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Green Eyes (2010)

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038075889X (ISBN13: 9780380758890)
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Green Eyes (2010) - Plot & Excerpts

The girl: Anna Traverne. With her husband dead, she's forced to leave their plantation on Ceylon and live with her brother-in-law, and said BIL is hot to trot with Anna. One night she can't sleep and whilst in the library (or similar room - I forget) quietly sitting in a chair, she spots a cat burglar in the room going after a jewel case in a hidden compartment she's never heard of. Will he spot her? Should she shout for help to stop the burglar? How did the burglar know exactly where to go to find those fabulous emeralds?The guy: Julian Chase. Half gypsy and he's got a few axes to grind with Anna's brother-in-law Lord Ridley (I won't tell so as not to spoil). Julian finally has the emeralds he thinks are rightfully his, but there's this little problem of Anna and how to stop her from screaming and bringing the household down on him. A nice steamy kiss might do it though...Long story short, and this is from the first chapters so I'm not spoiling - Anna ends up with the jewels unbeknownst to Julian who makes his escape thinking the jewels are back in Lord Ridley's care. Anna uses the proceeds from selling a small part of the set to escape the unwelcome attentions of Lord Ridley (she heads for Ceylon with her young daughter). Lord Ridley doesn't have the gems and thinks Julian has them.A tad spoilerish:(view spoiler)[“You stole my bloody emeralds, sold them, and spent the money on this damned white elephant of a place. Lady, if that’s true, then the place is mine...And you’re mine. You owe me, and I’m going to take what you owe me out of your soft white hide.” (hide spoiler)]

Como en la edición que yo tengo aparece la cara de una mujer en la tapa, no tenía ni idea que era una novela histórica, y fue una grata sorpresa porque amo las novelas históricas. El libro me gustó y me entretuvo. También me sacó muchas sonrisas. Me gustó el cambio de paisaje y me gustaron los personajes. Julian está muy idealizado, como todos los protagonistas de este género, pero bueno, soñar un poco con un hombre como él no hace mal. Y Anna me pareció una buena protagonista femenina. Muchos de sus diálogos me hacían sonreír, por la picardía de Julian.Aunque el final... Me pareció MUY ficticio. Pero el epílogo me encantó. En fin, una buena lectura para el verano.

What do You think about Green Eyes (2010)?

Anna Traverne, a young widow with a daughter, faces a terrible choice: become the mistress of her brother-in-law Graham, Lord Ridley, or be tossed out of the family home. But when Anna interrupts a robbery, she ends up with the Traverne emeralds, and no one but the foiled thief, Graham's dispossessed half-brother Julian Chase, knows it. Anna quietly turns the stones into cash and sails to Ceylon, where she buys back the tea plantation she lost at her husband's death. Eventually Julian arrives to demand the emeralds: they can prove that he, not Graham, is the true Lord Ridley. As Julian tries to solve the mystery of the jewels and his heritage, an unsettling threat develops from native worshipers of the goddess Kali who are murdering English residents.The book cover caught my eyes, so I thought I'll try it out. The writer repeats herself, I found myself "skip" some part, I'm usually good keeping up with a "less up beat" book, but this one is slow! It is good story line...but should be kept less dragging.so many scenes unwanted,which i skipped.I kept on reading just to know the end.I would say, it is not one of her best.
—Deepthi Terenz

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