Really? The hero and the heroine were college students and friends. She had feelings for him while he only used her as an emotional support. No sex. OnlReally? The hero and the heroine were college students and friends. She had feelings for him while he only used her as an emotional support. No sex. Only hugs. He gives her mixed signals, because he is kind to her but doesn’t want anyone know they are friends, as in special friends. The day of his birthday she gives him a present with a card where she writes that she loves him. But he’s interested in another girl, and he gets mad because this girl sees the card and understands he’s an ahole. But this is only the point of the iceberg. He was always dismissive of her, he always criticized her, he always treated her selfishly, I understand they’re young, immature and what, but she let him treat her like toilet paper. So, when he gets angry and she understands he never thought of her as anymore than a backup plan if other girls he liked wouldn’t give in, she leaves his sorry ass and leaves with her parents. The hero understands what huge ahole he was and tries to get in touch with her but only when he needs her, just to find out she left and blocked him everywhere. Years later the heroine is still hung on him, and he never forgot her even if he could not find her. Of course it doesn’t take long before she takes him back. I wonder. Why? He was always an ahole. He was awful. He was selfish. Why couldn’t she appreciate the boyfriends she had in the past, who were kind and nice. She couldn’t. This is where I say, he was right to treat her like that, she deserved it. Because you can’t keep loving a man who mistreat abuse gaslight and use you. No, if a woman does that, she deserves all the above and more. Both had other partners, but both were never in love with other people. The heroine has a stalker and this was the most interesting part of the book with the stalker, the mystery and everything in the middle. The story between her and the hero is not worth reading. I don’t believe he understood how much he loved her after she left him. No, it was because he found that the other girls he liked more and considered more fit to be his ideal girlfriend had a thing called expectations. Yes, they expected to be treated well, with respect. So he gave up and came back to look for the ideal girlfriend, aka doormat pushover heroine. A big fat no....more
-1000000 stars I don’t understand the five stars all around and I don’t understand why not one of those reviews warned that there is such an amazing sc-1000000 stars I don’t understand the five stars all around and I don’t understand why not one of those reviews warned that there is such an amazing scene in there. I honestly hoped this new one was similar to the last two books that were quite decent, but this has a new low in it. The hero has a fling with the hero four years before, she was a maid and he a guest. He’s rich she’s poor but she was trying to save for her college. She overhears him telling to the hotel owner that is his friend that she is just a dumb maid but she’s an excellent fuck and gives the best head. They meet again four year later, she’s a maid because her sister had a car accident and is now paralyzed and needing expensive care, he’s engaged with her evil cousin. So, her cousin is really an evil and nasty bitch, nonetheless he does nothing for days. Do you want to know the disgusting scene? The author thought it would be nice if the heroine came inside the room while the hero is having great sex with his cousin. Afuckingmazing! So, while the heroine slaves away because she has no time to date he has the time of his life and keeps having sex with his fiancee even after he understands he has unresolved feelings for the heroine and gets hard because he wants the heroine and not his fiancee. Are you fucking kidding me? How is this romantic. And how am I supposed to like a hero that is not only this level of gross but also dumb as a jellyfish? One thing I hate as much as men having sex with other women while lusting for another, is a stupid man. And he’s the worst. After this I just couldn’t care about what happened. He’s stupid to begin with. He should ave never made those assumptions and be that kind of idiot to a girl that was working that hard, anyway. I just can’t find sexy a man like him, that is unable to see if the woman he’s engaged with is a bitch when all the people around him are telling him so. I really would love honest reviews. I would have never read this book if I had known there was a scene where the heroine sees the hero having sex with another woman. I don’t care if he’s engaged to this woman, he still has a past with the heroine, he has met her now and I don’t want the hero to have sex with another woman when he meets the heroine again, not even if he’s engaged. The author could spare this part, why didn’t she. It was humiliating and debasing, and useless. I don’t find it romantic if a hero is able to have sex with other women when he knows and has already sex with the heroine, especially if he still feels attracted to her, this is wrong and demeaning. Double standards of course. The heroine had only some random sex but apparently not recently. I hoped the author had matured and grown up in her writing style, and that she was eventually able to write angsty books where there were not such awful situations that make me feel second hand embarrassment for a heroine who is forced to end with such a disgusting prick. A man that, after witnessing how evil, mean, nasty and shallow his fiancee is, is still able to sleep with her while secretly lusting for another woman is not and will never be worthy of a second glance. To all my safety friends. Please, avoid trauma. There’s nothing safe here.
Gad wtf have I just read. I thought it wouldn’t be so bad, but I should have listened to those reviews of my friends here. It is very bad. Worse than baGad wtf have I just read. I thought it wouldn’t be so bad, but I should have listened to those reviews of my friends here. It is very bad. Worse than bad. The main issue is ow. Basically we have a hero who meets the heroine, falls in love with her and starts dating her and it’s alright until his bff, a woman, tells him a lot of lies, and he believes her and basically ghosts the heroine. This bff is also his friend with benefits, that he uses when he has not an officiali gf. But she’s also a dear friend of all his family and he’s known her since they were kids. The reason for the ghosting is that the heroine and he had organized a blind date with her friend and his brother, but her friend left before she met the hero’s brother and ow made him think the heroine was making fun of his brother for a petty revenge. Dude. It’s high school all over again? Whatever. Years later he meets her again accidentally and he understands he made a mistake and he misjudged her so he tries to win her back because he never moved on. Oh, don’t worry. He never moved on means he hasn’t married because he had a lot of women and he’s still screwing ow bff on his free time. Of course this ow has plans on him. His brothers and people around him have everyone understood that ow wants him for himself but since he’s dumber than a jellyfish he doesn’t believe anyone and he still thinks ow loves him as a friend and she wants only what is good for him. lol. When the hero and the heroine are dating again, ow tells she’s pregnant and the hero ghosts the heroine again. Of course it’s fake, and the heroine is the one who’s pregnant but honest, it looked like a bad soap opera on a low budget. What can I say. It was ludicrous. First of all, the rule is, when ow is a bff, to be believable she doesn’t have to screw the hero. If she does, of course her credibility is none because borders are crossed and it’s not only just friends. Here she is actually a friend with benefit, one he had sex just a few weeks before he met the heroine again, which is bad. So this woman is in the hero’s life for years, not only as his bff, but also having sex with him over the years which makes me think… if he really finds her so good to have sex with and she’s his bff, why don’t you two get together? Because it doesn’t make sense. It was quite weird when they were at college the first time, but it still was a bit more understandable because they were all of them young, horny, promiscuous, but years later, why is the hero still screwing her? Then the second time he ghosted the heroine he was unbelievable. She also saw him kissing ow and making out with her at the movies, and his excuse is that he was trying to keep her quiet since she was threatening to keep the child from him. Another thing authors should remember. When a man accidentally gets pregnant a woman he doesn’t love and doesn’t want a kid with, he is always, and I am not joking, always, angry, disappointed, annoyed, because he didn’t plan it and didn’t want the kid. So, please, stop. If you write about men try to write as men would think and act if it were real life and in my profession I’ve never seen a guy who had a random unplanned pregnancy being so attached to the kid when it’s not even born. Men don’t have the same instant attachment that mothers have to unborn kids, because they can’t feel it immediately and if they didn’t plan it and if they didn’t want to have one with that woman, they usually don’t care if the woman will keep it or not, and often they are ok if the woman decides not to keep it. So this thing that is always on books, that men who have unplanned pregnancy with women they don’t care to have kid with, become immediately enthusiastic about the idea of having the kid and are immediately ready to do anything to keep it and to be in their lives, is not believable and not realistic. This is not e being sexist, because it’s quite normal that a man, even an adult one, takes months to accept the idea of a child he didn’t want. So when things like this happen, well, the book becomes science fiction where in a dystopian world men are euphoric every time they get a random pregnant. In the end the heroine gets the prize, that is the zero, but ow doesn’t get comeuppance enough for all the damages she caused. Honestly. I couldn’t really blame her totally because the pig hero used her for years as a blowup doll in his free time from a relationship to another, which was awful, disgusting and disrespectful. The hero was the one I wanted to stay away from. After his behavior the first time, I would have pretended not to know him or I would have lied to him and told him I was gay, to avoid his advances. He’s the worst of scums, and the heroine is the worst of doormat.
Two stars for the angst, but the hero was minus 100000 stars, and no, I would never have taken back, not ever. He’s her sister brother in law, her sistTwo stars for the angst, but the hero was minus 100000 stars, and no, I would never have taken back, not ever. He’s her sister brother in law, her sister and her family are awful, I don’t know how a normal man with an average intelligence couldn’t be able to understand how badly they were treating the heroine. He lost his brother and now he’s taking care of his widow, but he stabs the heroine in the back. So she leaves him. He doesn’t follow her but starts dating her sister instead. Think of the heroines sister as the evil sister that steals her boyfriends just because she can. The hero is no better than all her family. I don’t care if he realizes that he loved the heroine and could never love his sister in law, he tried and was willing to try, this is enough to me to make the heroine second best. I don’t want a woman with the low self respect she has. She has a backbone but lasts just five minutes and as usual the hero makes puppy eyes and say he’s sorry and she forgives and forget. Not in a billion years. He didn’t have sex with her sister, but he thought she was much better than the heroine, more beautiful, more successful, smarter, more refined. I don’t care if he understands how funny and nice the heroine is, I want that the hero thinks that the heroine is the most beautiful, smartest, best woman in the world. He saw her sister as she was so he decided that he made a mistake, and hey, the sex with the heroine was sooo good, so he wanted that back. Nope. I liked some scenes where she put everyone in their place but I wished a public apology and the hero on his knee admitting he was a jerk and an idiot, everything else is not enough. There’s also a mystery part, the heroine works for a secret intelligence and she’s wounded and well, all is forgiven. wtf. Seriously? I rated two stars because he never had sex with her sister and never wanted her sexually, and because of some angst, but I wished that the heroine retaliated and went on some dates with some smart and hot dude too. I am becoming more and more intolerant to doormat women who pine for losers for years. They met previously, she had other boyfriends and he had women not seriously. Then after some years they meet again and he’s attracted to her. She was having a crush on him since forever. Duh. ...more
Just no. The heroine is hired by the hero to be his pa and his pimp, that is she has to provide him with women to fuck. This goes on for at least seven Just no. The heroine is hired by the hero to be his pa and his pimp, that is she has to provide him with women to fuck. This goes on for at least seven months, and his final goal is, make his ex cheating fiance jealous and win her back. Second part of the book is him having sex with the heroine while trying to win his ex back and treating the heroine like cum dumpster and shit while being nice to his cheating ex. Horrible book....more
So, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accidSo, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accident and couldn’t save a child was quite good. He slides into depression, he’s unable to find some peace. He doesn’t feel anything, typical depression. He behaves abominably, but then again, typical, and sadly, a man in his situation is unable to save himself, and gets even worse. He’s harsh, he gambles, he drinks, these are all dysfunctional coping mechanisms and very realistic, so it was ok for me. Then after some time, he pushes the heroine away telling he needs a break because he doesn’t love her. Again, unhealthy defense mechanism that we can’t blame on him. People with these disorders are sick, and they don’t have to be considered jerks, selfish, pricks or whatever. They do what they can because they live in constant pain and don’t have the correct strategies to overcome their pain. I wasn’t feeling angry with him but I was feeling sorry. The heroine I must admit, tried very hard to help him but, poor darling, she didn’t have the means to help him and she should have tried to find help outside, that is a therapist. He needed therapy, and she needed therapy too because she was hurt and scared. People don’t know how to deal with mental disorders, they often think that mental disorders are imaginary and not real but sadly they are real. The heroine is shattered and thinks the hero doesn’t want her anymore, so she leaves him. He also had some kind of fight club, where he spent time fighting other people. Duh. So, this part was ok. Five years later. She was pregnant when she left him and she didn’t tell him, she went back to her mother who helped her with the kid. Even if the woman was good and ok, she never tried to mend the breakup of the young couple, she wasn’t a help in this sense, even knowing the hero had a trauma he wasn’t willing to deal with. Now, the hero and the heroine meet again and the heroines mother tells him she’s sick. But he doesn’t do anything to meet and talk with the heroine. They meet because she goes to his club where she meets also some women who had sex with him. Apparently he wasn’t celibate and has many women. So, the couple don’t know what to do with themselves. Here is where the story goes downhill. He’s angry that she never told him he had a daughter. She tells him he was an addict and she didn’t want her child near him. He blames her because she left him and she apologizes. This was wrong. Yes, she should have helped him before he spiraled into addiction and should have tried to send him to therapy, this is for sure. But she wasn’t equipped for recognizing his disorder, since she’s not a psychologist or a counselor. She thought he was simply tired of her. So why didn’t I like it? Because of his cheating? Well, that was a part of it, but since he was sick it is not something that, as the other behaviors of addictions, I can blame on him. I wasn’t fond of this hero to begin with. He was weak when he was at college, he was with shallow people and was shallow and inconsistent himself. I shouldn’t have given him a second glance when I met him because he’s the typical selfish, immature, self absorbed guy I always avoided in my teen years. And this made me good because I always had long and healthy relationships even when I was a teenager. Because I knew that bad boys, selfish boys, shallow boys are just that, and they are not charming, good and supportive partners as in, ever. So when I read a story of a girl who is fascinated by that kind of guy I remember all those girlfriends of mine who came to me crying because those bad boys had broken their heart, and I thought to myself, well what did you expect from someone like that? Back to business. So, I didn’t like how the story went because the hero never had therapy, he never understood what was wrong with him and blamed the heroine because when she couldn’t help him anymore, she left him. No, that is absolutely wrong. He needed help, as addicts need help, as depressed need help, as all the people with mental issues need help. This doesn’t mean their family has to put up with all their issues if these issues are unhealthy, toxic, and dangerous. The hero was spiraling and yes, the heroine should have told him to ask for help, but, if he reused it, and it looks like he wasn’t that keen on getting help, she was never forced to stay, especially with a child on the way. I’ve seen too often what life means for those poor partners who decide to stay with chronically addicted people, or chronically disturbed people. It’s impossible after some time. And if these people don’t leave they risk having mental issues themselves. So the hero’s accusations reflects his inner selfish and coward character that he had still at college. He still was that entitled, shallow, selfish prick who always blames other people for his failures. He should have apologized and apologized and apologized, and he should have gotten therapy, that he never had. The heroine is a weak pushover, because let’s be honest, who fall in love with such a character? He had nothing to love to begin with, and I’m speaking about college, before the accident. Basically, no therapy, no talk, no nothing. So a story that should have been based on mental issues is solved when the characters have sex, and more than once, and decide they will give it another try? That’s all. Really? Where’s therapy? Where’s conflict resolution? Where are addressed all their issues, when do they talk about what went wrong and how he coped with his ptsd? Because it seems to me nothing is changed. So no, had he had therapy I would even have forgiven him many things, but he didn’t and in the end it looked like another cheating story where a weak heroine takes back the hero and even apologized because she left when life became intolerable and she tried to save herself and her kid from a toxic situation. Zero stars....more
I would have rated it three stars because the story was interesting and kept me hooked, but man was it all messed up. So, the whole point of the story I would have rated it three stars because the story was interesting and kept me hooked, but man was it all messed up. So, the whole point of the story is, heroine grows up in mc and doesn’t like that lifestyle, men cheating on their women, men always in danger and going to jail from time to time, men treating their women like shit, so she wants a regular husband, one who’s normal and almost boring. But. She gets in lust with the hero who’s a young mc member they have great sex, she gets pregnant and decides to accept the proposal of a normal college student who’s interested in her and doesn’t mind playing dad to her child. Sadly, the man is a sadistic psycho criminal and beats her daily even if front of her daughter. Eventually after five years she manages to run and goes back to her dad, who’s a mc brother and of course to the hero, who’s a brother in the same club. So, the point is that the heroine run from the hero and the mc life hoping to find normal and peaceful but she found hell, so she went back and found that mc members were honorable and trustworthy men instead. Sadly, the hero smacks her hard once and grabs her throat when she’s still recovering from the beatings he husband gave her. And towards the end, the hero does spend three months in jail because of a bar fight. So, basically, she was right to leave the mc life because it was exactly what she believed it would be, but she was so unlucky that she found one of the few men who looked normal but were sadistic psychos instead. It’s a matter of probability. She surely would have found a better and more honest man if she had stayed away from the mc, because most men are quite good and don’t beat their women. They also don’t cheat constantly and don’t go to jail. And in the end the men in the club were exactly as she expected, especially the hero, who hit her just like her husband , so where is the difference? That he only did it once because he was very angry? But Jesus, all abusers who hit their women start like that. They are very angry for some kind of reason when they hit their woman for the first time. Then they are sorry, they cry, they apologize, they say ily, they buy gifts. Their wives believe that it will never happen again and instead it happens sooner or later again. And again. And again. Hit, sorry, cry, beg, ily. Forgiven. Rinse repeat. It’s the pattern. And women usually make excuses for them and blame themselves because they were wrong, it was their fault, yada yada. Exactly as the heroine did. It’s never ok to hit a woman. And what the author says, that all the man have it in them to hit a woman if they’re provoked, it’s simply not true, unless we are speaking of life death situation where every human being can hit another human being regardless of sex age and whatever. It’s a very wrong and very dangerous generalization, same as saying that all men can be cheaters. It’s wrong wrong wrong because it means that a woman has always to forgive a man who hits them because in some way she’s guilty and she deserves it. But… are we joking here? Please authors, be careful with what you mean and imply, in this time and age where women are killed by their husbands, fathers, boyfriends everywhere in the world this is not a message that has to be taken lightly. To hit a woman is always wrong no matter what. There’s never a good reason except when it’s a matter of life and death to become physically abusive to a woman. So, sorry but just no. The rest should have been ok, they’re both with other people while separated, but when they meet again they are with no one else. He had a stable woman he was living with, but only sex and no feelings on his part, and he leaves her as soon as the heroine comes back. The story could have been good, but the physical abuse on the heroine by the hero was not only unnecessary but completely wrong and unacceptable since she came from long time abuse with her husband. So, just no. Why put it in the book? Wasn’t it better to show a hero who was maybe a bit rude and controlling but never ever physically abusive opposite to her very sleek, sweet talking but abusive husband? I don’t understand this choice. And my suggestion, of decades as a therapist, if a man hits you, leave him....more
WTF have I just read. Honest, folks. I just can’t. I mean, no one in this book, except the lil kid the characters had, is a decent human being. They are aWTF have I just read. Honest, folks. I just can’t. I mean, no one in this book, except the lil kid the characters had, is a decent human being. They are all awful people. Awful. Horrendous. They are all liars. Each one of them. The heroine left when she was pregnant and a junkie and never told the hero she was pregnant. Ok they didn’t have a typical relationship and she was addicted to drugs and he was taking advantage of her being in love with him, because this is what it was. So she left when he threw her away because she went to s house after her mother had died, crying. He acted horribly. She stayed away for two years and then came back, who knows why, when she was clean and sane. Her sister helped her. The hero knows she’s got a child but she still lies to him and tells him it’s not his, which he eventually finds out it’s not true. The heroine reasons why she did not tell him in the past were that he wouldn’t have wanted him, ok at the time she was not herself and she had only used her and then threw her away like she was infested, so it’s understandable but as soon as he begins to say he’s ready to be a father she’s disappointed and wants him to sign his rights away for no other reason than she is afraid that he will take her child away one day, so it’s not that she’s worried that he won’t be a good father and wants to protect the child, it’s that she wants to protect herself damaging the child and taking away his right to have a father. Just no. The hero is not better. He used her in the past when she was addicted, he had sex with her and never really cared for her, he used drugs himself, he never was serious with her, but what’s worst is that he didn’t respect her when she told him she didn’t want to have casual sex with him, he forces his seduction to her and uses her feelings to have sex with her, knowing he will leave town in a couple of months. He’s still a user and a manipulative selfish asshole. I hated this. He always treated her as a commodity, and never showed her any care. After she told him she wanted to date another man, a good one who wanted to be serious with her, he didn’t respect her and was always there, kissing her, trying to get into her pants. Disgusting. The other man was no better. He seems to be a decent guy until he reveals that the mother of his son, a girl he got pregnant at 17, and that’s been in jail for mowing the girl he was dating after he dumped her, has been writing and sending money to his son, their son, for 16 years and he never gave his son her letter. What a horrible man is he? Because he doesn’t want his child to be acquainted with his mother. So the kid thinks she never cared for him, but who cares when the idiot of father is happy because the woman is away in prison and doesn’t meddle with his and his sons life? These people are crazy. Then there’s the heroines sister that married the hero’s brother. She asks the hero to give her his super sperm because she wants to have a child and her husband may be sterile, may be since he never got himself tested. So she, the hero, the heroine, all betray the poor unsuspecting husband that will have a child that looks very much like him, or his brother, who cares at this point. And oh, the hero is so grateful to his brother that basically raised him, this is his gift for him, that he secretly behind his back, impregnates his sister in law. I felt sick. I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know what else to say. It looks like the book is about another dimension where things like this happens and all is well in the end. Selfish, amoral, lying and cheating people that don’t know the meaning of decency, love, care, respect. And please. The author comparing drug and alcohol to sex, really? Really? Are we still here? Saying that sex, casual sex with a consenting adult partner who’s free and unattached, is dirty, wrong, filthy, demeaning? Because this is what I understand when the heroine says she feels a good person, an acceptable one because she’s given up drugs, alcohol AND sex? I don’t accept it. So we have double standard, on top of all the rest because the hero has been with several women while she was celibate, or at least after she had her child she was because it looks like when she was pregnant she still had sex with some men after the hero. But I don’t understand why, if she is clean, working honestly, and a good mother, she couldn’t have some nice man to entertain every now and then The message is very, very wrong and disturbing. I don’t care if they’re together in the end, and that the poor brother in law will have a son who’s not his to love thinking he’s his own....more
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 disappearanceI 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
So, I don’t think in this time and age anyone marries because of a child, at least not in USA and in most of European countries. This plot is stale andSo, I don’t think in this time and age anyone marries because of a child, at least not in USA and in most of European countries. This plot is stale and quaint and doesn’t work anymore. Why. Because it could work until the 80s when people judged children born outside marriage and often laws didn’t protect them as children born within a marriage. But nowadays this thing doesn’t even exist. So the author trying to make the hero a good person because he marries a woman he had just broken up because he didn’t love her and he was attracted to another woman is plain absurd and useless. No, it’s more. It’s wrong. Because no way a child is happy in a family where parents don’t love each other and are together only because they are forced to, maybe fighting or ignoring each other and the kid is forced to live in a perennial uncomfortable situation. This is not safe and it’s plain wrong. And it’s also wrong that the kid has to see his parents going through a bitter divorce as in this case, when she’s barely 7 or 8. It’s better if the child has two parents that respect each other and can be with a loving partner of their choosing instead. I honestly hope this trope is not used anymore because it doesn’t make any sense anymore. So I never could get into the story because this is what it is about. The hero was with ow for two years at college while the loser heroine pined for him and stayed his bff, being bullied and hated by ow all the time because let’s be honest, ow could be a bitch but she knew the heroine had a crush on her bf and I would be grumpy too if I were here, more so because the hero spent more time with the heroine than with his gf. So, when he left ow and kissed the heroine, ow came back pregnant and the hero basically ghosted the heroine totally. I mean, he didn’t even sent her a text to say he was leaving and getting married to ow. So not even his friendship was real. Years later, ten to be exact, he and the heroine meet again, accidentally because let’s be not that the hero now that is free would look for her, and he wants to talk and make it all better. I was done. I don’t care a fuggin fugg that he wants to talk. To me it was a big huge no. And even if they had to work together I would have never talked to him again. Sadly the heroine is a poor doormat without a backbone and she takes him back in a minute. Oh, she never married and only had some meaningless affairs and only one half serious with a guy who btw betrayed her in the end so I must repeat. She’s a loser. I don’t care if the hero had a picture of her in the living room, I don’t care if he ghosted her because he didn’t trust himself when he had to marry ow, so he preferred not to talk to her, this was basic human decency. She was his friend for years. Man up and call her, and tell her what happened and what you’re going to do. No. He was a coward and it was all about him and his shit. And the heroine was so happy that he didn’t ghost her because their kiss made him sick. lol. I can’t believe it. And of course she will be a good stepmom of the kid the hero had with bitch ow. FY.
I don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be editedI don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be edited. Then the plot and the character. The only person I liked was the other woman. All the rest are trash. The heroine has been dating the hero for five months, she knows his family, she goes to his flat to take him some soup since he told her they couldn’t meet since he was sick, but she find him having sex with another woman, a woman who called him days before and he told her she was his cousin. The hero denies the heroine is his gf, and says they’re only dating unofficially. lol. These people are in their 30s I suppose. Ow cries, is angry and apologizes with the heroine. She didn’t know she was the ow because the hero picked her up at a bar and she thought he was free. The hero doesn’t try to stop the heroine and he acts disappointed that both women (not the heroine) are leaving. Days later he talks to the heroine and tells her he’s sorry she misunderstood and the heroine tells him she’s not the casual kind of woman. Weeks later ow introduces her to a nice man that the heroine decides to date and has sex with after two months. That’s when the hero decides he wants her back, and he’s ready for commitment. So he ruins her date with om and the heroine, instead of kicking him out and going out with her new date, basically tells them she doesn’t know what she wants. Of course om is angry, but the author couldn’t leave it like that, she has to make om a complete asshole, a borderline psycho and maybe even an abusive one. The fight they have with the hero towards the end was like being back to their early teens. Embarrassing. The hero explains his issues because he once were engaged and found out his fiancé had been cheating with his bff for years. So what? He basically behaved in the same way because he cheated on his gf. I hated him. He was hypocritical and selfish, even when the heroine explained how he should have behaved and what he did wrong he still doesn’t admit he’s an asshole cheater who did what his ex did. Had he really been honest with his intention that they weren’t exclusive he should have told her that he was seeing other women and not lying to her about ow being his cousin. But as the pathetic little loser he was, he wanted both his gf and other women too. He says ow was the first one but of course had the heroine not found out about them he would have kept seeing ow and others. The reasons the heroine gives for choosing him are pathetic. Because he sends her gifts and flowers, because he helps her with dishes, and he’s nice. Well, other men are just like that and they’re not cheating liars and assholes. Jesus these women. How low is their bar? How low are they ready to settle? And making other man a psycho and an abusive asshole is a cheap way to make the heroine choose the less stinky of the two shits. Please, spare me. No, I don’t care how he groveled and how he changed he’s simply not worthy. Being cheated on apparently didn’t teach him anything at all. He should have known what kind of hurt he could cause her, and how wrong it was. If he didn’t mean to be exclusive he should have been honest, but he couldn’t even do that so I’m sorry but he deserved his ex cheating on him with his bff. Eventually I could not even feel any angst because the heroine was a pathetic doormat who took him back as if he were the last man on earth. Yuck. And them being all friends with ow and her new man was weird as fugg....more
So, the writing is good and easy. The content is bad. Basically friends to lovers. But these two are really bff since the early childhood and never ever So, the writing is good and easy. The content is bad. Basically friends to lovers. But these two are really bff since the early childhood and never ever had crush on each other. Neither the hero pines for her nor the heroine for him, he has had lots of women and flirts, nothing serious, while she had one and only love for more than ten years, since she was at high school. Now they are both 30 or something, she’s been dumped by her fiancé and he’s out of job for some time. They play pretend fiancé so she can make her ex jealous and he can have a good public image after one of his hookups told lies about him. I couldn’t believe the attraction between them. How two friends that are really besties since forever, basically twins, can suddenly fall in lust and love for each other and say that they didn’t know but they have been always perfect for each other, well, for me it’s not possible. It’s a me thing, I suppose it can happen but I felt that they really were best friends, so perfect together that it was a pity they fell in love. I know for many people it doesn’t make sense but I can’t understand the instant chemistry after three decades of true and deep platonic friendship. So, no, I couldn’t feel anything. And then there’s the double standards that I can’t tolerate. The hero enjoyed a lot of hot sex with a lot of hot women while the heroine was basically a virgin, because she only had one partner, her decade old fiance, who never gave her one orgasm and never did anything else but missionary sex. No preliminaries no bj no nothing. This is unrealistic and unacceptable. Since she love her ex I expected her to have at least good sex, you don’t marry a man you can’t have decent sex with, and who is even unable to have an erection that is decent as she admitted. This is sciences fiction not romance, and why? So she can have orgasms only with the hero while the hero had orgasms with hundreds and did everything and beyond? Thanks for the usual chauvinistic piece of mind. Not bad writing but I couldn’t connect. ...more
Couldn’t finish it. English is definitely not this author’s first language, I’m all for indie authors because there are so many new and talented writeCouldn’t finish it. English is definitely not this author’s first language, I’m all for indie authors because there are so many new and talented writers who write very good books, sadly there are a few that are thrown out there just because. The poor language matched a plot that could have been angsty but wasn’t. The heroine married the hero, a much older man who divorced his first wife because he cheated on her. Not the best premises. Of course he cheats again, with younger women, and swear it was the only one time, which would honestly be more than enough for the heroine to divorce his sorry ass, but she won’t. And no, that nasty woman the heroine found out about was not the only one, but one of the many. It turns out he’s been cheating on her since forever, and the heroine still won’t divorce him. Of course she has trouble believing he won’t cheat any longer, even if he’s in his 50s, which makes him a sleazy aging pig. I quit and I don’t care what happens to this couple. ...more
Not my cuppa. Both main characters are awful. The secondary characters are better. The hero is a whore, the heroine even calls him that for years, when tNot my cuppa. Both main characters are awful. The secondary characters are better. The hero is a whore, the heroine even calls him that for years, when they met he was 18 she was 15 so since she was jailbait he fugged his way through the world. When she was 19 they were together for one year. Then he proposed and she rejected him because he was going to college and they both had to study for a lot of years, you know, doctors, so she didn’t want to do long distance. The hero tried but she rejected him more than once, eventually he was the one who pushed her away when she went back to him asking to stay with him. I could sympathize with him. He proposed, committed himself to her still it wasn’t enough. She knew him before so why throwing in his face his previous manwhore ways, those he had before they were ever together? There’s also the big secret. She was pregnant and lost their child, and never told him anything. She went to see him to university but she didn’t tell him she was pregnant because she wanted him to go back with her because of her and not of the child, but it was his child too. And then she didn’t want to mess with their careers, I like people who are motivated but I hate those who put their career before everyone and everything. It’s wrong, and it’s risky. Careers can go wrong and if it’s all you have fought for you are left with nothing, so I hated that she was even afraid the child would mess with their career. Then she had depression and was acting out for months. The hero blocked her but at that point it was good because I didn’t think they were good for each other, and even when they reunited years later I didn’t think they were good together. He had a serious relationship with a woman only one year after he broke up with the heroine, they were engaged and together for years so I don’t think he was in love with the heroine. Only when his fiancee became selfish he broke up with her and went back to the heroine so imo the heroine was even second best. The heroine had found a truly good and caring man, not the usual idiot, but she left him when the hero came back. I hated them both. I loved om. I loved her sister and her fiance they had the perfect love story but the author had to ruin it and made him die in an accident. A patient of hers who was really nice died of cancer. Nope. I wasn’t happy with the ending. To me they were not in love. She was his rebound and he was the man who ghosted her for years. Yuck....more
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
Hell, no. Thank goodness it was very short, a novella. The hero is some kind of mage lord who’s a fuckboy, the heroine is another mage but she’s his mHell, no. Thank goodness it was very short, a novella. The hero is some kind of mage lord who’s a fuckboy, the heroine is another mage but she’s his maid. He fuggs around while she stays celibate of course. But this is not enough. He is looking for some kind of proper wife. The books started when he’s come back after two months, and he was screwing around and testing another more proper woman. The heroine apparently has enough and tells him she’s going to leave him. It looks like he an impoverished and quite mediocre mage while the heroine is a very good mage and artist, very renowned and she decides to leave him because she wants to be an artist. He of course decides he wants to be married to her. Of course, since it looks like she stronger and will make more money than he will. Oh, cherry on the top, she had an abortion years before because she got pregnant with him and of course he didn’t want to have children with a lowly maid. This is disturbing and disgusting, how she was treated and how many years she accepted to be treated that way. If she hadn’t left, he would have found another woman to marry and kept having her on the side, with many other women. There’s no mention he will be celibate and faithful. The one thing he liked about her is that she’s into BDSM like he is, so this is why he will be faithful. Mmm, what a ton of poo . Only good point, it was short. Yuck. ...more
This could have been quite acceptable if the hero was not older than 22 yo, sadly he’s much much older. The whole book is a bunch of contradictions anThis could have been quite acceptable if the hero was not older than 22 yo, sadly he’s much much older. The whole book is a bunch of contradictions and inconsistencies. The hero is a billionaire and should be ruthless, cold and smart. He’s also in his 30s which should make him an adult with a very disenchanted look at life. He’s a womanizer, sigh. The heroine works for him and she doesn’t like him, she never did, and he reciprocates. So no hidden attraction for both, until he sees her in a netball uniform and suddenly he is lusting like a teenager. The heroine has a sob story, she love her parents and is alone and trying to move on from her trauma. They start dating and having sex that is of course ott for both, finding also an emotional connection. They fall in love, ok. Then the twist. Mr playboy billionaire ruthless extraordinaire has a secret dream. He dreams of finding a particular woman who painted some pictures he felt a peculiar attraction. He thinks that this woman could be the one fate has destined to him. Yes, don’t laugh, this is it. Aaaannnndd no, it’s not a paranormal where shifters find their fated mate the moon goddess has created for them, and them alone. This is an adult and quite cynical man who changes woman more than he changes socks. So, when the pi he hired to find this woman shows him a picture of her and he finds out it’s the same woman he had seen years before and he was attracted to, he thinks, this is fate, I must go. Sorry but I had to laugh my azz out and I’m still laughing now at the ludicrous thought. Serious? A 30 something cold cynical billionaire that believes this kind of bs? Are you high? And of course he doesn’t think, well, it was years before I’ve met this woman I am now in love, so of course I felt some attraction to a particular woman, because I was free and I was looking at women, but now I found a woman I love and I’m happy with so why should I leave her to meet some stranger that doesn’t mean anything to me? He then goes to talk to a bunch of friends, all in their mid 30s, cynics and billionaires, and I had the impression that I was reading about a group of drunk frat boys blabbering after too many shots and a couple of joints. They seemed immature, ridiculous and plain stupid. Only one of them told him he was stupid if he thought to leave his gf for a stranger. No one of them told him that what he felt for the stranger was years in the past in a moment where he was free and not in love, and of course now it would have ruined his relationship for nothing. Those men are immature, pathetic and I felt second hand embarrassment for them, mainly the hero. I forgot to mention he’s got a secret pen pal, guess who she is, the heroine of course. He knows that it’s her snd she knows it’s him but nobody confesses. Basically, the hero goes to meet this woman leaving the heroine that knows he’s going to meet a woman he doesn’t even know but feels more than he feels for her. I hoped the heroine at least had a couple of ONS just because, but nope, she didn’t. She took him back when he came back telling he didn’t feel anything for ow because he only loves her. Honest, who cares. He left, and if he did feel something for this woman he would have stayed with her and bye bye heroine. At this point I wouldn’t have taken him back if I had a gun pointed at my head. But you know, fictional heroines don’t have self respect and don’t think they deserve to be treated as queens so who am I to complain. Really, if a man in his 30s had even told me such a story I would have laughed in his face so hard I would have popped a vein. The mystery woman, the artist, the fate, the bs. Just pathetic and ridiculous. And the heroine was of course second best, because he didn’t stay for her, he left and then came back after trying to see if ow was the right one, what can I say, go FY off. ...more
The hero has an emotional affair with his new employee, a woman who’s younger than him and his wife and who’s beautiful. He feels a connection, as he The hero has an emotional affair with his new employee, a woman who’s younger than him and his wife and who’s beautiful. He feels a connection, as he describes it, and he acts like a besotted fool. The sad thing is that his marriage is or should be happy. He had the woman of his dreams, they have twins, she’s amazing and they’re in love. But still, he feels more than attraction to his coworker. Thankfully he fights this attraction and he never acts on it physically but his wife realizes what’s going on and it was painful. I don think I would have been so understanding as she was, she stayed and tried to wait until this thing ended, hoping he was not cheating on her. After some weeks he realizes he has to stop but since he’s such a wonderful and helpful guy, generous and ready to help anyone, he meddles in this woman’s life time and again, telling her not to date a man who’s a know player, helping her whenever she is in some kind of difficult situation, dropping his wife and children to do it, and I admit I hated him, I prefer a man who’s grumpy and selfish with anyone but me, thanks but no thanks I don’t like men with hero complex. The heroine, though, does, and this is what she reaps, a man who runs when his charming employee calls him just because. In the end the woman leaves her job because she admits she’s fallen in love with the hero, while the hero is already over her. But I hated that the heroine had to go through it since they seemed so happy and strong. I would have asked him to leave as soon as I realized he had feelings for this other woman. But I’m a nasty bitch and not a sensible woman ah,...more
It must be one of those cases where it’s me and not the book, or maybe it’s the author and me that are simply not compatible. Her heroes are what spoiIt must be one of those cases where it’s me and not the book, or maybe it’s the author and me that are simply not compatible. Her heroes are what spoils all the stories. This one is a mix between a durable fire from Robyn Donald and after the music from Diana Palmer. The Robyn Donald one is maybe more similar. The heroine pretends to be the hero’s brother fiancé to help him win back his ex. The hero suddenly wants her so he pursues her and has sex with her even if he thinks she had sex with his brother and doesn’t believe she was a virgin even when she bleeds like a butchered animal. Then he sluts shames her and gives her money. This is Robyn Donald’s al right, but at least the heroine there married and had a daughter with another man. While this idiot here stays celibate and frozen for six years while the hero fucks around and never looks for her. The author would like us to believe that even if he fucked ow aplenty and he never thought about looking for her he loves her very much and never stopped thinking about her for one day. This is what I call guilt not love, babe. He feels remorse because he knows that he treated her abominably and he would like to go back in time and make things differently. Then he accidentally and I repeat, accidentally, meets her again he is all over her and pursues her for real this time. The heroine had been frozen in time because she’s first class loser and of course it takes a couple of days and she falls for his charms because, TBS at its best. Nope. Conniving brother who told the hero he fucked the heroine did another awful thing, he burned a letter with the money the heroine sent back because he was ashamed so the hero never knew it but honest, who the hell cares. So, there are bad heroes, hurtful heroes, and cruel heroes, and then there are disgusting heroes and this is one. He has nothing for him to like except maybe it’s magic penis, I understand that nowadays there must be lack of men who knows how to properly fu…ahem have sex with a woman and there must be many many women unsatisfied and frustrated that would love to find a good one who makes them come with a flick of his tongue and a touch of his rough fingers, and of course that have a penis who can find their g spot on 3 seconds because you must really be that desperate to allow such a disgusting human being back again into your life, and the heroine is such a loser that she couldn’t even find one man to have sex with and she’s a beauty without compare! I don’t know if it’s more laughable or embarrassing. I know I’m being petty but when a man is that low and the heroine doesn’t react finding immediately a substitute that makes her feel better I can’t even muster an amount of interest and even less, angst. So in the end i was simply out of it and I didn’t care what he did and how he did and when his brother was forgiven I felt that the heroine deserved to be treated like a whoe by the hero and by his brother too. In a period of time where things like this should come to an end well, I just can’t. The hero in a durable fire was an awful pig but he looked a lamb and a gentleman compared to the ignorant redneck hero in this book, and at least Robyn Donald’s heroines are as hard as nails and give the heroes as much as they take, so in the end I felt contented while here I felt like I didn’t care a fu… if she was back with the hero or not. Sadly she was....more
First of all it was boring and even if I had nothing to do I struggled to end it. I fell asleep twice in an afternoon and I don’t take naps anymore. TFirst of all it was boring and even if I had nothing to do I struggled to end it. I fell asleep twice in an afternoon and I don’t take naps anymore. The plot is quite common, the heroine is promised to the hero’s older brother and he has to take her to meet him. The hero and the heroine met when she was 12 and he was like 14 or some and there was this tender feeling bar attraction that, let me tell you, I found spooky since a 12 yo girl is quite a child and more than once it’s said that there was a strong attraction between them. Eek. The heroines father betrayed the hero’s family and caused a massacre of his family and his bothers imprisonment for 15 years. Now the heroine is 28 and the hero’s brother has been rescued and wants his bride to be. But of course in three days the hero and the heroine rekindle their attraction, have sex and even get married. Thank the fugg for loyalty to his brother. Luckily the brother has already found another more suitable match so everything is ok in the end but the book drags with a lot of dialogue and very few angst and chemistry. What made me rate one star was that the hero has been a manwhore and I don’t begrudge him this, after all I would have found a bit weird if he had been celibate because of a lil girl with pigtails and pimples. But the heroine became a socialite, very famous and partying and having fun with the ton of Hollywood and she is not only a virgin but also never been kissed because you know, no one could ever compare to the hero. Ok, so I know lynne Graham made the best of clumsy old spinsters who on the wrong side of 20s still haven’t had sex, but this, this was a bit much. I know that it’s a hp and it’s fiction but I want my books, even when they are cheap and short and easy, to have some semblance of consistency and reliability and no, a girl in her late 20s that doesn’t belong to some cult that doesn’t allow their women to touch other men and is all the time at parties, is beautiful, is friendly and has not some mental issue that prevents her from touching other people, is not possible in this world and in many others unknown by me that has not even kissed one single guy. I remember being a girl and not a very partying one but I even had some kisses stolen by some overeager guys so I can’t imagine how this girl has never even had some guys groping her or kissing her. Nope. Not at all. It’s science fiction not romance and unacceptable according to everyone’s standards. Only because she had to be super committed to an ex manwhore who is repeatedly said had more women he could remember. Yuck and eek. Sorry, not my thang. So one star it is....more