Customer Reviews

The Frenchman's Love-Child (Harlequin Presents)

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I am a big fan of LG and I believe that this is her best book ever. I love the characters and I found that the story is very realistic: During a holiday in France, a seventeen year old (Tabby) fell in love with a alpha male (Christien) who did not know her real age and gave her a bad time about it. Then tragedy separated this couple and she was pregnant!!! Four year later they would reunited and she has to confess that he has a three years old boy called Jake... It is sweet, heartbroken and love prevails...

This book is part of a series of 4 books that each tell a tale of 4 friends, Tabby, Pippa, Hilary and Jenny, who vacationed in Europe together every year, but something tragic happens that seperates them as teenagers, but they come together later in life, either during the romance or at the end of the book as the romance resolves, tying up a happy ending for us wistfully sighing readers *grin*. I absolutely love the way these stories intertwine.

This is Tabby's tale, and she is a gentle, ultra-patient sweet-tempered friend and heroine with a delicious sense of humor. This temperament may frustrate some of you that like heroines with more of a back-bone, but remember as in life, all friends have different personalities so if Tabby doesn't do it for you, hang in there and wait for funky hilarious Hilary--my favorite of the friends! Pippa has a great tale, too...but Tabby has a wonderful story here too, and she is a devoted friend to her pals, as we find out in the other books in this series.

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE email me @ Cyndi@DreamEmporium.com and let me know where to find the title for the remaining book in this series, the story of Jenny? I can't find info anywhere; maybe it isn't written yet as of this writing. I'm waiting patiently, Lynne Graham...tap-tap-tap-tap...

Have I mentioned I have almost all of Lynne Graham's books? GREAT AUTHOR. Don't miss reading her books if you haven't discovered her yet.

This wasn't too bad of a book overall. Very strong and possessive alpha male (Christien) and the heroine (Tabby) did have some sort of backbone throughout the story. My only problem was that lust and sex seemed to be the driving force between the two characters. I didn't see too much of an in-depth relationship form between the two lead characters until the very end if you could call it in-depth.

I am a big fan of Graham's books and think I have read just about all of them. This one ranks up there as one of her best. The blurb on the back cover says:
"Its been four years since that long hot summer when Tabby fell in love with Christien Laroche. But tragedy struck and in the emotional aftermat Christien wanted nothing more to do with her. How could she confess to the arrogant Frenchman that she was expecting his baby?
Now Tabby has made a new life for herself and three year-old Jake in France. The only cloud on Tabby's horizon is Christien. Not only is he back in her life he's in her face-and he wants her back in his bed...Surely its only a matter of time before he discovers that Jake is his son.
Its hard to say too much more without giving anything away except that I found her lead characters refreshing.

I got to the middle of the book and just stop. Then finished the book a month later Tabby made it too easy for him after the way he treated her and continues to treat her . This book was definitely a miss for Lynne Graham. I gave it 2 stars because it starts out good.

I am a big fan of Ms. Grahams, that said I really did not like either the hero Christien Laroche or the heroine Tabby. Tabby was slow-witted and immature.Christien's irresponsibility was ridiculous, seriously you have 6 weeks of unprotected sex with a seventeen year old girl and you don't at least talk to her in the intervening 4 years to maybe see if there were any consequenses to your actions.Tabby at least had youth as an excuse for the majority of her stupidity Christien however was older and not as easily excused.On top of that he's engaged to someone else when he re-enters Tabby's life and bed and fails to mention it. His excuses for his actions are lackluster and weak. The hero was based to much in reality if I wanted to see a irresponsible man that cheats on his Fiancee and impregnates children I would pick up the latest PEOPLE magazine or watch Maury

Years ago, a 17 year old Tabby fell in love with sophisticated sexy Christien Laroche while on summer vacation in France with her father and very young step mother. Tabby's father, in deep depression ever since the death of her mother, drives home drunk one night killing himself and his passengers along with Christien's father who was in another car. Grieving over his father and believing Tabby was unfaithful to him, Christien turns his back on her. Now four years later, finding out that Christien's aunt left her a cottage on a remote area of the Laroche family property in her will, Tabby decides to move to France as she and her 3 year old son Jake have been living on her aunt's goodwill. Jake is the three year old carbon copy son that Tabby never told Christien about although she did make an attempt at the accident inquiry that took place shortly after his birth. When Christian refused to speak to Tabby she took it as proof he wouldn't have wanted anything to do with her son either. Now, Christien is back and wanting a place back in Tabby's life but will her secret destroy their chances.

This was a passionate exciting story and even though Christian is arrogant and a butt at times, he is still so sexy you want to forgive him. Tabby is sweet and a little naive but who can blame her reaction to Christien.

This is a great start to the Child Brides of L'Amour series. Christien and Tabby met one summer and had an affair. They broke up due to a misunderstanding and some tragic circumstances. They met again several years later and their passion for each other still burned red hot. I greatly enjoyed reading this book and everything about it is good -- the story, the hero and heroine, the dialogue, the setting, and the love scenes.

I like the idea for the book. But, my problem is with the weakness of the heroine. This is the 21st century, LG needs to give some of these women real backbones.

I wish her name had not been Tabby because it's the most unromantic name I've ever heard. Anyway this book was great and I thought Christien was awesome. Just the kind of alpha male that I love and he just loved Tabby and could never forget her even after four long years. The fact that he had a son with Tabby that he knew nothing about was poetic justice for the hurt Tabby went through.