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ththalassocracy's review
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
doloresofcourse's review
3.0
This book was written in 1982. If you are a Sandra Brown fan, this is for the curious only. It's very Harlequin formulaic with all the expected tropes. Super hot redhead virgin alert and dominating male employer and single father. There are a few awkward sex scenes.
ab18's review
3.0
Yeesh, the heroine suffers from a severe lack of self esteem. If your reaction to being propositioned by your boss is anger then WHY do you wind yourself around him like ivy at the first kiss? Either no means no (in mind and body), or you’re playing hard to get. You cannot have betraying body syndrome when you angrily turn down any and all invitations from said boss. It just comes across as a pathetic woman who doesn’t know what she wants.
This is a romance where everything is a happily resolved in the end but oh dear, if an employer ever declares that he intends to seduce his employee to her face she should run out of there so fast that the door will hit him as he attempts to follow. The heroine is just sad. She makes no attempt to really put any distance between herself and her boss. She allows him to use his daughter to manipulate her because she doesn’t want to hurt the child’s feelings. Nope. There are ways to be a kind adult without allowing yourself to get drawn into a potentially dangerous situation. She just seems to be naive to an idiotic degree.
But I do love the writing and clothing descriptions.
This is a romance where everything is a happily resolved in the end but oh dear, if an employer ever declares that he intends to seduce his employee to her face she should run out of there so fast that the door will hit him as he attempts to follow. The heroine is just sad. She makes no attempt to really put any distance between herself and her boss. She allows him to use his daughter to manipulate her because she doesn’t want to hurt the child’s feelings. Nope. There are ways to be a kind adult without allowing yourself to get drawn into a potentially dangerous situation. She just seems to be naive to an idiotic degree.
But I do love the writing and clothing descriptions.
jmeyers888's review
3.0
I always turn to Sandra Brown when I read romance books. I thought this one was decent, but I've read better of hers. I did like it though. I thought some of it was a bit unrealistic. Especially the ending, but it didn't ruin the book.
jennahack's review
3.0
I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway win. Though, technically, I won another book, but this audiobook came along with it. I'll never turn away a free book!
This was a sweet love story between Hailey and Tyler. A typical, he wants her but she's shy and unsure of herself story with him having a daughter thrown in.
I definitely enjoyed this book. It was sweet and fluffy. Those are always enjoyable.
Not much else to say with regards to this except that if you want something light and romantic, this is a good choice.
This was a sweet love story between Hailey and Tyler. A typical, he wants her but she's shy and unsure of herself story with him having a daughter thrown in.
I definitely enjoyed this book. It was sweet and fluffy. Those are always enjoyable.
Not much else to say with regards to this except that if you want something light and romantic, this is a good choice.
pussreboots's review
2.0
Sandra Brown is one of those super prolific authors. If I'm counting correctly, she's written seventy-two books. To complicate things further, she has been published under a variety of names: Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, Erin St. Claire and finally Sandra Brown. She's obviously most well known as Sandra Brown and many of her early novels have been republished under the name Sandra Brown. For example, the 2001 edition of Seduction by Design was originally published in 1983 and listed Erin St. Claire as the author.
Seduction by Design isn't one of Brown's better books but it is among her earliest published works. It does show hints at how she likes to play with genre expectations and cliches but in this novel she doesn't pull it off.
Hailey Ashton may be a successful business woman but the shit she puts up with from her boss is creepy and abusive. In a modern Brown novel I would expect the heroine to quit her job and get a restraining order against her boss, sue him and hook up with her lawyer but not in this one.
Then there is the added ick factor of Tyler (the boss) being a single father and using his daughter as a bargaining chip. Again, in a modern Brown novel, Hailey would probably call child protective services but not here.
I read the book cover to cover mostly for the amazement at how much Brown has improved as a writer. If you're a fan of her writing and want to read everything she's published, then go ahead and read Seduction by Design. If not, feel free to skip it.
Seduction by Design isn't one of Brown's better books but it is among her earliest published works. It does show hints at how she likes to play with genre expectations and cliches but in this novel she doesn't pull it off.
Hailey Ashton may be a successful business woman but the shit she puts up with from her boss is creepy and abusive. In a modern Brown novel I would expect the heroine to quit her job and get a restraining order against her boss, sue him and hook up with her lawyer but not in this one.
Then there is the added ick factor of Tyler (the boss) being a single father and using his daughter as a bargaining chip. Again, in a modern Brown novel, Hailey would probably call child protective services but not here.
I read the book cover to cover mostly for the amazement at how much Brown has improved as a writer. If you're a fan of her writing and want to read everything she's published, then go ahead and read Seduction by Design. If not, feel free to skip it.
redstepper's review against another edition
3.0
This is okay. I personally like more excitiment (more than just the budding relationship) or at least something that pushes that relationship to the make or break point. Not much excitement occured, and the make or break event happened at the absolute last moment it could possibly happen. Overall, not terrible, but probably won't keep for a second read.
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