Kholodov's Last Mistress (Mills & Boon Modern)
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An innocent in Moscow When Sergei Kholodov rescued American tourist Hannah Pearl, her wide-eyed approach to the world shocked the man whose life had left him bitterly cynical. Hating how powerfully she affected him, Sergei made a cold-hearted decision to obliterate his dark emotions...He would lose himself in sinful pleasure before pushing her away and destroying her dreams. One year later, Sergei returns. Hannah has been seared on his memory - perhaps one more night will allow him to forget her once and for all? Or will he realise her innocence is a Pearl beyond price and that he'll never have enough...?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
And I mean unbelievable -- the plot of Kholodov's Last Mistress, involving a rags-to-billions honest Russian businessman effectively falling in love at the first sight of a tourist across a crowded Red Square, is so loaded with improbabilities that it's quite impossible to take the story seriously as a story.
That's its weakness. But if you read it as a sequence of scenes, however shaky the scaffolding with which they have been set up, just a kaleidoscope of studies in emotion and love -- well, there are some very good scenes. It's a short book: I read it in less than an hour and a half, and later spent maybe a third of that just opening at some of the major scenes and rereading a few pages at a time. The pain and confusion, the fear and compulsion of being in love are all there, on both sides, and I don't think I've ever seen it done better.
The feeling of being manipulated by the artificialities of the plot might be too distracting for some readers, but I absorbed it like the books I read as a child: the inner reality of each vivid moment is bigger than the unreality of the backdrop.
That's its weakness. But if you read it as a sequence of scenes, however shaky the scaffolding with which they have been set up, just a kaleidoscope of studies in emotion and love -- well, there are some very good scenes. It's a short book: I read it in less than an hour and a half, and later spent maybe a third of that just opening at some of the major scenes and rereading a few pages at a time. The pain and confusion, the fear and compulsion of being in love are all there, on both sides, and I don't think I've ever seen it done better.
The feeling of being manipulated by the artificialities of the plot might be too distracting for some readers, but I absorbed it like the books I read as a child: the inner reality of each vivid moment is bigger than the unreality of the backdrop.
Format:Kindle Edition
Russian heroes can sometimes seem a little stereotyped in modern romance, they often come across as a bit mean and a little brutal. From the start Sergei comes across as caring for Hannah and for the other people around him, he even acknowledges albeit reluctantly that maybe what he wants is a relationship rather than maintaining a mistress. I found the plot fairly unremarkable, but the characterisation and the greater maturity that the characters possessed made the novel an enjoyable read. When you read a modern romance you always know the characters will end up together, in this case I wanted Sergei and Hannah to get together and I was happy when they did.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very emotional romance if i'm honest. Sergei tries to save Hannah from being robbed in Red Square, but she is too trusting and gets robbed, Sergei just tells her to go to the American Embassy for their help, as she has little money she doesn't know what to do, Sergei has followed her as he feels he could have stopped her getting robbed.
We then learn Sergei is very rich he has a lot of property invites Hannah to stay for free at his hotel, they both feel a lot of desire between each other he invites her for dinner but in the end can't do it as she is a virgin, and he is really cruel to her.
A year has passed and Sergei can't forget her, he is in New York and decides to go and see her to get her out of his mind, Hannah is trying to keep her little shop going which is not doing to well, they have dinner to-gether and then make love even though Hannah had a bad affair, Sergei thinks it might have been his fault, she tells him not to think that although he hurt her very much.
They go to Paris, but Hannah still can't get Sergei to open up, he had the most horrific childhood and has scars on his body, he has found his sister who was adopted but she doesn't want to see him, he is heartbroken and tells Hannah he can't be with her anymore, Hannah refuses to leave him and says he has to open up to her, he says he did a lot off bad things tells Hannah and expects her to leave him she refuses saying that we all do things we are not always proud off and he is a good man now and she loves him very much.
Hannah goes to America to sell her little shop, Sergei misses her so much, and then a visitor comes to his office it is his sister. When Hannah comes back Sergei now knows he can have a loving relationship with Hannah he asks her to marry him. I have not put all spoilers in this review as there is a lot of heartrending in this book, enjoyed it but at times i did feel sad reading it.
We then learn Sergei is very rich he has a lot of property invites Hannah to stay for free at his hotel, they both feel a lot of desire between each other he invites her for dinner but in the end can't do it as she is a virgin, and he is really cruel to her.
A year has passed and Sergei can't forget her, he is in New York and decides to go and see her to get her out of his mind, Hannah is trying to keep her little shop going which is not doing to well, they have dinner to-gether and then make love even though Hannah had a bad affair, Sergei thinks it might have been his fault, she tells him not to think that although he hurt her very much.
They go to Paris, but Hannah still can't get Sergei to open up, he had the most horrific childhood and has scars on his body, he has found his sister who was adopted but she doesn't want to see him, he is heartbroken and tells Hannah he can't be with her anymore, Hannah refuses to leave him and says he has to open up to her, he says he did a lot off bad things tells Hannah and expects her to leave him she refuses saying that we all do things we are not always proud off and he is a good man now and she loves him very much.
Hannah goes to America to sell her little shop, Sergei misses her so much, and then a visitor comes to his office it is his sister. When Hannah comes back Sergei now knows he can have a loving relationship with Hannah he asks her to marry him. I have not put all spoilers in this review as there is a lot of heartrending in this book, enjoyed it but at times i did feel sad reading it.
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