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Ruth apRoberts

Auteur de The moral Trollope

23+ oeuvres 50 utilisateurs 4 critiques

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Comprend les noms: Ruth ApRoberts, Ruth ap Roberts

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Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope (1999) — Contributeur — 128 exemplaires
Earth From Space [2013 Documentary film] (2013) — Producer. — 3 exemplaires

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I was so hopeful at the sounds and start of this one...

I received my copy of this eBook in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Zack had gone to get some punch and was taking longer than she expected. She decided to go looking for him. She quickly found him, kissing her stepsister. She must have made a startled sound because Zack turned to look at her, and the color drained from his face. "It's not what you think, Diana," he said.

She didn't want to hear anymore. She lifted her dress and ran away from him as fast as she could. The last thing she saw was the satisfied grin on Liz's face. Her perfect night had ended in heartache.




The things that happen to us as teens seem to colour and stick with us throughout our lives. Diana had a mother than abandoned her, a father that worked too much and then fell hard for a woman with a daughter that was the same age. When Liz and her mother came to live with them, Diana had these beautiful dreams of a sister - someone that could be her confidante and friend, someone to share the world with and her home with so that she would never be alone. She'd gone out of her way to make this new stepsister welcome, but in the end she got the wicked stepsister from fairy stories. Liz had wanted nothing to do with her, in fact she only wanted to make Diana suffer.

By the time the girls had grown, the rift was so large that they only saw each other on random family gatherings despite living in the same city. That they shared a younger sister and each a father and mother was beyond the point. Diana wanted nothing to do with Liz, but Liz was beginning to see the error of her selfish ways. When the death of their parents brings these young women back to Magnolia Falls to raise their half sibling in their family home together, I was completely unprepared for what happened!

I've ranked this as 3 stars, it's somewhere between 3 and 4, though, but it falls closer to the "round down" option to me than the "round up." The rating is based on the ending, because the pacing didn't seem at all right to me. I found the ending, where Diana went to get Zack back too abrupt - and there wasn't anything to hold up as an epilogue of sorts to show how she held up. As Liz and Diana's love stories were happening concurrently, I can sort of understand how that would happen, but I think it didn't do them justice.

I enjoyed all of this story - I really did - but I found the rush at the end to solve the heart ache of the women just too fast to be believed. I also kind of felt that there was a little too much going on - I was more interested in Logan and Liz many times than I was in the goings on of Diana and Zack. Poor little Jessica seemed like an afterthought, and she also seemed like being five or six was too young to have a lawyer for a sister and a supermodel.

I may give the next a shot, only just to see if there is something to show what happens to Zack and Diana as well as how Liz wins back Logan.
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ilerya82 | Sep 19, 2017 |
Talented, smart, and wealthy Brielle Santorini never expected to be named CEO of her grandfather's jewelry empire. Nick Trenton, acting CEO of Santorini Jewels didn't expect it either. He believed he would assume the role.

Brielle must become the CEO for a year or lose her inheritance. Nick must teach her what to do--and he isn't happy about that at first.

Brielle with her private jet, mansion, house in the country, chauffeur, and housekeeper is distrustful of most people--and Nick becomes one of them.

I enjoyed this sweet romance and recommend it to those who enjoy a story filled with glamour and glitter.
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penelopemarzec | Jan 6, 2015 |
Tender Triumph by Ruth Roberts is a most delightful, romantic story. Natalia Montalvo has just gone through a very public divorce from her billionaire Italian husband and has moved back to New York City. She agrees to attend a charity ball even though she knows that he will also be in attendance. Jared, the owner of an architectural firm, is also at the party against his wishes. Natalia and Jared meet on the balcony where she has gone to have time alone to gain her composure. Jared feels that Natalia needs a friend right then and after all she is the sister of his best friend, Nico. After a few dates, Natalia realizes that she is very attracted to Jared and he finds that she has caused him to want to stop being a playboy. With the encouragement of Kate, Nico's wife, a relationship between Natalia and Jared just may be possible.

The author did a very good job in the development of the characters. I liked that the story was told from the point of view of Natalia and Jared. The characters came alive on the pages of the book and it was interesting to get a peek into their lives and realize that even the very wealthy have some of the same problems as the rest of society. The author's descriptions of the scenes were so realistic that I felt as if I were right there at the charity ball and at other places with Natalia and Jared. There was a little suspense that kept me wondering if they would get together or go their separate ways. I was caught up in the story from the first page and continued to read until I finished the book.

I recommend this book to everyone that enjoys a good romantic story with a good ending.

Prism Book Group provided me with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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deanna13 | Dec 2, 2013 |
As Trollope had his mouth-piece say in the Warden: in this world no good is unalloyed, and that there is but little evil that has not in it some seed of what is goodly. Even the redoubtable Mrs. Proudie had a heart inside of that stiff-ribbed bodice.
 
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Porius | Oct 28, 2008 |

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