Reviews for A Forever Affair

The average rating for A Forever Affair based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-12 00:00:00 John Brody RE Forever Affair - Gather up your Safari Pith Helmet, cause we are off to the African Veldt for this one. There will be giraffes, cheetahs, elephants, (but no woozles,) and vivid descriptions of the beauty of the Savanna. Fortunately there aren't attacking ants and giant bugs, cause RC doesn't like em', but needless to say we are in for ADVENTURE HPlandia style. The h in this one is a 23 yr. old interior designer, she is in the middle of a proposal from a man she has been dating for several weeks and she is very uneasy about it. He has gotten a hot job offer and big career boost if he goes to Canada and he is determined to take the h with him as his new bride. The h has been at a very low point in her life for the last year, and the man has been such a comfort to her and he makes her feel very secure. She tentatively agrees to his proposal -- provided she can get a divorce from her husband first. It seems our h is actually a married lady, and while she has not slept with the new man in her life, she knows the day is coming where she needs to fish or cut bait. She can't call her hubby up and ask him to sign off on the paperwork, he lives deep in the veldt and has always refused to get a phone. He is a wealthy man who runs two luxury game preserves. He also has his own private reserve, where he lives and does intensive giraffe research. He puts little transmitters on their heads and then follows them around. He is writing a book about them, but no one knows what the giraffes are planning to write about him and on this trip, we don't find out. The h writes a letter to her hubby, after no contact for a year, asking for a divorce. When he doesn't answer it and the fiance is getting impatient as the Canadian departure date is rapidly approaching, the fiance convinces the h to go back to the savanna with him to get the husband's consent to a divorce. (Don't ask why they did not call a lawyer and have him send the husband a motion to file, this is HPLandia and the divorce process here is a myth in the mist, unless of course the fiance happens to be the H. Then divorces are processed while u wait in 30 minutes or less.) So the h and erstwhile fiance head off for Safari. They get to the remote preserve of the H and the h is struck with the feeling of home. (Also she is impressed by the new helicopter by the door and the phone lines now gracing the horizon. Some improvements have obviously been made, and who knew, she could have saved her self the journey by calling directory assistance.) The man who approaches them is 34, tall and well built and the epitome of the distinguished gentleman, Alan Quartermain, (except he manages to avoid those nasty man traps of King Solomon's Mines.) The first words out his mouth are "Where's the baby? Did you leave it in the city?" and we know our nice little h has some serious 'splainin' to do. A little over a year ago, our h was happily married to the AQ replica and expecting their first child. She lived with the H in his preserve, but they had only a bush vehicle and no phone and little contact with the "trappings of the civilization" as the H calls it. He did not want to be disturbed in his personal utopia and the h was happy enough - she dearly loved the H and he loved her back- but she really thought a phone would be a good thing to have and the H was violently opposed to it. One day near the end of her pregnancy, the H wandered off on some manly veldty business and the h was all alone with no one else in reachable distance. She went into labor early and things started going very, very wrong. Some lost tourists found her, but she had been in labor alone for hours and it was obvious that she was in bad trouble. They got her to the hospital and her life was saved, but the baby had been in distress for too long and did not make it. This destroyed the h. She holed up in their city flat, expecting the H to turn up anytime. Except a few months go by and he never shows, writes or calls and the h decides to pull herself together and make a new life for herself. She finishes off her interior design course and starts a career. Several months later, she meets the new guy - who makes a concerted play for her affections, and he is so supportive and makes her feels so secure, she agrees to marry him and that brings us back to the story's now. The H looks a little devastated, but as this is HPlandia and the h is always responsible for the bad behavior of the H, he accuses her of abandoning him instead of him abandoning her. I kept waiting for the "I was in hospital losing our child, what is your excuse" part, but at this point it doesn't happen. The h vents a bit of anger and demands a divorce. The H decides he will give his consent if she and the fiance bunk up in his house for a week. The h and fiance reluctantly agree and in between the verbal barb manly exchanges, we get to tour around the savanna and veldt. We meet a giraffe that the h and H fostered, and we see some other interesting things. Then we find out there is a dangerous lion roaming around. The H keeps taunting the fiance and sneakily putting the moves on the h when the OM isn't looking. The h is feeling the tension, but she REALLY wants to feel secure and safe and that doesn't seem to be happening with the H. There is also the possibility that the H has been VERY friendly with one of the employees of the other luxury preserves he owns, and the h is torn between the safety of her very nice fiance and the wild passion she is feeling for the H. The h is pretty much fighting the two men off from expressing their physical devotion and then the fiance has to get back to civilization for his job. He convinces the h to wait the week out alone with the H and then hurry back to his waiting embrace, complete with H consent. The h reluctantly agrees and as soon as she does, we all know where this is going. There is a few almost but not quite passionate kissing scenes, and then after a marhsmallow roast by the evening fire, the h and H finally wind up in bed. The h realizes she never stopped loving the H, but now she is really in a fix. She thinks the H is demanding this week to get revenge for her leaving him. With the lack of communication that has plagued the H and h from the beginning, she assumes that all of the H's motivations are to get even and get himself a little some while he is doing it. Then the h see's some really bad scars on the H's chest and body. They were caused by a lion but the H won't talk about it. The h corners another veldt ranger who helps the H and the truth comes out. The day the H left her alone, he was hunting a lion that was auditioning for the lead in Ghost and The Darkness and eating people. (Which was very inconsiderate of that lion, really, people HATE that.) The lion was feeling particularly cranky that day, maybe his agent wasn't returning his calls, and he attacked the H and the other ranger. The bush telegraph was out of order, so no one spread the word to the H or the h that both of them were in hospital. (Considering the sparse population and the isolated remoteness of the preserve, you would think that both would be taken to the nearest hospital and were probably just a few doors down from each other. RC skips over this bit of logic, she is writing dramatic angst here and the logistics of the situation just don't come into it.) When the H recovered from his mauling, he did go to the city flat to find the h, but she was gone. For all his wealth, it never occurred to him to check the phone book or hire an investigator or check with the hospital for an address or anything. Nope, he just went back to his preserve and followed some more giraffe transmitters around. At least he got a phone and a helicopter, but maybe he should have hired a sky writer to post the phone number in really big numbers or hired a billboard with a message for the h to call home. When the h realizes what had happened, she swears she would have crawled back to nurse him. She breaks it off with the fiance, and RC throws him a bone by having the h remind him of a girl who loved him before he started up with the h, surely she would be happy to go to Canada with such a nice, kind, supportive man. Then the H returns from his daily check and looks very grim. The other ranger is out of commission for a bit and the lion is doing his Darkness impression again. The kraal isn't keeping him out and the h knows he is going after him alone. Suddenly she realizes she is a woman to be reckoned with and attempts to seduce the H. He turns her down, but they sleep in the same bed and she hides his truck keys so he can't leave without her. After a bit of fuss, the next morning they both set out in search of the lion. The H demands the h promise to follow his commands, the h agrees-- cause lion hunting is a serious business. They find a copse with lion spoor and then SURPRISE! The lion jumps out and lands on the H. He gets a shot off, but things aren't looking good- lions are really heavy. The h lifts her gun and gets the lion in the head for the first and only lion hunt in HPLandia successfully concluded by an h. The H manages to stagger up, but he is hurting pretty bad and the H and h stumble home to the preserve. The H and h have a life affirming passionate moment and the h finally admits she still loves him. He still loves her too and the whole staying for a week thing was his way of wooing the h back. All is explained and forgiven and nobody actually slept with any body else after the h passes the test of telling the H she had decided she still loved him even before she knew about the lion. They have only ever been for each other after the first time they met. (Awww, that was kinda sweet.) The H decides they need to get crackin' on the baby makin' and so with the grasses of the veldt softyly swaying in the evening breeze, we leave the delirious couple striving for conception and another adventure is concluded in the annals of HPlandia. Seriously, logical discrepancies and glossings over aside, this is a sweet little story with some great adventure and a nice love avowal from the H. An apology is usually too much to expect from an H, (cause it is all the h's fault anyways,) and this HP was no different. But he does a nice declaration of love and so this one is okay to fill a few hours with.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-27 00:00:00 David Zeglis Welcome home," he said softly Despite its savage beauty, Marakizi, Jarrod's African game reserve, was no longer home to Cathy. She'd come back because Jarrod had ignored her letter asking for a divorce. But a few minutes in Jarrod's presence was enough to create havoc in Cathy--body and spirit. With him there was none of the calm peacefulness she'd found with Stewart, the gentle man who wanted to marry her. Admittedly, Jarrod was still in her blood, but Stewart was her future. Where was it carved in stone that Cathy could love only one man in her lifetime?