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The Guardian's Forbidden Mistress (2008)

by Miranda Lee(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373127014 (ISBN13: 9780373127016)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

review 1: The Guardian’s Forbidden Mistress is the 18th stand-alone romance novel by Australian author, Miranda Lee. Sarah Steinway has been in love with Nick Coleman since she was eight and her father employed him as a chauffeur. Nick has been attracted to Sarah since she appeared in a tiny bikini on her sixteenth birthday, but, of course, he can’t act on the attraction because, as her guardian, he promised her father on his deathbed he would protect her. And while he is now Sydney’s most handsome and eligible billionaire, she needs protecting from Nick most of all. Nick’s parade of beautiful women has always irritated Sarah, and he puts all her male admirers through the third degree, but this Christmas, she plans to catch his eye herself. Nick is not all that likeable: Sar... moreah is OK, but the best character is gay Derek. There are a few hot sex scenes, but this is not Miranda Lee’s best effort. Assignment: Seduction! is a romance novel by British Author, Cathy Williams, in the Nine to Five series. As Robert Downe’s PA, Melissa James has had to keep long and often strange hours, but relishes her home time as her own, a break from the intensity of her gorgeous, sexy boss. Her alone time is threatened when he insists she accompany him to the Caribbean for his new hotel project, and she finds they are staying in a remote house rather than impersonal hotel rooms. The plot is fairly standard; the characters are rather one dimensional; Williams creates a bit of intrigue with Mel’s past on the island, but then doesn’t follow through. Altogether this one is excruciatingly slow-moving so it’s lucky it was included gratis as it’s not worth paying for.
review 2: There's a weird little thing that niggles at me about Harlequin Mills&Boons, which is the use of the word 'female' where 'woman' would have been better, IMO. Did 'woman' get over-used and have to be retired, or something? I have no idea whether it's an editorial decision or whether authors have just all decided to do it for themselves, because it's pretty consistent across the HM&B books I've read, this strange, almost clinical 'female' where the word 'woman' would have done. To the point where it even crops up in dialogue, though I'm sure noone on earth ever says "...because you're a female" or "us females", etc.Anyway, I think it's strange, and it bothers me, and sometimes it even takes me out of the story completely.But back to this book - if you don't find ward/guardian sexual dynamics creepy, and you're prepared not to be disgusted at the lengths of effort and even deception our heroine will go to in order to capture her guardian's attention, and you don't want too much angsting about before the sexy bits (or even afterwards, to be frank) this book should deliver.My ex-library Australian edition also had a short story by Cathy Williams at the back, which I liked better than the novel itself, although it still had some questionable elements - hard-as-nails secretary goes on a work trip to a tropical island with her movie-star sexy boss, who puts the moves on her. less

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