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Summary: disappointment
Review: After reading this book, I personally felt: sorry for Nicky, pity for Whitney, and disgust for Clayton. Their story is disturbing.
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Summary: F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c-o!
Review: I absolutely loved this book! it is one of Ms. McNaught's best. the "You_know_what" was not so Horid as everyone made it seem. Yeah, sure it was wrong of Clayton to do that to whitney, it only made the book more exciting. [c'mon there has to be a conflict in a book right?] {You may call clayton whatever you like__jerk, "vile creature" (as whitney would put it), snake....in that, he was all of these things, for what he did. However, he is also a caring, romantic, loving, person and he truly love Whiteny.} Please, read this book from beginning to end, before you make a judgement. You'll see that it is overall, a great book!
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Summary: Great Experience
Review: This is an outstanding book! Whitney, Clayton, Stephen and Nikki are well defined characters. This is not an "I know what's going to happen" by any means. It teaches a lesson as well. Sometimes what we want isn't what we think we want and people aren't what they seem to be.Only problem I had with this book is this NEW version actually drags on. The author adds about 75 pages of fuller. Though she sets up her other two books, 'Kingdom of Dreams' and 'Until You' she took away from the main characters. What was the message you wre trying to make with "the Stephen pages". Judith McNaught is an excellent storyteller I love her historical and modern romances but the Classics should be left alone.
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Summary: Seriously lacking Romance Well Defined Rounded Characters
Review: Whitney, My Love, Judith McNaught's alleged all time Romance is anything but that. It is a story of domination, cruelty, violence and a foolish heroine. Clayton, the supposed hero, is controlling, violent and without depth. The heroine is foolish, forgiving even rape because she loves this man. Even with the time and location difference, one cannot begin to misconstrue this book as a romance. It is not. I would heartily recommend that anyone looking for a real hero and heroine and to lose oneself in romance, skip this book.
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Summary: Dark, One dimensional ...Hero??
Review: After reading the reviews of Whitney, My Love, I eagerly awaited my copy. Sadly, this book was by far the worst I have read by Judith McNaught. Clayton Westmoreland, is supposed to be the hero of this story, but he is anything but that. He is manipulative, and dark. McNaught wrote him as one dimensional...a man who believes anyone and everything can be bought and owned. He is violent as evidenced by the rape of Whitney and subsequent dismissal of her with a large check. This is romance???? This is a hero???? I think not!! Thank goodness McNaught got so much better the more books she turned out. If you are interested in McNaught's books, let me recommend "Almost Heaven" or "Until you"
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Summary: WHAT IS EVERYONE SO EXCITED ABOUT?
Review: I have read some of McNaught books and I have to say that I am generally okay with the characters and the plot; this book, however, was just stupid. Whitney is an idiotic doormat who let Clayton verbally and physically abuse her and yet she still loves the man! They have therapy available for someone like her. Usually the heroines in McNaught's books forgive the heros much too easily. The hero always jumps to some sort of conclusion and misunderstanding, insults the heroine terribly, then says sorry when he finds her. Just like that and she melts. This book is not any different. I generally give her books a 3 star, but the hero in this book is far more creepy than her usual ones. Save your money and take a pass on the book.
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Summary: Rape Has No Place In Romance
Review: This is the very first book I ever wanted to destroy after reading it. I read and enjoyed both Almost Heaven and Something Wonderful before I picked up Whitney My Love. However, I was shocked and gravely disappointed by this book. This book would be laughable if it weren't so hurtful. Clayton first rapes Whitney then blames her when she gets pregnant after the encounter. How could anyone love a man like that. How could anyone feel anything but discust for such violent scum. Unfortunatly, Whitney not only continues to love him, but welcomes him back and apologizes. Clayton eventually sees the error of his ways but as far as I'm concerned it was far too little, far too late.
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Summary: Seems like rape, abuse to me...
Review: Clayton Westmoreland has some serious issues (nothing much, just an anger problem, jealousy, that sort of thing). While jealousy is pretty much a given with a beauty like Whitney Stone, Clay carries it much too far. He rapes her, then feels bad. He jumps to conclusions about her, never confronting her with what's bothering him. And Whitney seems..flighty to me. It's hard to explain, but that's the kind of word I use to term a person who puts up with all of this poppycock and doesn't know what she really wants out of life. While Clay may seem like the ideal hero to many women, he scares me. Look at how many times he jumped to conclusions; he thought Whitney had slept with Paul, he got jealous, he rapes her, then gives her some tripe about feeling bad, and wanting to make it up to her. Besides, I don't like the "formula" McNaught uses in every novel; heroine used to be ugly duckling, then becomes a beautiful, feisty, witty lady (a la "Something Wonderful and this book as well). Hero and heroine meet, and the cynical, jaded male is touched by the heroine's artlessness and naivety (also a la "Something Wonderful" and this novel). Then there comes this HUGE misunderstanding (I believe in "Something Wonderful" Jordan thought Alexandra wanted to kill him and marry his relative). Then, in the end, everything is tied up with a string and bow. Happily ever after, heroine is pregnant, sometimes the heroine almost dies, and hero loves heroine for all eternity, can never understand how he lived without her. A tear, yada yada, another few millions made. Thank you readers, thank you New York Times. See you in six months.
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Summary: Shallow and uninteresting
Review: I might have enjoyed this book when I was an adolescent. Aren't there any intelligent romances out there any more? Romantic Times calls this a "classic, "the ultimate love story." Research seemed to be almost nil. Paris is described only as having "wide boulevards." The setting in the novel is 1815-1820 and Baron Hausmann didn't design the wide boulevards of Paris until the 1840s. When Whitney acts like a spoiled brat and pretends to sprain her ankle, the doctor assures her he is reputable, that he is an attending physician to the queen herself. If Ms. McNaught had done her research she wouldn't have sought to assure Whitney by such a reference. In 1820 George IV had taken Queen Caroline to court in an effort to rid himself of her because of her lascivious lifestyle. Dialogue in this novel is bad. People talk like it's 2001, not 1820. We are told Whitney is witty, but I rarely saw any sign of it. She's no Miss Elizabeth Bennet. And she runs around with Clayton without a chaperone, but never suffers any consequences from it. Clayton makes a scene by roughly hauling Whitney from a party and then ravishing her (though it clearly is rape), but there is never a breath of scandal about this episode. And later, when he believes a jealous rival instead of confronting Whitney to hear her side of the story, I realized Clayton had an anger problem. Some hero.
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Summary: Not McNaught's Best Effort...
Review: Whitney, My Love is a well-written book, but I just couldn't get into the romance of the main characters. They fought way too much and were down right mean to each other most of the time. I like my romances to have some soft, tender moments, and this novel had very few. Whitney and Clayton were always at odds and it wore thin.
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