Robyn Donald

Well written story of a woman whose husband finally finds her after she's run away from him and stayed away for 9 years. She of course has been celibate all these years but as is typical for these older HPs you just assume he hasn't even though it is not really addressed. The story hung together well . I like that RD writes books in series. The cousin who the husband thinks is the OM has his story told in a later book. RD just has a writing style that keeps you riveted even though she is telling the same old boy meets girl story. Plus as a bonus these older HPs are longer than the newer ones, more story to enjoy.… (more)

Hard book to rate. The heroine was very different for an HP girl. Hero kept hurting her emotionally and she kept coming back. Not in a ninny doormat way but in a strong determined way. She loved him and felt like he was worth the effort if she could just break through to him. She was really a lovely character. The hero was much harder to get a handle on. I kept thinking that he had some sort of revenge plot percolating in his mind which was all going to come out later but no. He was in love with his ex wife who was another model who looked very similar to the heroine. He just wanted to bang her on that account. His turn around at the end was pretty unbelievable. Since the author mostly failed at letting us guess what was going on in the hero's mind and when we did find out it was sort of like 'yeah, right' I didn't really care for him or buy his love for the heroine.… (more)

Wow. This one was of the crazy old skool genre. Heroine is forced to return to the outback station where she grew up and fell in love with hero. They had an affair when she was 17 and he was 24. But of course she is framed for a theft and he kicks her out. He is insanely jealous (there was a lying OM too) and he still is after all these six years she's been gone. My biggest comment is that he continuely hurt her physically, grinding her bones together and such. I mean over and over. When she got scalded and he rushed her to the sink to doctor her burn I felt like calling him a hypocrit. Yeah it all worked out in the end but I felt like he would always be one flirtatious glance away from being a wife beater. Generally I love the crazy old skool but not when he hurts her on purpose over and over.… (more)