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Since the Spritzi soda ads, Lissa Bauer had painfully inched her way up the acting ladder. And now she was barely hanging on to her first big role as Jeannie Duncan, the heroine in the movie adaptation of Matthew Briggs's bestselling novel A High, Hard Land. No one, especially Lissa, could seem to give the famous author the perfection--and passion--he demanded.
But Lissa was unaware how much her lightness and radiance drew Matthew to her. He wanted to show her how to bring illusion alive with passion, passion as real, as wild, as tantalizing as the hunger he could no longer deny.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: August 1986
Mature content: yes
Review: I vaguely remember reading A Passionate Illusion a long, long time ago and not enjoying it very much Re-reading it now has not, unfortunately, changed my opinion.
This is basically an enemies to lovers story, but that circle (enemies to lovers, back to enemies, etc) goes on until almost the end. Lissa and Matthew's relationship moves in parallel with the movie that is being filmed, based on Matthew's best selling book and with Lissa as an actress. There is, supposedly, some depth in the plot as Matthew tries (and often fails, in his opinion) to get Lissa to act in the way he sees fit to represent his book character, but sadly he comes across more as a bully than as an inspiration. Some paragraphs make this book sound almost like some sort of an epic novel. Unfortunately, most aspects of it fall short of that grandness.
While I do love reading (and re-reading) older romance novels, even if sometimes they are a bit outdated, A Passionate Illusion is not a book I would recommend in any way.
Happy readings otherwise,
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