- Mass Market Paperback: 251 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin; Reissue edition (Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0373200013
- ISBN-13: 978-0373200016
- Product Dimensions: 16.7 x 10.8 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Anne Stuart perversely loves to create a male who is far from a hero, and then provoke, tantalise and lure her readers into for falling him. She must set around and make lists of all the types of men in the world a woman would swear she would never fall for, then with a wry grin, she sets about to prove to us she can do just that very feat. She has given us a hitman, a thief, a court jester, a cult leader...well the list is endless. Just as I think she has hit the bottom of the list, I find yet another. This time she does her Stuart magic and casts the hero as the heroine's brother.
When Rachel Chandler was 12-years-old, her brother Emmett was involved with a radical group of protesters. A bomb accidentally blew up killing several people, along with Emmett's girl friend. Emmett alone survived, just the quirk of fate that he had been out getting pizzas at the time. Emmett vanished, last seen in Hawaii, but for fifteen years no one had heard from him. No one except Rachel Chandler. Every year on her birthday she receives a package, post marked from various places around the world. So, when word comes from her uncle that Emmett is back in Hawaii at the family home, even her fear of flying will not stop her from being reunited with the brother she hadn't seen for fifteen years.
Only Emmett is not quite how she remembers him. She feared Emmett might be given to gaining weight, but this man is hard, lean. He carries scars from varies fights, attesting to his being in foreign places where life is cheap. Emmett is not happy when Rachel shows up on his doorstep. Neither is her uncle. Rachel soon comes to fear Emmett is not Emmett and this impostor and her uncle are playing a charade in order to get at the vast fortune left in trust for the real Emmett.
Is a steamy sexy, shadowy novel that Stuart does so well, showing whether in full novels or series romance, no one can touch the resident genius of dark romantic tales. Another Stuart keeper - but then aren't they all?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Even a Trace of Incest and It's Not My Cup of Tea
25 May 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Um, I felt strangely sick while reading this novel, even though the whole time I knew the two love birds weren't actually related. So you got a girl looking for her long lost brother and who she finds is a stranger posing as a her brother, except she thinks it's really her bro come back from hiding. Now, the sick part comes in when she starts having strong sexual feelings for him even though he's her brother and winds up acting on them. I just couldn't see the intended humor of the situation and almost yacked up my lunch.
I love Stuart. Like Love Love Love her, but I was so thrown off by the incestuous conflicts driving the plot that the novel crashed and burned for me. Just Yuck Yuck Yuck all the way around. I don't care if he's really your brother or not lady, but if you think he is, you shouldn't be macking on him or two seconds away from jumping his bones. That's just plain old nasty and I didn't sign up for a twisted X-rated porno made harlequin when I bought this book. If I were her, I would have gotten the heck off that island like my behind was on fire the second I started even thinking of my brother in that way.
And, to top it off, the protagonist lady acts like a 5 year old when she's around her brother. Stuart uses these opportunities to create "humorous" situations, like when she asks her "brother" to kiss her before she goes to sleep. It was just all a little much and a little unbelievable. Read this story if you enjoy this type of stuff. It's just not my cup of tea.
I love Stuart. Like Love Love Love her, but I was so thrown off by the incestuous conflicts driving the plot that the novel crashed and burned for me. Just Yuck Yuck Yuck all the way around. I don't care if he's really your brother or not lady, but if you think he is, you shouldn't be macking on him or two seconds away from jumping his bones. That's just plain old nasty and I didn't sign up for a twisted X-rated porno made harlequin when I bought this book. If I were her, I would have gotten the heck off that island like my behind was on fire the second I started even thinking of my brother in that way.
And, to top it off, the protagonist lady acts like a 5 year old when she's around her brother. Stuart uses these opportunities to create "humorous" situations, like when she asks her "brother" to kiss her before she goes to sleep. It was just all a little much and a little unbelievable. Read this story if you enjoy this type of stuff. It's just not my cup of tea.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
another strong Stuart story
20 July 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Anne Stuart perversely loves to create a male who is far from a hero, and then provoke, tantalize and lure her readers into for falling him. She must set around and make lists of all the types of men in the world a woman would swear she would never fall for, then with a wry grin, she sets about to prove to us she can do just that very feat. She has given us a hitman, a thief, a court jester, a cult leader...well the list is endless. Just as I think she has hit the bottom of the list, I find yet another. This time she does her Stuart magic and casts the hero as the heroine's brother.
When Rachel Chandler was 12-years-old, her brother Emmett was involved with a radical group of protesters. A bomb accidentally blew up killing several people, along with Emmett's girl friend. Emmett alone survived, just the quirk of fate that he had been out getting pizzas at the time. Emmett vanished, last seen in Hawaii, but for fifteen years no one had heard from him. No one except Rachel Chandler. Every year on her birthday she receives a package, post marked from various places around the world. So, when word comes from her uncle that Emmett is back in Hawaii at the family home, even her fear of flying will not stop her from being reunited with the brother she hadn't seen for fifteen years.
Only Emmett is not quite how she remembers him. She feared Emmett might be given to gaining weight, but this man is hard, lean. He carries scars from varies fights, attesting to his being in foreign places where life is cheap. Emmett is not happy when Rachel shows up on his doorstep. Neither is her uncle. Rachel soon comes to fear Emmett is not Emmett and this impostor and her uncle are playing a charade in order to get at the vast fortune left in trust for the real Emmett.
Is a steamy sexy, shadowy novel that Stuart does so well, showing whether in full novels or series romance, no one can touch the resident genius of dark romantic tales. Another Stuart keeper - but then aren't they all?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Loved it
1 Mar 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I loved this book. I've read quite a few Intrigues, and I don't say that every day. Here's the back cover of the book:
She was all caught up in his tangled lies...
The porcelain butterflies arrived like clockwork every year on her birthday. Rachel Chandler received gifts postmarked from exotic places all over the world from her brother Emmett, who had been living underground since his implication in a bombing in the later 1960's.
After fifteen years, Rachel was about to see Emmett again. He had surfaced in Hawaii, and nothing could keep her from going to him. But when they did meet, Rachel knew something was terribly wrong. She hadn't expected to recognize Emmett right away... but she hadn't expected to be attracted to him either!
Well, if you need more than that to get you to open the book... The story is set up very well, with excellent pacing, good characters, and good resolution. The romance part of the story is handled artfully, actually eliciting an emotional response on the part of the reader. Recommended reading.
She was all caught up in his tangled lies...
The porcelain butterflies arrived like clockwork every year on her birthday. Rachel Chandler received gifts postmarked from exotic places all over the world from her brother Emmett, who had been living underground since his implication in a bombing in the later 1960's.
After fifteen years, Rachel was about to see Emmett again. He had surfaced in Hawaii, and nothing could keep her from going to him. But when they did meet, Rachel knew something was terribly wrong. She hadn't expected to recognize Emmett right away... but she hadn't expected to be attracted to him either!
Well, if you need more than that to get you to open the book... The story is set up very well, with excellent pacing, good characters, and good resolution. The romance part of the story is handled artfully, actually eliciting an emotional response on the part of the reader. Recommended reading.
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