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Are You Kidding Me?, February 25, 2008
This review is from: One Gentle Knight (Kimani Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I love romance books and although I have read some silly ones written by women along comes a man who writes one of the most silliest supposed romance books I've read in a while. What prompted me to buy it in the first place was because the author was a male.
In reading it I found that the hero and the heroine truly deserved one another (and not in a good way) but rather because I found them equally annoying. Between his selfishness and their shared immaturity, I only finished this predictable, aggravating mess because I paid for it. I mean come on! All they had in common was physical lust. And if I had to read one more time of how beautiful she was I was going to scream. If she'd only had been written with brains and a backbone too.
What mature woman, becomes pregnant, decides to have the baby, decides to tell the father, (whom she barely knows) but doesn't tell him nor is encouraged by her supposed best friend to tell the father about her past immediatley. A past that included marriage and the tragic deaths of both her husband and child due to the same accident. Then she has the audacity to lament like an inexperienced teenage girl over the fact he doesn't jump for joy at the news that he's going to be a father due to a no-strings attached sex romp with a total stranger.
I commend the hero for raising his brother and sister after the death of their parents, which was his one redeeming quality to me but Shayne and Carla had no depth. Although after the fact, I kept waiting on them to really talk to one another or have some kind of a real blow-out argument instead, I could have cared less if they got together or not. This was indeed African-American fiction with no true romance in sight.
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What a Knight!!!!, July 1, 2007
This review is from: One Gentle Knight (Kimani Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved this novel!!!!! I have read books that have put tears in my eyes before, but there were a couple of scenes in this book that really pulled at my heart. The love scenes were awesome as well. This is the third book that I have read from Mr. Jordan and it runs in close with his Capture the sunrise, if not better. It is very refreshing to find a man who is able to write romance as well as women have done in the past. I CANNOT wait for the next installment of the Knight family. I'm looking forward to getting to know Russell and Tamara.
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One Gentle Knight and A Magical Night, May 1, 2009
This review is from: One Gentle Knight (Kimani Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
"One Gentle Knight" by Wayne Jordan was my first time reading one of Mr. Jordan's book. I loved it. Shayne Knight was indeed one gentle Knight. Even though he engaged in a "one night stand" with Carla Nevins, it was not his intentions. However, being the responsible man that Shayne was, he had to put business before pleasure. Shayne was the oldest of three siblings. His brother and sister, twins -- Russell and Tamara were too young to worry about the family business when their parents were tragically killed in a car accident. Therefore, Shayne, a young man himself, shouldered the responsibility of not only caring for the business, but also caring for Russell and Tamara.
Ironically, the time when Shayne decides he need some R&R time, he goes to the island and as if magically, Carla is also there and they meet. Each senses the other and things or rather, clothing items, take off from there. As with magic, even though the feelings are still there, when the night is over and Carla wakes up, she wakes up alone. Shayne is nowhere to be found. Carla does find Shayne's note, but the note is sketchy and does not say much. Carla wonders and begin to doubt, was it indeed just a hasty, one night stand? Did she, a grown woman, who is also a widow, after losing her husband and their child in a tragic car accident, also lose her senses and become involved with a man she just met -- one she knows nothing about? Will she or does she now regret what she -- no they did during the night?
After Shayne does not return, Carla cuts her vacation short and return home to the United States to try to forget all about the mysterious man. However, she has a surprise, one that will always remind her of Shayne. After approx three months have passed, Carla realizes that she is and it is confirmed that Carla is pregnant. Carla tells her friend, Sandra what happened and Carla decides she must tell Shayne face to face that he will be a father, but she does not want any strings attached. Little does Carla know that Shayne has also been missing her. Although both have issues, they also have a child between them. Therefore, their lives have been changed and they have been bonded together forever.
Carla and Shayne love each other, but both are to stubborn to realize it and even Shayne's housekeeper, Gladys, who is also like a mother to the Knight children, realizes that Shayne and also Carla love one another. Shayne's closest friends, George, who is now a lawyer and Troy, who is a doctor also realize that Carla and Shayne love one another and should be together. However, through much trials and heartship, Carla and Shayne will have to face that reality themselves and make things work for them and their child.
"One Gentle Knight" is the first in the triology about the Knight siblings - Shayne, Tamara, and Russell. All great stories of love, romance, life, and most important, family.
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