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A Kind of Madness
"Why are you marrying the man?"
It was a question Carter couldn't help but ask. "You've just admitted that he can't turn you on? And I know, from personal experience, that you're a passionate woman."
Carter Macdonald could easily sweep a woman off her feet--he oozed sex appeal. Elspeth, however, wanted an orderly life, one with no highs or lows, no chaotic emotional displays. Which was exactly what Peter, a wealthy lawyer, was offering her.
She and Peter were two of a kind--everyone said so. Suddenly, the thought of being two of a kind with Peter was oddly disturbing. Should she review her plans for the future...?
It was a question Carter couldn't help but ask. "You've just admitted that he can't turn you on? And I know, from personal experience, that you're a passionate woman."
Carter Macdonald could easily sweep a woman off her feet--he oozed sex appeal. Elspeth, however, wanted an orderly life, one with no highs or lows, no chaotic emotional displays. Which was exactly what Peter, a wealthy lawyer, was offering her.
She and Peter were two of a kind--everyone said so. Suddenly, the thought of being two of a kind with Peter was oddly disturbing. Should she review her plans for the future...?
188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1992
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Penny Jordan
1,125 books668 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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July 19, 2018
Re A Kind of Madness - PJ has another over-sensitive and easily hurt h in this one. In fact PJ comes right out and says exactly that in the first chapter and pairs her with an extrovert H for this little story of love among the organic vegetables.
The h is a career lady merchant banker in London when the book opens. She is rather upset because she has just been told she has to take a mandatory month off and use up some of her massive amount of leave. The h is worried because she doesn't really know what to do with herself and it is clear this is an h in inner turmoil.
Initially, the h gives the appearance of being an enormous, uptight prig. Her parents are bohemian extrovert farmers who now do organic vegetables for restaurants in Cheshire and the h is rather worried about them. They don't seem to be very organized about things, even tho their business is quite successful, and they are all together too fond and familiar with the h's stepcousin, the step son of her mother's sister, whom the h despises and is more than a bit jealous of.
The h's priggish conservatism hides a really introverted and tender heart. When she was a merchant banker in training, she invited a girl who she thought was a friend home for Christmas as her family keeps an open house and her friend had no where else to go. When they got back to work after the holiday, the girl made a laughingstock of the h and her family in the office, mocking the h's parents and their farm and their lifestyle.
(Later the h realizes that the girl came from a very broken home and her family ignored her in their rather glamourous lifestyle and the girl was probably massively envious of the h and her warm and loving family, but it really destroyed the h at the time.)
This embarrassed and humiliated the h and she soon armoured herself in the icy perfection of a high powered career woman persona. The h has an almost fiance, a lawyer who is as priggish and conservative as the h wants to be, with a domineering mother and the h has a very sterile relationship with him. They only see each other for lunch a few times a week and his mama is real critical of her and he is utterly non interested in anything that doesn't directly relate to or elevate him.
Lately the h has been getting strange yearnings for the family homestead in Cheshire, but the step-cousin is there and the h distinctly remembers not liking him when she first met him at 14 and he was 22. She worries, in large part because her almost fiance insists that it is so, that the step-cousin is trying to take advantage of her parents and they are so flighty that they wouldn't notice anything wrong until they are ruined.
PJ establishes almost immediately that this is an h who is really trying to fit as a square peg into a round hole. She loves her parents, but they are hazily vague about things and seem to give no thought to the future or security, things that are really important to the h, she is doesn't do well with impulsive changes to the routine.
Tho the h is rather envious that even after all these years, her parents are still fun and happy, very loving to each other and very spontaneous. It is also clear that her parents don't really understand their daughter and that they disapprove of her chosen lifestyle of City living and work. They don't like her almost fiance either.
(In fact I wondered if her parents were so into each other that she really was an afterthought, and combining that with her exactly opposite personality to them, it was no wonder the h felt totally lost and tried to find inner security by outwardly conforming to lifestyle that she was good at, tho it may not have satisfied her inner yearnings for a more relaxed life.)
The h has the quiet longing for a life in the country, but she also has a brain and she wants to be accepted by others. PJ doesn't say it, but I think she was pushed to be more outgoing and extroverted for most of her life and her parents did not understand that her basic personality is much more cautious and fragile than their own.
This h isn't much of a personal relationship risk taker, it seems every time she tries, she finds out later that people weren't really interested in her pov or how she thinks about things- even her parents don't seem to value her ideas. She tried to get her dad to get a computer for his accounting, since she gets called on to help them sort it out and they refused. Then later she finds out her mother let the H convince them to let him set a system up for them.
This is really clear as the h decides to go to her parents and they decide to leave on a cruise for the entire time the h has off. They leave the h's step-cousin in charge and the h finds out that her parents basically pity her and don't seem to have to much respect for her choices when the family rescue parrot, who is a huge mimic, repeats some of the h's parent's conversations about her.
The H, who is of course the step-cousin, gets along much better with the h's parents and the h is pretty convinced that her parents vastly prefer his extrovert bonhomie to her own more muted expressions of personality and she resents that a lot.
So the h gets home and finds that her parents are gone without even saying goodbye, the H is in charge of things and she can't even sleep in her own room because her parents have given it to the H. She is also uncomfortably aware of the H's stunning muscled arms and impeccable washboard abs - the H manages to get some roofie kisses in and goes shirtless a lot. Most of the book is the h doing her inner analysis to figure out what she really wants and getting into embarrassing situations, like skinny dipping in a silk shirt, every time the H seeks her out.
Eventually the h realizes that her almost fiance is too much a mama's boy and that his mama doesn't really like her when she asks him to come early to their planned visit to her family home and he blows the h off to attend his mother's dinner party. Where mama has arranged a meet up with a more suitable girl for her beloved lap dog son.
When the fiance refuses to put the h first, she dumps him and then proceeds to get drunk on elderberry wine because she is wildly attracted to the H and doesn't know what to do with that, is confused about how she wants live her life and there is a big thunderstorm brewing and she is terrified of them.
The H finds the h totally toasted and the inevitable patented PJ drunken lurve mojo takes over and the h winds up blooming with the H as the master gardener. The h is hung over and mortified the next morning and has to go to the local village to find a hangover remedy. She runs into an old school friend who reminds her of the huge crush she had on the H when she first met him and the h realizes that she is in love with him and has probably been for a long time.
She goes back to the farm to confront the H about hurting her parent's business because she knows he went out and bought some fields her parents need to expand and she thinks he did it to compete with them. The H is angry, cause she left him after their big night of love and also angry cause he bought the land for her parents as they were on vacation for the auction.
There is no H POV in this until the very end where the H explains about the land and then tells the H he is there and her parents left them alone to give him a chance to court her. Apparently this H has been in love with her for yonks and has been waiting to stake his claim.
The h is overwhelmed and happy and since she loves him back, she asks for a repeat on their mystical blooming flower experience to see if it was a wonderful as she thinks it was. We get a nice tiny epilogue where the H and h are married on a big organic garden farm in Cheshire happily doing their blooming garden reenactment and yep, it is as good as the h always thinks it is.
This one was cute, in a very PJ sorta way. The h is almost irritating at first, until we get to learn more about her and then her actions are ruefully amusing but you kinda can't help feeling for her. PJ does a very nice coming of age story, mixed with a little romance in this one and if you have some patience with the h and her prim fussiness for the first few chapters, you are in for a fairly charming and sweet PJ HPlandia outing.
The h is a career lady merchant banker in London when the book opens. She is rather upset because she has just been told she has to take a mandatory month off and use up some of her massive amount of leave. The h is worried because she doesn't really know what to do with herself and it is clear this is an h in inner turmoil.
Initially, the h gives the appearance of being an enormous, uptight prig. Her parents are bohemian extrovert farmers who now do organic vegetables for restaurants in Cheshire and the h is rather worried about them. They don't seem to be very organized about things, even tho their business is quite successful, and they are all together too fond and familiar with the h's stepcousin, the step son of her mother's sister, whom the h despises and is more than a bit jealous of.
The h's priggish conservatism hides a really introverted and tender heart. When she was a merchant banker in training, she invited a girl who she thought was a friend home for Christmas as her family keeps an open house and her friend had no where else to go. When they got back to work after the holiday, the girl made a laughingstock of the h and her family in the office, mocking the h's parents and their farm and their lifestyle.
(Later the h realizes that the girl came from a very broken home and her family ignored her in their rather glamourous lifestyle and the girl was probably massively envious of the h and her warm and loving family, but it really destroyed the h at the time.)
This embarrassed and humiliated the h and she soon armoured herself in the icy perfection of a high powered career woman persona. The h has an almost fiance, a lawyer who is as priggish and conservative as the h wants to be, with a domineering mother and the h has a very sterile relationship with him. They only see each other for lunch a few times a week and his mama is real critical of her and he is utterly non interested in anything that doesn't directly relate to or elevate him.
Lately the h has been getting strange yearnings for the family homestead in Cheshire, but the step-cousin is there and the h distinctly remembers not liking him when she first met him at 14 and he was 22. She worries, in large part because her almost fiance insists that it is so, that the step-cousin is trying to take advantage of her parents and they are so flighty that they wouldn't notice anything wrong until they are ruined.
PJ establishes almost immediately that this is an h who is really trying to fit as a square peg into a round hole. She loves her parents, but they are hazily vague about things and seem to give no thought to the future or security, things that are really important to the h, she is doesn't do well with impulsive changes to the routine.
Tho the h is rather envious that even after all these years, her parents are still fun and happy, very loving to each other and very spontaneous. It is also clear that her parents don't really understand their daughter and that they disapprove of her chosen lifestyle of City living and work. They don't like her almost fiance either.
(In fact I wondered if her parents were so into each other that she really was an afterthought, and combining that with her exactly opposite personality to them, it was no wonder the h felt totally lost and tried to find inner security by outwardly conforming to lifestyle that she was good at, tho it may not have satisfied her inner yearnings for a more relaxed life.)
The h has the quiet longing for a life in the country, but she also has a brain and she wants to be accepted by others. PJ doesn't say it, but I think she was pushed to be more outgoing and extroverted for most of her life and her parents did not understand that her basic personality is much more cautious and fragile than their own.
This h isn't much of a personal relationship risk taker, it seems every time she tries, she finds out later that people weren't really interested in her pov or how she thinks about things- even her parents don't seem to value her ideas. She tried to get her dad to get a computer for his accounting, since she gets called on to help them sort it out and they refused. Then later she finds out her mother let the H convince them to let him set a system up for them.
This is really clear as the h decides to go to her parents and they decide to leave on a cruise for the entire time the h has off. They leave the h's step-cousin in charge and the h finds out that her parents basically pity her and don't seem to have to much respect for her choices when the family rescue parrot, who is a huge mimic, repeats some of the h's parent's conversations about her.
The H, who is of course the step-cousin, gets along much better with the h's parents and the h is pretty convinced that her parents vastly prefer his extrovert bonhomie to her own more muted expressions of personality and she resents that a lot.
So the h gets home and finds that her parents are gone without even saying goodbye, the H is in charge of things and she can't even sleep in her own room because her parents have given it to the H. She is also uncomfortably aware of the H's stunning muscled arms and impeccable washboard abs - the H manages to get some roofie kisses in and goes shirtless a lot. Most of the book is the h doing her inner analysis to figure out what she really wants and getting into embarrassing situations, like skinny dipping in a silk shirt, every time the H seeks her out.
Eventually the h realizes that her almost fiance is too much a mama's boy and that his mama doesn't really like her when she asks him to come early to their planned visit to her family home and he blows the h off to attend his mother's dinner party. Where mama has arranged a meet up with a more suitable girl for her beloved lap dog son.
When the fiance refuses to put the h first, she dumps him and then proceeds to get drunk on elderberry wine because she is wildly attracted to the H and doesn't know what to do with that, is confused about how she wants live her life and there is a big thunderstorm brewing and she is terrified of them.
The H finds the h totally toasted and the inevitable patented PJ drunken lurve mojo takes over and the h winds up blooming with the H as the master gardener. The h is hung over and mortified the next morning and has to go to the local village to find a hangover remedy. She runs into an old school friend who reminds her of the huge crush she had on the H when she first met him and the h realizes that she is in love with him and has probably been for a long time.
She goes back to the farm to confront the H about hurting her parent's business because she knows he went out and bought some fields her parents need to expand and she thinks he did it to compete with them. The H is angry, cause she left him after their big night of love and also angry cause he bought the land for her parents as they were on vacation for the auction.
There is no H POV in this until the very end where the H explains about the land and then tells the H he is there and her parents left them alone to give him a chance to court her. Apparently this H has been in love with her for yonks and has been waiting to stake his claim.
The h is overwhelmed and happy and since she loves him back, she asks for a repeat on their mystical blooming flower experience to see if it was a wonderful as she thinks it was. We get a nice tiny epilogue where the H and h are married on a big organic garden farm in Cheshire happily doing their blooming garden reenactment and yep, it is as good as the h always thinks it is.
This one was cute, in a very PJ sorta way. The h is almost irritating at first, until we get to learn more about her and then her actions are ruefully amusing but you kinda can't help feeling for her. PJ does a very nice coming of age story, mixed with a little romance in this one and if you have some patience with the h and her prim fussiness for the first few chapters, you are in for a fairly charming and sweet PJ HPlandia outing.
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December 9, 2019
More coming of age than romance.
I first read this soon after its original publication date. It was okay then, and it's still okay now. Elspeth and Carter didn't interact enough to constitute a romance—the narrative focused more on Elspeth's emotional journey than anything—although I did find their meet cute amusing.
In addition to the minimal interaction, I also didn't care for the long separation.
Read Boogenhagen's review for the complete plot. I agree with her summary, but had a different reaction.
I first read this soon after its original publication date. It was okay then, and it's still okay now. Elspeth and Carter didn't interact enough to constitute a romance—the narrative focused more on Elspeth's emotional journey than anything—although I did find their meet cute amusing.
In addition to the minimal interaction, I also didn't care for the long separation.
Read Boogenhagen's review for the complete plot. I agree with her summary, but had a different reaction.
October 25, 2021
"A Kind of Madness" is the story of Elspeth and Carter.
Heroine is Ms boring who is ashamed of her fun loving family and totally in "love" with her stoic, controlling and critical boyfriend. She is very skeptical when her parents decide to go on an impromptu vacation, and soon realizes they have left their home to the hero. Ofcourse, they engage in a battle of wills- he laughs every time she frowns, she is suspicious of his intentions which are obviously good and soon realizes the cold lonely life she has been living so far..
Old trope of hero breaking the ice maiden. The heroine was pretty bland and boring, hero too patient but nice. It was an average read!
SWE
2.5/5
Heroine is Ms boring who is ashamed of her fun loving family and totally in "love" with her stoic, controlling and critical boyfriend. She is very skeptical when her parents decide to go on an impromptu vacation, and soon realizes they have left their home to the hero. Ofcourse, they engage in a battle of wills- he laughs every time she frowns, she is suspicious of his intentions which are obviously good and soon realizes the cold lonely life she has been living so far..
Old trope of hero breaking the ice maiden. The heroine was pretty bland and boring, hero too patient but nice. It was an average read!
SWE
2.5/5
July 19, 2015
I loved the angst and how blind heroine was. Her fiancé was such a jerk. Hero was so obviously smitten loved their HEA!
August 9, 2019
Neurotic only-child heroine who has a banking job and dry stick boyfriend in London goes home to her parent’s farm and meets the hero, a step-relative she had a crush on when she was a teen. Heroine is prickly and nervous. Hero is steadily interested. There’s a parrot who says inconvenient truths. An over-the-phone break up with the bf, a storm, and a bottle of elderberry wine manage to finally sort out the H/h.
Typical PJ fare, but enjoyable. Boogenhagen has all the details in her review.
Typical PJ fare, but enjoyable. Boogenhagen has all the details in her review.
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March 21, 2024Let us pause reverently for a moment to appreciate the delicious arm porn on the cover. A good choice, for a change, as it's a motif that frequently appears in the text as horny handed son of toil Carter removes his shirt and flexes his bronze, hair scattered, corded, muscular forearms to tempt our buttoned up 90s h Elspeth away from her pale, scraggly, sexless mummy's boy lawyer. This is an actual scene from the book, where he lifts her over a stile while she's dressed in a silk shirt and skin tight pencil skirt (your typical farm attire 😂).
She has left her fiance and city slicker job to mind her jolly, hippyish parents' supposed ramshackle (but not) smallholding while they treat themselves to an exciting holiday in Egypt. Carter is a distant relative's child that they slightly parented when Elspeth was 14 and of whom she is jealous and suspicious.
The star of this one is undoubtedly Jasper the parrot, whose repertoire is pretty impressive and includes the h's absent parents commenting on her love life and assorted racy exclamations.
It's daft and has some tedious husbandry and ridiculous mother-in-law-to-be snark but I happily romped through it in a couple of hours.
She has left her fiance and city slicker job to mind her jolly, hippyish parents' supposed ramshackle (but not) smallholding while they treat themselves to an exciting holiday in Egypt. Carter is a distant relative's child that they slightly parented when Elspeth was 14 and of whom she is jealous and suspicious.
The star of this one is undoubtedly Jasper the parrot, whose repertoire is pretty impressive and includes the h's absent parents commenting on her love life and assorted racy exclamations.
It's daft and has some tedious husbandry and ridiculous mother-in-law-to-be snark but I happily romped through it in a couple of hours.
June 4, 2021
"Why are you marrying the man?"
It was a question Carter couldn't help but ask. "You've just admitted that he can't turn you on? And I know, from personal experience, that you're a passionate woman."
Cater Macdonald could easily sweep a woman off her feet - he oozed sex appeal. Elspeth, however, wanted an orderly life, one with no highs or lows, no chaotic emotional displays. Which was exactly what Peter, a wealthy lawyer, was offering her.
She and Peter were two of a kind - everyone said so. Suddenly, the thought of being two of a kind with Peter was oddly disturbing. Should she review her plans for the future.
It was a question Carter couldn't help but ask. "You've just admitted that he can't turn you on? And I know, from personal experience, that you're a passionate woman."
Cater Macdonald could easily sweep a woman off her feet - he oozed sex appeal. Elspeth, however, wanted an orderly life, one with no highs or lows, no chaotic emotional displays. Which was exactly what Peter, a wealthy lawyer, was offering her.
She and Peter were two of a kind - everyone said so. Suddenly, the thought of being two of a kind with Peter was oddly disturbing. Should she review her plans for the future.
September 13, 2022
Heroine is tiresome, ready to subordinate her life to a stuffed shirt. She is yet another PH h who thinks she is undesirable blah blah blah.
August 14, 2011
The heroine Elspeth is a conservative merchant banker and bona-fide career woman, she is currently in a relationship with the even more conservative Peter. She is about to go and spend a couple of weeks looking after her parent's small holding. Her parents are the opposite to her life, they are relaxed and rather liberal in their country way of life. The hero Carter is currently staying with her parents helping out their business and Elspeth, spurred on by Peter, seems to think he is trying to sabotage her parents business. She travels up to her parents home with the intention of confronting him, but nothing goes as planned. Carter seems to be very close to her parents and works very hard for them, he is also very charming and Elspeth feels out of her depth. She begins to realise that she isn't as happy with her 'city life' as she thought and that her relationship with Peter is not what she wants. And, despite her opinion of him, she is very drawn to Cater.
I enjoyed this book but found it a little frustrating at times. There is no doubt that Penny Jordan's writing is fantastic, but the story itself could have been made so much better. The heroine is written as ridiculously uptight, and I mean ridiculously! It was so apparent that it actually became humorous after a while, and not in a good way. The hero however is brilliant and I think this book would have benefited hugely from including his point of view. The ending also felt a little rushed.
But, this is an enjoyable and quick read.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
I enjoyed this book but found it a little frustrating at times. There is no doubt that Penny Jordan's writing is fantastic, but the story itself could have been made so much better. The heroine is written as ridiculously uptight, and I mean ridiculously! It was so apparent that it actually became humorous after a while, and not in a good way. The hero however is brilliant and I think this book would have benefited hugely from including his point of view. The ending also felt a little rushed.
But, this is an enjoyable and quick read.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
December 13, 2017
Not good
Way to much inner dialogue. hardly any real interaction between H and h. Heroine constantly repeating things over and over to herself. Wrapped up far to quickly
Way to much inner dialogue. hardly any real interaction between H and h. Heroine constantly repeating things over and over to herself. Wrapped up far to quickly
October 31, 2021
It was nice. The H was secretly crazy in love with her although that doesn't explain why he had to move continents while waiting for her. The h's neurosis and rambling thoughts started getting very boring so I skimmed all her internal monologues after the midway point. Great chemistry though! You could instantly see the h and her pseudo fiance shouldnt be together.
November 7, 2024
Elspeth was interested in Peter, a wealthy lawyer who was offering her a quiet, unchaotic life and she was interested.
But another man, Carter MacDonald was also in the picture and was giving Elspeth another look at really being in love.
In the end, Elspeth chooses Carter and hopefully they had a happy marriage.
But another man, Carter MacDonald was also in the picture and was giving Elspeth another look at really being in love.
In the end, Elspeth chooses Carter and hopefully they had a happy marriage.
July 18, 2021
Dnf, so much inner monologue that goes on and on. Right from the beginning was a whole life narrative...about herself, about her parents, about Peter, about her coworker...
May 17, 2022
The heroine was a hot mess.
August 4, 2017
Eh. I really hated the Heroine, she was annoying. I don't understand why this book isn't linked to the original paperback A Kind of Madness by Penny Jordan from 1992.
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