Review: Gates of Steel

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Helen Stewart was disenchanted with the whole idea of love and romance, while Leon Petrou, it was said, had no time for women -- so when he suggested that she should marry him, to provide a background for his small niece and nephew, she agreed, feeling that emotion would not enter into the situation at all. And that could prove to be a dangerous assumption.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: January 1980

Mature content: no

 

Review: Totally random, but I recently re-found several vintage paperbacks and I have been going through them. I remember reading a lot of them in my late teens (and they were already practically vintage by then) - and Gates of Steel was a favorite at the time.

Re-reading it now, I recognize there are several details that would no longer work in a book today - or at least, they would generate a lot of discussion (like the role of women or the ideas on children education). Also, some of the characters (Leon, in particular) deserved a bit more depth. 

 

But...somehow I still love this book. Maybe it's the exotic setting, or maybe it's the fact that it's a clean romance (other than a few kisses, nothing else is described) where two people that had no plans to fall in love ever again get together for the sake of a couple of children that need to grow up in a functional family again, and then, of course, end up falling in love. 

Yes, it's outdated - it's vintage, after all, but Gates of Steel is still a quite nice book to read if you love the genre. Too bad there aren't Kindle versions available of these older books. 

Happy readings,

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