Savage Love (Harlequin Presents, #348)

by Mary Wibberley

Book Overview

Savage Love by Mary Wibberley released on Jan 25, 1980 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373103484
• ISBN13: 9780373103485
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A Story that keeps you in the palm of its hand

The best stories for romance have to have something of a mixture of spunk, anticipation and poignancy. A weeping, distraught and primarily helpless heroine is not going to appeal much once you're past fifteen or if you're not reading just to escape your own heartache. Kim Sheridan is both valiant and dry, a bit of that English humor with that English rose vulnerability. She's been hurt, unjustly and Luke has done this to her. His saving grace of course is that his sin was committed due to his being deceived. Trust, when broken, is an extremely thorny issue to resolve in a love story. Most people who've been broken are going to have more of a barrier against trusting and re-establishing it is soooo tricky. This book was so fabulous becuase they re-establish that trust through an unusual confrontational method. We are given the time honored and dearly loved concept of love that draws two to each other, despite the broken state of their hearts. We are given two vulnerable protagonists who each make you ache for them. Ms. Wibberley does a marvelous job with the use of voices, glances and 'careless' mutterings. Add to that some of the most wonderful extended characters. In my little trove of romances I've kept a few over the years because I am myself now working on my own romances. The authoresses who have inspired me over the years I've kept, not to plagiarize, but because admiration and enjoyment of them has somehow inspired me to hear the voices of my own unique characters. I loved this book, it is one that I've probably read more than 2 dozen times.

They Hate Each Other. Not!

Kim Sheridan has taken some time off from her school teaching job in a poor part of London to help her cousin out at the hotel she and her husband run, because her husband is in hospital. On the way she gets in a fender bender with non other than her ex-husband, Luke Savage, who, by coincidence, is staying at the hotel. They lapse into argument, because these are two people who truly seem to dislike each other. In fact, if two people never should have been married, well these are them. At the hotel, Kim discovers Luke is a writer, you think she would have known this, and that he is hiding out here to work. Then Kim's cousin is required at the hospital to be at her husband's bedside for a few days and now Kim is running the hotel by herself. She doesn't anticipate any problem, after all, there aren't too many guests. Then two of the staff come down with food poisoning and now she's in trouble. Then the ex she can't stand offers to pitch in and help and for a few pages there we think maybe he's not such a bad guy. Then more guests, friends of Luke's, show up and the books really takes off. I'll admit that at first I didn't think I was going to like this book. Luke is one of those self-assured, kiss 'em and they swoon kind of men that some romance writers like to write about, but that I don't like to read about, but he has character and lots of good qualities and that pulled the book up a lot in my estimation. A very nice and enjoyable read.