Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Donnelly, Jane
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: UK
Geboorteplaats: Lancashire, England, UK
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Woonplaatsen: Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
Quinton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Beroepen: reporter
novelist
Korte biografie: Jane Donnelly began earning her living as a writer as a teenage reporter. When she married the editor of the newspaper she freelanced for women's mags for a while. After she was widowed she and her 5 year old daughter moved to Lancashire. She turned to writing fiction to make a living while still caring for her daughter, she sold her first Mills & Boon romance novel as a hard-up singleparent in 1965. She wrote over 60 romance novels for Mills & Boon until 2000. Now she lives in a roses-round-the door cottage near Stratford upon Avon, with four dogs and assorted rescued animals. Besides writing she enjoys travelling, swimming, walking and the company of friends.

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Danger Mountain (Commando #430) door Jane Donnelly

While I am too old for this sort of thing – or, at least, I ought to be – I came across a few old Commando comics in a charity shop and decided to give them a try. I'm too young for these to have been my childhood – my generation had the more interactive variant, in the form of the videogames Call of Duty and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault – but I've always been attracted to what you could label the Commando aesthetic. Boy's Own adventure in daring locations, against dastardly Nazis, with guns, grenades, U-boats and more...

Danger Mountain was the third and final one I read, as a bunch of chiselled British commandos launch a dangerous mission across sheer cliff-edges to capture a Nazi commander, and then must keep his own men and his Italian partisan allies from gutting the evil German before they can get him back to their own lines. This has all the ingredients for a quintessential Commando story, but a few factors held it back: it was hard to differentiate each commando from the others; there's nothing on what value the captured Nazi will provide (beyond vague mention of how his knowledge of troop dispositions and German weaknesses would help win the war); and the story ends cheaply with an American patrol suddenly coming to the rescue. Then again, expecting much more from a comic might be too ungrateful, and this story was still a lot of fun.… (meer)

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MikeFutcher | Jan 29, 2024 |

Face The Tiger door Jane Donnelly

...OH BOY GUYS.

I don't have the energy to write a proper review, but OH BOY GUYS

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lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |

Living with Marc (Harlequin Romance) door Jane Donnelly

I just reread this with absolutely no memory of having read it before. Even seeing that I reviewed it 4 years ago doesn't make me remember that I read it before. Wow. Okay so I didn't really like it any better the second time. Here's my original review:

Story` of an accident prone bubbly free spirit who was hired to be his aunt's companion against his better judgement. Good premise that was wasted here in this ordinary book. somehow she just seemed naive and stupidly tragic.

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Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |

The Jewels Of Helen (Harlequin Romance, No 3128) door Jane Donnelly

A spoiled brat who liked her own way.

Eight years ago Max Torba thought Anni was self-centered-and that she didn't care if her demands made life impossible for those who loved her.

Now, meeting again at Max's home in Turkey, it was clear he still held the same opinion, no matter how hard she tried to make a good impression.

'You haven't changed much, have you?' he said.
'You still don't give a damn for the trouble you cause.'

But did Max's opinion really matter? After all, Anni had no intention of adding herself to his admiring band of female followers..."… (meer)

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