This is a terrible book.
Warning: involves forced marriage, rape, rape under the influence of drugs, kidnapping, by H of h.
This is a summary of the story line: The h is a Virgin, who keeps her virginity secret. She is surrounded by the sexually adventurous, and wonders if she is frigid. She concludes that she is too feminine to be frigid, it is just that she must Love before she feels sexual attraction.
The H is her step-dad's nephew, and an Arab. Her marriage has unofficially been arranged to this guy, without her knowledge, by her step-dad. Mom, apparently, couldn't bear to break step-dad's heart by telling him, No. When she finds out, she breaks the engagement. Step-dad agrees, on the condition that she visit his family, who rule a small Arab country.
H, upon realizing that she is breaking the engagement, and is in his home country, proceeds to kidnap her, with step-Aunt's consent, and force her to marry him. There is poppy juice involved, and forced post-marital sex, aka, rape. However, h enjoys it, and, after some confusion, where she tries to attribute enjoyment to drugs, decides that if she is attracted to H, she must be in love with him. She, doesn't tell him, of course, as he is clearly not in love with her.
She tries several times to run away from H. She is being kept in the middle of the desert, is not allowed to live, and doesn't even have access to a telephone. She is also worried that she might get pregnant. Also, she has no money.
A brother and sister pair, each of whom want to marry the h and the H, for mercenary reasons, turn up and proceed to make them both extremely jealous. h assumes that H couldn't ever love her, and decides to run away with suitor. They get stranded in the desert, and rescued just before they might have died. H agrees to an annulment, if she is willing to lie. She is. No one seems worried about a potential baby, a future heir to the throne, too, despite the fact that they have been having unprotected sex.
She finds an old photo of her when she was 14. Apparently, H, as an adult, saw her from a distance at that age, and fell in love with her. (Pedophile!!!) After H admits he loves her, h loves him back, and all rape, forced marriage, kidnapping, and other terrible acts are forgotten as if they never happened.
Warning: involves forced marriage, rape, rape under the influence of drugs, kidnapping, by H of h.
This is a summary of the story line: The h is a Virgin, who keeps her virginity secret. She is surrounded by the sexually adventurous, and wonders if she is frigid. She concludes that she is too feminine to be frigid, it is just that she must Love before she feels sexual attraction.
The H is her step-dad's nephew, and an Arab. Her marriage has unofficially been arranged to this guy, without her knowledge, by her step-dad. Mom, apparently, couldn't bear to break step-dad's heart by telling him, No. When she finds out, she breaks the engagement. Step-dad agrees, on the condition that she visit his family, who rule a small Arab country.
H, upon realizing that she is breaking the engagement, and is in his home country, proceeds to kidnap her, with step-Aunt's consent, and force her to marry him. There is poppy juice involved, and forced post-marital sex, aka, rape. However, h enjoys it, and, after some confusion, where she tries to attribute enjoyment to drugs, decides that if she is attracted to H, she must be in love with him. She, doesn't tell him, of course, as he is clearly not in love with her.
She tries several times to run away from H. She is being kept in the middle of the desert, is not allowed to live, and doesn't even have access to a telephone. She is also worried that she might get pregnant. Also, she has no money.
A brother and sister pair, each of whom want to marry the h and the H, for mercenary reasons, turn up and proceed to make them both extremely jealous. h assumes that H couldn't ever love her, and decides to run away with suitor. They get stranded in the desert, and rescued just before they might have died. H agrees to an annulment, if she is willing to lie. She is. No one seems worried about a potential baby, a future heir to the throne, too, despite the fact that they have been having unprotected sex.
She finds an old photo of her when she was 14. Apparently, H, as an adult, saw her from a distance at that age, and fell in love with her. (Pedophile!!!) After H admits he loves her, h loves him back, and all rape, forced marriage, kidnapping, and other terrible acts are forgotten as if they never happened.
September 7, 2012
Love it. I read it in Thai actually, so thank you for both writer and translator. They made a TV series when I was young and I finally got to read the book. I'm a chick read person, however this one is really worth reading.
November 16, 2015
คหสต. ล้วนๆ ...มีดีแค่หน้าปก อ่านแล้วรู้สึกเสียดายเงินเสียดายเวลามาก TvT
January 16, 2018
Star Rating: ★★½☆☆
April 5, 2018
สนุกมากๆ อ่านจบไป 20 กว่ารอบ ชอบมากๆค่ะ ภาษาละเมียดละไมสละสลวยสวยงามมาก บทรักไม่มากไม่น้อยจนเกินไปกำลังดีค่ะ เป็นนวนิยายแปลในดวงใจเลยค่ะ ผ่านไปกี่ปีไม่มีเรื่องไหนแทนเรื่องนี้ได้ค่ะ
October 17, 2018
เป็นนิยายที่หวานล้ำ ถึงแม้ในบางตอนที่พระเอกหยาบโลนกับนางเอก แต่การกระทำของการิม อับดุลลา กลับทำให้หัวใจกระปรี้กระเปร่าเสียเหลือเกิน ส่วนนางเอกหรือดาเนียล ก็ตามประสาสาวน้อย คิดเอง มโนเองแต่ก็เพราะปัจจัยหลายๆอย่าง มันทำให้คิดไง ก็เลยไม่แปลกใจ...พระนางเรื่องนี้ ปากหนักทั้งคู่ นี่ก็ลุ้นทุกฉาก ทุกตอนว่าเมื่อไหร่จะคุยกันสักที มัวแต่ฟังคนอื่นพูด เดี๋ยวก็ไม่ทันการณ์กันพอดี
นี่แหละนะ...ความรัก หนักแน่นเข้าไว้
นี่แหละนะ...ความรัก หนักแน่นเข้าไว้
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