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Summary: LOVE A DARK, BROODING, DOMINANT HERO & A BODICE-RIPPER TOO !
Review: An alluring story of unbridled passion, young love, betrayal, a real page-turner & what a turn on ! The huge gap in age reminded me a bit of Jane Feather's characters. So what if Justin is cruel & heartless on the outside ? He's only embracing his belief that if he can't have Megan, no one can either. Just my kind of hero, a tortured soul, he put his heart up on his sleeves & came roaring back when he couldn't have her anymore. He did what his desperate mind told him to do, the only way to bind Megan to him is by kidnapping her. A rape is too harsh a description (Mrs. giggles' review) for Justin's lovemaking to the reluctant-but-as-much-in-love Megan. I just wish there were more authors as magnificent as Ms. Robards out there. Plenty of heart-pounding battles of will & toes-curling sex with an ending that'll leave U sniffling for a box of kleenex !
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Summary: More! More! More!
Review: Forbidden desire, passion, jealousy, heartache, and through it all undying love. This is absolutely one of the best! I love the dark, tormented heroes and Justin is certainly that. Unable to have Megan and unwilling to let anyone else have her. Megan was wonderful too. I want more books like this one. Please!
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Summary: A must read
Review: I bought this book after reading the back and was definitely drawn into it. I finished it in two days, staying up late when I should've been sleeping. It was hard putting it down. I loved the characters--they were easy to relate to--and there were parts that just made me go "awww" and parts that made me want to cry. I would recommend this book to anyone--it's definitely worth the time and the read.
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Summary: Not a happy tale
Review: I have enjoyed other works by Ms. Robards (Walking after Midnight, Paradise County, One Summer, Tiger's Eye...) but this one left me really torn. The first half gets 4 stars - I could even stomach the adultery, which usually turns me right off, because Justin so obviously loves Megan (and so obviously despises his wife and vice versa) that it overwhelms his good sense. But the second half gets no stars - not a single one. I only finished it to see how Robards could possibly make a happy ending for these two, because Justin certainly no longer deserves one. He becomes insanely jealous and brutal, and why Robards saw it necessary to compound all of Megan's anguish with yet another tragedy (I don't want to give it away) was too much for me. The story quickly went from romantic to horrifying, but of course it was all wrapped up in a Happily Ever After bow in the last few pages. It just rang so false to me - Robards had given this couple too many obstacles to overcome them all so easily. I love a good ending, and am willing to suspend my disbelief to a great degree to get one, but I just don't think this pair should have made it.
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Summary: Pure Enjoyment!!!
Review: I loved this book. It had spicey love scenes and tragedy all under one cover!!! I recomend this book to anyone who loves a good romance. The heroine, although young is spunky, and a little spitfire and the hero.. what a hunk. He is the dark handsome stranger that you always dream of. In this book Justin, just cant heep his hands off Megan even though he tries and Megan seduces Justin with her beauty and youth. She ends up pregnant and in trouble in Regency England and tries to make a bad situation into a good one by accepting a proposal from another gentleman. Even though it hurts Justin enough to take her away he can't marry her because he is already married (to a prudish cod fish of a woman). Everything turns out beautiful in the end after a tragedy pulls Justin and Megan appart then eventually closer than ever...(I will not tell you the tragedy it would ruin the suprise). Read on this one is a great one!!!
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Summary: Gay!
Review: I've read twenty novels of Karen Robards, needless to say she is my favourite author. Even though I read this book more than four times, it was not my favourite. The heroine was great, yet I thought Justin's character gay! No matter how much was written about his muscles, he didn't do it for me. Still, it was a great romantic story and the ending was fitting and happy (even if the hero was gay!)I still love you're writing style Karen!
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: If you want a jerk of a hero, a silly heroine, rape, abduction, lots of Big Misunderstandings, and "I hate you let's go to bed" screaming and shrieking, by all means go for it. But for $6.50, it's not worth it. The only reason I read this is because I thought the book was new. Next time I'll look closely at publication dates!
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Summary: Starts very nicely, then nosedives
Review: In the beginning, this was a fun book; Justin, Earl of Weston, is forced to confront his seventeen-year-old ward for the first time in many years, because her misbehaviour has gone too far. What he doesn't know is that everything she'd been doing was designed to get his attention, because she's lonely and needs someone to care about her. Then they meet, and realise that they're wildly attracted to each other, and - though they try not to - they tumble into bed. That's when Justin realises that Megan didn't know that he's married. But before he can tell her, his estranged wife turns up... This is where the book nosedives completely. Leaving aside minor errors (such as Robards clearly not understanding the difference between Lord Donald Winspear and Donald, Lord Winspear - one is the younger son of a duke or marquis, and the other is possibly a baron, or some other noble), there are two major reasons why I thoroughly disliked the book once I'd got beyond about 1/3 of the way through. First, once the action moves back to England, Justin turns into a violent, brutal, controlling bastard. From liking him enormously at the beginning of the book, I ended up loathing him and couldn't figure out why Megan had any feelings for him. She ended up exhibiting all the classic signs of a codependent woman, and he was unbelievably violent, in deeds as well as words. And then there was the discussion of divorce, which actually occurred first about a chapter or so into the book. Robards clearly hasn't done her research on the period, because Justin has no grounds whatsoever for a divorce. The mere refusal of his wife to sleep with him is not grounds; he'd have to prove infidelity or non-consummation. In addition, there would be a trial in the House of Lords - among his contemporaries - and he'd have to call witnesses. It was also extremely scandalous, so he'd have been ostracised as a result. And women were not able to sue for divorce, so the prospect of Justin's wife divorcing him would simply be non-existent; yet there's a long passage in which Justin muses on why she hadn't tried to divorce him. Therefore the discussions on divorce in the book, and the consideration of this as a solution to Justin's problem, is simply ludicrous; I was jerked out of the story at this point when Robards didn't correct herself, and could not take any consideration of solutions seriously. Since I prefer my authors to have done their research properly, I won't be reading Robards again.
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Summary: Sizzling Romance Robards style
Review: Just finished reading Forbidden Love. Couldn't put it down. Justin has been Megan's guardian since she was 5. But he has he has seldom seen her during his guardianship. Now she is grown, and very beautiful, but wild. After she runs away from school again, Justin follows her to his home in Ireland. From the moment he sees her dancing on the table, he is smitten. After he breaks his leg when his horse throws him, Megan spends a lot of time caring for him, and the sparks fly, igniting a fire in Justin that he can't put out. He is a fantastic lover, and she is an eager pupil. This book has an uncommon twist in that the hero is married, a fact the 17-year old Megan did not know. Otherwise, Justin, at 36, is perhaps somewhat less of a rake than most found in Regency romances, but he has been one and he knows the kind of men who pursue Megan when she makes her social debut in London. He is in pure agony when she persists in seeing the very men he has warned her against. He knows he can't have her, but is insanely jealous, and will allow no one else to touch her, even though he has already ruined her. He is a dead shot with a dueling pistol, and doesn't hesitate to defend her "honor" when she is threatened by one of the men he had forbidden her to associate with. One can sympathize with both Megan, who is desperate for love and for a family, and Justin, whose wife doesn't even live with him. He hates himself for what he did to Megan, but he simply can't stay away from his beautiful young girl, and is miserable away from her. Everything works out in the end (as is possible only in a novel). Great book!
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Summary: What Happened to Justin?
Review: Justin, the hero of this book, starts out as a relatively likable guy. However, in the second half of the book he suddenly becomes a selfish and jelous jerk. He dosn't even try to understand Megan's situation and behaves like a spoiled child. I think Megan should have dumped Justin and found a real man and one that wasn't twenty years older than her as well.
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