So, not for the faint of heart this one. It’s a paranormal and a very complex one and has many triggers, mostly physical and emotional abuse, cheating,So, not for the faint of heart this one. It’s a paranormal and a very complex one and has many triggers, mostly physical and emotional abuse, cheating, aaaannnnd cliffhanger because it’s the first of a series, but since I lllllllloved it so very very much I think I’ll read the other installments without cussing as my usual because the book ended like that. The book is much more than a paranormal story. It’s a perfect example of so many psychological themes that I rejoiced it all the time. The plot is about a girl, the daughter of a witch who was banned from the pack she belonged even if she’s a good witch and not an evil one. The girl is innocent and nice and has a crush on the alpha of the pack who hates and rejected both her and her mother. Werewolves pack that is. The alpha is in love with another she wolf and rejects our heroine, but his granny asks him - more forces him though- to marry the girl without explaining why she wants this. He marries her but doesn’t recognize her at all and both he and his nasty girlfriend and basically everyone in the pack except granny start abusing the girl both physically and emotionally with refined and utter cruelty to a girl whose only sin was to try to please an old woman’s wishes. Here we have the perfect demo of how individuals can commit atrocities when they belong to a group because they start to think and act as a group more than individuals, the so called group thinking, with all its biases and prejudices that bring them to behave like monsters. And the heroine is the typical rejected member that only want to be accepted and loved and ends losing everything that matters because she can’t stop this madness and is too inside it to realize that it’s a losing game. Beautiful and well done. The pack turn into a band of criminals that behave with inhumane cruelty and without an ounce of respect to a girl who has been always seen as an outsider, an enemy. Why? They don’t know. Because the group don’t think and don’t analyze their actions and beliefs, they simply act. It’s a brute force in all its beastly display. Eventually the girl turns into something else, because this is a paranormal and it’s allowed to dream that she can in the end serve instant karma to everyone who damaged and hurt her, and then some. So it turns out she’s the most powerful witch of all and now that the pack took everything from her she wants revenge. And she delivers it, oh how she does! Nobody is exempt, not even dear granny with her hypocritical attitude of goody two shoes person, the one who belongs to the evil pack who exiled the witch and the child and now she would like to have it her way because she knows the child now young woman could mean the end of their wolfie community. She makes them pay, starting from the idiot so called hero that, when he understands he has lost her and that she’s his true mate, the only one who can really make him happy, he becomes suddenly all loving and smitten. Too little too late, coward: she forgives no one. But there is so much more her and for once I don’t want to spoil too much. There’s a strange and peculiar character that we are not able to identify but it seems he’s so very interconnected to our heroine and is a very powerful and interesting one. No more. Anyway there are many things I liked: - the heroine is vengeful and doesn’t forgive the hero nor any other who hurt her. - she doesn’t want to take him back in the end, even if he doesn’t lose hope. - it is original, with some Dracula vibes that are really Bram stoker and not vampire diaries at all. - the group dynamics are very well done and very interesting. Some things it didn’t appreciate - the editing isn’t very good, there are mistakes that could have been avoided but this is self publishing for you. - the hero. He’s a worthless beta, not alpha at all. He abuses the heroine just because he can, he’s cruel and abusive and then he would like to be forgiven. It’s all about him. - there’s a moment in the book where the relationship of the hero with ow is ending, and I have the impression that the author tried to make it a real love story. The heroine seems to be moved by the true love of ow for the hero, and the hero thinks that he will always remember ow with affection and she will always be his favorite person. I hated this part. This is the same woman who hurt the heroine physically and emotionally, who lied telling the hero she had hurt her, who had sex with the hero while he was married to the heroine. No, sorry, no soft feelings for her at all. Eventually we don’t know what will be of the pack and of the hero in the end of this book, but I think that, with a view to a reasonable solution, this pack need to be destroyed, and the hero, who’s their direct representative, must be sacrificed first. In fact, as it happens when some societies and social groups are too corrupted and evil, every kind of redemption becomes impossible and the only choice possible is to complete change the entire system. There come revolutions of people. In the end I don’t know if this book is for everyone, but in the gray and monotonous world that is now the present romance, I appreciated it very much....more
Meh. Just the kind of book I will forget in a couple of day. It's kind of boring, the hero is a football player who's been dumped by his wife because heMeh. Just the kind of book I will forget in a couple of day. It's kind of boring, the hero is a football player who's been dumped by his wife because he neglected her for years and after their child was stillborn he went back to his business without helping his wife out of her depression. So she files for divorce and the hero wakes up a couple of week before the divorce becomes effective, and wants his wife back. The good old tale of the dog that doesn't want the bone but doesn't want any other dog to have it. In the meantime she's got engaged with another man, a former boyfriend of hers, that in the beginning seems the right choice because he's safe and reliable, but he's actually a psycho obsessed with her that has been trying to break their marriage for years. Meh again. I don't understand why reliable is boring and she couldn't find a decent man. Of course if the author throws awful kind of men around the heroine she will end with the hero again, that is she will settle with the less yucky one. The hero is hurt during a game and the heroine accepts to take care of him for some days, and it takes some hours in his company to sleep with him again. Broken ribs and bruised cheeckbones aside. But it was only sex for her, and, even if they have repeatedly hot unprotected sex, she doesn't want to leave her so boooring fiance', with whom she hasn't had sex yet. Ah, the good premises for a successful marriage. Just no. Then, thank god, she eventually decides to leave her fiance and to give her almost ex husband another chance. Sadly the fiance shows his true colors and becomes suddenly abusive and conniving, and hurts her in more than one way, first manhandling her, then trying to mess with her marriage hiring a psycho stalker of the hero and a teenage pregnant girl that claims she's pregnant with the hero's child. During those moments the heroine shows her great trust in her husband believing to everyone but him. Again, not good. The book wasn't bad but wasn't that good either. The heroine was really bad, she got engaged with another man while still married with her husband and cheated with him on her fiance. I don't know who was the cheated one but she cheated, that's a fact. And the hero. His only merit was that he was always faithful to her, even after their separation. We don't actually know anything about their marriage, because the book opens when they have been separated for one year, so we don't know if he actually was a lousy husband or if she was a clingy woman, for sure he never listened to her and when she needed him the most, after the loss of her unborn child, he went away and didn't stand by her side. He let her leave and stay away for one year before trying to win her back, and only shows up a week before the divorce. This is not a behavior of a man madly in love with his wife. She actually came after his career and his other engagements. She didn't trust him at all, and the fact that she immediately gave him another chance was really an impulsive and dumb reaction, and it seems very unlikely that everything is fine as the author writes in her epilogue. They surely needed counseling but it's nnever mentioned. She didn't trust him but I don't feel like she should have, since he had always been doing his business and barely caring for his wife for ten years. He seems so offended that she doesn't trust him when he hasn't yet done one thing, not one, to make her believe he was really changed and was different than he has always been. So, definitely I ended the book with a sense of unfulfillment and disappointment.
If you are a fan of MC romances this one is for you and has it all. I actually liked the love story between hero and heroine, that starts with some kinIf you are a fan of MC romances this one is for you and has it all. I actually liked the love story between hero and heroine, that starts with some kind of agreement, the heroine will give herself to the hero and he will save her sister’s life. It seems crude and nasty but as soon as he sees her he’s gone. And as soon as she sees him she wants him, and since she’s not a simpering virgin herself she’s ready to have him anyway. So the agreement is somehow very very fake and useless. He’s the club prez and she’s the daughter of one of the members and ex prez, a cruel man, unless the hero who’s quite fair. She needs his help because her lil sister has been kidnapped and he will find her and protect them both, if the heroine will keep her part of the agreement. ( of course we know he will help her anyway, and I suppose the heroine knows it too but she likes the big guy so she pretends to accept it) There’s an almost love at first sight that he will try to fight against, because you know after all he’s just the mean and evil prez of a mean and evil MC and can’t be too much of a softie, but after some months he will surrender and admit he loves her. He’s a cutie. She’s a badass and a feisty woman, and I liked that she didn’t give up on him when he tried to push her away because she understood he was trying to protect himself. There’s really trust and communication between those two and the main reason why I rated the book 3 stars. She never let anyone or anything come between them and it was good. It’s not really my cuppa and this one was also too long and had too much club stuff and drama to be something I can appreciate. Too much violence, sexual promiscuity and sadly there’s also rape that I think could have been avoided without taking anything off the story. The bad business the club is fighting against is human trafficking and it was very realistic but again I’m not into this kind of reading so I don’t know if I’ll read the other installments of this series. There are other interesting characters and a dog that thank god is alive in the end. I can’t cope with abuses on animals even in fiction. The hero, even if he’s a Big bad MC prez, is faithful to the heroine completely since he first met her, and that’s something for a MC book. If you can go past the scene in the beginning where the heroine goes into the club and he’s having a bj from one of his hoes… but mind, he watches her licking her lips and he comes just like that. Ha! It was fun. I wasn’t disgusted because it was him to show how much she affected him first… ...more
**spoiler alert** I know I know, I’m biased as regards DP, she’s an old love of mine and I can’t not enjoy her books especially the new ones. Once I re**spoiler alert** I know I know, I’m biased as regards DP, she’s an old love of mine and I can’t not enjoy her books especially the new ones. Once I read her preface of one of her books and I was surprised to see that she actually hated her hero, and pitied the heroine, even if that hero wasn’t one of the worst ones, and it was then that I understood that she really enjoyed writing about mean and dumb male heroes and her heroines are really smarter than them and ended in love with the hero somehow pitying him for his many faults. This one is a typical DP. - the heroine is naive, innocent and of course virgin (even if she’s not a teenager) - she’s got the sob story of all sob stories and lost her parents and brother and is all alone with her niece. A cute lil girl. - she’s plain, even if she seems to have many men interested in her since she’s so sweet she can give you diabetes if you aren’t careful. - the hero is a man of law, and wronged the heroine years before - he’s not so smart regarding women in general. -he’s not so great in bed - he’s got issues. Many. Trust issues. Communication issues. - he’s been hurt by a woman - he’s all alone with a dog - a lot of sexism with a career oriented woman being cold and selfish and a sweet caring one who only wants to stay at home and have children. - dichotomy big city evil/ small town good. Career woman bad/ homebody woman good. The man is no prince as usual DP, he was married to a woman who was a doctor and lived in another city, they met only during the weekend and she didn’t want children. He was madly in love with her. When she died for a strange virus he blamed the heroine and her niece, that makes him a mean and stupid man since the woman was a doctor and actually it was her job being with sick people. Turns out it wasn’t even the heroine who was sick but I wonder, even if she were, whe couldn’t know her virus was lethal to ow. The heroine leaves the town with her niece and the hero feels like shit because of his behavior. Years later, the heroine decides to go back to the small town and to live in the ranch her cousin left her. You know, Denver is such a dangerous and ugly city (is it?) and she’s so glad she can live there. The man is still pining for his dead ex but tries to make amends to the heroine and soon they become friends because she’s sweet and he loves her niece too. As the book goes by you learn that his dead ex, rest her in peace, was the greatest bitch of the universe, a cold unfeeling woman who didn’t love animals and children and didn’t like sick people (a doctor, seriously). She was selfish and didn’t even want her husband to go and see her to Denver, which make you think she had something to hide. Aaaaaaand did she have something to hide. Basically the bitch had an affair with a colleague who was married and she decided to marry the hero to have a cover to their relationship. Of course she loved her lover and not the hero. Half the book you wonder how a man - a grown up man- could have been so fool not to see that not only the woman he idolized was a selfish bitch and he would have never been happy with her, but also that she was hiding something. He was 36 and still hung over his dead bitch of a wife. Really??? In the meantime his friendship with the heroine becomes more but when he finds out the truth about his wife he’s got cold feet and tries to keep his distance from the heroine and her niece. Almost falling into another bitch’s trap. Seriously??? Ok, we know he didn’t feel anything and wasn’t even aroused by this one, but he was seen with her around the small town and the heroine was hurt by this sudden turnaround. But thank god she kept herself cold and didn’t let him see he was hurting her. And she also went out on a date with another charming man making the hero all jealous and angry. Thank god the hero understands that he loves her and he immediately asks her to marry him before some other guy could whisk her away under his nose. There’s also a mystery case that I don’t want to talk about because it was something I didn’t care. Of course the hero is a sheriff so there’s always some case he’s working on but, seriously, all that drama I could do without. Did I enjoy the book? Yes I did. DP is a very good writer, she’s easy to read and is very entertaining with her cute too sweet and naive heroines and her grumpy not so smart heroes. And her cringy sex. Yes, even that....more
Ok really I know… lately I’m reading everything in every kind of place and device and from every kind of source and I’m a lil ashamed of this but I caOk really I know… lately I’m reading everything in every kind of place and device and from every kind of source and I’m a lil ashamed of this but I can’t stop. I’m only happy it’s not some kind of drugs or I’ll be not far from overdosing. I’ve read some reviews about this one that were interesting and I decided to give it a try and I wasn’t disappointed. If you forget that the author- I don’t know why but maybe for some kind of tribute to her favorite movie’s characters- named the characters Bella and Edward, well, the story is quite nice and well done, even for someone who’s not an experienced writer. - there’s much insight about feelings and emotions and she made a good job in recognizing and describing how the characters would feel in that specific situation that is, when the heroine finds her boyfriend cheating on her, and all the afterwards. - the plot is not about vampires at all, even if the names are the same. The hero and the heroine have been together for some years and are very much in love with each other. They’ve been each other’s firsts in everything. He’s now a famous pop star- or rockstar- with his band. - sadly he’s also using drugs and alcohol and their relationship is strained lately. - one morning she enters his(theirs actually) new house and sees him naked with a woman. - she leaves him. - he breaks down and becomes a junkie as never before. - she moves on and has a boyfriend. She also has sex with him even if she’s not over the hero. - the hero is never over her even after months. He’s at his lowest. Then he finds out he’s been drugged the night he had sex with ow, actually he doesn’t remember anything. - he overdosed and almost died. - the heroine takes him back when he tells her he was drugged. - hea after rehab, of course. I’m sure that he wasn’t conscious when he had sex with ow, another jealous woman drugged him but he was already using other drugs so I suppose this was bound to happen sooner or later.I’m glad she didn’t let him off the hook too soon. - the description of his downfall after the heroine left him was really angsty and the way the heroine tried to cope was good. She didn’t jump in bed with the first man she met, she gave herself time and tries to move on. After all it wasn’t about ow only but also about his drug habits. - the story is short, maybe more a novella than an actual book but it was good in a simple way of good. And it is not published because it’s free. - the thing I liked less was - alas- the choice of names. It would have been better if they were not a reminder of the other couple. They are just so different and it’s good that they are. - yes there’s cheating but technically he was drugged and raped so he was as much a victim as any woman would be in his place. And the heroine moved on. So I wasn’t too annoyed by the cheating act. If it’s not consensual it’s as disturbing as it would be if performed on a woman. - short as it is, a pleasant surprise. ...more
Unusual story for LC that usually writes about older alpha obsessed men and younger feisty heroines. It has the same vibes as her other books, that is Unusual story for LC that usually writes about older alpha obsessed men and younger feisty heroines. It has the same vibes as her other books, that is a very strong chemistry and a great sexual tension through all the book, but the plot is different. Ava and Ethan are teenagers. He’s her brother’s bff and has been attracted to her since forever. He’s only two years older but until she’s 15 he tries to deny the attraction and dates girls as old as him. This means that he has sex with ows. Actually it didn’t bother me so much because poor heroine w as basically a child so it would have been annoying if he tried to seduce her at 14. Since she’s 15 he’s been celibate because has understood that he can’t fight what he feels for her and when she’s 16 they finally start dating. Then just when he’s going to college, she gets pregnant. And the problems start. Basically there are no issue concerning their relationship because after he surrenders and makes their relationship official, they are completely devoted and faithful to each other with a maturity that somehow is surprising. Even in the end when some college groupies try to mess with them, the heroine shows a complete trust towards the hero, never believing the nasty girls that told her that he was having fun with half the college girls. That was good. The drama and angst come from her parents that refuse to accept her pregnancy especially her mother who even tries to make her have a termination by deceiving her. It was painful and nasty. All is well- not all exactly but all that matters for our couple- in the end, and they manage to get married and have a happy life and a nice family as they always dreamed of. So, what I mostly appreciated here: - the chemistry. Veeery veeery good, and I must admit that the author did a very good job because the sex between them was just what you expect from a couple of teenagers. No nasty things or unlikely kinky attitudes that one don’t expect by two young people that are also deeply in love for the first time in their life. The best moments are when he touches her thigh for the first time in a bar while their friends are quarreling- first as a reassurance then as a forbidden pleasure , and their first time, not planned and very very hot. - the realistic ways describing how they find out she’s pregnant, their mental processes, and the reaction of their families, very different since his family is supportive and caring while her family is hostile and angry, especially the mother from hell. It’s a simple plot but very well done and very angsty especially after the hero leaves for college and her mother abuses the heroine psychologically for months until the poor girl leaves risking her life and her child’s- doing something very stupid but very believable for a teenager without any familiar support. I know it may seem not much but it takes some talent to describe this situation- very frequent and very common- with such accuracy both psychological and emotional. I really appreciate the whole book and I loved both characters- the heroine was so young but still brave and strong, think about how a 17 yo would feel if her parents pushed her to get rid of her child in one way or another, and the hero was brave and very moving in his desire to be a father and a husband to her, he was waiting for her to be 18 then he would marry her and make her his, so she would be under his care, so young yet so determined. I also liked the difference between the two families, that I think it’s something that can happen very often. I’m not ashamed of admitting that I sniffed and sobbed more than once. ...more
There are boundaries that it’s better not cross. This is a typical story where the hero blackmails the hero to have sex with him to save their parents There are boundaries that it’s better not cross. This is a typical story where the hero blackmails the hero to have sex with him to save their parents business, but sadly there’s more. - the hero’s wife run away with the heroine’s uncle and they died in a car accident. She was pregnant (but are we sure that it was the hero’s???) - the hero is 10 y older that the heroine. They’ve known forever and she’s his sister’s bff. - the hero hold a grudge to all the family of the heroine, which seems to be a stupid thing since the uncle’s son was also abused by his father and that man was an awful person. That says much about the kind of woman the hero’s first wife was. I hope no one hates me because of whatever one of my many uncles did - uncles that I meet only at funerals or marriages when I decide to attend- it would be stupid and unfair and I wouldn’t mind telling them. - the hero has noticed the heroine for some months. He apparently started seeing her as a woman some months before his dear wife died even if the heroine is only 18. Now that he’s alone and she’s grown up he would like to have a taste of her that he justifies as his due, since her family took something of his. Medieval. - he corners her and kisses her in anger scaring her. The poor girl is only 18- but sadly there’s more. - time goes by and he tries again to approach her, realizing that he was wrong to assault her as he did. Meh. - does he apologizes? Does he try to explain? Does he asks her to spend some time with her- only for the pleasure of his company? No! He tells her he wants her and he will have her, frightening her again and again. He sends her flowers each month for three years, then when her parents risk losing their business he offers a loan- that obviously he will threaten to call off after some time. He blackmails the heroine to have sex with him and makes her sign a contract where she’s his property for as long as he wants. Basically his sexual slave. This was very disturbing and disgusting even without the elephant in the room because he treats her abominably, groping her and telling her she has to submit to him in bed. Ok, I really hated him then but what was actually the worst thing was that the heroine was raped in high school, and is still traumatized. The hero doesn’t know it thank god but this makes the situation even more painful and disgusting. They leave for a holiday together and thank god they won’t have sex at all, the hero has already regretted his behavior and doesn’t know how to get out of the big mess he made, and when he understands that the heroine is not playing difficult to get but is actually traumatized, he is all remorseful and regretful and immediately break their agreement, assuring her that he would extend her parents loan without any conditions. I like that he is the first to say ILY and that he eventually lets her go, leaving her free to decide if she wants to see him again. Of course there is a HEA, but I don’t know if I liked the book. I rated 3 stars because it’s an angst fest like no other and I really had to stop several times because my pressure was skyrocketing. The rape is not described in details but the girl was clearly severely traumatized and no one proposed her to see a therapist. Or to have counseling. She was still closed and afraid to even date anyone. I understand that the hero didn’t know what happened to her but it was even more distressing to see him blackmailing her for sex after what she went through. About celibacy. They had a 10 years gap so he got married when she was a teenager and she also had a boyfriend before him. Thank god his obsession began when she was 18 and he was widowed. - after he kissed her the first time she has been celibate while we don’t known anything certain about him. There’s another 5 years before they are together, and nothing is said about him. But since it wasn’t mentioned I wasn’t disturbed. ...more
The hero is actually a sociopath, and he has his good reasons. He was abused as a child by his junkie mother who basically tortured him both phisycallyThe hero is actually a sociopath, and he has his good reasons. He was abused as a child by his junkie mother who basically tortured him both phisycally and emotionally. He grew up without knowing what was the meaning of love and full of rage and anger towards the entire world. When he meets the heroine she's a pole dancer and his younger brother is madly in love with her. He sees her, he wants her, he blackmails her to be his mistress for money, she ups the ante and proposes marriage. He accepts, but the poor heroine doesn't know it's her downfall because he treats her like a ho, and not only in private. He forces her to perform in front of his friends, asking her to strip and to give him oral sex. The heroine in the meantime is planning her escape. When she finds out she's pregnant she leaves and the hero spends one years looking for her. When he finds her he forces her to go back with him, obviously threatening her with her child. She refuses to sleep with him again and to be treated like before. The hero accepts, because he has spent one hell of a year without her and is ready to accept everything she wants to keep her with him. Then he gradually becomes attached to his son and changes his mind regarding her being a gold-digging ho. Honestly. The man was unredeemable. His behavior was sadistic, he was a man without empathy and it is not possible that the heroine was in love with him, because she planned her get-away very very carefully and hated him. He was never kind or gentle with her, he used her without a care for her and even humiliated and debased her in front of his friends. The heroine was a strong woman in the beginning of the book and she really wanted to have nothing more to do with him so, beside their chemistry, that can be understandable since it's a phisycal reaction, how are her feelings justified? Because he suddenly decided to come clean and to reveal his awful past? Because she felt pity and compassion for him? Because she saw he was a good father for his child? Not enough. It wasn't enough. The heroine was done with being resentful to him by the 70 % of the book, so I was done too. He apologized and told her he was sorry but seriously, it's ok to forgive him but to stay in a relationship with a man who treated you like a ho... Both were celibate during their separation, he tried once but couldn't do it. Not bad but not excellent. ...more
Nice good angst for a very mean and vengeful hero. He’s pissed and angry because his wife, the woman he loved more than anyone else, left him two yearsNice good angst for a very mean and vengeful hero. He’s pissed and angry because his wife, the woman he loved more than anyone else, left him two years before without a word and leaving him divorce papers to sign. He’s found out where she is and that she’s got a son that she kept hidden from him. We know that she went away because there’s someone who threatened the hero if she didn’t leave, so we know that she’s a martyr but the hero thinks she went away because she didn’t love him and had found another man. So he’s very mean and hurtful, in a very ott way that made me laugh more than angry. He tells her that as soon as his child is weaned he will take him away from her and kick her out of their life. Thank god there’s his mum, best character ever, that prevents his inflamed ego from doing silly things and tells him to look for the reason behind her behavior. So the hero hires some men to investigate on her. In the meantime he treats her badly and even brings a would be ow to let her believe he’s got an affair. It’s all a ruse since he’s been celibate and miserable secretly pining for her. Then there’s a lot of angry sex that he thinks he can use to punish her for what she did while she enjoys it all the time. A lot of punishing and rough sex, but she, the shy kitten, hides a tiger inside and is more than happy to comply. Turns out she’s the daughter of a man who committed suicide years before and her mother is an abusive psycho who abused her all her life. The heroine managed to run away and change her identity but somehow the evil woman found her. Guess who told her where she was? You get it? Ow of course. So the hero finds she’s a victim and was trying to protect him from the threats of her mother, who, by the way, has some relatives in the mob. Eventually there are also major twist that I won’t tell, but all is very, very well in the end. Even too well. - the hero. He was mean and nasty for the first part of the book but I can get it. After all she dumped him without even one word and kept his child from him. He didn’t make many effort to find her and he also had her number, I wonder why. What I can guess is that he was hurt and he thought she had found another man, and he was afraid of having the confirmation. After he finds out what happened he’s really sweet, even if he is hurt that she didn’t trust him enough to tell him the truth. He’s not so smart after all, and he wasn’t able to see ow was evil and was in love with him. - the heroine. Poor girl was in constant survival mode and it’s a wonder she’s not psychotic given the kind of mother she had. She didn’t trust the hero, but it wasn’t a matter of being dumb, she had a more obscure reason that in the end is revealed and let me tell you, she’s got a point. She seems to be a little subdued but actually she’s a survivor and in the end she gains some confidence. - hero’s mother. Best character ever. She understands more than the others what is happening and is also quite sadistic in her need for revenge on ow.And how she slaps all the characters in the book and how she’s always on the heroine’s side even when she doesn’t know what happened yet. - this is a book where the hero grovels for being mean, evil people pay for their sins in a very very thorough way and everything is ok in the end. It is not an original plot but it was quite good and well executed. Both characters are in love with each other and their behavior makes sense. Much sex with some kink. But I wasn’t bothered. I really enjoyed this one....more
I’ve been waiting for this book since I had enjoyed very much Molly, the previous one written by this author. I didn’t dislike this one but I wasn’t crI’ve been waiting for this book since I had enjoyed very much Molly, the previous one written by this author. I didn’t dislike this one but I wasn’t crazy about it either. The hero and the heroine have grown up together, he’s a bit older and she’s the same age of his younger brother. She’s been in love with him since she was a teenager and they have a special relationship, nothing physical though. At 20 the heroine decides to leave the town to complete her studies and asks the hero to follow her. He refuses, and refuses even her suggestion that they have a long distance relationship. Without explanation. The heroine is shattered, because she basically confessed her love to him and begged him, but he rejected her. She keeps calling and texting him though, without any answer. He basically ghosts her for one year. After one year the heroine is done pining for him and moves on. She didn’t finish her studies and is employed in her boyfriend’s father’s business. She’s in a relationship with a man who at first seems nice then he reveals himself for what he really is, an abusive psycho. After almost three years of being psychologically and sometimes physically abused she dumps him and the man becomes a stalker. Then her mother tells the hero and here he comes to rescue her from the bad guy. He offers her a job and finds her a place to live in their town. So basically she gives up without a fight because she still loves her. Even if he ghosted her for four years. (Turn out that the stalker boyfriend had his number blocked on the heroine’s phone and he wasn’t able to reach her and after one year, just when she gave up her hopes, he was going to her but her mother told him she was having a date with a guy. He kept calling her but she never answered. Meh) No real issues after this, because they both are attracted to each other and he explains that his father was an alcoholic abusive who became homicidal when he was drunk, so he had to protect his lil bro. The hero was also having counseling because he had anger management issues. There’s a bit of drama when om comes to town and threatens the heroine but the hero beats him black and blue but it’s all solved in the end. Then there’s another big and IMO very unnecessary tragedy that drags the books for other 50 and something pages and that really-really- spoiled the book for me. Those two had already suffered a lot, the heroine growing up with only her mother and then being abused by her boyfriend, the hero with his abusive father, and why they had still to endure another great tragedy and loss, I’m still wondering. I won’t spoiler too much, let me say that I couldn’t believe I still don’t understand the reason of this choice. What I liked. -As usual, the hero is super obsessed with the heroine, and very protective of her. He’s also kind an caring, this one is really a man who takes care of the ones he loves. - the writing style. Very good, never boring. - secondary characters are interesting and their interaction with main characters in fun and pleasant. -some very hot sex scenes. What I didn’t like. - the hero ghosted the heroine for one year. Why? Because he was in a bad place? It doesn’t make sense. He loved her but still he couldn’t even text her back? His excuse was that he had to protect his lil bro and was having counseling. But why the ghosting? Then he suddenly decided he had enough and wanted to go to her as if nothing happened. Really? And if it was true, why he simply let her go when he was told she was going on a date? Why didn’t he fight for her? Yes, he tried to text her but evil om blocked him, but still, if he really loved her, he should have gone to her and have fought harder since he was the one to dump her. - the heroine dropped her studies and became the usual cliche secretary for her fiancé’s father. I didn’t like it. -the tragedy in the end. Really unnecessary. - some loose ends. What happened to her father, a man who never shows up? And the hero’s father who was in jail? Did they never speak again? About safety. The hero had women when the heroine was a lil girl because obviously he wasn’t into her and thank god for it, but nothing serious. He stopped seeing them when he started having feelings with the heroine. It’s only hinted but I was satisfied with it. When they were separated the heroine was in a relationship with another man for almost 2 years so she had sex with him while the hero had only two ONS in 4 years, when he knew she was dating another man and when he heard she could be marrying om. Then he was basically more celibate than her, and not at all a manwhore. So no double standard here. I like this author and I’ll definitely read her future books, her heroes seem decent persons and she has some good angst that doesn’t come from a hero abusing or cheating on the heroine, so she’s top on my list.
Ok, I’ve survived a stroke but my kindle didn’t make it after I threw it on the wall with all the power accrued after 300 and something pages of rage Ok, I’ve survived a stroke but my kindle didn’t make it after I threw it on the wall with all the power accrued after 300 and something pages of rage read. Now I’ve loaded my guns and sharpened my knives and I’m ready to cut this book into tiny little pieces, as it deserves. My new kindle is on the way, I hope Amazon delivers it to me tomorrow. I think I’ll spend more time on this review than on the reading because, really. - I think this is one of the worst book I’ve read in some time. It’s a very sad thing because the writer is not bad at all, the writing style is not the worst you can have, besides some repetitions that could have been avoided. I don’t know how many times the hero’s lungs collapsed, and his heart stopped beating. He should have died a thousand deaths - all of them deserved. - I read some really cheap stuff sometimes, with cheating and abuses, but it’s so very clear that they are abuses that there’s no mistakes or misunderstandings about them so I’m fine with it. The writer doesn’t have to persuade me that shit is chocolate, she tells me that shit is shit and I have to deal with it. - here the writer tries to persuade me- failing miserably- that shit is not chocolate but gold, indeed! And I must be very comfortable with it! - the hero and the heroine have been a couple for three years, they are going to get married and the teenage daughter of the hero tries to commit suicide. The reason she gives is that she hates the heroine. - ok I’m a therapist here and what should a parent do when something like that happens? Go to therapy with his daughter and her mother. The daughter must have single therapy too, with maybe a stay in a hospital detached from her environment, if there’s a danger that she may repeat her act. What does the zero do? He dumps his fiancée of course. - he does what his daughter wanted him to do. And. This. Is. The. Worst. Thing. To. Do. Because he loves the heroine? No not for this. Because if you allow a teenager with suicidal behaviors to have her way once you reinforce that behavior that she will see as winning, so next time she wants something she will do it again. Simple as breathing. You get it? No therapist to tell him that? That it’s not only wrong but also dangerous to comply with emotional blackmail especially when it comes from self harming behavior???? I can’t believe it. - oh, the heroine was a social worker who dealt with children with emotional issues, should have known that they absolutely didn’t have to break up just because of that. What did she do instead? She agreed with the hero that it was better if they broke up. And she dared say that she loved him more because he was putting his daughter first!!! But this was not putting his daughter first! He was behaving like a coward! He was showing his daughter that she was the stronger one, the one ruling him, and this is another awful mistake that parents never ever have to do: parents have to rule and children have to listen and accept, this is the natural order of families, except in cases of abuse, but this was not one of them. The truth is that this zero was an awful father, who left his daughters with his ex wife that was an abusive psycho and that pushed the daughter to take the pills!!! He should have been strong, he should have stayed with his fiancée and showed his daughters that this what he wanted and that they had to accept it, no matter what. If parents let children rule this can cause damage to their mental health. - this first part was so wrong and, let me tell you, you don’t have to be a psychologist to understand that if a child throws a tantrum- or acts out like in this case- because she wants something their parents don’t have to give up, or else next time they will do the same!! It’s basic!!! Children do it all the time, they throw tantrum and if they succeed they repeat. Basic. - so I found so- stupid and inconceivable- that two adults like hero and heroine, and one with psychological notions too- would behave like two scared brainless idiots. No, no, unacceptable. - then, months later the heroine is hurt in an accident and the hero finds out he’s a father of a lil boy, so now he wants them back. - no, again, no! Too little too late!!! - oh, the heroine by the way was an abused child, her father left her when she was a child with an alcoholic mother who abused her for years and when she met the hero she was very very careful because she didn’t trust any man. - so the balless man charmed her with useless words and idiotic nicknames that - really- made me want to vomit- and promises of love and eternal fidelity that, of course, he didn’t keep. He was disgusting. Disgusting because he insisted so much that she was the love of his life, that he would never ever leave her, that she must trust him but at the first issue he dumped her and oh, he never tried to go back to her in six months. - can you imagine the damage he did to the heroine??? After how difficult it was for her and her trusting issues??? - and then he’s back and she let him back in her life because. Because! - no, no there’s not even a grovel because hey, she won’t have it. He cut her out of his life without a single thought and she told him, yes, I know you had your reasons. - what the f***???? No! - and then the final part was rushed with the daughter apologizing and the heroine telling its all right and then telling the hero she wants him back because you know life is now and you don’t have to ruminate on the past. No, you definitely don’t but this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to learn from the past, and that is that if your partner, the man who gave me diabetes with his excessive sweetness and platitudes, throws me away without a thought this means his love is only words and no fact. - badly dealt from every single psychological pov. Very very bad. - not to mention the shallowness with which are dealt some major issues. Her father that, when he learns she’s in a coma, wants to unplug her sustenance because so he won’t be bothered and then he suddenly becomes the most caring father of all??? First he hated the zero all his life and in five minutes they are bff. Wtf??? Where does it come from? - the hero never apologizes and never tells the heroine he would have been back even without their child. No, we actually understand that he’s back only because they have a boy, the boy he wanted instead of his two girls, probably. - oh, and her mother? Where’s her mother? Once she’s out of her rehab, then she’s nowhere. - heroine’s bff in the beginning, a limpet that should have told me the kind of martyr spineless idiot the heroine was, vanishes in the ether too, while she was everywhere one minute before. No explanation given. - this book exudes lack of true love and real lasting feelings. It teaches that love can let you down and is never to trust, never to be taken seriously, that promises are not to be kept, that courage is not a virtue and the most arrogant and the bully always win. It teaches that you vows of love aren’t worth anything. That the more you hit people the more you get. - it’s sad and wrong. True love is strong an never faltering, it is peace and harmony, and the most powerful weapon is to stay together always, in good and bad times. - the most infuriating thing is when a man with no value and worthless in every way that counts is portrayed as a good man, almost a hero. He is worthless. You can’t tell me he’s a good man, he’s not. And he doesn’t love the heroine, or he wouldn’t have left her like he did. She will never come first. She won’t be his partner, his true companion. I wish the writer spared me the bullshit that they are true mate. No way. - I don’t blame the daughters. They are teenagers and manipulated by their psycho mother, they are not guilty. Their father is, for being a coward and an incapable parent. - shallow and bad way to deal with peoples feelings. The dialogues are robotic, there’s no growth, no insight, no understanding of how they work out issues. - 10000000 negative stars. I’m done and I apologize for this awfully long review. I’m taking some beta blockers for my pressure! ...more
Since this hero deserves 1000000 stars I don’t feel like rating it less that 3. The book is a love story with a touch of mystery and paranormal. - it isSince this hero deserves 1000000 stars I don’t feel like rating it less that 3. The book is a love story with a touch of mystery and paranormal. - it is maybe too long and not blended at all. - there’s a first part, described with many details, where the hero and the heroine meets in high school. As soon as he sees her he understands she’s the one. Those early days takes almost half the book, and sometimes I was wondering where that would take. Nowhere. Maybe the author wanted to describe how wonderful the hero is and how they are fated mates, twin souls and all that, since the hero never looks at another woman and they are always so good together- including very hot in bed. Then they get married, he has a wonderful career and they have tho children, that we barely meet during the whole book since they seem to be always at someone’s house. Twenty years later something happens- at last. The hero starts traveling and there are signs that he might be cheating on the heroine. The hero seems to be hiding something and we readers think, oh, so he’s just like any other man, looking for a mistress when his wife of twenty years gets older. But it’s not so simple. Basically there’s a ow, a psycho narcissist nymphomaniac who tried years before to do the hero but of course he refused with utmost disgust, even if this woman is better than a supermodel and sex on legs, but hey, this hero is the one dreams are made of, so he rejects her scornfully and she eventually stops stalking him. But now she’s back again. And she is so so evil that she drugs him and basically abuses him (thank god she can’t rape him since he’s unconscious) until the very strange and weird end when the heroine has a premonition and saves his life. Nothing to say about the characters, they are a wonderful couple and the hero is unreal in his perfection. Could he have avoided ow? Nope, she was his student first and then she managed to have a job where she could see him every day and it was very difficult for him to prove that she was stalking him- they all would have thought she was an ex mistress turned a bit insistent. - there are many things I didn’t like: the fact that the first part was so long then it abruptly turned to the present. - too many sex scenes. The heroine has also dreams that shows ow and husband having sex, she would be seeing ows dreams basically, but it wasn’t necessary to describe all those dreams in details. There’s so much sex that it seems a means to fill the pages. - the end was a bit rushed and not so likely, since there are no witnesses of that final scene where ow threatens the hero. Ok she is unbalanced but couldn’t the hero put some bugs to spy on her and to record her calls??? Meh. - ow was really ott and I liked her sometimes. She was so cute thinking that, because she was such a hot piece of a** no man could resist her ever! Poor thing! Even if the hero was most perfect man around I don’t want to think that all the men would have sex with her only because she is beautiful and sexually available. This is debasing all the category of men and treating them as brainless idiot lead only by their d**k. I suppose there would have been other men not so willing to have sex with a promiscuous- even if very hot- woman, but maybe in her deranged mind there weren’t. - the man was abused and didn’t even bat a lid? Where’s PTSD? Where is his reaction to a really traumatic experience? Rape is not only traumatic for women, it is for men too. Badly dealt with. - I liked that for once its the man who is stalked and abused ( not that I wanted him to be!) and I liked that he feels powerless because, for once, there’s a reverse double standard because he wouldn’t have been believed since his stalker was such a gorgeous and young creature. This is really interesting. - I think the book needed editing and some cuts but anyway I enjoyed it and I really loved the hero all the time. Most perfect hero ever, and I need some of those!...more
This is a new author for me, and I must admit I enjoyed this book. The hero and the heroine met at a bar when she was 17 and he was 21. He was an ex soThis is a new author for me, and I must admit I enjoyed this book. The hero and the heroine met at a bar when she was 17 and he was 21. He was an ex soldier and was going back home to take care of his little sister, she was waiting for her father, a man involved in drug dealing. The man saw her with the hero and, high as a kite, beat her almost to death when the hero came in and saved her, killing her father. Since the man was in a corrupted circle and the judges were into it too, the hero went to jail for 12 years. The heroine became a lawyer. They meet again because both came to live in the same town, where the hero bought a bar and became member of the local MC. When he sees the heroine at first he tells her to stay away from him but he’s still as much attracted to her as he was when they first met, so it’s not long since they surrender to their mutual attraction. There’s also a story of corruption and a crazy ow thrown in the middle, with corrupted cops and another beating for the poor heroine. Eventually all is well and also the epilogue is cute and satisfying. Those two are really made for each other. He’s a real hero, and his love for the heroine is true and passionate. Even after 12 years she’s the one for him and there are no ow. The heroine is a badass and I loved how she recovered and she became a successful lawyer. I enjoyed the mystery too because it wasn’t too invasive but I found the violence a lil bit excessive for my tastes. And the heroine had to endure not one but two beatings where she risked her life and had permanent damages. I don’t know if it was necessary to the story. But the book was very good and pleasant to read, safe and entertaining, so I can recommend it. ...more
Oh the angst! This is pure sweet angst until the very end! I liked it very much, at last a hp very well done, I could say masterly done. - the hero and Oh the angst! This is pure sweet angst until the very end! I liked it very much, at last a hp very well done, I could say masterly done. - the hero and the heroine were briefly engaged three years ago. They broke up and they blame each other. Now they meet again, the hero, who wasn’t rich, is a billionaire and the heroine, who was rich, is now full of debts. The background. He’s the son of two criminals and has been adopted. Nobody knows that fact. He met the heroine, they fell in love and got engaged. But he was scared she would leave him if she knew who he really was. When he had to go to USA to his parents he didn’t take her with him and she thought he left her without explanation. She tried to call him but he never answered. Three weeks later she left him and went back to her life. When he came back he didn’t found her and wasn’t able to talk to her. So he went to England but met a man who told him he was the heroine’s fiancé (he was a friend of hers, not really her fiancé) So with all those misunderstandings between them they meet again 3 years later. He wants to make her pay for leaving him and she still hates him for leaving her. He blackmails her to work for him and to go with him to Italy, where they are eventually able to talk about what really happened three years before. There’s a very strong chemistry between them and they both have issues. The heroine was abandoned by her parents when she was only a child and grew up with her grandfather that now has dementia. For this reason she wants to keep the manor where he lives and accepts the hero’s proposal. The hero is stunned that he misjudged the heroine greatly and he feels guilty for what he did to her. Unconsciously he behaved like her parents. He would like to be with her again but he’s afraid that when his true parentage come out the heroine will be trashed with him by the press, so he decides to leave her. Of course he can’t live without her and will go back with a proposal and the same ring he offered her years before. Romantic. Very emotional and well developed story, both characters have issues, the heroine has self- worth issues and abandonment issues and so has the hero. But they find their way in the end. After so much angst. - I particularly loved the passion that they had for each other, that was really unrestrained, without control. - and I loved that both were celibate during the three years of separation. At last! Was it so difficult to write about a hero that when he says he’s loved her all along he means it, with facts and not only with words??? - I loved it and I read it in one session. And I got emotional. And my pressure got high. But it was worth it....more
After Bessa I don't think any other book of this series could measure up, this one is about Bessa's firstborn son Odin and Fin's and Victoria's alpha After Bessa I don't think any other book of this series could measure up, this one is about Bessa's firstborn son Odin and Fin's and Victoria's alpha born female Charlie. - I found the heroine very annoying and very selfish and difficult to like. I didn't really felt any empathy for what she went through because after all I don't think she had much to endure. Her reactions were excessive, she seems more a spoiled brat than an alpha female. The hero and his pack considers her an abomination and the hero's father would like him to kill her. Of course, being his mate, he can't even think about it. -The thing that shocked and got the heroine angry was the claiming ceremony in the end, where the hero basically rapes the heroine in front of his pack. Barbarian but this is their world. I must admit that it was very graphic and violent and I really didn't understand why the poor heroine had to have a ring on her nose like a bull. That was a useless thing and very painful in the end. - The heroine doesn't feel accepted by the hero and is shocked by his claiming ceremony but I don't think it was a reason enough to leave him and reject him. Meh. -The hero always followed her and has been waiting for her for years, I don't think he deserved her desertion in the end. He was very angry with his father because he's always told him the heroine was an abomination but I think he only did what he was expected by him, I didn't really felt any anger for this choice of words. -There's a second part of the book that is not yet finished on whattpad, I don't know if I'll be reading it. -For those who have read the other books of this series there are all the previous characters so you will find again Fin, now a family man, and his Victoria, Meela and Gray and of course Bessa and Borson. Bessa is still my favourite characters, she has always been a very brave and strong woman and she tries her best to protect the heroine when she comes to her new pack. Sadly she can't protect her from the "old ways" that are also cruel and difficult to accept for the heroine. There's also Borson and we understand that this couple is united by a very strong love even if Bessa never forgot Borson's betrayal. He's very prejudiced and his mistakes cause the hero to lose the heroine's love. But actually I don't feel like the heroine was so committed to him, even if she claims she gave him everything, I always felt it was the hero who was most in love with her. She's not my favourite heroine of this series. Maybe my least favourite with Meela (but this one paid for her mistakes much more than she deserved) -There's also some other characters and a new plot with the Moon and the Night as actual character. -The writing style is always very peculiar, strongly set on feeling and emotions, with use of metaphors and synecdoche and I love it. I know it's not the usual style and it's not for everyone but I love her original signature. For this reason I'll read other of her books, maybe I won't always love the plot but I'll surely love the style....more
If you like MC romances you will surely like this one. The hero is president of a MC, he has his past baggage as usually these kind of men have. He meetIf you like MC romances you will surely like this one. The hero is president of a MC, he has his past baggage as usually these kind of men have. He meets the heroine and falls insta lust with her. She works for one of his bar, and at first he offers her to be one of his club w***es. Of course the heroine is furious, she's a nice good girl and doesn't do this kind of things, and is also furious because he seems willing to share her with his brothers. But after a couple of hours the hero realizes he's a lil bit jealous of her and he won't be sharing her with nobody else. He doesn't take much time for them to copulate and from that moment not much happens between them. Yes, he's not very romantic and poetic, but he's possessive and committed to her, actually he hasn't been with anyone else since they met, and hasn't wanted anyone else, which is very rare for this kind of romances. Usually heroes are with many women even after they've been with the heroine, but this hero won't do it. I appreciated it, it didn't make him weak or less a man, just the opposite because if a man is lead around by his cock actually it does mean he's not strong at all... There's also some MC drama because there's someone who wants to damage the hero and so be warned there are scene of torture and beating (not on the H/h) and if you're sensitive this may be a trigger. The heroine has a friend, a woman with a traumatic past and when she finds out the hero is also a cruel man she tries to "save" the heroine from him, since she was in an abusive relationship and thinks the hero is exactly that kind of man. Sadly the men who tries to "help" her are those who wants to damage the hero and are willing to kill the heroine to hurt him. I know many reviewers hated the heroine's friend for this, but since the young woman was previously a victim of an abusive husband, for years, it's very understandable that she thinks the hero is the same, after seeing the pictures of him torturing another man. It's reasonable. Sadly the heroine is hurt very badly and risks her life but things are ok in the end and she and the hero marry. This book has many scene of violence and the hero is not a black or white kind of man, he's got a shady past, and his methods of dealing with enemies are those of the mob. He's not a sweet and nice man, but what I appreciated most was that he was always committed to the heroine, without exception. There's only a scene where one of his club "girls" approaches him and tries to seduce him and he's disgusted but too drunk to do anything, and it's the heroine who has to help him freeing from the woman. It was quite hilarious and I wasn't annoyed because I think it is a part of MC lifestyle to claim a man in a very public display. The hero was actually turned on by the heroine's claim on him. Really??? - I found the book quite easy and light without much angst.
3 stars because I love this writer but I must admit I prefer her medieval historicals. This was a contemporary about some SEALs who are on a mission. O3 stars because I love this writer but I must admit I prefer her medieval historicals. This was a contemporary about some SEALs who are on a mission. One of them, the hero, was in a relationship with the heroine, a young woman who turns out to be a Russian spy and who’s the reason 4 of his partners died. Actually she was a spy but things are not black and white as he would like. She only did it because an evil Russian spy threatened her family ( she’s got the usual pitiful family with sick father, sick sister and all) aaaand she tried to sabotage the spy. So the hero is mad at her but since she’s pregnant now he can’t take her to fbi or cia or something like that. Ok, it’s a good story about two completely different people that are not all good or bad, their chemistry is strong and they are in love but there’s so much between them. They will have to learn to trust each other if they want to be happy together. The hero is not bad, maybe too mono dimensional and since he had an easy and privileged life he can’t understand what is to be an orphan in a Eastern Europe orphanage and to be woman and completely alone. There’s also a secondary story of his sister with his Ex husband that is really really sad. That man was a sob and the H sister suffered and was abused by him in the worst ways and the author just throws them back together because hey, he’s changed. Well, I don’t understand why a woman has to accept a man who hurt her and treated her like crap because he’s changed. Maybe there are other men with whom she doesn’t have painful memories and with whom she could build a happy future, no? The book was ok, not exceptional and not one of my favorite of this author. And the secondary story was just sad and made the book too long....more
This is a new author for me, and I still don't know how I feel about this book. - It started well and it was veeeery veeeery angsty in the beginning. IThis is a new author for me, and I still don't know how I feel about this book. - It started well and it was veeeery veeeery angsty in the beginning. It's a fantasy world where people are more or less barbarian, they live like in the Middle Ages and act just like Attila when he came to Rome, destroying everything and without any regards for anyone. The heroine is an abused woman whose cousin is the king of a realm and he basically killed her parents and made her live like a servant for years, so she's a princess without any right. She's been also abused and tortured by her cousin's right hand and now she's sold to a barbarian chief for a supposed alliance between reigns. -During her journey to her intended she's almost raped by one of the men who escort her, but she manage to defend herself and she kills him. Then she's beaten, taken to her fiance who throws her into a dungeon, starved, stabbed by the dead man's mother, almost frozen to death and so on. -This could have been a very dark and interesting premise for a book, but something went wrong and I wasn't able to feel any angst any more. -The hero is a dumb ape who can't even understand the most basic things so why should he be interesting? -The heroine is much more refined and far far smarter than him, it seems to me she's his caregiver and yet the brute treats her poorly for weeks, without realizing she's been abused and she's a victim. -The heroine wasn't even able to hate the brute because well, I don't know why, it seems to me a bad case of battered wife syndrome, where she can't understand he's really a poor example for a man and she's much more than him, so she falls in love with the brute. -Yes, he -slowly, veeery slowly- improves his behavior to her, but yet he's so very slow in the uptake that I was much annoyed with his poor reasoning. I suppose he has some serious intellectual issues. -The heroine is much quicker and she tells him how things stand, that is for example that he acts like his warriors are entitled to rape women since he was ready to punish her for killing his warrior who tried to rape her. The man was obviously ignorant that those men were raping and impregnating half the village and it isn't a nice thing for a governor or whatever he is. And yet, after findind out how things are, he's slow to react. Sorry but what does the heroine find in a man like that? -Then there's the language thing, both characters talk as if they are teenagers, with a lot of F-words and similar, and their reasoning is very often immature and childish. It didn't fit the setting. -Even if there are many sex scenes I didn't find they have a true connection. The hero wasn't in love with her or at least he didn't show it until the very end. -And again, it's still a mystery to me why the heroine fell in love with him. Stockholm syndrome is what I suppose it is. And it's not possible that after the way he treated her in the beginning she forgave him instantly because, oh, he's so hot and packed. Nope. -A little too long for my taste and a lot of main issues are solved in the last few pages. -I can't say it is bad because it isn't but I have the impression that it's another case of lost chance because after the very dramatic first part the book seems to be more on the funny side than on the dramatic one with verbal jokes and attitude that are more fit to teenagers than to people from a cruel world. ...more
I liked this romance even if it’s dark and has a big tragedy in it. So be warned this is no hearts and chocolate story. It’s also a thriller one. It’s abI liked this romance even if it’s dark and has a big tragedy in it. So be warned this is no hearts and chocolate story. It’s also a thriller one. It’s about missed chances or maybe bad timing. Our characters meet accidentally when they are both running from something dangerous. She’s running from some drug dealers and he’s running because he killed a man. Accidentally they both did something very wrong and dangerous. He killed this man because he was trying to defend himself and she run with the dealers money. They spend two days together and start feeling something, eventually they even have sex but when the heroine receives a text from one of the dealers where he threatens to have her arrested she steals the hero’s car, his id and runs away leaving the hero alone. He is arrested and spends four years in jail. When he comes back he wants to find the heroine and get back his car. He thinks she set him up but actually she went back to him and waited for him for two days, then she tried to find him but couldn’t. A case of bad timing. There are more secrets to be revealed and I don’t want to spoil too much because it is worth reading if you’re interested, but I have to admit the book was both tragic and angsty and compelling. - they both made mistakes because they were too young. He had addiction issues before meeting her and she was really silly because she acted before thinking. - I liked them both because they were two broken people who healed each other and I liked that the drama wasn’t from cheating or some abuse from the hero but it all came from the outside world. Their parents, friends, relatives were those who caused all their pains. - both were celibate during their four years apart and there’s no ow/om drama, and this proves you can have a very angsty romance without an asshole for a hero. Oh thank god, I was really unlucky lately with my choice of book. -it has some triggers because of the violence in it. So be warned....more
This was a good book but for some reasons I couldn’t feel an emotional connection especially in the last part of it. Basically the couple has been sepaThis was a good book but for some reasons I couldn’t feel an emotional connection especially in the last part of it. Basically the couple has been separated for four years, since she lost her child and he wasn’t home due to his job. Actually his job wasn’t a job because he was a soldier in the special op, so at the time of her pregnancy he was in some kind of African country saving children. So he could not be at home with his wife when she most needed him. I’m not fond of superheroes because imo there’s a great amount of narcissism and selfishness in their choice to be the one to save the world. But it’s ok I accept that anyone of us has to make their choices and the hero made his. The heroine was well aware that he had this kind of job and she accepted it, so her rage to him because he couldn’t be at home with her was not justified. She could have been sad, lonely, even angry but it was never his fault if she lost their child and he couldn’t stay at home with her. He was on a mission and he would have been a deserter if he stayed with her. She left him because he had a job to do, a job she knew very well what required of him. Then they were separated for four years during which he left the job and opened an agency. None of them tried to see the other. The heroine had to meet him because her father in law asked her to and since she worked at his winery she went to see the hero. Basically neither of them moved on, he was sulking and grumpy all the time and she worked all day long. The author would like us to believe he loved her with all his heart so why did he never try a reconciliation? Why did she have to ask for a divorce for him to force her to try again? I don’t understand. There’s a part where they talk openly for the first time about what happened, but why after all these years? And all seems to be solved in a few days of sex and declarations but at the first issue the hero gets mad and decides it’s over. Wtf??? This was inconsistent and not realistic after he waited four years to be with her again! I couldn’t understand why he was angry with her and behaved like a spoiled brat. At that point I was hoping she really divorced him and found a more centered and reliable man, one who gave her children and stability in her life. Then all is solved again with his half hearted apology that makes me think he will do other stunts like this in the future- again and again. It could have been four stars for the angst and the pleasant writing style but those inconsistencies made me uncomfortable and I was disappointed about the last part. So average of 3 stars....more