Anticlimactic. Heroine is a pop star with an abusive mother and the hero is her bodyguard. She’s also anorexic, and the heroine tries to help her. In theAnticlimactic. Heroine is a pop star with an abusive mother and the hero is her bodyguard. She’s also anorexic, and the heroine tries to help her. In the end both her mother and her father are two psychopaths that wants her dead. Jesus. wtf was that? The cheating was because the hero was heavily drugged and raped, which I felt very sorry because he didn’t even remember what happened, but apparently the scene was to cause a break up with the heroine, and it’s solved in two lines, because actually there’s nothing to forgive when someone is drug raped. I didn’t like the book, there’s too much swift and sudden change of heart. The hero goes to barely tolerating the heroine to being madly in love with her. Nope. Mum and dad becomes these deadly psychopaths, why, since the heroine was their source of income....more
DNF I just can’t go on. Hero is dying from cancer and heroine leaves him at hospital thinking she won’t be able to see him anymore, they’re just teenageDNF I just can’t go on. Hero is dying from cancer and heroine leaves him at hospital thinking she won’t be able to see him anymore, they’re just teenager, but when she tries to get in touch with him and his family again, his mother tells her he doesn’t want to see her anymore and she thinks he’s dead. The hero recovered and was told by his family the heroine didn’t want to be with him since he was a burden to her, he believes his mother and brothers even though he knew his mother hated the heroine because she was an orphan? Really? Five years later, the heroine has a son that is the hero’s and she’s still trying to move on because she thinks he’s dead, but when she is back to her hometown she finds out he’s alive and engaged. He is also angry because she dumped him, or so he thinks. Well, shortly. They talk and the misunderstanding is cleared, but they both keep making awful choices. I hated that he was with plenty of women while she only was with two men and I hated that the om the heroine was dating, and with whom she briefly was, suddenly had a change of heart and dumped her. The characters are young, because they’re early 20s but they act like they’re 15. I stopped because of the many inconsistencies, change of hearts, 180 turns and whatever these two and the other characters do. I hated all characters and I felt like I didn’t care if h/H were back together, so bye bye....more
Easy mystery book. It was quite predictable, even if it can be misleading sometimes. There’s a woman who’s in love with a man and thinks he’s the one. Easy mystery book. It was quite predictable, even if it can be misleading sometimes. There’s a woman who’s in love with a man and thinks he’s the one. They’ve been dating for some time and he talks about moving together and all the nice stuff, there’s a woman who’s married with a child and thinks her husband is having an affair and sees him with his mistress, or girlfriend since the girl doesn’t know he’s married, and there’s a man who’s a cheater and a liar and has been having affairs, cheating on his wife more than once and now his life is a mess because one of his ex mistresses threaten to expose him, his present one dumps him because she finds out he has a family and is a serial cheater, and there’s a serial killer who murders couples. So, the betrayed wife wants to kill both her husband and his gf, and the husband hits his ex mistress after being threatened once more. They’ve end is quite a letdown I hoped it would be more. And of course we realize who’s the serial killer. It was good, the psychological insight is indeed very good, there are many elements that eventually lead to the serial killer and in the prologue it’s implied that the serial killer will be caught. ...more
This was a story formerly published on wattpad that I enjoyed because no doormat heroine who takes back her cheating azzhole husband. Oh satisfying. It’This was a story formerly published on wattpad that I enjoyed because no doormat heroine who takes back her cheating azzhole husband. Oh satisfying. It’s a paranormal so we have werewolves, hero 1 and heroine married for four years without children, or pups whatsoever. The hero’s mother hates the heroine and the weak hero 1 feels diminished in his already tiny masculinity so they decides that it’s the heroine’s fault and the hero 1 will have a mistress who provides them with a pup. So, the heroine is against it but she must accept because the pack wants it. Hero 1 then mates with the chosen bitch ahem she wolf and does it repeatedly, since it doesn’t work the first time, so the poor heroine, according to the most unfair paranormal law #1 that says that the cheated mate will have to suffer unbearable pains when her cheating mate cheats, feels so much pains that she has to be sedated and pumped with opiates. She becomes addicted, because, even after the ow gets pregnant the awful hero 1 keeps having sex with her. Follow wrongly accused heroine, imprisonement, torture, various mistreatments until the child of the devil is born and guess what, it’s not the hero. So, the hero’s mother hates commands ow to tell the truth and realizes he’s been tricked, so he kills ow and her lover aka the pups father. Then he tries to win the heroines back. She won’t have it. And kills the hero1. Yes, just like that. Enter hero 2, aka true hero. Who’s also the king, of course. The heroine has to go through trial but is of course declared innocent while all the other people who hurt her are punished. Hero 2 and heroine find out they’re mate and heroine also goes through painful therapy. HEA with pups. Meaning, the hero 1 was obviously the infertile one, not the heroine. Good debut romance, there’s a lot of what the heroine goes through with her first mate, which I appreciated because it was very angsty and there was no coming back from that, I’m glad she never thought for one moment to take the awful cheater back, not since the idiot decided to cheat and impregnate another woman. I loved how strong she was and how brave she turned out to be until the end. And the hero 2 was a darling, strong but kind and never forceful or arrogant. Just what she needed. There’s a lot about her healing and going to therapy that maybe could be considered a bit too detailed but imo it was ok, because the whole story is focused on the heroine and her journey through pain, hurt, healing and happiness, so even if the part with hero 2 was not the majority of the book, I appreciated everything. Safety of course is ok for second mate, while the first one is a dirty weak cheater. ...more
Annnndddd… he won’t be missed. The book is a psychological thriller where we can see many different pov. The heroine has been married for almost a decadAnnnndddd… he won’t be missed. The book is a psychological thriller where we can see many different pov. The heroine has been married for almost a decade to her husband, an estate agent, and they have three children. She suspects that he is having an affair. She also has two bff that are there for her. There are many misunderstandings with many characters, and I enjoyed it all because it’s uncovered step by step. The heroine is a strong woman, a stay at home wife and mother, that really sacrificed her career and her life for a family, since she was also a very successful estate agent when she met the hero. She gave everything up because of him and her kids, while he’s just a very selfish, spoiled and amoral man. It’s all very realistic, the hero is some kind of average man, he thinks that since he’s the breadwinner he’s entitled to everything else, and this sadly happens very often in real life. The heroine is a kind and sweet woman, but she’s neither a doormat or a pushover. She will do what is best for herself and her three children. Her husband is so deep into his lies that ends having many problems with many different people, and not just his wife. In the end he has what he deserves, and as I said, he won’t be missed. This was interesting and entertaining, not very angsty or with a lot of suspense but there were some interesting unexpected twists that I didn’t expect.
Meh. I won’t rate one star because I could finish it. The beginning. God, the beginning. Hero sees heroine at a club where she is with her bff and he’s wMeh. I won’t rate one star because I could finish it. The beginning. God, the beginning. Hero sees heroine at a club where she is with her bff and he’s with his bff. One random woman grabs him and gives him a bj, but the hero wanted the heroine, she just disappeared in the crowd so he took a bj from a random. Oh, and guess what. The heroine saw him. If it were me I would be repulsed and horrified that he was trying to hit on me one minute and the other he was with ow on her knees. The heroine is fascinated. I suppose she’s the kind of fascination that happens when you see a roadkill and can’t help yourself watching it. They meet again one week later accidentally and he asks her on a date. They date, insta love, she moves in with him, he has a bff who is a sleazy lascivious pig and tries to hit on the heroine. She doesn’t tell the hero, who knows why. Some months later hero finds out there’s someone stealing million dollars from his company. He’s a billionaire from a very wealthy family. Money keeps leaking from his company and he’s approached by two people who tells him they’re fbi and they are trying to get his bff who’s the one stealing, and who’s also involved with a Mexican cartel. Hero has to pretend to have an affair with an agent so he can reconnect with his bff and steal info from him. Heroine doesn’t have to know since she’s also in danger because the cartel could try to harm her too. So the hero pretends to have an affair with this ow agent. There are lipstick smidge, late nights, pictures and the heroine of course thinks he’s having an affair. There’s also a very angsty scene where she meets hero and ow at a restaurant kissing. He always tells her he loves her and only her. She finds out she’s pregnant. She’s conflicted because she hopes he will leave ow. This is where I stopped caring because when she had evidence of his cheating and he didn’t deny, because he couldn’t, she should have left him. In the end of the book she leaves him and hides changing her name. He also finds out ow and the man with her are not fbi. I mean, heroes as stupid as this one I’ve seldom met. He should have talked to his father and other people instead of falling into a trap like the idiot he is. And these people are two other criminals that are interested in the millions that his friend is stealing from him. Well, the book ends with a cliffy, there’s a second installment, where of course they’ll reconnect. I am not sure I’ll read it. The hero doesn’t cheat in this one. He has to pretend to be with this ow so he lets her kiss him in front of his friend, to be convincing. But he’s never even tempted. It was stupid and disrespectful anyway. And he hurt the heroine without having real evidence that those two were agents from fbi. Really? ...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
Not my cuppa. I understand that many teenagers could love this kind of book because it has that teenage vibe where everything is either black or white,Not my cuppa. I understand that many teenagers could love this kind of book because it has that teenage vibe where everything is either black or white, and where if you have a hole in your pantyhose it’s the end of the world. That kind of emotions due to hormonal imbalance is something that leads to love such extreme drama as is described in this book. So I was rolling my eyes all the time because I am not a teenager anymore and I can’t appreciate that kind of extreme drama and behavior. The characters are just kids, 18 yo. I don’t appreciate when the author writes about characters in their teens that behave like they’re in their30s. These two were too immature to be in a relationship let alone getting married. But they get married at 18. So, they both go to college and behave like the frats they actually are, partying and drinking. The hero receives some incriminating pictures of his wife with another guy, and instead of asking her and wondering what happened he retaliates and starts cheating on her in front of her. And she feels ashamed of what she thinks she did and doesn’t do anything. She suffers and suffers. Because she thinks she deserved it. So this is an absolutely unlikely behavior as most teenagers and college kids know very well. It happens that students at party are drunk or that they are roofied, even by other fellow students. So any teenager boy or girl seeing such pictures would first and foremost try to inquire what happened really, without jumping to conclusions. They would ask the heroine what happened, and when she said she doesn’t remember they immediately would think that she was either drunk and set up or drugged and raped. Teens are used to see these things and know very well what the effect of illegal drugs and alcohol are. So it’s very unlikely that they act like the hero. Every normal teenager with a girlfriend in the same situation would wonder if she was conscious or not, and if she was raped. The hero’s lack of consideration of these possibilities is what a man in his late 30s would have if he’s shown a picture of his 36 yo librarian wife in the same situation. He would think she cheated on him, because how could she be in a picture naked with another guy? But college teenagers know better, and I rolled my eyes times and again because it was more ridiculous than angsty. And the heroine martyr behavior is so very unlikely in a modern day teenager that I laughed all the time. No girl of the same age and in the same situation would put up with the level of cheating and disrespect the hero put her through. Not even if she actually thought she cheated. Because she didn’t remember so she would suspect that she was drugged, and taken advantage of. She would never accept his behavior. So, it’s more for the inconsistency of the situation and behavior than for the writing style itself that I rate it one star. Sorry, I couldn’t relate with any of the characters and never felt the angst. Oh, and nobody knew they were married. Jesus. Really?...more
I hate when the hero cheats but also when the heroine cheats. This one has a doormat of a heroine cheating on a good and decent man with a toxic abuserI hate when the hero cheats but also when the heroine cheats. This one has a doormat of a heroine cheating on a good and decent man with a toxic abuser. There’s no reason why she should cheat on her amazing fiance. She is in a very good relationship but she’s attracted by that filthy sob of man who treats her like a hoe, while he’s having a regular gf. It’s 21 century, not 19. There are no such things in our western countries as forced marriages. Neither the heroine nor the hero are forced to marry other people, neither are they forced to stay with said people if they find out they’re attracted to each other. There is no marriage, no kids, nothing that prevented them to stay together. So supposedly they’re attracted to each other and it’s so irresistible, they should at least have the maturity to tell each other partner that they’re over. They keep cheating on their partners and there is no love, only lust. There’s a big mess in the end and I didn’t appreciated what happened afterwards. Ridiculous. ...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.
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
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
Hero and heroine always meet on a house on the beach, it looks like they have some kind of not committed relationship over the years, and when she surHero and heroine always meet on a house on the beach, it looks like they have some kind of not committed relationship over the years, and when she surprises him one day before usual she finds out he took another woman there and had sex with her. She leaves, goes swimming, the hero has to save her but fails, they both drown. After some years the meet again as ghosts and she forgives him. Naw. Not for me. A cheater is a cheater even after he’s dead....more
The author ruined the one kind of heroes I loved the most. The firefighters. For me, there’s no Greek billionaire, no arrogant ceo, definitely no mafiaThe author ruined the one kind of heroes I loved the most. The firefighters. For me, there’s no Greek billionaire, no arrogant ceo, definitely no mafia boss and no bad bikers that can compare to the real true hero, the firefighter. They’re brave by definition, hot by definition, good by definition. But this hero ruined it all. This might really be the only one book I’ve read where I liked ow more than I liked the hero and the heroine. To me, ow was the heroine. She was treated badly by life and by that asshole hero for years, even if she is rich and beautiful. Her father doesn’t love and uses her as a pawn for his own purposes. She and the hero meet and are a couple when they’re both 17 and she stays with him for ten years. She is faithful. She’s a bit spoiled an sometimes she’s a bitch but man, she had her reasons. She and the hero lose a child, she miscarried. The hero was always going to propose but never did. And, what’s worse, she always had to compete with his attraction to the heroine. An attraction that the poor ow always felt and he always denied but it was quite plain he had with the heroine a relationship that they never had. The heroine is adopted with a very sad story behind her, she meets the hero at 13 and he’s 17, and they become friends. Ow is jealous because she sees him treating the heroine better than he treats her. Who wouldn’t be jealous. Or upset. She’s not bad, but sometimes she’s bitchy and catty and I supported her. Because a boyfriend should be devoted to his girl, before all the others. Apparently he was not. Growing up the heroine it’s more and more difficult for the hero to stay away from her, but since he’s a pussy, a coward, a liar and a pussy again, he doesn’t find the courage to tell his gf it’s over. Instead they move together, they plan to get married and he doesn’t tell her no, he only postpone it again and again. He always denies there’s something going on with the heroine until, ten year into his relationship with ow, he cheats physically on her with the heroine. Emotionally he had been cheating for years. The author tries, failing totally, to make him look like a hero because after her miscarriage he promised her he wouldn’t leave her and so he’s stayed with her, not willing to marry her though, for years, pining for the heroine and wasting two women’s best years of their lives. Because not only he made ow waste years but also he kept telling lies to the heroine, that he would alway be there for her, that she’s his priority, all kind of things an engaged man should never tell to a woman who’s not his relative or girlfriend. Because he’s a selfish little prick. The heroine didn’t try very hard to move on and let me say it, she was just as guilty. She should have move on when he refused to have sex with her when she was 16 and he was 20, after seeing that he was with another woman, and living with her, for years. She should have had to put him behind her and she should have tried to find other interesting men. But she was a pathetic little slut, because she even refused to move to another town for college and stayed in her town. It was wrong. The man didn’t belong to her. They had sex more than once and the hero never broke up with his fiance. In the end the poor ow, because she was that, even asked the heroine to help her with the hero since he was so drawn and grumpy. And the heroine already had sex with him, the hoe. In the end the hero broke up with ow when she was already humiliated because she found out he was sleeping with the heroine behind her back. The author tries to make it sound as if ow was good with his decision, and as if she really didn’t love him, but to me it’s clear that ow was used and betrayed and in the end she had to see the hero marrying the heroine in that awful quaint little town where everyone knew everything. I feel for her. And no, I don’t care about promises he made when apparently he already was lusting for the heroine and was not in love with ow anymore but was comfortable using her for sex, being the heroine still jailbait. The child loss came well after he realized he had feelings for the heroine as he admitted, which it was when she was 16 and he 20, but he stayed with ow for other 7 years, wasting her time. So no, I couldn’t feel angst and empathy for those so called main characters. The heroine had a shitty childhood with severe abuse and I can understand she was traumatized but she had a loving family who never let her down and this doesn’t excuse her lusting for a man who was engaged for years. In the end we don’t know what happen to ow but I hope she found a better man who really loved her and not a selfish cheating user as the hero always was. ...more
I feel for those poor women who nowadays, in a world that is so progressed and equality is everything, still behave like doormats, like pathetic loserI feel for those poor women who nowadays, in a world that is so progressed and equality is everything, still behave like doormats, like pathetic losers and settle for so little. The heroine asked the hero a pause, because they went to different college. I know, wrong. She should have known better. She ignores him and his calls and oh, the poor heartbroken man! The same night or maybe the night after he goes out gets drunk and impregnates another woman. Ha! So the heroine was right! His love was so sos strong that it took him all of …7 hours? 24 hours? To jump in bed with another woman no condom. Oh, and no way he admits he cheated! No, he technically didn’t, but moved on at speed light. So the heroine was right to doubt his so great love. And the worst part is, the heroine came back in that lil quaint sad town where he lives, and she deduces to work there as the principal of primary school. Of course eventually she meets his lil girl. I won’t even go there. The kid is innocent but I hated that the heroine didn’t move on, I hated that she didn’t even go on one date in all her college years, but how does an author make this bs possible, in this time and age? And why? What is the sense of all this? That a woman is so sick that she is unable to move on or to at least try to move on, to feel any attraction for some young nice college student, can’t she? Because this is not the behavior of a sane and properly functioning young woman, this is pathetically pathological. Yes, she needs, needed therapy, long ago, eight years and she’s still there, hating the hero and pining after him. She’s deranged. It makes me think of that amazing romance written two hundred years ago or so, by Dickens, where poor miss havisham lived locked inside her house after decades still in her wedding dress and all the clock stopped in the hour where her fiance had just jilted her. I remember I was 19 and that was one of the first books I had to read for my English literature classes and I was so shocked about it, thinking that such a behavior was so quaint and vintage and old. But nope. I was wrong. Apparently there are still so many women who stop their clock on the day their man betrayed them and nothing, not even two hundred years, fights for equality, queer generation, feminism, discussions about the non consensual kiss of Snow White can change the fact that women are fundamentally, that sad, unhinged and unstable little miss havisham inside. What else can I say. The hero claims there was no other woman beside that one, and we thank god or else who knows how many kids the idiot would have fathered. Of course I didn’t like the book, not the style per se but the double standard, the pathetic attempt to justify what was really a sad excuse of a man and to magnify his bravery because he took care of his drunken mistake, and the usual loser woman who settles for the one who betrayed her without even experiencing another man. I’m done....more
I don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be editedI don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be edited. Then the plot and the character. The only person I liked was the other woman. All the rest are trash. The heroine has been dating the hero for five months, she knows his family, she goes to his flat to take him some soup since he told her they couldn’t meet since he was sick, but she find him having sex with another woman, a woman who called him days before and he told her she was his cousin. The hero denies the heroine is his gf, and says they’re only dating unofficially. lol. These people are in their 30s I suppose. Ow cries, is angry and apologizes with the heroine. She didn’t know she was the ow because the hero picked her up at a bar and she thought he was free. The hero doesn’t try to stop the heroine and he acts disappointed that both women (not the heroine) are leaving. Days later he talks to the heroine and tells her he’s sorry she misunderstood and the heroine tells him she’s not the casual kind of woman. Weeks later ow introduces her to a nice man that the heroine decides to date and has sex with after two months. That’s when the hero decides he wants her back, and he’s ready for commitment. So he ruins her date with om and the heroine, instead of kicking him out and going out with her new date, basically tells them she doesn’t know what she wants. Of course om is angry, but the author couldn’t leave it like that, she has to make om a complete asshole, a borderline psycho and maybe even an abusive one. The fight they have with the hero towards the end was like being back to their early teens. Embarrassing. The hero explains his issues because he once were engaged and found out his fiancé had been cheating with his bff for years. So what? He basically behaved in the same way because he cheated on his gf. I hated him. He was hypocritical and selfish, even when the heroine explained how he should have behaved and what he did wrong he still doesn’t admit he’s an asshole cheater who did what his ex did. Had he really been honest with his intention that they weren’t exclusive he should have told her that he was seeing other women and not lying to her about ow being his cousin. But as the pathetic little loser he was, he wanted both his gf and other women too. He says ow was the first one but of course had the heroine not found out about them he would have kept seeing ow and others. The reasons the heroine gives for choosing him are pathetic. Because he sends her gifts and flowers, because he helps her with dishes, and he’s nice. Well, other men are just like that and they’re not cheating liars and assholes. Jesus these women. How low is their bar? How low are they ready to settle? And making other man a psycho and an abusive asshole is a cheap way to make the heroine choose the less stinky of the two shits. Please, spare me. No, I don’t care how he groveled and how he changed he’s simply not worthy. Being cheated on apparently didn’t teach him anything at all. He should have known what kind of hurt he could cause her, and how wrong it was. If he didn’t mean to be exclusive he should have been honest, but he couldn’t even do that so I’m sorry but he deserved his ex cheating on him with his bff. Eventually I could not even feel any angst because the heroine was a pathetic doormat who took him back as if he were the last man on earth. Yuck. And them being all friends with ow and her new man was weird as fugg....more
I’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy MonI’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters. There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here. The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse. The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not. She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her. One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman. The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom. Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced. The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero. When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman. Hit and run is his motto. Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since. When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine. His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child. The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s. He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow. He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault. So a very tortured man we have here. Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself. He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex. So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course. Really? Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time. Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself. After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night. I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch! All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island. Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say. So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man. Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has! I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good. They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that: - the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her. - they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication. - the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother. Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know. - there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two. Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent.
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I’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters. There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here. The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse. The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not. She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her. One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman. The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom. Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced. The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero. When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman. Hit and run is his motto. Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since. When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine. His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child. The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s. He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow. He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault. So a very tortured man we have here. Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself. He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex. So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course. Really? Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time. Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself. After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night. I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch! All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island. Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say. So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man. Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has! I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good. They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that: - the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her. - they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication. - the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother. Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know. - there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two. Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent....more
**spoiler alert** Well this was different. There’s so much humor in it that I laughed all the time. It’s about the usual stinky cheating husband who c**spoiler alert** Well this was different. There’s so much humor in it that I laughed all the time. It’s about the usual stinky cheating husband who cheats on his wife of more than a decade with a younger model and he leaves his wife for her. What is different in this book that made me love it? First, she doesn’t go back with the cheater and ends with a real hero. Second, she acts unpredictably and differently. Third, the final feeling is that she was more determined to end their marriage than he ever was, even when he was into ow. And this is a first. Usually heroines who are cheated on are hurt, betrayed, they suffer, they pine, this one didn’t bat a lid. I loved her, she was my goddess. She is a famous writers of erotic books, she is the daughter and the niece of artists, she is very eclectic and smart. She has millions, much more than her average husband. She married him because, after a peculiar childhood with a nomadic mother and no father, she wanted a normal family. It is perceived that she somehow settled with him, that she had so much better before him, artists, great sex, adventure, but she settled because she wanted a family, not the man himself. The husband is an average man, not too handsome and not too adventurous in bed, she names him speedy Gonzales in bed, which is far from a compliment. There’s not much love lost between them and the impression is that she loves him even less than he loves her. But she’s a faithful woman, who loves her family and her weird children, two amazing twins that she basically raised by herself since her husband was always away doing something else. She knows he’s been cheating on her, but she thinks he will end the affair sooner or later, she doesn’t care for him but she’s ready to stay married for her children. She’s enough satisfied with her career, and her writing. Mind, she’s a very practical and sensible woman, not a airhead. When her husband tells her he wants a separation because he loves another woman she does the unthinkable. She leaves him and her children. Now it’s his turn to be a father, and since for 12 years she’s been a mother to them while he was doing his shit, now he will be a full time father in their own home, new floozy or not. The man is astonished, but we only can blame his dumb slow brain since he married such a wonderful and smart woman, he should have known better. She doesn’t rave and rant, she doesn’t recriminate, she doesn’t leave with her children, she doesn’t say a world. And she’s out of the life that we know was too tight and suffocating for her, a life she wanted but when she had it, it was not as she expected. She goes and live in her loft, and there she meets the hero, a younger and hotter man, and guess what, he’s a contractor, a decorator, but also an artist on his own. So they easily fall in love with each other while she balance her new life and files for divorce without even asking for a penny, she wants her children to live with their father because she knows that he’s a poor kind of man, the man who would surely forget about his children while he lives his best life with his new girlfriend. She wants them to have what she never had, and she wants them to live with him, no matter if this means they will have to live with bimbo 2.0. Everyone is amazing here, except her husband and his bimbo. I laughed time and again. I laughed when his parents won’t accept his new girlfriend, and they make her sign a prenup where she basically is trapped in a marriage with the aging man or else she would lose everything, included the child she’s expecting. I loved that the idiot husband realized very soon that he didn’t want his new bimbo anymore and tries to win his wife back, sorry not sorry, she doesn’t even think about it. I love how he is trapped by her with a child, smashing his dream of traveling in exotic destination, savage sex at all hours, and he’s resignes to be a daddy of a new child and of his twins too, because the heroine leaves them with him and his parents threatens to dump his sorry ass and fire him from his job, and in the end he’s forced to marry ow and feeling already tired of her, and of her brown mousy hair, thinking he will ask her to revert to her blond self because people are asking why he ever choose her instead of the heroine. The heroine walks away with his new man, surprisingly pregnant herself, and happy as she never was before. She was really too much for the ex husband, he’s a mediocre man without any force, while she ate him for breakfast, he never stood a chance with her. Ow is a blond bimbo, typical gold digger who thinks she won the lottery but finds herself trapped in a marriage with an aging man with two spooky children and the heroines blessing, since the latter found her easier to manipulate and for this reason she agreed to her marrying her ex. And the twins, well, never laughed so hard as with the two creatures, the girl was really a clone of her mother, too smart to be true, and her father is really afraid of her, while the son is in his own world, silently communicating with his twin and spooking the father even more. Well, I liked it, no I really enjoyed it. Even when the idiot married ow, even when the heroine seemed too good for those two cheaters, we know she’s the mastermind behind everything, and she’s doing everything exactly as she wants it, and in the end she’s the winner and they’re only doing what she allowed them to do....more