first half of the book on the race car circuit was good, Foxy and Lances relationship was fun to read as it unfolded, Then they got married and their personalities seem to change, Foxy was a totally different person whom I didnt like, So many issues went unresolved, I liked the secondary couples romance better, read in french, under the title L'amoureuse de Noël
BEWARE : unlike what the french cover and title suggest, this is absolutely NOT a Christmas romance !
In fact, Christmas is not even spoken about a single time within the story, which ends before winter.
We just get a few snowflakes at the end and that's all,
So why on earth did the publisher lied about it Did they THAT lacked of wintery Nora Roberts books to sell this as one Who knows.
Anyway, if you know about it thank to Sedelina on Babelio for warning in her review, you can't be disappointed, But what if you DON'T know Then you can legitimately feel ripped off,
Anyway, let's put those bad pusblishing choices apart and talk about the book,
For the whole first half of the story, I really thought this would be a bookcrush, The motorsports truly are part of the plot and we even get a race briefly summed up, but the atmosphere is here ! Foxy is passionate about her job, independent, and her halffriendly, halfexplosive relationship with Lance feels real.
The age of the book originally released fourty years ago doesn't shows itself much except in some details like Foxy's journalist friend using a recorder.
So it's funny to see the translation using euros, . .
However. Past the middle of the novel, everything just falls apart, The characters start acting randomly and stupidly, to become odious to each other, their quarrels happen more and more often without any reason, we're carried all of a sudden in the middle of Boston's elite society for a chapter where we're extensively introduced to some characters we'll never ever see again.
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Clearly, the book should have better ended at pageconsidering how dull what's next ! It's a real shame, because it was almost perfect until then.
But, things are how they are, the book is how it is, and leaves an incommensurate feeling of waste,
So, for the rating part, for once, I'll explain it, I was ready to put a/for the first half, then it dropped to/in the second, making an average of,which represents the mixed feelings the book gave to me.
In the french website, I rounded it up tothanks to the racing part, but here, I just can't push it to, So, it'll be a welldeserved, When her parents died in a car crash at age, Cynthia Fox or Foxy joined her big brother Kirk on the racing circuit.
Now ayear old photographer, she returns and is confronted with her teen crush Lance Matthews, Foxy still feels wounded from Lances rejectionyears before, but now the spark ignites between them, This is an earlys romance, and it shows, The hero is pushy and demanding, taking advantage and making accusations often, However, the drama and conflicts are there for anyone who enjoys them, and Foxy does have an endearing relationship with her brother, To hear a full discussion of The Heart's Victory listen to Season, Ep,"Nora Roberts: Blithe Images, Search for Love, Song of the West, Island of Flowers, A Hearts Victory" of Romancing the Shelf, a Nora Roberts podcast: sitelink libsyn. com/ Este libro me encanta, Es una historia bastante cortita pero muy intensa,
Me gusta Foxy y Lanche, Hacen buena pareja. Una novela contemporánea muy intensa y llena de velocidad,
Te hace pasar un rato divertido y te quedas con ganas de más,
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This is one of the first books written by Nora Roberts, She wrote it in the early eighties and like many of the Harlequin books written then it focuses mainly on the heroine and not much on the relationship development.
Also, the few hot scenes are the fade out kind,
That being said, I really liked her insight into to Fracing world, Foxy and Lance couple, Foxy relationship with her brother and, how using minimum words, NR managed to create a secondary love story.
I also enjoyed the last part better than the beginning, Dentro do estilo da Nora achei este dos mais fraquinhos que já li! Não sei, acho que faltou romance e depois todo o universo do livro que é o automobilismo e as corridas de Indianapolis não diz grande coisa coisa ao leitor europeu, acho que é muito próprio dos americanos e ao ler só me lembrava do filme Dias de Tempestade com o Tom Cruise.
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Achei aquele volte face do acidente muito previsivel e o casamento da maneira que foi absurdo, gostei daquela referência no final quando ele diz que Este libro es.
. . No me salen las palabras, por Dios!dónde estaba mi autora favorita cuando escribió esto
Última Parada es de lo peor que he leido de esta autora.
Hasta la mitad de la novela va biensin pasarse, pero todo lo bien que puede ir un harlequin normalito, normalito pero luego llegamos a la segunda parte y ahí es cuando mi cabeza no consigue casar el nombre de Nora Roberts con "ésto".
Si por algo caracteriza esta autora es por crear protagonistas femeninas fuertes e independientes y machotes que saben como tratarlas y que no ven amenazada su masculinidad porque la protagonista sea más lista, tenga un puesto de trabajo mejor que el de él, etc.
Pero en este libro encontramos todo lo contrario, Foxy es una protagonista normalita que no hay por donde cogerla de las cosas tan raritas que hace, Me ha recordado mucho a cierta protagonista de la trilogia de las corbatas, esposas y lazos, pero sin todo eso, claro está, Y que conste que no es un alago,
When Cynthia Fox was thirteen, she and her parents were in a car accident on an icy road, Her parents were killed and her twentythreeyearold brother, Kirk, became her guardian, Since Kirk is a race car driver, that meant Foxy, as Kirk calls her, went with him on the racing circuit,
Ten years later, Kirk is still racing, Foxy has returned to the racing circuit, after staying away for two years, She's kept it a secret but has developed panic attacks watching her brother race, But she is working as a photographer for journalist Pam Anderson, who is writing a series of articles on racing, Kirk's best friend, Lance Matthews, has given up racing but he hasn't given up teasing Foxy and getting under her skin, Lance has moved on from racing to designing and building the cars,
Foxy had a big crush on Lance as a teenager but now she's convinced herself she doesn't like him at all, Well almost convinced herself.
A pleasant read, with a nice secondary romance between Kirk and Pam,,estrellas. No es lo mejor que ha escrito la autora ni de lejos y, a pesar de que el punto de partida no está mal, le falta profundidad.
El libro está firmado eny adolece de algunos de los males de la romántica de esa época, con más de una escena controvertida.
PopsugarReto: Un libro ambientado en la década de losI never thought much of Nora Roberts way back when, and this is why.
Anger instead of attraction, with a hero who constantly manhandles his "true love, " Meh. Thank God NR got much better as the years went by, Well I just found my least favourite so far,
Roberts tried to put in two concurrent love stories but didn't put the extra pages in, Both stories felt rushed and incredibly surface, I didn't feel like I got a good read on any of the characters here, Not to mention that there was a serious return to the domineering asshat hero, When the "intimate" scenes use the word "bruising" as a common verb I find that my disinterest turns into mild disgust, Especially when one of them starts as assault but its "okay" because it turns consensual I cringed my way through a lot of that chapter especially when he accidentally saw the bruises he left.
So this one is going in the waynotmything pile and I am returning to Lord of the Rings for a break, I love Nora Roberts books, I really do, but this one just didn't do it for me, I wanted to like Foxy, she had great potential as a character, I just found that none of the characters were developed very much, I feel like I was only getting part of the story, It was very rushed and I know it would have done better as a longer story, El libro ha estado bastante bien, aunque si me dicen que es de otra autora me lo creo, Me ha faltado la pizca de Nora Roberts que me gusta, . . ese enganche que hace con sus protagonistas, no se explicarme
yo le pondria de nota un
N'est pas su tout un livre de Noël en plus pendant tout le long de l'histoire on a envie de tuer les personnages principaux qui sont chiants This is a rerelease of one of her very early titles.
The Robert's style is there, but it's not yet refined, and there is sex that is almost forced and a hero who doesn't quite have enough grip on his temper.
Racing driver meets photographer. Older brother's best friend trope, Another earlys romance with an “alpha hole” hero and squicky sex, The heroine was very bland and I finished the book thinking the couple would probably end up divorced within a year, Bis zur Hälfte war es mega romantisch, richtig knisternd und interessant, danach hat mir irgendwie das Ziel gefehlt und erst als die Familie ins Spiel kam wurde es nochmal kurz interessant.
Das Ende war verstörend, Als Erwachsener Mann eine Jugendliche zu lieben ist eine Sache ihr es zu sagen und es als romantisch zu verkaufen einfach cringe, So, I began my journey as a romance novel reader with Nora Roberts books, and I still hold them dear to my heart.
The thing with this book is, the plot has potencial, but since it was written in the lates and release in, there are a lot of problems in it, that made me not like it very much all the misogyny and the macho stuff.
I like Fox, I like the Fbackground, but Lance is not very well developed, he has anger problems, and he keeps grabbing, pushing and being mean with her.
Plus, the whole Kirk and Pam part is just left to the side of the plot after a while, I first read The Heart's Victory when it was originally released as a Silhouette romance back when I was a young teen in the earlys, and despite the fact that the books that Nora Roberts writes now are so much better, this one remains a favorite.
It was one of Roberts first books and it shows it is dated, much too short, and there could have been so much more character development but there is just something about it that appeals to me, so much so that I've read it dozens of times over the years.
I get it. This was written in a different time, for a different set of people to enjoy,
But, I still don't have to like it,
One of my biggest issues with older romances and even some newer ones is the fact that both protagonists seem to hate each other more than anything, and yet that somehow translates as "chemistry".
I am okay with a little pushandpull between the couple, after all I do enjoy some drama in my romantic ventures, but it just didn't feel right this time around.
It probably had to do with the serious lack of character development, Just some barebones people with no real personality beyond "these two dudes are pricks that force physical intimacy on their love interests" and "these two chicks totally hate the pricks but also totally love them"
The hero is a bit too careless with the heroine, and the heroine apparently flushed her spine down the toilet with her dignity.
Seriously, I will never enjoy the teethgrating trope of a woman crying "NO, not like this" as her "love interest" ignores her protests and "forcefully seduces" her into melting at his touch and enjoying every bit of it.
It angers me to no end, because how exactly did it even come into existence It's not realistic! Correct me if I am wrong, but even in thes when has "NO" ever meant "YES"
Don't even get me started on Pam and Kirk's sideplot romance.
Kirk pointblank tells her in their first meeting that she WILL end up sleeping with him by the end of the racing season, that's a guarantee, and her response was NOT to immediately slap him silly and walk out the door.
She gets her hackles up, but moons over the pig anyway, And of course, the heartmelting confession that she will ALWAYS be second to his drivingcareer because reasons, Yeah, lovely.
Sadly, Foxy and Lance don't get married late enough into the book for my liking, so there is a good chunk of the book featuring their marriage with plenty of uninteresting manufactured tension from his family blah blah blah.
I would have cared more if I had met any of his family or even heard about them BEFORE the wedding, It's like Lance farted them into existence after saying "I do", Oh well, it's not like I liked Lance's proposal, anyway, Foxy was vulnerable and scared for her brother after a terrifying racing accident, and here pops in Lance, pressuring and hassling her into marrying him.
He even admits that he's selfish and doesn't want to give her time to take it all in and think about it properly, right AFTER telling her that her request for a couple days to think about it"sounded reasonable".
awwww, true love, I almost liked him there for a second For the record, I would have said an emphatic "NO" complete with a middle finger erected in his honor.
Although, I will say I love Melissa, She was quirky, clever, and intriguing, I
would have loved to see her more, maybe in her own book, but I'm afraid her character would have been neutered, too.
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