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24marsha's review
2.0
This was yucky in so many ways - really not my thing. But it is set in Lucerne Switzerland so I read it for the setting. Unfortunately there were only about 20 poor sentences describing the setting and the rest was an embarrassingly machismo cringy romance.
jbarr5's review
5.0
Not Even For Love by Sandra Brown
Reeves Grant has shown up at her bookstore at night in the rain.
Jordan Hadlock allowed him in and gave him towels to wipe up the water.
3 years ago her husband had died and she moved to the outskirts of
London to run the newsstand and live upstairs.
Helmut has announced their engagement after she's spent the night
with the new photographer. She had only agreed prior to think about it.
Because of a newspaper article she no longer has a job now either but
the paper said she was to marry Helmut.
Reeves Grant has shown up at her bookstore at night in the rain.
Jordan Hadlock allowed him in and gave him towels to wipe up the water.
3 years ago her husband had died and she moved to the outskirts of
London to run the newsstand and live upstairs.
Helmut has announced their engagement after she's spent the night
with the new photographer. She had only agreed prior to think about it.
Because of a newspaper article she no longer has a job now either but
the paper said she was to marry Helmut.
doloresofcourse's review
2.0
I first thought that Sandra Brown had used a ghostwriter for this one. It's a real clunker from the silly plot to the poorly written dialogue. While the publishing date here says 2004, the book was actually written in 1982 and was her fifth published work. I had to look it up because the quality of this one really bothered me. If you are a die hard fan, it might be worth the time to see how far her writing style evolved over the decades. If you aren't a fan, grab a book from the last decade or so.
leapfeetfirst's review
1.0
This is one of the worst books that I've ever read. I guess that's what I get for picking a random book up from the library. I feel stupider for having read this and I wish I could get a refund for the time I wasted reading this.
sean67's review
2.0
Not even for love would you make someone read this.
This started out as a quest to see how Ms Brown went from generic romance author to more adult contemporary thriller author - but sometimes you wonder if the journey is worth the suffering - not even for love!!!!
This started out as a quest to see how Ms Brown went from generic romance author to more adult contemporary thriller author - but sometimes you wonder if the journey is worth the suffering - not even for love!!!!
ncrabb's review
2.0
This was basically a quick flash-and-trash read. The tropes are many, the plot is predictable, and the main character is somewhat more submissive in some ways than you would think possible with a Sandra Brown book. But you have to recall it’s one of her earlier works.
Jordan Hadlock runs a newsstand in Switzerland that caters to American tourists. She has come to the land of cheese and chocolate after her chalk and cheese romance fell apart in the states. She has been at the job three years and loves the country.
Reeves Grant is a photographer who has come to Switzerland to craft a photo essay on a famous industrialist who lives there. It’s a stormy night as the book opens, (what did I warn you about tropes), and Grant is wet and without shelter for a variety of reasons. He has very little more than his camera case, and he finds his way to Jordan’s door. Understandably reluctant to take him in, she does nonetheless, and it’s soon sparks and tangled sheets, etc.
There’s just a tiny hitch, as is true of all these romances, and that is that Jordan had been seeing the wealthy industrialist about whom Reeves Grant will do his photo essay. While she has never agreed officially to marry him, he presses forward with plans to marry her, and Grant is naturally miffed about that, since he had only hours earlier enjoyed a few minutes in which he was too distracted by Jordan to figure out what the thread count was in her sheets.
I’ve been unnecessarily snarky here. Romances have become somewhat more sophisticated since the early ‘80s when this one saw print, but it was something I could get through quickly during a commute to and from work, so I read it. If you’re not into sexual descriptions in your books or if you simply don’t have the energy to tap your audiobook player’s forward button a few times to blow through the descriptions that are here, you can leave this unread without regret.
Jordan Hadlock runs a newsstand in Switzerland that caters to American tourists. She has come to the land of cheese and chocolate after her chalk and cheese romance fell apart in the states. She has been at the job three years and loves the country.
Reeves Grant is a photographer who has come to Switzerland to craft a photo essay on a famous industrialist who lives there. It’s a stormy night as the book opens, (what did I warn you about tropes), and Grant is wet and without shelter for a variety of reasons. He has very little more than his camera case, and he finds his way to Jordan’s door. Understandably reluctant to take him in, she does nonetheless, and it’s soon sparks and tangled sheets, etc.
There’s just a tiny hitch, as is true of all these romances, and that is that Jordan had been seeing the wealthy industrialist about whom Reeves Grant will do his photo essay. While she has never agreed officially to marry him, he presses forward with plans to marry her, and Grant is naturally miffed about that, since he had only hours earlier enjoyed a few minutes in which he was too distracted by Jordan to figure out what the thread count was in her sheets.
I’ve been unnecessarily snarky here. Romances have become somewhat more sophisticated since the early ‘80s when this one saw print, but it was something I could get through quickly during a commute to and from work, so I read it. If you’re not into sexual descriptions in your books or if you simply don’t have the energy to tap your audiobook player’s forward button a few times to blow through the descriptions that are here, you can leave this unread without regret.