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Guest Review: For His Eyes Only by Liz Fielding

Posted March 3, 2014 by Tracy in Reviews | 0 Comments

Guest Review: For His Eyes Only by Liz FieldingReviewer: Tracy
For His Eyes Only by Liz Fielding
Publisher: Harlequin Kiss
Publication Date: February 25, 2014
Format: eARC
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four-stars

“It’s your body that I want to draw, not your clothes.”

Well, that’s what she was afraid of! Hardworking estate agent Natasha Gordon finds her reputation in tatters when an ad she created gets bungled. She’ll do anything to restore her good name–even beg seriously sexy artist Darius Hadley to give her another chance to sell his ancestral home. Only, he drives a hard bargain: Natasha must pose naked, for his eyes only…!

He’s asking Natasha to take him on trust. But she’s learned the hard way not to trust men–particularly those she’s working with…and let alone men she’s taking her clothes off for!

Darius’s next outrageous statement? “I will, too–if it will make it easier for you….”

Tasha Gordon is a wonderful real estate agent and is moving up in her career on a daily basis. She has no life, but the life she does have she absolutely loves. Then one day she’s called into her bosses office. She believes that she’s about to get the partnership in the business that she’s been working towards. Instead she gets read the riot act by her boss because of an ad for a house she’s selling. The ad that she wrote tells about the wonderful aspects of the house but the one that was printed tells those and all of the things that are wrong with the house. She was sabotaged, she’s sure but that doesn’t stop her. She may not have a job any longer but she’s not about to sit around and have her career go down the toilet. She contacts the owner of the house, who she lusts after, with a proposition for selling the house for no fee.

Darius is an artist who just wants his family estate sold. He wants nothing to do with the home he grew up in as it holds both good and bad memories. He accepts Tasha’s proposition but only if he lets her draw her nude. She accepts and they go about trying to sell the house (that really does have some issues). While they are in the process of the sale they get to know each other better and eventually come to love each other.

This is my first book by Liz Fielding but I have a feeling it won’t be my last. I really liked so many things about this book.

First off I loved that Darius and Tasha, even though they lusted after each other, really didn’t get along that well at first. They were butting heads but still working together – well, and trying to keep their hands off of each other – and doing well with it all.

Darius has issues centered around the house and his family that surfaced because of the sale of the house. He dealt with them in his own way and I loved that Tasha, just being the lovely person she was, helped him through it all.

The story just flowed so well until almost the end of the book. They were together and falling in love and then Darius had second thoughts. That I understood, but after that it seemed that things got disconnected and lacked the emotion that had been in full force up until that point. The way the story was laid out made us think that time had passed when the hero and heroine may have been together but I wasn’t sure. I guess I didn’t like the not knowing what had happened when before we had been privy to all happenings. It all worked out in the end though and ended with a wonderful HEA so I was happy.

Rating: 4 out of 5

four-stars

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What I Read Last Week

Posted February 17, 2014 by Tracy in Features | 0 Comments

It was so nice waking up this morning with no alarm and then instead of freaking out because it didn’t go off and I’m late, I luxuriate in bed and don’t worry about going anywhere today if I don’t feel like it.  Fuck yeah. lol  I love my days off. Oh and Happy President’s Day. 🙂

I promised that I’d share the video of my girls ringing from the 9th.  If you’re interested it’s posted on the church’s YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lr7kkAO-6c&feature=share&list=UUf4h0tL1rSelSGFf4qGMIbw.  My youngest is the one on the end – far left, and my oldest is the bleach blond that’s 5 people from the left end.

Not much happening around here so I’ll just get on to what I read last week:

I started off the week with After the Rain by Daisy Harris.  This is the story of Henri who’s used to living the high life with his ex-boyfriends and Logan who is from Texas and proud of it.  Logan knows he’s gay but has never even kissed a man.  Logan and Henri share a tent on a camping trip and things steam up.  Good story of two very different men finding each other.  You can read my review here.  3.5 out of 5

Next I read Redeemed by Sandy James.  This is book 3 in the Safe Havens series and it was a good one.  Sara heads to White Pines, Montana to see her brother, Ty, after she finally gets herself out of the brothel she was forced to work in.  Caleb is at the train station expecting his mail order bride to arrive.  There’s a bit of confusion, to say the least, and next thing you know the two are married.  When Caleb finds out the truth he’s not a happy camper – to say the least.  This was another great story and I’m so happy I read it.  You can read my review here.  4 out of 5

Vampire Most Wanted by Lynsay Sands is book 20 in the Argeneau series – can you believe it?  This one was pretty different from the others as it was darker.  It was really good and we learned a lot about a particular character from a previous book.  My review will post tomorrow. 4 out of 5













I can’t believe I forgot to add For His Eyes Only by Liz Fielding!  The story was about a real estate agent who puts an add for a house in the paper and it’s sabotaged.  The add says horrible things about the house.  She gets fired but is determined to save her career.  She goes to the own of the house – who she lusts after madly and offers to sell the house for free.  The two hit it off but he’s a broody artist with secrets and she’s got secrets of his own. Good story and I really enjoyed it.  4 out of 5 (read for Book Binge) 


When the Duke was Wicked by Lorraine Heath is the first book in a new series.  Grace is the daughter of a duke but a woman who needs to marry for love. She’s certain that this is the only way she can marry.  She’s stymied though as to when she can tell that a man truly loves her.  She seeks assistance from her old friend the Duke of Lovingdon and even though he doesn’t want to he finds himself giving her advice about men.  This one was really great and I’ll be posting my full review either this week or next.  4/4.25 out of 5

Last for the week was Carnal Secrets by Suzanne Wright.  This was a much anticipated read for me as I loved her first two books in the Phoenix Pack series.  This book has Shaya who has finally run and her pack has hidden her away from her mate, Nick.  Nick knows that Shaya is his mate but hasn’t claimed her for months.  Nick has his reasons but he never shared those with Shaya.  Now he’s off to find his mate and finally claim her – hoping she’ll have him.  This was not quite as good as the first two books in series but still really good.  I loved seeing the softer side of Nick and the tougher side of Shaya.  While this was a great read it was a little slower than books 1 & 2.  I’m not sure where the term Carnal came for the title because I thought it had less sex in it than the previous books.  I could be wrong. 🙂  4 out of 5

My Book Binge reviews that posted last week:
Shh…Mine (This. Is. Not. Over) by Shannon Dianne

Happy Reading!

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Guest Review: The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding

Posted November 1, 2011 by Book Binge Guest Blogger in Reviews | 0 Comments

Judith’s review of The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding

The wedding of the season!

Events manager Sylvie Smith is organizing a glittering fund-raising event: a wedding show in a stately home. She has even been roped into pretending to be a bride… a bride who’s five months pregnant!

The bride everyone is talking about!

It should be every girl’s dream to design a wedding with no expense spared, but it’s not Sylvie’s. Longbourne Court was her ancestral home, and she’s just discovered that the new owner is Tom McFarlane–her baby’s secret father. Now Tom’s standing in front of her, looking at her bump.

Weddings are a cause for great rejoicing on many occasions. They can also be the gatherings from hell. But the worst situation for all is when a bride or groom decide that the wedding just isn’t going to happen and not only is their disappointment and grieving on the part of the abandoned partner, but families are often torn asunder with recriminations. Then there’s the wedding planner. If there is one person caught “holding the bag” it is the person who has been hired to make all this folderol happen and who is usually left with the invoices to prove it. So it is with Silvie Smith, a woman who had experienced what it was like to be emotionally abandoned just days before her wedding by a man who was her “first love” and who had, up to this point, been her best friend.
Silvie had agreed to plan and produce her best friend’s wedding—something she really didn’t want to do. That feeling was even stronger after meeting the fiance, Tom McFarlane, a self-made billionaire who fulfilled the bride’s life-long dream of marrying “money.” For Tom, Candace brought a long family history of note to the marriage, something his billions just couldn’t give him. It was obviously a society marriage and neither bride or groom lived with any illusion that it was a love match. No broken hearts this time around—only bruised pride. Yet Silvie had to be the one to catch the guff, so to speak,. Within that harsh and difficult set of circumstances, both Tom and Silvie became aware of an attraction that just didn’t seem to want to let them go—either one of them. When the hurtful statements had all been said and the bills had all been paid, one night of passion between Silvie and Tom seemed inevitable. What wasn’t anticipated was the resulting pregnancy.
This story is one emotional up and down after another, with raw nerves hanging out on every page. The characters are all edgy, with baggage and issues, and if the reader wants a warm, fuzzy, relaxing read, this isn’t it. The missing bride never doesn’t ever make an appearance, but the story really isn’t about her. Her choice to elope with a penniless third son of an earl simply set the stage for Silvie and Tom’s story. This novel is a testimony to the absolutele necessity of honesty in every level of a relationship—not that either Silvie or Tom were dishonest people. The honesty both lacked—and possibly for the best of reasons—was about their emotions and most of all about the fact that they were tied together by the pending birth of their daughter.
I find it good for me to read a novel like this from time to time, one that is loaded with the dark issues that make relationships difficult. That’s life for far more people than we realize. Even as a reader I think we all vicariously experience the anger, the sense of abandonment, the hurt or sense of emptiness because one’s future won’t contain the presence of someone who is loved and desired. For a man like Tom, there was the realization that all is millions could never provide the deep emotional healing he needed so desperately. On the most elementary level this story is a reminder that wealth may certainly provide the wherewithal to make dreams happen, but ultimately it is our connection to other people that feeds our souls and makes or breaks our emotional health.
Ms Fielding has a long record of fine writing and whatever themes may find their way into her stories, she manages to tell a tale that keeps on giving the satisfaction most romance lovers want. This is a classic romance with all its angst and spinal shivers, but that’s its charm. It is the kind of story that takes us back to the basics of what a love story is all about. I enjoyed it immensely.

I give it a rating of 4 out of 5

You can read more from Judith at Dr J’s Book Place.

This book is available from Harlequin. You can read it free here or here in e-format.

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Review: The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding

Posted March 27, 2009 by Holly in Reviews | 7 Comments

The wedding of the season!

Events manager Sylvie Smith is organizing a glittering fund-raising event: a wedding show in a stately home. She has even been roped into pretending to be a bride…a bride who’s five months pregnant!

The bride everyone is talking about!

It should be every girl’s dream to design a wedding with no expense spared, but it’s not Sylvie’s. Longbourne Court was her ancestral home, and she’s just discovered that the new owner is Tom McFarlane—her baby’s secret father. Now Tom’s standing in front of her, looking at her bump.…

One of the most hated plot devices for me is the big misunderstanding. I just can’t stand it when two reasonably intelligent adults jump to conclusions about each other and aren’t mature enough to discuss the issues and resolve them in a reasonable way. So it came as a big surprise to me when I realized this book featured a Big Misunderstanding (several of them, actually) that worked for me.

Sylvie was planning the wedding of one of her girlhood friends to Tom McFarlane. At the last minute the bride runs off with one of Sylvie’s employees, leaving Tom McFarlane jilted and not too happy about the number of bills that were racked up. Sylvie can’t keep her doors open if Tom doesn’t settle up, but he’s rather reluctant about paying. While meeting for the last time things really heat up between them and they end up sleeping together. Sylvie gets called away for an emergencies almost directly after and then Tom disappears.

When she realizes she’s pregnant she tries to get in touch with him, but after several months of not hearing from him writes him off. Then she gets sucked into planning her dream wedding for a magazine layout with all proceeds going to charity. Since the charity is one her mother founded she really can’t say no. Which is too bad, because it’s being held at her childhood home – the one she lost years before when her grandfather died suddenly after gambling the family fortune way. The one Tom McFane just happens to now own.

Due to a misunderstanding, Tom doesn’t know Sylvie is pregnant with his child. He thinks she’s at the estate planning a real wedding to her ex-fiance, the man he assumes is the father of her child. Shortly after their night together he sees a magazine article about Sylvie and her fiance and thinks they’re together. He spends the next several months traveling, trying to avoid her. He realized Sylvie was special and wanted to be with her for longer than one night.

First – I love secret baby plots. I know many other readers claim to hate them, but I actually enjoy them if they’re done right (of course that’s the key, but I’ll save that post for another day). This one was believably done. As I mentioned above there were several misunderstandings, but they really worked in the context of the story. I actually kind of laughed a bit each time one assumed the wrong thing about the other, because it was more funny than anything. Kind of like a farce, only not quite that silly.

I really liked that Tom was understanding and supportive of Sylvie, even not knowing she was pregnant with his children. I also really liked that Sylvie was willing to accept Tom’s decision to not be with her. It was refreshing to see two mature adults trying to work past their hurt feelings and attraction to do the right thing.

This was a sweet story with two well-drawn characters. I liked the natural progression of the relationship and the way the the two connected.

4.25 out of 5

This book is available from Harlequin. You can download it here for free.

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