- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin, Mills & Boon (1 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0263872017
- ISBN-13: 978-0263872019
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.6 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 606,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe the worst Harlequin I've read, 11 May 2009
By J. Yu - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin (Harlequin Presents) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is the sort that gives Harlequin novels a bad name. It plays weakly with the Beauty and the Beast fairytale (a beautiful young woman trying to melt a scarred hero's hardened heart), but the plot and "character development" are tissue thin and the writing is clichéd.
When Savannah has a wardrobe malfunction at a public event, Ethan "rescues" her by racing her away from the paparazzi. The 25-page chase had me yawning. Ethan takes her to his gloomy palace, where a 10-page conflict ensues when Savannah turns on the lights. I'm not kidding. This is followed by lots of psychobabble as Savannah tries to heal Ethan, Dr. Phil style. And within about 6 hours of meeting him, Savannah knows she's been in love with him for some time. The author makes no attempt to have her feelings develop in a realistic way.
Boring and not at all sexy.
2.0 out of 5 stars
I have to agree with the other reviews, it was pretty bad, 9 Dec 2011
By BWQueenSamantha "QueenSam" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin (Harlequin Presents) (Kindle Edition)
This is definitely not the worst Harlequin I've ever read (and I've read A LOT!). Its major flaw is in it's blandness. I found myself skimming most of it to get to the good parts which were few and far between.
There was a part in the book where the heroine just arrives at the hero's house. She starts turning on the lights as she finds the house too dark. The housekeepers start praising her as some sort of hero for turning on the lights. It was real eye rolling moment.
I think one word sums up this book the best -- blah.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Crap in Print, 17 April 2011
By S. Brown - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin (Harlequin Presents) (Mass Market Paperback)
From what I understand, it is extremely difficult to become a published author, but after reading this crap I can't believe that that's true. Because some publisher somewhere read this rubbish and decided that it was worth the money, time, and the lives of many trees in order to bring it to market.
I don't know who to blame more, the author for writing this nonsense or Harlequin for publishing it.
As with all the Susan Stephens books I've read, this book actually started out well (hence the one star...I was deluded into thinking it would be a good read). The heroine (Savannah) is a singer who the hero (Ethan) engages to sing the national anthem, but while she is singing, her too tight, borrowed dress pops open and exposes her breasts to the public and Ethan rescues her from the ensuing fallout (no pun intended). Up to this point it was good & engaging. Everything written after that point was pure crap.
So many pages were spent on the getaway from the paparazzi that after awhile I was actually hoping for a Princess Di ending, just to get it over with.
They finally get to his palace and lo and behold, the entire place is in gloomy darkness, because Ethan is hiding from his facial scars. I say that if he is that deeply affected by his physical scars that his staff isn't allowed to turn on the lights, then what the hell was he doing out in the broad daylight at a stadium in front of thousands of people? He can't face his servants in his own home but he can face thousands of strangers with his deformity. They couldn't be bothering him that much.
So the big cathartic moment is that Savannah turns on the lights when she gets to his home and all the servants rejoice that there is light, and Ethan only then realizes how dark his home was before Savannah pointed it out to him. It was every pun, double entendre, and cliched psychobabble rolled together and jammed into a few crappily written chapters.
Then biff, bang, boom Savannah realizes that she is in love with Ethan for seemingly no other reason than he is a tortured soul and she wants to heal him.
If this book hadn't been included in a bulk lot from eBay, I would never have read another Susan Stephens book. I have read four books by her so far and they all SUCK! Each one is worse than the last. I don't know if she is related to a bigwig at Harlequin or what, but enough is enough. If she had been the first Harlequin author I'd read, I would never have picked up another Harlequin book...ever.
Bottom line: the love scenes were nonexistent and the storyline was crap-on-a-page. For a similar plot but far better romance, please read instead Beauty and the Beast or The Hunchback of Notre Dame; both were more realistic and more enjoyable than this author's version.
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