Reviews for Challenge the Fates

The average rating for Challenge the Fates based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-26 00:00:00 Howard Kim A lot of readers like this story because the heroine dresses down the hero several times. Hero is not cruel, etc. That�s all true, but for me the devil is in the details in this story. Plot: Upper-crust hero has sex with young virgin heroine who has crushed on him forever. Hero took heroine out once to make his girlfriend jealous. He didn�t intend to have sex, but passion overcame him and he ended up hurting the heroine. Hero gets engaged to gf the next day and heroine leaves town for nursing school. Four years later hero is not married and heroine is still heart-broken. The hero pursues the heroine, but doesn�t tell her how he feels so heroine just assumes he wants a sexual relationship. Since all the hero does is push for sex , the heroine�s doubts are understandable. Add in an OM who is a much nicer guy/catch than the hero and DP totally undermines the romance. But these pesky details really ruined what little enjoyment I was getting out of this story. *Hero was described as spoiled with no real job. He helped his dad with the horse farm and indulged in lots of hobbies. Entitled rich boys don�t thrill me. *Hero had red hair and freckles. Heroine then makes jokes about freckles. So no � this hero didn�t seem at all sexy. *Hero suffers from food poisoning, which lands him in the hospital. It�s a chance for the heroine to reveal her true feelings, but I couldn�t get over the gross details of hero putting cooked chicken back on a plate with raw chicken and contracting salmonella. This hero did not land in the hospital because of doing something brave or protective. He landed there because he was stupid. *Heroine�s father is carpenter on the horse farm, yet their house is falling down. Why? *DP was working out her biscuit obsession with this story. Heroine made biscuits every morning before work for her father. *The title is mentioned on the second to last page. It�s not referencing the 80�s song. It�s a Chinese proverb about the eye of the tiger having narrow vision. So there�s a shoehorn. Diana Palmer checklist: Hairy chest Heroine feels faint just looking at it. Breast Description mauve! Cigarettes Constantly. He follows her around the house smoking. Alcohol Champagne buffet at OM�s house. Town Descriptions Lexington, Kentucky has a lake with a yacht club, walking trails and fishing. There�s a luxury house section where guests park some distance away and are shuttled in Rolls Royce limos. Hero�s horse farm is a miniature town with all employees having their own homes. French restaurant, luxury boutique, hairdressers, hospital. Gardenia Scent Her hair smelled like that before the deflowering. LOL detail That cover � popped collars, mullet, busy knit patterns and big hair. Hums: It's the eye of the tiger, it's the dream of the fight/ Risin' up to the challenge of our rival Cutesy detail Boring banter about Cinderella with the OM, Freckles jokes. DP hobbyhorse Makeover time! Make up, haircut and good foundation garments will turn heads DP is trolling us Wade sighed. "I might have known. You can't ever get away from work, not as long as there are telephones anywhere on the planet." "Wait until the cellular phones catch on,� Keegan said with a grin. "God forbid! Be right back, darling. Thanks, Keegan." Reviewer�s note: How did she know?

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-01 00:00:00 Steven Lovrics Diana Palmer sure loves her hairy heroes. Rapunzel-like chest hair abounds. After my rant review over Evan, it was nice to see a misunderstood cowboy asshat who redeems himself by a few years of maybe celibacy as well as some half-hearted efforts to win the heroine back and explain his horrible behavior. The h had a crush on the H forever. Her dad happens to work on his family ranch so there is more than a hint of master/servant dynamic that is beat to death. When the H finally asked her out, she's thrilled and dresses to the nines. They end up having sex which ends up being a painful experience for the h in more ways than one. The great big ole H is very enthusiastic which is physically painful, but the real problem happens is when she finds out he just asked her out to make his main love jealous. That is real pain!!! The H gets engaged the next day and the heroine leaves town for her nursing classes. Surprisingly the H's engagement to the more socially appropriate fiancee only lasts a couple of weeks. The h could care less as SHE HATES THE MANIPULATIVE BASTARD THAT TOOK HER HEART AND HER VIRGINITY!!!!! Really, who could blame her? Over the course of the next few years, the H tries to talk to her even sends her a letter. For a buttoned up cowboy, yeehaw, that's something. Unlike most h's of RomanceLand, the h maintains her hate and disgust for the H. She throws the circumstances in his face every chance she gets. Current times, the h is now starting to date a young lad with a silver spoon and a less than sterling rep with the ladies. The H warns her what a trouser snake he is (not in those terms) and she laughs in his face. If you like your h's with a spine and sass, then you'll like this when for a while at least. Much is made of the class, social and financial distinctions between the new couple to the point I became very uncomfortable. Was this realistic in the mid 80s? Yep, I think so. My BF's family was incredibly snobby, and were horrified that she dated a self-made man, a Catholic from Wisconsin. I don't know which was worse for them, that he was Catholic or a Cheesehead. They were Episcopalians (or Whiskapalians as my aunt calls us) so OBVIOUSLY alcohol wasn't a problem. I digress. The old sport OM as we have to call him is a snazzy dresser, think Redford in The Great Gatsby. He wears lots of ascots, white pants and navy blazers, but it all amounts to upper scale prepster. The h manages to win his snooty mother and sister over, but sadly the OM knows she doesn't love him. He has already pegged it that the H took her virginity, and points out some of the H's more pining moments much to her surprise. He agrees to help her make the H jealous. This is when DP lost me. It's such a sweet moment, I realized that this was a perfect moment to change the direction of the h's path. Since this was 1986, Diana Palmer, and not that kind of romance, it wasn't going to happen. The almost-virgin must end up with the man that took her virginity. Really too bad as this new womanizer really has a heart of gold to match his bank balance. Plot contrivances occurs, and the h caves to the H. I guess it's okay since he's been pining for her since they had sex.