Lonely Housewife Corner

Hooh, family drama, a stranger to shake things up, engagement with childhood asshole trembling, a one night stand, major family drama, personal trauma, anger, resentment, cheating all 'round and after all that, it's lovelove for everybody! YAY!

1) King of a country seeks revenge for the death of his sister and she gets caught in the middle. Not a bad read. He's actually a good guy and she's not stupid, and as the daughter of a dead tyrant, she's got some kindhearted spunk to her.

2) A naive girl went very bad, faked her death, but still suffers from bouts of withdrawl/stress(? Not sure what her illness is.) He rescues her, not only when she collapses, but helps her come out of hiding and face the mistakes she made. And the whole reunion scene with the brother, that might not have been portrayed well or some shock reaction or maybe they just aren't very demonstrative or prone to histrionics.

3) Well, if these two properly communicated with each other in the manner of adults and not petulant children, there wouldn't be a story. She's in wuv with him, but thinks he can't possibly love a distant common relative like her. He's in wuv with her, but thinks she's in love with his brother. Because they fail to have a proper conversation, they drag it out. Not great, but not bad considering...

From frump to sex doll. A tom-boy turned dowdy secretary sheds the self she created in grief and seduces her boss, but isn't interested in anything more than a fling. Only when she's stepped back into the cloth she's cut from does the man see who she really is and is entranced. Not the best set up, not the worst, but it's not a bad little read.

Aw, she's desperate and he needs an heir. They spark off each other, then fight, then spark again and eventually begin with the separation, but HE admits his weakness and chases the only woman who ever really looked at him.

So, having read the novel, I'm not going to say the man isn't an ass because he is, to an extent. This work is not an exact retelling as there are more details than have been portrayed here, more to him, her, and the people, living and deceased, around the pair. Still, this is neither Howard's best work, nor is it her worst and as with all genres there are trends and romance novels are notorious as lonely housewife fodder.

Cute. She's cute, though childish in appearance and manner. He's cute, big bad business man helplessly drawn to the cute lady. As far as the age difference goes, I'd say there's maybe ten years between them... It's not a bad gap, I think it's more of an emotional maturity gap that makes the age difference seem greater.

There are three in this series, this is the only one I cared for. It's a sweet hospital drama about a man who wants the woman and the woman who's afraid of wanting anyone.

Not bad. Those who are, fortunately, ignorant of the toll domestic abuse takes on a person are sure to find the woman disappointing, but she's not. This is mild portrayal, because it's actually worse than this. He's a decent lead, caring, only as pushy as he needs to be given her emotional state, and he isn't a mad rapist in a cloak of romance.