Shattered Dreams (Atlantic Large Print Books) [Import] [Hardcover]

Sally Wentworth (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print Ed edition (August 8, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745195091
• ISBN-13: 978-0745195094
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS HAD MY STOMACH TURNING - TORTURE IS NOT ROMANCE - WHAT IS WITH THIS AUTHOR - WHO ACCEPTED THIS BOOK AND PRINTED THIS CRAP, March 17, 2010

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Lillian Rose (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shattered Dreams (Harlequin Presents # 629) (Paperback)

This is what the man (hot hero in any sense) does:

1. Asks Heroine to be his mistress when he first meets her.
2. When she rightly gets upset and refuses agrees to marry her.
3. Has her investigated the investigator mistakes her half brother for a suposed lover, double standards here aplenty, I mean she's not the first women he's been with, but because even if she had had a lover before him it's none of his business. She hears him go off after the wedding to a friend telling the friend that he was going to get his money's worth and then dump her in the gutter. She flee's and rightly so.
4. He finds her and holds her prisioner.
5. Mentally tortures her. Demanding that she do everything at his command, like sit/make dinner/everything has to be at his command she has no say at all.
6. Physical torture. He applies water torture to her, for around 5 mins he pushes her under the water and then lets her up to breath and then pushes her down again, etc, etc.
7. She manages to get away and he tackles her and brings her back.
8. She finally gets away with him chasing after her and he has an accident and she saves him, I just don't believe this.

He comes back after he gets out of hospital and I don't even think he says sorry, just explains why he did this, like if I didn't love you I wouldn't be here, all the while she's worried because he's standing on his sore ankle, I thought to myself this heroine is just TSTL(to stupid to live) she forgives him and tells him to forget it because she has, I'm just shaking my head saying what, how stupid am I to read this crap, how could anyone place this in the romantic genre or worse accept this crap. For the entire book she's frightened of this guy is abused and tortured by him and within a page she turns around and forgives him yeah I'm thinking I could see the love all along- yeah right this guy belongs in prison, she needs therapy, and I need a good book to read. What is with all these authors that make the heroine suffer all this crap and then half a paragraph from the end she just turns around and says I love you I forgive you, don't feel bad it's okay, I probably deserved it all and more anyway. No need to say sorry for sleeping with half of the country or abusing me I needed it I deserved it, how stupid do these writers think that we are???????????? I truly can't write I accept the fact, and I respect and am grateful for all those that can write truly amazing books, but both the writers and the editors need to get a dictionary and look up the word romance, or at least ask the reader what they think romance is, because the message they are putting out there is sooo wrong. It truly is not good for anyone reading to assume that this behaviour is in anyway acceptable behaviour. Another book another diatribe. Oh for a good book, anyone please.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I only wish I could give this book negative stars!!!!, March 18, 2004

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Sotired (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shattered Dreams (Harlequin Presents # 629) (Paperback)

The male in this book literally physically and emotionally tortures his wife. He holds her head under water not once but twice and almost kills her. Then he locks her in a house and interrogates her about her so called sexual past. I have never been so horrified in my life that a so called romance novel would allow the woman to stay with a guy like that.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is terrible, but, sadly, I've read worse, June 15, 2010

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ponadog (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shattered Dreams (Harlequin Presents # 629) (Paperback)

Sally Wentworth always wrote very well, her prose attentive and skillful, but this book was bizarre. Hugo holds his wife Kate captive, thinking she lied about being a virigin and has now cheated on him. She's a virgin, of course, but he accuses her of being the sluttiest slut who ever did slut. Honestly, I think Hugo was turned on by the idea...but disgusted at himself for being turned on, so he takes his aggression out on the heroine/victim.

This book is missing a critical piece in a romance novel: any semblance of romance. There is no communication, only accusation, abuse, torture, stubbornness, pride and outright stupidity. If the author had included some inkling of a love and affection between the two characters, some sort of true remorse or process of healing, perhaps it could have been redeemed. The Judas Kiss by Sally Wentworth is one my favorite Harlequin Presents. Shattered Dreams is on the other side of the spectrum.