I loved it. Hero and heroine are a weird pair, she’s a very sunny and open woman who is also a very successful hairdresser, while he’s an introvert lawI loved it. Hero and heroine are a weird pair, she’s a very sunny and open woman who is also a very successful hairdresser, while he’s an introvert lawyer. She tries to get him out of his shell, but when she overhears him and a woman in his office she thinks he’s cheating on her and she breaks up with him. No, he didn’t cheat and never did, but he was also very inconsiderate because he never tried to include her in his social life, which is not that great but anyway she thought at a certain point that he didn’t love and was ashamed of her. For some part, I didn’t like him, because he really took her for granted, but on the other side, I liked him because he was surely very socially awkward and always felt like she wa too good for him. The heroine is no doormat pushover. She makes him work very hard for a second chance and is even a bit cruel to him, but in the end all is well. She really loved him wholly and was very hurt that he didn’t show her the same consideration, so I can understand her bitter attitude and some unkind words she said to him. It was her pain talking. This is a debut book, I think, and a good one. Safety good, both celibate and with no other during their separation even if the heroine has a couple of dates with a guy just to make the hero jealous, but nothing happens. ...more
Trigger warning for this one, another mafia book with the usual things, a lot of violence, a lot of deaths, a lot of torture and rape. The heroine has Trigger warning for this one, another mafia book with the usual things, a lot of violence, a lot of deaths, a lot of torture and rape. The heroine has the worst brother in the world, he deals with mafia and steals money to mafia men so they take the heroine instead. Since she’s a nurse the hero who’s basically besotted with her since he sees her, decides that he won’t kill her but he will use her as a nurse for his men. lol! Of course there is a lot of lust and plenty of sex between the characters that i skipped because. The hero finds out she was sold by her brother to some of his men who raped her and tortured her for days some years before. He kills everyone involved in this, from his father to her brother to all the people involved. Ok, mafia thangs aside, some things were really ott. The hero should be the cruelest and most savage mafia boss in the world, he kills for fun and bathed himself with his enemies blood. But when his sister comes to see him, he gets emotional, his words. This made me LMFAO. I was, just. No, really? The big bad wolf gets emotional? Puhleeease! And then the heroine gets pregnant. The hero proposes because his father expects him to marry her since she’s preggo. And the heroine, who was basically a prisoner before this, gets angry and pissed because she thought it was the hero who wanted to propose because he wanted to, not because his father forced him to. Duuuude. Really? Woman. You’re living as a prisoner with the worst mafia men in town and you’re being difficult for a stupid detail like this? I just couldn’t. And then, the heroine is pregnant and a prisoner, and the hero enjoys making her jealous just because. Man. Grow up. I thought he had more important things to do, as kill and maim some dozens of people. Whatever. These are hard times for romance, and I have to do with what I am able to find. And it wasn’t that bad. Both celibate after meeting. Hero is never completely nasty, for the mob boss that he is....more
Amazing angst and amazing writing style. The author is really good, no doubts about that. What made me rate just three and not four was the absolute awAmazing angst and amazing writing style. The author is really good, no doubts about that. What made me rate just three and not four was the absolute awful hero. Ok, I admit that he eventually changed and became a hopelessly besotted guy, and he apologized and groveled, but maaaan, was he vicious. And without cause. The author tries to write what she’s better at. Marriages in trouble. Unwanted bride, and in this case she extended the unwanted to the unexpected child. The hero and the heroine meet at a party, she’s quiet, shy, mousy, and he is strangely attracted to her, so they decide to have a quickie that ends really bad, basically the worst sex of his life and of hers, since she’s also a virgin. They part without exchanging numbers, of course and a couple of months later they meet at her stepfathers. She proposes an arranged marriage, since she’s the heiress and the stepdad is keeping her basically prisoner to exploit her money. She’s also preggo. The hero accepts in exchange of the company he wanted to buy from her stepfather, that is basically the company of her mother. So, both have a personal interest, but he’s quite pissed which I didn’t really understand. He should be grateful that he had a company worth hundreds of millions for free, just to stay married with he for three years, so she can be protected from her stepdad. I didn’t understand his grumpy face, that she described resting grump face, but i would say resting bitch instead, because he had no reason to be rude with her, yet he was. He’s awful regarding the child, ok it wasn’t planned but man up! He’s 30 something, not 22. And he keeps being unpleasant to her when she did nothing to offend him. He tells her she is not to become friend with his family since she’s just a guest, he tells his father she’s plain, a moth, and the opposite of what he wanted as a wife, and he tells her he doesn’t want to have anything to do with the kid. He’s unpleasant. He’s also very selfish and self centered, and no, I don’t buy when the author would like us to believe that he was always thinking of other peoples wellbeing since with the heroine when he talks it’s always I, me mine. Me me me me mememememememememe. It’s always about him, a hat he wants, how he feels and doesn’t feel, what he thinks and everything has to accommodate his feelings. Jesus. I must admit I’ve never read such an unpleasant character, such a rude, cold, bratty man. And yes, emotionless, beside the endless self love and self centered attention he lavish on himself. I just wished the heroine would have been a bit more forceful, but admittedly she couldn’t do that since she had always been secluded in college and bearding school so I suppose she had to find her own strength. But it would have been very satisfying if she had been a bit catty and bitchy instead of simply staying silent and suck it up. He deserved someone who answered properly, not the poor scared little heroine. But the angst was great. The story also has a development and the hero changes his ways around her and their kid. It’s definitely a slow burn, both between the characters and with the unborn kid. The heroine finds some strength towards the end, but she keeps thinking something is wrong with her instead of simply letting the asshole husband go and do her things. And the body shaming. I don’t know why the author keeps reiterating that the heroine is plain, colorless and unremarkable on the looks department, but it was grating my nerves. And how could she be plain? She’s described as slender, toned, with white blond long hair, large grey eyes, pointed chin and small straight nose. Well, many models could fit this description so how is she plain? Because she’s pale? But then she has a makeover and new clothes and wow, she’s stunning. I just didn’t appreciate the dichotomy gorgeous hero/plain heroine since there’s too much focus on it. Safety is good. Hero had some affairs but never serious in the past, apparently he dated models, socialites, pop stars but after he met the heroine there was nobody else. Heroine is a virgin. ...more
This was an ok reading. Hero is a hockey player, he meets the heroine at a bar and they have a ONS. She’s the daughter of two lawyers that wants their This was an ok reading. Hero is a hockey player, he meets the heroine at a bar and they have a ONS. She’s the daughter of two lawyers that wants their daughters to marry men of their choosing because they want to increase their clients. The heroine refuses and she becomes a nurse. After the ONS she leaves the hero’s room without waking him up. He looks for her desperately. He basically fell for her in insta love and decides he will give one year to finding her. The heroine realizes she’s pregnant and finds out he’s a famous hockey player. Sadly it’s not so easy since he has an agent that is psycho obsessed with him so she blocks the heroine and even gives her a restraining order, the heroine asks her father to help but apparently he’s not able to do it because of psycho agent. In the end they will meet thanks to some friends. She already has had his son. Psycho ow drama again, with the delusional woman who is not stopped by anything and manages to hurt the heroine, not severely though. Some op drama, her sister married a wife beater and then cheated on him with her brother in law. Another brother of the hero is divorcing his gold digging wife. The book is quick reading, low angst and completely safe. There’s insta love from his part. The hero is celibate for one year because he wants to find the love of his life, I think since he’s such a famous character he could have used the media, but he did not, and so the heroine could. Today it’s basically impossible to stay hidden. The hero though, even if he’s sometimes naive, as when he allows psycho ow agent to dictate his public image, and pretends to date a woman, is really a darling. He only ever had the heroine in his mind and in his heart and was never tempted by any other woman which I appreciate very much. He was very believable with his obsession, even when it seemed too ott, but for once it’s good to see a hero who’s not victim of his baser instincts as if he were 16. The heroine is a pleasant woman. She is no doormat and she is a bit slower to fall for him. She’s 22, very young, but she’s mature enough. Her parents change when they realize they put their daughters in danger forcing them to men who were evil and vicious. This part is a bit rushed. I can recommend it to my safety friends and to those who looks for a quick and entertaining reading....more
Eh this was bad. But I must say that I didn’t like both characters because both made wrong choices. They’re in their late 30, she’s 36, living in a smalEh this was bad. But I must say that I didn’t like both characters because both made wrong choices. They’re in their late 30, she’s 36, living in a small town so everyone know everyone. They’ve been what, f- buddies for not one not two, not ten but twenty years . Yes, that’s it. 20 years of being f-buddies because he’s commitment phobic. Every time she makes a move to become more, he rejects her, so she leaves him but he comes back pleading and she accepts the same arrangement. So now, at 36, she has enough and he gets scared that he will be alone so he decides to pursue her seriously this time. She tries to date a nice guy but you know, they’ve known forever and there’s no spark. This is what happens when you live in one of those cozy, small, tiny American town. You’re all related in one way or another. The hero makes a 180 turn and he works hard to win her back. So, the reason for his phobia is that he saw a cop murdered and he had to tell his wife, so he promised he would never get married to avoid his wife went through this. But anyway he was neglectful, he didn’t even remember her birthday, he was nothing more than exclusive f-buddy , because thank god he was only with her. I don’t like them both. She wanted more, but never stood up for herself for 20 years which is why I liked her less than I liked him. And he was the typical selfish male. He only changed his ways when she tried to date om. Which is, if the book was written 40 years ago they would say, why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free. There’s also one secondary plot, with him and his parents. And of course he runs away leaving the heroine high and dry. I wouldn’t want him even if he were the only man in town....more
Whatever. I’m done with this author. I don’t rate it because I think I wouldn’t be fair to trash a book that is not badly written, on the contrary it’s Whatever. I’m done with this author. I don’t rate it because I think I wouldn’t be fair to trash a book that is not badly written, on the contrary it’s well written and quite pleasant to read. But it’s not my thang. And I was bored and annoyed all the time. - first of all, it’s definitely chick lit and it’s not something I like. The heroine and her girlfriends are the focus. - they’re teenagers. Mmmmm. - the hero is from the wrong side of the town, but he lacks all the repressed rage that usually have these kind of young heroes, he doesn’t have bad boy vibes, which is something I definitely appreciated. I don’t like those fake bad boys. He’s not. But the author couldn’t keep him completely good, actually he does that kinda clandestine fights because he’s the kid of an unmarried woman and has to help her. The. Fuggin. Clandestine. Fights. When will this cliche end? - the heroine is a virgin because her boyfriend cheats on her and refuses to have sex with her because she’s not ready. While the hero has a lot of ONS with willing girls. Stop this fuggin double standards. What’s wrong with these American authors? Are they really this prude and narrow minded that they think sex is dirty and wrong except with your future husband? Because this is medieval. I could accept it in those romances of the 80s because there was a lot of social pressure on women and double standards were the rule, but now it’s unacceptable. - why is the heroine always with a cheating azzhole? Can’t she be in a healthy relationship? Really. - ok they were not attracted to each other and were only school friends but anyway this double standard has to end. As in yesterday because it’s long due. - so no, I didn’t like it at all and I think it’s a me thing but I prefer me and this author to amicably part ways so I won’t rate it. ...more
If you are tired of MC books that are violence and sex with a very sad story between the characters. If you don’t think all bikers are oversexed, promiIf you are tired of MC books that are violence and sex with a very sad story between the characters. If you don’t think all bikers are oversexed, promiscuous, cheaters, disrespectful and care for everyone except the woman they claim to love. If you don’t want to hear about club girls that are just petty and evil. This is the book for you. There’s a bit of mess because the hero and his abusive childhood are hardly explained so we all think he’s some kind of ahole with commitment phobia, but he had a sadist criminal of a father and he had to see multiple and devastating abuses that made him afraid of commitment. He knows his world is a world of violence and he’s afraid that if he falls in love he will eventually lose the woman he loves. The hero is very intense and his feelings are very deep. He feels an instant attraction to the heroine and does everything in his power to make her hate him, he taunts her, he body shames her, he makes her believe he’s having sex with everyone but her. But the attraction is impossible to deny and so he decides to tell her that he is ok with sex but not exclusive and nothing more. So the heroine leaves. He regrets it, and tries to win her back, because even if it was his goal, to make her leave, he can’t stay away from her. I loved that he couldn’t deny his attraction and his feelings for her, that he’s thorn between her and all the fear and the trauma that were his childhood. Annnd no, he didn’t have sex with any other women after he met her, and hear, hear, he was never a manwhore and never had sex with ow since he was 19, he only had the occasional bj from a club girl, but no sex and no kiss. Anyway, an almost celibate hero and a committed one. The heroine is also a senator’s daughter, of course her father is evil and corrupt and there’s a lot of drama between a couple of clubs, but no one of the characters are seriously injured which I liked because I don’t love too much violence and especially I don’t love that the hero realizes he loves the heroine after she nearly died. I prefer that she is safe and sound when he declares his love, as in this one. So, the book is ok. The hero is quite nasty in the beginning but I could understand his behavior that came from a lot of trauma, and because he is a very intense and emotional guy that feels very deeply which I like. There’s also a lot of sex, for those who love smutty. I didn’t mind because it was always between the hero and the heroine and not with op. Oh, those bikers do have feelings. We can see them cry, as in real tears, for their love and I liked it a lot. Apparently they’re human after all. ...more
Both were scarred by their childhood and didn’t want to fall in love because love hurts. lol. They decide to get married for one year renewable for threBoth were scarred by their childhood and didn’t want to fall in love because love hurts. lol. They decide to get married for one year renewable for three. Lol. At the end of the first year the heroine leaves because she has caught feelings. He doesn’t follow. Three months later she has amnesia and he takes her back. When she remembers she tells him she loves him. He runs. She waits. He comes back. Hea with surprise pregnancy, since he had a vasectomy. Not bad, not great too since there is too much introspection and too little action, it may be less than 200 pages but it looks like both are trapped into their mind and into the trauma they had. It was going in circles again and again. A lot of sex. Because they stayed for sex, even if afterwards they caught feelings like it was a bug. Both celibate during separation. ...more
I’m not a fan of MC books and the more I read them the more I sigh. The promiscuous heroes, the sex with other women, the double standard and the extrI’m not a fan of MC books and the more I read them the more I sigh. The promiscuous heroes, the sex with other women, the double standard and the extreme violence just don’t suit me. This one was somehow better. There are a hero and a heroine who had both very difficult childhood, she had a stepmother who was abusive and a father who allowed the abuses, and he had a father who is a psychopath and a sadist. They meet when they’re 18 and 19. He is a fuckboy, never with the same girl for more than one night stand, but after being with the heroine he decides to offer a FWB kind of agreement until he finish college. Three years later they end their affair, the heroine being herself quite against commitment, family and marriage. Both have feelings but try to deny it. The hero misses her already after two weeks but guess what, she’s preggo. He bulldoze her into marriage, even if she begs not to, and he feels betrayed because he thinks she wanted to trap him. Why he is thinking that, I just don’t know. In fact she was very adamant not to marry him. Things get worse. And this is where the heroines dumb choices will ruin them both. She is attacked by his abusive father, and loses her child. Instead of telling him what happened, she decides to lie and tell she wasn’t pregnant. So he thinks that she definitely wanted to trap him. His prez forces them to stay married for five years, which thing I just didn’t understand, so the hero, since he’s an immature and self centered man, decides to abandon her, giving her a credit card and a flat, and going to her once a month for some bad sex. So, for three years he goes on like that, holding a grudge and hurting because he loves her but thinks she doesn’t love him and is only using him. He is faithful, even if he tries to watch op having sex to see if his lil useless penis can work, but sadly, and this is something that I really found very sad, since he’s very young, he can’t even get hard watching naked women have sex in front of him. I think it’s effect of overexposure to sex. It’s not good for libido. I don’t think he wanted to be unfaithful, he also has a stalker who continually offers him sex and he keeps rejecting her, so I think he didn’t really want to be unfaithful, not with his body and not with his mind. I don’t even think he was emotionally unfaithful since he didn’t even enjoy watching sex and didn’t have any attachment to any women, so imo he was only being stubborn doing something he knew would hurt his wife. About the heroine, well, she’s not weak, she’s not a doormat and she’s not pining for him, she even admits she doesn’t know if she still has feelings for him, after all she didn’t want to have a child while she was working two jobs and trying to get her degree, and she never wanted a family, so she is the one who is doing better, because she manages to find a job as a teacher, as she wanted, and she moves into a flat of her own, even if it’s small, and she even manages to have friends and a good relationship with her lil brother who is being abused by her evil stepmother. Basically she’s only waiting for a divorce to get rid of the hero, and it never seemed to me she was waiting for him to change his mind. All in all, she’s resilient and strong. I loved this. The hero eventually finds out that his father is threatening and has threatened her in the past, so he decides to let his hurt pride go and plans to win the heroine back. A lot of things happen, the evil stepmother doing her things, the hero’s stalker doing hers, his father’s club trying to kill, rape and sell people. Both the hero and the heroine are hurt, because this is MC romance and you have to expect it. In the end all is well, and we have the pleasure (not) to meet other future despicable heroes and the women they will abuse and betray before they are together, and by what I could read, I won’t be reading their story. There is a man who has sex with the girl who’s pining for him and then one week later he has sex with her bff, having a pregnancy scare, there is a man who threatens his gf because his ex lied to him and they’re separated for years, of course none of them is celibate. So I don’t think I will read their stories. This one, beside the hero watching other women having sex and failing to get hard, has a celibate hero, and only a lot of silly misunderstandings. Both characters are broken, both have commitment issues, but imo they are both very strong and surprisingly their love appears to be strong enough to overcome whatever issue they will have. She’s no doormat and he’s no cheating ahole. They are also very young, in their early twenties so I can be more lenient than if they were in their thirties. When you’re very young you tend to see everything in black or white, so I can accept him thinking she betrayed him and her not being able to communicate what happened. She was told he was with ow when she was miscarrying so she didn’t tell him at all. So, a lot of action here, and some dumb characters who cannot communicate properly, the book was not difficult to read....more
This is one of the few KA where the hero is actually a good guy. I don’t actually like this group of rock chicks, basically some poor deluded women livThis is one of the few KA where the hero is actually a good guy. I don’t actually like this group of rock chicks, basically some poor deluded women living in a small town full of unbelievable aholes that think they’re tough girls, just because they drink and talk dirty. I appreciate the circle of friendship between women, that is something a bit different from the usual dicothomy between the heroine and the other women who are always against each other, but that’s all. Their men are more or less all very low in expectation bar, that is, they have a working penis and they can use it, for the moment. They also can use weapons, like guns and knives. Because those small town in USA are really very dangerous and full of hidden criminals, psychos, mobsters. A woman can never know. So, the heroine has just left her very abusive and criminally involved boyfriend, after many years of abuses, and is not looking for a safe place with her uncle. She meets the hero who’s a cop, a nice and good man. Actually one of the best of this crew. She’s also very low on self esteem and she thinks he’s much better than her, a woman who’s been for years with a criminal, and she suffers from her past abuses, both emotional and physical. The lil fucker, who’s indeed a lil fucker, manages to find, kidnap, abuse her time and again even though the small town is full of such tough and armed guys, until in the end the crew is able to subdue and capture him. I admit this is one of the few where the hero is better than the heroine. He loves her, wants her, and does his best to persuade her to keep him. I wanted to tell her that if she just was determined not to keep him, I could take him home. I already have three cats, one dog, and one canary. And my house is big and has a nice garden. Thankfully she kept him in the end, and the lil fucker ex was taken. I appreciate that there was some action but it wasn’t totally violent or extreme. Both celibate after meeting, wow, I still can’t believe it. ...more
Short novella with some dark twists. The heroine is a rich girl who falls in love with the hero, a penniless musician. Her father helps him but when thShort novella with some dark twists. The heroine is a rich girl who falls in love with the hero, a penniless musician. Her father helps him but when they get married her father gets mad and sends the hero to do a job where he will lose his life. Or so he thinks. Five years later he’s back as a musician in a very successful band, but he has no memory. He was ambushed, tortured and beaten for days until he managed to get free. He stayed in a hospital for months then he met one of the guys in the band and they helped him. The heroine had a child, because she was pregnant when he disappeared. When he sees her again accidentally he recovers his memory and from there, it’s angsty galore. The heroine had these weird dreams of a redhead woman and he stayed celibate because he knew there was someone waiting for him, the rest of the story it’s him and his daughter getting to know each other, and him and the heroine having sex and what’s. So, there’s a lot of angst because the heroine was alone and never spoke to her father since the heroine disappeared. Now the evil father is dead, it would have been nice if he’d been alive because he never met the granddaughter and its said he had regrets. Regrets my azz. The poor hero suffered unbelievable tortures for days who left him permanently scarred. But in the end both were happy. Both celibate, both one and only love. It was a palate cleanser. Very short and emotional, and strangely I found the most emotional scene was when the hero met his lil daughter, they both were amazing. I liked the hero more than I liked the heroine, but she suffered too and in the beginning she thought he was pretending his amnesia and that he left her willingly, but when she finds out the truth she apologizes. ...more
Good in a vero KA kind of good, that is: - a lot of long descriptions about the heroine’s dresses, her shoes, her hair. - a lot of long descriptions abGood in a vero KA kind of good, that is: - a lot of long descriptions about the heroine’s dresses, her shoes, her hair. - a lot of long descriptions about rooms, houses, the animals and pets in the story. - loooong, very long dialogues that could have been ten pages shorter but, because KA loves derailed speech and unfocused communication, her characters take pages to say what would take a few good lines and you must be very careful because the meaning is hidden in those very convoluted and unfocused pages. - a hero who messes up somehow, in this case it was not so bad and quite understandable. - a hero who is domineering and controlling and a heroine who likes it. So, the heroine is new in town and has a hookup with the hero. She never had hookups before because she was the sensibile and responsible one while her mother was some kind of hippy that left her abusive husband when the heroine and her sister were kids. The heroine is the typical good girl, sweet and cute as a button, while the hero had his heart broken by his fiancee, the woman he was engaged for years and wanted to marry, but that left him behind when his father died, to run after her brother who was a criminal and a delinquent. So now the hero doesnt think he will be ever able to love again and after a couple of dates with the heroine, where they have a lot of sex and fun, he decides to let her go, because his ex is coming back and even if he is not in love with her anymore he still is not over her betrayal. The heroine is hurt but of course it was only a couple of dates and she knew about his ex, so she moves on with her life. This breakup lasts a couple of weeks and ends the first time they accidentally meet again in town. The hero by then realized that he wants to explore what they have and ow is not anymore on his radar. So, there are a lot of secondary characters as usual in KA books, there are a sister with a cheating husband and an infant, there is a brother who comes home, there are friends, there is a crazy ex and there is of course ow, that is ready to be with the hero again. There is also some drama, a lot of talking about their respective childhood with their traumas, there is a relationship that builds between the hero and the heroine, a good one. I must admit i did not find anything wrong with this hero, he is quite pleasant and definitely good. His feelings for ow are dead, but he was hurt and initially he was not ready to fall in love again for fear of being hurt again. He did not want ow, and he is always very clear about it, there were not residual feelings for her, and his feelings for the heroine were very strong since the start, so his doubts in the beginning were about his fear of being hurt, and not about he could want another chance with ow. He is the typical KA man, that, when a woman leaves him, he deletes every love he could have for her and never ever considers taking her back. So, do not worry, he was not in love with ow and he could have her back anytime but he never wanted anymore. This is one thing i noticed about KA, her innate male chauvinism, when a woman leaves a man, he never ever takes her back no matter the reasons, while when a man leaves a woman she must take him back no matter the futility of the reasons why he left her, either shes a cold hearted bitch. Annoying, but this time I dont want to be to fussy, this hero actually is a very good man, he accepts the heroine sister with her infant kid, he accepts to live in a farm because the heroine has horses, chickens and whatever, he is ready to give her and her sister the world and all his big money. And no, ow was not bad. She is actually good, and she is sorry, but she left him so she is out. The heroine is the usual Uhm woman, that is, she seems quite unable to respond to the hero with something more than ummmm. Well, ok. So, good story, good hero, nice heroine and not much angst and drama. I can well recommend it to everyone because it is completely safe. ...more
Gad wtf have I just read. I thought it wouldn’t be so bad, but I should have listened to those reviews of my friends here. It is very bad. Worse than baGad wtf have I just read. I thought it wouldn’t be so bad, but I should have listened to those reviews of my friends here. It is very bad. Worse than bad. The main issue is ow. Basically we have a hero who meets the heroine, falls in love with her and starts dating her and it’s alright until his bff, a woman, tells him a lot of lies, and he believes her and basically ghosts the heroine. This bff is also his friend with benefits, that he uses when he has not an officiali gf. But she’s also a dear friend of all his family and he’s known her since they were kids. The reason for the ghosting is that the heroine and he had organized a blind date with her friend and his brother, but her friend left before she met the hero’s brother and ow made him think the heroine was making fun of his brother for a petty revenge. Dude. It’s high school all over again? Whatever. Years later he meets her again accidentally and he understands he made a mistake and he misjudged her so he tries to win her back because he never moved on. Oh, don’t worry. He never moved on means he hasn’t married because he had a lot of women and he’s still screwing ow bff on his free time. Of course this ow has plans on him. His brothers and people around him have everyone understood that ow wants him for himself but since he’s dumber than a jellyfish he doesn’t believe anyone and he still thinks ow loves him as a friend and she wants only what is good for him. lol. When the hero and the heroine are dating again, ow tells she’s pregnant and the hero ghosts the heroine again. Of course it’s fake, and the heroine is the one who’s pregnant but honest, it looked like a bad soap opera on a low budget. What can I say. It was ludicrous. First of all, the rule is, when ow is a bff, to be believable she doesn’t have to screw the hero. If she does, of course her credibility is none because borders are crossed and it’s not only just friends. Here she is actually a friend with benefit, one he had sex just a few weeks before he met the heroine again, which is bad. So this woman is in the hero’s life for years, not only as his bff, but also having sex with him over the years which makes me think… if he really finds her so good to have sex with and she’s his bff, why don’t you two get together? Because it doesn’t make sense. It was quite weird when they were at college the first time, but it still was a bit more understandable because they were all of them young, horny, promiscuous, but years later, why is the hero still screwing her? Then the second time he ghosted the heroine he was unbelievable. She also saw him kissing ow and making out with her at the movies, and his excuse is that he was trying to keep her quiet since she was threatening to keep the child from him. Another thing authors should remember. When a man accidentally gets pregnant a woman he doesn’t love and doesn’t want a kid with, he is always, and I am not joking, always, angry, disappointed, annoyed, because he didn’t plan it and didn’t want the kid. So, please, stop. If you write about men try to write as men would think and act if it were real life and in my profession I’ve never seen a guy who had a random unplanned pregnancy being so attached to the kid when it’s not even born. Men don’t have the same instant attachment that mothers have to unborn kids, because they can’t feel it immediately and if they didn’t plan it and if they didn’t want to have one with that woman, they usually don’t care if the woman will keep it or not, and often they are ok if the woman decides not to keep it. So this thing that is always on books, that men who have unplanned pregnancy with women they don’t care to have kid with, become immediately enthusiastic about the idea of having the kid and are immediately ready to do anything to keep it and to be in their lives, is not believable and not realistic. This is not e being sexist, because it’s quite normal that a man, even an adult one, takes months to accept the idea of a child he didn’t want. So when things like this happen, well, the book becomes science fiction where in a dystopian world men are euphoric every time they get a random pregnant. In the end the heroine gets the prize, that is the zero, but ow doesn’t get comeuppance enough for all the damages she caused. Honestly. I couldn’t really blame her totally because the pig hero used her for years as a blowup doll in his free time from a relationship to another, which was awful, disgusting and disrespectful. The hero was the one I wanted to stay away from. After his behavior the first time, I would have pretended not to know him or I would have lied to him and told him I was gay, to avoid his advances. He’s the worst of scums, and the heroine is the worst of doormat.
Just no. The heroine is hired by the hero to be his pa and his pimp, that is she has to provide him with women to fuck. This goes on for at least seven Just no. The heroine is hired by the hero to be his pa and his pimp, that is she has to provide him with women to fuck. This goes on for at least seven months, and his final goal is, make his ex cheating fiance jealous and win her back. Second part of the book is him having sex with the heroine while trying to win his ex back and treating the heroine like cum dumpster and shit while being nice to his cheating ex. Horrible book....more
So, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accidSo, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accident and couldn’t save a child was quite good. He slides into depression, he’s unable to find some peace. He doesn’t feel anything, typical depression. He behaves abominably, but then again, typical, and sadly, a man in his situation is unable to save himself, and gets even worse. He’s harsh, he gambles, he drinks, these are all dysfunctional coping mechanisms and very realistic, so it was ok for me. Then after some time, he pushes the heroine away telling he needs a break because he doesn’t love her. Again, unhealthy defense mechanism that we can’t blame on him. People with these disorders are sick, and they don’t have to be considered jerks, selfish, pricks or whatever. They do what they can because they live in constant pain and don’t have the correct strategies to overcome their pain. I wasn’t feeling angry with him but I was feeling sorry. The heroine I must admit, tried very hard to help him but, poor darling, she didn’t have the means to help him and she should have tried to find help outside, that is a therapist. He needed therapy, and she needed therapy too because she was hurt and scared. People don’t know how to deal with mental disorders, they often think that mental disorders are imaginary and not real but sadly they are real. The heroine is shattered and thinks the hero doesn’t want her anymore, so she leaves him. He also had some kind of fight club, where he spent time fighting other people. Duh. So, this part was ok. Five years later. She was pregnant when she left him and she didn’t tell him, she went back to her mother who helped her with the kid. Even if the woman was good and ok, she never tried to mend the breakup of the young couple, she wasn’t a help in this sense, even knowing the hero had a trauma he wasn’t willing to deal with. Now, the hero and the heroine meet again and the heroines mother tells him she’s sick. But he doesn’t do anything to meet and talk with the heroine. They meet because she goes to his club where she meets also some women who had sex with him. Apparently he wasn’t celibate and has many women. So, the couple don’t know what to do with themselves. Here is where the story goes downhill. He’s angry that she never told him he had a daughter. She tells him he was an addict and she didn’t want her child near him. He blames her because she left him and she apologizes. This was wrong. Yes, she should have helped him before he spiraled into addiction and should have tried to send him to therapy, this is for sure. But she wasn’t equipped for recognizing his disorder, since she’s not a psychologist or a counselor. She thought he was simply tired of her. So why didn’t I like it? Because of his cheating? Well, that was a part of it, but since he was sick it is not something that, as the other behaviors of addictions, I can blame on him. I wasn’t fond of this hero to begin with. He was weak when he was at college, he was with shallow people and was shallow and inconsistent himself. I shouldn’t have given him a second glance when I met him because he’s the typical selfish, immature, self absorbed guy I always avoided in my teen years. And this made me good because I always had long and healthy relationships even when I was a teenager. Because I knew that bad boys, selfish boys, shallow boys are just that, and they are not charming, good and supportive partners as in, ever. So when I read a story of a girl who is fascinated by that kind of guy I remember all those girlfriends of mine who came to me crying because those bad boys had broken their heart, and I thought to myself, well what did you expect from someone like that? Back to business. So, I didn’t like how the story went because the hero never had therapy, he never understood what was wrong with him and blamed the heroine because when she couldn’t help him anymore, she left him. No, that is absolutely wrong. He needed help, as addicts need help, as depressed need help, as all the people with mental issues need help. This doesn’t mean their family has to put up with all their issues if these issues are unhealthy, toxic, and dangerous. The hero was spiraling and yes, the heroine should have told him to ask for help, but, if he reused it, and it looks like he wasn’t that keen on getting help, she was never forced to stay, especially with a child on the way. I’ve seen too often what life means for those poor partners who decide to stay with chronically addicted people, or chronically disturbed people. It’s impossible after some time. And if these people don’t leave they risk having mental issues themselves. So the hero’s accusations reflects his inner selfish and coward character that he had still at college. He still was that entitled, shallow, selfish prick who always blames other people for his failures. He should have apologized and apologized and apologized, and he should have gotten therapy, that he never had. The heroine is a weak pushover, because let’s be honest, who fall in love with such a character? He had nothing to love to begin with, and I’m speaking about college, before the accident. Basically, no therapy, no talk, no nothing. So a story that should have been based on mental issues is solved when the characters have sex, and more than once, and decide they will give it another try? That’s all. Really? Where’s therapy? Where’s conflict resolution? Where are addressed all their issues, when do they talk about what went wrong and how he coped with his ptsd? Because it seems to me nothing is changed. So no, had he had therapy I would even have forgiven him many things, but he didn’t and in the end it looked like another cheating story where a weak heroine takes back the hero and even apologized because she left when life became intolerable and she tried to save herself and her kid from a toxic situation. Zero stars....more
**spoiler alert** I didn’t like it as much as I expected. There’s too much ow drama. The heroine is ow in another book of this series, she’s the easy gi**spoiler alert** I didn’t like it as much as I expected. There’s too much ow drama. The heroine is ow in another book of this series, she’s the easy girl every guy wants to have sex with but no one would commit. She’s now at a point in her life where she understands that using sex as a means to keep men and to gain affection is wrong. She’s had a bad childhood with a neglecting mother who had dubious men around. She was not only neglected but also molested, not raped but she learned to cope with situations that no child should. She’s a strong woman now, with a successful hair stylist saloon and some real friends. She decides to go to therapy and to give up sex until she finds herself a man who’s interested in a commitment. The hero is a widower, and this is the real issue in the book because he really hasn’t moved on and never will. He’s hung on his dead wife and wants only casual sex. He is always going to lunch to his mother in law and his sister in law is interested in him and would like to replace his wife, and if she’s not able she is there reminding him of her time and again. Not safe. So when he meets charming heroine and he manages to have a date with her he offers a sex no strings relationship that she promptly refuses. He has feelings for her that are not the usual he has for his previous lovers. He tries to move on and almost has sex with her ex bff, that btw had sex with her ex boyfriend, so this is not good for him. He stops, and nothing happens. After that he decides to try again with her and goes to therapy, finally. The sisters in law creates drama again. In the end all is well. Not for me. What I liked. - the heroine is mo virgin and no doormat. She doesn’t pine for him. She falls for him later. - he’s the one who pursues her and who falls in love with her first. - finally we have a story of a heroine who is not a loser. She’s a beautiful, sensual, confident woman, who has to overcome trauma and is able to become a new woman. - they both go to therapy, and it takes a bit, which is very realistic and consistent. What I didn’t like. - the therapy sessions were a bit too detailed, it wasn’t necessary to know everything that happened during every session. - too much ow drama. The dead wife was the third in the couple and imo she will always be. I can’t feel a real moment when he doesn’t remember his wife and is not moved by some feelings for her. It was too much. He was still crying for her four years later, to me it’s too much. Ok it happens but it left me a bad taste, because all he did in the end was compared with what he did with his first wife, thank god not the sex. There should have been a moment when he didn’t think about his late wife anymore, he was very young and he had decided to move on. It’s not that he should forget about her, but he should not feel emotional every time someone talked about her. If this is how things stand, he should have stayed alone. Maria deserved someone who put her first after all her life she wasn’t put first by anyone. She made a great change and she grew up to be an amazing young woman, I felt she deserved more. Both were celibate after meeting even if the hero almost has sex with another woman, the heroines ex bff. ...more
This is a very similar plot to some famous old school hp I’ve read, on book of Lynne graham was very close. The hero is framed for a crime he didn’t cThis is a very similar plot to some famous old school hp I’ve read, on book of Lynne graham was very close. The hero is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, embezzlement, and he goes to jail for five years. The heroine just before he’s framed, finds out evidence of his cheating and never shows up, basically ghosting him. He comes out of jail with revenge on his mind, and what’s better than sexual blackmail in exchange of money for a good cause, that is, helping someone else? Of course the heroine refuses at first but then she accepts because her friend, who was also the hero’s ex bff who framed him, asked her to? Some silly misunderstanding, some pictures of the hero taken after he was drugged and unconscious, a miscarriage and it all should have been solved before the book reached its half, but then for some mysterious reasons the hero and the heroine still didn’t understand that the guy they believed to be a friend was actually their worst enemy, jealous, mean and nasty. So the thing went on and on after its due date and the book resulted quite weird. I mean, he denied cheating, he cried like a baby when he knew she had a miscarriage, he told her his bff was jealous because he wanted her and yet the heroine didn’t believe him? I just don’t know. Ok, in the end all was well but those two need brain cell transplant. Both celibate during separation, well he was in jail actually but to me it was ok....more
Usual double standard shit. Never felt any angst. Heroine snd hero are the usual romance fated souls, those who will be in love forever, but those whosUsual double standard shit. Never felt any angst. Heroine snd hero are the usual romance fated souls, those who will be in love forever, but those whose male part will go whoring around as if there’s no tomorrow while the female stays sad and celibate to wait until he’s tired of new pussy. She saw him while a random was kissing his neck and thought he was cheating, but, oh, he pushed her away immediately afterwards. I mean, if a guy who’s engaged lets a random get so near to his body that she kisses his neck and touches his hair, well to me it’s enough. And afterwards he tries very blandly to get in touch with the heroine then proceeds having sex with everything that moves. After three years he gets her back, she was with no one and he doesn’t do any grovel. FY....more
A bit of a mess, but I had to read it until the end. The hero and the heroine are from some mob families, bratva mafia or whatever. The hero wants a conA bit of a mess, but I had to read it until the end. The hero and the heroine are from some mob families, bratva mafia or whatever. The hero wants a connection with the heroine’s family and signs a contract to marry the daughter of the don, that would be the heroines sister, but when he sees the heroine he decides he wants her instead. The don makes him sign a contract where he has to stay married for a number of years with the heroine and take care that his other daughter stays safe since she’s a demented slut, or until he gets the heroine pregnant. The heroine has been abused by her mother that has always favored her sister. She accepts to marry the hero but her sister is always around and he doesn’t seem able to turn her down ever. She thinks they have an affair when actually he’s only trying to save her sorry ass or else the contract is null and he will lose the heroine. This was a bit confused. The heroine doesn’t want to get pregnant so she’s on the pill, the hero wants to get her pregnant so he can get rid of her sister. In the end the heroine files for divorce and he gets really scared because he knows he’s losing her. She never read the contract or else this big huge mess would ave never happened. The hero keeps telling her to read the contract, but the worst part is when during a party there’s a shooting and the hero protects her sister and not the heroine, that is hurt. I understand that he didn’t want to lose the heroine and his place as a boss, but maaaan. When things are cleared, that he never cheated on her, was faithful since the first day he saw her, and he only wanted to get rid of the idiot sister so they would be happy together, the heroine is kidnapped and hurt, by her sister and another thug. But all is well in the end. The reasons why her mother favored the older daughter are well, ludicrous and unbelievable. But there’s a lot of angst and both were celibate so it’s ok for me....more
Unusual and bizarre because the hero is one of the most decent this author has written about. Of course this must be measured according to the parameteUnusual and bizarre because the hero is one of the most decent this author has written about. Of course this must be measured according to the parameters of MC members, that is overbearing and does what he wants to get what he wants, no matter what. The heroine was kidnapped, abused and raped for one whole year by a member of another MC and she had a daughter from the rape, with the help of the rapist gf she escaped and made a good life for her and her lil girl. She meets the hero and falls in love with him. He’s a kind and committed guy, and incredibly patient with her but he’s not honest regarding him being a mc member. He knows she doesn’t like MC but he hides it from her, and marries her without telling her anything. Then he tampers with her pill and the poor heroine gets pregnant. She’s still recovering from her trauma, but the hero doesn’t know it because she never told him about it, which is why I can not completely excuse what he did but at least I can’t blame him for not knowing she had such a big trauma in her past. He should have been honest and she should have been honest too. Things come out. The heroine is angry because he lied to her and doesn’t know if she wants the child, and one thing I could appreciate was that when the hero found out her past, and that she didn’t want to be pregnant again, he didn’t get angry and let her choose if she wanted to keep the child or not. The psycho rapist of course finds her and hurt her, but in the end all is -quite- good. So, there are so many triggers. Rape. Kidnapping. Abuse. Miscarriage. Beating. But there’s no cheating at all, and the hero, even if in the past he’s been a big manwhore, he’s completely devoted to the heroine as soon as he meets her and what’s more, he proposes the MC to get rid of most of the club girls, that will be only around the single brothers during parties and never around the others to avoid cheating and emotional attachments. Well, it’s not what I would have liked, which is that they got rid of all the girls, but it’s better than nothing....more