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Dangerous Desire (Thorndike Large Print Harlequin Series)

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Beautiful heroine is hit by powerful feelings for her friend's playboy brother upon meeting him. Hero confronts heroine about both her antagonism & attraction towards him. As much as heroine passionately denies her strong attraction to Hero, she finds it hard to control her sexual response to hero & Hero uses that knowledge to propel her to confess her innermost secrets. All there physical & verbal wrangling leaves heroine in doubt about whether Hero's interest in her is purely sexual or more.

I didn't like this Holland book. It was too negatively dramatic. The romance was dysfunctional b/c of the characters. Their sexual chemistry & sex scenes had an S&M leaning. Heroine was verbally & physically/sexually attacking & both she & Hero seemed to like that. Hero frequently threatened to punish heroine with sex if she doesn't do his bidding & she responded ambivalently to his threats. The dialogue was also dramatic & bipolar, with lots of "hate" & "love" words about the same person/event. That's part of what made this book exhausting, annoying, & eye-rolling to read. Hero threatens heroine then heroine responds with same hate-filled language about Hero & then she realizes she IS in love with him. This craziness occurs over & over again.

Hero & heroine were unlikeable. Heroine was a spoiled & self-pitying drama queen. She was a willing doormate who complained & emoted her problems without backing it up with her actions. She was also insecure, approval-seeking, strikes out when stressed, & masochistic. Hero was her match. He was manipulative, controlling, & threatening. He often goaded heroine & would punish (or threaten to) her for getting upset with him but he seemed to like that. Their "love" seemed so unhealthy. For their future, I can only imagine either a very bumpy road ahead and/or lots of S&M in their bedroom.

Warning: not a feel-good book.

Description from the book back cover:

Isabelle Montranix adored Monaco - but hated Jean-Luc Ferrat. After what she had been through in her previous marriage she didn't want to think about getting close to another man. The difficulty was, Jean-Luc was incredibly handsome and seemed to want to help - but maybe he just wanted to help her into bed. What was she to do when her mind told her to steer clear of him and her heart said he would be wonderful to love?