Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon
書封作者名: 莉莎‧克萊佩

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2010-06-29
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As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted…and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man—just to avoid spinsterhood?

Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome, daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix’s friend, the vivacious flirt Prudence Mercer, when he returns from fighting abroad. But, as he explains in his letters to Pru, life on the battlefield has darkened his soul—and it’s becoming clear that Christopher won’t come back as the same man. When Beatrix learns of Pru’s disappointment, she decides to help by concocting Pru’s letters to Christopher for her. Soon the correspondence between Beatrix and Christopher develops into something fulfilling and deep…and when Christopher comes home, he’s determined to claim the woman he loves. What began as Beatrix’s innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled love—and a passion that can’t be denied… 

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果樹-Romance Age
2011-09-27

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—通信的內容,文字寫得太有畫面感了,不同季節的味道,嗯,語文老師教“通感”的時候建議采用來做例子。
—Beatrix和Christopher很早就互訴衷情表白愛意,我討厭男女主角總是到最後一章才醒悟過來大叫我愛你。
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賀家系列最後一本,終於出Kindle版了(撒花轉圈圈)。

小妹Beatrix替膚淺的朋友寫信給去克里米亞作戰的追求者,寫著寫著兩人竟然動了真感情,偏偏男方Christopher曾經說過Beatrix的壞話還被她聽到,Beatrix在Christopher告白的時候,斷然決定不再寫信,免得愈寫愈傷心。但是等到Christopher打仗回來,還是免不了要面對現實......

 

 

這本書的矛盾與掙扎不在女主角為什麼要冒名寫信,因為男主角很快就原諒她,而且也承認自己就是愛上筆友的內在。問題是男主角有很嚴重的創傷後症候群(PTSD,當然這個名詞沒有出現在書裡),每天晚上都做惡夢,只要有讓他聯想到戰爭的風吹草動就會讓他十分不安,歇斯底里,而且他擔心自己會傷害到女主角,所以死都不肯跟她睡一張床(恩愛完了就各自睡覺這樣)。

對於喜歡看男女主角到最後才有情人終成眷屬的人來說,這本書可能火花比較少吧,因為後來焦點都在男主角克服心魔上。但是因為我喜歡坦誠相對的男女主角,所以我覺得很好看。總結是賀家後三本比前兩本好看多了。 

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