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Lädt ... Dreaming of You (1994. Auflage)von Lisa Kleypas
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❤️ Ντέρεκ Κρέιβεν & Σάρα Φίλντινγκ ❤️ ⭐ Η ΛΕΣΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΚΡΕΪΒΕΝ ⭐ Βιβλίο 1: [b:Έπειτα ήρθες εσύ...|40681203|Έπειτα ήρθες εσύ...(The Gamblers, #1)|Lisa Kleypas|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1530447599l/40681203._SX50_.jpg|2820344] Βιβλίο 2: [b:Είσαι στα όνειρά μου|43793540|Είσαι στα όνειρά μου (The Gamblers of Craven's, #2)|Lisa Kleypas|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1548891803l/43793540._SX50_.jpg|679378] I really wanted to love this book because I love the Hathaways and the Wallflower Series, but I didn't love the characters. I didn't like Derek. His childhood was horrible and his coldness and distance were understandable, but his actions toward Sara and women, in general, are not okay. He does fall in love with Sara but I don't ever see where he changes his opinions on how to treat women. Using the house wench as a replacement for Sara is a perfect example. Sara was supposed to be smart but she didn't make the smartest choices. I realize that her society didn't give women opportunities to do very many things outside of the home, but she put herself in very dangerous situations. Romance novels are supposed to be fantasy, but her behavior was too much of one for the time period. I also felt like the storyline with Joyce was overdone and over-dramatic. In the end, I wasn't impressed. I will still read more of Kleypas, though. Loved. It. So much aaaaangst! And I LOVED Deric! And Sara! This was the perfect book to get sucked into on my afternoon off. (4.5 stars) Originally read in May 2011. Re-read in May 2015 made me take it off the angst shelf and drop it down to 3.5 stars. Maybe it's because I've not read Kleypas in a while and the characters are less familiar, or just that I have difference opinions on historical romance than I did when I first started reading it, but while I liked it, it was not as amazing as I seemed to think the first time. (3.5 stars)
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HTML: When shy and secluded author Sara Fielding ventures from her country cottage to research a novel, she inadvertently witnesses a crime in progress??and manages to save the life of the most dangerous man in London. Derek Craven is a powerful and near-legendary gambling club owner who was born a bastard and raised in the streets. His reputation is unsavory, his scruples nonexistent. But Sara senses that beneath Derek's cynical exterior, he is capable of a love more passionate than her deepest fantasies. Aware that he is the last man that an innocent young woman should ever want, Derek is determined to protect Sara from himself, no matter what it takes. But in a world where secrets lurk behind every shadow, he is the only man who can keep her safe. And as Derek and Sara surrender to an attraction too powerful to deny, a peril surfaces from his dark past to threaten their happiness . . . and perhaps even their lives. Together they will discover if love is enough to make dreams come true. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The book wasn't perfect: it has Kleypas's usual pacing issues with the lull in the middle where the heroine and hero are just doing each other as if they're going to die tomorrow. It's also a typical case of opposites attract, and it's eerily similar to Kleypas's other novel Suddenly You, which also featured a writer and an unscrupulous businessman. This was better because it actually had a plot and conflict. I liked Sarah in particular. She actually seemed to grow and gain confidence, and she stood up for herself numerous times without coming off as an Amazon in the Victorian era.
I also liked the villainess. She was fun and different, and I've been waiting to come across a romance novel with a vengeful ex-lover. How this trope isn't more popular is beyond me.
If you like historical romance novels and you like action, you'll like this book. The only people who won't are people who are allergic to Kleypas's method of story-telling, and those people are out there! Here is your disclaimer if you're one of those people. Otherwise, it's a good, relaxing romp. ( )