Raffaella's Reviews > A Second Chance

I am really puzzled. The book is another case of very poor psychological insight.
The hero has been married for 18 years to the heroine and suddenly he decides he misses his college wild years and leaves the heroine and their children.
Hes infatuated with a more glamorous woman that he parades everywhere without regards for her and the children. The woman is kind of nasty but I couldn’t hate her as I did the hero. She wanted the hero to have custody of his son while the daughter should stay with her mother, because she was jealous of the girl. The hero goes along with this idiocy. The heroine has also had a secret job, she’s a seamstress, she kept this job a secret because imo she never trusted her husband ex manwhore totally, which makes her a very smart woman, so now she opens a shop as a seamstress. The hero is also a very bad father, he doesn’t want his son to study art and design and thinks it’s the heroines fault if he doesn’t want to be an accountant like him. I rest my case. The hero is a pompous conceited ass, not an ounce of remorse for splitting his family, not a real cause beside the fact that his puny weak ego was flattered by this ow attentions. It’s all about himself. He doesn’t care if the heroine is alone with two children, he seems to be angry with her for trapping him, btw when they married he was about thirty and the heroine was not pregnant so why he thinks she trapped him, I wouldn’t know.
The worst part is when they all are attending his company’s Christmas party, and he’s at the main table with ow at his side, and he doesn’t even greet them, not the heroine nor his own children.
The man is one of the worst heroes I’ve read of.
Had I been the heroine I would have taken him to the cleaners that in the end he didn’t even own a pair of socks anymore.
And of course he’s jealous because om are kind to his discarded wife.
In the end he realizes he’s wrong and goes back to his family but it’s all very bad and wrong, he doesn’t even apologize and he acts like a little bitch when the heroine doesn’t immediately take him back. Again, I would have divorced his sorry ass and taken half of his company and most of his assets.
The book is inconsistent, again, the heroines feelings are downplayed and overlooked, the hero is unforgivable and nasty with his own children and even if he doesn’t have sex with ow to me it’s a worst cheating because he wined and dined her officially to all his friends and associates and he wasn’t even dicvorced. He keeps getting angry with the heroine and he belittles her new job and her accomplishments, all this without a real cause. He was the one to leave and he was the one to cheat, the heroine was always by his side and has no faults, but he’s always mean to her and always thinks the worst of her. A man like this doesn’t deserve anything beside a nasty divorce. And the heroine takes him back with a minimum fuss. What is wrong with these female authors?