Comments on: REVIEW: Bought for Her Baby by Melanie Milburne

By: bam

bam — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:16:23 +0000

would have been more interesting if the heroine was the one who was hooked on heroin.

and REALLY? HEROIN? Come on, that shit is too expensive for your garden-variety addict. If the sister was prostituting herself for anyone with cash–I’m thinking about twenty bucks— she’d only be able to afford frickin’ crack. Maybe Crystal meth.

Does the author have any idea how much a gram of heroin would cost? ‘Cause I… don’t, yo!

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:17 +0000

Okay – will try Hunter then.

By: Sunita

Sunita — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:53:40 +0000

Thanks for taking one for the team, Jane. I was looking at this author’s books and wondering, but now I know!

I’ve been reading a lot of Harlequins lately, thanks to your and the SB’s recommendations, and they have ranged from eh to really really good. I find that the bad Presents are bad in a different way from the bad Romance books; the bad Presents have way more “WTF?” moments for me, whereas the Romance are just quietly bad, if you know what I mean.

EDITED TO ADD: Here’s another vote for the Kelly Hunter. A fun couple and some nice turns of phrase in the writing.

By: DS

DS — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:44:27 +0000

Anyone who leaves a drug addict asleep in their apartment while they go out is TSTL. Sounds like the author knows almost nothing about addiction and recovery. Sounds like Charlotte is addicted to Damon and needs an intervention.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:54:56 +0000

Yiiiikes. This is why I hardly ever pick up Harlequin books. That dialogue makes me cringe!

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:27:04 +0000

Oh, Kay! LOL. Yes, heroin. LOLOLOL!!!

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:15:29 +0000

I’m guessing the sister was addicted to heroin and not heroine, but it sounds like she’s addicted to both in this case…

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:55:54 +0000

That’s why I include excerpts, Barbara. Nothing is more explanatory that the work itself, right?

By: Barbara B.

Barbara B. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:35:30 +0000

“I was thinking of your dancing little hot breath and flicking tongue all last night. I hardly slept at all.”

WTF is “dancing little hot breath”? The dialogue is staggeringly bad.

By: ジェーン(Jān)

ジェーン(Jān) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:33:15 +0000

Ack I can’t stand heroines like that. We appreciate you bleeding for us Jane.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:52:35 +0000

I have this book on request at my local library because the blurb looked interesting. it was going out to fill someone else’s hold but now I think I’m going to cancel. This sounds terrible.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:25:37 +0000

Sorry Jane, no sympathy on this side of the blog for a title like that. Nada.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:04:06 +0000

Oi poor Jane, another one who got burned by this author’s books. Years ago I read a highly entertaining story by Milburne, I think it’s title was The Australian’s Marriage Demand. Encouraged, I got a number of her backlist titles, and honestly, one was badder than the next. The heroes had dickhead qualities, the heroines were a cross between doormats and Mother Theresas, and after suffering through “Bought for the Marriage Bed” (which I fortunately “only” borrowed from the libraries), I decided that my one and only good reading experience with Milburne was verily a hallucination.

Except for Susan Napier’s older titles my one truly splendid experience with Harlequin Presents was with Kelly Hunter’s Wife For a Week. Funny, entertaining and a truly likable couple, combined in a lovely story and sensuous romance.