Reviews for Partner's in Passion

The average rating for Partner's in Passion based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-15 00:00:00 Robert Forster Entertaining Harlequin set in South Africa - a place Rosemary Carter is known for. I've always enjoyed her Harlequin Romances and this one didn't let me down. Nicely written, interesting story, set in an exotic location.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-08 00:00:00 Stephen Burkhart Heroine is a London reporter who was brutally dumped by her fiance for a rich woman and given money to abort their child. Instead of taking his blood money, she had her baby girl and paid her aunt and uncle to foster her in the country while she could get her career going in the city. For the past four years, she has been working very hard to save enough money in order to buy a country house for her and her daughter to live in, since her ex never acknowledged their daughter and did not provide any financial support. Hero is an Australian tycoon with a long list of paramours. His latest venture is buying out all the residents of the dilapidated building the heroine has been living in order to flip it and make a huge profit in the newly gentrified neigbourhood. The two cross paths and it is lust at first sight. The hero is in relentless, ruthless pursuit, love-bombing the heroine with tons of yellow roses (cause it reminds him of her golden hair) and sweeping kisses. The heroine keeps begging him to slow down but he doesn't respect her wish. Anytime she tries to put some distance between them, he lashes out at her, only to come back with profuse apologies, which is not exactly a good pattern. Other red flags include him wining and dining his lady "FRIENDS,"including his supermodel ex-fiancee, and the posh, socialite daughter of an English Lord, as soon as the heroine's back is turned. These dates make their way into the tabloids, shaking the heroine quite badly as she wonders if the hero is another serial cheater like her ex. Hero explains it all away quite arrogantly as innocent, platonic and accidental meetings that the tabloids are turning into something lurid. If the heroine really loves him, she simply MUST trust in him. This tension culminates when the hero LIES to the heroine by omission about a trip he is taking to Australia. What he fails to mention is that he is taking his latest lady FRIEND with him. Heroine finds out AGAIN in a tabloid that the two of them secretly took separate flights to Paris and then hopped on a plane to Australia together, hoping to get the paparrazzi off their scent. It is the straw that breaks the camel's back. She moves out of her flat a month early leaving no note and no forwarding address, and takes herself off to the country for her new life with her daughter. A couple of months later, she reads in another tabloid that the hero's lady FRIEND who accompanied him to Australia has married..... ANOTHER MAN! The contrite heroine goes to hero's house to grovel at his feet for her lack of trust in a scene that made me want to vomit. Apparently, the hero's lady FRIEND had commanded the hero not to let the heroine know that the trip they were taking to Australia was for a reconciliation with her ex-husband. The hero had been the best man at their initial wedding and was going to do the best man duties again. The lady FRIEND felt that she could not trust the heroine to know the reason for the trip because she was a reporter and could have spilled the news to the tabloid. The lady FRIEND and her Australian racecar driver husband had let the media destroy their first marriage so she wanted to make sure this second marriage was done in private. You know what? FUCK the hero for demanding that the heroine trust him unconditionally even when he lies to her, especially when the reason he lies to her is because his lady FRIEND doesn't trust the heroine. No matter which way you cut it, he put his lady FRIEND ahead of the heroine and he didn't have the balls to tell his lady FRIEND to shut her trap and accept that she needs to trust the heroine just as he supposedly trusts her. Knowing that the heroine had been badly hurt in the past and that she was still shaky at his shady behavior and reports of his trysts with his numerous exes in the tabloids, he still chose to potentially hurt her and destroy their relationship just because his lady FRIEND was being a bridezilla. I can tell what his priorities are and they will never change in the future. Since this idiot heroine is willing to take him on, she better tell the staff at their manor to block all deliveries of newspapers, magazines, and bulletins as well as cut off the Internet, radio and TV. In fact, she might just as well play ostrich and stick her head in the sand every time the hero goes away on one of his business trips or stays a bit too long at the office in the evening, if she is to continue in blissful ignorance. Cause the guy is an unapologetic and unremorseful lady buffet sampler and she did not manage to reform him at all.