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Ένα γράμμα από το παρελθόν, ένα καπρίτσιο της μοίρας και μια πρόταση για δουλειά, που μοιάζει πιο πολύ με παιχνίδι, φέρνουν την ορφανή και φτωχιά Σάρα στην κοσμική Ριβιέρα. Η δουλειά της είναι να παίξει την αρραβωνιαστικιά του πάμπλουτου και γοητευτικού Μόργκαν Χαλτέην. Στην αρχή όλα της φαίνονται μαγευτικά: οι άνθρωποι, το κοσμοπολίτικο περιβάλλον, η πολυτέλεια που την περιβάλλει. Γρήγορα όμως ανακαλύπτει ότι η φανταχτερή αυτή βιτρίνα κρύβει έναν κόσμο ρηχό και κούφιο. Έτσι αποφασίζει να τα παρατήσει και να γυρίσει πίσω στην Αγγλία. Αλλά υπάρχει κι ο Μόργκαν που φαίνεται να έχει διαφορετική γνώμη...
158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1980
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February 6, 2017
4.5 stars rounded up. Oh, what a story! This is vintage goodness in spades – a fun heroine, an enigmatic hero with lots of layers, a glamorous location, and some beautifully rendered scenes of tenderness amidst all the brittle sophistication. These two are perfectly matched and the reader knows it from their first meeting.
The story opens with the orphaned heroine standing up to her bitchy aunt. She’s only been living with her uncle’s family for two weeks, but she’s fed up being treated like Cinderella. She’s got ten pounds, a suitcase and she’s leaving. Her aunt locks her in her room, but she manages to procure the key based on what she read in a mystery novel.
Just as she coming down the stairs, a tall, dark handsome man (H) arrives and asks for her by name. Her aunt tries to put him off, but the man won’t be deterred. The heroine listens in and hears that her father and his father were in the French resistance together and the hero is fulfilling a promise to his father to look her up.
The heroine marches in and throws the key on the table and declares she’s going. The hero immediately realizes she is her father’s daughter – a fighter – and he tells her so.
After her uncle returns and finds his backbone, he gives the h some money and tells her he’s going to stop letting his wife walk all over him.
The h leaves with the hero. On their drive to London hero proposes an engagement of convenience. She will stay with him in his villa in the South of France. He says he needs “protection” from a neighbor lady – but later the heroine finds he has other motives.
The heroine peels these layers off of the hero herself. She asks the questions, draws some wrong conclusions, but she doesn’t rely on gossip or other characters to understand the hero. They interact and it’s so fun to watch.
Here is one such exchange:
'There's no one got a mind like yours!' she snapped. 'And if you're so fed up with the attentions of all these women why don't you tell them you've lost all your money? They'd disappear like snowflakes in the sun!'
'Poetic too? Beautiful!'
'Don't patronise me,' she grated, and pulled herself free of his grasp.
'I'm not. You're damned prickly, Sara. You want to watch that.' '
Well!' she gasped. 'You take the biscuit! You're aggressive, bossy, and you have the nerve to tell me I'm prickly! There's nothing wrong with me, chum. Nothing at all'
He began to laugh—deep, amused, his face transformed.
It’s the “chum” that makes me laugh. She is 14 years younger than him, but she is intense and they both end up laughing after this little exchange.
The heroine holds her own against the evil OW and befriends the good OW (the hero has * many * admirers).
She also gets drunk several times, but it is just as symbolic as it is part of the plot. She’s intoxicated – not just by the alcohol but the feelings for the hero. The author shows this very well. She also faints from hunger and sunstroke (again symbolically placed) And she isn’t above mixing it up with the hero physically – throwing her perfume bottle at him, throwing her dinner plate, slapping his face, etc. . . .
The hero matches her with kisses and with some restraining holds, but he's never mean to the h even when he's angry.
The only fly in the ointment is the hero’s Cherokee ancestor is blamed for his “Red Indian” appearance when he is angry. Some wince-inducing language there.
Still, this is a fun story with some interesting layers. I won’t spoil the rest, but the h gets her man, of course. :)
The story opens with the orphaned heroine standing up to her bitchy aunt. She’s only been living with her uncle’s family for two weeks, but she’s fed up being treated like Cinderella. She’s got ten pounds, a suitcase and she’s leaving. Her aunt locks her in her room, but she manages to procure the key based on what she read in a mystery novel.
Just as she coming down the stairs, a tall, dark handsome man (H) arrives and asks for her by name. Her aunt tries to put him off, but the man won’t be deterred. The heroine listens in and hears that her father and his father were in the French resistance together and the hero is fulfilling a promise to his father to look her up.
The heroine marches in and throws the key on the table and declares she’s going. The hero immediately realizes she is her father’s daughter – a fighter – and he tells her so.
After her uncle returns and finds his backbone, he gives the h some money and tells her he’s going to stop letting his wife walk all over him.
The h leaves with the hero. On their drive to London hero proposes an engagement of convenience. She will stay with him in his villa in the South of France. He says he needs “protection” from a neighbor lady – but later the heroine finds he has other motives.
The heroine peels these layers off of the hero herself. She asks the questions, draws some wrong conclusions, but she doesn’t rely on gossip or other characters to understand the hero. They interact and it’s so fun to watch.
Here is one such exchange:
'There's no one got a mind like yours!' she snapped. 'And if you're so fed up with the attentions of all these women why don't you tell them you've lost all your money? They'd disappear like snowflakes in the sun!'
'Poetic too? Beautiful!'
'Don't patronise me,' she grated, and pulled herself free of his grasp.
'I'm not. You're damned prickly, Sara. You want to watch that.' '
Well!' she gasped. 'You take the biscuit! You're aggressive, bossy, and you have the nerve to tell me I'm prickly! There's nothing wrong with me, chum. Nothing at all'
He began to laugh—deep, amused, his face transformed.
It’s the “chum” that makes me laugh. She is 14 years younger than him, but she is intense and they both end up laughing after this little exchange.
The heroine holds her own against the evil OW and befriends the good OW (the hero has * many * admirers).
She also gets drunk several times, but it is just as symbolic as it is part of the plot. She’s intoxicated – not just by the alcohol but the feelings for the hero. The author shows this very well. She also faints from hunger and sunstroke (again symbolically placed) And she isn’t above mixing it up with the hero physically – throwing her perfume bottle at him, throwing her dinner plate, slapping his face, etc. . . .
The hero matches her with kisses and with some restraining holds, but he's never mean to the h even when he's angry.
The only fly in the ointment is the hero’s Cherokee ancestor is blamed for his “Red Indian” appearance when he is angry. Some wince-inducing language there.
Still, this is a fun story with some interesting layers. I won’t spoil the rest, but the h gets her man, of course. :)
September 22, 2017
A better title for Mary Wibberley's Man of Power would have been Sara and Morgan and Monique and Jack and Louise and...
There were so many people involved, it was like condensing two decades of prime daytime soap opera wtf-ery into a 1 hour TV special.
It's a fake engagement to ward off a business partner's wife. No, it's a fake engagement to rescue some orphans. No, it's a fake engagement to cover for an illegitimate son. No, it's a fake engagement to ward off the spoiled mother and daughter duo down the road who wouldn't mind double-teaming the hero. No, it's a fake engagement to......blahblahblahblahblahblah
She loves him. She hates him. She loves him and she hates him. She likes him. She slaps him. She kicks him. He spanks her. He kisses her. She kisses him. He gropes her. She pushes him. He pushes her. She licks him. Etc etc etc etc etc.
Oh, and there is also a sex scene interrupted by a potential OW crashing her car into a tree right outside their house. Talk about coitus interruptus LOL.
Plus, at the eleventh hour, yet another vampy female shows up and disappears behind a bedroom door with the hero. Bedsprings creak and seductive laughter burn through the heroine's poor, besotted ears. But not to worry! It was only a portrait artist who was getting help from the hero to move the furniture around (during a birthday party) to set up her studio to do a painting of the heroine as her birthday present. Cheaters of the world, I present to you, your New King! Bow down and take some copious notes from this veritable treasure trove of perfectly rational excuses for wildly inappropriate and suspicious behavior.
I realize this review can be as much as an endorsement as it is a warning. Whatever you decide, I wish you happy reading!!!
There were so many people involved, it was like condensing two decades of prime daytime soap opera wtf-ery into a 1 hour TV special.
It's a fake engagement to ward off a business partner's wife. No, it's a fake engagement to rescue some orphans. No, it's a fake engagement to cover for an illegitimate son. No, it's a fake engagement to ward off the spoiled mother and daughter duo down the road who wouldn't mind double-teaming the hero. No, it's a fake engagement to......blahblahblahblahblahblah
She loves him. She hates him. She loves him and she hates him. She likes him. She slaps him. She kicks him. He spanks her. He kisses her. She kisses him. He gropes her. She pushes him. He pushes her. She licks him. Etc etc etc etc etc.
Oh, and there is also a sex scene interrupted by a potential OW crashing her car into a tree right outside their house. Talk about coitus interruptus LOL.
Plus, at the eleventh hour, yet another vampy female shows up and disappears behind a bedroom door with the hero. Bedsprings creak and seductive laughter burn through the heroine's poor, besotted ears. But not to worry! It was only a portrait artist who was getting help from the hero to move the furniture around (during a birthday party) to set up her studio to do a painting of the heroine as her birthday present. Cheaters of the world, I present to you, your New King! Bow down and take some copious notes from this veritable treasure trove of perfectly rational excuses for wildly inappropriate and suspicious behavior.
I realize this review can be as much as an endorsement as it is a warning. Whatever you decide, I wish you happy reading!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 24, 2023
⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ four stars -
This was a very well-written book. So well-written, in fact, that during the read I kept thinking, “too bad this was published under the Harlequin umbrella, because this is quite good”. What’s with that sentiment? Well, it’s my impression that if the author had unfettered time constraints available to her, then this story would have been even more fleshed out, and it would have ended up as an even more satisfying tale.
There are quite a few moments I would have loved to have read greater depth, I just enjoyed these characters so much. Our heroine, Sara, was so spunky and confident; I just loved her. She had some great lines with our Hero; calling him a “biscuit” 😂 and “chum”. She was hilariously assertive. Just a wonderful character arc for her. I enjoyed Wibberley’s portrayal of our heroine, and am hoping that Sara is a typical example of her heroines, because she was just great. Loved the chutzpah!
This is my first Wibberley read, and it won’t be my last. I’ll be seeking more of her HQ reads. This was originally published in 1984, and it looks as if the bulk of this author’s stories are from the 1970s, and since I’m 100% on-board with the vintage Harleys, I will be headed over to eBay to try and source a few of Wibberley’s more popular reads.
If anyone here on Goodreads is familiar with this author and wants to recommend their favorite story by Wibberley, please feel free to comment with your rec 😊📚.
Even though I really enjoyed this one, i feel that the plot left too many unanswered pieces at the end of the story. Again, I feel that it falls short due to the inherent time constraints of a Harley publication. For example, I would have loved to have seen a scene (look at me using a homophone in a sentence 🥸😂) back in Paris with our mc’s. I just loved that whole added chapter with our h and H enjoying the Parisian nightlife.
In fact, in addition to the whole sweetness of this romance, I just really loved the whole setting and world building. It was fun to read a story set in the high-society world of Nice, France. I just relished all of the high fashion, glamour, and soap-opera-esque drama. I really loved all of the European caricatures of champagne guzzling, Dior-wearing, high-flying socialites. That part was so much fun! 🍾🥂🇫🇷
Overall, this was a very good, sweet romance. It was a story that was (mostly) wholesome in delivery (by today’s standards); and the romance was just so darn heartfelt and mushy, which I LOVED! 💕
I would recommend this fun, vintage romance to any fellow romance reader who wants to take a step back in time to Southern France in the late 1970s. Just good, vintage fun!
This one’s a keeper 📚.
Four sweet stars ✨💘
This was a very well-written book. So well-written, in fact, that during the read I kept thinking, “too bad this was published under the Harlequin umbrella, because this is quite good”. What’s with that sentiment? Well, it’s my impression that if the author had unfettered time constraints available to her, then this story would have been even more fleshed out, and it would have ended up as an even more satisfying tale.
There are quite a few moments I would have loved to have read greater depth, I just enjoyed these characters so much. Our heroine, Sara, was so spunky and confident; I just loved her. She had some great lines with our Hero; calling him a “biscuit” 😂 and “chum”. She was hilariously assertive. Just a wonderful character arc for her. I enjoyed Wibberley’s portrayal of our heroine, and am hoping that Sara is a typical example of her heroines, because she was just great. Loved the chutzpah!
This is my first Wibberley read, and it won’t be my last. I’ll be seeking more of her HQ reads. This was originally published in 1984, and it looks as if the bulk of this author’s stories are from the 1970s, and since I’m 100% on-board with the vintage Harleys, I will be headed over to eBay to try and source a few of Wibberley’s more popular reads.
If anyone here on Goodreads is familiar with this author and wants to recommend their favorite story by Wibberley, please feel free to comment with your rec 😊📚.
Even though I really enjoyed this one, i feel that the plot left too many unanswered pieces at the end of the story. Again, I feel that it falls short due to the inherent time constraints of a Harley publication. For example, I would have loved to have seen a scene (look at me using a homophone in a sentence 🥸😂) back in Paris with our mc’s. I just loved that whole added chapter with our h and H enjoying the Parisian nightlife.
In fact, in addition to the whole sweetness of this romance, I just really loved the whole setting and world building. It was fun to read a story set in the high-society world of Nice, France. I just relished all of the high fashion, glamour, and soap-opera-esque drama. I really loved all of the European caricatures of champagne guzzling, Dior-wearing, high-flying socialites. That part was so much fun! 🍾🥂🇫🇷
Overall, this was a very good, sweet romance. It was a story that was (mostly) wholesome in delivery (by today’s standards); and the romance was just so darn heartfelt and mushy, which I LOVED! 💕
I would recommend this fun, vintage romance to any fellow romance reader who wants to take a step back in time to Southern France in the late 1970s. Just good, vintage fun!
This one’s a keeper 📚.
Four sweet stars ✨💘
June 10, 2021
Cover David Craig. I always want the cover to live up/or down to my feelings about the book and this one really doesn't. It's fairly run-of-mill.
I'm doing a re-read of Mary Wibberley books available at openlibrary, trying to remember why she was one of my favorites back in the day and oh yeah, Man Of Power was the reason. It includes many common Wibberley touches: strong heroines, French setting, lots of coffee drinking, and volatile MCs where the h is given to lashing out and hitting the H who is also frequently angry but coldly so.
And yes, Man of Power does have a lot of the typical Wibberley (and HP) gender essentialism at play. While her heroines have hot tempers and are therefore treated as unreasonable, her men are as easily incensed but stonily so which they amusingly think is the same as being unemotional, and also think gives them authority to reprimand via spanking. And my inner teen is still infuriated at the unfairness!
But Man of Power is still a lot of fun.
Sara, who's 19 going on 20 is a parentless, penniless, never been kissed small town girl currently being given the Cinderella treatment by her horrible relatives. And absolutely none of that matters because Sara is also a badass who, crucially, affects her own escape before the H gets to show up to rescue her.
She agrees to his fake fiancée scheme and they're off to France with Sara questioning and challenging him at every turn: Doesn't he think he's too old for her? Isn't he tough enough to dissuade importuning OW without the fake fiancée gambit? and calling him out when he tries to peremptorily end conversations. Her emotions frequently get the best of her, she weeps and hurls food at the H but I say why not? She's got to use those teenaged behaviors while she still can, it's Morgan's own lookout if he feels the need to mess with teens, and anyways she quickly snaps back to cool. For instance after waking up with a post nightclub champagne and kissing hangover: "all right, she told herself as she looked in the mirror and cleaned her teeth vigorously, snap out of it Sara. What are you a woman or a mouse?" She also handles the OW with effortless aplomb!
But Sara isn't the only one freaking out, and it's the mutuality of the disorientation that makes this one so charming. Morgan starts out as a sardonically distant type but he soon begins to lose his sangfroid. He finds himself disco dancing, forgetting how to math, being relegated to helpful sandwich maker while Sara fixes his accounting mistakes—pâté and tomato if you're wondering—and popping in and out of the h's bedroom via the window because they're in the middle of a farce and he just can't stand being out of Sara's company for any length of time.
They do spend the night together and it's one of the best sleeping together without sex scene I've read in terms of how effectively it conveys the important aspects of their relationship; the humor, vulnerability and caring that make Sara and Morgan such a well matched couple in spite of the age and experience gap. An added point of interest is that one of the reasons Morgan doesn't just go for broke is that Sara implies she's having her period, an issue seldom addressed in Harleys and usually obliquely in relation to is she/is she not? pregnant plots.
As StMargarets said in her review, associating Morgan's Cherokee heritage with a warrior demeanor may be chalked up to when it was written but it feels decidedly odd now. And the ending which comes after a brief and illogical mini-misunderstanding is sadly rushed, but these are minor flaws after so much win.
I'm doing a re-read of Mary Wibberley books available at openlibrary, trying to remember why she was one of my favorites back in the day and oh yeah, Man Of Power was the reason. It includes many common Wibberley touches: strong heroines, French setting, lots of coffee drinking, and volatile MCs where the h is given to lashing out and hitting the H who is also frequently angry but coldly so.
And yes, Man of Power does have a lot of the typical Wibberley (and HP) gender essentialism at play. While her heroines have hot tempers and are therefore treated as unreasonable, her men are as easily incensed but stonily so which they amusingly think is the same as being unemotional, and also think gives them authority to reprimand via spanking. And my inner teen is still infuriated at the unfairness!
But Man of Power is still a lot of fun.
Sara, who's 19 going on 20 is a parentless, penniless, never been kissed small town girl currently being given the Cinderella treatment by her horrible relatives. And absolutely none of that matters because Sara is also a badass who, crucially, affects her own escape before the H gets to show up to rescue her.
She agrees to his fake fiancée scheme and they're off to France with Sara questioning and challenging him at every turn: Doesn't he think he's too old for her? Isn't he tough enough to dissuade importuning OW without the fake fiancée gambit? and calling him out when he tries to peremptorily end conversations. Her emotions frequently get the best of her, she weeps and hurls food at the H but I say why not? She's got to use those teenaged behaviors while she still can, it's Morgan's own lookout if he feels the need to mess with teens, and anyways she quickly snaps back to cool. For instance after waking up with a post nightclub champagne and kissing hangover: "all right, she told herself as she looked in the mirror and cleaned her teeth vigorously, snap out of it Sara. What are you a woman or a mouse?" She also handles the OW with effortless aplomb!
But Sara isn't the only one freaking out, and it's the mutuality of the disorientation that makes this one so charming. Morgan starts out as a sardonically distant type but he soon begins to lose his sangfroid. He finds himself disco dancing, forgetting how to math, being relegated to helpful sandwich maker while Sara fixes his accounting mistakes—pâté and tomato if you're wondering—and popping in and out of the h's bedroom via the window because they're in the middle of a farce and he just can't stand being out of Sara's company for any length of time.
They do spend the night together and it's one of the best sleeping together without sex scene I've read in terms of how effectively it conveys the important aspects of their relationship; the humor, vulnerability and caring that make Sara and Morgan such a well matched couple in spite of the age and experience gap. An added point of interest is that one of the reasons Morgan doesn't just go for broke is that Sara implies she's having her period, an issue seldom addressed in Harleys and usually obliquely in relation to is she/is she not? pregnant plots.
As StMargarets said in her review, associating Morgan's Cherokee heritage with a warrior demeanor may be chalked up to when it was written but it feels decidedly odd now. And the ending which comes after a brief and illogical mini-misunderstanding is sadly rushed, but these are minor flaws after so much win.
February 6, 2017
This one is either a one star or a four star. There was a bunch of stuff happening and some of it was pretty vague. For instance she fainted a lot and one time she fainted from hunger and sunstroke I think but then she pretty much tells him that she fainted because she was on her period I think. But it was all so vague. There was a lot of him being mysterious, him laughing at her and then her throwing things at him or slapping him or what not. All of it very OTT. Then they have this mystical night together wherein he doesn't make love to her because of the period I thing, after which he ignores her for a week then at the end she throws a jealous fit and he makes her fess up her love first before he tells her that he has loved her since their mystical night and that is why he was so cold to her for the last week. All very well and good but that night happened at the very end of the book. And I was left wondering how he had been feeling about her for the first 150 pages of the book. The ending was just one paragraph long and was very unsatisfying. I really expected to hear all about how he had been falling for her from the beginning but no just for the last week. Hmm, ulitmately unsatisfying.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 30, 2020
Great heroine!
March 2, 2017
No sex but surprisingly steamy for all its old-skool vibes! I liked it although the ending was a little quick... She really is a firecracker and I liked how she plays up to the OW and ends up laughing in her face after one-too-many nasty barbs. The cuddling-in-bed scene with the Hero was super sweet, too...
August 12, 2023
I'm 5 starring this so I can find it again. Never read a MW before but my GOD this punched a lot of buttons. My teenage self would have died and gone to heaven on this romance. First off, the setting for most of it: it's a 7 bedroom, gorgeous villa with pool, overlooking the sea on the French Riviera. Respectful pause to relish this. MW does real justice to the south of France ambiance of that era (like everywhere else holidayish now imho it's becoming an overcrowded largely declasse mess. It was just about clinging on when I was there in the early 80s). This h, 19 year old orphan Sara can truly hold her own, despite her youth. It threw me back to the Sara of F Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess - a spirited girl with ingrained class, rescued from nasty bitchery by an old friend of her deceased father. Her rescuer is the devastating Morgan. There is no sex in this story but the steam and the erotic dialogue is definitely there. They spend a platonic night together and MW captures a deep, emotional connection that is both romantic and erotic. It's beautifully done. He is your typical hot, secretive, aloof alpha who is good with kids and very sure of his masculinity and skillz. Maybe I'm not so very different to my teenage self 😜
The ending was a bit rushed but all in all this gave me all the feels, mostly, I suspect because of the resonance with some of my south of France experiences. This will be a comfort reread on a miserable northern European day. Of which there have been far too many this summer 🙄
The ending was a bit rushed but all in all this gave me all the feels, mostly, I suspect because of the resonance with some of my south of France experiences. This will be a comfort reread on a miserable northern European day. Of which there have been far too many this summer 🙄
December 9, 2023
Silly but sassy h!
December 6, 2021
Hilarious in an old skool way, with temper tantrums galore, spanking (and not the kinky kind), silly misunderstandings. I was impressed with the heroines talent at long hand math.
The whole tongue in cheek scene about her time of the month, that was a bit surprising in a book from this era. It was going so well and sweet, then verges into funny when he realizes he can't go any further with bed play. Lol, and he drugs her to take her pains away, cause he knew she wouldn't take them voluntarily.
The whole tongue in cheek scene about her time of the month, that was a bit surprising in a book from this era. It was going so well and sweet, then verges into funny when he realizes he can't go any further with bed play. Lol, and he drugs her to take her pains away, cause he knew she wouldn't take them voluntarily.
July 31, 2018
Heroine has been in the power of her rigid, deceptive, manipulative family and now is set free, only to end up in the power of a rigid, deceptive, manipulative, H. I can only assume that being set free from her past life, the h is now is letting every bit of rebellion out at once. She's constantly ranging from irritated to enraged, and she has the maturity of a 13-year-old. The plot is wacky and illogical and depending on your mood might be a lot of fun.
July 19, 2014
One of my all time favorite Harlequin romance novels! I read this over twenty years ago (found it at a flea market for 10 cents), and it was the first HQN romance I'd read where the heroine was spunky and had goals. I loved the snappy dialogue, the hunky hero, and the fun travels and makeovers. This book isn't perfect, but it's perfect for me!
October 27, 2022
Wow, this 19-year old h has a bad temper. She throws coffee at her cousin. She throws her whole meal on the H. She beats him. She kicks him. At last, after warning her and she still kicks him, he gives her a spanking on the butt.
She’s always angry about something. And if she isn’t angry, she is drunk or she faints.
She’s always angry about something. And if she isn’t angry, she is drunk or she faints.
February 7, 2022
DATORIE DE ONOARE - MARY WEBBERLEY
💜 RATING: 1⭐ / 5⭐
✒Așa cum am mai zis, aceste cărți de la Alcris le-am cumpărat și citit din nostalgie.
✒ Dacă prima a fost ea mai răsărită, aceasta a fost jalnică. Acum îmi dau seama ce cărți se citeau pe vremea lui mama 🙈.
✒ Și aici avem tropul de 《căsătorie aranjată》 care se înfăptuiește la finalul cărții 🤭. Avem un mare instant love și acțiune deloc.
✒ Avem "femeia fatală" după care toți bărbați mor și femeile mor și ele, dar din gelozie 😒. Și un mare baștan ce deține un conac.
✒ Acțiune fâs! Personaje fâs! Cartea fâs! 1⭐
💜 RATING: 1⭐ / 5⭐
✒Așa cum am mai zis, aceste cărți de la Alcris le-am cumpărat și citit din nostalgie.
✒ Dacă prima a fost ea mai răsărită, aceasta a fost jalnică. Acum îmi dau seama ce cărți se citeau pe vremea lui mama 🙈.
✒ Și aici avem tropul de 《căsătorie aranjată》 care se înfăptuiește la finalul cărții 🤭. Avem un mare instant love și acțiune deloc.
✒ Avem "femeia fatală" după care toți bărbați mor și femeile mor și ele, dar din gelozie 😒. Și un mare baștan ce deține un conac.
✒ Acțiune fâs! Personaje fâs! Cartea fâs! 1⭐
October 9, 2022
This book was not of my liking.I found hero Morgan to be very dominating, demanding and heroine Sara initially a brave girl keeps succumbing to his charm. They both couldn't keep their hands off each other.Morgan is a super rich guy with vast fortune whereas sara is a penniless english girl.I really can't understand these rich guys falling in love with penniless,brainless girls.This was a big bore.
July 18, 2021
The leads are linked to each other through their daddies who fought the war together.
The strong bond between the daddies made Morgan's dad pledge his unstinted support to Sara's daddy, in case of any need.
You see, after the war, Morgan's daddy became super rich with some business. While Sara's daddy retired to a quiet life.
Now, Sara's daddy is dead. Sara is in a Cinderella cell at her sweet uncle/evil aunt's home. Morgan walks into a dramatic escape scene which Sara is about to stage. And she decides, "Well, my plan was to escape this prison anyway, might as well walk out with Morgan !"
The fact that he is dishy, completely able to silence her evil aunt and also earn her uncle's respect in a matter of minutes adds credence to her impulsive decision.
So we have Sara walking out of her life in London into the ultra rich life in Morgan's Southern France chateau !!!!!!!!!! What a jackpot Sara, I'd say ;)
The job for her after she gets there is simple. Just keep vigil and shoo away all the parading OWs who keep lingering around Morgan !! Dishy and rich fellow, remember?
Just 1 or 2 OWs have their back stories told. The rest are just part of a virtual parade, they only get named from time to time !!!!?!?!??!@^&@#
Enough said, the best way to protect a man from the ladies is get to engaged to him. Simple ! Now thats exactly what Sara manages to do.
In between the OW parades, Sara and Morgan have some really sizzling moments. Their attraction is the instant kind. The author manages to kindle that chemistry right from the first moment they meet. Before heading to the French chateau home, they have one sweet memorable night in Paris. No, not DOING IT, just LIVING IT up, partying, cuddling and so on !!
Sara is still a kiddo 19 year old in the story. But she is by no means meek. Her firebrand attitude, razor sharp tongue but honest and disarming manner has Morgan hooked from Day 1. She makes a welcome change from the clingy OWs you see.
There are a couple of real cozy almost DOING IT love scenes. Not explicit at all, but every catchy. Very well brought out chemistry between the leads. Kudos to the author, must have been a tight rope walk in those times !
Good , racy romantic fare. I loved it !
The strong bond between the daddies made Morgan's dad pledge his unstinted support to Sara's daddy, in case of any need.
You see, after the war, Morgan's daddy became super rich with some business. While Sara's daddy retired to a quiet life.
Now, Sara's daddy is dead. Sara is in a Cinderella cell at her sweet uncle/evil aunt's home. Morgan walks into a dramatic escape scene which Sara is about to stage. And she decides, "Well, my plan was to escape this prison anyway, might as well walk out with Morgan !"
The fact that he is dishy, completely able to silence her evil aunt and also earn her uncle's respect in a matter of minutes adds credence to her impulsive decision.
So we have Sara walking out of her life in London into the ultra rich life in Morgan's Southern France chateau !!!!!!!!!! What a jackpot Sara, I'd say ;)
The job for her after she gets there is simple. Just keep vigil and shoo away all the parading OWs who keep lingering around Morgan !! Dishy and rich fellow, remember?
Just 1 or 2 OWs have their back stories told. The rest are just part of a virtual parade, they only get named from time to time !!!!?!?!??!@^&@#
Enough said, the best way to protect a man from the ladies is get to engaged to him. Simple ! Now thats exactly what Sara manages to do.
In between the OW parades, Sara and Morgan have some really sizzling moments. Their attraction is the instant kind. The author manages to kindle that chemistry right from the first moment they meet. Before heading to the French chateau home, they have one sweet memorable night in Paris. No, not DOING IT, just LIVING IT up, partying, cuddling and so on !!
Sara is still a kiddo 19 year old in the story. But she is by no means meek. Her firebrand attitude, razor sharp tongue but honest and disarming manner has Morgan hooked from Day 1. She makes a welcome change from the clingy OWs you see.
There are a couple of real cozy almost DOING IT love scenes. Not explicit at all, but every catchy. Very well brought out chemistry between the leads. Kudos to the author, must have been a tight rope walk in those times !
Good , racy romantic fare. I loved it !
August 16, 2023
Hmmm was ok, but wasnt quite into the characters.
September 28, 2023
Cute old school one. I think I’ve fallen in love with this author, her heroines are really crazy and violently abusive. I pity the hero here, who had a plate of food thrown over his new cashmere, some slaps here and there and many kicks on the shins and elsewhere. The heroine is 18 and she’s a savage.
I loved her because she didn’t accept shit from anyone. She threw coffee on her abusive cousin, shamed her own evil aunt, and slaughtered the hero each time he told her anything she didn’t like.
He saves her from her abusive aunt and cousin, taking her to Paris so she can help him to shoo off a nasty ow who’s the wife of his neighbor.
The heroine’s father and the hero’s were friends and there was a debt of honor, so the hero is happy to help her to become independent by her aunt.
There’s obviously a strong chemistry between them and the hero is not a bad guy, but he has so many women who want him that is not even funny.
The heroine does her part, but eventually she falls in love with him, and he of course is smitten with her from the start.
No real ow drama, since he’s not interested in anyone but the heroine, and the one she thought he could be interested in, is actually involved with ows husband. That is, some good mess.
I love the story, the heroine is feisty and never a victim and the hero is older and more experienced but not bad.
The physical violence is for this author equivalent to physical attraction so neither the heroine or the hero are disturbed by it. I was sometimes because it’s not ok to slap a poor man if it’s not for defense, but everything is so normal and light that eventually I said to myself, if it’s ok for them it’s ok for me too…
I loved her because she didn’t accept shit from anyone. She threw coffee on her abusive cousin, shamed her own evil aunt, and slaughtered the hero each time he told her anything she didn’t like.
He saves her from her abusive aunt and cousin, taking her to Paris so she can help him to shoo off a nasty ow who’s the wife of his neighbor.
The heroine’s father and the hero’s were friends and there was a debt of honor, so the hero is happy to help her to become independent by her aunt.
There’s obviously a strong chemistry between them and the hero is not a bad guy, but he has so many women who want him that is not even funny.
The heroine does her part, but eventually she falls in love with him, and he of course is smitten with her from the start.
No real ow drama, since he’s not interested in anyone but the heroine, and the one she thought he could be interested in, is actually involved with ows husband. That is, some good mess.
I love the story, the heroine is feisty and never a victim and the hero is older and more experienced but not bad.
The physical violence is for this author equivalent to physical attraction so neither the heroine or the hero are disturbed by it. I was sometimes because it’s not ok to slap a poor man if it’s not for defense, but everything is so normal and light that eventually I said to myself, if it’s ok for them it’s ok for me too…
February 9, 2021
Is it just me or Mary Wibberley is a boring writer? DNF this one, never finish the other one I attempted. I like her plots but her execution tends to be very flat & tedious. I didn’t feel the emotions or tension here. They have chemistry but it was like dry/indifference chemistry. I was so frustrated with the whole suspense of his REAL reason to fake the engagement. She asked for the reason & he was like ok, I’ll tell you..after breakfast. Then after breakfast, he goes no I’ll show you instead. He took her to the orphanage, then took her out for a scenic ride. So now you know right? Heroine was confused, me too! Btw, she was a bit too immature for me. Slapping him was her favorite pastime, apparently it’s the same for her cousin Elizabeth too. Runs in the family, I’ll say.
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May 6, 2024
"Man of Power" is the story of Sara and Morgan.
The book started out so good.
After her father's death, heroine is sent to live with her aunt/ uncle and their two kids. In a typical cinderella manner, the aunt and her kids are insufferable. But the heroine isn't a shrinking violet. She gives as good as she gets, and is locked in the attic for her rebuttal.
On the day she plans to escape, the hero- who is her father's friend's son comes and decides to rescue her. He whisks her away to Paris, and soon requests she be his fiancé in name only..
Basically, there's a married OW who is the main reason for the drama, the hero and heroine spend the whole book bantering while pining for one another and exchanging kisses.
Good one time read.
Safe
2.5/5
The book started out so good.
After her father's death, heroine is sent to live with her aunt/ uncle and their two kids. In a typical cinderella manner, the aunt and her kids are insufferable. But the heroine isn't a shrinking violet. She gives as good as she gets, and is locked in the attic for her rebuttal.
On the day she plans to escape, the hero- who is her father's friend's son comes and decides to rescue her. He whisks her away to Paris, and soon requests she be his fiancé in name only..
Basically, there's a married OW who is the main reason for the drama, the hero and heroine spend the whole book bantering while pining for one another and exchanging kisses.
Good one time read.
Safe
2.5/5
June 12, 2021
The plot lines in this were all over the place and were just abandoned along the way, including: their fathers both being in the French Resistance (I would have loved more of that to add weight and historical interest to the story); there were some orphans that needed more land for their orphanage; various other women came and went; the hero has American Indian heritage; an OTT Cinderella family complete with evil stepsister.
It would have been better if the author sheared off some of these extraneous plotlines or at least gave them some resolution.
It would have been better if the author sheared off some of these extraneous plotlines or at least gave them some resolution.
October 30, 2019
Sara took her role seriously.
Although Sara had already planned her escape from the subservient position in which her father's death had placed her, Morgan Haldane's timely appearance had definitely made it easier.
All Morgan had asked in return was that she pose as his fiancee. He'd confessed to needing protection from his partner's wife, Louise, and that part of Sara's job proved easy.
But unfortunately for Sara's heart, Morgan hadn't told her about Monique...
Although Sara had already planned her escape from the subservient position in which her father's death had placed her, Morgan Haldane's timely appearance had definitely made it easier.
All Morgan had asked in return was that she pose as his fiancee. He'd confessed to needing protection from his partner's wife, Louise, and that part of Sara's job proved easy.
But unfortunately for Sara's heart, Morgan hadn't told her about Monique...
July 9, 2024
Meh. The MMC was aloof, impersonal and distant; the MFC was shouty, prone to quicksilver (and incorrect) conclusions and at times histrionic with her object-flinging, shin-kicking tantrums; and the ILYs didn't happen until the very last page. Oh, and he tells her he realized he was in love about a week prior to that ... so no, he hasn't been secretly pining for her throughout the story. I found it a very tepid romance.
December 20, 2020
The emotional swings of the heroine wore me out and tired me out. It was a struggle to finish.
April 7, 2021
DNF- got to be too much since h way too immature and slappy.
September 21, 2023
This lacked angst!!!! It started out as though it would be angsty, but that frittered out after one good confrontation.
June 12, 2011
Sometimes, in life, there are moments when you get a flash of insight that puts everything into perspective..
September 23, 2012
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