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Cheesy story with low angst and a Uber cute obsessed hero.
Both characters have known each other all their lives since she’s his brother’s bff.
They hav Cheesy story with low angst and a Uber cute obsessed hero.
Both characters have known each other all their lives since she’s his brother’s bff.
They haven’t seen for years and then she came back to work for him at the same hospital.
He’s her supervisor and has a thing for her but she’s engaged and is his brother’s bff so she’s off limits.
When her fiancé cheats on her it will be the hero who offers her to stay with him until she doesn’t find another place.
He beats her fiancé and takes her on dates, and falls more and more in love with her.
He’s kind of cute because he thinks she only sees him as a rebound, while actually she’s very much attracted to him and has been for long.
There’s a light ow drama, with a nasty woman who tries to damage the heroine’s reputation at work, but the hero, alpha hottie that he is, takes care of evil woman and makes her disappear. Literally.
- no cheating. No celibacy for both, she was engaged and the hero dated random ow, but since she found her fiancé cheating on her there were no other people for both.
I wasn’t disturbed by the lack of celibacy because it was mutual.
- the hero is more besotted with the heroine than she with him, and pines for her because he doesn’t know if she loves him,nice change for once.
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Both characters have known each other all their lives since she’s his brother’s bff.
They hav Cheesy story with low angst and a Uber cute obsessed hero.
Both characters have known each other all their lives since she’s his brother’s bff.
They haven’t seen for years and then she came back to work for him at the same hospital.
He’s her supervisor and has a thing for her but she’s engaged and is his brother’s bff so she’s off limits.
When her fiancé cheats on her it will be the hero who offers her to stay with him until she doesn’t find another place.
He beats her fiancé and takes her on dates, and falls more and more in love with her.
He’s kind of cute because he thinks she only sees him as a rebound, while actually she’s very much attracted to him and has been for long.
There’s a light ow drama, with a nasty woman who tries to damage the heroine’s reputation at work, but the hero, alpha hottie that he is, takes care of evil woman and makes her disappear. Literally.
- no cheating. No celibacy for both, she was engaged and the hero dated random ow, but since she found her fiancé cheating on her there were no other people for both.
I wasn’t disturbed by the lack of celibacy because it was mutual.
- the hero is more besotted with the heroine than she with him, and pines for her because he doesn’t know if she loves him,nice change for once.
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The main reason why I gave three stars is because well, this author is one of the best writers of historical fictions with Lisa Kleypas and Lorraine H
The main reason why I gave three stars is because well, this author is one of the best writers of historical fictions with Lisa Kleypas and Lorraine Heath and a few others. The plot is a bit stretched and bizarre, but she’s able to make a little gem of it anyway.
Her heroes are always so hot and her sex scenes are the best.
Not gross even when they are explicit, but very good all the same. They are seduction scenes, not quick romps and their sexiness derives from the slow pace they are described.
This heroine is not one of my favorite but she has her reasons.
She met the hero when they both were very young and she drugged him to pretend that he had taken her virginity so she wouldn’t have to marry his sleazy father. Yes, that’s it.
But sadly the young inexperienced woman put much more blood on the sheets and disappeared so the young hero was accused of killing her. Even if her body was not found and he was declared innocent.
Years later they meet again, he’s a prizefighter and a pariah because people still thinks he’s a murderer and still hold a grudge- and who can blame him- so things are very tense for some time but the big misunderstanding was cleared and all comes to a happy end.
There’s a lot of misunderstandings and the hero is sometimes cruel to the heroine but, even if she didn’t try to ruin him she used him and never looked back once, so I wasn’t really disturbed by his behavior, on the contrary I think he forgave her even too soon.
The book is not one of SML best but is anyway very good. ...more
Her heroes are always so hot and her sex scenes are the best.
Not gross even when they are explicit, but very good all the same. They are seduction scenes, not quick romps and their sexiness derives from the slow pace they are described.
This heroine is not one of my favorite but she has her reasons.
She met the hero when they both were very young and she drugged him to pretend that he had taken her virginity so she wouldn’t have to marry his sleazy father. Yes, that’s it.
But sadly the young inexperienced woman put much more blood on the sheets and disappeared so the young hero was accused of killing her. Even if her body was not found and he was declared innocent.
Years later they meet again, he’s a prizefighter and a pariah because people still thinks he’s a murderer and still hold a grudge- and who can blame him- so things are very tense for some time but the big misunderstanding was cleared and all comes to a happy end.
There’s a lot of misunderstandings and the hero is sometimes cruel to the heroine but, even if she didn’t try to ruin him she used him and never looked back once, so I wasn’t really disturbed by his behavior, on the contrary I think he forgave her even too soon.
The book is not one of SML best but is anyway very good. ...more
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really liked it
At last!
A very good emotional reading without cheating or cruel behavior from the characters.
And the writer was very good at dealing with teenagers/ At last!
A very good emotional reading without cheating or cruel behavior from the characters.
And the writer was very good at dealing with teenagers/ young adults and their feelings and emotions.
I rarely read ya because I feel disconnected especially if the author portrays them as if they were people in their 30s or older and puts them into situations that are not realistic and unfit to their age.
I think that this one managed to create really tragic situations that can actually happen in real life without being ott.
Yes, the characters behave like teenagers and that was good because it’s what they are.
This doesn’t mean they were not very mature teenagers.
There are many sad situations and funny situations especially in the first part of the book, where the characters are younger.
And they are really young when they meet and fall in love, only 15.
The heroine has just lost her mother after a long and painful illness where she not only took care of her but also of her six younger brothers, the youngest still a baby.
And when her mother dies she find herself alone with her father in a severe depression that ends with alcoholism.
She’s so scared that some social worker could separate her and her siblings if they knew what her father was doing that she takes all the weight of it by herself, and that’s where the hero, only a teenager himself meets her and decides he will be there to help.
And so it starts, their love story, with this young boy who helps this lonely and tired girl with her brothers and also helps her recover from an eating disorder.
He’s there to persuade her father to stop drinking and start taking care of his children, and he falls in love with her.
They go through high school and decide to go to the same college, and there’s where their issues start.
I don’t want to spoil too much even if there are reviews that reveals everything.
I only gave four stars and not five because it could have been a bit shorter especially in the last part, after their reconciliation.
I read many reviews and I knew what I would have found but I would like to explain my opinion regarding both characters and some of the events that happened.
- the cheating issue. The hero meets a girl at college that is also a work colleague. This girl is obviously after him but he seems oblivious to her efforts. He can’t see any woman except the heroine, ever, but even if he notices her careless displays of her body he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it. He’s very naive. The woman is always around him and manages to be there whenever he needs help, both with his studies and with his job. The heroine sees them together more than once and she tells him that she doesn’t like that excess of familiarity between them. Yes, she’s jealous but she trusts him and doesn’t make scenes. The hero though keeps seeing ow a lil too much and the heroine is hurt. Eventually they break up, when he shows up at their celebration dinner 3 hours late and drunk and causes a scene.
That’s when the heroine breaks with him.
I don’t think he cheated not even emotionally because he never saw ow as anything more than a colleague and a partner at school. Of course she was into him and wanted him to break up with the heroine, but he wasn’t able to see this since he was too busy and preoccupied with study and work.
There was never any emotional connection that could have been more that friendly on his part.
But. But. But he wronged the heroine a lot because he was disrespectful of her feelings.
When she told him to be careful with her feelings he kept seeing ow even knowing it would hurt the heroine. This was lack of respect and consideration for the one person you swear you’ll love forever. So in this he was lacking and the heroine did the right thing to leave him.
- another issue here is that many readers seem to think that the heroine is weak and in need of saving and the hero is the one who is strong and able to heal her.
IMO it’s just the opposite.
The heroine went through very hard times when he was a teenager and showed a great resilience because she was able to manage a house with 6 children and an alcoholic father and she also went to school without anyone noticing anything wrong with her. So no, she wasn’t weak and the hero even if he helped her wasn’t the one who took her out of a situation unbearable for a girl her age. This was made by her father who was able to react and to hire a full time nanny and went counseling to be able to cope with his children.
The hero, even though he is without any doubt a very good and honest young man, is not so strong because as soon as he has one stressing situation, that is he has to deal with college and work together (something most of the students have to deal with) is unable to cope and basically has a burn out taking it out on the heroine.
So I think that the hero was the weaker of the two while the heroine was the stronger one and he was able to recognize that she was a very strong and resilient person that would be able to sail through life without giving up, this was why he was attracted to her in the beginning.
- and when the heroine tried to leave him after she was told she couldn’t have children she was basically right because since he resented her when he was too busy with his work and studies he would have surely resented her when after some years they couldn’t have children.
Big spoiler here: they will have children, not in this book but in others…
A very good book and I can recommend it to all angst suckers like me. ...more
A very good emotional reading without cheating or cruel behavior from the characters.
And the writer was very good at dealing with teenagers/ At last!
A very good emotional reading without cheating or cruel behavior from the characters.
And the writer was very good at dealing with teenagers/ young adults and their feelings and emotions.
I rarely read ya because I feel disconnected especially if the author portrays them as if they were people in their 30s or older and puts them into situations that are not realistic and unfit to their age.
I think that this one managed to create really tragic situations that can actually happen in real life without being ott.
Yes, the characters behave like teenagers and that was good because it’s what they are.
This doesn’t mean they were not very mature teenagers.
There are many sad situations and funny situations especially in the first part of the book, where the characters are younger.
And they are really young when they meet and fall in love, only 15.
The heroine has just lost her mother after a long and painful illness where she not only took care of her but also of her six younger brothers, the youngest still a baby.
And when her mother dies she find herself alone with her father in a severe depression that ends with alcoholism.
She’s so scared that some social worker could separate her and her siblings if they knew what her father was doing that she takes all the weight of it by herself, and that’s where the hero, only a teenager himself meets her and decides he will be there to help.
And so it starts, their love story, with this young boy who helps this lonely and tired girl with her brothers and also helps her recover from an eating disorder.
He’s there to persuade her father to stop drinking and start taking care of his children, and he falls in love with her.
They go through high school and decide to go to the same college, and there’s where their issues start.
I don’t want to spoil too much even if there are reviews that reveals everything.
I only gave four stars and not five because it could have been a bit shorter especially in the last part, after their reconciliation.
I read many reviews and I knew what I would have found but I would like to explain my opinion regarding both characters and some of the events that happened.
- the cheating issue. The hero meets a girl at college that is also a work colleague. This girl is obviously after him but he seems oblivious to her efforts. He can’t see any woman except the heroine, ever, but even if he notices her careless displays of her body he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it. He’s very naive. The woman is always around him and manages to be there whenever he needs help, both with his studies and with his job. The heroine sees them together more than once and she tells him that she doesn’t like that excess of familiarity between them. Yes, she’s jealous but she trusts him and doesn’t make scenes. The hero though keeps seeing ow a lil too much and the heroine is hurt. Eventually they break up, when he shows up at their celebration dinner 3 hours late and drunk and causes a scene.
That’s when the heroine breaks with him.
I don’t think he cheated not even emotionally because he never saw ow as anything more than a colleague and a partner at school. Of course she was into him and wanted him to break up with the heroine, but he wasn’t able to see this since he was too busy and preoccupied with study and work.
There was never any emotional connection that could have been more that friendly on his part.
But. But. But he wronged the heroine a lot because he was disrespectful of her feelings.
When she told him to be careful with her feelings he kept seeing ow even knowing it would hurt the heroine. This was lack of respect and consideration for the one person you swear you’ll love forever. So in this he was lacking and the heroine did the right thing to leave him.
- another issue here is that many readers seem to think that the heroine is weak and in need of saving and the hero is the one who is strong and able to heal her.
IMO it’s just the opposite.
The heroine went through very hard times when he was a teenager and showed a great resilience because she was able to manage a house with 6 children and an alcoholic father and she also went to school without anyone noticing anything wrong with her. So no, she wasn’t weak and the hero even if he helped her wasn’t the one who took her out of a situation unbearable for a girl her age. This was made by her father who was able to react and to hire a full time nanny and went counseling to be able to cope with his children.
The hero, even though he is without any doubt a very good and honest young man, is not so strong because as soon as he has one stressing situation, that is he has to deal with college and work together (something most of the students have to deal with) is unable to cope and basically has a burn out taking it out on the heroine.
So I think that the hero was the weaker of the two while the heroine was the stronger one and he was able to recognize that she was a very strong and resilient person that would be able to sail through life without giving up, this was why he was attracted to her in the beginning.
- and when the heroine tried to leave him after she was told she couldn’t have children she was basically right because since he resented her when he was too busy with his work and studies he would have surely resented her when after some years they couldn’t have children.
Big spoiler here: they will have children, not in this book but in others…
A very good book and I can recommend it to all angst suckers like me. ...more
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it was ok
Ok, this started well because there was great humor and I was very hopeful but after the first half it became too much and I couldn't enjoy it anymore
Ok, this started well because there was great humor and I was very hopeful but after the first half it became too much and I couldn't enjoy it anymore.
The hero is 36 and has a thing for a camgirl he watches on a site where she gets herself off trying to auction her virginity.
That's it.
After wacthing one of her videos he sees one woman who looks very much like her and has a shag with her at the airport, hoping he will forget his obsession but alas he is still more obsessed by the camgirl and decides he will make an offer for her virtue.
One month later the replacement woman turns up and tells him she's pregnant.
Oh, she's 46.
Really?
The hero, who, after all, is not a bad guy, only not one of the brightest, decides he will take care of this stranger he has f***ed once without even knowing her name and asks her to live- temporarily- with him.
In his lil not bright mind, he also thinks he will have to marry her.
WTF?
He's a millionaire and single, he can't reason this way.
But whatever.
Then this woman, for whom he doesn't feel anything at all, asks her daughter to come and live with them to help her with the baby.
Guess who's the daughter?
But the camgirl of course.
And the hero is immediately hit by a truck because when he meets her he not only falls in lust but also in love with her like a horny teenager.
And she's the teenager.
She's 18, just barely.
And soon to be stepdaughter.
It was quite funny because they both feel this attraction to each other and the hero starts behaving like a caveman with her while ignoring baby mummy, it was really exilarating.
And sometimes also angsty because the heroine thinks he will marry her mum and she can't have him.
But then the kinky starts.
Ok, there's a big age gap, but the heroine, even if he's virgin, is not exactly out of a convent, she's quite the slutty virgin, who is ready to have sex with a stranger and to sell her virginity to pay her college.
She's far from innocent and more than once she taunts him and they have repeatedly sex with her mum nearby.
What started to bother me was the daddy/ little girl thing whenever they had sex.
It was too much.
I don't like this kind of thing.
Ok, it was only a role play and she's an adult just like him,so no pedophily here, but the continue reference to their age gap made me think that it was the main reason he liked her, that she was younger and he was much older.
It made me wonder if maybe in 10 years he will be attracted to a younger, teenage model.
That was one of the reasons I coulnd't enjoy the sex scenes.
They were all: suck daddy's d**k, you're daddy lil girl, and so on.
There's kinky and there's creepy.
And this was creepy.
It was ok the older man/ younger woman thing and it was ok also the daughter-who-screws-mummy's-boyfriend thing but not ok the daddy thing.
I just couldn't.
At a certain point I fell asleep on one of those scenes.
Too much.
And then there's the thriller part, where we will find out she's a cartel princess but she never knew and the woman who she thought was her mother is her half sister instead.
meh.
And of course the woman is not pregnant.
-The celibacy issue. Techically he hasn't met the heroine when he has sex with ow, and he doesn't plan to meet her. She's a cam girl, not a real person for him. Only afterward he decides he will pay for her virtue. And the ons is useful for the story because through this ow he will meet the heroine. So no, the fact he screwed another woman before meeting her didn't bother me too much (just a little)
What I didn't like is that he screwed her mother (ok, sister) and there was always this thing between them. Not good.
Eventually I could have given 3 stars if there wasn't too much Daddy/lil girl reference during sex, and I liked that he was obsessed from the first time they met- phisically.
And he was sweet too, very nice and caring, even if he wasn't too smart ...
The heroine was quite slutty but ok, her pseudo mother had always been a very bad, careless and selfish mother, not affectionate and she had to live alone since she was 15. So her trying to steal the hero from her was quite understandable.
-I didn't like that he thought for some time to marry that woman, even after meeting the heroine.
Why? Is a bad marriage preferable for a child than two people who are civil and try to make their best for their child and are happy with other people?
No, I don't think so.
-I didn't dislike the book, I think I will give this author another chance (maybe without the daddy/lil girl thing)
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The hero is 36 and has a thing for a camgirl he watches on a site where she gets herself off trying to auction her virginity.
That's it.
After wacthing one of her videos he sees one woman who looks very much like her and has a shag with her at the airport, hoping he will forget his obsession but alas he is still more obsessed by the camgirl and decides he will make an offer for her virtue.
One month later the replacement woman turns up and tells him she's pregnant.
Oh, she's 46.
Really?
The hero, who, after all, is not a bad guy, only not one of the brightest, decides he will take care of this stranger he has f***ed once without even knowing her name and asks her to live- temporarily- with him.
In his lil not bright mind, he also thinks he will have to marry her.
WTF?
He's a millionaire and single, he can't reason this way.
But whatever.
Then this woman, for whom he doesn't feel anything at all, asks her daughter to come and live with them to help her with the baby.
Guess who's the daughter?
But the camgirl of course.
And the hero is immediately hit by a truck because when he meets her he not only falls in lust but also in love with her like a horny teenager.
And she's the teenager.
She's 18, just barely.
And soon to be stepdaughter.
It was quite funny because they both feel this attraction to each other and the hero starts behaving like a caveman with her while ignoring baby mummy, it was really exilarating.
And sometimes also angsty because the heroine thinks he will marry her mum and she can't have him.
But then the kinky starts.
Ok, there's a big age gap, but the heroine, even if he's virgin, is not exactly out of a convent, she's quite the slutty virgin, who is ready to have sex with a stranger and to sell her virginity to pay her college.
She's far from innocent and more than once she taunts him and they have repeatedly sex with her mum nearby.
What started to bother me was the daddy/ little girl thing whenever they had sex.
It was too much.
I don't like this kind of thing.
Ok, it was only a role play and she's an adult just like him,so no pedophily here, but the continue reference to their age gap made me think that it was the main reason he liked her, that she was younger and he was much older.
It made me wonder if maybe in 10 years he will be attracted to a younger, teenage model.
That was one of the reasons I coulnd't enjoy the sex scenes.
They were all: suck daddy's d**k, you're daddy lil girl, and so on.
There's kinky and there's creepy.
And this was creepy.
It was ok the older man/ younger woman thing and it was ok also the daughter-who-screws-mummy's-boyfriend thing but not ok the daddy thing.
I just couldn't.
At a certain point I fell asleep on one of those scenes.
Too much.
And then there's the thriller part, where we will find out she's a cartel princess but she never knew and the woman who she thought was her mother is her half sister instead.
meh.
And of course the woman is not pregnant.
-The celibacy issue. Techically he hasn't met the heroine when he has sex with ow, and he doesn't plan to meet her. She's a cam girl, not a real person for him. Only afterward he decides he will pay for her virtue. And the ons is useful for the story because through this ow he will meet the heroine. So no, the fact he screwed another woman before meeting her didn't bother me too much (just a little)
What I didn't like is that he screwed her mother (ok, sister) and there was always this thing between them. Not good.
Eventually I could have given 3 stars if there wasn't too much Daddy/lil girl reference during sex, and I liked that he was obsessed from the first time they met- phisically.
And he was sweet too, very nice and caring, even if he wasn't too smart ...
The heroine was quite slutty but ok, her pseudo mother had always been a very bad, careless and selfish mother, not affectionate and she had to live alone since she was 15. So her trying to steal the hero from her was quite understandable.
-I didn't like that he thought for some time to marry that woman, even after meeting the heroine.
Why? Is a bad marriage preferable for a child than two people who are civil and try to make their best for their child and are happy with other people?
No, I don't think so.
-I didn't dislike the book, I think I will give this author another chance (maybe without the daddy/lil girl thing)
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If you love historical you can't not love Ms Camp.
She's one of the old school best.
Her romances are real romances with love, action, a lil bit of myst If you love historical you can't not love Ms Camp.
She's one of the old school best.
Her romances are real romances with love, action, a lil bit of mystery and villains that you never imagine.
And bitchy ow.
Without the splatter and gory of bodice rippers.
That is, you can have a good and angsty romance without the excesses of those books where the heroine had to go through all kind of trials and abuse before being happy.
In this one I have to admit I loved both characters.
They made sense, and they make sense together as a couple.
-We have a smart, no nonsense, sensible and fun heroine, who knows exactly what she wants and knows how she can get it.
- We have a debauched hero, who's the epithome of english gentleman, lazy, drunk, manwhore and profligate.
-We have an awful ow, who keeps the hero with her depraved ways and is evil and manipulative
-We have a villain, a mystery, an old manor.
So, the hero has debts and has to marry for money, the heroine is an american heiress whose father would like her to marry a title, but she's not forced at all. The father is a caring and loving person and doesn't want her to marry the first rogue with a title.
-There are some fun meetings between the heroine and the hero where she is very stingy and actually is quite fun because she tells him exactly what she thinks of him and what he actually is considered by his peers.
Since he's very smug and thinks she should be honored to be his wife, she, an unknown american woman, he's quite surprised and very angry when she not only refuses his proposal, but also tells him exaclty what she thinks of him, and makes him understand that she would rather accept any other proposal than his.
The heroine actually considers him with amusement and since she's smart she tries to understand the real man behind the facade.
-There's a lot of stolen kisses, where the hero feels more than he expected and eventually the heroine proposes a MOC where both are free to have lovers. She basically tells him that he can keep on seeing his mistress- that she knows about- and it is kind of cute because she is very manipulative and he accepts without realizing that she is manipulating him big.
She's understood that he is not a bad chap and with some help he could be good husband material.
She's not afraid of the competition and thinks he's already very attracted by her without realizing it.
Actually she understands him better than he understand himself.
The hero is quite clueless, he doesn't understand he's being manipulated by both ow and heroine.
He's no alpha for sure, but he's kind of nice, the typical rakish gentleman, handsome and charming, but with a lot of pride.
He's also an artist, he loved to paint until he met ow, then she persuaded him to give it up for other kind of entertainments.
Ow is older and of course smarter than the hero, she's married, and she made him wait almost one year before having sex with him, he was actually very young, only 18 and of course naive and very fascinated by this older, more experienced and beautiful woman who showed her preference for him.
He's been with her for 14 years, yeah I know it's a lot and some readers could not digest it, but the woman was quite shrewd because she kept him with his libido, providing him a free relationship and other women, then always making him wait and frustrating his desire.
So we understand he's not really in love with her, it was a matter of lust combined with too much drinking.
He accepts the heroine's proposal, but he soon realizes he wants her very much and can't have a marriage without sex.
The heroine, tricky bitch that she is, tells him that with her it's all or nothing.
The hero can't think of leaving his mistress, and by the way, he hasn't had sex with her since his second meeting with the heroine.
(the first time he met the heroine he was quite drunk and he couldn't actually see her properly, it was dark and she had a hat so I don't consider it a cheating because after the meeting he went to ow and then spent the night with her)
ow: she had a plan and the heroine thwarted it. She asked the hero to marry the rich heroine so they could live with her money and the idiot hero accepts it, she's quite awful because she manages to go to their marriage to humiliate the heroine but the heroine is too smart and acts like she was her mother-in-law's friend and makes remarks about her older age. She goes visiting her another time and again the heroine manages to make stingy remarks about her. I loved the heroine, too good for the hero.
-To be true the hero doesn't want ow near him and when he sees her at his marriage he's quite upsed and annoyed and hopes she will go back to London and never comes back.
-The hero is quite slow in the uptake and doesn't understand he's falling in love- true love - with the heroine. He starts painting again on the heroine's suggestion while following the restoration of his manor with the heroine. His lust for ow is suddenly stopped and he eventually decides he wants a true marriage and dump ow. Actually I felt quite sorry for this ow, who basically jumped through hoops for years to keep her younger lover interested and then at almost 40 he dumps her for a younger and better model. She's really angry and upset, probably realizing that her chances to find a lover who is rich, besotted and with all his teeth and hair on are very low.
-There's a mystery and some other things that I don't want to spoil because 1-they don't add much to the hero/heroine love affair 2-they are really bizarre and we could have done without.
-The hero understands he was never in love with ow, that the heroine is his one and only love (which is quite sad for ow after all she did to keep him) and he's happy and redeemed painting and working to keep his manor and his other properties productive.
I liked the book, it was interesting because let's be real, there are very- very -few authors that can really keep you interested after 400 and more pages, and CC is one of them.
She is very good with feelings and emotions and her hystoricals are believable from language (that isn't a modern slang as it often happens in hystorical nowadays) to behaviors.
There's angst because the heroine has feelings for the hero and doen't know if he will ever reciprocate them, but she isn't a doormat and she is definitely much smarter than the hero, but as you know in romances, you can't have a sexy, handsome, gentleman with all his hair and teeth on and without a paunch or a gout and also expect him to be a smart one. ...more
She's one of the old school best.
Her romances are real romances with love, action, a lil bit of myst If you love historical you can't not love Ms Camp.
She's one of the old school best.
Her romances are real romances with love, action, a lil bit of mystery and villains that you never imagine.
And bitchy ow.
Without the splatter and gory of bodice rippers.
That is, you can have a good and angsty romance without the excesses of those books where the heroine had to go through all kind of trials and abuse before being happy.
In this one I have to admit I loved both characters.
They made sense, and they make sense together as a couple.
-We have a smart, no nonsense, sensible and fun heroine, who knows exactly what she wants and knows how she can get it.
- We have a debauched hero, who's the epithome of english gentleman, lazy, drunk, manwhore and profligate.
-We have an awful ow, who keeps the hero with her depraved ways and is evil and manipulative
-We have a villain, a mystery, an old manor.
So, the hero has debts and has to marry for money, the heroine is an american heiress whose father would like her to marry a title, but she's not forced at all. The father is a caring and loving person and doesn't want her to marry the first rogue with a title.
-There are some fun meetings between the heroine and the hero where she is very stingy and actually is quite fun because she tells him exactly what she thinks of him and what he actually is considered by his peers.
Since he's very smug and thinks she should be honored to be his wife, she, an unknown american woman, he's quite surprised and very angry when she not only refuses his proposal, but also tells him exaclty what she thinks of him, and makes him understand that she would rather accept any other proposal than his.
The heroine actually considers him with amusement and since she's smart she tries to understand the real man behind the facade.
-There's a lot of stolen kisses, where the hero feels more than he expected and eventually the heroine proposes a MOC where both are free to have lovers. She basically tells him that he can keep on seeing his mistress- that she knows about- and it is kind of cute because she is very manipulative and he accepts without realizing that she is manipulating him big.
She's understood that he is not a bad chap and with some help he could be good husband material.
She's not afraid of the competition and thinks he's already very attracted by her without realizing it.
Actually she understands him better than he understand himself.
The hero is quite clueless, he doesn't understand he's being manipulated by both ow and heroine.
He's no alpha for sure, but he's kind of nice, the typical rakish gentleman, handsome and charming, but with a lot of pride.
He's also an artist, he loved to paint until he met ow, then she persuaded him to give it up for other kind of entertainments.
Ow is older and of course smarter than the hero, she's married, and she made him wait almost one year before having sex with him, he was actually very young, only 18 and of course naive and very fascinated by this older, more experienced and beautiful woman who showed her preference for him.
He's been with her for 14 years, yeah I know it's a lot and some readers could not digest it, but the woman was quite shrewd because she kept him with his libido, providing him a free relationship and other women, then always making him wait and frustrating his desire.
So we understand he's not really in love with her, it was a matter of lust combined with too much drinking.
He accepts the heroine's proposal, but he soon realizes he wants her very much and can't have a marriage without sex.
The heroine, tricky bitch that she is, tells him that with her it's all or nothing.
The hero can't think of leaving his mistress, and by the way, he hasn't had sex with her since his second meeting with the heroine.
(the first time he met the heroine he was quite drunk and he couldn't actually see her properly, it was dark and she had a hat so I don't consider it a cheating because after the meeting he went to ow and then spent the night with her)
ow: she had a plan and the heroine thwarted it. She asked the hero to marry the rich heroine so they could live with her money and the idiot hero accepts it, she's quite awful because she manages to go to their marriage to humiliate the heroine but the heroine is too smart and acts like she was her mother-in-law's friend and makes remarks about her older age. She goes visiting her another time and again the heroine manages to make stingy remarks about her. I loved the heroine, too good for the hero.
-To be true the hero doesn't want ow near him and when he sees her at his marriage he's quite upsed and annoyed and hopes she will go back to London and never comes back.
-The hero is quite slow in the uptake and doesn't understand he's falling in love- true love - with the heroine. He starts painting again on the heroine's suggestion while following the restoration of his manor with the heroine. His lust for ow is suddenly stopped and he eventually decides he wants a true marriage and dump ow. Actually I felt quite sorry for this ow, who basically jumped through hoops for years to keep her younger lover interested and then at almost 40 he dumps her for a younger and better model. She's really angry and upset, probably realizing that her chances to find a lover who is rich, besotted and with all his teeth and hair on are very low.
-There's a mystery and some other things that I don't want to spoil because 1-they don't add much to the hero/heroine love affair 2-they are really bizarre and we could have done without.
-The hero understands he was never in love with ow, that the heroine is his one and only love (which is quite sad for ow after all she did to keep him) and he's happy and redeemed painting and working to keep his manor and his other properties productive.
I liked the book, it was interesting because let's be real, there are very- very -few authors that can really keep you interested after 400 and more pages, and CC is one of them.
She is very good with feelings and emotions and her hystoricals are believable from language (that isn't a modern slang as it often happens in hystorical nowadays) to behaviors.
There's angst because the heroine has feelings for the hero and doen't know if he will ever reciprocate them, but she isn't a doormat and she is definitely much smarter than the hero, but as you know in romances, you can't have a sexy, handsome, gentleman with all his hair and teeth on and without a paunch or a gout and also expect him to be a smart one. ...more
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This is an old skool hp with telephone booths. How I enjoyed it!
I almost forgot that there was a time, not long ago, where we didn't have a smartphone This is an old skool hp with telephone booths. How I enjoyed it!
I almost forgot that there was a time, not long ago, where we didn't have a smartphone attached to our body h24 and where people wrote letters, actual letters with a pen and a paper. Really??
It was so romantic.
The story is an old one but very original in its style.
It seems a sit com or an older comedy movie with some good actors like Rock Hudson or Cary Grant and maybe Audrey Hepburn.
The heroine is the hero's second cousin and his ward.
He's a professor, a kind of nerd who only lives for his studies and doesn't even know what the lil piece of plastic he has in his pocket is (a credit card)
He's older than the heroine but not too much older that is creepy.
The heroine is young and naive but she's not lusting after him as some other hp heroines usually are.
She's a bit puzzled because she doesn't know why she feels funny around the hero.
The hero would like her to do something with her life and she thinks he wants to get rid of her (kindly).
There's a om who is a writer and offers the heroine a job in London.
There's a ow who is all over the hero and makes the heroine go mad with jealousy.
The heroine leaves for London and finds out her jobs are:
- editing om's book
-working at a strip club, but as a waitress.
The thing was so fun, because she becomes friends with all the women who works there.
Om tries to seduce her, she eventually leaves because she understands he's a creep who only wants to screw her in more than a sense.
She tries to get in touch with the hero but those damned phone boxes are eating all her coins and she can't get him.
There's a Cupido, and he's the smartest character of the book, the hero's 8yo nephew, who understood that those two idiots are in love with each other and plays matchmaker.
He has to tell the hero that the heroine is in love with him and that if he waits longer he may lose her.
So he goes to London determined to win her back and this part was so fun that I laughed all the time.
This deserves to be read.
The heroine thinks he's in love with ow because he went with her to a conference, while he's been in love with her for some time.
There's some misunderstandings by om/ow but eventually the heroine writes a letter to the hero declaring all her love and all is well in the end.
After she stripped at the club to cover for one of the girls who couldn't do it.
And both the hero and om saw her.
Beautiful.
I couldn't stop laughing.
It was very fun and light, no angst at all, and very original in its making.
Both characters are very pleasant, the heroine is feisty and young without being a doormat or clueless, the hero is a nerd with a passion for cricket, so his body is muscled and toned, no balding and pauch here, only a pair of sexy glasses on.
Both are good together.
Safety: the hero is 11 years older than the heroine and she became his ward at 8 so he had women before her.
Then she went to boarding school and she saw her when she was 19 and fell in love with her. He never had sex with this ow but we don't know when he actually stopped having affairs. It seems he was celibate after he fell in love with her.
There's no mention of it, and I wasn't actually bothered since the heroine wasn't in love with him before and she was very young.
It's not one of those creepy cases where the hero sees a 10 yo heroine and thinks that when she will grow up he will screw her or marry her. Thank god! The hero here was really feeling a father or a brother until she was 19. And she felt the same.
So IMO no harm done.
The book was fun and easy and I can recommend it if you are looking for some light reading.
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I almost forgot that there was a time, not long ago, where we didn't have a smartphone This is an old skool hp with telephone booths. How I enjoyed it!
I almost forgot that there was a time, not long ago, where we didn't have a smartphone attached to our body h24 and where people wrote letters, actual letters with a pen and a paper. Really??
It was so romantic.
The story is an old one but very original in its style.
It seems a sit com or an older comedy movie with some good actors like Rock Hudson or Cary Grant and maybe Audrey Hepburn.
The heroine is the hero's second cousin and his ward.
He's a professor, a kind of nerd who only lives for his studies and doesn't even know what the lil piece of plastic he has in his pocket is (a credit card)
He's older than the heroine but not too much older that is creepy.
The heroine is young and naive but she's not lusting after him as some other hp heroines usually are.
She's a bit puzzled because she doesn't know why she feels funny around the hero.
The hero would like her to do something with her life and she thinks he wants to get rid of her (kindly).
There's a om who is a writer and offers the heroine a job in London.
There's a ow who is all over the hero and makes the heroine go mad with jealousy.
The heroine leaves for London and finds out her jobs are:
- editing om's book
-working at a strip club, but as a waitress.
The thing was so fun, because she becomes friends with all the women who works there.
Om tries to seduce her, she eventually leaves because she understands he's a creep who only wants to screw her in more than a sense.
She tries to get in touch with the hero but those damned phone boxes are eating all her coins and she can't get him.
There's a Cupido, and he's the smartest character of the book, the hero's 8yo nephew, who understood that those two idiots are in love with each other and plays matchmaker.
He has to tell the hero that the heroine is in love with him and that if he waits longer he may lose her.
So he goes to London determined to win her back and this part was so fun that I laughed all the time.
This deserves to be read.
The heroine thinks he's in love with ow because he went with her to a conference, while he's been in love with her for some time.
There's some misunderstandings by om/ow but eventually the heroine writes a letter to the hero declaring all her love and all is well in the end.
After she stripped at the club to cover for one of the girls who couldn't do it.
And both the hero and om saw her.
Beautiful.
I couldn't stop laughing.
It was very fun and light, no angst at all, and very original in its making.
Both characters are very pleasant, the heroine is feisty and young without being a doormat or clueless, the hero is a nerd with a passion for cricket, so his body is muscled and toned, no balding and pauch here, only a pair of sexy glasses on.
Both are good together.
Safety: the hero is 11 years older than the heroine and she became his ward at 8 so he had women before her.
Then she went to boarding school and she saw her when she was 19 and fell in love with her. He never had sex with this ow but we don't know when he actually stopped having affairs. It seems he was celibate after he fell in love with her.
There's no mention of it, and I wasn't actually bothered since the heroine wasn't in love with him before and she was very young.
It's not one of those creepy cases where the hero sees a 10 yo heroine and thinks that when she will grow up he will screw her or marry her. Thank god! The hero here was really feeling a father or a brother until she was 19. And she felt the same.
So IMO no harm done.
The book was fun and easy and I can recommend it if you are looking for some light reading.
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This is the reason why I don’t like series.
Because sometimes authors simply stop writing them and you are like so now what?
And because if you don’t r This is the reason why I don’t like series.
Because sometimes authors simply stop writing them and you are like so now what?
And because if you don’t read all the books you risk losing yourself in a puddle of names, facts, intricacies so that most of your time is spent trying to understand who’s who and what happened some years before.
This is basically what happened here. There are too many characters, there are facts that happened and that is the reason why the hero remained separated from the heroine for 10 years.
He’s a werelock that is a mix of werewolf and warlock, she’s his human mate and he took her on a vacation 10 years before but she had her memory erased when she found out what he was and she witnessed all the atrocities his race committed.
So she doesn’t remember what he is, only that he’s her bff’s older brother.
She’s engaged with a serial cheater and the hero wants to prevent her marriage. So he goes to the club where she’s having a girls night out and basically has sex with her in every place and position for hours, ending with marking her.
So now she will become a werewolf but first they have to remove the screen that protect her mind.
That is basically the plot.
Their relationship is quite difficult because she’s a human and a doctor and can’t accept his possessive manners and well, she’s also quite scared of all this werewolf thing.
But they’re good together, and she’s quite reasonable and sensible.
- there’s not much interaction between them, most of the time it’s the hero with his pack and the heroine with members of his pack, and when they are together it’s all sex and few words.
- there’s more about the story of the packs and of other characters than what happens between h/H and if you don’t read the previous installments you find yourself wondering what they are talking about.
- the hero is not an unpleasant character, he tried to protect the heroine from the previous alpha of the pack, who would have killed her. She moved on because didn’t remember what happened with him while he didn’t, staying celibate for 10 years.
- it’s more a paranormal story than a love story, if you like the genre it is good, and it has some really hot sex, that imo, especially in the beginning, was too much.
- sadly I couldn’t find the following book’s kindle edition and it seems that it was a part of a duology not yet completed, so I’m a bit grumpy because maybe I would have read to know what happened to other characters in the book.
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Because sometimes authors simply stop writing them and you are like so now what?
And because if you don’t r This is the reason why I don’t like series.
Because sometimes authors simply stop writing them and you are like so now what?
And because if you don’t read all the books you risk losing yourself in a puddle of names, facts, intricacies so that most of your time is spent trying to understand who’s who and what happened some years before.
This is basically what happened here. There are too many characters, there are facts that happened and that is the reason why the hero remained separated from the heroine for 10 years.
He’s a werelock that is a mix of werewolf and warlock, she’s his human mate and he took her on a vacation 10 years before but she had her memory erased when she found out what he was and she witnessed all the atrocities his race committed.
So she doesn’t remember what he is, only that he’s her bff’s older brother.
She’s engaged with a serial cheater and the hero wants to prevent her marriage. So he goes to the club where she’s having a girls night out and basically has sex with her in every place and position for hours, ending with marking her.
So now she will become a werewolf but first they have to remove the screen that protect her mind.
That is basically the plot.
Their relationship is quite difficult because she’s a human and a doctor and can’t accept his possessive manners and well, she’s also quite scared of all this werewolf thing.
But they’re good together, and she’s quite reasonable and sensible.
- there’s not much interaction between them, most of the time it’s the hero with his pack and the heroine with members of his pack, and when they are together it’s all sex and few words.
- there’s more about the story of the packs and of other characters than what happens between h/H and if you don’t read the previous installments you find yourself wondering what they are talking about.
- the hero is not an unpleasant character, he tried to protect the heroine from the previous alpha of the pack, who would have killed her. She moved on because didn’t remember what happened with him while he didn’t, staying celibate for 10 years.
- it’s more a paranormal story than a love story, if you like the genre it is good, and it has some really hot sex, that imo, especially in the beginning, was too much.
- sadly I couldn’t find the following book’s kindle edition and it seems that it was a part of a duology not yet completed, so I’m a bit grumpy because maybe I would have read to know what happened to other characters in the book.
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I think it’s that mountain air that has something to do with the peculiarities of those people.
And I also think that the author watched the movie Seve I think it’s that mountain air that has something to do with the peculiarities of those people.
And I also think that the author watched the movie Seven brides for seven brothers where seven handsome young men living on the mountains basically kidnapped the women they liked and kept them until they were in love with them.
Actually the premises are very crazy and unlikely and I was at first wondering what I was reading but in the end I must admit I like the whole crazy stuff with all its triggers.
Because be warned. This book has many.
But it was very fun and I’ve read it with a smile on my face all the time.
There’s also a small amount of angst but it is soon solved and not much drama.
The hero is one of seven brothers who have this peculiarity that is a curse or a blessing depending on how you see it, they will know the woman of their life at first sight. And when I say first sight I actually mean it.
It’s the talk of the town, and it’s already happened to many of his seven brothers who apparently mad some really crazy stuff as kidnapping their women, messing with their birth control and similar, basically becoming cavemen where they are involved.
It could be they were some kind of werewolves but they have lost their powers and now the only thing they have left is the mythical bond with their fated mated? It seems something of the kind.
The hero is 42, but don’t worry he doesn’t have grey hair or balding spots or a paunch, he’s over 6 feet tall, well built and has all his teeth and hair, so all women in town try to hit on him hoping he will choose one of them.
He’s also sexy as hell and with a high sex drive.
But he’s quite content as he is and hasn’t any intention to find his fated one.
Anyway when he meets the heroine he feels the instant connection and understands she is the one.
Sadly fate gave him a 20 yo girl who is running from an abusive cousin who not only threatens her virtue but also keeps her as a slave stealing all her money and preventing her from seeing anyone.
The poor thing decided to leave home because her creepy cousin tried to rape her- again- and go somewhere else and she eventually sleeps in a RV near the hero’s home.
The hero, despite understanding she’s the one, decides he can’t keep her because she’s too young and needy. He thinks it wouldn’t be fair to force her to stay married with a man who could be her father and filling her with babies before she has ever started to live.
This was very cute because the curse turns those men into real cavemen who feel the need to protect, feed, have sex and babies with their women so he really fight his instincts.
When the heroine knows that despite she is the one he doesn’t want her, she leaves and goes to another state.
The hero realizes almost immediately his mistake and tries to follow her but she’s already gone.
Thank god his younger brother followed her and decided to give her a home and a job so the heroine starts being free and independent.
After three months the hero, who thinks she’s actually his brother’s gf, has enough and since he can’t live without her decides to go and get her.
He’s enough of being selfless. She’s his and she will become his.
So starts the whole possession charade and the heroine, who is actually more mature than him despite being half his age, decides to give him a chance, and the rest of the book is about them having sex, him being too jealous and possessive and eventually all is well.
No ow, no om, a lot of sex and caveman behavior who is more fun than sexy. The hero is actually pleasant because he didn’t want to force her to be with a man much older than her. He actually cared for her. The heroine is nice and sensible, she had an abused childhood.
The sex was somehow excessive especially in the beginning when the hero forces the heroine to have multiple coupling on their first night together. And she was a virgin. And he was big. And after the second time she wasn’t very willing. I found the thing disturbing and useless because he didn’t care about her discomfort. Nope.
Maybe it was his werewolf side of the thing but I hoped he really let her alone. I was wincing all the time thinking how uncomfortable it was for the poor girl.
And he didn’t even give her time to recover.
Whatever.
If you are not fastidious about age gap, love at first sight and caveman behavior I think this is a safe and entertaining reading. Try not to find too much sense in what you’re reading though. ...more
And I also think that the author watched the movie Seve I think it’s that mountain air that has something to do with the peculiarities of those people.
And I also think that the author watched the movie Seven brides for seven brothers where seven handsome young men living on the mountains basically kidnapped the women they liked and kept them until they were in love with them.
Actually the premises are very crazy and unlikely and I was at first wondering what I was reading but in the end I must admit I like the whole crazy stuff with all its triggers.
Because be warned. This book has many.
But it was very fun and I’ve read it with a smile on my face all the time.
There’s also a small amount of angst but it is soon solved and not much drama.
The hero is one of seven brothers who have this peculiarity that is a curse or a blessing depending on how you see it, they will know the woman of their life at first sight. And when I say first sight I actually mean it.
It’s the talk of the town, and it’s already happened to many of his seven brothers who apparently mad some really crazy stuff as kidnapping their women, messing with their birth control and similar, basically becoming cavemen where they are involved.
It could be they were some kind of werewolves but they have lost their powers and now the only thing they have left is the mythical bond with their fated mated? It seems something of the kind.
The hero is 42, but don’t worry he doesn’t have grey hair or balding spots or a paunch, he’s over 6 feet tall, well built and has all his teeth and hair, so all women in town try to hit on him hoping he will choose one of them.
He’s also sexy as hell and with a high sex drive.
But he’s quite content as he is and hasn’t any intention to find his fated one.
Anyway when he meets the heroine he feels the instant connection and understands she is the one.
Sadly fate gave him a 20 yo girl who is running from an abusive cousin who not only threatens her virtue but also keeps her as a slave stealing all her money and preventing her from seeing anyone.
The poor thing decided to leave home because her creepy cousin tried to rape her- again- and go somewhere else and she eventually sleeps in a RV near the hero’s home.
The hero, despite understanding she’s the one, decides he can’t keep her because she’s too young and needy. He thinks it wouldn’t be fair to force her to stay married with a man who could be her father and filling her with babies before she has ever started to live.
This was very cute because the curse turns those men into real cavemen who feel the need to protect, feed, have sex and babies with their women so he really fight his instincts.
When the heroine knows that despite she is the one he doesn’t want her, she leaves and goes to another state.
The hero realizes almost immediately his mistake and tries to follow her but she’s already gone.
Thank god his younger brother followed her and decided to give her a home and a job so the heroine starts being free and independent.
After three months the hero, who thinks she’s actually his brother’s gf, has enough and since he can’t live without her decides to go and get her.
He’s enough of being selfless. She’s his and she will become his.
So starts the whole possession charade and the heroine, who is actually more mature than him despite being half his age, decides to give him a chance, and the rest of the book is about them having sex, him being too jealous and possessive and eventually all is well.
No ow, no om, a lot of sex and caveman behavior who is more fun than sexy. The hero is actually pleasant because he didn’t want to force her to be with a man much older than her. He actually cared for her. The heroine is nice and sensible, she had an abused childhood.
The sex was somehow excessive especially in the beginning when the hero forces the heroine to have multiple coupling on their first night together. And she was a virgin. And he was big. And after the second time she wasn’t very willing. I found the thing disturbing and useless because he didn’t care about her discomfort. Nope.
Maybe it was his werewolf side of the thing but I hoped he really let her alone. I was wincing all the time thinking how uncomfortable it was for the poor girl.
And he didn’t even give her time to recover.
Whatever.
If you are not fastidious about age gap, love at first sight and caveman behavior I think this is a safe and entertaining reading. Try not to find too much sense in what you’re reading though. ...more
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Cuuuuuuuute!!
Cute! Cute! Cute! Cute!
This book was a surprise, and a good one.
It's a young adult, and the characters are really young, from 18 to 21, b Cuuuuuuuute!!
Cute! Cute! Cute! Cute!
This book was a surprise, and a good one.
It's a young adult, and the characters are really young, from 18 to 21, but it's very well done.
The writing style is compelling and flawless, there's humor, so much humor and a bit of angst.
It's very fast paced and never, ever boring.
There are many characters, males and females beside the MC, but the focus is on the main couple.
The plot is very simple but very well done, the hero is in love with his bf's gf and tries to forget her screwing every single girl in college.
When he meets the heroine he starts feeling something new and doesn't understand if he's using her as a substitute for ow or if it's that she is different from the other girls.
Then when they are having sex, she tells him she's a virgin and he blurts out that he can't do it because he is in love with another girl.
Thank god ow that is a lil bit smarter than him, tells him he's not in love with her but he's in love with the thing she and his bff have together, that is a serious relationship.
The hero tries to get in touch with the heroine but she's already blocked him, and she leaves for Paris for summer holidays.
As soon as she's back the hero fight for her and tries to win her back, because he's understood he loves her and wants to be with her.
Ok, so YA is not my favourite reading, but there are some exceptions, and this is one of them.
Another one that I love and recommend, but it's also a fantasy/PN is Kresley Cole.
Why did I like it and why I don't - usually - like YA.
I've been an adult for some time now so of course I can't connect too much with characters which are so much younger than me.
But if the story is well balanced and consistent it can be interesting for me to read how young people interact, how they view relationships, sex, friendship, school, their future plans, ect.
-I don't like many of YA because the stories are too much OTT. I mean, ok college life is not always easy, but when you throw in criminal issues that are not really integrated in that environment, or too much drama and behaviors that are not really relevant to their age, well it turns out to be more a farce than real drama. I mean, when you write about teenagers you should be able to understand how they feel, how they act and how they think. Too much adult behavior and thinking in 18/20 yo people is caricatural and grotesque. And it doesn't convey angst.
This is why I often tried to read some very much appreciated YA books and I ended being greaty disappointed skimming through most part of the book. Not for me.
-This one is different. Characters act their age, they are teenagers with teenage issues, some of them are really hard, as the hero, who grew up with an alcholic father and is now facing the possibility of losing his hockey career to take care of him.
It is an example of how you can write a very emotional story with real issues without bordering on SF. I loved how those young people act, how they think, how they view relationship. Even their talk is fun. I liked it all. The fact that they act like teenagers doesn't mean the book is less serious or less engaging. It only makes it more real.
This hero actually changes his behavior and grows up because he cares for the heroine. And he actually has issues and problems with his father. I liked how he tries to win the heroine back, how determined he is and how he can change from a womanizer to a guy who refuses to have meaningless sex because he cares for the heroine.
-I liked how these young people interact, the fact that sex is easy- too easy for some of them, and not taken seriously. Yes, it is like that for many young people these days. Yes, they may be promiscuous but when they find the right person they are able to change and grow up.
-I enjoyed the book, I had some very entertaining moments and I laughed a lot, I think I'll try to read other books from this author. I recommend it to all those people who wants a dip into young adult life that is true to reality and not OTT drama.
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Cute! Cute! Cute! Cute!
This book was a surprise, and a good one.
It's a young adult, and the characters are really young, from 18 to 21, b Cuuuuuuuute!!
Cute! Cute! Cute! Cute!
This book was a surprise, and a good one.
It's a young adult, and the characters are really young, from 18 to 21, but it's very well done.
The writing style is compelling and flawless, there's humor, so much humor and a bit of angst.
It's very fast paced and never, ever boring.
There are many characters, males and females beside the MC, but the focus is on the main couple.
The plot is very simple but very well done, the hero is in love with his bf's gf and tries to forget her screwing every single girl in college.
When he meets the heroine he starts feeling something new and doesn't understand if he's using her as a substitute for ow or if it's that she is different from the other girls.
Then when they are having sex, she tells him she's a virgin and he blurts out that he can't do it because he is in love with another girl.
Thank god ow that is a lil bit smarter than him, tells him he's not in love with her but he's in love with the thing she and his bff have together, that is a serious relationship.
The hero tries to get in touch with the heroine but she's already blocked him, and she leaves for Paris for summer holidays.
As soon as she's back the hero fight for her and tries to win her back, because he's understood he loves her and wants to be with her.
Ok, so YA is not my favourite reading, but there are some exceptions, and this is one of them.
Another one that I love and recommend, but it's also a fantasy/PN is Kresley Cole.
Why did I like it and why I don't - usually - like YA.
I've been an adult for some time now so of course I can't connect too much with characters which are so much younger than me.
But if the story is well balanced and consistent it can be interesting for me to read how young people interact, how they view relationships, sex, friendship, school, their future plans, ect.
-I don't like many of YA because the stories are too much OTT. I mean, ok college life is not always easy, but when you throw in criminal issues that are not really integrated in that environment, or too much drama and behaviors that are not really relevant to their age, well it turns out to be more a farce than real drama. I mean, when you write about teenagers you should be able to understand how they feel, how they act and how they think. Too much adult behavior and thinking in 18/20 yo people is caricatural and grotesque. And it doesn't convey angst.
This is why I often tried to read some very much appreciated YA books and I ended being greaty disappointed skimming through most part of the book. Not for me.
-This one is different. Characters act their age, they are teenagers with teenage issues, some of them are really hard, as the hero, who grew up with an alcholic father and is now facing the possibility of losing his hockey career to take care of him.
It is an example of how you can write a very emotional story with real issues without bordering on SF. I loved how those young people act, how they think, how they view relationship. Even their talk is fun. I liked it all. The fact that they act like teenagers doesn't mean the book is less serious or less engaging. It only makes it more real.
This hero actually changes his behavior and grows up because he cares for the heroine. And he actually has issues and problems with his father. I liked how he tries to win the heroine back, how determined he is and how he can change from a womanizer to a guy who refuses to have meaningless sex because he cares for the heroine.
-I liked how these young people interact, the fact that sex is easy- too easy for some of them, and not taken seriously. Yes, it is like that for many young people these days. Yes, they may be promiscuous but when they find the right person they are able to change and grow up.
-I enjoyed the book, I had some very entertaining moments and I laughed a lot, I think I'll try to read other books from this author. I recommend it to all those people who wants a dip into young adult life that is true to reality and not OTT drama.
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The plot in few words.
The hero’s and the heroine’s spouses have an affair.
When the heroine finds out her husband has an affair she tells ows husband, The plot in few words.
The hero’s and the heroine’s spouses have an affair.
When the heroine finds out her husband has an affair she tells ows husband, the hero.
He already knows.
His wife has issues. She was brutalized as a teenager and now she can’t stop having random sex with men. She suffers from PTSD but doesn’t want to be helped by a professional.
So the hero has this kind of twisted relationship that binds to his sick and cheating wife because he feels she’s under his protection.
The heroine has her issues too because she belongs to a Christian community that is very strict and severe in its rules.
They are almost Quakers.
Their women don’t use make up, they wear long and shapeless dresses, read only certain kind of books and watch only clean movies, and so on.
The heroine is a prisoner of this word, and she seems to be really living in another century.
She starts having a friendship with the hero and they share more and more time together until they start having feelings for each other. It is very slow burn in contrast with the affair their partners have, that is very passionate and impulsive.
There’s a lot of drama and at a certain point the heroine is pregnant with her husbands child but luckily she loses her child.
Luckily because she wanted to give their marriage a second chance, and I really was pissed because her husband was a bastard sob, betraying her and lying to her all the time.
I was glad they didn’t have a child.
Eventually they divorce their spouses and get together, while their exes eventually split up, after having a child who will live between two parents that are not together.
The end is bittersweet because we don’t know if they will have children because the heroine was pregnant for only eight weeks and after five years of marriage, but they will get married and be happy anyway.
- the heroine was the character who grew up more, she changed and left the strict community where she has always lived, but I didn’t like that she tried to give her marriage another chance even knowing her husband has cheated on her for one year and had been in love with ow.
And knowing that she loved the hero.
-the hero. I wish he were a lil more alpha, but for almost 80% of the book he was stuck with his wife in a loveless and shallow marriage even after he fell in love with the heroine. Thank god in the end he divorced his wife, even if the heroine at the time was still with her husband.
- I don’t know but I feel that something was missing here. The hero and the heroine were in love with their cheating partners for most of the book and this made them two losers, because they didn’t show any self respect and self esteem letting their partners make fool of them for one year- and the hero almost ten years! Why? Because god says so? Because the hero would lose his restaurant? They both were in unhealthy relationships that were toxic and unfair, and demeaning for their self esteem.
I don’t think their choice to stay with their spouses was right, they were both cowards. Every change is a little trauma, and in the case of a marriage is a big trauma and it takes courage. They didn’t have any.
- I felt more love and passion between the cheating couple than between the main characters. No passion, no chemistry ( the hero thought the heroine was plain and not his type until 90% of the book, while he thought his wife was beautiful) no temptation, nothing. It was disappointing. The cheating pair enjoyed a lot more their time together than the main couple. Not fair.
And in the end they had a child while our h/H didn’t.
Ok the author tried to punish them showing us that the cheaters didn’t stay together because they were two dishonest people who couldn’t trust each other and the heroine’s ex had just what he told he would never want to, that is, a child with a split family. And what’s more, with a bastard grandfather, ows father, who was a rich and ruthless man who enjoyed humiliating his grandson’s father.
I enjoyed the reading anyway, this is a very good author IMO, I like her style and I read this one without ever putting it down.
Some parts are controversial, I didn’t understand why both characters wanted to stay in marriages where there was nothing to bind to their partners.
I’m all for families and marriages and if it’s possible to save them I’m in, but here there was no love, no trust, no common ground and no children, so why did they stay together?? It was just a case of stay into your comfort zone because you’re a coward, for the four of them. So I didn’t really empathized with anyone here even if it was angsty.
Some parts were really entertaining, the old and grumpy cat, the hero’s big Italian family, the hero’s bf were really fun and sometimes more pleasant that the main couples.
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The hero’s and the heroine’s spouses have an affair.
When the heroine finds out her husband has an affair she tells ows husband, The plot in few words.
The hero’s and the heroine’s spouses have an affair.
When the heroine finds out her husband has an affair she tells ows husband, the hero.
He already knows.
His wife has issues. She was brutalized as a teenager and now she can’t stop having random sex with men. She suffers from PTSD but doesn’t want to be helped by a professional.
So the hero has this kind of twisted relationship that binds to his sick and cheating wife because he feels she’s under his protection.
The heroine has her issues too because she belongs to a Christian community that is very strict and severe in its rules.
They are almost Quakers.
Their women don’t use make up, they wear long and shapeless dresses, read only certain kind of books and watch only clean movies, and so on.
The heroine is a prisoner of this word, and she seems to be really living in another century.
She starts having a friendship with the hero and they share more and more time together until they start having feelings for each other. It is very slow burn in contrast with the affair their partners have, that is very passionate and impulsive.
There’s a lot of drama and at a certain point the heroine is pregnant with her husbands child but luckily she loses her child.
Luckily because she wanted to give their marriage a second chance, and I really was pissed because her husband was a bastard sob, betraying her and lying to her all the time.
I was glad they didn’t have a child.
Eventually they divorce their spouses and get together, while their exes eventually split up, after having a child who will live between two parents that are not together.
The end is bittersweet because we don’t know if they will have children because the heroine was pregnant for only eight weeks and after five years of marriage, but they will get married and be happy anyway.
- the heroine was the character who grew up more, she changed and left the strict community where she has always lived, but I didn’t like that she tried to give her marriage another chance even knowing her husband has cheated on her for one year and had been in love with ow.
And knowing that she loved the hero.
-the hero. I wish he were a lil more alpha, but for almost 80% of the book he was stuck with his wife in a loveless and shallow marriage even after he fell in love with the heroine. Thank god in the end he divorced his wife, even if the heroine at the time was still with her husband.
- I don’t know but I feel that something was missing here. The hero and the heroine were in love with their cheating partners for most of the book and this made them two losers, because they didn’t show any self respect and self esteem letting their partners make fool of them for one year- and the hero almost ten years! Why? Because god says so? Because the hero would lose his restaurant? They both were in unhealthy relationships that were toxic and unfair, and demeaning for their self esteem.
I don’t think their choice to stay with their spouses was right, they were both cowards. Every change is a little trauma, and in the case of a marriage is a big trauma and it takes courage. They didn’t have any.
- I felt more love and passion between the cheating couple than between the main characters. No passion, no chemistry ( the hero thought the heroine was plain and not his type until 90% of the book, while he thought his wife was beautiful) no temptation, nothing. It was disappointing. The cheating pair enjoyed a lot more their time together than the main couple. Not fair.
And in the end they had a child while our h/H didn’t.
Ok the author tried to punish them showing us that the cheaters didn’t stay together because they were two dishonest people who couldn’t trust each other and the heroine’s ex had just what he told he would never want to, that is, a child with a split family. And what’s more, with a bastard grandfather, ows father, who was a rich and ruthless man who enjoyed humiliating his grandson’s father.
I enjoyed the reading anyway, this is a very good author IMO, I like her style and I read this one without ever putting it down.
Some parts are controversial, I didn’t understand why both characters wanted to stay in marriages where there was nothing to bind to their partners.
I’m all for families and marriages and if it’s possible to save them I’m in, but here there was no love, no trust, no common ground and no children, so why did they stay together?? It was just a case of stay into your comfort zone because you’re a coward, for the four of them. So I didn’t really empathized with anyone here even if it was angsty.
Some parts were really entertaining, the old and grumpy cat, the hero’s big Italian family, the hero’s bf were really fun and sometimes more pleasant that the main couples.
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This is the second part of the story about the hero and the heroine in the book Betraying her.
The hero was on the rebound because he had found out the This is the second part of the story about the hero and the heroine in the book Betraying her.
The hero was on the rebound because he had found out the girl he loved was having an affair with his older brother.
The girl played them both, but since the hero has a stutter and an inferiority complex as big as a galaxy he thinks the girl and the brother were feeling sorry for him and didn't want to tell him that they were in love with each other.
This could have been maybe true for the hero's brother but the girl was only having fun with more than one man.
So the hero went to a bar and accidentally he met the heroine who- accidentally again- was looking like the girl he loved.
They started to date as friends but it's not clear in the hero's mind if he thinks about her or the ow so he doesn't want to do anything with her because he thinks it's not fair.
Of course eventually they have sex and she finds out that he lied to her.
But there's a big misunderstanding because, while the hero was attracted to her despite she looks like ow, the heroine thinks she's second best because she thinks he is attracted to her because of it.
The heroine gets pregnant and the hero must try to win her back since she is still angry that he lied to her.
There's a lot of MC drama since they belong to rival clubs but it is solved because both parents are really sensible guys- despite being tough and bad bikers (lol!)
The hero is really nice and sweet because he really was into the heroine since the start and when he finds out he's going to be a daddy he's all into it and never lets the heroine down.
The heroine is cute too and very protective of him, she never sees him as a defective person, she always sees him as perfect and acts really mature and grown up.
I liked it because they are really a cute and loving couple, I think that they can have a future together.
-There's a bit of drama when the hero is shot to save heroine's father but everything is ok in the end.
- There are too many sex scenes IMo and also too many scenes with each other's families that could have been reduced and the two books could have been easily condensed into one.
Anyway, the book is good and easy and there's no real angst in it, the only thing that can be said about the hero was that he wasn't honest with the heroine and never told her about his story with ow, but he never cheated emotionally because it was the heroine with her personality he loved (IMO).
And the hero goes into my best heroes list because he really was devoted to the heroine from the start and always put her first, even with his club and relatives.
Which is more that can be said for almost every hero I read about lately...
Cute MC bikers that seem so tough and bad but are really all bark and no bite! LOL!
Many charachters that I stuggled to keep in mind because I didn't read all the series, and their pov was in the middle too, too much for my taste. ...more
The hero was on the rebound because he had found out the This is the second part of the story about the hero and the heroine in the book Betraying her.
The hero was on the rebound because he had found out the girl he loved was having an affair with his older brother.
The girl played them both, but since the hero has a stutter and an inferiority complex as big as a galaxy he thinks the girl and the brother were feeling sorry for him and didn't want to tell him that they were in love with each other.
This could have been maybe true for the hero's brother but the girl was only having fun with more than one man.
So the hero went to a bar and accidentally he met the heroine who- accidentally again- was looking like the girl he loved.
They started to date as friends but it's not clear in the hero's mind if he thinks about her or the ow so he doesn't want to do anything with her because he thinks it's not fair.
Of course eventually they have sex and she finds out that he lied to her.
But there's a big misunderstanding because, while the hero was attracted to her despite she looks like ow, the heroine thinks she's second best because she thinks he is attracted to her because of it.
The heroine gets pregnant and the hero must try to win her back since she is still angry that he lied to her.
There's a lot of MC drama since they belong to rival clubs but it is solved because both parents are really sensible guys- despite being tough and bad bikers (lol!)
The hero is really nice and sweet because he really was into the heroine since the start and when he finds out he's going to be a daddy he's all into it and never lets the heroine down.
The heroine is cute too and very protective of him, she never sees him as a defective person, she always sees him as perfect and acts really mature and grown up.
I liked it because they are really a cute and loving couple, I think that they can have a future together.
-There's a bit of drama when the hero is shot to save heroine's father but everything is ok in the end.
- There are too many sex scenes IMo and also too many scenes with each other's families that could have been reduced and the two books could have been easily condensed into one.
Anyway, the book is good and easy and there's no real angst in it, the only thing that can be said about the hero was that he wasn't honest with the heroine and never told her about his story with ow, but he never cheated emotionally because it was the heroine with her personality he loved (IMO).
And the hero goes into my best heroes list because he really was devoted to the heroine from the start and always put her first, even with his club and relatives.
Which is more that can be said for almost every hero I read about lately...
Cute MC bikers that seem so tough and bad but are really all bark and no bite! LOL!
Many charachters that I stuggled to keep in mind because I didn't read all the series, and their pov was in the middle too, too much for my taste. ...more
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0373116144
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Nov 08, 1991
Nov 01, 1993
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I don’t know, I mean, the book is not that bad but it could have been much better if the author hadn’t based all the story on the beauty of the heroin
I don’t know, I mean, the book is not that bad but it could have been much better if the author hadn’t based all the story on the beauty of the heroine.
It seems almost medieval, where men placed all the blame of their lust on the women, saying they tempt men with their looks.
So the heroine is damned because she’s beautiful.
Seriously?
In Australia and in 1993?
All the men in her life thinks she’s a ho because she’s so gorgeous and it’s her fault if she attracts men???
Her father, her brothers and all other men hero included???
No no no!
The men here not only try to have sex with her but also treat her as a ho.
This is so very wrong and also very unlikely because in real life nobody would say such awful things to her just because she happens to be pretty.
The hero has known her since she was a teenager, he was older and married too young because his girlfriend was pregnant. He saw the heroine when she was only 17 and he was already married.
Now he’s a widower and meets the heroine again.
He immediately tries to have sex with her, just tacky, implying that a girl like her is easy.
Then he apologizes and tells her that no, he doesn’t want a ons and is also willing to know her.
He shows her around for some days, behaving like a big asshole and blaming her because oms are hitting on her, instead of being kind and protective.
And then he tells her that he doesn’t want marriage or children but only an affair.
He tries repeatedly to treat her as a mistress and the heroine of course falls in love with her.
Why? But why????
Jeez how much I hated her.
He was all the time treating her like a bimbo, and a promiscuous one, and she is in love with him?
I wish she left him dry.
Sadly they become lovers and she settles for what little he has to offer.
Then she unexpectedly finds out she’s pregnant.
Oh those Uber fertile heroes! She was on contraception but clearly it didn’t work.
And now what does she do?
She dumps the hero telling him he’s to jealous and leaves. Because he doesn’t want children and she doesn’t want to marry him because he must.
Thank god the bastard after some months goes back to her and is all I love you want to marry you and have children with you mode so all is well in the end.
Meh.
I definitely didn’t like this hero one bit, he was a pig and treated the heroine as a dumb object without feelings until the end.
I understand he had a bad marriage but this doesn’t mean that your partner has to accept every shit you dish out.
Sadly she did, and I really didn’t like this heroine so very different from ML usual heroines that are strong feisty and would never accept to be treated this way.
Not very satisfied with this book.
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It seems almost medieval, where men placed all the blame of their lust on the women, saying they tempt men with their looks.
So the heroine is damned because she’s beautiful.
Seriously?
In Australia and in 1993?
All the men in her life thinks she’s a ho because she’s so gorgeous and it’s her fault if she attracts men???
Her father, her brothers and all other men hero included???
No no no!
The men here not only try to have sex with her but also treat her as a ho.
This is so very wrong and also very unlikely because in real life nobody would say such awful things to her just because she happens to be pretty.
The hero has known her since she was a teenager, he was older and married too young because his girlfriend was pregnant. He saw the heroine when she was only 17 and he was already married.
Now he’s a widower and meets the heroine again.
He immediately tries to have sex with her, just tacky, implying that a girl like her is easy.
Then he apologizes and tells her that no, he doesn’t want a ons and is also willing to know her.
He shows her around for some days, behaving like a big asshole and blaming her because oms are hitting on her, instead of being kind and protective.
And then he tells her that he doesn’t want marriage or children but only an affair.
He tries repeatedly to treat her as a mistress and the heroine of course falls in love with her.
Why? But why????
Jeez how much I hated her.
He was all the time treating her like a bimbo, and a promiscuous one, and she is in love with him?
I wish she left him dry.
Sadly they become lovers and she settles for what little he has to offer.
Then she unexpectedly finds out she’s pregnant.
Oh those Uber fertile heroes! She was on contraception but clearly it didn’t work.
And now what does she do?
She dumps the hero telling him he’s to jealous and leaves. Because he doesn’t want children and she doesn’t want to marry him because he must.
Thank god the bastard after some months goes back to her and is all I love you want to marry you and have children with you mode so all is well in the end.
Meh.
I definitely didn’t like this hero one bit, he was a pig and treated the heroine as a dumb object without feelings until the end.
I understand he had a bad marriage but this doesn’t mean that your partner has to accept every shit you dish out.
Sadly she did, and I really didn’t like this heroine so very different from ML usual heroines that are strong feisty and would never accept to be treated this way.
Not very satisfied with this book.
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Jul 18, 2022
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Jul 01, 2015
it was ok
Meh.
This is not exactly a romance, it’s more the story of four friends with cheating husbands.
The main couple was in crisis because the husband cheate Meh.
This is not exactly a romance, it’s more the story of four friends with cheating husbands.
The main couple was in crisis because the husband cheated emotionally with a colleague and told the wife, then he fell sick for months and when he came back to work the wife is afraid he will cheat again.
The cheating is glossed over, the heroine refers to it when she thinks about how detached he was and emotionally absent because he was thinking to ow, there’s no pov of the hero so we don’t actually know how it was.
I didn’t particularly liked the book because it lacks the angst that such a theme should have.
Both characters behave very politely and there’s much irony between them to hide their real feelings so we have to guess what is really happening to them as a couple.
The husband doesn’t seem to be very sorry he hurt his wife and he keeps working with ow, showing a lack of respect for his wife.
I didn’t feel any love between them, she was only a frustrated woman who stayed with her husband because she didn’t even have a job and was pregnant when he was cheating.
Ew.
And what was the meaning of emotional cheating? Why did he confess a fact that was never consumed? To hurt his wife?
Besides, the whole book seems more a script for a movie than a romance, since there’s little focus on the characters’ feelings and more on the humorous side of the story with misunderstandings and unlikely characters.
There are stereotypes and jokes and the characters behave like they were in a sit com.
The effect on me was weird and a lil disorienting.
Basically all the four women are cheated on by their husbands, some of them physically other in the past, and all would be well?
No sir, not at all.
I don’t know what I have read but I can’t say I’ve enjoyed it at all.
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This is not exactly a romance, it’s more the story of four friends with cheating husbands.
The main couple was in crisis because the husband cheate Meh.
This is not exactly a romance, it’s more the story of four friends with cheating husbands.
The main couple was in crisis because the husband cheated emotionally with a colleague and told the wife, then he fell sick for months and when he came back to work the wife is afraid he will cheat again.
The cheating is glossed over, the heroine refers to it when she thinks about how detached he was and emotionally absent because he was thinking to ow, there’s no pov of the hero so we don’t actually know how it was.
I didn’t particularly liked the book because it lacks the angst that such a theme should have.
Both characters behave very politely and there’s much irony between them to hide their real feelings so we have to guess what is really happening to them as a couple.
The husband doesn’t seem to be very sorry he hurt his wife and he keeps working with ow, showing a lack of respect for his wife.
I didn’t feel any love between them, she was only a frustrated woman who stayed with her husband because she didn’t even have a job and was pregnant when he was cheating.
Ew.
And what was the meaning of emotional cheating? Why did he confess a fact that was never consumed? To hurt his wife?
Besides, the whole book seems more a script for a movie than a romance, since there’s little focus on the characters’ feelings and more on the humorous side of the story with misunderstandings and unlikely characters.
There are stereotypes and jokes and the characters behave like they were in a sit com.
The effect on me was weird and a lil disorienting.
Basically all the four women are cheated on by their husbands, some of them physically other in the past, and all would be well?
No sir, not at all.
I don’t know what I have read but I can’t say I’ve enjoyed it at all.
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Jul 15, 2022
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Feb 28, 2016
really liked it
Very pleasant book with some really funny moments.
It was long and sometimes redundant but I enjoyed it so very much.
Redundant because not much happens Very pleasant book with some really funny moments.
It was long and sometimes redundant but I enjoyed it so very much.
Redundant because not much happens but the narrative is so good that you really enjoy every single page of it.
I liked the heroine, she’s not a doormat even if for the first part of the book it would seem so, when she works for the grumpy hero and he never so much say thank you or please.
She has a reason to stay, and it’s to pay her school debt and to start her new career.
I loved that after she leaves her job- and him- she never accepts other shit from him.
He has to learn to respect her.
Their relationship is really really slow burn. It takes until the last pages for them to eventually kiss and make a dive into another part of their life together.
But it’s good.
The heroine is a feisty and sunny woman even if she has the childhood from hell and relatives that makes satan look like a spoiled brat.
She’s just the right woman for the hero.
The hero. Well this is really an introvert. No friends, no more relatives, no women, only his career. He doesn’t speak, doesn’t interact and doesn’t try to understand the others.
Not because he’s bad or a psycho.
Because he isn’t interested.
He has only one thing in his head.
Football.
Ok I know it may look sad or extreme but this is really what happens to some high profile athletes.
I’ve known and met some through years.
They concentrate on their career from dusk til down and all their life is working out, training and thinking about their next match.
Athletes are not always what is portrayed in some tabloid, fancy young men who parties their life and date models.
It’s more about intense and absolute commitment.
They probably lost more than their peers as regards social life, like parties, cinema, dates.
And this hero is just like that, he has football on his mind and wants to win everything there is.
He’s also vegan, which is cute but we don’t know the reason why.
But then comes the heroine and he has to come out of his lil world.
Some parts are very emotional and some other are angsty- not much- but quite.
I’ve had a good time reading it and I think I’ll reread in future.
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It was long and sometimes redundant but I enjoyed it so very much.
Redundant because not much happens Very pleasant book with some really funny moments.
It was long and sometimes redundant but I enjoyed it so very much.
Redundant because not much happens but the narrative is so good that you really enjoy every single page of it.
I liked the heroine, she’s not a doormat even if for the first part of the book it would seem so, when she works for the grumpy hero and he never so much say thank you or please.
She has a reason to stay, and it’s to pay her school debt and to start her new career.
I loved that after she leaves her job- and him- she never accepts other shit from him.
He has to learn to respect her.
Their relationship is really really slow burn. It takes until the last pages for them to eventually kiss and make a dive into another part of their life together.
But it’s good.
The heroine is a feisty and sunny woman even if she has the childhood from hell and relatives that makes satan look like a spoiled brat.
She’s just the right woman for the hero.
The hero. Well this is really an introvert. No friends, no more relatives, no women, only his career. He doesn’t speak, doesn’t interact and doesn’t try to understand the others.
Not because he’s bad or a psycho.
Because he isn’t interested.
He has only one thing in his head.
Football.
Ok I know it may look sad or extreme but this is really what happens to some high profile athletes.
I’ve known and met some through years.
They concentrate on their career from dusk til down and all their life is working out, training and thinking about their next match.
Athletes are not always what is portrayed in some tabloid, fancy young men who parties their life and date models.
It’s more about intense and absolute commitment.
They probably lost more than their peers as regards social life, like parties, cinema, dates.
And this hero is just like that, he has football on his mind and wants to win everything there is.
He’s also vegan, which is cute but we don’t know the reason why.
But then comes the heroine and he has to come out of his lil world.
Some parts are very emotional and some other are angsty- not much- but quite.
I’ve had a good time reading it and I think I’ll reread in future.
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A word to describe this book: grotesque.
And not in a sarcastic way.
I still can’t make up my mind about the feelings it brings out in me.
Angst? Not at A word to describe this book: grotesque.
And not in a sarcastic way.
I still can’t make up my mind about the feelings it brings out in me.
Angst? Not at all.
Anger? Nope.
Boredom? Not even that.
I think I was most of the time perplexed.
Because a book can be well written and easy to read but still be lacking something you can’t explain.
It starts very well as usually this author’s books.
The hero’s brother in law describes to the hero how he got involved with his children’s 17 yo nanny, how and when they had sex and how eventually the heroine got pregnant.
He asks the hero to solve his problem.
The hero listens carefully to all these sexual prowess and - instead of being angry and disgusted that his 30 something bil seduced a minor and knocked her up, he’s faintly aroused and interested in this lil young hottie.
This is the first inconsistency. There are many others.
He should beat the crap out of the jerk. But nope, he accepts to solve the problem.
That in his language it means he will kill the nanny. The barely of age pregnant nanny.
Well, so you expect he is some kind of mob boss or someone involved- seriously- with criminals because who would be so cold as to kill a teenager because his shitty bil knocked her up?
Instead of, maybe, paying her off and sending her somewhere far away.
So he goes to the nanny’s house and when he sees her he decides not to kill her but to kidnap her instead and to take her to his house.
Because he is curious about the things his bil described to him.
So he threatens her to kill her if she doesn’t do anything he asks and he has sex with her.
So now we have our two main characters, a criminal hero and a slutty teenager heroine with very lil morals.
And yeah everything bil said about her is true, she had an affair with said married man, she had unprotected sex with him several times ending up pregnant and now that she met the hero she is quite happy to be at his house for some days and to have sex with him. Because he’s much better lover than bil.
Just like that.
The hero on the other hand, has a personality transplant and we find out that no, he’s no mafia boss or hitman at all, he is a 35 yo bachelor with a bar, who isn’t even a manho and has only killed one man in his life, a junkie who was his sister’s fiancé and betrayed her and the hero sleeping with hero’s girlfriend.
But he turns out to be a nice good chap, even better than the silly heroine who is clueless and obviously unable to show some maturity in her choices for life.
He sends her back home because he can’t have an affair with the woman who is pregnant with his bil, and asks her not to see the man again.
The heroine has already had enough of om, and is now ready to go on with her life, but of course the hero can’t stay away from her and they meet again and again until she tells his sister she’s pregnant and the hero is the father.
This hero is an exception for this author: not at all cruel and merciless, he’s quite cute and mature and responsible, surely very much more that the heroine. He even decides he will marry her and keeps her child as his own, and that’s the other big inconsistency. Why in the beginning the hero’s bil asks him to get rid of the heroine if he’s not a criminal and he only killed a man once - maybe- because it was never proved, and the hero’s bil doesn’t know he did it???
And why did the hero accept to kill a pregnant teenager if he’s not a mob boss? It doesn’t make sense.
The hero during all the book is very nice and jealous of the heroine, but even if his sisters tells her he is pathologically jealous we don’t really see it, I’m fact it’s quite understandable that he’s wary and doesn’t trust the heroine since she had an affair with a married man and wasn’t even too sorry for it.
It takes time to build trust.
So, the hero is meek and nice and the book could have been 100 pages shorter because there’s not much happening after he and the heroine decides to get married.
Bil decides he wants the heroine again and cause troubles, and the end was OTT in a grotesque and unusual way. I was like WTF all the time, because it is so very not probable that two normal people would behave like those two characters in the end.
There’s no psychological consistency.
The heroine doesn’t bat an eyelid when she finds out the hero killed a man, and she behaves as if it’s normal behavior and the hero is completely nice until he isn’t but he’s also very emphatic and this is not consistent with such behavior.
I was more amused and surprised than anguished in the end.
There’s not one character in this book that I liked, not a single one.
Not the main characters, nor bil, or the hero’s sister or the heroine’s mother and sister. Not the heroine’s date, nobody at all.
I liked the description of the heroine’s family with grandpa always sleeping in his armchair because he’s an alcoholic- but a nice one who always sleeps, and both sister and mother who have several children at a very young age and are without a partner.
And the heroine follows their example, sadly.
So I felt pity for the poor hero when he tried to tell the heroine’s mother they were getting married and her mother flirted with him. Jeez what a sleazy situation. But very poignant.
I think the book was a weird one, not a romance for sure, with some of the most bizarre and unlikely characters ever and some of the most unpleasant sex scene ever- and I’m not a prude.
I don’t know if many can appreciate such book, there’s cheating, murder, pregnancy with a married man and rape. But if you don’t take it seriously- not at all- you can enjoy a story unlike many others. ...more
And not in a sarcastic way.
I still can’t make up my mind about the feelings it brings out in me.
Angst? Not at A word to describe this book: grotesque.
And not in a sarcastic way.
I still can’t make up my mind about the feelings it brings out in me.
Angst? Not at all.
Anger? Nope.
Boredom? Not even that.
I think I was most of the time perplexed.
Because a book can be well written and easy to read but still be lacking something you can’t explain.
It starts very well as usually this author’s books.
The hero’s brother in law describes to the hero how he got involved with his children’s 17 yo nanny, how and when they had sex and how eventually the heroine got pregnant.
He asks the hero to solve his problem.
The hero listens carefully to all these sexual prowess and - instead of being angry and disgusted that his 30 something bil seduced a minor and knocked her up, he’s faintly aroused and interested in this lil young hottie.
This is the first inconsistency. There are many others.
He should beat the crap out of the jerk. But nope, he accepts to solve the problem.
That in his language it means he will kill the nanny. The barely of age pregnant nanny.
Well, so you expect he is some kind of mob boss or someone involved- seriously- with criminals because who would be so cold as to kill a teenager because his shitty bil knocked her up?
Instead of, maybe, paying her off and sending her somewhere far away.
So he goes to the nanny’s house and when he sees her he decides not to kill her but to kidnap her instead and to take her to his house.
Because he is curious about the things his bil described to him.
So he threatens her to kill her if she doesn’t do anything he asks and he has sex with her.
So now we have our two main characters, a criminal hero and a slutty teenager heroine with very lil morals.
And yeah everything bil said about her is true, she had an affair with said married man, she had unprotected sex with him several times ending up pregnant and now that she met the hero she is quite happy to be at his house for some days and to have sex with him. Because he’s much better lover than bil.
Just like that.
The hero on the other hand, has a personality transplant and we find out that no, he’s no mafia boss or hitman at all, he is a 35 yo bachelor with a bar, who isn’t even a manho and has only killed one man in his life, a junkie who was his sister’s fiancé and betrayed her and the hero sleeping with hero’s girlfriend.
But he turns out to be a nice good chap, even better than the silly heroine who is clueless and obviously unable to show some maturity in her choices for life.
He sends her back home because he can’t have an affair with the woman who is pregnant with his bil, and asks her not to see the man again.
The heroine has already had enough of om, and is now ready to go on with her life, but of course the hero can’t stay away from her and they meet again and again until she tells his sister she’s pregnant and the hero is the father.
This hero is an exception for this author: not at all cruel and merciless, he’s quite cute and mature and responsible, surely very much more that the heroine. He even decides he will marry her and keeps her child as his own, and that’s the other big inconsistency. Why in the beginning the hero’s bil asks him to get rid of the heroine if he’s not a criminal and he only killed a man once - maybe- because it was never proved, and the hero’s bil doesn’t know he did it???
And why did the hero accept to kill a pregnant teenager if he’s not a mob boss? It doesn’t make sense.
The hero during all the book is very nice and jealous of the heroine, but even if his sisters tells her he is pathologically jealous we don’t really see it, I’m fact it’s quite understandable that he’s wary and doesn’t trust the heroine since she had an affair with a married man and wasn’t even too sorry for it.
It takes time to build trust.
So, the hero is meek and nice and the book could have been 100 pages shorter because there’s not much happening after he and the heroine decides to get married.
Bil decides he wants the heroine again and cause troubles, and the end was OTT in a grotesque and unusual way. I was like WTF all the time, because it is so very not probable that two normal people would behave like those two characters in the end.
There’s no psychological consistency.
The heroine doesn’t bat an eyelid when she finds out the hero killed a man, and she behaves as if it’s normal behavior and the hero is completely nice until he isn’t but he’s also very emphatic and this is not consistent with such behavior.
I was more amused and surprised than anguished in the end.
There’s not one character in this book that I liked, not a single one.
Not the main characters, nor bil, or the hero’s sister or the heroine’s mother and sister. Not the heroine’s date, nobody at all.
I liked the description of the heroine’s family with grandpa always sleeping in his armchair because he’s an alcoholic- but a nice one who always sleeps, and both sister and mother who have several children at a very young age and are without a partner.
And the heroine follows their example, sadly.
So I felt pity for the poor hero when he tried to tell the heroine’s mother they were getting married and her mother flirted with him. Jeez what a sleazy situation. But very poignant.
I think the book was a weird one, not a romance for sure, with some of the most bizarre and unlikely characters ever and some of the most unpleasant sex scene ever- and I’m not a prude.
I don’t know if many can appreciate such book, there’s cheating, murder, pregnancy with a married man and rape. But if you don’t take it seriously- not at all- you can enjoy a story unlike many others. ...more
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This is another s**t I loved to read.
The first one was better than this one.
But this one made me laugh because it's really absurd.
The heroine has a se This is another s**t I loved to read.
The first one was better than this one.
But this one made me laugh because it's really absurd.
The heroine has a secret baby and two years have passed since she left the hero.
And when I say left, I mean she disappeared in thin air, closing all her account, her rents and leaving the town without a trace.
The hero is no more a mob boss, he's a good boy now, because he's redeemed since the heroine left him.
He couldn't find her but he still pines for her.
The heroine's mother is sick again and she decides to go back to her rich father, the ex mob boss, to ask for his help, and then she will divorce the hero.
I don't understand why she didn't divorce him two years before, she should have and she should have asked him a lot of money.
But in this book the heroine, who was nice and tough in the first one, is simply gone dumb.
The hero didn't lose his business because his rival is dead.
We don't know if he killed him, it's never explained.
What we know is that the first time the heroine sees him she has sex with him again.
Nope.
This is a very bad case of TBS.
After what he did to her, this was unforgivable.
She wants a divorce and he tries to persuade her to go back to him, but he mess it up again when he stops the heroine from going to her dying mother and the woman dies without saying her daughter goodbye.
The heroine goes completely mad.
And here's where the book became ridiculous.
The heroine hires a hitman to kill the hero.
Because she's so mad that he prevented her from seeing her mother one last time.
When the hero finds out she wants him dead, well that was really funny!
I couldn't stop laughing, thinking of the heroine going to a nasty MC and candidly asking where she could find a hitman!
Priceless.
Things deteriorated after this, so the hero and the heroine decides they are better divorced and separated.
The hero, though, can't let her go, even knowing she hated him enough to want him dead, and he really does things right this time, with the wooing and the courting, but for real this time.
And he sells his business, because he wants to be a new man for her, a man deserving her love.
There's too much sex here, and if in the first book it could have been justified because they were still together, in this book they are separated and divorcing so it was really not believable that each time they met they had sex together.
She looked very weak and he looked desperate.
And my impression is that really they had only sex and no emotional connection.
So, this book is really OTT and it's not believable at all, but I appreciated the OTT, the heroine trying to murder her husband and him finding out.
He deserved it all.
It was a bit confusing and messed up and sometimes, as it often happens in books that are part of a series, you have the feeling that some parts are added to reach a fair number of pages for the issue.
It should be angsty, the hero suffered and was celibate for years but I didn't feel it, maybe because it was too OTT, or maybe because not much is said about his life without her.
He's always going out with ow but he tells the heroine they are only business, but I didn't appreciate it anyway.
While the heroine had a s****y life, poor and starving and living with her sick mother and her lil daughter, the hero lived his billionaire life, and it seems he didn't suffer too much.
The end was cute, but I don't feel so much love between them, I only felt lust.
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The first one was better than this one.
But this one made me laugh because it's really absurd.
The heroine has a se This is another s**t I loved to read.
The first one was better than this one.
But this one made me laugh because it's really absurd.
The heroine has a secret baby and two years have passed since she left the hero.
And when I say left, I mean she disappeared in thin air, closing all her account, her rents and leaving the town without a trace.
The hero is no more a mob boss, he's a good boy now, because he's redeemed since the heroine left him.
He couldn't find her but he still pines for her.
The heroine's mother is sick again and she decides to go back to her rich father, the ex mob boss, to ask for his help, and then she will divorce the hero.
I don't understand why she didn't divorce him two years before, she should have and she should have asked him a lot of money.
But in this book the heroine, who was nice and tough in the first one, is simply gone dumb.
The hero didn't lose his business because his rival is dead.
We don't know if he killed him, it's never explained.
What we know is that the first time the heroine sees him she has sex with him again.
Nope.
This is a very bad case of TBS.
After what he did to her, this was unforgivable.
She wants a divorce and he tries to persuade her to go back to him, but he mess it up again when he stops the heroine from going to her dying mother and the woman dies without saying her daughter goodbye.
The heroine goes completely mad.
And here's where the book became ridiculous.
The heroine hires a hitman to kill the hero.
Because she's so mad that he prevented her from seeing her mother one last time.
When the hero finds out she wants him dead, well that was really funny!
I couldn't stop laughing, thinking of the heroine going to a nasty MC and candidly asking where she could find a hitman!
Priceless.
Things deteriorated after this, so the hero and the heroine decides they are better divorced and separated.
The hero, though, can't let her go, even knowing she hated him enough to want him dead, and he really does things right this time, with the wooing and the courting, but for real this time.
And he sells his business, because he wants to be a new man for her, a man deserving her love.
There's too much sex here, and if in the first book it could have been justified because they were still together, in this book they are separated and divorcing so it was really not believable that each time they met they had sex together.
She looked very weak and he looked desperate.
And my impression is that really they had only sex and no emotional connection.
So, this book is really OTT and it's not believable at all, but I appreciated the OTT, the heroine trying to murder her husband and him finding out.
He deserved it all.
It was a bit confusing and messed up and sometimes, as it often happens in books that are part of a series, you have the feeling that some parts are added to reach a fair number of pages for the issue.
It should be angsty, the hero suffered and was celibate for years but I didn't feel it, maybe because it was too OTT, or maybe because not much is said about his life without her.
He's always going out with ow but he tells the heroine they are only business, but I didn't appreciate it anyway.
While the heroine had a s****y life, poor and starving and living with her sick mother and her lil daughter, the hero lived his billionaire life, and it seems he didn't suffer too much.
The end was cute, but I don't feel so much love between them, I only felt lust.
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Not an ounce of angst in this one.
The author was able to write a cheating romance without angst.
Because it's so silly.
Too much silly.
- All characters Not an ounce of angst in this one.
The author was able to write a cheating romance without angst.
Because it's so silly.
Too much silly.
- All characters talks as if they are 16. Their language is full of the F word and its derivates. And the hero and his friends are past 30. Really?
- The heroine is a famous You tuber. Jeez.
- the heroine's partner and bff (where the b is for bitch and the second f is for fu**ing) tells the hero his wife is cheating with her ex.
- the hero believes her and gets drunk in minutes. Then he thinks, with his Harvard brain, jeez, let's have revenge sex with my wife's bff.
-His wife comes home and sees him. She beats the craps off them. Best scene ever. Worth three stars.
-She leaves and goes to her ex.
-Misunderstandings
-Psychotic ex bff
-angry sex between H/h
-angry sex between h and her ex
- pregnancy: who's the father?
-psycho bff pulls a stunt.
- all is well
Ok, I've never ever found a sillier book, with characters so stupid and dumb you can't even imagine.
I hate cheating but this one was really hilarious.
It seems like a serial for demented people. No angst despite the very angsty situation.
And all characters behave like headless hens.
Of course I won't discuss the absurdity of the situations and of their behaviors. OTT and unbelievable.
But I shamefully confess I liked it. It's an easy reading.
This is really, realli a s**t I loved to read!
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The author was able to write a cheating romance without angst.
Because it's so silly.
Too much silly.
- All characters Not an ounce of angst in this one.
The author was able to write a cheating romance without angst.
Because it's so silly.
Too much silly.
- All characters talks as if they are 16. Their language is full of the F word and its derivates. And the hero and his friends are past 30. Really?
- The heroine is a famous You tuber. Jeez.
- the heroine's partner and bff (where the b is for bitch and the second f is for fu**ing) tells the hero his wife is cheating with her ex.
- the hero believes her and gets drunk in minutes. Then he thinks, with his Harvard brain, jeez, let's have revenge sex with my wife's bff.
-His wife comes home and sees him. She beats the craps off them. Best scene ever. Worth three stars.
-She leaves and goes to her ex.
-Misunderstandings
-Psychotic ex bff
-angry sex between H/h
-angry sex between h and her ex
- pregnancy: who's the father?
-psycho bff pulls a stunt.
- all is well
Ok, I've never ever found a sillier book, with characters so stupid and dumb you can't even imagine.
I hate cheating but this one was really hilarious.
It seems like a serial for demented people. No angst despite the very angsty situation.
And all characters behave like headless hens.
Of course I won't discuss the absurdity of the situations and of their behaviors. OTT and unbelievable.
But I shamefully confess I liked it. It's an easy reading.
This is really, realli a s**t I loved to read!
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This one has not the usual cheating a** of a hero as in most JB books.
But he's an idiot all the same.
He plans his revenge because he thinks the heroin This one has not the usual cheating a** of a hero as in most JB books.
But he's an idiot all the same.
He plans his revenge because he thinks the heroine's father wronged him so she has to pay anyway.
And he plans to marry her.
Mmmmm great revenge to marry a sexy billionaire.
The heroine is a nice and sunny young woman, very brilliant and sporty, and she thinks he's going to marry her for love.
They have wonderful sex during their honeymoon, and then he blurts out the revenge plan, and spoils everything.
There's also a misunderstanding, when the hero finds out she's on the pill and thinks she doesn't want to have his children because she's ashamed of him.
She was on the pill because she wanted to be protected when they were not married and they planned to have sex.
The marriage falls apart and the heroine leaves him and the hero really pines for her.
After some months alone he rescues her and begs her to go back with him because he's in love with her and has been all the time.
Oh, of course what he thought about her father was all wrong, it was a misunderstanding, so, everything is good in the end.
This book was quite cute, the hero is not very bad and he really cares for the heroine but makes a lot of mistakes, ruining a marriage that would have been a good one if his big mouth had remained shut.
The heroine is feisty and not the usual doormat, I loved that she didn't let the hero abuse her in any way.
She's strong and determined and the hero has to grovel in the end.
Safe, because the months they are separated both are celibate.
I liked the part where they are in Cote Azur, with all the glamour and the living in the fast lane.
Big yatches, beautiful women, jewels and party.
Very 80s!
Nice and light reading, well written.
...more
But he's an idiot all the same.
He plans his revenge because he thinks the heroin This one has not the usual cheating a** of a hero as in most JB books.
But he's an idiot all the same.
He plans his revenge because he thinks the heroine's father wronged him so she has to pay anyway.
And he plans to marry her.
Mmmmm great revenge to marry a sexy billionaire.
The heroine is a nice and sunny young woman, very brilliant and sporty, and she thinks he's going to marry her for love.
They have wonderful sex during their honeymoon, and then he blurts out the revenge plan, and spoils everything.
There's also a misunderstanding, when the hero finds out she's on the pill and thinks she doesn't want to have his children because she's ashamed of him.
She was on the pill because she wanted to be protected when they were not married and they planned to have sex.
The marriage falls apart and the heroine leaves him and the hero really pines for her.
After some months alone he rescues her and begs her to go back with him because he's in love with her and has been all the time.
Oh, of course what he thought about her father was all wrong, it was a misunderstanding, so, everything is good in the end.
This book was quite cute, the hero is not very bad and he really cares for the heroine but makes a lot of mistakes, ruining a marriage that would have been a good one if his big mouth had remained shut.
The heroine is feisty and not the usual doormat, I loved that she didn't let the hero abuse her in any way.
She's strong and determined and the hero has to grovel in the end.
Safe, because the months they are separated both are celibate.
I liked the part where they are in Cote Azur, with all the glamour and the living in the fast lane.
Big yatches, beautiful women, jewels and party.
Very 80s!
Nice and light reading, well written.
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This was different because it has only the hero's point of view, so we have a nice trip inside an hp hero from the beginning to the end.
It was fun, be This was different because it has only the hero's point of view, so we have a nice trip inside an hp hero from the beginning to the end.
It was fun, because this hero is not an alpha man, he's definitely a beta, and he's not a mean one, thank god.
Both characters are on the rebound.
The hero is a doctor who, after working in Sidney for some years, decides to go to live and work in a small country town.
He has been in a relationship with a collegue for 3 years, a woman with no scruples and no morals, only interested in money and sex.
He was madly in love with her until she made a mistake and let a child die dismissing it wihout feeling guilty.
The heroine is a young and innocent girl who was in love with the town's bad boy, and left him because he was cheating on her.
The hero thinks that even if both of them are in love with another person they could have a good marriage because they both want the same thing: a family and children.
The heroine is not very sure about it but then accepts his proposal.
So the hero dates the heroine for one month, and he makes the first mistake.
His ex calls him to tell him his brother is in hospital with severe food poison.
The hero is still attracted to her, or so he thinks, because only listening to her voice on the phone he's excited and horny. Not good.
He shouldn't be hot for another woman when he's in a relationship with the heroine.
He doesn't tell the heroine his ex called him and goes to Sidney telling her a lie.
Luckily when he sees her he doesn't feel attracted and understands he's completely over her.
He's also very mean to her when she tries to seduce him, which I found absolutely excessive and rude.
After all it was him who dumped her because he despised her, so he should have been a lil more gentle with her.
The woman of course goes straight to the heroine with a sob story and when the hero ccomes back they almost break up.
They get married, and the second part of the book is all about the lil virgin becoming a sex machine and the hero understanding he's madly in love with her.
But still there's om around, and the heroine confesses that she saw him before the marriage and she doesn't know how she feels about him.
That was tacky too, because really, om was a loser and a renegade, and the heroine doesn't seem the type of girl to fall for a fake like him.
The hero is angry and hurt, he loves her and can't accept she could be in love with om, even if before their marriage they both were quite sincere about their feelings and he told her he was in love with another woman, and love didn't enter in their marriage.
So when they come back home he's always grumpy and mean, and when someone tells him om is always snooping around the heroine's shop, he's furious.
They break up and the heroine decides to live for some time in her shop, but the hero understands he's going to lose her with his behaviour and confronts om.
The man tells him the heroine's an heiress and he's going to marry her.
The hero goes back to her and tells her he loves her, but om is already there and the heroine seems to be fascinated by the man and she doesn't actually seem to believe the hero's words.
Eventually she goes back to him, telling she loves him and not om, but she thought he was still in love with om.
So all is well and they have a daughter and are happy.
It was a decent read, I didn't like that both were in love with other people and that the hero thought constantly to his ex and compared her with the heroine all the time, thinking how much more sexy and beautiful she was than the heroine. The part where she called him and he was instantly aroused by her voice was tackiest of the tacky. And the fact that he admitted to love ow madly was bad, because the woman was shallow and mean, and he couldn't understand it until it was too late.
Thank god in the second part he changed his tune, because he was in love with the heroine and he liked her enough.
The heroine was not a prize too, because she wasn't able to understand that om was a sham and a con, I can't understand how a nice and innocent girl could fall in love with a man like that, who cheated on her with every woman, available or not, it was not believable.
And she should have told him not to come to her shop every day since she was married. Her behaviour was not honest.
I had the feeling that both were second best and they "settled" with a partner who was reliable and safe, but they both preferred om/ow because they were more exciting and interesting. The hero especially thought that sex with ow was much more exciting, and it was not good for meeeeeeeee.
Two average persons who chose the safest way.
Not my favourite plot.
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It was fun, be This was different because it has only the hero's point of view, so we have a nice trip inside an hp hero from the beginning to the end.
It was fun, because this hero is not an alpha man, he's definitely a beta, and he's not a mean one, thank god.
Both characters are on the rebound.
The hero is a doctor who, after working in Sidney for some years, decides to go to live and work in a small country town.
He has been in a relationship with a collegue for 3 years, a woman with no scruples and no morals, only interested in money and sex.
He was madly in love with her until she made a mistake and let a child die dismissing it wihout feeling guilty.
The heroine is a young and innocent girl who was in love with the town's bad boy, and left him because he was cheating on her.
The hero thinks that even if both of them are in love with another person they could have a good marriage because they both want the same thing: a family and children.
The heroine is not very sure about it but then accepts his proposal.
So the hero dates the heroine for one month, and he makes the first mistake.
His ex calls him to tell him his brother is in hospital with severe food poison.
The hero is still attracted to her, or so he thinks, because only listening to her voice on the phone he's excited and horny. Not good.
He shouldn't be hot for another woman when he's in a relationship with the heroine.
He doesn't tell the heroine his ex called him and goes to Sidney telling her a lie.
Luckily when he sees her he doesn't feel attracted and understands he's completely over her.
He's also very mean to her when she tries to seduce him, which I found absolutely excessive and rude.
After all it was him who dumped her because he despised her, so he should have been a lil more gentle with her.
The woman of course goes straight to the heroine with a sob story and when the hero ccomes back they almost break up.
They get married, and the second part of the book is all about the lil virgin becoming a sex machine and the hero understanding he's madly in love with her.
But still there's om around, and the heroine confesses that she saw him before the marriage and she doesn't know how she feels about him.
That was tacky too, because really, om was a loser and a renegade, and the heroine doesn't seem the type of girl to fall for a fake like him.
The hero is angry and hurt, he loves her and can't accept she could be in love with om, even if before their marriage they both were quite sincere about their feelings and he told her he was in love with another woman, and love didn't enter in their marriage.
So when they come back home he's always grumpy and mean, and when someone tells him om is always snooping around the heroine's shop, he's furious.
They break up and the heroine decides to live for some time in her shop, but the hero understands he's going to lose her with his behaviour and confronts om.
The man tells him the heroine's an heiress and he's going to marry her.
The hero goes back to her and tells her he loves her, but om is already there and the heroine seems to be fascinated by the man and she doesn't actually seem to believe the hero's words.
Eventually she goes back to him, telling she loves him and not om, but she thought he was still in love with om.
So all is well and they have a daughter and are happy.
It was a decent read, I didn't like that both were in love with other people and that the hero thought constantly to his ex and compared her with the heroine all the time, thinking how much more sexy and beautiful she was than the heroine. The part where she called him and he was instantly aroused by her voice was tackiest of the tacky. And the fact that he admitted to love ow madly was bad, because the woman was shallow and mean, and he couldn't understand it until it was too late.
Thank god in the second part he changed his tune, because he was in love with the heroine and he liked her enough.
The heroine was not a prize too, because she wasn't able to understand that om was a sham and a con, I can't understand how a nice and innocent girl could fall in love with a man like that, who cheated on her with every woman, available or not, it was not believable.
And she should have told him not to come to her shop every day since she was married. Her behaviour was not honest.
I had the feeling that both were second best and they "settled" with a partner who was reliable and safe, but they both preferred om/ow because they were more exciting and interesting. The hero especially thought that sex with ow was much more exciting, and it was not good for meeeeeeeee.
Two average persons who chose the safest way.
Not my favourite plot.
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Another step uncle age gap romance. Here the heroine is really young, she’s barely17 and her step uncle is 35. She has a crush on him and he is actual
Another step uncle age gap romance. Here the heroine is really young, she’s barely17 and her step uncle is 35. She has a crush on him and he is actually seeing her as more than the lil girl with piggy tails and braces, since she grew a pair of boobs that all the men around her can’t fail to see.
So he hires a governess slash nanny who is also a prefect bitch of a ow, skinny, awful and nasty to the poor heroine.
She tries to sabotage the heroine in every way, buying her ugly dresses, trying to persuade her to cut her hair, telling her not to eat since she’s fat. She’s not fat, she is a great pin up figure.
Seems that every man in the book, married or not, lusts after the heroine so the hero has a great time trying to save her from her teenage brain who is really messed up, and trying to resist her great womanly body, since she throws herself at him every time she can.
Eventually he gives up and they have sex, and since she’s still a minor, he tries to salvage the appearances sending her to is emotionless mother. The heroine pines for him and decides to leave, and for the first time in the book she shows a remarkable amount of maturity, finding a nice job and a place that, fashionable it may not be, but it’s cheap. The hero catches her with her luggage in her hands, and he tells her he’s lusted for her for three years (yuck, really?) and now he wanted to wait until she was 18 and then proposes.
They marry at Christmas and all is well.
Hero here is quite contrary but we can forgive him since he feels things for his younger niece he should not… and the heroine is quite the brainless teenager who acts without thinking. She has two om who try to do her, and another married man, the same age as the hero, who is in awe of her great boobs. Ow is ecological. Impact zero on everyone, included the hero who has only eyes for heroine. ...more
So he hires a governess slash nanny who is also a prefect bitch of a ow, skinny, awful and nasty to the poor heroine.
She tries to sabotage the heroine in every way, buying her ugly dresses, trying to persuade her to cut her hair, telling her not to eat since she’s fat. She’s not fat, she is a great pin up figure.
Seems that every man in the book, married or not, lusts after the heroine so the hero has a great time trying to save her from her teenage brain who is really messed up, and trying to resist her great womanly body, since she throws herself at him every time she can.
Eventually he gives up and they have sex, and since she’s still a minor, he tries to salvage the appearances sending her to is emotionless mother. The heroine pines for him and decides to leave, and for the first time in the book she shows a remarkable amount of maturity, finding a nice job and a place that, fashionable it may not be, but it’s cheap. The hero catches her with her luggage in her hands, and he tells her he’s lusted for her for three years (yuck, really?) and now he wanted to wait until she was 18 and then proposes.
They marry at Christmas and all is well.
Hero here is quite contrary but we can forgive him since he feels things for his younger niece he should not… and the heroine is quite the brainless teenager who acts without thinking. She has two om who try to do her, and another married man, the same age as the hero, who is in awe of her great boobs. Ow is ecological. Impact zero on everyone, included the hero who has only eyes for heroine. ...more
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