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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 accid 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 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 |
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I liked more the mystery part than the love story between the characters. There is a mystery that is the focus of this book, and it’s the disappearance I liked more the mystery part than the love story between the characters. There is a mystery that is the focus of this book, and it’s the disappearance of the heroine’s mother when she was only 5, and the heroine saw her and her father fighting just the night when she disappeared. Her father is a very rich and influential man in a small town and the heroine has always wondered what happened to her mother. She had a boyfriend during high school and they were very much in love, but this didn’t stop her from moving away and leaving his sorry ass without even a thank you sir after having sex with him which if you ask me was a very rude and insensitive thing to do. She moved to ny and became a supermodel for vogue, but this doesn’t seem to make her happy, who knows why since it doesn’t seem to me a rough fate to be rich, beautiful, young and famous and with a job that is super glamorous, and that has as a benefit the company of the most handsome men in the world. Meh. Anyhooo. Her bff aka mentor dies and she finds herself without a home, even if, being a vogue model she should have some pin money stacked somewhere to buy some meager house. She decides she wants to go back to her lil mean quaint old country hometown because it’s time she found out what happened to her mother. She tried to look for her with a pi but she never succeeded. She has been in touch in the last year with her former bff, who, guess what, has married her boyfriend not even one year after the heroine moved away. Talking about chicks over d1cks. They’re divorced now, and the heroine accepts the offer of the bff to go and live with her and the child she had with the hero until she finds a house to rent. Ok, that was a bit ott for me. It would have been all right if the heroine were really over the ex, which she was not, and if her boyfriend were also good with her being gone like that, because ok, they were high school and it their story had ended and they were both emotionally over that, I wouldn’t find anything wrong, because after ten years they could be laugh all together about the time they were a couple. Sadly this isn’t the case. Because the hero only married ow because he got her pregnant and never loved her at all, and ow has always had a crush on the hero, even when he was with the heroine, and even after she left him and after they were married, she was always obsessed and jealous of her and never trusted him at all, so that in the end he gave her everything and beyond to get rid of her and divorce her, even if the heroine was not in the picture. I must admit that, even if there are many unpleasant characters in this romance, the heroine’s friend and ow was the worst of all. She tried to steal the hero when he and the heroine were a couple, she seduced him when the heroine left and she got pregnant on purpose when he was going to dump her. She was nasty during their divorce, and afterwards she betrayed the heroine trust pretending to be her friend, all the time being jealous of her and behaving as if the heroine was the one to steal the hero from her, when it was always her. I only enjoyed that the hero didn’t love her, ever and emotionally cheated on her for years stalking the heroine on the socials and keeping her pictures and the newspaper where she modeled. Ow deserved it. Of course she knew it was alway the heroine for the hero, he was madly in love with her and the heroine was the one that got away, so she always was his secret and unattainable dream woman. The hero never told her ily, and never tried to pretend to love her, even if he told her that he and the heroine were over, since he never thought he would see her again. The reasons for the heroine leaving in such a hurry and ghosting all her friends and the poor hero were imo very flimsy. She didn’t like her father and wanted to be out of his influence but what she did to the hero was really unforgivable. They were in love, and the hero wanted to marry her, but she thought that, since he didn’t want to leave his town she didn’t want him to sacrifice himself to be with her. I mean, it’s not as if he had so many opportunities in that town to begin with, no career as a professional athlete, no promises of rockstar, no nothing, in the end he became a cop, that’s all, and he should have been in another town with her so I found that she was selfish and careless and not at all thinking for what was best for him. He could have very well followed her in NY snd they would have been happy together. I hate when one partner makes decisions presuming to know what the other wants. The hero was shattered and drove himself through all Texas looking for her, and was heartbroken for months, I mean, she didn’t even sent him a text. Ok, I didn’t like that he shagged her bff and got her pregnant but I suppose that in a small town where everyone knows everyone and there are limited options, ow surely must have attached to him with glues until his18 yo hormonal self gave in and he used her as a stress reliever. Not nice but what the heroine did was even less nice. So, back to present. The heroine starts to ask around town about her mother and she finds out her father basically is trying to ban her from town, she can’t find a place to live and even her brother threatens and even rough her up in a very disturbing scene. The hero in the meantime understands he wants her back and forever, even if she has all the intentions to leave town as soon as she finds out about her mother. So, I won’t spoil the mystery because it was very good to read. About the romance part, she and the hero are back together of course even though ow tries in every way to stop them from reconciling. No way, and the hero was very determined in that, he loves the heroine and always had. I mean, ow is delusional. How could she think she was able to replace the heroine, a supermodel who was the one who got away and the hero never forgot? She should never have gone after him, as the heroines father, who is a piece of work, told her in a very good and satisfying way. Double standards. No, the heroine moved on. She had three men during ten years, I think they lasted some time because it’s never said they were ONS, and she admits she was with a hockey player for six months. But she had only mediocre sex, I suppose only missionary which is sad and which is why I didn’t rate more. Because let’s be honest, there’s always this ugly old thing that women don’t have the right to good sex with more partners during their lives while men have great sex with dozens of different women. Why is that? Does having good sex with other men beside the hero make a woman less worthy of being loved? Is sex still considered a distasteful duty to be enjoyed only with one person in your life? Because this is so very wrong. Whatever. I also didn’t like the end too much, when the heroine finds out the truth about her mother, the final is rushed and it skips to one year and a half later when all things are already solved. Pity. I enjoyed the book, because the plot was good, and even if I was not very into the characters they were well defined and complex, and in the end it was well balanced. ...more |
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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 Mon 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. Merged review: 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 |
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I don’t know why I keep trying with this author. So, to me it’s not acceptable because I’m a safety bitch and I hate when the characters are separated I don’t know why I keep trying with this author. So, to me it’s not acceptable because I’m a safety bitch and I hate when the characters are separated for years and the hero has hundreds of women and the heroine has only a few. Thankfully she wasn’t celibate but she never had any meaningful relationships and only mediocre sex. It’s so frustrating and unbelievable that a woman can’t find one decent man who gives her some decent sex after she met the king of assholes. The plot is that when she was very young she and the hero had some sort of story, they had sex and then he found out she stole from him his granny’s jewelry. He threw her to jail and the sheriff who is an evil white guy and hates half blood as she is out her into jail with a racist rapist where she was beaten and almost raped. Years later the hero still holds a grudge and tries to get her to jail again. So, we find out his fiancee who was also screwing the sheriff, planned all the false stealing and does it again years later. Plot besides, some things I found unacceptable. The racism. Those people need to stop. The N world threatens to pop up every two pages, and it was just too much. The hero is a whiny weak resentful bitch. Even if the heroine had actually stole from him, dude is unable to get over it and move on. He is a weak and pathetic character. He lives with his racist peers and pretend to be different to them. How is he different when he accept them as his just and adequate company? Isn’t it the mother of all hypocrisy? We’re all having lunch together and having patties together and he’s engaged to one of them and they keep making racist remarks that would make a KKk member look like a lamb. Serious. And all he does is a slap on their wrist? But they keep doing it! And he’s accepting it! He’s just like them, prejudiced and conceited and snob. There was no redeeming quality in him. He’s dead to me. The heroine is the most pathetic of all. The author loves to portrait her heroines as the worst and most disadvantaged people on all. She’s half black (then what?) her mother was a colored whore, literally, and she was a thief too, she’s curvy, she’s from the wrong side of the town. She has a self confidence that compared, a battered woman who had years of abuses is a conceited narcissist. She worked hard but never managed to keep from her the stigma of her birth. She doesn’t think she’s good enough. She knows people hates her, don’t like her. She knows she’s not as much worthy as the hero and his peers are (wrong, but she believes it) So of course she will take him back. Because she don’t think he’s too low for her. She thinks she’s not enough for him and this is as plain as fugg. I wish that for once the heroine was a beautiful, elegant, rich, self assured, cultured woman from high society with a healthy past love and sex life, I wish she considered herself better than the hero before he does something bad as those heroes do. This is a cheap way to create angst and it doesn’t work, not for me. I wish the author understood that when a woman has had such a low beginning and upbringing she will sometimes feel that she’s not enough and somehow she doesn’t deserve a good man so what the hero and all those awful people did to her is justified. This is why she keeps on loving him, because no woman with a healthy self confidence would ever love a man who treat her as the hero did, after all those years. It’s not true that the heart wants what the heart wants. When someone treated you like dirt you can forgive but you don’t have to keep them in your life, this is toxic and wrong. But this poor scorned woman who never had good in her childhood is resigned to love this awful and pitiful excuse of a man because she know, deep inside her, that she can’t do better. This is my impression. I hated also that it’s mostly about the sex, how good the sex is, how much he’s handsome, how hot she or he is. Life lasts decades and many of them can have little sex activity in it and it’s normal and fine, so not everything revolves around it like it seems. I’m sorry but this is still no for me. ...more |
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Three angsty stars because I had to read it all to see how it would end, but different rating for all the characters involved and for the plot itself. It was goo, with a good writing and very good psychological insight, so no beginner here and no teenage writing. The author makes a very good portrait of how things sometimes go when a beloved spouse dies. Sometimes, not always. The hero and the heroine are the perfect couple, married and have twin daughters, they’re made for each other. The heroine decides to go on a holidays for two weeks in Nicaragua, with a girlfriend of hers, while the husband stays home with their two little girls, not even one year old. During this holiday she has a bad accident and the bus she was on is completely burned, so everyone thinks she died with all the other passengers. She survived but lost her memories, completely, and she is rescued by a couple of old people that basically traps her and uses her as a slave. She spends two years with them and eventually recovers her memories and manages to run away and go back to her husband. No mob boss here, only an old couple of people that were too old to do the jobs they were paid for and used the heroine in their place. I was thankful that she didn’t end in some weird organization because I don’t love those and the focus here is elsewhere, in the main characters. The hero had a hard time and was helped by heroines bff, that basically leaves her job and house to help the hero who’s a zombie and his children. After one year and a half he has feelings for her and he proposes. But he always loves the heroine and thinks about her constantly, even if he’s quite content with ow. One month before their wedding the heroine comes back home. The hero’s feeling for ow die then and there of an abrupt death. She was only a poor substitute for his true love and he is ott in love with his wife and usual. The second half of the book is the heroine slowly adapting to her new situation, her grown children and finding out her husband was over her and had basically replaced her with her bff. There’s all you can imagine, the betrayal, the pain of knowing your husband was moving on, and your bff is in love with him, the doubts that he loves her still. There’s a lot of drama and ow turns into a bitch but I must admit the hero never faltered. He was obviously so sorry for ow, and so thankful for her help, and of course loved her but not as he loved his wife, and there was never a doubt that he would choose his wife over her. Ow realizes she lost him and the kids and leaves. There’s a bit of reconciliation between her and the heroine but of course there could never be a friendship as there was before. So, the heroine is the victim here, always. She was lost, abused and enslaved, and she suffered. She found out her husband replaced her, even throwing away all her things and renaming his boat ( and his boat is his life, he’s a captain) after ow, and he is more worried about ow feelings than hers. The hero is the worst character here. Yes, he though she was dead, but it’s not been two years since she died and she should have been the love of his life, his twin soul, and he was anyway quite happy with ow. Not a great love imo. Ok, he had his children to think of, and ow was always around and lived with them, but I think it was way too soon to replace the heroine and propose to ow. I didn’t like him. He also tried to protect ow feelings when the heroine came back, which I didn’t like at all since the heroine had been through much more than a broken engagement. I just hated him. The writer wants us to believe it was always the heroine and he only wanted her and when she came back he only wanted to be with her and kick ow to the curb but his actions tells a different story. Ow was a parasite. No one asked her to replace his bff and since she couldn’t have children she stole the heroines life and her husband. They had met first, she introduced him to the heroine and it was love at first sight so she never was with the hero, but she always liked him. I feel she wanted her life more than her friendship. I feel that the poor heroine was betrayed by the people that should have loved her most. But it’s a complex book and I liked it very much, I also appreciated that the hero was never intimate with ow, he only kissed her which is cheating even if he thought he was a widow, and when he kissed ow he saw the heroine. But at least he didn’t have sex.
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**spoiler alert** This book needs a new tag on my bookshelves since it was really something different. WTF. I must admit the story between the main cha **spoiler alert** This book needs a new tag on my bookshelves since it was really something different. WTF. I must admit the story between the main characters was less interesting than the story around them. Romeo and Juliet and their families were Winnie poo and his happy friends compared to the families of those two poor kids. Kids, because they’re both teenager at their first experience with love when heel break loose. They’ve been friends before, sweethearts afterwards, and first time sex before the disaster. Their families don’t want them together so the hero is sent away to study and the heroine finds out she’s pregnant. She tries to get in touch with him without being able to, and she also sees picture of him at a party with two girls. There’s a lot of spoiler here so if you don’t want to know what is about don’t go on. The heroine is from a rich family. Her father takes her to an obgyn and she wakes up after a termination, without her consent. The same obgyn who visits her some more times raped her and films her with other two men. Her father doesn’t believe her. She spirals into drug, alcohol and casual sex, while the hero becomes a rock star. They meet ten years later, he’s with his gf, his model, pregnant gf. He tries to get in touch with her because he wants explanations about her behavior. It looks like the poor boy was sent to a strict boarding school and every texts, email, letter he sent the heroine came up unanswered. He found himself blocked nonetheless he tries to wait to see her and eventually his bff confessed he had sex with her, showing the pictures. Btw, it was true, the heroine was under the influence and she basically slept with everyone, even if in the end it comes out that bf wasn’t able to have sex with her. Semantics. The hero then moves on with his career but he also has drug and alcohol problems, until one of his friends almost dies and he decides to reform himself. His actual gf was a casual f buddy that became unfortunately pregnant. And anyway he breaks up with her after he met the heroine again. They were not sleeping together anymore anyway. They understand they’ve been cheated by their parents, and decide to stay friends. The hero would like to be with the heroine again, and declares he has never stopped loving her, but the heroine isn’t sure if they could work and she doesn’t accept the fact he is having a child with another woman. There’s a lot of ow drama. The hero tries to be accommodating with his ex, but he regrets and resents her being pregnant and the heroine isn’t sure if she wants him with a child from the crazy bitch. In the end the child is not even his. But here comes the drama that was really, really excessive. It was a concentration of soap opera, telenovela, bad drama, I really was rolling my eyes out of my skull because ok, really. Enough is enough. Her mother had an affair with his father, her father found out and decided to get revenge ruining his business and having revenge sex with his mom. Is it bad enough? Nope! His mom is a psycho and got pregnant with her fathers child but got a termination. She killed his father, her cheating husband. She organized the heroines abortion, and her subsequent rape. She raped the hero’s bff, a boy of 13 and used him to have sex with the heroine and send the pictures to the hero, and also tried to hire a hitman to kill the heroine. Woooooooah! Really? wtf? The father was only guilty of tampering with the texts and calls of the heroine to the hero, and to force her to marry a gay dude who thank god became her savior and her bff, with the man he married after their marriage was annulled. I’m tired. The book was ok enough without all this unnecessary and ott drama. The heroine losing the child as usually happens in these books and the parents lying to them because of some silly things was bad enough without this awful stuff. What about the characters? I found them both victims of their parents, the heroine was targeted by hero’s cray mum, but the hero lost the love of his life and was anyway unhappy and unable to have a serious relationship because of this. I don’t think he was bad and she wasn’t his victim but his mother and her father’s victim. He was the one to try to reconnect with her and she was the one to have sex with another man after they met again, while he was celibate after meeting her, so I can’t say there was double standards here, not at all. But the drama and the mess. That was too much even for me! ...more |
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That started well, with some mystery about what happened between the hero and the heroine in the past, some very bad thing that made them break up and
That started well, with some mystery about what happened between the hero and the heroine in the past, some very bad thing that made them break up and the heroine run from her little cozy town. We realize soon that the hero cheated on her and had a lil boy as a result of this cheating. The heroine left and never moved on from the trauma. Step by step we find out that he did cheat with the heroines own sister while they were engaged. Not good. The heroine comes from the other side of the town so to speak, her mother was a promiscuous woman with a fondness for JD and random men, she had no husband or father of her daughter to help, only an aunt who loved the heroine more than her sister because the heroine was the good one, while the sister was the loser. The heroine is a dancer. She teaches dance and ballet now because she decided that the life of a dancer is too stressful and difficult. When her aunt dies the heroine inherits her house and decides to spend her summer holidays there. Six years later she’s still angry with the hero and her sister, not to mention her mother. But basically things are coming to an end. She and the hero reconnect through his family and his many sisters, brothers, nieces, mother and the lil nephew she has never seen nor recognized. Basically both her and the hero never moved on seriously, he had some ONS but it’s only a few and so the heroine. They never talked about what happened and how. So when he tells her that he was out with his friends, was drinking, then he woke up in a car with a friend and completely forgot what he did, the heroine believes him, but this doesn’t mean she has to accept he had a son with her sister. I didn’t like both characters. The heroine was an entitled conceited bitch, seriously. I hated that she was judgemental to her mother, accusing her to be a bad mother, this is not good. The woman might have been a lousy woman but you never know what a person has gone through and after all she wasn’t abused, beaten, or hurt. She was quite neglected but her mother had her part of grief too. The heroine was sanctimonious. And with the hero. She never let him explain what happened, never thought about what happened that night. She only left. Ok, I can understand it. But if you choose to leave without explanations or else, you must be ready to really leave all the past behind and move on. Really move on. She was never able and this makes her a weak, grumpy and fastidious woman, who blamed everyone but her for her life was on stall. She was the one to choose it. She could have moved on, date some other men seriously, enjoyed some friendship. You can change people but you can choose what place they have in your life and she let those losers dictate her life even after she was gone. She’s a character out of a penny Jordan book, the typical victim and martyr but that was 40 years ago when women had a different kind of choices. And the hero is not a prize himself. He claims he always loved her but anyway hooked up with some women in those years of separation and this is honestly something I cannot understand ever. Either you love someone and ar faithful or you don’t. And even if he claimed to love her I don’t really think he shows a lot of love, since he’s thinking that maybe he should let the heroine go and move on with his life finding a mother for his son. So it’s the same, if it’s the heroine ok, otherwise it’s another woman and it’s the same? I don’t understand. He’s bland. They’re bland. There’s a lot of other people in this small town, I think there’s the whole town involved in this couples business, sometimes it was ok, some other it was kind of boring. The thing that I really didn’t like is that the supposed cheating was no cheating at all. And the hero or his friends or his family should have realized that there was something wrong there. The hero didn’t remember anything of that infamous night and actually realized he had sex with ow only when she came to him with dna test because she was pregnant, AND… pictures of them together that night. So this, only this, is something that could have been used against her. Because he was not conscious while she was , since she took picture of him. So it was at least sexual exploitation, and I don’t know how nobody saw through it? Not even his brother who’s a sheriff. Really? And afterwards it comes out the sister was a serial rapist. She used to drug with rape drugs her victims and lately a guy who had the same experience as the hero but with smarter friends, went to emergency to have a test and turned out positive for A drug, so he wanted the woman, heroines sister, prosecuted. So the hero was raped. I find this thing really serious and sad. And the hero, after what he went through, should have been traumatized while he tried to protect his son from knowing the truth which is quite bad, since he should know the whole truth, not keep thinking his father was a faithless cheater who cheated on his fiancee with her own sister. It’s not fair for anyone. And rape is dramatic for men and women. I don’t think the topic has been dealt with care. It’s all swept under the carpet and it’s not true, a rape victim has feelings of helplessness, guilt, fear, that can last for decades. And the hero partially feels he’s guilty since he was drinking with friends, which is something that victims do, blame themselves because they put themselves in s situation that was dangerous. It’s not true and it’s very unfair because a victim is a victim of someone who’s a criminal. It’s like blaming the woman who’s raped because she wore a miniskirt, or a man who was hit by a car because he was driving at night. The blame is always on the criminal, on the abuser. Here the author didn’t give enough space to his trauma. It was all about the heroine and her pain, her drama, how her life was ruined because of the others, yada yada. The hero had his life ruined and worse, he had to raise a child alone, because ow signed her rights to the hero and he had to live with the living proof that he was unfaithful. This is an additional drama for the men who are raped, because a woman can have the morning after pill, while the man doesn’t even have a say about a child conceived by the woman who raped him. The writing is good, the characters are bland and the outcome of course is nice since both are victims. Oh, and the evil sister dies in the end which is not what I wanted because she should have spent years in jail for what she did to the hero and all the other men. I didn’t feel much angst but it was imo very sad because the characters seemed more resigned to their fate than determined to chance it. 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The title is very good because the uncertainty of the end is just there, maybe this time they will manage to do it. There’s a big trigger, that is the The title is very good because the uncertainty of the end is just there, maybe this time they will manage to do it. There’s a big trigger, that is the death of their 18 months old lil girl. This puts an end to their marriage, because she would like other children, he is so traumatized that does not want them anymore. So they divorce. They met again on a cruise for singles, and they have sex, she gets pregnant but he doesn’t want other children so she tells him he won’t be involved. The situation is not so easy though, since the child doesn’t sleep and only eats bottle, so the heroine goes into depression and the hero step up to help. He forms a bond with his child but I always felt he didn’t feel enough love and attachment for both the child and his mother. He’s no manwhore, he’s also celibate but this was not enough. To me he needed therapy. Long, long therapy, and so did she. These things cannot be overcome without the help of an expert. Eventually they decide to get remarried and to try again but to me they are not healed and their relationship is at high risk. I never felt a lot of love and passion between those two. So the book left me quite uninvolved. ...more |
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Hero and heroine are married but separated for three years. - he has n affair with a woman he wants to marry and he wants to divorce the heroine. It’s Hero and heroine are married but separated for three years. - he has n affair with a woman he wants to marry and he wants to divorce the heroine. It’s cheating since he is still married. He had other women before her. - they separated because the hero raped the heroine and she lost her child, the hero won’t know until the end of the book and will feel guilty. - the author thinks that it’s not rape if it’s between spouses, sadly the law gave her reason until the 80s, but it’s disgusting anyway. And the loss of her child as a traumatic consequence is swept under the carpet. - the hero is awful, he expected his wife to give up her career and it seems she’s the one to blame for the demise of their marriage since you know, some have to stay at home, pregnant and barefoot. - the hero has toxic masculinity. He is always right. He wants what he wants, or else. It’s him or the highway. To me it would be the latter. So much chauvinism that I just can’t. Oh. The cherry on the top. The hero and the heroine have sex again one memorable evening when they both are guest of his brother and his sister in law, with the heroine boyfriend and the hero’s mistress. Anddddd after that the hero keeps having sex with ow until he cries the heroine name during sex with ow, and she dumps him. So he proposes an affair to the heroine who’s been divorcing. No, sorry I just can’t. ...more |
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This might have been higher but for the heroine. The hero is much better than her. They have a ONS and the morning after he basically disappears. She’s This might have been higher but for the heroine. The hero is much better than her. They have a ONS and the morning after he basically disappears. She’s a college student and tries to find him, but she meets another guy instead and after some time they get together. They also live together and she loves him and he loves her. His parents though are another thing. The father is quite invisible and his mother is the worst mother in law you could ever meet, always belittling the heroine in every way and comparing her unfavorably with her son’s ex gf, who, btw, cheated on him with multiple guys years before. So there comes the day, one years later, when she has to meet her boyfriend’s brother and guess who he is? He’s the guy of the ONS. Oh, that ONS was actually a revelation for both of them. They never had such a connection with any other partner and the hero had actually been celibate for one year because no woman would measure up. So when they meet there’s shock and panic. Both decide they won’t tell anything to her boyfriend, but the heroines bff blurts out that she met her boyfriend when she was actually looking for her ONS! Embarrassing. Of course the two are soooo much attracted to each other and there are a lot of kissing and hugging and regretting and feeling guilty and the bizarre and weird part is than the hero is staying in the same apartment with the heroine and her boyfriend, his brother. He hears them having sex at night, and since he’s smitten with her, he is actually feeling veeeery bad. This is a nice and different thing from usual books where the heroine is forced to see the hero with ow and having sex with them so it wasn’t this that was bad, but the fact that the heroine took too long to break up with her boyfriend. The guy was quite a good guy. Maybe a bit of mama’s boy but nice and faithful. He deserved the truth and the hero was a good man too, and he was faithful and celibate. Yes, it was his fault if he left her without even exchanging numbers, he was leaving on a mission since he’s in the army, but since they had a very special night he could have told her he was leaving for a while and asked her number. The heroine accepted the ONS but at least she tried to see him, but nobody knew him since he gave her a nickname and not his complete name. So she moved on and I can’t actually blame her for this. You don’t wait for someone who didn’t even bother to give you a name or a number. I appreciate that she’s not the usual doormat pining heroine who cries for someone who treats her like ...more |
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This is the first book of the series of maiden lane. Beside the fact that there's a masked hero that protects innocent victims in that infamous street This is the first book of the series of maiden lane. Beside the fact that there's a masked hero that protects innocent victims in that infamous street of London, and this man is no batman, the hero is quite the catch. He's got silver hair even if he's quite young, and this is quite different from the usual hero who never gets old and has black hair until he's in his 50s. The heroine is quite a common woman, a widow who, with her brother, runs an orphanage in a very poor and depressed area in London. The hero has just found out that his mistress was murdered in a brutal way. He asks the heroine for help, and this was the one thing I found very forced. Why did the hero want to know who killed his mistress? He was not in love with her, she only pleased his kink. And why ask the heroine for help? This was somehow bizarre, but it's the excuse for the couple to fall in lust first and in love after. The heroine is no virgin and has also had a lover during her marriage, for which she feels very guilty. They are also from different backgrounds but there's no angst in it. The heroine knows her place in society and is no shy miss, so she accepts to have sex with the hero knowing he won't marry her. He will, of course. He's quite a decent man, and very much in love with the heroine. She is a good woman, maybe a bit of a holier than thou attitude, because hey, she helps little orphans! The passion and the chemistry are really great and the hero is the one worth four stars. ...more |
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-mostly sad and depressing. - the characters are divorced. They were briefly married 10 years before because she was pregnant. They barely knew each ot -mostly sad and depressing. - the characters are divorced. They were briefly married 10 years before because she was pregnant. They barely knew each other. They lost the child, their marriage imploded and she left. Without anger. - they’re both doctors. She has an accident and he sees her after 10 years. Still feel something for her. - he has a gf, had other women but never seriously. This one could be serious. - she is seeing someone, also had other partners. - basically the hero breaks up with his gf, is still in love with her but they have the big grief of their loss between them. She has so many issues that prevents her from having more children and is planning a hysterectomy. - of course there’s the final miracle baby. -meh. Both characters are not bad. There’s not so much love between them and it’s hard to feel involved if there’s so little passion and so little love. - I don’t understand why it’s the heroine who must always be the victim and with the worst fate. She’s a doctor thank god but she has so many issues, why can’t we have a heroine who’s happy and had other children? Why can’t she have a loving partner? Because it seems that the hero never suffered for her loss. - I can’t rate one star but two is really me being generous. ...more |
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Sweet Jesus gimme strenght. Because it's hard to review the mess that is this book. The previous instalment was good enough, a dumb but obsessed hero an Sweet Jesus gimme strenght. Because it's hard to review the mess that is this book. The previous instalment was good enough, a dumb but obsessed hero and a cute abused heroine but this one has the shape of a nightmare. The heroine should be a strong and ballsy woman, she's a MMA fighter and a survivor of a nasty accident where she was shot and badly hurt. She's hanging around this MC because her bff has married the prez, and she's recovering from her injury. The hero is a member of this MC with a troubled past. He's been flirting with her for one year and in the beginning she was going to accept a date with him but the same day she saw him with not one but two women hanging on him and of course she refused to have nothing to do with him anymore. Respect for this woman. I wish she went along with this decision. Sadly after one year she decides to give him another try, and her bff has a big responsibility in this because she tells him she should give the hero a chance. The hero is the most hypocritical and selfish double standard bastard you could imagine and the worst thing of all is that everyone knew except the heroine. And this is why I was most angry. Basically to cut the story short, he has a harem, five women he keeps in a big huge house and that are willing to be exclusive with him, while he's not exclusive with them. They signed a contract and live all together. Because, you know, the hero is quite picky and doesn't want to have sex with random women, who knows what you can catch... You can tell what you want but they are his personal whores, since he pays for everything and let's be honest, the man is loaded. Of course none of them would stay if he didn't have that much money even if they have jobs of their own, but you know a girl has t do what a girl has to do and my impression is that they sell themselves to a man who gives them everything material, from money to open a business to jewels to designer dresses. It's a matter of priority, you know, sometimes you have to choose with what you have and if what you have is a proposition from a man who's young and handsome enough and he's rich and kind and liberal, well, to hell with commitment and exclusivity. One cannot be too picky these days. The hero, of course, from the high mountain that is his huge ego, thinks that he will be able to persuade the heroine to be his sixth whore, because that's what she would be, but he's not even able to be clear and honest. Nope. He takes her out, he offers dinner, he seduces her with big words, he has sex with her in a big huge bed in his house, and when the heroine wonders why a single man would want a bed that is basically two king sized beds in one I cringed and felt like throwing up a lil in my mouth. After a night of great pleasure she wakes up in a house full of women having breakfast with the hero and she reminded me very much of how Goldilocks could have felt waking up with the three bears around her. The women that, beside one, are quite nice and pleasant to her, describe what it's expected from her and they tell her that they will have fun together. The heroine suspects she's been drugged with some acids and she's still allucinating. The hero is shameless and tries to stop her from leaving. This part should have been more angsty and detailed, respecting the heroine's personality that is a strong and determined woman, while she acts like a hurt virgin, running away in tears. Nope. I expected that a MMA fighter would have knocked him around maybe loosing some of his white teeth but alas no, not this time. After this debacle the hero has a conscience crisis and eventually gets rid of his women, because he understand he's in love with the heroine and doesn't want anyone but her. Pity that for one year he was happy to flirt with her and have orgies with his whores afterwards. Yuck. What a pig. The worst thing and what really made me cry was that the whole club knew of his harem, even her bff and nobody told her. This was the worst form of betrayal, since her bff was the one who suggested that she should give him a try. I suggest the heroine to dump this gang of cheaters instead. The world is full of people who are certainly more deserving of trust than this bunch of idiots. Sadly there's also something worse because the heroine comes from an abusive environment. Her mother married a man who was a sort of fanatic and who kept other women as his wives. The heroine managed to run away on her 18th birthday after finding out he wanted her to be wife number six. Basically the same thing happened with the hero. And talking about luck I suggest her to go to some pilgrimage of sort because her karma is really bad. There's some kind of kidnapping and criminal story I wans't really involved and that dragged until the end, taking the attention from the main theme that was the Big Deception of the hero and all the people the heroine called friends. I so wish she didn't forgive them. I so wish she managed to run away and make a life for herself instead of fallign for the hero's bullshit again. Where is her backbone gone? Where her self respect? There are also a lot of inconsistencies around, as for instance what was the contract about? And when did she forgive the club and her bff? It's sad that a heroine who deserved much should settle for so little. This seems to be the reality of many books and not only old school but also the newest ones. Women seem unable to think they deserve to be loved, cherished, respected. They don't think they deserve commitment, honor, trust, fidelity. Always this sad thing. And the hero doesn't seem to understand that he disrespected the heroine thinking she would accept that situation, he is only sorry she's sorry... He was abused in the past and has done some ugly things but he seems to be very aware that his situation is unusual. He doesn't understand that he was treating those women as things and that he offended the heroine considering her one of them. And the story he tells her about him being celibate for months with five women running naked in his house, well, tell it to the marines. Awful. ...more |
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**spoiler alert** Chick lit. Imo it was a missed chance for a very good and angsty romance. But it all went to jokes and jests. Even if the themes are **spoiler alert** Chick lit. Imo it was a missed chance for a very good and angsty romance. But it all went to jokes and jests. Even if the themes are serious and very traumatic. I felt bad but disconnected by the entire story and by both characters because there was no coherence between the story and the characters emotions, it’s like to go to a funeral and see everyone laugh. Inconsistent. Some things, very serious ones, are never addressed and resolved. The heroine has been abused by her uncle for years, when she tries to tell her parents don’t believe her and her sister who knew the truth, lies. So she leaves and at 14 she becomes homeless and a junkie. When she comes back home she goes rehab but is still unable to work or study. Her family hates her and scorns her. Evil sister has a fiancé who as soon as he sees her he falls in lust with her and makes out with her one hour after they’ve met. He’s a prick and a judgmental hypocrite. He’s the hero. He also has sex with her thinking she’s the sister but calling her name anyway and admitting he wants her madly. He was drunk. Anyway he marries the sister and the heroine at their marriage reveals the truth to everyone and tells she’s pregnant. The hero’s mother deceives her telling her the hero wants sole custody of his child and doesn’t want to see her anymore. She had the child and the woman takes him even if the heroine cries and begs not to. The hero divorces evil sister without consummation. The heroine leaves and meets the hero again after 7 years. He’s still in lust with her, now she’s clean and they talk about all the lies they’ve been told since he was told by his mother that she left and sold her son. The heroine reveals she was pregnant but the son is not his, but actually he is. More drama. She loses her job because she’s framed for embezzlement. Everyone hates her. Eventually the hero takes her back. The book is wrong. The heroine seems not to suffer from everything thats done to her by everyone. The title could be: paisley vs all, because besides some friends, everyone hates her for no reason, they are just awful people. Awful parents, awful sister, awful mother in law, awful colleagues and the worst of all, the hero. Hypocrite prick that mauls and pray on a barely legal teenager with issue and blames her, then marries the awful sister anyway. He’s quick to judge her but doesn’t do anything to help her when he got her pregnant after a night of sex when he called her name and not her sister’s who was his fiancée. He’s the worst. She’s been celibate while he wasn’t and this is another example of how bad the man is. We never know what he’s thinking. And worst of all the angst is missing. Pity. The plot deserved more. ...more |
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Sorry not for me. The heroine and the hero are married and lose their child for Sids. The hero sleeps with another woman and she gets pregnant. The he
Sorry not for me. The heroine and the hero are married and lose their child for Sids. The hero sleeps with another woman and she gets pregnant. The heroine leaves and the hero has a son with full custody since the woman leaves the kid and gives the hero full rights as a parent. Years later the heroine has a new boyfriend who turns out to be an abusive cheater. He beats her and she goes to her ex mother in law, the only one person apparently she could trust. She has a father so why didn’t she go to him? So the hero finds out she’s been hurt and they reconnect. I didn’t like anything about this book. I hated that he had a child with ow because of the cheating, after his own son with the heroine died. I hated that the heroines only boyfriend was an abusive psycho, why couldn’t she find a good and decent man, they exist you know? And there are more good men than bad ones you know? Strange? No, true. So she goes back to her cheating idiot azzhole of ex husband who has been living a good life, with plenty of other women, because no way that for once a cheating, idiot husband who caused his wife infinite pain stays celibate because he loves her! Nope! So the heroine goes back with the cheating asshole and takes care of the kid he had with ow. And where’s my happy ending? Where’s karma? Where’s retribution? There’s more happy ending in a Stephen king novel than in this one. The heroine loses her child, is betrayed by her husband and gets saddled with child from the cheating after being beaten by her new boyfriend. Ha! Kidding me much? The hero was drugged and basically rape drugged, I’m no evil bitch that the poor kid was to be treated badly because he has two shitty parents , it’s really not his fault but I don’t want to read this kind of rubbish, too sad and wrong for my tastes. One of my bff lost her first daughter for SIDS and I still remember the funeral, I was 20 and she was 23 but it was a nightmare and she was shattered for two years afterwards, and she has her husband with her who loved her and supported her. I can’t even imagine what is like to lose a kid, a husband and to know he has a new kid with the woman he cheated on. This is so wrong that I can’t even.
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Jayzus what the hell have I just read. This was one of the most violent, abusive and chilling romance I've read in a while. There's romance and romance. Jayzus what the hell have I just read. This was one of the most violent, abusive and chilling romance I've read in a while. There's romance and romance. And there's this one. The heroine saved the hero's life from her former abusive fiancè who wanted him dead and tortured him. The heroine's father was an abusive lord who kidnapped, raped and tortured the hero's sister, and the heroine basically was forced to watch her being gang raped without even flinching because her father threatened to do the same thing to her younger, mentally challenged sister. So the men who saw the heroine thought that she was a heathless bitch who enjoyed to see torture and rape a young girl. Years later the hero kidnaps the heroine and have her gang raped by his men without knowing she was the one who save him, and keeps her as his mistress to have her pregnant and send her back to her father. The heroine accepts everything to save her sister. There's also an ugly beating from the hero's younger brother with such a cruelty that was unnecessary and the heroine manages to run away only to end in her former fiance castle, as his mistress. The hero will save her of course but it seems just too much at that point for redemption. She was also pregnant when she was abused and beaten almost to death, no kidding. It is something of a bad bodice ripper but I didn't enjoy it because it was only too much. And the heroine's sister at the beginning seems to be a woman with the mental ability of a child then suddenly she becomes mature and able to do very complex thoughts, that was very confusing and unlikely. There's also an evil ow, the hero's fiancee who is on the outer side very kind but she's cruel and scheming and deceives everyone included the hero, so why he eventually mourns her death, while he was ruthless with the heroine who was only guilty of being her father's daughter? Meh. So much violence and abuse to the heroine and still she stays with the hero. The hero is a bully with no character and no personality worth mentioning. His treatment of the heroine is unforgivable and unfair even for that period of time, so I can't see any way to like him. I can't say I enjoyed this book and there are too many triggers for me to recommend it to anyone. ...more |
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I was curious about this author since her last book was rated very low by my gr friends, so I tried to read one of her books that wasn't as controvers
I was curious about this author since her last book was rated very low by my gr friends, so I tried to read one of her books that wasn't as controversial. This one was a pleasant surprise. It's quite long, more than 600 pages, and it's very slow pacing even if the story is set in a couple of weeks or so, with long and accurate descriptions of each and every interactions betweet not only the main characters, but also between the secondary ones. It's set in a small tonw in the mountains where the very British and refined heroine choses to spend her holydays to rest and meditate about her relationship with her cold and distant british fiancè. The heroine had several traumas, from the abandonment of her sob of a father, to the loss of her beloved brother, to a previous abusive fiance. There she meets the typical american mountain man, very male, very plain speaking, very rough and very sexy, the modern version of a Diana Palmer hero, only less cruel and rude. He's the one who rent her his house for the holydays, he should have been away but of course there was some kind of misunderstanding and he's home. With her. They have to share his house. Ahem. Actually he helps the heroine when she is sick, and shows her kindness and attentions. It's quite a case of insta lust for both, and the heroine discovers the pleasure of sex again, since her cold fish of a fiance didn't even touch her. She decides to end things with her fiance by email, not a very nice move and very immature since she's 36 and not 16, then proceeds to have an affair with the hero. He's a widower and quite the womanizer and she thinks he's still pining for his dead wife so she doesn't think they can be serious. There are also other secondary characters, and at a certain point it seemed to me more an episode of Murder she said than a romance, without my beloved Mrs Fletcher. It's well done, and interesting, even if some of these characters I could have done without but actually the fit in the story, all of them have secrets of course and the heroine seems a bit OTT sometimes. The author wants us to see she's a very brave, emotional, empatethic creature that will force the hero to fall in love with her like a ton of brick, only a few days after they met. Forgetting his long-dead wife. There's a crazy stalker, there's the murder and the murderer, there's the truth about the hero's wife. Ok, all good. I didn't understand why the hero went crazy when he found out the heroine knew he was a widower but she didn't tell him anything. Actually, she had known him for only one week, even if they had had sex, and I think she was most sensible not to force him to tell her about his dead wife, but apparently he was very offended and hurt by her behavior. This caused unnecessary drama. Maybe we have different sensibilities, and in my country it would be very rude to talk to a person you have just known about his dead wife even if you know about it, so I wasn't really sure what happened inside the hero's head when he ended things with the heroine for this reason (it was only for some hours, of course he regretted it immediately) and I couldn't appreciate it at all. Eventually all is well, they get married and have a family completed with cats, children and parents of some sort, and I must say the book was quite entertaining and satisfying because the hero was besotted with the heroine since he first saw her, and she loved him even if she was full of insecurities. Heroine is his second chance at love, and I don't begrudge it, the hero loved his first wife but she seems lukewarm and plain (not phisycally) compared with the heroine who is a strong, mature and interesting person. The hero admits they are opposite and admits he loves and wants the heroine more than he even loved his first wife, but the author was good enough to make us understand it even before the hero confessed it in the end. The first wife was a sweet, simple, happy woman and life with her was simple and comfortable, the heroine was quite the opposite: strong, complex, passionate and conflicted, she engaged the hero's feelings and emotions in a ways that we can well understand his simple first wife could never do. The hero falls for the heroine immediately and he's crazy for her, it's clear that his first wife was the love of his youth while the heroine is the love of his life, so I don't view her as second best, and I agree with the hero when he says that life didn't stop for him, and he deserves to have another chance at love. Nothing wrong with it. But maybe those who don't like the hero was married before could view it as a trigger. There's also an evil ow, one the hero used to have sex some time before, but he says she was only sex and nothing else, so I don't see her as a threat. Both celibate after meeting. ...more |
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Trigger warning: this review is full of cussing and bad words. If you’re sensitive please don’t read it. It’s the hero’s fault, not mine. This one is t Trigger warning: this review is full of cussing and bad words. If you’re sensitive please don’t read it. It’s the hero’s fault, not mine. This one is the fair of inconsistency. It is more one star than two actually but I rate two stars because today it’s warm, sunny and I’m less bitchy than usual. - the hero should be a honest, honorable and good man who’s been in love with the heroine since forever and tries to protect her, but he’s anything but. - when the heroine was 14 she was a victim of a cruel prank that left her traumatized and with severe ptsd. The hero found her and helped her, but he left her unconscious out of her house. Because he was afraid of rumors. What the fucking fuck????? Coward and vile! That’s what he is! - the heroine is a merchant’s daughter so she’s unfit to become a gentleman’s wife, so he keeps on kissing her and telling her how much he wants her but he can’t marry her since he has to marry one of the insipid ladies of the ton. And he keeps on screwing his mistress even when he is attracted to the heroine. Yuck. - he’s jealous and possessive of her but he wouldn’t marry her. When he seduces her he tells her he will take care of her as his mistress. Because he loves her very much. Die fucking asshole. - eventually he proposes and they are going to marry, that is the heroine’s dream because she’s been in love with him since forever, and what does she do? She dumps him because the villain of the book tells her he’s going to ruin and kill the hero. The hero is an earl, a magistrate, rich and powerful and the villain is a duke. I don’t think gentlemen I’m the 19 th century killed one another as in the old Wild West. Without a reason. So the heroine, a half witted idiot if ever there was one, decides to shame the hero dumping him the day before their wedding and knowing she’s pregnant with his child. Mind, the villain is the heroine’s half brother and wanted to have sex with her. The heroine could slut shame him in front of the ton. Ludicrous. - five years later the hero finds the heroine and his daughter, forces her to marry him and treats her as dirt. This was the only part of the book that made sense because actually the heroine left him writing a letter where she tells him she loves another. More of less. So of course he thinks she’s a slut, I would also. His cruelty is justified and the heroine deserves it all. She didn’t trust him and lied to him hiding his daughter for five years. - too much drama with the villain and the part where the heroine finds out she’s not her parents real daughter is actually uninteresting and useless. - as I said, inconsistencies aplenty. The hero is unpleasant and nasty, he’s too prejudiced for my tastes and I couldn’t see nothing love in his actions. He debases the heroine continuously. I didn’t enjoy it and I was unable to remember much of it after a couple of hours. ...more |
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Very emotional paranormal book, with a hero who should be alpha but is anything but, and I must admit it's not even the first time this happens. The he Very emotional paranormal book, with a hero who should be alpha but is anything but, and I must admit it's not even the first time this happens. The heroine is the lowest of her pack, treated as a servant and abused because she's overweight. The stigma of her weight is even more pronounced since it's not her fault, she's born like that. Werewolves don't get fat, because of their overactive metabolism, and she's always been scorned and abused for it. There's a lot of body shaming and the body shaming here is a bit different from the one you find in humans, because her is a condition where she doesn't have any fault. People here are really awful since nobody should be treated like that for their looks, and the hero is just awful. He uses the heroine for sex whenever he wants, without anyone knowing it, and he doesn't even takes care of her pleasure. just awful. When it turns out she's his mate he doesn't defend her from the pack's scorn and he leaves her. The heroine decides to run away and goes to another pack. The hero follows her and tries to win her back, but she's been too hurt and doesn't want him, except for the mating issue, that is something she can't do anything about. When she reaches the new pack there are different people who accept her without caring if she's fat or not. The hero follows her and there's something of a truce with explanations and else. But I only saw excuses. The hero admits he always been attracted to her and has always wanted her to be his mate, but since his father disrespected his mate he didn't want that situation to repeat. Sadly when the pack bitch (forgive me the joke) tells him she thinks he's her mate, he dumps the heroine without a word and takes care of ow, and this is when the heroine has sex with another male. His excuses are pitiful he never even recognize her in front of anyone or treated her better than the others, and when he finds out she's his mate he leaves her and doesn't recognize her in front of his pack. And this happens before he knows she had sex with another. I was glad she had sex with another even if this om was awful and the villain of the story, and I was glad he never had any sex with anyone except her, but I think his behavior was coward and selfish. He didn't seem to care for her until it's too late. In the end this is all about some nasty people who bully someone because of their looks, I think this was disturbing and awful. And weight issues are a matter of health and not a matter of looks, this is what people should remember, the problem of overweight and the related issues are sadly not taken seriously enough because people seem to think it's only a matter of looks. it's not the right message anyway. ...more |
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Unexpectedly good. It has some things I really like in romances and developed them very very well. The hero is an idle gentleman living the life of idle Unexpectedly good. It has some things I really like in romances and developed them very very well. The hero is an idle gentleman living the life of idle gentlemen in 19th century and then some. He’s also a member of a club of profligates that enjoy themselves in orgies and similar pursue. I should suggest: shave your beards and find a job. But since they are all rich and not very bright this is the life they lead. His younger sister has n accident where she loses the use of her legs because of the heroines brother. The young man refused to elope with her and she fell from the stairs, that’s it. So the hero decides to ruin the heroines brother and leave him and his family penniless. The heroine offers her service as his sister’s companion and the hero add that she must be his mistress too. She accepts. It should be very angsty but the heroine was a widow and not a naive virgin, and he isn’t really cruel, he tells her he will seduce her, not force her, and he treats her quite gently, so no, ther was no angst. The heroine enjoys her time with lil sister and finds out what is to have good sex, with the hero of course. They are quite taken with each other and the hero has cold feet. You know, he has daddy issues, because his daddy fell madly in love with one of his mistresses and ruined his and his family’s life. So he swore never to fall in love with any woman. Ha ha. Very funny. So he starts distancing from the heroine and even trying to go back to his manwhoring ways. But he can’t even pretend any form of interest for any other woman who’s not the heroine. The heroine in the meantime realizes he can never go back to a life of respectability since the hero thoroughly ruined her reputation and since she doesn’t want to marry any more, she decides she will be a rich man’s mistress and asks the hero to tutor her. Lol. The hero thinks it’s the right thing to do to finally get over her and becomes her pimp and her madame. In the same time he’s green with jealousy and sick with despair only thinking of her with other men. Eventually he gives up and asks her to marry him, since he feels guilty for all the damage he caused her and her brother. The heroine politely refuses because she can’t marry a man she can’t love and who doesn’t love her back. And because he’s just like that bastard manwhore of her dead husband. I enjoyed this moment like no other, because the hero finally understood what he really was, and that is, no better that her younger brother. Maybe worse, since he’s older and should be wiser. There’s a duel, and at this point the heroine leaves him, and doesn’t come back even when she learns he’s been hurt. Good. And then the hero really realizes he’s madly in love with her and has been all the time, and really changes his way. He leaves his club of perv friends, he stops being an ass with the heroine’s brother, he gives back every possession to the heroine’s family and even gives a dowry to her sisters and to her, so none of them will be forced to marry for money. Eventually he declares his love and the heroine accepts his proposal. Good book, where the hero really changes and the heroine takes her time forgiving him, in months and not minutes as often happens in romances. He’s also celibate since the first time he sees the heroine and it’s a big thing since he was a manwhore, and his change is not sudden but gradual, which makes the whole thing very consistent and real. The heroine was no doormat but no bitch also, she’s very practical and sensible and doesn’t immediately fall in love with the hero. I didn’t like the hero in the beginning, he was everything I hate, he’s a useless man who spends his time in vice and idiocy, and also neglects his only sister, and thinks he’s better than the heroine’s brother. When the heroine makes him understand he’s just like her dead husband and tells him plainly that she can never love a man like him he actually is ashamed of himself and realizes what he’s become. And he changes, gradually. For her. The sex scenes are a lot, I skipped some of them, but the story has a good narrative anyway. Maybe the first part was too long and slow, that’s why I rated three stars, but after the hero tries to distance himself from the heroine and she asks him to help her become a mistress, things got more fast and interesting. ...more |
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