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Endangered Hearts (2000)

by Amanda Lance(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

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Romance

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Endangered Hearts

review 1: This story is all over the place. It goes from one point in time into another. A lot of stereotypes are thrown into the story about Americans and wealthy people. Not sure I read the same book as these other people because I did not feel like the story was well written or that it even flowed. I did not even connect it to Beauty and the Beast. It was so out there that I had nothing to compare it to. Kasper keeps his face covered and wears gloves on his hands. Kasper watches Emilia clean his house. Kasper is rude to Emilia yet she smiles and goes about her business. They are an odd pair.Emilia is curious about his health and his personal life. She snoops inside the library as she cleans trying to find out who Kasper is. Emilia thinks you can tell a lot about a person by what ... morethey spend there money on. Both are making prejudgements about the other by looking up information about the other instead of asking the person face to face. Conversation is not something that occurs very often for Kasper and Emilia. Kasper tends to watch Emilia and only approaches her when he is upset with something she is doing. When Kasper speaks to Emilia he is very forward and judgmental. He lacks tact and etiquette. During the days Emilia is at home she takes care of her mother. Emilia goes to school and studies at night. Then two days a week she cleans the manor. Emilia is used to taking care of other people. She is studying to be a vet.It was a valiant attempt at a story about a man with health issues so severe he hides behind a mask feeling sorry for himself and a young woman who sacrifices her ability to succeed in life to take care of her mother. Two sad and lonely people find each other in friendship. It was a weird story. Skimmed through most of it. Only enjoys cents when the manor was occupied only by Kasper when everyone was on vacation.
review 2: It's a sweet and elegant blend of several stories I love. The pretty woman who changes the life of a scarred man as in Beauty and the Beast. The highly talented but slightly mad man who hides behind a mask as in Phantom of the Opera. The witty conversation between a clever, undeterred woman and a moody, aloof man as in Jane Eyre.Those are aspects I really enjoyed in this novel, as well as the sometimes haunting quality of the writing style.Of course, it's not absent of a negative side, at least to me. At the start, it dragged a little too long. It seemed that it was slow-paced and quite descriptive to make it a big uneventful. However, I persevered and found myself liking this romantic journey into the lives of two damaged, lonely souls so in need of love.Emilia cleans houses for a living. She's studying to become a veterinarian and juggling a delicate situation at home. She's independent, strong and has a sunny disposition. Maybe enough to stand up to the owner of an eerie manor. There is a clash between Kasper's dramatic personality and Emilia's resigned but not easily disturbed attitude. Can they heal each other's wounds or is it too late to change anything?It's not only a romance. It's actually an encounter of two people who are desperately isolated in their unique ways. Through neglect and lack of affection, they both develop an independence fraught with sadness. Little by little, they come closer to each other. I found it endearing how they become curious about the other so Emilia googles her new employer while the angry man has her investigated. Their lives have been difficult and that reflects on how little they think they deserve to be loved, cherished, respected. All this is very well portrayed in the writing.I really liked how unusual their falling in love is. He fights it, she never recoils. Their dialogues, their banters, are truly warm and funny. Even though the ending is far from what I expected, there is some kind of poetic liberation in it that actually matches the essence of their personalities and the innate quality of what love really means.A FAVOURITE QUOTEEmilia disliked compliments. They gave her imaginary standards to hold herself up to in the future and irrational fears of disappointing those who had given them.CHEEKY CATEGORYIt's sensual but subtle. Nothing graphic.First reviewed on Literaria sede-literaria.blogspot.com. less

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