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Summary: Truly terrible
Review: I started reading romance novels back in college and McNaught was one of the first authors I read. I have read all of McNaught's books and I did enjoy her stories until I read other romance writers. For some reason, I thought that all heroes had to be abusive, noncommunicative, and stubborn to the point of ridiculousness. Fortunately, I found other authors who showed me that this was not the case. I have to say that if I encountered any of her heroes, I would have given them the boot immediately. Most of them are NASTY to their love interests...makes me think that McNaught believes that women have to sacrifice their pride and dignity to find 'true' love. Her heroines are gluttons for punishment and her heroes behave like donkeys. None worse than Ramon. Halfway through this book I threw it across the room. I did not pick it up to finish it, I picked it up to toss it in the trash...I wasn't even going to pass it on to a second hand shop which is what I do with most of my romance novels. I didn't want to be responsible for anyone reading this book. If you like modern romances with suspense, check out Linda Howard's Dream Man and Mr. Perfect. Her heroines are spunky, intelligent and normal, and her heroes are just that...heroes.
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Summary: Blatant Bigotry...not a good choice
Review: I usually enjoy Judith McNaught's romances for their satisfying storylines chock full of twists & turns and charming characters. However, I found Tender Triumph offensive and was very disappointed in the heroine's personality. She is extremely narrow-minded and bigoted. Ramon, the hero, is a highly intelligent,handsome, old-fashioned style gentleman who happens to be Puerto-Rican. Why Ramon would ever fall in love instantly with a woman who throughout the entire book - right up to the end - has an incredibly tactless & vocal distaste for all things Puerto Rican is beyond comprehension. The book is only worth reading to see what a wonderful character Ramon is.
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Summary: Blatant Bigotry...not a good choice
Review: I usually enjoy Judith McNaught's romances for their satisfying storylines chock full of twists & turns and charming characters. However, I found Tender Triumph offensive and was very disappointed in the heroine's personality. She is extremely narrow-minded and bigoted. Ramon, the hero, is a highly intelligent,handsome, old-fashioned style gentleman who happens to be Puerto-Rican. Why Ramon would ever fall in love instantly with a woman who throughout the entire book - right up to the end - has an incredibly tactless & vocal distaste for all things Puerto Rican is beyond comprehension. The book is only worth reading to see what a wonderful character Ramon is.
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Summary: just bad...
Review: I was really surprised with this one. I love McNaught and have read a few of her historicals. Whitney My Love and Almost Heaven are my all-time favorite books... you fall in love with the characters - truly get to know them inside and out and you get 100% emotionally involved. (at one point while reading Whitney, My Love, I just had to put the book down, and find my husband in the other room and ask him to "just hold me". I am NOT an emotional person but this book just... touched me... when she was heartbroken, I was heartbroken, completely crushed.... Poor guy (my hubby) was so confused.... he was like "Honey, is everything alright?"! How foolish I felt when I had to tell him that I was heartbroken over the characters (Whitney and Clayton)! But that is why I loved that book.......... I laughed... cried..... ENOUGH OF THAT! I'm supposed to be reviewing Tender Triumph!)I liked the idea of the story but found it a little hard to believe that they could feel for each other after only 1-2 days....... The ache that was there in my chest for Whitney and Elizabeth (Heaven) was not there for these characters. I picked up this one and expected to get into another really great book... I even saved it for a beach vacation, because I hate to rush her books- I enjoy them that much! Well, what a let down... character development was non-existent... they meet and a day later are in love... he's losing his multi-million dollar business, coping with major changes in his life (makes a career change--- a farmer? ) and decides at this point in his life to go to a bar and find a wife? I just don't get it. I had absolutely no feelings for these characters, just didn't care one way or the other what happened to them... But please.... if you read this book and hate it too <g>- do not let it turn you off to McNaught. What a shame it would be to miss out on her finer works... Read Almost Heaven and Whitney, My Love. You won't regret it. I have also heard that Something Wonderful and Once and Always are just as great... hope so :) Also just read a GREAT book Wicked Angel by Julia London- truly heartwrenching, but with a happy ending (my favorite kind of book)! HAPPY READING EVERYONE!
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Summary: Abuse Glorified
Review: I was truly horrified by the main characters in this book. Ramon is an abuser and Katie an idiot. It's scary to think that a modern-day author could write this drivel and worse yet that it would be published. At one point Ramon, our handsome hero, grabs the heroine's arms and shakes her...and what terrible crime did she commit? Oh how could she do such a terrible thing, she gave two weeks' notice instead of quitting her job instantly like he wanted her to. Toward the end of the book when--oh horror of horrors--she pays for half of the furnishings of their new house, he's so angry he tells her he'd make her first husband (who was physically abusive) "look like a saint." I don't even have words to express my disgust that in our modern enlightened times this behavior could be considered as anything other than criminal!!! Ms. McNaught, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Summary: not as bad as reviews make it seem
Review: I was very afraid to read this book because of the horrible reviews that it received. BUT, while it was not her best work, I felt that it did not deserve such a scathing review. Katie, daughter of an owner of a supermarket chain and Ramon, ex-one of the most powerful men on earth...meet as he saves her from a gropping ex. He asks for a date and Katie agrees...only to be surprised by the force of the emotions that this one man can evoke in her, when so many others have failed. As Ramon is ashamed that he is now a failure since his business is filing for bankruptcy (because his father is a jealous and evil man), he lets Katie believe that he is only an ordinary farmer with a cottage in Puerto Rico and not a man who had once owned an island, several mansions and villas, and one of the most successful conglomerates in the world. Katie, who has been married before to a man who she sensed was not himself, is afraid to trust Ramon as she senses that he also is not revealing the whole truth. Because of this, she tries to stall marriage to him, by paying for half of his expenses, making the cottage look like a bachelor pad, and unintentionally demeaning him by asking if he could swim or dance and giving him a $5 bill in compensation for him driving her home. Not until the truth is discovered, does she realize the depth of Ramon's love for her and how much she wants that in her previously empty life. He is not chauvinistic and if anyone had read the book closely enough, it is even explained in the end when Katie asks Ramon if he really thinks that a wife's "place" is at home. And Ramon responded by saying that the only reason he said that in the beginning was because he was trying to make her "settle of rless than she has a right to expect" since he barely had anything to offer and desperately didn't want to lose her. I felt that he had a right to be angry with her for spending money on their cottage because 1) he was already seen as a failure by the villagers for losing his company and now it seems as if he has a sugarmama paying his bills and 2) his entire house had not one drop of her personality to make it her space...meaning that she didn't plan to stay. All in all, my problem was not Ramon's supposed chauvinism, but rather with the palpable hurriedness of the book. Though Matt and Meredith fell in love in a week in Paradise, this time, the length of their acquaintance was stressed a lot more, making it hard to ignore that they had only known each other for less than a week. Also, the ending felt too hurried as all of a sudden, everything was right again. Not enough detail was made to secondary characters, making them seem flat. These reasons made me want to flip through many of the pages so that I could get to the crucial moment when Ramon would reveal who he really is. It's a fast read, but there is no chauvinist pig in Ramon, so if you were deterred by that, don't be. Not as enjoyable as many of her others, but still a decent read.
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Summary: I hate it when people don't communicate!
Review: I'm a big McNaught fan and have read most of her books. This one is a big disappointment. The killer for me in a story is if someone does something really stupid that has no reasonable explanation. In this story Ramon keeps the truth about himself from Katie for no reason that makes any sense at all, yet he expects her to be totally truthful with him about everything. And poor little Katie never gets up the nerve to ask him about what's bothering her or tell him about her past - yet we're supposed to believe she's going to marry him? STUPID! Her other books are so good that this one just seems like she phoned it in.
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Summary: Save this one till last
Review: If you decide to read this Judith McNaught book, save it till last. That way if you never get around to it, you won't be bad off. Might actually be better for it. I've read the reviews on this one, and it's not as bad as most are making it out to be. I wonder if people didn't finish the entire thing b/c then you'd understand why the main characters were who they were and why they acted that way. this is not my favorite. this one is probably my least favorite, but my least favorite of Judith McNaught is a lot better than a lot of other authors best. While that doesn't excuse it, it is fact. This is a shorter book, so it does move along pretty quickly. Most of Judith McNaught's books approach 700 pages, and this is only 300 or so. Give it a try, I don't regret it. It makes for a decent book on a plane or on the beach.
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Summary: McNaught is the best
Review: If you love romances, you'll love this one. Katie learns to love and trust Ramon in just over a week, and goes to live with him in the Carribbeen. But not without the ups and downs that nearly destroy everything....This is a beautiful story of trust, love and cross cultural boundaries. As usual for McNaught is is peppered with some of the funniest one liners, so you are guarenteed a good laugh and a good cry, and who klikes romances without those. Buy this book, keep it, you will reread it and reread it and reread it. My only problem with McNaught is that she doesn't write enough books
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Summary: Dissapointing!
Review: Is this the Mcnaught I know and love who wrote this? Considering the hassle I went thru' to get this book, let me say that 'disappointing' is an understatement. The book practically put me to sleep. Where on earth did she get that Ramon character? Do they make men as myopic as that still? I guess I'm definitely better off with Paradise. I might as well read that for the 10th time. It would definitely make my day!
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