Forbidden Love [Import] [Hardcover]

Caroline Courtney (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Columbine Ho. (September 23, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851405827
• ISBN-13: 978-0851405827
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,827,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sexy but scary, October 21, 2006

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Fascinating. "consider the possibilities" (Eugene, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forbidden Love (Dell Historical Romance) (Paperback)

The relationship between Megan and Justin, the central characters in this book, reads like a scary, abusive relationship. First, the hero is more than twice the heroine's age. He is also her legal guardian, and hasn't bothered to give her any attention for the last 12 years. Nice.

He seduces her, and she doesn't find out he's married until his wife shows up. He treats her like a posession, and blames all his frustrations on her. He calls her names, abducts her, coerces her into sex, slaps her across the face and is just cruel and selfish in general. Yet she is still "drawn to him". (He needs her, poor guy!)

At times, he frightens her and makes her flesh crawl, but everything is fixed up at the end by his being really, really sorry. Please. This is just a sick relationship. Justin sounds more like a psychopath than an honorable guy who is helpless to resist the power of "love". There is nothing loving about him.

The only redeeming quality to the book is that is has the ring of truth, but that truth lies more in the fact that there actually are relationships like these than that such a relationship could turn out happily ever after.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What Happened to Justin?, August 5, 2002

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This review is from: Forbidden Love (Dell Historical Romance) (Paperback)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, there are some faults,, June 2, 2005

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G McTiernan (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forbidden Love (Dell Historical Romance) (Paperback)

but for me they're easy to overlook. I love this book and I love the story. I love the interaction between Megan and Justin, especially when his leg is broken in an accident (I can't elaborate, it would ruin it). Justin certainly isn't PC, but no man of that time was. I take this book for what it is; pure entertainment reading. I can disengage my mind from historical inaccuracies if the plot is decent, which this is.