Harlequin American Romance #453: Rafe's Revenge

By Anne Stuart

Rafe's Revenge by Anne Stuart released on Jul 25, 1992 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037316453X
• ISBN13: 9780373164530
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Rafe's Revenge

Film critic Silver Carlysle has made a career out of trashing Rafael McGinnis and his action packed popcorn fluff movies. Her scathing and sometimes vicious reviews have been the bane of Rafael's otherwise charmed existence as top dog in Hollywood and he's finally had enough. When Silver goes too far in one of her reviews, Rafe finally pushes back. To prevent a lawsuit, she's forced to apologize and to show up as his date for a publicity party. Disgusted by the whole scene, Silver probably isn't thinking rationally when she shows up in the pink prom dress from hell. Unfortunately for her, her plan backfires, for Rafe is far from put off by her appearance. Instead, he's charmed and aroused and instead of crushing her, he feels the strange urge to protect her from the sharks swimming around her. Then he kisses her and she runs off like a frightened, repressed heroine, and Rafe realizes he's discovered the last innocent in Hollywood. He was going to be a gentleman and leave her alone, (probably) but then he finds the perfect story for his next movie, and wouldn't you know it, the rights are owned by Silver Carlysle. Or so she thinks. The rights are actually up in the air and so the race to the winner's circle is on. Hollywood can't contain the scope of their battles and so their fight spills out into Colorado, and it's in the snowy mountains that our two combatants realize that winning isn't everything and losing isn't necessarily a bad thing. This was a sweet and endearing story by Anne Stuart. This had an interesting look into the business of making movies and I'm still confused as to who wrote what and the legalities of rights of ownership. Lucky for everyone I'm not in the business of making movies because I'd never get anything done. Rafe was definitely a bad boy and he fought to win. He wasn't some overbearing cretin who was out to own the world. Just his part of it. I liked him a lot more than Silver. Poor girl has got some serious issues and she's a little too old to be still sticking it to her parents. Time to grow up sweetie. She nearly killed this story for me. Her stubborness and inner hate reached epic proportions and I wanted to reach into the pages and start shaking her. She's got quite a love/hate relationship going on with everyone and it was definitely a buzzkill, as well as childish and whiny, but she will overcome her leftover teenage angst and become someone I wouldn't mind hanging out with, at least for one lunch. The ending of this book makes up for everything. Once they got out of the cesspool that is Hollywood and went up into the mountains, it became wonderfully sweet. There's something about being trapped in a snowy mountain cabin that just screams romance, and pretty soon the warm winter fire melts our icy heroine. Anne Stuart has created another wonderful romance where love conquers all and I ended up loving this book. Enjoy!

Love is the best revenge

One of Anne Stuart's earlier books, Rafe prefigures the gamma heroes that she is known for today. He's closer to alpha, but those gamma traits are definitely present. I enjoyed this book because Rafe and Silver are constantly butting heads in an almost slapstick way, and I loved the ending.

a reviews nightmare??? mayne not...lol

This is a knock out tale of a critic Silver Carlylse. She writes a scathing review of movie mogul Rafe McGinnis. Now he has set a target on her back and is determined to make her pay in one form or another.He is another of Stuart's dark bad boys we love, and his steam roller attack on Silver - initially to get even and humiliate her backfires big time as they spark off each other.Just another super table for one of the best romance writers out there!!