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Glass Slippers and Unicorns
Darcy was not good at pretending ...
Although she was a good secretary to Reed Hunter, Darcy Faversham became easily muddled when events around her got too hectic. Not much of a match for a London investor used to making split-second decisions involving millions of dollars. But Reed did need her.
Someone was sabotaging his business deals in America, and he wanted Darcy to pose as his lover on a trip to Florida, to call attention away from the real purpose of his visit.
Darcy wasn't at all sure she could live up to the pressure. It was no good pretending she was in love with Reed--not when she really was....
Although she was a good secretary to Reed Hunter, Darcy Faversham became easily muddled when events around her got too hectic. Not much of a match for a London investor used to making split-second decisions involving millions of dollars. But Reed did need her.
Someone was sabotaging his business deals in America, and he wanted Darcy to pose as his lover on a trip to Florida, to call attention away from the real purpose of his visit.
Darcy wasn't at all sure she could live up to the pressure. It was no good pretending she was in love with Reed--not when she really was....
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 11, 1986
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Carole Mortimer
1,301 books911 followersI have written almost 250 romance novels in contemporary and Regency.
I am a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the 2015 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 I received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US and in 2012 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for my 'outstanding service to literature'.
I am very happily married to Peter with six sons, and live on the Isle of Man
I am a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the 2015 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 I received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US and in 2012 I was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for my 'outstanding service to literature'.
I am very happily married to Peter with six sons, and live on the Isle of Man
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May 29, 2015
I'm torn on the rating for this book. It was cute, indeed. I expected a lighter romp when I reached for this, but it wasn't quite as light as I expected. It's one of those books that it's hard to age. The storyline is more on the modern side, but there are aspects that make it feel more vintage. I didn't expect for Darcy's absent-minded facade to hide serious emotional scars from an event that happened six months prior.
It took me a while to figure out Reed. I thought he was hiding feelings for Darcy, but it seemed like he was still tomcatting around. At least, he had stuff at his recent ex-girfriend's house that he had left there. That implies they were sleeping together. I'm hesitant to believe in people being in love when they are still sleeping with other people. Some may feel differently, but when it comes to romance, I'm a stickler for that sort of thing. In the end, his beautiful gesture to Darcy won me over. He's actually quite the closet romantic.
I like how even in her older books, Carole Mortimer manages to write very sensual even when things aren't descriptive. That was another reason why it was hard to date this book. I was surprised at Reed's family's acceptance of him bringing over girls and sharing a room with them. That's part of why I was questioning the age of this book. I didn't think this would happen much in a pre-1990s book.
I really liked Darcy. I think that her struggles to recover from a very traumatic experience are poignant. I also liked her because she was very sweet.
It's a silly thing, but I get a little disapointed when the hero in a HP book is American. I think Reed is about half and half, but I figured he spoke with an American accent. I miss my British heroes. It's part of why I like HP books.
Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars (I wasn't quite as satisfied with this, hence the lower rating)
It took me a while to figure out Reed. I thought he was hiding feelings for Darcy, but it seemed like he was still tomcatting around. At least, he had stuff at his recent ex-girfriend's house that he had left there. That implies they were sleeping together. I'm hesitant to believe in people being in love when they are still sleeping with other people. Some may feel differently, but when it comes to romance, I'm a stickler for that sort of thing. In the end, his beautiful gesture to Darcy won me over. He's actually quite the closet romantic.
I like how even in her older books, Carole Mortimer manages to write very sensual even when things aren't descriptive. That was another reason why it was hard to date this book. I was surprised at Reed's family's acceptance of him bringing over girls and sharing a room with them. That's part of why I was questioning the age of this book. I didn't think this would happen much in a pre-1990s book.
I really liked Darcy. I think that her struggles to recover from a very traumatic experience are poignant. I also liked her because she was very sweet.
It's a silly thing, but I get a little disapointed when the hero in a HP book is American. I think Reed is about half and half, but I figured he spoke with an American accent. I miss my British heroes. It's part of why I like HP books.
Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars (I wasn't quite as satisfied with this, hence the lower rating)
May 6, 2016
Re Glass Slippers and Unicorns - Another red-haired CM h is featured in this one and the H is a very rich half American investment speculator. She is around 23 and he is in his thirties so we have the May/December Boss/Secretary trope going on.
The h has a tendency to be very absent minded, she loses her left shoe so regularly that she has a closet full of right shoes with no mates. She forgets where she puts things and a lot of times she appears very vague, even though she is a good secretary to the H.
The h is so scatty that when she got the H's interview letter and it said 9 pm, she showed up at an empty office building at night for the job. When it is pointed out that secretarial positions aren't usually interviewed for late at the night unless there is some dubious propositioning involved , the h states that she though that was how things were done in the big city and she only ever lived in a tiny little village.
When the book opens, one of the things the h has lost is the H's mum, who she had to pick up at Heathrow for an overnight visit before the H sees her off on a world cruise. The H is having a temper tantrum to rival a two year old's over his missing mum and the h is very sweet but completely bewildered and ready to cry. She offers to resign, but the H is too busy ranting to notice. Then the mum shows up and it turns out she is just as absent minded and scatty as the h and it isn't the beginning of Alzheimer's, she has always been that way.
The mum woke up in the car alone while the h took a driving break and remembered an old friend from ten years earlier lived nearby and took herself off for a visit. She got to chatting and eventually realized she needed to go meet the H hours later and so she took herself back but the car was gone and so she made her way to the H's office building.
The h is also having a birthday and the H's business partner is taking her out, so she is trying desperately to escape. The H is making severe cranky faces tho and he as he complains about tracking the ladies being like herding cats, the h is relieved that maybe she won't have to find another job while the H is making sure both ladies have other people with them so they don't get lost going home.
The next day the H lets the h know that she and he will have to go to Florida in the US. Someone is selling company information and messing up the H's deals and he wants to investigate. The cover will be that the h and he are dating and he is taking some time off.
He also gives the h a beautiful unicorn necklace. The h doesn't know it, but the H is a seekrit unicorn hoarder and has an entire room devoted to them. He shrines them up like holy relics.
They get to Florida and the H's entire family is there unexpectedly, except for the mum on the cruise, and the H has to introduce the h as his lady interest. He is doing his investigative thingy and the h is getting embroiled in family drama. The h has also been in love with the H for some time now and thinks the H isn't attracted, so there is some angsting at her hopeless situation. The H really is interested though and the physical tension is rising.
The H and h are mugged at gunpoint and the h totally freaks out. We find out that the h's vagueness and absent mindedness aren't really facets of her personality - they are symptoms of PTSD from the h witnessing a woman shot right next to her and dying during a bank robbery.
The h worked at the bank as a teller and it was robbed and she set the alarm off rather than give up the money and the robber shot her friend. She was the teller next to her - the woman was married and had small children and the h thinks if she hadn't set the alarm off but just given them the money, the woman would still be alive.
She couldn't go back to work after that and she pretty much stayed in her parent's house for months and developed the forgetfulness as a stress reaction. She did try being a live in nanny for a bit in the same small town, but it was just too much triggering all the time and so she went to London and got a job with the H who hired her because of her name, he wasn't sure if she was male or female and she had slightly better qualifications than the other applicants, even if she did show up at 9 pm.
Then the H finds out that one of his family members got into debt and was selling the company plans for money and there are also big forest fires sweeping the area. The h and H finally make it to bed and the h is thinking "AT Last!" and then the H tells her she has to find another job and the h is not happy at all. The H explains that he really does have to work and can't be chasing her around the office all day and the h is very offended and thinks she is just a fling for the H.
Then the forest fires get too close to the family house and they have to evacuate. The H has to deal with his sister's husband, who was selling the company info and the H sends the h back to London alone.
The h is miserable and goes home for a visit and when the H's business partner is trying to figure out what happened the following Monday, (he is really only her friend and wasn't dating her,) the H shows up and sees them really close together and gets a cranky face again.
Then the H ignores the h to take off and later that day, the H's previous girlfriend shows up with a box for the H and tells the h that the H had visited her at lunch but did not take his box.
The h is really hurt by now and she marches in the H's office and tells him off while proclaiming undying love - right in front of an investor the H is doing a deal with. She throws her unicorn necklace at the H and storms out. The h decides she is quitting and goes to hide in the H's partner's office.
The H tracks her down after the partner calls him and tells the h he loves her back. He has been interested since she started working for him and he loves how scatty she is and how she loses her shoe.
The H thought the h was getting over a bad relationship when she started, so he did not put the moves on. Then he thought she was dating his partner, then he thought she reconnected with the guy she had broken up with when she went home the prior weekend and the H couldn't find her.
He went at lunch to break up with the woman who brought him the box and he hasn't been with anyone else since making it with the h. The ex was just returning a few things he had left at her apartment from when he was dating her before being with the h. He tells her they are marrying and then the h has her other big confession.
The h explains about the aftermath of the robbery and how her therapist told her to only focus on one thing at a time as a way of controlling her stress reactions. She couldn't work at the bank again because of panic attacks so she started walking aimlessly a lot.
One day she met the daughter of the woman who died and found out that she and her brother and sister had no one to watch them while their widowed dad went to work cause their grandma had to go in hospital. The h moves in with the family and eventually she and the widower tried to have a physical relationship and it did not work as the widower broke down.
The h was still a virgin when she slept with the H but the rumors in the town became very ugly when the h moved in with the family and people were speculating that the h and the widower were having an affair before the wife died. Eventually the rumors and failed physical attempt with the nice widower proved to much to handle and the h left to make a new start.
The H is very understanding and kind and he finally shows her his unicorn hoard, cause she is as special to him as they are, and he gives her a glass slipper to carry around for when she loses her shoe. There is a little epilogue where they are married, living in the US and now the H is forgetful - he keeps forgetting his wallet and she has to pay for dinner -and she is preggers for a sweet HEA.
This one isn't bad and the ending is romantically sweet and rosy. I got a little thrown off by the juxtaposition of some very funny scenes with the h's absentmindedness and the very serious reasons behind her lapses.
I am not sure that having the h's forgetfulness being comically portrayed when it was the result of some pretty horrible trauma was a comfortable reading experience. I felt bad for laughing at the funny part, especially when the h has her breakdown. Still it is very entertaining for such a fast read and the H's romantic glass slipper and his hoarded unicorn shrine were nice touches.
The h has a tendency to be very absent minded, she loses her left shoe so regularly that she has a closet full of right shoes with no mates. She forgets where she puts things and a lot of times she appears very vague, even though she is a good secretary to the H.
The h is so scatty that when she got the H's interview letter and it said 9 pm, she showed up at an empty office building at night for the job. When it is pointed out that secretarial positions aren't usually interviewed for late at the night unless there is some dubious propositioning involved , the h states that she though that was how things were done in the big city and she only ever lived in a tiny little village.
When the book opens, one of the things the h has lost is the H's mum, who she had to pick up at Heathrow for an overnight visit before the H sees her off on a world cruise. The H is having a temper tantrum to rival a two year old's over his missing mum and the h is very sweet but completely bewildered and ready to cry. She offers to resign, but the H is too busy ranting to notice. Then the mum shows up and it turns out she is just as absent minded and scatty as the h and it isn't the beginning of Alzheimer's, she has always been that way.
The mum woke up in the car alone while the h took a driving break and remembered an old friend from ten years earlier lived nearby and took herself off for a visit. She got to chatting and eventually realized she needed to go meet the H hours later and so she took herself back but the car was gone and so she made her way to the H's office building.
The h is also having a birthday and the H's business partner is taking her out, so she is trying desperately to escape. The H is making severe cranky faces tho and he as he complains about tracking the ladies being like herding cats, the h is relieved that maybe she won't have to find another job while the H is making sure both ladies have other people with them so they don't get lost going home.
The next day the H lets the h know that she and he will have to go to Florida in the US. Someone is selling company information and messing up the H's deals and he wants to investigate. The cover will be that the h and he are dating and he is taking some time off.
He also gives the h a beautiful unicorn necklace. The h doesn't know it, but the H is a seekrit unicorn hoarder and has an entire room devoted to them. He shrines them up like holy relics.
They get to Florida and the H's entire family is there unexpectedly, except for the mum on the cruise, and the H has to introduce the h as his lady interest. He is doing his investigative thingy and the h is getting embroiled in family drama. The h has also been in love with the H for some time now and thinks the H isn't attracted, so there is some angsting at her hopeless situation. The H really is interested though and the physical tension is rising.
The H and h are mugged at gunpoint and the h totally freaks out. We find out that the h's vagueness and absent mindedness aren't really facets of her personality - they are symptoms of PTSD from the h witnessing a woman shot right next to her and dying during a bank robbery.
The h worked at the bank as a teller and it was robbed and she set the alarm off rather than give up the money and the robber shot her friend. She was the teller next to her - the woman was married and had small children and the h thinks if she hadn't set the alarm off but just given them the money, the woman would still be alive.
She couldn't go back to work after that and she pretty much stayed in her parent's house for months and developed the forgetfulness as a stress reaction. She did try being a live in nanny for a bit in the same small town, but it was just too much triggering all the time and so she went to London and got a job with the H who hired her because of her name, he wasn't sure if she was male or female and she had slightly better qualifications than the other applicants, even if she did show up at 9 pm.
Then the H finds out that one of his family members got into debt and was selling the company plans for money and there are also big forest fires sweeping the area. The h and H finally make it to bed and the h is thinking "AT Last!" and then the H tells her she has to find another job and the h is not happy at all. The H explains that he really does have to work and can't be chasing her around the office all day and the h is very offended and thinks she is just a fling for the H.
Then the forest fires get too close to the family house and they have to evacuate. The H has to deal with his sister's husband, who was selling the company info and the H sends the h back to London alone.
The h is miserable and goes home for a visit and when the H's business partner is trying to figure out what happened the following Monday, (he is really only her friend and wasn't dating her,) the H shows up and sees them really close together and gets a cranky face again.
Then the H ignores the h to take off and later that day, the H's previous girlfriend shows up with a box for the H and tells the h that the H had visited her at lunch but did not take his box.
The h is really hurt by now and she marches in the H's office and tells him off while proclaiming undying love - right in front of an investor the H is doing a deal with. She throws her unicorn necklace at the H and storms out. The h decides she is quitting and goes to hide in the H's partner's office.
The H tracks her down after the partner calls him and tells the h he loves her back. He has been interested since she started working for him and he loves how scatty she is and how she loses her shoe.
The H thought the h was getting over a bad relationship when she started, so he did not put the moves on. Then he thought she was dating his partner, then he thought she reconnected with the guy she had broken up with when she went home the prior weekend and the H couldn't find her.
He went at lunch to break up with the woman who brought him the box and he hasn't been with anyone else since making it with the h. The ex was just returning a few things he had left at her apartment from when he was dating her before being with the h. He tells her they are marrying and then the h has her other big confession.
The h explains about the aftermath of the robbery and how her therapist told her to only focus on one thing at a time as a way of controlling her stress reactions. She couldn't work at the bank again because of panic attacks so she started walking aimlessly a lot.
One day she met the daughter of the woman who died and found out that she and her brother and sister had no one to watch them while their widowed dad went to work cause their grandma had to go in hospital. The h moves in with the family and eventually she and the widower tried to have a physical relationship and it did not work as the widower broke down.
The h was still a virgin when she slept with the H but the rumors in the town became very ugly when the h moved in with the family and people were speculating that the h and the widower were having an affair before the wife died. Eventually the rumors and failed physical attempt with the nice widower proved to much to handle and the h left to make a new start.
The H is very understanding and kind and he finally shows her his unicorn hoard, cause she is as special to him as they are, and he gives her a glass slipper to carry around for when she loses her shoe. There is a little epilogue where they are married, living in the US and now the H is forgetful - he keeps forgetting his wallet and she has to pay for dinner -and she is preggers for a sweet HEA.
This one isn't bad and the ending is romantically sweet and rosy. I got a little thrown off by the juxtaposition of some very funny scenes with the h's absentmindedness and the very serious reasons behind her lapses.
I am not sure that having the h's forgetfulness being comically portrayed when it was the result of some pretty horrible trauma was a comfortable reading experience. I felt bad for laughing at the funny part, especially when the h has her breakdown. Still it is very entertaining for such a fast read and the H's romantic glass slipper and his hoarded unicorn shrine were nice touches.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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December 30, 2019
If he didn't have an affair with an OW (even if she was nice), I would have believed his love for her.
January 26, 2016
Ok I think I will give these Carole Mortimer a break for a while. I don't know why but I found the whole story boring and drawn out for nothing. The whole thing was so odd! I don't know why I did not like it. It had all the right elements she was a virgin he was in lust love with her and her with him. However it just seems not the same magic as the other of hers. They had unicorns and glass slippers for God sakes why did it not work for me??? Maybe I will read it again later to see or not? Just blah for me
October 11, 2021
I mean… with a title like that, how can you resist?? 👀🤡
This was pretty cute for Carole Mortimer. Fairly lighthearted and more sexy than some of the previous books I’ve tried by her. The H is more than he appears. He’s been into the h longer that it first seems. He was bossy and low-key controlling and protectively exasperated with the h’s absent mindedness. He’s a long-game kind guy and not afraid to manipulate to get his way. So, I was entertained. 🤷🏼♀️
Then we hit around 90% and this book took a swerve to fully live up to that RIDICULOUS name. 🙃
Anyway, before that last bit I was planning to give it 4-stars, but the major cheese, and the fact that he claimed to love the h the whole time while sexing up OW and while she dated someone else, turned this into a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me.
⚠️SAFETY SQUAD SPOILERS⚠️
- no cheating or sharing
- OW drama - The h is his secretary so she’s watched the revolving door of women for 2 years
- OM drama - the h is casually dating another man in their office and there’s also a past man that causes some conflict
- No dubcon
- h is a 23 year old virgin
- H is a 35 year old manwhore
This was pretty cute for Carole Mortimer. Fairly lighthearted and more sexy than some of the previous books I’ve tried by her. The H is more than he appears. He’s been into the h longer that it first seems. He was bossy and low-key controlling and protectively exasperated with the h’s absent mindedness. He’s a long-game kind guy and not afraid to manipulate to get his way. So, I was entertained. 🤷🏼♀️
Then we hit around 90% and this book took a swerve to fully live up to that RIDICULOUS name. 🙃
Anyway, before that last bit I was planning to give it 4-stars, but the major cheese, and the fact that he claimed to love the h the whole time while sexing up OW and while she dated someone else, turned this into a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me.
⚠️SAFETY SQUAD SPOILERS⚠️
- no cheating or sharing
- OW drama - The h is his secretary so she’s watched the revolving door of women for 2 years
- OM drama - the h is casually dating another man in their office and there’s also a past man that causes some conflict
- No dubcon
- h is a 23 year old virgin
- H is a 35 year old manwhore
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 16, 2017
"Glass Slippers and Unicorns" is the story of Darcy and Reed.
Darcy is the extremely awkward and clumsy secretary who is in love with her boss Reed. When she manages to lose his flighty mother during a visit, she expects he wants a resignation, but instead he asks her to accompany him on a family vaction as a serious girlfriend.
Soon a pretend trip becomes something more..
Extremely sweet story with likable characters. Liked the family dynamics between Reed's relatives- the heroine was ditzy but strong- the hero was neither pushover nor mean- and the story was slow but smooth.
Loved the OTT adorable ending. So cute!
Safe/ SWE
3.5/5
Darcy is the extremely awkward and clumsy secretary who is in love with her boss Reed. When she manages to lose his flighty mother during a visit, she expects he wants a resignation, but instead he asks her to accompany him on a family vaction as a serious girlfriend.
Soon a pretend trip becomes something more..
Extremely sweet story with likable characters. Liked the family dynamics between Reed's relatives- the heroine was ditzy but strong- the hero was neither pushover nor mean- and the story was slow but smooth.
Loved the OTT adorable ending. So cute!
Safe/ SWE
3.5/5
August 7, 2021
A smitten, jealous H and a virgin h. Very good.
What I didn’t like, was that in the end she was the first to say the ‘I love you’ and ‘Marry me’. I want the man to be the first to say it, to be explicit about his feelings and intentions. So that part took a bit of the romance away. But nevertheless, still a very good book.
What I didn’t like, was that in the end she was the first to say the ‘I love you’ and ‘Marry me’. I want the man to be the first to say it, to be explicit about his feelings and intentions. So that part took a bit of the romance away. But nevertheless, still a very good book.
November 23, 2020
What a muddled meandery mess this was--a boss/secretary story that just seemed rushed and illogical. The most memorable thing about it was how often the heroine handles the hero's goods (CM's mid-80s sex scenes, while euphemistic, were among the more explicit, in my reading experience). Other than that, clunky pacing, silly developments, and a weird mix of lightheartedness and the lingering trauma of a Tragic Event in the heroine's past make for an annoying HP outing. The teasers re: the heroine's past were so melodramatic (the blood!), and her PTSD is downplayed by making it part of her overall daffyness, which just did not work for me. The entire premise for their trip to Florida (a Florida that has forest fires? pffttt), the flimsy reasons for their "pretend" relationship, the incomprehensible reasons the supposedly smitten hero never acted on his feelings before, the twee title... I dunno, this one just did not gel for me.
March 20, 2021
Playing the millionaire's mistress
Hot-shot London investor Reed Hunter needs his secretary, Darcy Faversham, to pose as his mistress during a business trip to America. Someone is sabotaging his US business deals and Reed needs Darcy to divert attention from the real reason for his visit...
Darcy finds the chance to get closer to Reed too tempting to deny. However Darcy can't pretend to be in love with Reed...not when she suspects she already is!
Hot-shot London investor Reed Hunter needs his secretary, Darcy Faversham, to pose as his mistress during a business trip to America. Someone is sabotaging his US business deals and Reed needs Darcy to divert attention from the real reason for his visit...
Darcy finds the chance to get closer to Reed too tempting to deny. However Darcy can't pretend to be in love with Reed...not when she suspects she already is!
May 18, 2016
A sweet love story - awwww!!!, September 21, 2008
My thoughts: I first read this book more than 10 years ago and re-reading it again today, I still liked it. The heroine as you can read by the description seems a little, hmm... cant think of the right word - airheaded(?) so I couldn't really believe that she was a good secretary ^_^ but she seems to have a good heart, haha. I wouldn't say the book/story was so deep and dark, like the other HP novels I've read where the hero is a bastard, or hero/heroine has to get revenge, etc. etc. This book is just sweet and nice and lighthearted with a touch of humor. And its SO sweet that the hero actually loved the heroine for so long and was waiting for her to recover. The sort of love rival, Marc was also interesting and cute. It makes me wonder if he has an HP novel written where he's the hero, haha! Anyway, this book is a keeper. It just gives you a good feeling.
My thoughts: I first read this book more than 10 years ago and re-reading it again today, I still liked it. The heroine as you can read by the description seems a little, hmm... cant think of the right word - airheaded(?) so I couldn't really believe that she was a good secretary ^_^ but she seems to have a good heart, haha. I wouldn't say the book/story was so deep and dark, like the other HP novels I've read where the hero is a bastard, or hero/heroine has to get revenge, etc. etc. This book is just sweet and nice and lighthearted with a touch of humor. And its SO sweet that the hero actually loved the heroine for so long and was waiting for her to recover. The sort of love rival, Marc was also interesting and cute. It makes me wonder if he has an HP novel written where he's the hero, haha! Anyway, this book is a keeper. It just gives you a good feeling.
September 1, 2017
An author I just love.
I enjoyed reading this book way back in the eighties when it was released first, and now thanks to reissues I was able to have the pleasure of reading it all over again.
Darcy and Reed. Two lovely characters.
I enjoyed reading this book way back in the eighties when it was released first, and now thanks to reissues I was able to have the pleasure of reading it all over again.
Darcy and Reed. Two lovely characters.
November 7, 2023
Reed Hunter needs his secretary, Darcy Faversham, to pose as his mistress during a trip to visit family in America. Someone is sabotaging his US business deals and he needs a diversion.
June 28, 2019
3.5 Good but didn't like that the H was still 'dating' women while supposedly in love with the h.
May 31, 2015
kind of funny, not my style...
August 25, 2022
This was actually way steamier than I had expected CM to be, but I liked it. The good thing is that the H and h consummate their love somewhere in the midpoint so we get to see them loving it up before the HEA, lots of groping and humping lol. The book was a mixture of tropes: Boss/Secretary + Fake relationship + Forced proximity in same bedroom + presumed threat to the h's life. The H has a unicorn obsession, and he gifts h a unique unicorn necklace on her 23rd bday, which is picked up immediately by his family and his current GF but not by the h.
The only thing that affected my enjoyment of this story is that although the h fell in love with the H on sight, and the H was super into the girl since months, they were both casually going out with a random OM/OW, with the H actively sleeping with the OW and staying over at OWs house; the H only breaks up with OW after he sleeps with the h. This is not told, but implied in the last few pages, when the super nice OW comes to drop off his things from her flat after he broke up with OW.
The only thing that affected my enjoyment of this story is that although the h fell in love with the H on sight, and the H was super into the girl since months, they were both casually going out with a random OM/OW, with the H actively sleeping with the OW and staying over at OWs house; the H only breaks up with OW after he sleeps with the h. This is not told, but implied in the last few pages, when the super nice OW comes to drop off his things from her flat after he broke up with OW.
September 13, 2022
Darcy, our heroine, is a secretary, and not a very good one, but she's wildly in love with her remote, forbidding boss. He gives her a unicorn necklace for her birthday and yells at her for getting sexually harassed by his best friend. After losing his mother en route to her cruise ship, she's forced to accompany him in the position of his fake girlfriend to the exotic location of... uh, Florida... where she meets a truly remarkable number of his friends and relations while he attempts to solve a Business Mystery, which also requires them to share a bed - but platonically, honest (at first!). Everyone comments on the heroine's nice unicorn necklace. They have a fun outing at Busch Gardens, but then get mugged, leading the heroine to declare her Hidden Trauma. They succumb to their Torrid Passions. They are forced to flee the house due to forest fires, which as we all know (and the characters repeatedly declare) are endemic to Florida summers. The Business Mystery is solved. The heroine returns home and cries a lot. The hero declares his love and then shows her his unicorn collection, which is not a euphemism ("unicorns, hundreds of them... filled the entire cabinet").
So basically, a lot of things happened in this book but my primary feeling about it is confusion.
So basically, a lot of things happened in this book but my primary feeling about it is confusion.
September 17, 2024
This was okay. I enjoyed Darcy and Reed as a couple but it felt hard to understand the H's reasoning towards the h. He mentions that he was waiting for the sadness to leave her eyes (where he felt it was a love affair gone wrong) before he made a move yet he was still sleeping around with other women up until like 2 weeks before they went on their fake engagement. It wasn't screaming undying love or even I'm willing to stay available and make a commitment to you 🤷♀️. The unicorn necklace and its significance was beyond cute though.
October 7, 2018
Dots didn't quite connect for me in H/h's love story. There wasn't cohesion to the events and their reactions. Their love for each other didn't have any shining moments nor did they grow as a couple together.
January 22, 2025
I always love reading Carole Mortimer, my favourite author. I do take some time reading these days, especially the authors I very much love to read. I liked this enjoyable story, got really into it. 4☆
November 17, 2021
Cute story.
May 8, 2023
I just don't know!
The book started out good and then...I just don't know how I feel about it. Lots of misunderstandings. You'll just have to decide.
The book started out good and then...I just don't know how I feel about it. Lots of misunderstandings. You'll just have to decide.
November 15, 2015
It was interesting but more detailed than I expected for a HP written in '86.
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January 31, 2018Misión En Florida - Misión Comprometedora
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