Author : Sara Craven
Series : -
Genre : Romance/ Harlequin Presents
Publication Year : 2008
Rating : 3 of 5 stars
THE HERO. . .
Roan Zandros. At first he was portrayed as a struggling artist. Not that he
wasn’t really an artist. He is an artist, yes, but not just that, he is also a
Greek Billionaire. His mother was an English and a painter, too. But his father
doesn’t approve him to be a painter. So he came to England to prove to his
father that he could be succesful as a painter, so that his father would let
him to keep painting. I like him enough. Yes, he has that arrogant and
take-charge trait that every Presents’s heroes have, but not overly so. He is
actually fell in love with the heroine from the beginning, no denial from his
part. He even willing to beg to heroine’s grandfather to give him a chance to
win her over. And after all that attitude the heroine dump on him. Sweet,
right? But like all the other heroes, he is also stubborn he won’t just said it
outright that he loves her.
THE HEROINE. . .
Harriet Flint. The most arrogant heroine I’ve ever known. Usually it’s the
hero who is arrogant, right? But this time people don’t like her not because
they just envy her. She was disliked by many people, especially her colleagues,
because she acted so high and mighty. Well, yeah, maybe she just wants to prove
herself. And the lack of her mother’s presence and with her grandfather’s hard
and old-fashioned personality may cause that attitude of her. She is also too
obsessed with that house, the Gracemead. Yeah, that place is her anchor when
she was a child, but still, to marry a stranger just so she could inherit that
house? When a hero did that, it looks that he was ruthless, because like we
know that’s the usual attitude from Presents’s heroes. But when a heroine did
that, it just look plain stupid. For my, at least.
THE STORY. . .
Despite what I said about Harriet, that behaviour is made this book quite
unique. I mean, I’ve never found a Presents book where the heroine doing the
buying. It’s always the heroes everytime. So despite the stupidity of the
action, I guess that gives this book a credit. And the part where Roan begged
for a chance to make Harriet fall in love with him, it’s just so sweet. It’s a
wonder he didn’t just dump her after all that attitude of her. She hurt him,
again and again, and still he always think of her happiness. He is ready to let
her go so that she could have her dream. That’s what you called true love, I
guess. And the ending. I always love a good ending. And this book’s ending is
quite good. Not quite enough grovelling from her part, but I guess that’ll do. Oh,
and one last thing. Harriet was left by her mother to be raised by her
grandfather. Her mother refused to give Harriet away for adoption when she fell
pregnant, even if that means she was disowned by her father. So, it’s not
because her mother doesn’t love her, right? But until the end of the book,
there’s no explanation why Harriet’s mother did that. It’s not a big issue, but
makes the story feels incomplete.
THE QUOTE. . .
‘I woke early, and all I
could think of was your voice telling me you would never love me. I was so
scared it might be true, and I needed a talisman to keep with me—to give me
hope.’
Roan Zandros
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