The Trophy Wife (Book) - 4/27/2019 6:52:36 PM
This was an amazing book I will recommend it to all my friends and family.
The Trophy Wife (Book) - 3/19/2019 3:35:21 PM
The Trophy Wife, a novel by Kate Loveday, is the engrossing story of a marriage that goes bad and all that follows. Sadly, Erin McDonald did not realize that the man who swept her off her feet really only wanted her as his wife because of her beauty. She became a trophy wife in the truest sense. She was showered with luxury and for a time she was happy. Over time she realized something was wrong and she was right. Her husband's violence escalated and she had to leave him in order to survive.
This well crafted story follows Erin as she struggles to forge a new life. There is a varied cast of characters, some admirable and others frightening. The secondary characters play important roles in the narrative and their stories are blended together perfectly. Many important issues, including spousal abuse, are prominent in the story.
I found this to be a powerful and memorable book. Highly recommended.
The Trophy Wife (Book) - 6/18/2018 10:44:32 PM
Not my usual genre but, the book sounded interesting, and it was. 'The Trophy Wife' begins and focuses on exactly what the title refers to, however it goes on to become an expanded story line and much, much more.
The cast of characters, beginning with Erin McDonald, our main character, broadens in a way that adds to the story line, but also creates many plots and sub-plots to wonder about.
The author, Kate Loveday, started 'The Trophy Wife" with a very unique beginning chapter that would pique the interest of most, if nothing else, but to continue to read to see how the chips fall, so to speak, and the predictions met.
It is a very easy read. I was so enthralled that I finished it over the weekend! Foe the most part, it's a love story in more then one way. but there is money, power, crime, intimidation, friendships, business ventures and more.
Excellent work, some typo's, but nothing to disrupt the flow, for the most part! Well work checking out 'The Trophy Wife' by Kate Loveday!!! Good Luck on the book...
An Independent woman - Redwoods Book One (Book) - 12/2/2016 6:57:12 PM
I came to write the Redwoods series of books after researching life conditions for women in Australia in the nineteenth century. What I learned shocked me. A woman was considered to be physically, emotionally and intellectually inferior to men. She was a second rate citizen. The law in the era stated that when a woman married, all her assets became her husband’s property, and gave him the right to force her to obey him. She became virtually his chattel, to treat as he wished. No matter how badly he chose to treat her, she had no redress.
And not just in Australia, but everywhere.
And that’s where the idea for the series was born. It’s about the young women in a family who rebel against the standards of the day, and the problems they meet when they decide to live their lives outside the normal rules for women of the day.
Life, and love, was not easy for them.
A Woman of Spirit is the first book in the series.
Valentine's Date (Short Story) - 7/15/2018 12:08:40 PM
I really felt for Stephen! I hope he refuses to pay the hundred dollars.
Just a glimpse! (Short Story) - 11/2/2017 7:03:02 AM
an interesting ending
Just a glimpse! (Short Story) - 11/1/2017 6:50:37 AM
As you described him, I thought you were writing about this, easy to forget, Ronald. But then I realize you are writing about someone else because I wouldn't spend that much on an anniversary, the tightwad I am. ;-)
Yes, the story has a kind of twist at the end that makes you feel sorry for the poor guy who can't catch a break even when he thinks he has succeeded by buying her what she wants.
Ron
Just a glimpse! (Short Story) - 10/31/2017 12:14:09 AM
Your ending left me pining for more.
Small Town Blues (Short Story) - 11/19/2012 3:59:48 AM
what a perfect story with a very perfect end
budd
The Redwoods trilogy (Article) - 6/30/2017 5:57:32 AM
Women are still struggling for equality, particularly in compensation and opportunity for advancement. From my view of the 19th century and earlier, especially in women in remote, colonial environments, they worked very hard from sunup to sundown and then wove fabric or sewed by candlelight after dark. It was a hard life and many died in childbirth trying to have a large family to work the farm.
The powerful woman of the 19th century that I was thinking of was Queen Victoria. The British monarchy were so afraid of losing its family ties when a male heir to the throne was unavailable, that they allowed a woman to take the crown. But women like her were the exception rather than the rule.
Today, women in the Muslim culture and some others have to submit to certain of the practices you describe for the 19th. I certainly hope that these old ways will give way to better treatment for women in the future.
Ron
Platypus (Article) - 3/29/2017 6:04:31 AM
A truly rare sighting. Most of the people on the planet don't even know what a platypus is.
Reminded me of the time I woke up in the morning in my car parked in the lonely part of Yellowstone Park. As I started to drive off, a large bear ran off ahead of me… A grizzly. A rare sighting even in Yellowstone. And of the time, in northern Wisconsin along a pristine stream that was dammed to provide a small pond. Again I had slept in the car while my parents and my younger brothers were in a small cottage. I got up early and went down by the water to see an otter playing in the water much like you saw the platypus. While not rare, it was a rare sighting for me.
Ron
