Tiger Eyes (Mills & Boon Vintage 90s Modern) - Robyn Donald - Google Книги
When Lecia first spotted Keane Paget, his presence burned like a shining beacon. He was handsome, certainly, and profoundly male, but the face that stared back at her was otherwise her own! Lecia was stunned… hypnotized… and it wasn't just his likeness - an unsettling, wild attraction immediately coursed between them. They say that the greater the resemblance, the happier the relationship.
But Lecia's passions had only ever led to heartbreak - and guilt! No, Keane Paget was dangerous. Not only did he have her face, he seemed to see inside her soul! They were too alike for comfort. The Italian's One-Night Baby. Mistress of the Groom. Sold for the Greek's Heir. The Pregnant Kavakos Bride. Shock Heir for the Crown Prince. The Argentinian's Virgin Conquest.
Secrets of a Billionaire's Mistress. Claiming His Hidden Heir. Claimed for the De Carrillo Twins. Di Marcello's Secret Son. Consequence of His Revenge. The Italian's Vengeful Seduction. The Consequence of His Vengeance. The Secret Kept from the Greek. His Queen by Desert Decree.
Convenient Bride for the King. The Secret He Must Claim. Acquired by Her Greek Boss. The Greek's Ultimate Conquest. They were passionately in love and devoted and even got a really big cuddly tiger striped cat, named Oscar, when the h rescued him as a tiny bedraggled kitten who had been thrown in the river in a plastic sack.
Oscar was very weak and malnourished and the H and h labored together for three days to get him to take food from a medicine dropper. Oscar recovered just fine, except he has PTSD about enclosed spaces. Oscar likes to walk about on a leash with the h and he has been patiently and sadly waiting for the h to return to his adoring side after she ran off five years earlier. Why did she run off? She found the supermodel wife of one of the H's friends, who came to stay with the H while searching for a house with her husband, naked in the h's marital bed when the H came waltzing nude out of the shower.
The h has a thing about cheaters AND her looks, since her own devastatingly handsome father ran off with multiple women while married to her mother and finally ran off for good shortly after the h was born. The h endured YEARS of her mother bewailing the loss of the only man she ever loved, while decrying the lack of looks that both her and the h supposedly have that drives god-like handsome men from their sides.
The h loved her mother, but she hated the way her mother hopelessly clung to the memory of a man who was at best a womanizing fool and at worst the lowest slime slurper in all the HP universe. The h is pretty insecure about her own looks as well. She was pleasantly plump and wholesome at 18, which of course was light years from the H's bevy of beautiful, wealthy, aggressive babes-- who were also miles ahead of her in sophistication and style.
So when she sees a naked supermodel OW and the H in the h's bedroom together, the h did NOT take this apparent betrayal lightly. She did not even give him a chance to say anything cause she was totally on a major ranty roll and then the h took off, leaving poor Oscar behind because she couldn't figure out a way to sneak him past the British animal quarantine and pet passports weren't invented yet. The H, in a very dubious Alpha executive decision, decided not to chase the h down and make her listen.
Instead he hired private detectives to follow the h around as she built her artistic career and gave her time to mature into her own person. It is only with the advent of a very kind and gentle OM that is very interested in the h - tho she is NOT really interested in him as anything other than a nice person and a friend- that the H decides enough is enough and he is going to get his girl back.
So he tells the h that she can have a divorce if she will return to his home as his wife for three months. The h is furious and thinks she should have just filed for divorce in England as soon as she was able, but she agrees cause the H promises an uncomplicated divorce if they can't reconcile in the allotted time. Of course the h doesn't really want a divorce, she is still in love with the H and always will be.
But she also has horrible memories of her mother's abjectly pathetic hopelessness about the h's father. She just can't give into her wishful thinking and make herself a doormat and turn a blind eye, while the H lurves it up at the lady buffet with women much more attractive than herself.
So the battle of wills begins, interspersed with walks and cuddles with Oscar. There are massive almost Purple Passion Roofie Kissing moments, also the H is being very demanding about the h talking about their relationship with him and a lot of time is spent with the H and h just learning about each other's personalities and interests. Their first attempt at marriage was much more focused on being blissfully in love and lurvin' it up every chance they got. This time the H wants to build a more solid foundation to their relationship, tho five years of celibacy is very wearing on an HP Alpha H, so there is lots of roofie kissing moments too.
Eventually the h and H go to a big society affair and the H brushes off hoards of ravening, predatory wanna be OW and only has eyes for the h. The h overhears two beautiful society doyennes gossiping about what a shame it is that the H has been mourning his lost love wife for the last five years and won't even look at another woman.
In best HP traditions of believing some kid on a skateboard at the street corner over their own spouse, the h decides that the H is truly absolutely sincere in his big devoted I Love You Forever declarations and we get a wildly in love and raging fade to black Purple Passion moment as the h and H re-consummate their marriage. The next morning the happy, in love again h takes Oscar out for a stroll to question him about his dubious lady cat lovin' nightly activities and then disaster strikes.
When the h returns to the H's magnificent manor, the maid comes rushing out in a flutter of tongue-tied embarrassment. When the h feels the chills of true betrayal running down her back, she steps over to the H's study, which conveniently has the door partway open. The h spies the original man-eating OW, still supermodel lovely, kissing the H as he gazes at her with a tender look in his eyes. Immediately the h realizes that the H is lying sack of mushroom fertilizer and her marriage is over.
Oscar is kinda mopey too, he probably misses his own lady love. But he does good cuddles, so the h isn't virtually prostrate with grief over her most recent betrayal. Nope, the h is keeled over for another reason, cause it doesn't just rain tragedy and drama in HPlandia, it pours when we are at the final crisis. The h finds out she is preggers with twins and she has no clue what to do. The nice elderly lady the h is renting a room from manages to track down the H and he shows up as the h is keeling over and being ill again and finally the big explanations can begin.
Five years earlier the H supposedly marched the aggressive OW right out of his and the h's bedroom and over to her husband in the adjoining wing. There were tears and accusations and the H ended up losing his friend , the husband, after he drove them both to the airport. He claims the h had shouted at him that he was keeping her like a pet during her big epic ranty moment, so he decided to let her grow up on her own and just keep close tabs on her.
But then he couldn't be apart from her anymore and coerced the h into living with him again. The supposed wanna be OW showed up at their home that same morning they reconnected because she wanted to make amends to the h. But the h and Oscar were out, so the H listened to her apology and let her kiss him, ostensibly as a kiss of forgiveness for her prior crass behavior. The h accepts this explanation, really she was too nauseated to do anything else, and finally lets the H carry her off to his Chateau of Love presumably for the big HEA.
This book is well done for a first time HP outing. Except for that very abrupt ending. It would be quite reasonable to think that when the vicious tart who ruined your marriage the first time around shows up again, you probably shouldn't go off into a secluded room and then let her kiss you. You have a freakin' room Chateau and you don't have an open spaced, formal receiving area where you can set the trampy tart's skanky hiney down and force a cup of tea on her?
I swear the h had her annoying moments on this one, but srsly, this H was an idiot. But he was an obviously in love idiot and they were both extremely nice people. Oscar was a great cat bonus, tho I had to rate down a star for the h leaving him the first time. But other than that, this is a pretty nice maiden HPlandia voyage and HB will prove to be one of it's nicest writers, so don't be afraid to spend some time with her when you want a safe HPlandia outing.
I really really wanted to slap the heroine. If not for her, this would have been a five point read. The hero was swoon worthy and so in love with the h it was painful to watch.
Tiger Eyes
And she was a total b word. I hated her almost. I only gave it four stars for the hero. Even at the end, I had a hard time liking her. She sees a naked woman in her husbands bed and she sees him coming out the shower with a towel on and assumes the worst, as would I. But does she ever let him try and explain? No and I really really wanted to slap the heroine. I truly believed that too. The heroine has met a nice man, calls him a friend, and has been doing things with him platonically but has no romantic interest.
The hero gets sick of waiting and comes to get her thinking she has grown up but NOT!
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She is an absolute idiot. He kind of bribes her into coming to live with him for three months so that he can show her how right they were together. Only he was wrong, she was so mean and unlikeable I wanted him to just say enough. Get rid of her whiny, self pitying self and move on. He takes her to an island, names a hospital after her, and totally calls her beautiful all the time. He says you are mine, but whenever he tries to explain about the girl in the bed, she shuts him down. Then they have 'procreational pursuits' that is her term for sex and then she is loving the loving and then she is a b word again!
I would have dumped her. I wouldn't have blamed the h for dumping her. She drove me nuts and just when you think it is safe to go back in the water, bam the wannabe OW shark shows up again and she sees something and runs off without listening AGAIN!!! She hides out under and assumed name for two months and well you need to read the rest to believe it.
It was so annoying.
He loved her so much. And boogenhagen she left her beloved cat behind the first time she left!!! What kind of woman leaves without her 'cat'! I was going to use the p word for cat to make it funny but I just couldn't do it but I am still laughing out load in my head. The cat has been abandoned for all that time and at this point, I knew that she could not be redeemed.
HE even told her the cat was depressed for a long time after she left. I could never leave my pet behind. Husband, maybe but pet, hell no!!! But the cat forgave her, and when she runs the second time, the cat goes with her. So she did do something right in the book but that is it. The rest of the time she is a whiny, pathetic excuse of a woman. I wish I could have been the h. But I guess if we were h's there would be no HP's. So I have to live with it, I just don't have to like this heroine.
TSTL is an appropriate moniker for her. And did I mention she left behind her 'beloved' CAT!???!?! That just slayed me. All I could think is I hope Boogenhagen doesn't read this or someone is going to be in a lot of trouble. View all 6 comments. You couldn't have this conversation with the door open? You couldn't have been in an open room, say the family or living room, where the maid SEES what's going on?
He admitted earlier that she was a little gosspit. Neither the hero nor the previous wanna-be ow thought this was a bad thing? He LET her kiss him? I don't care if she's happily married now and over her "infatuation" with him That alone knocked off a whole star in my rating for this book. This pretty much sums up the book: How could you think I would ever do anything to hurt you? I adore you, my sweet kitten. He should have gone after her View all 5 comments. The h, Leigh, is a rather melodramatic and insecure twit, while her French husband, Raoul, is a passionate and long-suffering sort.
Leigh is supposed to be independent and self-accomplished. Instead, she comes off as stubborn, irritating and self-righteous. I just could not grasp what Raoul saw in her. I dislike heroines who go on and on about their looks being inferior--especially to other women and their partner's looks--it discredits the storyline for me and the h comes off as pathetic and in The h, Leigh, is a rather melodramatic and insecure twit, while her French husband, Raoul, is a passionate and long-suffering sort. I dislike heroines who go on and on about their looks being inferior--especially to other women and their partner's looks--it discredits the storyline for me and the h comes off as pathetic and insecure.
I prefer strong women who pride themselves on being true to who they are in every sense and let the rest sort it out. Plus, she married a guy as gorgeous outside as he was on the inside! Her estranged husband's attempts to calmly talk to Leigh about what damaged their marriage, along with her lack of insight and distrust, made me dislike her. She was mature enough to get married at 19 but not smart enough to understand what she was seeking to discard like trash.
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