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Heartless

von Diana Palmer

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Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.… (mehr)
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Heartless
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Synopsis:
Gracie Marsh worshipped her stepbrother Jason while growing up but now her feelings for him have evolved into something more intense. The feeling seems to be mutual but Gracie has a secret that makes her deathly afraid of love. Stung by her rejection, Jason leaves and sets in motion events that may change their lives forever.

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OK, here goes my first and, hopefully, my last really negative review.

This book is awful but it is not the borderline incest that turned me off. Rather the characters are one dimensional and vapid, and the story is ridiculous.

Gracie’s characterization makes absolutely no sense. There is an inconsistency between her supposed mental deficiencies and her obvious social skills. Also, she becomes a teacher even though she apparently has a severe learning disability – weird. In addition, she is a perfectly sweet doormat and for too accepting of Jason's rejection and snide attitude. It is a pity that she didn’t put him in his place when he came home with Kittie the cow. Her reason for keeping her past secret from Jason is also inexplicable – there is nothing shameful about it, and depicting it as such belittles women who have suffered from abuse.

Speaking of Kittie, Jason’s engagement to her is a completely idiotic plot device. First, her bitchiness is way overdone and is obviously meant to contrast against Gracie's almost angelic status. Second, Jason’s reasoning for becoming engaged lacks credibility.

Jason is an obnoxious hero and borderline abusive. The scene in which he sets up an employee to be humiliated is a case in point as is his allowing Kittie to treat his family so badly.

The preposterous kidnapping subplots only add insult to injury. An honorable, sensitive kidnapper who just happens to be trying to save his country from a dictator and needs to kidnap people to fund his coup? The fact that there is not one, but two kidnappings? Perhaps this is an allowance for gender equality as there is one for the heroine and one for the hero?

I could go on and on but I’ll stop now as I’m sure my point is made. This is definitely my first and only Diana Palmer book. ( )
  Lauren2013 | May 24, 2018 |
Read this for a Trashy Book Book Club with my sisters. I like to think I can adjust my expectations pretty well, but nothing I'd heard about romance novels really did justice to what kind of low expectations I should have had for this book. It was painful. ( )
  corywa | Feb 9, 2017 |
I realy likedthis book. Alot of twist & turn in the story. I even cryed in some chapters. My momtold me about this book she saidit is a good book so I read it. ( )
  jbemrose | May 20, 2012 |
Step-siblings Gracie and Jason are both keeping secrets - they both have their own reasons for hiding the attraction they feel. But when the situation finally goes critical, things get messy fast. Now if only Palmer hadn't felt it necessary to toss in kidnappers and ransom notes.... Granted, it's a Jacobsville romance novel, but as a plot device surely she could have come up with something a touch more original? ( )
  SunnySD | Feb 20, 2012 |
Classic Diana Palmer ( )
  emmaline09 | Nov 3, 2011 |
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To the Art Department: your beautiful covers help sell my work. I value your creativity and dedication so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart...Diana Palmer
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Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.

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