Emma GoldrickCritiques

Light entertaining reading.

I wanted to like this better than I did. I love funny and goofy heroines. I love to see a straight laced hero fall for them. This one had a great little boy in it. He was the hero's son and was totally charming. The thing that marred this for me was the bits of wonky, unbelievable, vague plotting. The hero was pretty gullible. Plus nobody sleeps upstairs and leaves a baby alone to sleep in a downstairs room.

Oh and I nearly forgot, the heroine was weirdly 1950ish submissive. She was all about obeying the hero 'cuz he obviously knows best.

I thoroughly enjoyed this lovely fantasy. Charming story of a rich oil man who befriends an 18 year old girl who has been under the evil grasping influence of her aunt and uncle since she was 14. He pretends to be her husband to rout the bad guys and then they spend the next 6 months pretending to be married whenever the other needs a back up. She is naive in a happy way although she makes a plan to become more educated and self fulfilled so that she would be a better match for him. She doesn't know how rich he is or what all he owns. She doesn't know how crazy about her he is. He has everyone in his vast organization hopping to fulfill her every whim. He is just waiting for her to grow up a little before he actually marries her. Which the reader is totally aware of but she is oblivious. She is not a doormat just a clueless young girl. She does love him though and that comes through. I could see that it was a real love while not totally mature but that regardless he would keep her indulged and pampered for her whole life. How did this woman manage to write so clearly about the silly day dreams I had as a young girl? :-) Happy, happy fluff.

2-1/2 stars
Interesting premise. The mute girl was an interesting twist. She was written very childish seeming and her continual giggling to herself got annoying. The hero was sort of a Professor Higgins sort. Very self absorbed and superior in a 'that's just the way the world works' way. I had no real problem with that but I did have a problem with his not standing up for his wife against the OW's shenanigans.

Molly is reunited with an old friend of hers, Tim, who now has a daughter, and a very mysterious life. But, of course, they fall in love and live happily ever after, blah!½

I have to be honest and admit that I read the 2nd book in this series first (Tempered by Fire) - I love that book! And when I realized that there was more books to this series I had to go out and get them too. I really like this book - The Road - on how a single step mother is trying to protect her step childrens' inheritance even though one of them is married with kids already! This is a good book to read, and I would recommend it to anyone - Emma and her husband wrote some really good romances together while he was alive and this is one of them!

Om weer eens iets heel anders te gaan doen, neemt Faith een spannend baantje aan op een zonnig eiland. Ze zal Lady Sunny, de welgestelde eigenares van een groot landgoed, gaan helpen met het runnen van haar zaakjes. Faith merkt al gauw dat Lady Sunny er verschillende excentrieke hobby's op na houdt. Zo vindt ze het bijvoorbeeld leuk om voor de mensen die ze graag mag een geschikte huwelijkspartner uit te zoeken. Ook voor Faith heeft ze een kandidaat op het oog. En Faiih dacht nu juist de koppelpraktijken van haar familieleden ontvlucht te zijn! Ze verdenkt deze voor haar uitgezochte man er trouwens van het op Lady Sunny's geld te hebben gemunt. Met een dergelijk gewiekst type wil ze zich niet inlaten, laat staan ermee trouwen!

Bron: Bouquet 1584

I only finished reading this to try and resolve the crazy. It was written in the oddest style, as if it were written in the 50s. 31 year old actress is forced to marry doctor when her mother fails to meet mortgage payments, doctor needs mother for young girl. Seriously, this was like reading one of the old, old romances, expect for the heroine's age, and the fact that there was sex offstage.

Dr. Frank Wylie was in a class by himself. Beth had to concede that no one else had ever shattered the hard-won peace she'd found as a school teacher.

What had she done to deserve this husky ex-professional football player? He hated her dog, made her volatile stepsister's eyelashes flutter, and challenged Beth's mission to teach history to the kids of Picayune. Worse still, he felt he had the right to kiss her!