A review by emmalg
Highland Pursuits by Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Adrea Kore
4.0
Surprisingly good
What a silly girl Ophelia is at the start of the book - yet her behavior as a young woman is uncomfortably familiar!
I usually prefer to have romance in a book and find gratuitous sex off putting. Somehow de Maupassant manages to write the more erotic scenes without the usual trite feeling, they feel natural and characters are sufficiently developed to carry it off. I don't think I've read erotic scenes that flow as smoothly since the oft mentioned Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I would have loved to have read a longer version of this still with a deeper romantic edge to it.
I certainly didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did and thank the other readers for their reviews which encouraged me.
What a silly girl Ophelia is at the start of the book - yet her behavior as a young woman is uncomfortably familiar!
I usually prefer to have romance in a book and find gratuitous sex off putting. Somehow de Maupassant manages to write the more erotic scenes without the usual trite feeling, they feel natural and characters are sufficiently developed to carry it off. I don't think I've read erotic scenes that flow as smoothly since the oft mentioned Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I would have loved to have read a longer version of this still with a deeper romantic edge to it.
I certainly didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did and thank the other readers for their reviews which encouraged me.