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2.99 AVERAGE
2.99 AVERAGE
If negative stars could be given to a book, this one would get all of them. I think so far this is one of the worst heroes I've ever read. I didn't love the heroine, but the hero was an utter asshole. He basically married the heroine for her money, kept a mistress while he was courting the heroine and paid said mistress with the heroine's money. And then he acts OFFENDED that the heroine felt hurt and didn't want him to touch her after she found out that he lied to her. After that, he waits only A MONTH to see if she'll welcome him into her bed again, and when she doesn't, he leaves and starts to have a new mistress and then another, and another and another. Worst part is, this women are people the heroine interacts with and has to stand hearing about them or seeing them taunting her about how they're with her husband. And the hero doesn't take any responsability, it was all her fault!!! he wouldn't have cheated on her if she hadn't cried and refused to have sex with him!!!!! The cherry on the top is that he doesn't try to reconcile with her until his cousin dies, leaving the hero without a heir, so now he has to do his duty and produce a son. And just the chocolate on top of the cherry: his last mistress has his son and he inmediately decides he will keep him and the heroine will raize him without asking her. I can understand when heroes have children of a mistress before they've met the heroine, but a child produced while he was married to her and cheating on her? yikes.
I just can’t with this book....I can’t keep going. Giving up at page 176...
I just haven’t connected with either main character except on a level of strong dislike bordering hatred. I haven’t found anything likeable or redeeming about them all. I don’t care if their marriage works out. I don’t care if it fails. I don’t care about anything except how fast I can start another boom that’s not this
I just haven’t connected with either main character except on a level of strong dislike bordering hatred. I haven’t found anything likeable or redeeming about them all. I don’t care if their marriage works out. I don’t care if it fails. I don’t care about anything except how fast I can start another boom that’s not this
I know the times were different but he is such a cad, i hated him. He doesn't really accept blame, even if there a problems that doesn't make it okay to be unfaithful... and the wife is so hurt by the gossip and his cheating, for years with different women. Not my type of book, at all.
Viola and John's story was more drama than romance. Viola has been hurt by John in the past and refuses to forgive and forget, John is aloof and doesn't see things the way Viola does and does what he thinks is his only option considering the circumstances.
Viola's stubbornness and inability to move on got old fast and although John's actions may have been ill-advised, I found him to be the more reasonable party of the two.
As John states a few times in the book, there's nothing anyone can do to change the past and clinging to it the way Viola has made me side with John.
Just because I was more on his side doesn't mean that he is not to blame, though. He shrugs off feelings and keeps himself apart from everybody, causing more damage than he knows that way until he finally realizes it and mans up and faces the consequences - yet another thing I liked about him.
Next comes Dylan's proper brother's story, Ian Moore, who seems to have met his match in his new diplomatic/matchmaking mission.
Viola's stubbornness and inability to move on got old fast and although John's actions may have been ill-advised, I found him to be the more reasonable party of the two.
As John states a few times in the book, there's nothing anyone can do to change the past and clinging to it the way Viola has made me side with John.
Just because I was more on his side doesn't mean that he is not to blame, though. He shrugs off feelings and keeps himself apart from everybody, causing more damage than he knows that way until he finally realizes it and mans up and faces the consequences - yet another thing I liked about him.
Next comes Dylan's proper brother's story, Ian Moore, who seems to have met his match in his new diplomatic/matchmaking mission.
Fue entretenido...
está clase de género es para cuando te sientas sensible y quieras historias que te hagan vomitar arcoiris de lo cursis que son...y eso no es malo.
Pasaron, en esencia, las cosas que esperaba que pasaran...y por eso me gustó, no voy a decir que enloquecí porque fue una de tantas historias que me tubo entretenida, pero que le faltó algo para ser memorable...
Quizá tenga alguna objeción que expresar respecto a los personajes...ya saben, el típico ir y venir, o tira y afloja que casi me obliga a saltarmelo...casi.
está clase de género es para cuando te sientas sensible y quieras historias que te hagan vomitar arcoiris de lo cursis que son...y eso no es malo.
Pasaron, en esencia, las cosas que esperaba que pasaran...y por eso me gustó, no voy a decir que enloquecí porque fue una de tantas historias que me tubo entretenida, pero que le faltó algo para ser memorable...
Quizá tenga alguna objeción que expresar respecto a los personajes...ya saben, el típico ir y venir, o tira y afloja que casi me obliga a saltarmelo...casi.
El conchesumadre pa grande. Odié al personaje masculino pero al mismo tiempo amé como se desarrolló la historia y quedé conforme con todo. No es necesario leer los dos anteriores si no te molesta saber sobre emparejamientos de otras parejas.
Lo recomiendo pa leer y tirar chuchadas mientras fumai un pucho.
Lo recomiendo pa leer y tirar chuchadas mientras fumai un pucho.
The "hero" of this story is a dishonorable, irredeemable cad who treats his wife deplorably. I kept waiting for the powerful Redemption Arc to sweep in to save the day and it never happened. A come-to-Jesus in the last 5% does not a HEA make.
**Actually a 3.5-rating**
This would truthfully be a low-grade 3, but Viola is a champ...a too-stupid-to-live champion but my gawd, NO WOMAN should put up with this level of male condescending bullshit...EVER!!
I think this is one of those rare anomalies where I actually didn't find I had to rewind back to the first couple of books. Thankfully I don't believe characters resurface here that make you feel as if you missed out on a huge chunk of the storyline. This was really all about this foul marriage...it honestly never needed any other incentive to be disgusting and cruel.
This premise spoke to me on some level and something simply told me that this book could be messy. I sincerely didn't know how much mess-i-ness it could get into that it would offend me at such a deep level. I am always side-eyeing heroines, and maybe too quick, at times, to find a Hero deserves a certain stretch of redemption. That is never going to be the case here.
This Hero cannot, in my eyes, ever be sensibly defended and even more, I think he should slink away and just keep being a scoundrel and a rake. He is the very definition, and it's...it taints and haunts me that THIS "hero"-if we can call him that- is whom Viola, the heroine, deserves? I mean, she saw something in him readers never will, and this whole story from top to bottom never offers a reprieve to even consider redemption.
We are not even going to discuss the fact that Viola has become some "Ice Queen" and has seemed to have hardened her heart to men, love & marriage. I don't care if she is a bitch or a tad cold-hearted.
There is no wiggle room in this relationship for anything to cleanse what this man, John, has done to her. To her face or behind her back, he hasn't really given a shit since...well, even right as he was courting or wooing her, he STILL had a mistress. And when he couldn't get sex from his wife--he set a limit...ONE MONTH...and then he was outta there and for 8yrs he went back and forth from several different beds, several differing mistresses [some who were even married]. Even having two a year, thinking paying them off with the money he accrued from his wife's dowry was enough to rid himself of their presence in his bed. A bed he methodically allowed to cool, leaving it up to Viola to "fix" what was broken when he broke it and continued to break. When he didn't get a wife and a mistress...he chose the mistress. Then for 8-solid years, it was nothing but mistresses, never once fathoming that he was such a "charming" imbecile that these women DIDN'T & WOULDN'T fall in love with him. I mean, they are mistresses; they "know" their place and when the relationship is over, they should be gone.
And this is what sickens me as this story begins. John is--he states--the last of his immediate family, besides a simpering cousin he sees as worthless. So now it is up to him to finally have a child. So he returns to Viola and, literally, demands she allow him into her bed--she is his wife, dammit! And he won't be turned away. It is time for her to do her duty--the reason for their marriage.
He couldn't even promise her fidelity, leaving it up to Viola, herself, to give him the pleasure he is looking for, was looking for--or he would turn around and walk right out the door, once again, find yet another mistress.
Because---eww, I threw up a little in my mouth when it was revealed that they did have a great few months of wedded bliss, seeming to be highly passionate and having sex everywhere...until Viola learned just how scummy her husband had been, then she denied him access to her bed and her body--as she had every right to do.
For her it was a love-match, for him--a means to gain a wife's dowry w/only slightly being attracted to VIola so he could bed her properly. I hated how when he returned he made it seem like ALL OF THEIR MESS was her fault...like he had no part in fouling up long before they even married. Like he still wasn't stepping out on her while being wooed and eventually married to Viola.
This guy was despicable on every level of scoundrel and rake, and he never let up once he was back in Viola's life. I hated how easily she caved. It did take her a while because they had plenty of arguments where she kept on denying John, even when he was attempting to use his old means of seduction that had worked on her 8yrs ago.
I don't know man...I truly never fathomed that this Hero couldn't sink any lower...
And then, when Viola is making it a TRUE FACT in John's feeble brain that women who were his EX-mistresses are IN LOVE with him...one of them he has been kicking to the curb shows up with a baby!! Just...no...nope. I don't care how this would've fouled up any of my chances of remarriage in this Era, but I would've divorced him, PRONTO!
Instead, well...I did state that Viola saw something lovable in John, so, Uhm, when she does give in to him, starts having sex with him again...and then this mistress shows up with a baby, conveniently willing to relinquish her parental rights for an offer of money and ticket to sail off to America...ugh, Viola simply takes the babe as if it was hers and mothers it as she will eventually become pregnant, as well. yeah, no...not good in the least.
This was the messiest HEA and I truly and genuinely want this Hero to be eviscerated or at least vaccinated on some level because he seems like he is one step away from adultery unless Viola succumbs to him the ways he wants. Child or not.
And this is love?
This would truthfully be a low-grade 3, but Viola is a champ...a too-stupid-to-live champion but my gawd, NO WOMAN should put up with this level of male condescending bullshit...EVER!!
I think this is one of those rare anomalies where I actually didn't find I had to rewind back to the first couple of books. Thankfully I don't believe characters resurface here that make you feel as if you missed out on a huge chunk of the storyline. This was really all about this foul marriage...it honestly never needed any other incentive to be disgusting and cruel.
This premise spoke to me on some level and something simply told me that this book could be messy. I sincerely didn't know how much mess-i-ness it could get into that it would offend me at such a deep level. I am always side-eyeing heroines, and maybe too quick, at times, to find a Hero deserves a certain stretch of redemption. That is never going to be the case here.
This Hero cannot, in my eyes, ever be sensibly defended and even more, I think he should slink away and just keep being a scoundrel and a rake. He is the very definition, and it's...it taints and haunts me that THIS "hero"-if we can call him that- is whom Viola, the heroine, deserves? I mean, she saw something in him readers never will, and this whole story from top to bottom never offers a reprieve to even consider redemption.
We are not even going to discuss the fact that Viola has become some "Ice Queen" and has seemed to have hardened her heart to men, love & marriage. I don't care if she is a bitch or a tad cold-hearted.
There is no wiggle room in this relationship for anything to cleanse what this man, John, has done to her. To her face or behind her back, he hasn't really given a shit since...well, even right as he was courting or wooing her, he STILL had a mistress. And when he couldn't get sex from his wife--he set a limit...ONE MONTH...and then he was outta there and for 8yrs he went back and forth from several different beds, several differing mistresses [some who were even married]. Even having two a year, thinking paying them off with the money he accrued from his wife's dowry was enough to rid himself of their presence in his bed. A bed he methodically allowed to cool, leaving it up to Viola to "fix" what was broken when he broke it and continued to break. When he didn't get a wife and a mistress...he chose the mistress. Then for 8-solid years, it was nothing but mistresses, never once fathoming that he was such a "charming" imbecile that these women DIDN'T & WOULDN'T fall in love with him. I mean, they are mistresses; they "know" their place and when the relationship is over, they should be gone.
And this is what sickens me as this story begins. John is--he states--the last of his immediate family, besides a simpering cousin he sees as worthless. So now it is up to him to finally have a child. So he returns to Viola and, literally, demands she allow him into her bed--she is his wife, dammit! And he won't be turned away. It is time for her to do her duty--the reason for their marriage.
He couldn't even promise her fidelity, leaving it up to Viola, herself, to give him the pleasure he is looking for, was looking for--or he would turn around and walk right out the door, once again, find yet another mistress.
Because---eww, I threw up a little in my mouth when it was revealed that they did have a great few months of wedded bliss, seeming to be highly passionate and having sex everywhere...until Viola learned just how scummy her husband had been, then she denied him access to her bed and her body--as she had every right to do.
For her it was a love-match, for him--a means to gain a wife's dowry w/only slightly being attracted to VIola so he could bed her properly. I hated how when he returned he made it seem like ALL OF THEIR MESS was her fault...like he had no part in fouling up long before they even married. Like he still wasn't stepping out on her while being wooed and eventually married to Viola.
This guy was despicable on every level of scoundrel and rake, and he never let up once he was back in Viola's life. I hated how easily she caved. It did take her a while because they had plenty of arguments where she kept on denying John, even when he was attempting to use his old means of seduction that had worked on her 8yrs ago.
I don't know man...I truly never fathomed that this Hero couldn't sink any lower...
And then, when Viola is making it a TRUE FACT in John's feeble brain that women who were his EX-mistresses are IN LOVE with him...one of them he has been kicking to the curb shows up with a baby!! Just...no...nope. I don't care how this would've fouled up any of my chances of remarriage in this Era, but I would've divorced him, PRONTO!
Instead, well...I did state that Viola saw something lovable in John, so, Uhm, when she does give in to him, starts having sex with him again...and then this mistress shows up with a baby, conveniently willing to relinquish her parental rights for an offer of money and ticket to sail off to America...ugh, Viola simply takes the babe as if it was hers and mothers it as she will eventually become pregnant, as well. yeah, no...not good in the least.
This was the messiest HEA and I truly and genuinely want this Hero to be eviscerated or at least vaccinated on some level because he seems like he is one step away from adultery unless Viola succumbs to him the ways he wants. Child or not.
And this is love?
I can't rate this monstrosity of a book. It was horrible, and I hated every character in it. The plot was whatever. It could have ended in one chapter. I regret wasting my time reading it.
(http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.pt/2012/04/cama-da-paixao.html)
A Cama da Paixão é o terceiro livro da autora Laura Lee Guhrke que leio. Esta obra, que faz parte de uma pequena série de quatro romances de época, é o terceiro volume do conjunto de quatro livros.
A editora decidiu saltar a publicação do segundo volume por razões desconhecidas e assim a série conta apenas com o primeiro volume, Prazeres Proibidos, e o terceiro publicados.
Esta obra conta-nos a história de Viola, a irmã de Anthony - protagonista do livro Prazeres Proibidos. Esta personagem sempre suscitou a minha curiosidade por ter um ódio de estimação para com o marido e por passar a vida a evitá-lo como se ele fosse uma praga. Desde o primeiro livro que este mistério me chamou à atenção, portanto foi com grande expectativa que me dei conta que este seria o livro que me contaria a história do casal.
Nove anos de casamento, duas vidas em separado. A paixão entre John e Viola apenas durou seis breves meses e após isso, inexplicavelmente, o matrimónio começou a deteriorar-se. Isto porque Viola tem razões mais que óbvias para acreditar que o marido traiu a sua confiança e recusa-se assim a viver uma farsa com ele, escolhendo então viver a sua própria vida - uma em que John não participa. No entanto, após a morte do seu primo, John vê-se obrigado a gerar um herdeiro para manter as suas propriedades e para isso precisa de reatar a sua vida em conjunto com a mulher.
Mas Viola está determinada a continuar sozinha e não é com bons olhos que vê este rumo de acção. E assim, John tem de tentar reconquistar a sua mulher, custe o que custar...Será que o casal vai encontrar de novo a paixão e o amor que os juntou há tantos anos atrás?
Como tinha dito anteriormente, foi com grande entusiasmo que comecei esta leitura. Queria muito ler a história destas personagens e isso foi incentivo suficiente para "devorar" o livro que tinha à minha frente. Como já estava à espera, foi um livro muito fácil de ler, muito leve e o enredo desenrolou-se de uma forma muito dinâmica.
O livro mostrou-me um ambiente diferente do que é normal em romances de época. Em vez de assistirmos a uma corte e de termos oportunidade de ver um amor nascer entre duas pessoas, desta vez a autora mostra-nos como é que duas pessoas que outrora estiveram apaixonadas uma pela outra podem destruir isso e no entanto, voltar a encontrar o mesmo sentimento.
Conseguiu mostrar de uma forma coerente e bastante real que um casamento pode por vezes não ser fácil e que é preciso limar arestas e fazer concessões. É como uma planta: se não for regada regularmente, seca até morrer. Mas se for regada com regularidade e se formos cortando as pequenas partes que ficam secas, essa planta irá florescer durante todos os anos e crescer de forma saudável e viçosa.
Foi um livro com muito romance, com cenas bastante divertidas e um livro fora do normal, para o género a que pertence. Claro que haveriam pequenos pormenores que eu talvez mudasse, por não serem completamente do meu agrado, mas considerando tudo, posso dizer com absoluta certeza que foi uma obra que encheu as minhas medidas e que me agradou profundamente.
A receita de sucesso está mais que comprovada: um enredo dinâmico, leve e divertido, com muito romance à mistura é capaz de fazer milagres se conseguirmos equilibrar todos estes factores. O resto é talento e imaginação.
A Cama da Paixão é o terceiro livro da autora Laura Lee Guhrke que leio. Esta obra, que faz parte de uma pequena série de quatro romances de época, é o terceiro volume do conjunto de quatro livros.
A editora decidiu saltar a publicação do segundo volume por razões desconhecidas e assim a série conta apenas com o primeiro volume, Prazeres Proibidos, e o terceiro publicados.
Esta obra conta-nos a história de Viola, a irmã de Anthony - protagonista do livro Prazeres Proibidos. Esta personagem sempre suscitou a minha curiosidade por ter um ódio de estimação para com o marido e por passar a vida a evitá-lo como se ele fosse uma praga. Desde o primeiro livro que este mistério me chamou à atenção, portanto foi com grande expectativa que me dei conta que este seria o livro que me contaria a história do casal.
Nove anos de casamento, duas vidas em separado. A paixão entre John e Viola apenas durou seis breves meses e após isso, inexplicavelmente, o matrimónio começou a deteriorar-se. Isto porque Viola tem razões mais que óbvias para acreditar que o marido traiu a sua confiança e recusa-se assim a viver uma farsa com ele, escolhendo então viver a sua própria vida - uma em que John não participa. No entanto, após a morte do seu primo, John vê-se obrigado a gerar um herdeiro para manter as suas propriedades e para isso precisa de reatar a sua vida em conjunto com a mulher.
Mas Viola está determinada a continuar sozinha e não é com bons olhos que vê este rumo de acção. E assim, John tem de tentar reconquistar a sua mulher, custe o que custar...Será que o casal vai encontrar de novo a paixão e o amor que os juntou há tantos anos atrás?
Como tinha dito anteriormente, foi com grande entusiasmo que comecei esta leitura. Queria muito ler a história destas personagens e isso foi incentivo suficiente para "devorar" o livro que tinha à minha frente. Como já estava à espera, foi um livro muito fácil de ler, muito leve e o enredo desenrolou-se de uma forma muito dinâmica.
O livro mostrou-me um ambiente diferente do que é normal em romances de época. Em vez de assistirmos a uma corte e de termos oportunidade de ver um amor nascer entre duas pessoas, desta vez a autora mostra-nos como é que duas pessoas que outrora estiveram apaixonadas uma pela outra podem destruir isso e no entanto, voltar a encontrar o mesmo sentimento.
Conseguiu mostrar de uma forma coerente e bastante real que um casamento pode por vezes não ser fácil e que é preciso limar arestas e fazer concessões. É como uma planta: se não for regada regularmente, seca até morrer. Mas se for regada com regularidade e se formos cortando as pequenas partes que ficam secas, essa planta irá florescer durante todos os anos e crescer de forma saudável e viçosa.
Foi um livro com muito romance, com cenas bastante divertidas e um livro fora do normal, para o género a que pertence. Claro que haveriam pequenos pormenores que eu talvez mudasse, por não serem completamente do meu agrado, mas considerando tudo, posso dizer com absoluta certeza que foi uma obra que encheu as minhas medidas e que me agradou profundamente.
A receita de sucesso está mais que comprovada: um enredo dinâmico, leve e divertido, com muito romance à mistura é capaz de fazer milagres se conseguirmos equilibrar todos estes factores. O resto é talento e imaginação.