Grrrrace's Reviews > The Greek Tycoon's Revenge

I love revenge tropes but I didn't enjoy this book; earlier vintage writers did it much better, with better writing to boot. I'll go 2 stars since it wasn't horrible and I did finish it (although I skimmed the last 3rd). Basically: Moronic dickish hero jumps from conclusion to conclusion despite all evidence to the contrary. Baird pretends her heroine has backbone by having her weakly argue/speak up now and then but she never explains anything that would exculpate herself (because a past trauma has made her vow that she will never explain herself to a man again). Despite his horrible treatment of her (including a deflowering pump and dump), our heroine just can't resist the hero's manly man sexual appeal despite the fact that he blackmails her into a sexual relationship and accuses her of fraud, lies, whoring, and dishes out all manner of insults repeatedly. Heroines with no sense of self preservation and pride just irritate the hell out of me. And while I like heat, repetitive sex scene after sex scene diminished the heat for me--after a while, I'm desensitized and it's just boring. Particularly when described with the purplest hues--spare me the pouting nipples, JB, we get enough of that from Lynne Graham. OK, it's nice that for once an offscreen bad guy got a little comeuppance (although you'd think a powerful ruthless gazillionaire could come up with a better punishment/deterrent than sending out a goon squad). In a nutshell, this book went kinda like this: