Kerry Allyne
Author of Beneath Wimmera Skies
About the Author
Works by Kerry Allyne
Romance Treasury: Summer Rainfall / Crown of Willow / Singing in the Wilderness (1982) — Contributor — 4 copies
Romance Treasury: The Wool King / The Man in the Next Room / Bride of Bonamour (1986) — Contributor — 2 copies
Romance Treasury: Tuesday's Jillaroo / The Fires of Torretta / The Keys of the Castle (1985) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Crabtree, Julia Phyllis
- Other names
- Allyne, Kerry
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Julia Phyllis Crabtree was born in England, UK. Her early childhood was uneventful, she remembered, until her father came home one day and began talking about emigrating to Australia. When they eventually arrived in Australia, Kerry took to her new land with a passion. During the family's first years "down under," she explored as much of the country as she could, journeying northward into Queensland and out onto the Great Barrier Reef, and sometimes south through New South Wales into Victoria. As a adult she returned to England for a short time. A long working holiday enabled her to travel the world before returning to Australia where she met her engineer husband-to-be, and they had a couple of kids. The family eventually moved to a rural area and she started to write. She used the people and countryside as inspiration for her romances. She was published by Mills & Boon from 1976 to 1994.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Whitton, Middlesex, England, UK
- Places of residence
- England, UK
Australia - Associated Place (for map)
- Whitton, Middlesex, England, UK
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Reviews
Ack, I went between whether I should mark this one 2 or 3. The writing style was fine, the story stayed flowing well enough, the flawed characters (except the perfect heroine, of course) were interesting enough....the hero is a mess, though. Not a flawed attractor, but an ass. This book is NOT romantic for emotions spew suddenly from both lips mere pages into closure and it doesn't add up. The hero is rude, sees no issue forcing her around physically and leaving marks on her arms, show more threatening her. That she can be attracted with someone like this is yech, and he didn't have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Usually an asshole hero type of this books is rude because of a misunderstanding, but nope, in this case it's just asshole's personality.
There is a side story about found family that, while of course not realistic, was sweet in its way too though.
By the way ladies, if you don't understand farming ways, apparently it's okay for one boyfriend to softly call you an idiot for not putting your horse riding thingey on right the first time, and for another character to be sneered at for calling "branding" "stamping" once --- which I frankly found an adorable mistake. show less
There is a side story about found family that, while of course not realistic, was sweet in its way too though.
By the way ladies, if you don't understand farming ways, apparently it's okay for one boyfriend to softly call you an idiot for not putting your horse riding thingey on right the first time, and for another character to be sneered at for calling "branding" "stamping" once --- which I frankly found an adorable mistake. show less
If you run across this one at a garage sale or used book store, pick it up. Its good, not quite a diamond in the rough but an amethyst at the very least.
The gist is that Warren, Donna, and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) are taking a trip to Brad's cousin's (Regan) sheep ranch in the Outback.
Warren and Donna are an item and Brad and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) are an item. When they get to the ranch Brad starts throwing attitude around because it's always the Brads that have attitudes (he's also jealous of his show more cousin inheriting the ranch and thinks Regan's mother stole his mother's rich boyfriend, thus thinking the ranch should have been his).
Donna tries to make plays for Regan while Regan and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) snap and growl at each other in a way that you just know they're 1.2 seconds away from going at it on the kitchen table.
(You thought you were going to get a kitchen table sex gif here, didn't you? PERV)
Brad continues acting like a Brad and Warren, well, he's off doing whatever Warrens do.
There's some parental surprises for Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!), she grew up in an orphanage never knowing her parents, but mostly it's Brad being a baby and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan circling each other. It's a shorter book (under 200pgs) and pretty clean (some making out at end) but the little tiffs Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan get into are enough spark to keep you going, I liked their animosity that was really sexual tension:
"The minute you set foot on Fairfax Downs you were answerable to me for all your actions."
A taunting look from the corner of her dark fringed eyes and she gibed, "Even to the taking of some aspirin? My, but you must have full days, I'm surprised you find the time to sleep."
Some descriptions of the Outback but we get more of Gwayne's (GWAYNE!!!) sherry colored eyes than natural landscapes. However, I greatly appreciated this line:
No matter how interested she was she didn't want Regan thinking she had any intention of succumbing to his dynamic masculinity
DYNAMIC MASCULINITY. From now on, GTFO unless you be bringing the DYNAMIC MASCULINITY.
I would also like to give a shout out to every scene that had a dusty cowboy in it.
(No lie, this is the first thing that came up when I typed in "dusty Australian cowboy gif" Who am I to refuse the google search gods?)
This was a fun change of pace, even if I could never get over the heroine's name :)
Lastly, I leave you this sigh worthy quote (hope I'm not spoiling anything from this 1979 romance publication, but Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan end up together):
"Oh Regan," she breathed tremulously. "Whatever did I do to deserve you?" To her surprise his mouth firmed and she could sense him keeping a tight rein on himself.
"You know, I really ought to tan your hide for that," he reproved exasperatedly. "You make it sound as if I'm doing you a favour when, in point of fact, you're giving me what I want most in this world...yourself!" A hand gently brushed a stray lock of hair back from her creamy skinned face and the action seemed to ease his tension. "In the past you may not have had anyone to tell you how important you were or how much you meant to them, but I can assure you it's going to be very different in the future."
Like I'd leave you all without a The Man From Snowy River gif, when discussing cowboys and the Outback.
It took you too long to get your act together, Jessica! show less
The gist is that Warren, Donna, and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) are taking a trip to Brad's cousin's (Regan) sheep ranch in the Outback.
Warren and Donna are an item and Brad and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) are an item. When they get to the ranch Brad starts throwing attitude around because it's always the Brads that have attitudes (he's also jealous of his show more cousin inheriting the ranch and thinks Regan's mother stole his mother's rich boyfriend, thus thinking the ranch should have been his).
Donna tries to make plays for Regan while Regan and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) snap and growl at each other in a way that you just know they're 1.2 seconds away from going at it on the kitchen table.
(You thought you were going to get a kitchen table sex gif here, didn't you? PERV)
Brad continues acting like a Brad and Warren, well, he's off doing whatever Warrens do.
There's some parental surprises for Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!), she grew up in an orphanage never knowing her parents, but mostly it's Brad being a baby and Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan circling each other. It's a shorter book (under 200pgs) and pretty clean (some making out at end) but the little tiffs Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan get into are enough spark to keep you going, I liked their animosity that was really sexual tension:
"The minute you set foot on Fairfax Downs you were answerable to me for all your actions."
A taunting look from the corner of her dark fringed eyes and she gibed, "Even to the taking of some aspirin? My, but you must have full days, I'm surprised you find the time to sleep."
Some descriptions of the Outback but we get more of Gwayne's (GWAYNE!!!) sherry colored eyes than natural landscapes. However, I greatly appreciated this line:
No matter how interested she was she didn't want Regan thinking she had any intention of succumbing to his dynamic masculinity
DYNAMIC MASCULINITY. From now on, GTFO unless you be bringing the DYNAMIC MASCULINITY.
I would also like to give a shout out to every scene that had a dusty cowboy in it.
(No lie, this is the first thing that came up when I typed in "dusty Australian cowboy gif" Who am I to refuse the google search gods?)
This was a fun change of pace, even if I could never get over the heroine's name :)
Lastly, I leave you this sigh worthy quote (hope I'm not spoiling anything from this 1979 romance publication, but Gwayne (GWAYNE!!!) and Regan end up together):
"Oh Regan," she breathed tremulously. "Whatever did I do to deserve you?" To her surprise his mouth firmed and she could sense him keeping a tight rein on himself.
"You know, I really ought to tan your hide for that," he reproved exasperatedly. "You make it sound as if I'm doing you a favour when, in point of fact, you're giving me what I want most in this world...yourself!" A hand gently brushed a stray lock of hair back from her creamy skinned face and the action seemed to ease his tension. "In the past you may not have had anyone to tell you how important you were or how much you meant to them, but I can assure you it's going to be very different in the future."
Like I'd leave you all without a The Man From Snowy River gif, when discussing cowboys and the Outback.
It took you too long to get your act together, Jessica! show less
She'd been duly warned, of course
But what really got her dander up was Rafe O'Sullivan's taunts that she wasn't the type to manage a farm.
She had inherited the twenty-acre piece of land near Australia's north coast and, fed up with city life, had decided to give the country life a try. Unfortunately, the land was smack dab in the middle of Rafe's, and he badly wanted her to sell out to him.
Not on your life, she said to herself
But what really got her dander up was Rafe O'Sullivan's taunts that she wasn't the type to manage a farm.
She had inherited the twenty-acre piece of land near Australia's north coast and, fed up with city life, had decided to give the country life a try. Unfortunately, the land was smack dab in the middle of Rafe's, and he badly wanted her to sell out to him.
Not on your life, she said to herself
Rebel goes away from her aunt and uncle to find her brother, Vandal. She finds him after much trouble. In the process, she meets may of the local townspeople, especially Chayne.
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