Good mystery romance, I’ve read the Italian edition. This young author has been writing very interesting and successful books but I don’t think he’s bGood mystery romance, I’ve read the Italian edition. This young author has been writing very interesting and successful books but I don’t think he’s been translated into English yet. I hope he will do it soon. His style is easy and riveting, the story is interesting and compelling. A young woman is found death and -eeek- partially eaten by a bear. She’s been murdered. Who did this? The ML is a famous writer, an alter ego of the writer himself, that helps the authorities with the investigation. The story shows many interesting and surprising twists, that kept me hanging and are really masterful. People die, go to jail, it looks like the culprit is revealed but is it the end? I liked it, it’s a summer reading so it’s quite easy and not heavy, the twists are shocking but more in a aaaaah and oooh way than is a yuck and eek, that is, even with the deaths and all it’s not dark and heavy to read. Of course, being a mystery, I don’t want to write much more about the plot or else I will ruin all the pleasure. I hope it will be translated into English, because it’s worth it. I will definitely read his other books....more
When a cheating book is boring, it’s not very good. The hero and heroine have been married for ten years, they have two teenage sons born when they werWhen a cheating book is boring, it’s not very good. The hero and heroine have been married for ten years, they have two teenage sons born when they were at college. The heroine sacrificed a lot so he could complete his studies, and never asked for more. And when they got married she always sacrificed herself so he could go to the gym, out with his buddies, while she stayed with her children at home. During their 10 year anniversary she finds out he cheated the night before their wedding with a stripper. She decides they will have a break. She has enough of her life. So first she goes to therapy then she asks him to go with her. Several skeletons gets out of their closet, he was abandoned by his father who was not really his father, she was abandoned by both parents that didn’t want her, so both have issues. The cheating was more SA from a stripper while he was totally drunk, he was watching her while she danced then she jumped on him and stripped him, he stopped as soon as he realized what was happening, so it was very unclear and borderline rape. He never gave her consent and was unable to give his consent while she was completely sober, so I didn’t like it. Their marriage was unbalanced, he thought that being a good provider and a constant presence for his family was enough, she never told him what she wanted because she thought he would leave her as her parents did. I didn’t really feel the angst, actually it was very subdued, their reaction maybe is more realistic than others in other books but I couldn’t really empathize with them. He loved her all along, but had his emotional baggage and insecurities that made him make a lot of mistakes. She never told him what she needed from him emotionally. The cheating was real because he never told her about it, he was scared that she would leave him. But after ten years it didn’t have the same impact as if she found out when it happened, he was a good man and a good father, so she did not want to leave him for something that he did so long before. The therapy was good they both needed it. Not totally bad, but not that good either....more
Just two lines, I’m not wasting my time on this one. When, despite the heroine being pathetic, traumatized, unfairly treated and emotionally tortured, Just two lines, I’m not wasting my time on this one. When, despite the heroine being pathetic, traumatized, unfairly treated and emotionally tortured, despite her being everyone punching ball, despite the hero treating her like the worst heroes on a cheap Chinese drama made basically on IA, yet, the story fails miserably to make me feel any angst and makes me want to end it and skim it as if it were a boring essay on Greek ontology and I a teenage student waiting to leave for the beach in a hot August day, well, I think it’s very very bad. For my safety gang. Unsafe. Hero has sex with ow in front of the heroine because he wants to see her reaction. He also has a bj from ow. He has a gf for 80% of the book. Pathetic, useless heroine. Too much useless drama. There’s angsty and there’s nonsense. There’s pathetic and there’s this book. The heroine is not just pathetic and doormat, she’s aimless. So no sympathy or empathy is possible. If someone hurts you, demeans you, uses you, you leave. Staying and becoming embittered, sad, without a purpose in life because you met some shitty people, this makes you a stupid loser not a poor good person. If someone slaps you, you don’t stay for seconds. If you do, I don’t care if they stomp on you times and again. You just deserve it. And even the hero’s reasons for his behavior make him look like a 4 year old who whines because he’s been denied his third ice cream. Please, have a bit of pride. I don’t know why I still read this kind of stuff. ...more
Very good and entertaining. Hero and heroine have been married for years and basically they were each other one and only. Hero is a dentist, heroine a sVery good and entertaining. Hero and heroine have been married for years and basically they were each other one and only. Hero is a dentist, heroine a successful layer, but now she’s at home with their newborn baby. She actually lost her job, so now she’s is not exactly faring well emotionally. They both are coping with their careers, the newborn baby and the situation is tense between them. One night the hero decides to go to his young assistant party at her home, the young woman has a crush on him but he’s dumb and he didn’t realize it. The same night his wife and child have a car accident, thankfully without serious consequences but he never answers her calls for help. During the party he drinks a lot and is quite drunk, so when the assistant come on to him he kisses her. Realizing his mistake he leaves immediately and drives back home but it’s basically morning when he reaches his house. The heroine wants to know exactly what he did and when he admits he kissed ow she throws him out. The heroine changes dramatically his lifestyle, distances himself from his assistant and tries to be a worthy father for his child and to win her back his wife. There is also a mystery going on, or better, more than one mystery, and some other funny and interesting characters like the heroine bff, and her childhood friend, a man who is powerful and dangerous and makes the hero very jealous. Safety. The heroine changes kisses ow, but he was never attracted to her, he was just flattered by her attentions. When he kissed her it was more because he was very drunk than because he liked her. He never flirted with her not before nor after, he was just dumb and clueless. The heroine is the smart one, the strong one, and he knew it. He knew she was much more than him so for some time he thought she would leave him. A friend who is not a friend is behind all the drama though. This person betrays both the hero and the heroines, lies and tries in every way to separate them. I won’t reveal more, because it’s worth reading. There is also childhood trauma, depression, sa, mention of suicidal thoughts, violence, even if it’s not a gory or violent book at all. So, be warned. I liked it, it was pleasant and flowing very well, the hero’s evolution is very good, and I admit they both had issues. It was more a situational issue than one’s fault, they both didn’t cope well so I don’t feel like it was a one sided thing. He paid for his mistake very much. In the end the book is good and I enjoyed it, even the side mystery and characters. ...more
Trigger warning. Cheating. Explicit description of sex with ow. No. Not my cuppa, definitely. The so called hero married young and had a kid with his y Trigger warning. Cheating. Explicit description of sex with ow. No. Not my cuppa, definitely. The so called hero married young and had a kid with his young wife, he’s getting some success in his job so he starts going out with these losers that persuades him to have other women on the side because he deserves a bit of joy after work. So he starts seeing this hot coworker and has sex with her for some months until his wife catches him in the disgusting act. She divorces his sorry ass without asking for a penny and starts building her own life, her own job and has luckily a lot of sex with amazing men. Some years later they reconnect, he basically had an epiphany when she divorced him, because apparently he was sure she would have taken him back, so this is why he cheated, because he thought he could. He’s basically a cake eater. Apparently he stopped after she caught him and was celibate ever since, that is for a few years, leaving his job and becoming something else. It looks like he was young and naive and was with bad companies, yada yada, so now es more mature and understood what is important that is his child and his now ex wife. It would have been ok if she had married another good man, had a couple of kids with the other man and the hero stayed celibate for decades seeing that she was happy with her new man. What I don’t understand is, she was dating a perfectly nice, good and loving man, why would she want to go back with her loser cheating ex? It’s as if there are no good men around so it’s ok that a woman has to take a cheating loser back. Not fair, even if it’s ok that she wasn’t celibate and moved on while he stayed celibate. The reasons behind his cheating are really low, and the fact that he found ow very attractive and sex with her was very good, maybe better than sex with his wife means that had his wife not caught him he would have never regretted what he was doing. He only stopped because he lost his wife, not because he didn’t like having sex with another woman. So to me he was absolutely not redeemable, even if he had therapy, made a lot of changes and work on himself, but whatever. She deserved better. The sex scenes with ow and description of how sexy, hot and wild it was was absolutely unnecessary because it had the effect of portraying the hero as a disgusting pig, and after that there was no coming back at all. ...more
Very nice second work of this new indie author. This is a paranormal, with lycan and dragons and witches and other interesting creatures. The theme of rVery nice second work of this new indie author. This is a paranormal, with lycan and dragons and witches and other interesting creatures. The theme of rejected mate is the usual, heroine and hero meet, they understand they’re fated mate, he rejects her because he has a chosen mate and forces her to live at the borders. But after some months, she is just tired of it all and decides to accept his rejection. Turns out he’s not exactly a werewolf, he’s a hellhound, very powerful and angry. Sadly he’s also cursed and bewitched by a couple of evil witches. Thankfully his inner beast is smarter than the man, and since he’s o powerful, he decides to be with his fated mate and let go of the chosen one. But this is just the beginning. The story is very intriguing, the heroine is strong and feisty and the hero poor soul is under a powerful spell so no one can blame him for acting weird. A spell that only his fated mate can break. I won’t spoil too much, but the book is worth reading, it’s angsty but also funny and most of all, it’s safe. The heroine was with his chosen mate before meeting the heroine and after he found out she was his fated mate he couldn’t go near his chosen mate anymore, and let’s not forget he was under a spell, so he was acting not himself. The story is good, the writing is also very good and the banter between the characters is worth reading. ...more
It should be two stars but the third is for the effort the author has done to write in correct Italian and not some awfully made translation. The wordIt should be two stars but the third is for the effort the author has done to write in correct Italian and not some awfully made translation. The words are ok, the translation is ok, just some minor mistakes but all the rest is well checked. It’s also good the description of food and wines, I think the author is fond of wines because it’s not the first time her books have looooong descriptions of wines and their characteristics. Maybe too long. The plot is about a couple that married in an arranged marriage, to please the hero’s grandfather. So after one year, when the old man dies, the hero talk to a friend of his and tells him how he would like to be free of his wife since she is not from his social circle and how his lawyer, btw, a woman he had an affair years before, is far more appropriate as a wife. But mind, he’s faithful, because, lousy, shallow, dumb, selfish, snobby, conceited, boring, disrespectful and gaslighting he might be, but he’s no cheater. Pfew! I mean, he’s a pearl! Soooo, the heroine overhears his conversation and asks for a divorce. She is in love with him, which thing really astounds me since beside his looks there is nothing, not one single thing, about him to love. And I’m not being a bitch, simply stating a fact. Because he basically neglected her, just came back in the evenings and sometimes went for a walk with her, and ok, the sex was good of course, even if he told his friends that it was just average, but the heroine shows a level of desperation and attention seeking that is beyond my every imagination. He’s shallow, he thinks she can’t dress properly, he considers her job in a Roman bistro as something below him, and what’s more, he always has this ow around, that everyone thinks is his mistress. So, what is there to love in someone that low? I just don’t understand. Because if a hero is that repulsive in his behavior what does it tell about the heroine that is in love with him? That she’s an emotionally codependent woman without an ounce of sense of self worth and self respect. Because if you let the man in your life treat you like that, well you deserve it. So, after she leaves him he understands he misses her and tries to persuade her to go back to him. He manages to disrespect her a little bit more and I don’t understand why she didn’t become even more determined to have her freedom from that awful man back, but apparently martyr is her second name. There’s some grovel that imo is more love bombing than true redemption, even if yes, he apologizes, and yes, he chances a lot, so eventually she takes him back. Meh. As usual, the hero’s attractiveness is beyond my comprehension. I really disliked him totally. There are some inconsistencies, and please, it’s not nice when the hero thinks ow is so beautiful, perfect, and he’s attracted to her but he doesn’t want to have an affair with her because he wants his doormat wife back. And he also thinks sex with ow was great. Gross. The comparison between the heroine and ow is always tacky, I wouldn’t recommend it. The author uses it a lot. Then he punishes everyone who treated the heroine badly but he’s the one who treated her worse. So I wasn’t much impressed. But eventually I was able to finish it without hating them both, which was good, because after all, it was an arranged marriage and not a marriage for love, so I couldn’t really blame the hero for not being in love with a woman he married to please his dying grandfather. Safety is good, they meet, get married, and there’s no ow or om. The hero thinks for some time that ow would be a better wife for him, but it’s just a rational thought and not one due to some real attraction or feelings for ow. He never wants to be with ow in that way. Even after the separation. Of course god forbid the heroine had om, even if she has a male friend who’s kind to her and the hero accuses of flirting with him. I know this author has some kind of similarities in her books, this one was anyway ok for my standard because the hero is just spoiled, shallow and clueless, not intentionally cruel, even if he’s careless and not empathetic to her. Just not a likable character is all. And there is no sex with op, which is a great pro for me. ...more
**spoiler alert** It was good. There are a lot of spoilers and triggers so if you don’t want to know, just don’t go on with the review. Triggers: rape, **spoiler alert** It was good. There are a lot of spoilers and triggers so if you don’t want to know, just don’t go on with the review. Triggers: rape, child with op. Hero and heroine are happily married, no issue. So when the heroine bff confronts the hero in front of her and tells her she’s preggo with his child, it’s havoc. Because it’s true. The heroine is shattered, she trusted her husband and her friend, and they betrayed her in the worst way possible. Basically the hero confesses that a couple of months before, the heroine asked him to help her bff with some works in her house. He barely knew her, but accepted anyway. He helped her, they talked and they had some drinks afterwards. He got so drunk that lost his consciousness. He woke up thinking he was making love with his wife, while it was ow riding him. He stopped after a couple of seconds, and threw ow away. They decided not to say anything, but ow found out she was preggo. The hero begs and apologizes, he never wanted ow and he never saw her again. The heroine decides to divorce him and leave town. The hero tries to be supportive during ow pregnancy, but there’s never anything between him and ow. He tries anything to win the heroine back but she only wants a divorce. At the end of her pregnancy he finds out she was already pregnant and was trying to foist another man’s kid on him, because he’s a good and reliable guy but now the father is back and wants the child. The heroine and her sister move to another town. She hooks up with some charming stranger and guess what, she gets pregnant too. Some year later she has to go back to her hometown and she meets the hero again. She doesn’t know anything about him since she blocked him everywhere and never wanted to know about him anymore. She really cut him out. So it’s surprise time for both. The hero reveals he spiraled after learning about ow betrayal, and he sent her to jail, while he went through depression for years. He never moved on. He also tells her the truth about what happened to him that day. He was totally drunk and ow jumped on him while he was not conscious, he stopped after a couple of seconds when he realized ow was not the heroine and he didn’t come, but he thought it was enough to get ow pregnant. Ow also faked dna paternity test. He felt guilty, so he didn’t tell anything to the heroine and that was his mistake. It’s a rape. I don’t even want to hear people debating it because to assault a person while unconscious with evil purposes, it’s rape. He didn’t give his consent and he stopped when he realize what was happening. He didn’t stop immediately but no, I don’t blame him at all, he was drunk and fuzzy, not totally capable of understanding the reality so he was reacting to a physical stimulus induced by another person. It could have been anyone else, even a man, and he would have reacted anyway. He stopped after a few seconds, which makes him brave and strong, not weak. I don’t like people blaming anyone who is assaulted without consent, and I don’t want to hear excuses. Maybe he shouldn’t have drunk that much, because he made himself vulnerable but he trusted the heroine and thought his bff was trustworthy too, so he drank in what he though was a protected and safe environment. And anyway it’s awful to blame the victim, and the hero was a designated victim of an evil woman. The heroine eventually forgives his lie, because that was what he was guilty of, I think that, had he been truthful and confessed what happened, she would have helped him and would have confronted ow. But he was afraid he would lose her, so he lost her anyway. He had to accept that what he did had consequences, because the heroine had a child from another man, and he lost years without her. He was also celibate while she wasn’t of course. I appreciated this different kind of story, where the heroine tries to move on and has a nice life without the hero and the hero pines and tries to know everything about her. I liked that she totally ghosted and cut him out, while he tried to know everything about her, but was not able to find her. I liked that she didn’t plan to be back with him. I liked that she had a very nice sex with another man, a kind and charming stranger. I liked that the heroine eventually forgives had to raise another man’s kid. I didn’t like that he was so nice to ow when she was pregnant and tried to be there for her even if they were never together. This is something I never like and understand and I don’t think a man is a good person if he plays dad to the woman that took advantage of him while drunk and ruined his marriage. I respect and defend the right of a man who didn’t want children to avoid any contact with the child and the mother of his child, even if he’s forced to give alimony. Because let’s be honest, it’s only the woman that decides and has all the powers about children. And if a man says he doesn’t want the child, especially in situations where he’s tricked and trapped, he should not be forced to be a father. But they always are. And in real life, let me tell you this, men don’t react well to be forced into unwanted pregnancies. Even those who are willing participant to the act, but maybe they were told it was safe, and they made it clear they didn’t want kids, they are never that willing to help, be there during scans, help before the kid is born. They often give just a financial aid, and maybe after the child has born they start coping. No judgement here, especially since it’s the woman that always decides if she will keep the child or not, and it’s ok, but she should also be the one to bear the consequences if the father doesn’t agree. Men in similar situations are angry, hurt, they always reject something they don’t feel as a person yet. They don’t feel like it’s their choice. It’s human. So I didn’t like that the hero, realizing the heroine was lost to him, decided to be a model of good father to a child that basically was the cause of his failed marriage. This is not him being good, this is him being foolish and weak. Just stay away and give her the money since she didn’t want to end the pregnancy, but she is not entitled to anything else, not his time, not his care, not emotional support. Hers is the decision, hers is the weight of it. Sadly this doesn’t happen, and he’s suddenly the patient, gentle and caring idiot ow thought he would be. So after all I wasn’t even feeling that sorry that she tricked him, even if I can’t ever condone his rape. I know I’m being unpopular but why keep writing about men that are that oh so happy to be father of a kid they never wanted and that caused only pain and hurt? Is it realistic? Is it fair? No, it’s not and I don’t feel that he’s a better man because he behaves like the doting father, I think he’s betraying the heroine all over again. Sue me. But anyway the story is good, another new author from wattpad that is able to write emotional, interesting and angsty stories....more
Short novella. Hero is a yuppie with shallow and fake friends. Heroine is a hippie, with real and good friends. She’s not accepted by his circle of fake Short novella. Hero is a yuppie with shallow and fake friends. Heroine is a hippie, with real and good friends. She’s not accepted by his circle of fake friends. One of the hero’s friends, a woman, kisses him on the lips to thank him for a promotion. The heroine is very fairly pissed. The hero gaslights her and doesn’t defend her when another drunk friend insults her. She dumps him. He regrets what he has been doing for two years, apparently he wanted his cake and eat it too, meaning he wanted to keep his ego stroking friends and her fiancee. Ow wants him, but he never ever felt attraction to her and when she reveals she loves him he’s stunned. He re-evaluates his life and fires the toxic people from his company and ends friendship with toxic friends. He wins her back. Medium angst. Hero is shallow in the beginning, and I actually couldn’t understand why he wanted the heroine, she was the opposite of everything he valued that is, money, high successful business, hard and shallow people. She’s quite a stereotype, the naive, too good to be true, too kind person who burns sage and loves everyone. Meh. Not my kind of of woman. If someone attacks you either you leave or you strike back, it’s not healthy to stay and have them all attack you time and again. It’s useless and ridiculous. It shows you don’t respect yourself and you think you deserve what they’re saying. Since she thought his friends were toxic she should have been the one to refuse meeting them. Imo she was quite weak, until he really humiliated and was openly disrespectful to her. When one of his friends told her she surely had a golden p**sy if the hero stayed with her. She should have slapped him hard, this is an insult. If you don’t respect yourself and defend your worth you can’t expect other people to respect you. The hero is quite idiot but he changes. The novella is quite short. No cheating, both celibate during separation. Ok reading....more
Not bad but I’m still a bit confused because there are so many people here. It’s basically a ménage with four alpha, a male omega and a female omega. MmNot bad but I’m still a bit confused because there are so many people here. It’s basically a ménage with four alpha, a male omega and a female omega. Mmmm. I don’t want to judge the book, the plot was ok but I was not completely in because I didn’t know how I felt about the male omega. He was the four alphas chosen mate, while the heroin was their fated mate. One alpha has a special bond with the male omega. Sorry not my cuppa....more
Not my usual trope. There’s a ménage with other four men, two of them are in a relationship too, but since here we are in paranormal world where it’s oNot my usual trope. There’s a ménage with other four men, two of them are in a relationship too, but since here we are in paranormal world where it’s ok for a woman to have four men and all is ok, they are all mates and eventually it will be all right. There’s some kind of contest where the heroine will be selected to be this four men’s mate, they don’t want her, because they’re blackmailed so they hurt her until she runs away. Second installment will be the men groveling I suppose. ...more
**spoiler alert** I like this author. My first assessment of her was after I’ve read her first book Barron’s second chance, where, despite the cheating**spoiler alert** I like this author. My first assessment of her was after I’ve read her first book Barron’s second chance, where, despite the cheating hero, she managed to build a heroine that was strong, happy and satisfied even without the hero beside her. This one is very good and deals with one of my favorite tropes, that is an emotional cheating and marriage crisis. I honestly didn’t expect it. The writing is good and the story is very interesting but what I enjoyed most was how different it is from other similar books. Usually, the heroine is betrayed, mistreated, and she has to go through a very hard, celibate and lonely period of time while the hero keeps doing his thangs, usually having sex with ow, dating ow, being quite contented while she stays behind and waits until he mans up and realizes that oh, she’s the one he loves, and other women didn’t matter because even if he had sex with them it was always her. Then she takes the idiot back, after a half assed apology and a lot of old good JD from my part because it takes something very strong to swallow certain bs. Thankfully not this time. Definitely not. Ha. Ha. Ha. My inner bitch, a very nasty, vindictive, bitter bitch that holds a grudge to infinity and beyond, feels very very satisfied by how things ended here. And I know, I’m aware, this is something of a trigger for many readers, which personally I don’t understand even if I respect because we’re of different tastes and what I love and like some other people will loath. But to me it was heaven. So, major spoiler here. We have the usual idiot selfish hero, not a bad one, just a very selfish and self centered one who, after some 12 years with the heroine, in his early 30s, feels frustrated and unhappy because he hates his job while his wife is realizing her dream career, a photographer, and because he feels pressured by her request of having a child. He refuses any help from her father, out of pride, or stubbornness, and feels constricted by his life to the point he has continually arguments with his wife and starts going out after work with his colleagues almost every night. Enter ow, the usual hot piece of ass that is also very touchy feely and very flirty. The heroine tries to remark how it’s not proper to text after work with a female attractive colleague every day, but he gaslights her because hey, she’s just a colleague. He goes on a business trip and lies to the heroine about ow presence, and during one drunken evening where he talks to her about how he never wanted children and how unhappy he is with his wife, he almost kisses her, and stops because he suddenly feels guilty and realizes the impropriety of his behavior. The heroine does a last attempt at saving her marriage, but he sabotages the counseling she proposed, and then reveals that he doesnt want children and never will, leaving the heroine stunned. He also tells her he needs time and proposes a separation. The heroine is both stunned and shattered, but, since her career is taking over, she throws the hero out of their house and plans her new exciting job, that is in a very amenable place in Mexico. He tells her he wants her and loves only her and he won’t date ow at all, but he needs the distance. So, after trying to see him one more time two days before her journey and finding him having lunch with ow, she leaves and decides enough is enough. And she also tells him she’ll stay away for a couple of months by herself. The hero, who is the master of bad, wrong, idiot and selfish decisions, decides to have dinner with ow, but just as a friend since he doesn’t love her, doesn’t want her but since they’re colleagues and friends, he doesn’t see anything wrong to take her out on a fancy and romantic location where ow takes a picture of him for her socials. Ok, yes, he’s that idiot. At the end of the evening where he understands how wrong that dinner was, she kisses him and he stops her after a couple of seconds because once again, he understands he wants his wife only. And yes, you can hate him all you want but now there comes vengeance. Muahahahaha. Because the heroine, heartbroken and shattered by his lies and infidelities ( she thinks he’s dating ow after seeing the picture of him with her), has a ONS with a hot younger man. Oh, yes. You go girl! After the two months, the hero, who’s now realized all he did wrong, from emotionally cheating with another woman, lying, kissing her even if they were separated and selfishly asking for a separation when the heroine wanted to reconcile, wants to win his wife back with every means. And guess what. Surprise surprise. The heroine asks him for a divorce because she’s pregnant. And the kid is not his, but her ONS. And there my inner bitch jumped and pumped her fist up the air with a satisfied whoohoo. I loved this twist. The hero is shattered and left with the weight of his choices and from that moment on, it’s all a big grovel and self beating. Because the idiot understand that she is his everything and nothing makes sense without her. So he becomes a dad for her lil girl, and you don’t know how satisfied I was that he was forced to raise a kid that was not even his, when he didn’t want any, because it’s his atonement. All of this was his atonement because as the heroine pointed out, she would have chosen him over kids, if only he had talked to her and been true to her. Because she did nothing to deserve his awful treatment, so now he has to accept that what happened is his fault and his fault only. I loved this. There’s no point where the heroine is blamed for her choices, after all they were separated because he wanted so, and he dated another woman, if only for one night, while she wanted to reconcile, so no one blames her for trying to forget the pain for one night with another man, better yet if he’s younger, more handsome, hotter and good in bed. In the end all is well, and I rejoiced the fact that not only the hero was blamed and blamed himself for all that happened, but he had to face every day the kids father, and see that he was hotter and younger than him and all because of this was his fault. The heroine was very good, brave and smart, but she was no victim. She’s not revengeful and spiteful, she’s not passive aggressive, she tries in every way to save her marriage even after the stupid hero asked for a separation. So no, in no way what she did was a revenge or acting out for what he did, but surely he paved the path for what happened afterwards. The hero is in the first part quite obnoxious. He’s selfish, grumpy and obviously resentful of his wife because of his own failures. He flirts but it’s a matter of ego and not because he was attracted to ow, even if she was of course attractive. And he doesn’t fall for her, at all. It’s all about him, never about her. He changes completely after she leaves for two months, and when he realizes what his stupidity cost him. Ow, is the usual shallow flirt, she likes the hero and wants him, so she doesn’t care if he’s married. She disappears after he tells her plainly that it was never about her but about him trying to escape his frustrations. Om, is a hot college student, that gives the heroine a good time and some orgasm, and eventually he finds in him to be a good father for his little girl. In the end, I appreciated this book, for once a heroine does what usually only men are allowed to do in romances, and I like this author because she is brave enough to stand out and not write another passive doormat. Safety. Of course it’s not safe since the heroine has a ONS while separated, while the hero stays celibate and only receives a kiss, unwanted, by ow. Cheating, according to those who thinks that until you’re still married you should be faithful of course there is cheating. I wasn’t bothered because when she had her ONS the heroine already decided that they would divorce, and they were anyway separated. For once I could have a heroine that wasn’t celibate while the hero was, and a kid with op that was from the heroine and the hero playing dad to her, while she admitted that she couldn’t regret her ONS because she had her kid, how many times did we have to hear this from the hero who cheated without even a reason?
Second installment where we see the alphas trying to heal their abused mate and she battling with her illness. In the end it is a story of redemption aSecond installment where we see the alphas trying to heal their abused mate and she battling with her illness. In the end it is a story of redemption and very painful truths. They suffered during the time she was sick, they couldn’t have a normal life, they were all broken and burned out. And I liked this because usually the hero lives his life while waiting for the heroine to heal. Here we see four broken men who try to accommodate their jobs while taking care of the heroine, and hurting because she’s sick. So imo it was atonement. There’s a bit of mystery and more truth are revealed. Sex is only in the final pages, and it was not too much, so I was ok with it. Safety is good. There are some loopholes, I still don’t get how the heroine managed to persuade the villain to jump from a cliff, or why she accepted to take the blame of everything. But it was anyway a good book, with a lot of angst....more
This was more a mystery than a romance. The heroine was also the other woman when she met and fell in love with the ML, that was already married with cThis was more a mystery than a romance. The heroine was also the other woman when she met and fell in love with the ML, that was already married with children but got a separation because he fell in love with the heroine. So the husband has got a precedent. They’ve been married for six years, she had a promising career in the television but she left it because the husband wanted her to stay at home and have a more conventional job. She accepted. Then there’s another woman, a younger assistant that tells the heroine she’s going to marry her husband and when the heroine tells her husband, he laughs it off. One of the ML friends is murdered. It turns out it was his wife, and the man was an abuser and a wife beater. The ML refuses to believe it while the heroine believes the woman when she tells her story. So they fight. The ML starts coming back home later and the heroine suspects he has an affair with ow. In the end, he really was having an affair with ow. The book is not unpleasant. The heroine is real, not some fake, stereotypical woman. She tries to fight for her husband. For her marriage. For a relationship with his kids that loath her because she’s the woman his father left them for. She tries to accommodate his endless requests, until she even begs him to leave ow and stay with her, but he won’t. He expected her to wait until he explored things with ow. In the end the heroine realizes how much she has given up for a man who’s not worth it, until she became something she didn’t recognize. The ML is a selfish, spoiled, whiny, needy man who’s also unable to stay faithful and with a small puny ego that requires a lot of approval from the woman who’s with him. In the end she dumps his sorry ass and what she says to ow when she tells her she’s won her husband is something I really loved. Because honest. What did ow win? A man who only sees his needs and never sees his partner. She won’t have kids because he doesn’t want them. She won’t be able to have a career because he comes first. She won’t have a relationship with his kids because his ex wife is a bitch and the ML always agrees with her to avoid any fight. And she will have to watch her back constantly because he is fickle and his attention has a very short span. He’s a lawyer, but he’s not even rich because he gives his ex a lot of money. And he’s definitely older. So, well, good riddance. We sees that the heroine realizes that as other women who were abused, those even physically, she also complied with her husband when he abused her emotionally and psychologically not leaving him and not reclaiming back her freedom to be herself. This is a good lesson on how women should never forget who they are and what they are worth for any man at all. There’s no hero and no man for this heroine in this book, but it feels like she will find a better man who’s more worthy of her, now that she has gained her confidence back. The heroine is a bit hurt, but it’s more a process where she realizes that she won’t ever be happy with him anymore, even if there won’t be a ow. I’m glad she didn’t take him back and she realized that the only right thing to do was to leave his sorry ass. Let ow take him and enjoy what he has to offer. Ha! ...more
I liked it. Unexpected because I am not into reverse harem at all, but here there is nothing sexual about it, and it’s more a very angsty mystery that I liked it. Unexpected because I am not into reverse harem at all, but here there is nothing sexual about it, and it’s more a very angsty mystery that was very good because it has a crescendo that reveals everything in the end. So, as I said, there is absolutely no sex here, but just a mate bond that the heroine and the heroes feel some time into the story, a dark and emotional story where you can’t put the book down to know what is happening. The heroine grew up with the heroes and one of their brothers, a future alpha. He died and the heroine is considered responsible for his death since she sent a vocal to his brother, telling that she did not want them but just the brother, who afterwards died jumping from a cliff. So she’s banned from the town and everyone hates her, heroes included and they cruelly rejects her when they find out she’s preggo. She’s also very sick, terminal with a mysterious illness that only in the end will be cleared what is. Of course things are not how they look and the truth is really awful, you can see and guess glimpses of it reading the book, because the man who died was not who everyone thought he was. Not going to spoil it, but the heroine had a very hard life and is spared nothing. Her own father is a good to nothing, and he leaves when he sees how sick she is. She has to work even if she doesn’t have the strength and is always in a very great pain. She is alone and in the end she gives up. The heroes are stupid and cruel but they eventually realized they are wrong. There’s a cliffhanger. A lot of angst. Safe, all the heroes are virgin. No sex. ...more