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S'està carregant… Heroes Are My Weaknessde Susan Elizabeth Phillips
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |   The story is well told (despite some predictable plot twists) and there's some great writing (by which I probably mean that the lady sure can write a sex scene). It was easy to root for Annie, and her relationship with four-year-old Livia, a mute child who's experienced a trauma, was very genuine and sweet. However, this book did not do it for me as a romance or as a gothic novel pastiche. I was totally uncompelled by Annie and Theo's relationship. Phillips tried to give Theo psychological realism AND have him don the role of the gothic antihero AND make us like him, and it didn't all add up for me. Some might enjoy the Jane Eyre and Rebecca shoutouts, but they didn't really inform the story that much. Definitely not my thing, but I would certainly recommend Phillips to readers who enjoy romantic fiction with a light tone, good writing, and a lot of interest and depth beyond the romance arc. (  ) raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |  ) msmattoon | Aug 24, 2023 | I have not read all of SEP's backlist, but I'd venture to say this is her best work to date. I've enjoyed her other novels, with quirky, loveable heroines, but this one is the top of the heap for me. This is a book I will read again and again. (  ) Karla.Brandenburg | Aug 1, 2023 | Una storia un po’ diversa dal solito, più sofferta e intima ma che riesce, come sempre, ad entrare nel cuore. Due bellissimi personaggi che escono un po’ alla volta. Lei Annie dolce e volitiva, non si arrende mai difronte alle difficoltà, attrice di poche fortune ma bravissima ventriloqua, dopo la morte della madre torna a Peregrine Island per passare lì i due mesi invernali che le consentiranno di mantenere la proprietà del cottage dove passava le vacanze estive. Lui Theo Harp, bellissimo e dannato, è il suo primo amore, quello che le aveva spezzato il cuore da adolescente. La vicinanza forzata sarà la spinta a sciogliere i nodi creatisi nel passato. Se l’avvio può sembrare un po’ rallentato la storia, però, prende piede rapidamente facendo crescere l’attenzione e il coinvolgimento con il progressivo svelarsi dei due protagonisti, ben più complessi e positivi di quanto potessero apparire inizialmente. Un altro imperdibile. ( ) Raffaella10 | Jan 28, 2023 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Fiction.
Romance.
HTML: New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charm Deepest winter. He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now. Annie Hewitt has arrived on Peregrine Island in the middle of a snowstorm and at the end of her resources. She's broke, dispirited, but not quite ready to give up. Her red suitcases hold the puppets she uses to make her living: sensible Dilly, spunky Scamp, and Leo, the baddest of bad guys. Her puppets, the romantic novels she loves, and a little bit of courage are all she has left. Annie couldn't be more ill prepared for what she finds when she reaches Moonraker Cottage or for the man who dwells in Harp House, the mysterious mansion that hovers above the cottage. When she was a teenager, he betrayed her in a way she can never forget or forgive. Now they're trapped together on a frozen island along with a lonely widow, a mute little girl, and townspeople who don't know how to mind their own business. Is he the villain she remembers, or has he changed? Her head says no. Her heart says yes. It's going to be a long, hot winter. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.69)
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What dragged this down from 4 stars to 3 stars was the eye-rollingly awful use of pop psychology, where characters who suffer extreme psychological trauma
Audiobook, borrowed from my library via Overdrive, with an excellent performance by Erin Bennett.
Read for the 2017 Romance Bingo. It could fit any of these squares:
Headless woman: beheaded by the cover artist
Guy/Girl Next Door: they spent a summer living in the same house as stepsiblings, and are neighbors in the current timeline
Rogue: The MC believes her love interest is a
Second Chances: Also third and fourth chances
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