Awaken to Pleasure

By Nalini Singh

Awaken to Pleasure by Nalini Singh released on Jul 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373766025
• ISBN13: 9780373766024
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Harlequin Desire
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

An all time favorite

This is one of my all time favorite romance reads. The passion and love between the couple light up the pages. In this story, two broken people come together and its awesome to watch how they complement and heal each other.

Surprisingly good

A few years back, Taylor Reid used to work as a secretary for movie producer Jackson Santorini. Back then, Jackson had been very attracted to her, but since he was married and an all-around decent guy, he considered her off limits. Fast-forward a few years, and Jackson is now a widower with a bad reputation for cruelty, since his late wife killed herself and the tabloids had a field day accusing him of driving her to it. He's also got a weight on his conscience: his wife was pregnant when she committed suicide. As for Taylor, she's got problems of her own. She's got guardianship of her younger brother, but his good-for-nothing father has began making noises about suing for custody. When Jackson rans into Taylor while she's waiting for the bus under the rain, she drives her home and soon the truth about her problems comes out. To which Jackson has a very simple solution: they can get married. Taylor's former stepfather won't dare to bother such a powerful man and Jackson will get the child he longs for. The only problem is, Taylor fears men, due to some bad experiences in her past, and she's not at all confident she can give Jackson the child he expects The back cover copy sounds very Harlequin Presents-ish, and while this is a Desire, not an HP (I actually had to check back a couple of times as I was reading, just to make sure), I guess the storyline is very reminiscent of HP, too. We've got: - the virginal heroine (only this particular heroine has a good reason to still be a virgin) - the hero who's been hurt by his bitch of a former wife (only this particular hero hasn't let this turn him into a cruel, mysoginist bastard. Jackson is always perfectly kind to Taylor and never demeans her in any way) - the Italian hero (only this particular Italian doesn't use his heritage as an excuse to behave like a sexist pig. Not that real Italian men do... I'm refering to Italians as they're almost always depicted in the Presents line) - the boss-secretary romance (only here they were boss and secretary in the past, but aren't any more) - the marriage of convenience (only the reasons for this particular m-o-c do make sense) Are you getting the picture of why this book worked for me? Every single element that could have been groan-worthy was either perfectly justified or had something that offset whatever was objectionable about it. Most of all, the worst element that comes to mind when I think HP isn't here at all. I'm refering to total and unreasonable miscommunication. If I think back to the old HP books I used to read, it feels as if in 99% of them, whatever the conflict was between the hero and heroine, it could have been resolved with a 5-minute (in some cases, 5-second) conversation. Awaken to Pleasure is nothing like that. I started this one because I'd heard great stuff about another Singh category title, Secrets in the Marriage Bed, and what most appealed to me about it was that people were saying that the hero and heroine actually

Loved it!

Ms. Singh writes great heros! If you like books by Diana Palmer, definitely pick up a copy of this book.

A Wonderful Pleasure!

This book got my attention right away. It started off that the hero/bachelor Jackson runs into his heroine Taylor while she was waiting for her bus in the rain. What I liked about this book is how sensitive and emotional the hero was to his ladylove right away. Usually in the romance genre the man waits till the last minute to prove his love but in this one he feels for her right away. Also their are some touching moments where the hero helps her fight for custody of her younger brother from her step- father.In this book both Jackson and Taylor had broken hearts from before him with a dead ex-wife who cheated on him and her being physical and emotional abuse by various individuals in her life. This book I could read over and over again. Great read