Strange concept for a romance novel. A man who is not into having sex, has major sexual issues and gets insanely angry after having sex? Weird for this genre. I'm still shaking my head. What can I say? Its only DP who can get away with these plot lines And she is one of the pioneers of the stepbrother romance I have read this one countless times and is one of my favorites I feel a headache come on everytime I think about Dawson. Diana Palmer wasn't kidding when she titled this book Man of Ice.
Like all DP books I love, this made me bawl my eyes out for our sweet, virginal heroine. Weird how I still love to reread this book though at least once a month! Palmer returns to the scene and makes us fall in love with Wyoming all over again with this heartbreakingly heart-warming tale. I can barely express how fully she drew me into this tale.
The narrator really enhanced the story with his varying pace, tone, and emotion. You get to know the main characters of this tale in intimate detail. Their past, present, and futures all make their way into this tale.
I felt for these chara I think the male character in this story needed some serious counseling. I can't see any man going 5 years without finding out why he is impotent.
Of course he was carrying around some major guilt, as well he should after forcing his step sister to have sex with him and just leaving her the way he did, blaming her for everything. Unfortunately the female mother roles he was exposed to had already warped his perception of women.
As for our heroine, what a doormat. How could she possibly be in lov The H was seriously twisted, his behavior was enough to give anyone whiplash and it kinda reminded me of friend's psycho husband.
DP really pulled it out of the bag and saved this for me. It takes some doing walking that fine line between crazy and sane. I like how the h seemed really mature about her insight into H's behaviour, none of that flouncy contradictory behaviour we get from h's. Mind you that could be becuase, in this case, the H behaved like that.
What a roller coaster ride of emotions! And while I never in a million years would have put up with Dawson's behavior, I felt he was redeemed somehow via his backstory. Overall, it was a heartbreakingly sweet and enjoyable read. H has serious mental issues due to deep emotional scars: they explain his attitude and behavior but cannot excuse him to be a rapist I repeat myself this is just a novel and the author is DP one of my favorite - but this time this is really hard Train wreck abuserThis guy is going to kill her someday.
He needs years of therapy to recover from his horrific childhood. Hate it. Sometimes you feel so strongly about a book, simply rating it just won't do. This is one of those books. I can't describe how much I hated it. To preface, I know that romance novels aren't the place to go for strong, self-sufficient heroines or sensitive, type B guys.
But Man of Ice offended me on multiple levels and I wanted to get it out there for other readers. First, let's get this out in the open. The hero raped the heroine. You can couch it in "I wanted you so badly I couldn't stop" as much a Since I recently did a review of the WTF-tastic "Maggie's Dad" which featured these two main characters as supporting cast, I got a jones to re-read this one. Anyone who is familiar with my reviews knows that I have this weird love-to-hateread thing when it comes to Diana Palmer, particularly the stuff she wrote in the 80s and 90s.
Like, I'll be reading it and thinking, "This is truly awful," and yet, I just can't stop myself from coming back to her. I'm pretty sure there's a crack comparison in I liked it.
Even though the story's full of push and pull and misunderstanding that somehow very ridiculous, I still loved it. Mostly because the story's very typical of Diana Palmer and I gotten used with its pace. I'm comfortable. I was expecting more angst from heroine's side but this one's do. Could be a little bit better though. But overall, my favorite. I enjoyed it, I wish there's more from Diana Palmer.
Can't wait to read the next book! Relido em 28 de julho de Not good, nope not good at all. Not what I expected and not anything I want to read again. Began with a fairly interesting story that made me want to continue to read -- then it all went to hell in a hand basket. Terrible characters, terrible development, terrible story line. I didn't enjoy this one. He was so cruel, over and over again.
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