One word to describe the book. Confusing. It’s all over the place and for what. A lot of childish miscommunication between both characters. The heroinOne word to describe the book. Confusing. It’s all over the place and for what. A lot of childish miscommunication between both characters. The heroines father left a will where she has to marry the hero and give him a child if both want to keep a business, but since the hero is sooo in love with the heroine he doesn’t want her to think he’s acting for the will, so he pretends not to love her and to date her sister, because he wants them to sign the property so he can take the will out of their relationship. I struggled to keep up with the mess. They’re always fighting and having sex, he lies, she lies, they make each other jealous and they’re not able to have a decent adult talk, and he’s 34 not 16. The story itself begins in an abrupt way and I thought it was the second installment and that I missed some parts, but it wasn’t. Too many details of their lives and their first meeting are left unsaid and glossed over, too much imo, because I first thought he was with his pr and he ended some time after he met the heroine but in the end he admits that he was with no one as soon as he met her. So? And the heroine dates another man while being married to the hero, even if it was platonic, it was so wrong. And why would he try to date her sister, a petulant bimbo that he couldn’t stand? Then again, he didn’t even manage to do it until the end because he blurted out that he loved the heroine. What a mess. Both characters immature and childish, the hero wanted to be alpha but was a confused puppet. Too much ow and om drama even if it was only a facade, I don’t like when there’s such a level of disrespect. I still don’t know what was the point of all the book. ...more
This has an element of realism because of the situation between the hero, the heroine and his daughter. The daughter is a difficult teenager whose misThis has an element of realism because of the situation between the hero, the heroine and his daughter. The daughter is a difficult teenager whose mission is to get rid of the heroine so her parents will be back together. Of course this would never happen since the hero only married his wife because she was pregnant, but he never loved her and divorced her long before he even met the heroine. He lives door to door with his ex, because of their child, which is something that is often worse because the children can’t understand that their parents are really not together anymore. It’s like a limbo where they still can have the illusion of being a family. The ex is a manipulative bitch and uses the child to get rid of the heroine. The hero is of course trying to protect his daughter and between her and the heroine there’s not even a chance for the heroine. Is it wrong? There should not be a choice but of course it’s his duty to take care of his teenager daughter that has the precedence over the adult heroine. And of course he doesn’t want to upset his daughter. It’s a difficult situation, and he, like many men, can’t handle the situation, so the heroine is always the one who loses. In the end he dumps the heroine because his daughter lies about the heroine. What I hated. The hero uses very bad words to attack the heroine, that were not necessary. I would have even respected him if he dumped her because she couldn’t get on with his daughter, but his words speak of an inner cruelty that I hate in a person and that would make impossible to deal with them. The heroine is of course hurt but doesn’t reply, and I understand it perfectly but I wish she would have moved on and maybe thanked her lucky star that she eventually was free of such an abusive and toxic person. Anyone who’s able to be so cruel and mean to another person is not deserving of another glance. The heroine sadly is a woman with low self esteem and zero self confidence. She doubts herself instead of realizing that’s not her who’s wrong but it’s him who’s a nasty and horrible person. I hate this. When he realizes his daughter lied and his ex wife manipulated both her and him, he changes totally and tries to win the heroine back. There’s something else I hated. He used love bombing and he forces his presence on her through a work commission. I hated greatly that he tries continually to force the heroine to give him a second chance, telling her that if she loves him he deserves a second chance. This is so not true. Even if she was still in love with him, since feelings are not easily changed in some weeks, she still had any right to choose not to be with him because she simply didn’t want him anymore in her life. He leaves her no choice, and this is not him being an alpha but him being a nasty selfish asshole that even if he sees that she’s hurt and in pain, he decided he wants her back just because he’s changed. What about what she wants? What about respecting her choice? I didn’t like that the heroine gave up so easily. He changed in the end but still I would never be back with a man who showed me such a level of cruelty and nastiness, that is let the abused woman go back with her abuser. Who cares if he is a changed man? Isn’t she worth of a man who never abused her? Never belittled her? Never put her second to anyone? I always have the impression that this author goes a bit ott with the cruelty factor. I understand a hero being somehow rude or not very nice to the heroine, but plain and free cruelty is not acceptable because it speaks of something twisted in a persons character, especially when it’s not justified by some very big misunderstanding (I.e. the hero thinks the heroine did something very wrong, as stealing, cheating, embezzling money, as in old school hp). In this case even if she had been rude to his daughter he could simply dump her and walk away. Oh, and he only chanced his mind because one of the heroines friends showed him a video of his daughter mistreating the heroine, otherwise he would never have believed her. So he’s not worthy of any chance. Sadly the heroine is too much of a doormat and has so low self esteem to resist him. Two stars because he was celibate after their break up. ...more
This is JS we know and love. Extreme, Uber dominant heroes and ott retribution for the cheaters, that is one of the reasons one of her last books SteaThis is JS we know and love. Extreme, Uber dominant heroes and ott retribution for the cheaters, that is one of the reasons one of her last books Stealing My ex was so unexplainable to me and most readers. She has some questionable heroes, that are domineering, possessive to the point it is borderline abusive but they compensate being forever faithful and unable to even look at another woman, caring and passionate in an unrealistic but cute kind of ways. Their women are protected, loved, cared for and cherished. Yes, their men have often the last words but this is the price you pay with a man who’s committed to that obsessive extent. So now we’re back to the origin and this one has a cheater just like SME, that finds his children annoying and his wife not sexy anymore because sh has not the same hot body as before the pregnancy, so he gives in to an affair with a coworker who’s younger and sexier. He divorces his wife after their second child and leaves her to be with his side piece. Ow is a bitch, she’s not happy that he left his wife for her, she wants to have his kids to and wants to see the poor wife completely broken. That’s where JS comes in. All the people around them dump the hero’s sad azz and take the heroines side, included his family. Ow is never included in their reunion, and the hero is scorned and loses all his social support. His bff that was the one who saw the heroine first and is always been in love with her secretly, jumps in and within some months he and the heroine are a couple. The heroine is a sweet thing, she tries to be cool because she doesn’t want drama for her children but she’s hurt, depressed and sad. JS has a very good psychological insight here because all characters are well defined instead of being left unresolved and shallow. The hero is a good and caring man, he didn’t go after the heroine even if he liked her because his bff showed a lot of interest in her. This may seem he didn’t care enough for the heroine, but the truth is that he didn’t pursue the heroine because he didn’t want to hurt his friend. He simply watched her from afar. The thing I didn’t like though is that he knew his bff had a mean streak since he hit one of his exes before and he didn’t stop him from marrying the heroine. Thank god the heroine was never hit. After he and the heroine gets together the ex spirals and he starts resenting ow because he lost the heroine. He starts slapping ow around and the social workers take his parental right after his own little sister call them signaling abuse. He becomes an alcoholic and an abusive man, while ow becomes a unhappy shadow of herself. JS does not spare them at all, they lose everything, their social circle, their jobs, their looks, their dignity. This is revenge at its best. This is what every cheated woman would like for his ex and the sk@nk he left them. They both die of a very painful and undignified death, that I know, it’s not realistic but very satisfying. I almost felt sorry for ow at a certain point because she was really alone and she was beaten, abused, and without a chance to run because he had her threatened and blackmailed, but in some way it was her own doing so this is her retribution, karma. The ex husband deserved his karma too, he was the one who cheated and betrayed his wife and well, why should he be happy and contented after what he did? The heroine though, was happier than ever, she had triplet with her new husband that was the opposite of her ex, loving, caring, richer, and much better in bed. She had her HEA. I understand this is not very realistic but god, it was satisfying. After reading all those books where cheating ex are taken back without fuss or worse, they have a happy life after they left the heroine while the heroine struggles and has no chance to find a better man, well, this is a palate cleanser for me. There’s a good psychological insight, the heroine goes though PPD and trauma and is still depresse months after the divorce, the hero is a good man who thought he was being a good friend and suffered for years alone watching the heroine with another man, the ex is a scumbag and no joke, and the obsessed selfish ow has her own karma served on a plate. I liked it, it’s fiction but I can’t anymore with books that make a martyr out of the heroines while azzhole heroes never have any punishment and ow even have a HEA. It can look a bit ott but in a good, humorous way that is JS....more
Well this was good, and I’m sorry this author afterwards didn’t keep this line of writing, but opted for heroes who were cheating manwhore disgusting Well this was good, and I’m sorry this author afterwards didn’t keep this line of writing, but opted for heroes who were cheating manwhore disgusting double standards pricks that made my skin crawl all the time. This hero is a chauvinist pig but at least the heroine is quite the bitch herself. She’s engaged to his lil brother and since she’s poor and they’re rich the hero thinks she’s a gold digger and offers her money to dump his brother. Since the heroine is very much attracted to him and wants to get rid of the dangerous cad, and since she was already going to dump his brother because she found out she wasn’t in love with him, she accepts the money and pretends to be the lil hoe he thinks she is. Two years later they meet again at her ex wedding, and of course they have sex. It’s clear to everyone but the heroine that he’s madly obsessed with her, and they have sex. She’s a virgin but anyway they have sex all night long, and when she tries to leave her the morning after, he slut shames her again. And she pretends to be unaffected. Months later she’s pregnant and has decided to have her child adopted. The hero basically tries again and again to get in touch with her but she always rejects him making him think she’s a flighty party girl, because she’s soooo in love with him that she doesn’t want to date him even when he makes a decent proposal of a regular date. The man is desperate, out of his mind, everyone is able to see it, but her. When he turns up eventually and she’s going to give birth he is so nice to her, even finding out she didn’t tell him he was going to be a father and wanted to give his child away for adoption. Apparently he is happy and glad to have the child himself, but the heroine has in the meantime realized she wants the child, so he offers her his house, his support, and he proposes. Those two make a lot of mistake due to miscommunication. He thinks she doesn’t love him while he’s crazy about her, and she thinks he’s a manho who has a mistress in every city he goes. Nothing is farther from truth. He’s been celibate since he’s seen her and I don’t even doubt it’s true, since he showed her he lost all his control every time he saw her, since the first time. The heroine is quite willful herself, I don’t blame her for the adoption choice, after all he slut shamed her and treated her very badly, and she wanted to give her baby a good life in a loving family, but the hero who loved her was very offended and hurt that she wouldn’t even let him know, and I can see his point of view. The book seems to be written one century ago, the heroine calling herself a hoe because she has sexual response to a very attractive and experienced man, the hero, and hating herself because she wants him. This is so wrong and outdated. What was inaccurate and very unlikely was the fact that she wanted to have sex with him one week after giving birth. This is not done, apparently the writer never had children and wasn’t informed about how these things go. Well let me tell you that for at least one month a woman is not actually able to have sex, because she’s recovering, and certainly not after five days. They have sex three weeks more or less after the birth, which is highly unlikely. This made me cringe and think that the author could have been a bit more thorough about her research. Whatever. This was a little fault but all the rest was nice, cute angst old style, of two souls suffering because they think their love is unrequited. And both celibate, even the hero who stayed two years without a woman after only seeeing the heroine once! Yikes! This is Guinness!...more
Five years before the hero married the heroine so he could help her father that was in a difficult situation, he was older than her and felt like a peFive years before the hero married the heroine so he could help her father that was in a difficult situation, he was older than her and felt like a pervert for wanting her, she was already 20 but he had known her all her life and since she was in her nappies when he was a teenager didn’t really help his mind to relax. So he kept her at a distance and never had sex with her, so eventually the poor heroine who did everything she could but drug him to have sex with him kissed another man and since the hero thought she cheated he asked for a divorce. They went their ways and five years later she’s just been dumped by her fiancee because the hero bought him out. She goes to him and they have a late wedding night bar goodbye fugg so he finds out she never cheated and was never with anyone else, and then she disappears. But since he’s got the superpowers and his lil one pierced the condom, she’s pregnant. The hero manipulates the heroine into marriage for the child’s sake and the heroine does her best to keep him at a distance this time around. She didn’t forgive neither forget what he did to her and keeps reminding him of the awful behavior towards her that shattered her heart and her self confidence. He tries in every way to make amend, but when in the end she finds out he bought her fiance, she dumps him. One week later the baby is coming and the hero is ready to confess that he always loved her, was hurt like mad when he thought she cheated and didn’t want her to marry another man because to him she’s always been his. His behavior was wrong but he loved her and his mind wouldn’t let him reconcile his love for her with the knowledge she was a family friend and much younger than him. I liked the fact that the heroine didn’t immediately forgive him, he was callous and insensitive to have kept her at a distance when he knew she loved him just because he thought she was too young. When she left him the second time I was surprised he didn’t tell her he loved her at once, because imo it was very clear that he was in love with her, maybe even more than she was with him. And in the end he confesses that there was no other woman for him too,even after their divorce because for him it was only her. This was very romantic and cute. The author keeps it at the end when everyone thinks he had other women during separation and this was a thing I appreciated because she left me thinking the worst only to make me a good surprise. After all he truly did love her....more
**spoiler alert** This book needs a new tag on my bookshelves since it was really something different. WTF. I must admit the story between the main cha**spoiler alert** This book needs a new tag on my bookshelves since it was really something different. WTF. I must admit the story between the main characters was less interesting than the story around them. Romeo and Juliet and their families were Winnie poo and his happy friends compared to the families of those two poor kids. Kids, because they’re both teenager at their first experience with love when heel break loose. They’ve been friends before, sweethearts afterwards, and first time sex before the disaster. Their families don’t want them together so the hero is sent away to study and the heroine finds out she’s pregnant. She tries to get in touch with him without being able to, and she also sees picture of him at a party with two girls. There’s a lot of spoiler here so if you don’t want to know what is about don’t go on. The heroine is from a rich family. Her father takes her to an obgyn and she wakes up after a termination, without her consent. The same obgyn who visits her some more times raped her and films her with other two men. Her father doesn’t believe her. She spirals into drug, alcohol and casual sex, while the hero becomes a rock star. They meet ten years later, he’s with his gf, his model, pregnant gf. He tries to get in touch with her because he wants explanations about her behavior. It looks like the poor boy was sent to a strict boarding school and every texts, email, letter he sent the heroine came up unanswered. He found himself blocked nonetheless he tries to wait to see her and eventually his bff confessed he had sex with her, showing the pictures. Btw, it was true, the heroine was under the influence and she basically slept with everyone, even if in the end it comes out that bf wasn’t able to have sex with her. Semantics. The hero then moves on with his career but he also has drug and alcohol problems, until one of his friends almost dies and he decides to reform himself. His actual gf was a casual f buddy that became unfortunately pregnant. And anyway he breaks up with her after he met the heroine again. They were not sleeping together anymore anyway. They understand they’ve been cheated by their parents, and decide to stay friends. The hero would like to be with the heroine again, and declares he has never stopped loving her, but the heroine isn’t sure if they could work and she doesn’t accept the fact he is having a child with another woman. There’s a lot of ow drama. The hero tries to be accommodating with his ex, but he regrets and resents her being pregnant and the heroine isn’t sure if she wants him with a child from the crazy bitch. In the end the child is not even his. But here comes the drama that was really, really excessive. It was a concentration of soap opera, telenovela, bad drama, I really was rolling my eyes out of my skull because ok, really. Enough is enough. Her mother had an affair with his father, her father found out and decided to get revenge ruining his business and having revenge sex with his mom. Is it bad enough? Nope! His mom is a psycho and got pregnant with her fathers child but got a termination. She killed his father, her cheating husband. She organized the heroines abortion, and her subsequent rape. She raped the hero’s bff, a boy of 13 and used him to have sex with the heroine and send the pictures to the hero, and also tried to hire a hitman to kill the heroine. Woooooooah! Really? wtf? The father was only guilty of tampering with the texts and calls of the heroine to the hero, and to force her to marry a gay dude who thank god became her savior and her bff, with the man he married after their marriage was annulled. I’m tired. The book was ok enough without all this unnecessary and ott drama. The heroine losing the child as usually happens in these books and the parents lying to them because of some silly things was bad enough without this awful stuff. What about the characters? I found them both victims of their parents, the heroine was targeted by hero’s cray mum, but the hero lost the love of his life and was anyway unhappy and unable to have a serious relationship because of this. I don’t think he was bad and she wasn’t his victim but his mother and her father’s victim. He was the one to try to reconnect with her and she was the one to have sex with another man after they met again, while he was celibate after meeting her, so I can’t say there was double standards here, not at all. But the drama and the mess. That was too much even for me! ...more
Is it possible to feel second hand embarrassed while reading a particularly bad book? This one was maybe the worst one I’ve read in some time. The plot Is it possible to feel second hand embarrassed while reading a particularly bad book? This one was maybe the worst one I’ve read in some time. The plot is ridiculous. The hero and the heroine are married and he’s cheating on her and treating her like shit because … drumrolls…she had a car accident where she was severely injured and his daughter that he had with a random died. So he thinks she intentionally killed the child because she didn’t want her. How ridiculous is this? How idiotic a reason is this? We have a new low here. I could understand if she was framed, you know, it’s quite common trope in Hp and similar but this! And no matter how many times she tried to make him see reasons, that she herself was hurt and risked her life, that she loved and cared for the child as if it was hers, no he still believes she killed her . Jesus the laughters. After this I couldn’t feel any angst at all. Then the level of doormat this heroine has. She reaches a new level too because even when she sees him having sex with her bff, she stays with him. Really? Another fit of laughters. And instead of leaving his sorry ass and taking him to the cleaners she tries to kill herself. Jesus. Stop it. I’m really feeling ashamed just talking about it. When things can’t be worse she decides to divorce him when her bff blurts out she’s expecting his child and she would abort it if the hero doesn’t marry her. And he, even when he found out she’s innocent and is soooooo in love with her, accepts to marry ow. He basically has already said I do when ow reveals she’s not pregnant at all. God I was dying. There’s no limit to the heroine’s doormat and spineless state. She decides to take him back because. Well you know what they say. You get what you deserve. So of course she gets the loser back. So, bad plot, flimsy premises, the hero is a beta that never I saw a more beta than him, he goes from one mood to the opposite in one second and he realizes she’s innocent because, well, because she tried to commit suicide. Jeezus how tiring this one was to end. The never ending tirades that make it sound like a cheap telenovela of the 80s, the tears, the martyr heroine that made me cry in the end why? But whyyyyy? Not bad, worse....more
Really? The heroine and the hero were soul mates and she left him because she slept with his bother while both were completely drunk so since he had aReally? The heroine and the hero were soul mates and she left him because she slept with his bother while both were completely drunk so since he had a gf who was very close to the heroine, she decided to dump brutally the hero so her friends could be happy together. Now she’s back, she’s going to divorce her husband and the hero has another woman who he dumps unceremoniously even if he professes he loves her. Ludicrous. Of course in the end the truth comes out and there’s a big mess that could have been solved years earlier without drama. What a waste of my time. I was angrier with the heroine because of the way she treated the hero that with the hero because he was caught between two women. Meh....more
And here I am, angry and with the stomach rolling like there’s no tomorrow. I had read some dubious story on wattpad that annoyed me to death for its wAnd here I am, angry and with the stomach rolling like there’s no tomorrow. I had read some dubious story on wattpad that annoyed me to death for its writing style and the pitiful way the doormat heroine suffered and took back a demented junkie of a yuck hero, so I decided to read a quiet and tranquil hp of one author I love as a palate cleanser. I didn’t want to risk. I chose this one. I expected cheesy and sweet and safe and I got anything but. The story is quite uninteresting and old as time. The heroine was 16 and he was 18 when they met, he was alone and poor as a church mouse, she was sheltered daughter of a pastor. They fell in love and had sex. They had sex, her father discovered them, accused the hero of raping his daughter and threw him out of his house where he worked. The hero didn’t defend him because she was frozen with fear. The day after she tried to tell her father the truth but he threatened to send him to prison if she dared defend him. Beside the fact that 16 is a minor and in some countries he could have been prosecuted for rape, the girl was young and scared. The hero, an orphan, felt rejected and humiliated and hated the heroine ever since. Turns out she got pregnant, tried to tell him but he told her he already replaced her with another girl. And it was true. Since then the heroine lived her life of single mother and was sent to England to her grandmother who thank god helped her. She met the hero again ten years later. She tried again and again to tell him but since he had changed his number and became a billionaire he was never reachable. The girl was alone. Young and without many resources, she did what she could. When they met again, accidentally, he decides he wants his revenge and seduces her again. They separate, he gets back to her, finds out he has a daughter and acts all hurt and offended. Eventually it’s her who has to apologize. I hated so much this book it’s not even funny. If you want to lose some pounds easily read it again and again. Either you puke, or you are not able to eat because of the nausea it provokes. It’s disgusting in many levels. Annnnddd now let’s begin the swearing. -the fucking double standard. The hero fucked everything that moves starting just weeks after he left the heroine the first time. So much for his I always loved you he told her in the end. FY hero, to eternity. Don’t spew this kind of bs on me please. If you are in love, even if you’re hurt, you don’t move on that easily. It was sex, and hurt pride. Never love for him.She was celibate. For 10 fucking years. Now I want to really rage. I had to check twice and more what year was written this book. It was written this year. Lol! Are you f. Kidding me? Honestly? In 2023, where it is almost forbidden to write the gender on your passport because it can be seen as discrimination you are here to write about a young woman in her 20s, a beautiful sane woman in a western culture, that since she broke up with her first boyfriend at 16, she stayed celibate for 10 f years? This is discrimination. This is sexism. This is, in this year and period, utterly politically incorrect. And more than this. It is insulting. To all us women who, even when we had our heart broken, are able, after a reasonable amount of time, to move on, to start dating again, to meet men we find interesting, to be attracted by them and to have satisfactory sex without being ostracized and blamed for this, without feeling even a bit guilty. Maybe we can become nostalgic thinking of our first love, but our strength makes us possible to move on and look at the future with hopeful eyes. I can accept double standards in a book written 30 and more years ago, when sex in an unmarried woman was frowned upon, and when the only sex allowed and considered respectable was in a marriage bed. Values were different, people were different. But nowadays. Thank god we broke free of those discriminatory rules and have agreed that sex is enjoyed and needed by both sexes, that is a good and sane thing if made by two consenting adult people. In this book it seems that a woman who has sex with a man without being in love is something less. Someone a bit more contemptible, because, hey, you have to be loyal and faithful to that first love who, btw, disappeared and treated you like dirt when you called shortly afterwards to tell him you were pregnant, who, btw, has had hundreds of women he enjoyed a lot having sex with. This is unacceptable. Unrealistic. Offensive. Sexist. And I’m low on patience and tolerance because it’s a continuous talking of equal rights, no difference between genders, free sex and all that stuff. And here we are, with a woman who stays celibate for 10 years while the man whores around happily. Oh, and it’s all about him. He’s so angry she didn’t tell him he had a daughter that he doesn’t even think that she was alone at 16 with a pig of a father who sent her away and his daughter to raise. Alone. All is about him. Two losers if I ever saw one. And don’t tell me she loved him so she couldn’t have sex with another man, since he told her he always loved only her, but had sex with plenty of women. Double standard. I’m angry as fuck. Disappointed. Disgusted. And to think I was only trying to have some innocent fun with a safe reading. I think I’m going to read some good old Sally wentworth books where the hero is a psychopath and the heroine is a crazy bitch. It’s safer. ...more
This author works for me, she has some good heroes and some nasty bitches as heroines. Here we have a stepsibling drama. The hero’s father wants to marThis author works for me, she has some good heroes and some nasty bitches as heroines. Here we have a stepsibling drama. The hero’s father wants to marry heroine’s mother. She is a very immature and gauche teenager of 16 while he’s in his 20, she looks younger and has braces, lenses, and is underdeveloped so she’s already self conscious about her looks. Of course she’s in awe of the hero, who’s older, mature and very sexy. Sadly she listens to a conversation between him and his father where he tells him that her mother could be a gold digger and the heroine is awful. The heroine is wounded and holds a grudge. Of course it’s all very understandable, at that age girls are very sensitive and some nasty comments can cause serious damage to one’s self esteem. The heroine though, since she’s a HB heroine and is a natural born bitch, decides she will turn herself into a beautiful, self confident, successful woman. Six years later, they haven’t seen since their parents marriage, and the heroine still holds her grudge. She hates and resents the hero for the only reason that he breaths. They meet again and he doesn’t recognize her, but is immediately attracted by her, and she’s rude and scornful to him. Sadly she suffers from an incurable case of TBS, and as soon as he kisses her she can’t help but kissing him back. And so it goes on, with the hero who kisses her and she who always gives in, even hating and despising him. The things get worse when they are together again months later, because he tries to resist and isn’t able. The hero is a commitment phobic, since his mother died young and before she died told him that his father never loved her and that love doesn’t matter. So the poor boy is afraid of love. There’s a cute ow and om banter, but of course hero and heroine only see themselves even if other people are around. In the end the hero confesses his love for her, and is sure that she doesn’t love him back, until she tells him the real reason why she hated him for years. The hero is really a besotted poor fool,and the heroine is cruel and rude to him, but can’t resist him, so all her bark and spitting was quite pointless im the end. About celibacy, the hero for years had meaningless affair, but of course he only met the heroine once and she looked a child at 16. After he saw her again it’s not explained, but I think he was celibate because he reveals that he was always thinking of her, night and day, and that he regretted his past behavior, which is commendable since manho heroes never do it. Interesting, angsty and well paced....more
Not bad but not my favorite also. The heroine is a teacher who decides she will work as a governess for a child of five in the Mauritius where his fathNot bad but not my favorite also. The heroine is a teacher who decides she will work as a governess for a child of five in the Mauritius where his father has a sugar plantation. The man is a widower, quite grumpy and stern, let’s say he’s not the soul of the party. Anyway. He’s rich and he’s charming snd he’s always speaking those sexy endearments in French, my Cherie, mon coeur, ma belle, and so on, so the heroine is charmed and seduced by his money ahem i wanted to say, by his ways. She has been an ice maiden until him, never even enjoying the occasional kisses by her dates, and that was imo a bit ott, since she turns out to be quite a cold fish. There are other characters, his mother, who wants his son to be happy again, a charming French friend of the hero, and a beautiful woman who seems to be the hero’s partner. The heroine and the hero clash very often, she tells him his son needs love and not only money, and the hero is angry and of course, being an old school book, he punishes with angry kisses and groping that the cold fish ahem heroine enjoys very much. The hero is obviously annoyed that she spends a lot of time with his friend, but he himself spends a lot of time with his lady friend, so both characters think the other has a lover. But the real deal is the mystery in the story, since the hero’s wife died in some mysterious circumstances a couple of years before and the hero was found unconscious beside her. He doesn’t remember anything but the meddling heroine manages to know that: The hero’s wife was a crazy hoe, that never wanted children and hated her own son. She wanted a divorce and has multiple lovers. The day of the accident she was leaving with the heros friend, who was in love with her since before her marriage. Basically she and the hero fought and she fell from the stairs, pushed the hero who fell and hit his head. One died, the other had amnesia. There’s a couple of natives very peculiar, I won’t comment. The heroine tells the hero how things went, but he doesn’t blink an eye, the party pooper. The evening after, he invites ow at dinner and they are all cozy and smiles, that sickened even lil old me because it was too much. The heroine is sad because she thinks he’s marrying ow, and when eventually he tells her ow is only a good friend, which I myself didn’t believe for s moment, he proposes and declares he’s loved her at first sight. He and ow were plotting to go to heroines family to ask for her hand in marriage. Awwwwww. Not so angsty, not so bad, not memorable. Hero and heroine are both cold and the chemistry is barely there. The lil son is cutest thing ever, the rest is forgettable. ...more
Well well well. I’ve learned something more here. The stay at home daughter. She’s the daughter who’s expected to stay at home and take care of her widoWell well well. I’ve learned something more here. The stay at home daughter. She’s the daughter who’s expected to stay at home and take care of her widowed father, without the chance for her to marry, have a job, have a family. Really? Did this happen In England in the 80s? I’m speechless. The poor heroine is just this, the younger daughter whose freedom is precluded, while her older sister becomes a supermodel who eats men for breakfast and spits their bones at lunch. And their father the hypocrite pastor who treats the heroine as she’s his personal unpaid slave, is oh so proud of such a daughter. The sister that is. When slut model sis introduces her brand new fiancé, the hero, a rich Italian musician, of course everybody is happy and the heroine aka Cinderella is overlooked as usual. The supreme irony of this all is that the heroine is just as beautiful as her sister but she also has a heart: she’s sweet, caring and lovely, while bitch sister is shallow, selfish and amoral. When she jilts the hero for his younger and very married brother the hero blackmails the heroine: she will marry him, otherwise he will show her father the sister’s hardcore letters to his brother. Why the heroine accept? She tries to protect her father, who, as a reward, refuses to attend her marriage thinking that she stole her sister’s fiancé and, worst of all, because she dares leave him to have a life and a family. The heroine is real martyr material here and without even the god’s hope since she has actually no one by her side. She marries the hero and they go on their honeymoon and here I laughed all the time because she chose to go to a very damp, cold and grey place in England just because she used to go there with her family when she was a lil girl, instead of Bahamas where the hero wanted to go. Honestly. I just can’t. Whatever. They have sex because she’s beautiful and the hero can’t resist her but there’s nothing more here and the book is all over the place. The style is quite good but the writer is unable to make something with what she has. - we never know what the hero thinks or feel. It seems he was in love with the sister, but we never know how much and if he’s still hurting. - we don’t know if he still thinks of her when he’s with the heroine. They are very similar in looks and the heroine is often mistaken for her sister but the hero never disabuses or confirm her doubts. Not even in the end.Disappointed. - he married her for revenge, because he thought her sister would come back after his brother finished with her, but we don’t know when he started to have some kind of feelings for the heroine. - his mother, who was a very clever and fine woman and could have been heroine’s best ally and friend, dies immediately after they meet. Why? - there’s several hints that the hero was very much in love with her sister, he never tells, even in the end he never clear the air and we don’t know his real feelings about the ow, her betrayal, and we don’t know if he still has feelings for her in the end. Sure as hell he never noticed the heroine when he was engaged to her sister. - the heroine is a weak and passive aggressive woman. She lives in fear of being always her sister’s second best, but she never tries to make a path for herself in life, she always accepts what life’s throws at her. - the heroine actually has some kind of feelings for another man, hero’s bff who even asks her to leave the hero and be with him. She doesn’t leave the hero because she’s a good person, loyal. - my impression is that this book is less about love and more about pther values as loyalty, affection, the importance of family etc. quite depressing. - no comeuppance for her sister who in the end is basically the winner. She managed to use both brothers until she tore of them, then she left with her reputation untouched since no one told her father or the hero’s mother she was a slut. She also starred a x rated movie apparently, but it is never cleared. - no comeuppance for the heroine’s father, he will go on thinking his older daughter is the best. - oh, and another very bad thing. We don’t know if the hero had sex with both sister which is quite yucky but I think he did, since the sister was not surely a virgin and they often traveled together. - the only thing we can’t say is that the sister was cruel to the heroine but this is supposedly her typical behavior since she was not actually cruel, she was only a very selfish person who only lived for herself and her pleasure and the others didn’t even exist.the heroine doesn’t hate her and we think the sister doesn’t hate the heroine. For her she never existed....more
I am quite perplexed by this book. The plot is definitely not original. The ending was different, but imo not completely satisfying. The author could haI am quite perplexed by this book. The plot is definitely not original. The ending was different, but imo not completely satisfying. The author could have handled it better. There’s also too much emphasis especially in the beginning and it was as if I was watching one of those 80s telenovelas with those big dramas for nothing. There are two brothers in love with the same woman, the heroine. She’s in love with the older. He keeps her for some time as his dirty lil secret because you know, her father is rich and he wants to make a living for himself before being worthy of her, so he keeps her waiting. Then suddenly he comes back and marries her older sister who’s a bitch btw. Without explanation and nothing. The heroine is shattered snd two years later marries younger brother for revenge. But is not revenge because later it’s explained that she accepted to date him and eventually she was moved by his proposal and accepted. So all the drama in the beginning about how evil she was, how she would go to hell, show her soul was lost, well, it was all for nothing. It’s true she didn’t love him as she loved older bro, but she cared for him since he was her bf. And he knew she was heartbroken so there’s no deception at all. He was determined to have her, even with the love she still thought she had for his brother. After their honeymoon she starts falling in love with him for real, she understands he was always there for her and eventually she also accepts to move to another town so they could be free of his brother, who, btw, is always lurching in the shadows and telling the heroine he loves her, but avoiding every type of explanation for his behavior. So go to hell man. He’s master manipulator. Sadly also younger brother is a manipulative lil shit himself since he knew the Big Secret and never told anything to the heroine. I don’t want to spoil too much but of course big bro sacrificed the heroine to protect his father, his mother, the company, the family, the town and the Holy Spirit. Yes, he’s the Great Hero of olds, that we all hate, because eventually he puts everything and everyone before the heroine. And we don’t give a fuck if he looooooovess the heroine and is a Hero with capital H, he let the heroine down. We’re so tired of so called heroes who loses years caring for others and maybe also raising other men children, then they come back and marry the heroine who has been waiting for them celibate and unhappy and also apologize because she wasn’t very understanding. Go to hell. So, in the end, we all are happy that for once, she chose to be happy and to be with the one who was always there for her and also gave up his job, his family and his town to be with her. Hurrah. I wish she stopped loving the other one sooner. I wish she hadn’t have any more love for him....more
Good old school with a lot of angst and a lot of chauvinism. The heroine is one I love, a strong young woman who lives alone in the highlands and neverGood old school with a lot of angst and a lot of chauvinism. The heroine is one I love, a strong young woman who lives alone in the highlands and never complains. The hero is her new landlord, an american billionaire that she doesn't like because he flirts with her all the time. She doesn't fall for his charms for quite some time but the man is persistent and eventually she gives in. There's a lot of misunderstanding, i tried to see when it was written because the matter of her V-card is always there. She's not a virgin, because she had sex with a boyfriend, only once actually, and the hero thinks she is. Then said boyfriend comes back and brags about how he has the most beautiful gf of scotland waiting for him and the hero sees his car parked outside the heroine's house all the night so this, with the rumors that a virgin she was not, have him run to America leaving the heroine without a word. Seems that her V-card was so important for everyone, but I wonder why his V-card is never discussed. meh. One year later he's back because he heard she has a child and he wants to know if hes' his. Of course he is, but the heroine is a hard lil thing and denies it's his. Sadly, genes are what matters and since the heroine is a blondie and her ex bf is a ginger, and the child is a dark haired with blue eyes as the hero, it doesn't take a genetist to understand whose child is this... The hero is angry and the heroine is angry, he thinks she jumped from his bed to the boyfriend's but he's willing to marry her, at least for some months, to give him his name and heritage. The heroine is not very happy but she's sensible and for the sake of her child she accepts. Marriage in name only for 6 months then she will go back to the highlands with the child. The hero takes her to Boston and the heroine catches a severe emotional cold due to the icy behavior of his family, with the exception of his father who's a warm old thing, and his friends. She resists his kisses and tries to persuade him she doesn't fit and it's better if they don't marry until, after the latest humiliation, she packs her shit and goes back to the Highlands. The hero is there for her, and there's the Big Explanation of why and how things went so bad. Seems that the heroine never told him ILY, and he was insecure of her feelings, so of course he believed the rumors that she was fickle. Eve then, he was willing to have her back and proposed marriage hoping she would fall for him. There are two would be ow that make mischief and many death threats by the hero because he's jealous and possessive. All very entertaining. Celibate hero and heroine even during separation. ...more
**spoiler alert** Chick lit. Imo it was a missed chance for a very good and angsty romance. But it all went to jokes and jests. Even if the themes are **spoiler alert** Chick lit. Imo it was a missed chance for a very good and angsty romance. But it all went to jokes and jests. Even if the themes are serious and very traumatic. I felt bad but disconnected by the entire story and by both characters because there was no coherence between the story and the characters emotions, it’s like to go to a funeral and see everyone laugh. Inconsistent. Some things, very serious ones, are never addressed and resolved. The heroine has been abused by her uncle for years, when she tries to tell her parents don’t believe her and her sister who knew the truth, lies. So she leaves and at 14 she becomes homeless and a junkie. When she comes back home she goes rehab but is still unable to work or study. Her family hates her and scorns her. Evil sister has a fiancé who as soon as he sees her he falls in lust with her and makes out with her one hour after they’ve met. He’s a prick and a judgmental hypocrite. He’s the hero. He also has sex with her thinking she’s the sister but calling her name anyway and admitting he wants her madly. He was drunk. Anyway he marries the sister and the heroine at their marriage reveals the truth to everyone and tells she’s pregnant. The hero’s mother deceives her telling her the hero wants sole custody of his child and doesn’t want to see her anymore. She had the child and the woman takes him even if the heroine cries and begs not to. The hero divorces evil sister without consummation. The heroine leaves and meets the hero again after 7 years. He’s still in lust with her, now she’s clean and they talk about all the lies they’ve been told since he was told by his mother that she left and sold her son. The heroine reveals she was pregnant but the son is not his, but actually he is. More drama. She loses her job because she’s framed for embezzlement. Everyone hates her. Eventually the hero takes her back. The book is wrong. The heroine seems not to suffer from everything thats done to her by everyone. The title could be: paisley vs all, because besides some friends, everyone hates her for no reason, they are just awful people. Awful parents, awful sister, awful mother in law, awful colleagues and the worst of all, the hero. Hypocrite prick that mauls and pray on a barely legal teenager with issue and blames her, then marries the awful sister anyway. He’s quick to judge her but doesn’t do anything to help her when he got her pregnant after a night of sex when he called her name and not her sister’s who was his fiancée. He’s the worst. She’s been celibate while he wasn’t and this is another example of how bad the man is. We never know what he’s thinking. And worst of all the angst is missing. Pity. The plot deserved more....more
I don’t know, maybe I’m too high in my standard for my perfect hero but this one was not for me. I know I’m the minority and even if it was a good bookI don’t know, maybe I’m too high in my standard for my perfect hero but this one was not for me. I know I’m the minority and even if it was a good book and well written there are so many things I didn’t like and understand. And there are some lines that blew my minds and not in a good way. Everyone knows the story of the shy girl and the hot teacher who loves her, and I know it’s a good trope that many people find sweet and romantic. Both made so many mistakes that I don’t even know where to begin. - the heroine married the hero and she told him she didn’t want to have children. He agrees. 3 years later she changes her mind and he’s pissed. Well for once I agreed with a hero. She told him she never wanted them, then, when she changes her mind just because, she’s angry and hurt that he doesn’t want them. - then the saint hero comes out with his real reason for not wanting children. He’s been married years before and his wife had several miscarriages. So now I was very pissed with the hero, and so was the heroine, because this is not the kind of things you keep secret for years to your wife. Wtf? Is he serious? Of course the heroine was hurt and thought her marriage a sham.! That was no lil indiscretion! - the heroine reacts badly to this bunch of lies and is attracted to om, until she even kisses him, realizing that she loves the hero and can’t cheat on him, even if she cheated on him emotionally for weeks, dreaming of om and wanting him. Ok, it was only in her thoughts but she crossed the line when she kissed him. -the hero, instead of acting like a mature man who is in love with his wife and knows he behaved like a jerk and trying to win her trust back, acts like a jealous pig, and makes her life impossible. - then there’s the best part of the book, where the heroine’s bff makes out with the hero to show him that it’s natural to be aroused if a woman kisses you and grinds on your groin. Really? Is it? I don’t think so since arousal is something that is always linked to mind and imagination. There are books and more books where the whole arousal thing is explained. It’s nothing so physical and anyway it takes a bit more that a woman grinding on a man to make him excited in just two seconds, if he’s not 14 or severely high on something. The hero is past his teens and is in love with the heroine so how can he get so easily aroused by another woman it’s a mystery to me, and really too forced. He’s basically ready to fuck her then and there even if he’s not attracted to her, or is he? Every psychologist even the newly graduated ones, know how important is the mental factor in physical arousal and that is why sometimes it works and some others it doesn’t. We’re no rutting beasts, that is what the author would like us to believe. The whole episode is thrown under the rug and other wise lines are said like the wonderful one that says that how could the heroine know she loved the hero if she wasn’t attracted once to another man. What? Sorry? Could anyone explain to me what is the meaning of this sentence? I don’t know I’m in love with a man if I’ve not been attracted to another man and resisted him? Penny Jordan, the queen of heroine who pines on heroes for decades and never are attracted to another man, so as Diana Palmer and many other writers could have something to say to this. And I’m not saying this is normal, to pine for someone for years, but I’m saying that I don’t see any correspondence between the live for one man and the desire for another one. It’s absurd and I didn’t like it. So, eventually, I didn’t like the story and I don’t like both characters, and the hero doesn’t seem the magical person so many think he is. When the heroine leaves he doesn’t follow her and they meet only because she has a panic attack. A bit of alpha factor more, please. He only says I miss you. Well, for the love of his life it’s not so much… There are other books of this series and I don’t know if I will read them. This one didn’t impress me....more
Jayzus what the hell have I just read. This was one of the most violent, abusive and chilling romance I've read in a while. There's romance and romance.Jayzus what the hell have I just read. This was one of the most violent, abusive and chilling romance I've read in a while. There's romance and romance. And there's this one. The heroine saved the hero's life from her former abusive fiancè who wanted him dead and tortured him. The heroine's father was an abusive lord who kidnapped, raped and tortured the hero's sister, and the heroine basically was forced to watch her being gang raped without even flinching because her father threatened to do the same thing to her younger, mentally challenged sister. So the men who saw the heroine thought that she was a heathless bitch who enjoyed to see torture and rape a young girl. Years later the hero kidnaps the heroine and have her gang raped by his men without knowing she was the one who save him, and keeps her as his mistress to have her pregnant and send her back to her father. The heroine accepts everything to save her sister. There's also an ugly beating from the hero's younger brother with such a cruelty that was unnecessary and the heroine manages to run away only to end in her former fiance castle, as his mistress. The hero will save her of course but it seems just too much at that point for redemption. She was also pregnant when she was abused and beaten almost to death, no kidding. It is something of a bad bodice ripper but I didn't enjoy it because it was only too much. And the heroine's sister at the beginning seems to be a woman with the mental ability of a child then suddenly she becomes mature and able to do very complex thoughts, that was very confusing and unlikely. There's also an evil ow, the hero's fiancee who is on the outer side very kind but she's cruel and scheming and deceives everyone included the hero, so why he eventually mourns her death, while he was ruthless with the heroine who was only guilty of being her father's daughter? Meh. So much violence and abuse to the heroine and still she stays with the hero. The hero is a bully with no character and no personality worth mentioning. His treatment of the heroine is unforgivable and unfair even for that period of time, so I can't see any way to like him. I can't say I enjoyed this book and there are too many triggers for me to recommend it to anyone....more
I was curious about this author since her last book was rated very low by my gr friends, so I tried to read one of her books that wasn't as controversI was curious about this author since her last book was rated very low by my gr friends, so I tried to read one of her books that wasn't as controversial. This one was a pleasant surprise. It's quite long, more than 600 pages, and it's very slow pacing even if the story is set in a couple of weeks or so, with long and accurate descriptions of each and every interactions betweet not only the main characters, but also between the secondary ones. It's set in a small tonw in the mountains where the very British and refined heroine choses to spend her holydays to rest and meditate about her relationship with her cold and distant british fiancè. The heroine had several traumas, from the abandonment of her sob of a father, to the loss of her beloved brother, to a previous abusive fiance. There she meets the typical american mountain man, very male, very plain speaking, very rough and very sexy, the modern version of a Diana Palmer hero, only less cruel and rude. He's the one who rent her his house for the holydays, he should have been away but of course there was some kind of misunderstanding and he's home. With her. They have to share his house. Ahem. Actually he helps the heroine when she is sick, and shows her kindness and attentions. It's quite a case of insta lust for both, and the heroine discovers the pleasure of sex again, since her cold fish of a fiance didn't even touch her. She decides to end things with her fiance by email, not a very nice move and very immature since she's 36 and not 16, then proceeds to have an affair with the hero. He's a widower and quite the womanizer and she thinks he's still pining for his dead wife so she doesn't think they can be serious. There are also other secondary characters, and at a certain point it seemed to me more an episode of Murder she said than a romance, without my beloved Mrs Fletcher. It's well done, and interesting, even if some of these characters I could have done without but actually the fit in the story, all of them have secrets of course and the heroine seems a bit OTT sometimes. The author wants us to see she's a very brave, emotional, empatethic creature that will force the hero to fall in love with her like a ton of brick, only a few days after they met. Forgetting his long-dead wife. There's a crazy stalker, there's the murder and the murderer, there's the truth about the hero's wife. Ok, all good. I didn't understand why the hero went crazy when he found out the heroine knew he was a widower but she didn't tell him anything. Actually, she had known him for only one week, even if they had had sex, and I think she was most sensible not to force him to tell her about his dead wife, but apparently he was very offended and hurt by her behavior. This caused unnecessary drama. Maybe we have different sensibilities, and in my country it would be very rude to talk to a person you have just known about his dead wife even if you know about it, so I wasn't really sure what happened inside the hero's head when he ended things with the heroine for this reason (it was only for some hours, of course he regretted it immediately) and I couldn't appreciate it at all. Eventually all is well, they get married and have a family completed with cats, children and parents of some sort, and I must say the book was quite entertaining and satisfying because the hero was besotted with the heroine since he first saw her, and she loved him even if she was full of insecurities. Heroine is his second chance at love, and I don't begrudge it, the hero loved his first wife but she seems lukewarm and plain (not phisycally) compared with the heroine who is a strong, mature and interesting person. The hero admits they are opposite and admits he loves and wants the heroine more than he even loved his first wife, but the author was good enough to make us understand it even before the hero confessed it in the end. The first wife was a sweet, simple, happy woman and life with her was simple and comfortable, the heroine was quite the opposite: strong, complex, passionate and conflicted, she engaged the hero's feelings and emotions in a ways that we can well understand his simple first wife could never do. The hero falls for the heroine immediately and he's crazy for her, it's clear that his first wife was the love of his youth while the heroine is the love of his life, so I don't view her as second best, and I agree with the hero when he says that life didn't stop for him, and he deserves to have another chance at love. Nothing wrong with it. But maybe those who don't like the hero was married before could view it as a trigger. There's also an evil ow, one the hero used to have sex some time before, but he says she was only sex and nothing else, so I don't see her as a threat. Both celibate after meeting.
I know I’m not being fair reviewing this Italian romance in English, but it’s because I hope there’s an English version somewhere. The author is basicaI know I’m not being fair reviewing this Italian romance in English, but it’s because I hope there’s an English version somewhere. The author is basically the mother of modern romances hp-type. She wrote her books during the first three decades of 1900, but she’s exceptionally modern and progressive in her ideas and values. I think that many modern authors should read her books to learn that women, even in the first years of the last century, and with all the chauvinist kind of thought that was accepted and approved by everyone in society, could be treated equally regarding feelings and relationships. You won’t find any double standard here, surprisingly. Hear hear, you young female authors that write books where men cheat repeatedly and women always stay celibate and eventually forgive them because boys will be boys and have their needs while women haven’t. This is for you! The hero is a Duke and a pilot because the author has always been fond of pilots being her husband and only love of her life a pilot. How romantic. He and his bff share this passion for flights and are blessed by everything that matters in that period: physical appeal, money, youth, they are brave war heroes and women love them. The hero has many affairs with women, married, unmarried, whatever, there’s a lot of equality here because women are free with their sexuality as much as men, and even if descriptions of sex are obviously lacking, the book is very explicit in describing the raw sexuality of all characters in the book. The hero is also a romantic and a dreamer, he has his ideal woman, blonde, long hair, and not corrupted as all the women he met. He’s an idealist, and that is ok because he’s a brave and courageous pilot who fights for his country and who puts his duty above everything else. There’s also some ow drama when a woman he was having an affair tries to shoot him because he wanted to end their relationship. One day he meets the woman of his dreams, a young and sheltered lady, who’s also very beautiful. He courts her and eventually she falls in love with him and they get married. He’s besotted and starts being jealous. His jealousy is dysfunctional and becomes an issue. In my experience he has delusional jealousy, he’s psychotic. He starts thinking she’s unfaithful to him every time she talks to another man, and eventually he makes her life a living hell, even hurting her twice because of his jealous delusions. The poor girl tries in every way to appease him, staying at home and dressing up demurely to avoid being looked at by other men, but it’s never enough. The hero is even jealous of his bff, and nothing not even his own mother, can make it better. When the heroine gets pregnant she’s already frantic and depressed, and starts turning to his bff for comfort. Of course bff is in love with her because well, she’s all a man could dream of. Beautiful, kind, honest and loyal. Until she isn’t of course. Because after losing her child she realizes she’s in love with husband’s bff and after some time they have sex. Ok, that was hard, but I mean, the hero is not sane and she was probably suffering from depression, I know cheating is not ok, but I liked that for once it was the heroine who cheated on the hero while he couldn’t even touch a woman’s hand without feeling sick. I enjoyed this thing, bitch that I am. Modern and not double standard at all, and don’t forget we’re in 1920 not 2020! The book doesn’t have a hea, but no one is happy in the end and it was ok for me. This couple didn’t have a future, it would have been inconsistent to redeem the hero from what is a mental disorder and to make them a happy couple. The hero will have his only one love, his military career, and his duty to his country. And eventually, knowing the heroine and his bff made a cuckold out of him we hate him less for his jealous behavior. I love this book, I love this author writing style, I love the modern ideas and the very modern and equal treatment of women and sex, and believe me, the heroine enjoys sex with her husband, even without details she’s willing and happy, and we even know that during her pregnancy she gets horny all the time snd keeps her husband awake all night to have sex! Well, please, read and learn, young authors. There’s a lot of ott and drama but it’s ok because it’s something very usual for that period of time, women often took their lives after men dumped them so I wasn’t disappointed and I think I will be read other books from this author that really captivated me until the very end....more
Nope. Well written but utterly unsatisfactory. - the hero is in love with ow and plans to marry her. He has sex with her after meeting the heroine, the Nope. Well written but utterly unsatisfactory. - the hero is in love with ow and plans to marry her. He has sex with her after meeting the heroine, the same day, very good and hot sex. - he and the heroine are forced to marry after being drugged and put in bed together. He thinks she planned it, even if she always tries to avoid him and tells him she hates him. Actually it was ows brother and his friend who planned it. Her brother wanted her money and om wanted ow. Ow marries om willingly but the hero doesn’t believes it. - after marrying the heroine he has very hot sex with her but still never stops looking for ow because he thinks he owes her to check if she’s ok. - when he ends in a trap because ows brother killed his friend and the hero is charged of the crime, he thinks the heroine planned it with him. - he never trust the heroine: for him it was always ow first. - he becomes a pirate and plans his revenge with the heroine. - the heroine never stops trying to prove his innocence even if she thinks he’s dead. - he’s not celibate and she of course is. He only did it once but who cares? Imo since he mistreat the heroine through all the book and she’s always second best I think the author owed us his celibacy. Sadly we don’t even have this. - stupidest thing ever: ow dies falling from the stairs. Really???? - ow wasn’t an evil person and the hero always tells he cared for her: - what I have from this book is that the heroine was really stunning and the hero finds her extremely fuckable, but fuckable isn’t love. - when he sees her after one year and a half and she tells him she’s innocent he believes her immediately. After thinking she was guilty for one year and a half. Why? Without proof. Nope. It could have been good with some different things, sadly it ends being messy and too inconsistent. Not for me. And the heroine is really second best....more
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