Back Cover:
"Underneath civilization's veneer, he was a predator at heart."
Amber Taylor looked innocent...and that interested Spanish billionaire Miguel Menendez. But as a model - she sold her innocence every day.
The seduction was relentless....Miguel's Mediterranean charm made Amber feel beautiful for the first time in her life.
It was supposed to be quick fling with a top model. But now Miguel had taken the most precious gift of all - her innocence!
My Review:
Amber's an innocent guileless model, almost child-like. Miguel is a jaded wealthy man who goes into this relationship expecting it to be just "exceptional sex". Amber tells him in advance that she's a virgin, and that doesn't stop him from wanting her, I'm glad that it was a deliberate choice on both their parts for them to have sex, because too often the hero doesn't find out she's a virgin beforehand and there are recrimations and confusion over the expectations they went into the affair with.
This book had the slowest seduction and introduction into sex of a virgin I've ever read. Miguel was the most considerate first lover ever. That's not a bad thing. The intimacies between Amber and Miguel are unique, as if they are discovering them together, which is really sweet as well as sexy. They break up because Miguel thinks the affair must come to an end, as all affairs in his experience do, and he has committments outside the country. This break up has huge emotional and physical consequences for the heroine. The hero's not exactly unaffected himself, he's not able to move on with other women during their separation and regrets the break up almost from the start, periodically trying to get in contact with her but being rejected.
I was very choked up and teared up at the end. There were a lot of very emotional issues at the end of this book. An emotional read.
Rating: 4.5/5 stars, I'm sure many Presents books have the "virgin model" storyline, but this one was unique and so emotional. Well done Lucy Monroe! (FYI: there is another book about Amber's twin sister: Ellie & Sandor's story. I don't recall the title, but I remember reading that one!)
I forgot about this one
I forgot about this one until you mentioned the twin sister. (I liked that story better.)
I also had a hard time with all the forgiveness for the abusive father and the kidnapper. Maybe at some point forgiveness would come into it, but right away?
(I have a hard time when they throw forgiveness in for some truly unforgivable acts. Sometimes it ruins a perfectly good Presents!)
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I didn't pay too much
I didn't pay too much attention to the kidnapping/bad-father thing. When that was revealed, I had an "oh shit" moment where I just thought "this is jumping the shark, the story could have been perfectly good without this over-dramatic storyline thrown in 75% of the way through the book".
So mentally I kind of stepped away from that plot line and ignored it. *grin*
Apart from that unbelievable / random part... the relationship between hero/heroine was really unique and intense.
w-w-w... while I have you here.... what do you think of Sharon Kendrick's "The Greek Tycoon's Baby Bargain"? I have that book wavering at the top of my TBR pile, but I need a little motivation to get me to start in on it. I'm worried that this does not bode well.... The heroine was the hero's mistress till he tired of her, then she came to tell him she was pregnant with his twins, he tried to buy her off, then once they were born he all of a sudden wanted his heirs?
I want to know if the hero moves on to other women after dumping the heroine and leaving her to go through pregnancy without him! Because the unfairness in that is bad. And the romance just goes out of the situation when your hero's banging other women while your heroine is suffering through morning sickness and swollen ankles and back pain.
May and June
My youngest daughter (19) just had her first baby on Mother's Day. We held a shower for her on May 4, her 19th birthday was May 3.
As a result money has been short this month and I won't be getting my May or June books until after the beginning of next month! The wait is killing me!
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Aww, congrats on the new
Aww, congrats on the new arrival! Hope all is going well... when is a new baby not tough?
Yeah... I try to hold off until the end of the month because then my library stocks the latest HP books... but I always cave and buy some each month in the store... and it's sad... i buy them one at a time. I look them all over, choose the one I want most, agonize, buy, then come back a few days or a week later, get tempted, look the covers over, agonize, rationalize and buy my next fav book, etc etc!
Maybe . . .
Maybe we are twins separated at birth, like in a Lucy Monroe book!
The baby is wonderful. He weighs 7lbs. 7 ounces and has red hair.
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I'm closer to your
I'm closer to your daughter's age! So the twins thing is probably out. *grin*
But aww babies! Love 'em. Red hair... that runs in your family? Will it darken towards a brown or lighten towards blond? I know some people have a red-hair-phobia! lol... Anne of Green Gables!