So, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accidSo, if an author writes about trauma, ptsd, addictions, she should at least know what’s she’s talking about. The part about his trauma, he saw an accident and couldn’t save a child was quite good. He slides into depression, he’s unable to find some peace. He doesn’t feel anything, typical depression. He behaves abominably, but then again, typical, and sadly, a man in his situation is unable to save himself, and gets even worse. He’s harsh, he gambles, he drinks, these are all dysfunctional coping mechanisms and very realistic, so it was ok for me. Then after some time, he pushes the heroine away telling he needs a break because he doesn’t love her. Again, unhealthy defense mechanism that we can’t blame on him. People with these disorders are sick, and they don’t have to be considered jerks, selfish, pricks or whatever. They do what they can because they live in constant pain and don’t have the correct strategies to overcome their pain. I wasn’t feeling angry with him but I was feeling sorry. The heroine I must admit, tried very hard to help him but, poor darling, she didn’t have the means to help him and she should have tried to find help outside, that is a therapist. He needed therapy, and she needed therapy too because she was hurt and scared. People don’t know how to deal with mental disorders, they often think that mental disorders are imaginary and not real but sadly they are real. The heroine is shattered and thinks the hero doesn’t want her anymore, so she leaves him. He also had some kind of fight club, where he spent time fighting other people. Duh. So, this part was ok. Five years later. She was pregnant when she left him and she didn’t tell him, she went back to her mother who helped her with the kid. Even if the woman was good and ok, she never tried to mend the breakup of the young couple, she wasn’t a help in this sense, even knowing the hero had a trauma he wasn’t willing to deal with. Now, the hero and the heroine meet again and the heroines mother tells him she’s sick. But he doesn’t do anything to meet and talk with the heroine. They meet because she goes to his club where she meets also some women who had sex with him. Apparently he wasn’t celibate and has many women. So, the couple don’t know what to do with themselves. Here is where the story goes downhill. He’s angry that she never told him he had a daughter. She tells him he was an addict and she didn’t want her child near him. He blames her because she left him and she apologizes. This was wrong. Yes, she should have helped him before he spiraled into addiction and should have tried to send him to therapy, this is for sure. But she wasn’t equipped for recognizing his disorder, since she’s not a psychologist or a counselor. She thought he was simply tired of her. So why didn’t I like it? Because of his cheating? Well, that was a part of it, but since he was sick it is not something that, as the other behaviors of addictions, I can blame on him. I wasn’t fond of this hero to begin with. He was weak when he was at college, he was with shallow people and was shallow and inconsistent himself. I shouldn’t have given him a second glance when I met him because he’s the typical selfish, immature, self absorbed guy I always avoided in my teen years. And this made me good because I always had long and healthy relationships even when I was a teenager. Because I knew that bad boys, selfish boys, shallow boys are just that, and they are not charming, good and supportive partners as in, ever. So when I read a story of a girl who is fascinated by that kind of guy I remember all those girlfriends of mine who came to me crying because those bad boys had broken their heart, and I thought to myself, well what did you expect from someone like that? Back to business. So, I didn’t like how the story went because the hero never had therapy, he never understood what was wrong with him and blamed the heroine because when she couldn’t help him anymore, she left him. No, that is absolutely wrong. He needed help, as addicts need help, as depressed need help, as all the people with mental issues need help. This doesn’t mean their family has to put up with all their issues if these issues are unhealthy, toxic, and dangerous. The hero was spiraling and yes, the heroine should have told him to ask for help, but, if he reused it, and it looks like he wasn’t that keen on getting help, she was never forced to stay, especially with a child on the way. I’ve seen too often what life means for those poor partners who decide to stay with chronically addicted people, or chronically disturbed people. It’s impossible after some time. And if these people don’t leave they risk having mental issues themselves. So the hero’s accusations reflects his inner selfish and coward character that he had still at college. He still was that entitled, shallow, selfish prick who always blames other people for his failures. He should have apologized and apologized and apologized, and he should have gotten therapy, that he never had. The heroine is a weak pushover, because let’s be honest, who fall in love with such a character? He had nothing to love to begin with, and I’m speaking about college, before the accident. Basically, no therapy, no talk, no nothing. So a story that should have been based on mental issues is solved when the characters have sex, and more than once, and decide they will give it another try? That’s all. Really? Where’s therapy? Where’s conflict resolution? Where are addressed all their issues, when do they talk about what went wrong and how he coped with his ptsd? Because it seems to me nothing is changed. So no, had he had therapy I would even have forgiven him many things, but he didn’t and in the end it looked like another cheating story where a weak heroine takes back the hero and even apologized because she left when life became intolerable and she tried to save herself and her kid from a toxic situation. Zero stars....more
Usual double standard shit. Never felt any angst. Heroine snd hero are the usual romance fated souls, those who will be in love forever, but those whosUsual double standard shit. Never felt any angst. Heroine snd hero are the usual romance fated souls, those who will be in love forever, but those whose male part will go whoring around as if there’s no tomorrow while the female stays sad and celibate to wait until he’s tired of new pussy. She saw him while a random was kissing his neck and thought he was cheating, but, oh, he pushed her away immediately afterwards. I mean, if a guy who’s engaged lets a random get so near to his body that she kisses his neck and touches his hair, well to me it’s enough. And afterwards he tries very blandly to get in touch with the heroine then proceeds having sex with everything that moves. After three years he gets her back, she was with no one and he doesn’t do any grovel. FY....more
Hero and heroine always meet on a house on the beach, it looks like they have some kind of not committed relationship over the years, and when she surHero and heroine always meet on a house on the beach, it looks like they have some kind of not committed relationship over the years, and when she surprises him one day before usual she finds out he took another woman there and had sex with her. She leaves, goes swimming, the hero has to save her but fails, they both drown. After some years the meet again as ghosts and she forgives him. Naw. Not for me. A cheater is a cheater even after he’s dead....more
The author ruined the one kind of heroes I loved the most. The firefighters. For me, there’s no Greek billionaire, no arrogant ceo, definitely no mafiaThe author ruined the one kind of heroes I loved the most. The firefighters. For me, there’s no Greek billionaire, no arrogant ceo, definitely no mafia boss and no bad bikers that can compare to the real true hero, the firefighter. They’re brave by definition, hot by definition, good by definition. But this hero ruined it all. This might really be the only one book I’ve read where I liked ow more than I liked the hero and the heroine. To me, ow was the heroine. She was treated badly by life and by that asshole hero for years, even if she is rich and beautiful. Her father doesn’t love and uses her as a pawn for his own purposes. She and the hero meet and are a couple when they’re both 17 and she stays with him for ten years. She is faithful. She’s a bit spoiled an sometimes she’s a bitch but man, she had her reasons. She and the hero lose a child, she miscarried. The hero was always going to propose but never did. And, what’s worse, she always had to compete with his attraction to the heroine. An attraction that the poor ow always felt and he always denied but it was quite plain he had with the heroine a relationship that they never had. The heroine is adopted with a very sad story behind her, she meets the hero at 13 and he’s 17, and they become friends. Ow is jealous because she sees him treating the heroine better than he treats her. Who wouldn’t be jealous. Or upset. She’s not bad, but sometimes she’s bitchy and catty and I supported her. Because a boyfriend should be devoted to his girl, before all the others. Apparently he was not. Growing up the heroine it’s more and more difficult for the hero to stay away from her, but since he’s a pussy, a coward, a liar and a pussy again, he doesn’t find the courage to tell his gf it’s over. Instead they move together, they plan to get married and he doesn’t tell her no, he only postpone it again and again. He always denies there’s something going on with the heroine until, ten year into his relationship with ow, he cheats physically on her with the heroine. Emotionally he had been cheating for years. The author tries, failing totally, to make him look like a hero because after her miscarriage he promised her he wouldn’t leave her and so he’s stayed with her, not willing to marry her though, for years, pining for the heroine and wasting two women’s best years of their lives. Because not only he made ow waste years but also he kept telling lies to the heroine, that he would alway be there for her, that she’s his priority, all kind of things an engaged man should never tell to a woman who’s not his relative or girlfriend. Because he’s a selfish little prick. The heroine didn’t try very hard to move on and let me say it, she was just as guilty. She should have move on when he refused to have sex with her when she was 16 and he was 20, after seeing that he was with another woman, and living with her, for years. She should have had to put him behind her and she should have tried to find other interesting men. But she was a pathetic little slut, because she even refused to move to another town for college and stayed in her town. It was wrong. The man didn’t belong to her. They had sex more than once and the hero never broke up with his fiance. In the end the poor ow, because she was that, even asked the heroine to help her with the hero since he was so drawn and grumpy. And the heroine already had sex with him, the hoe. In the end the hero broke up with ow when she was already humiliated because she found out he was sleeping with the heroine behind her back. The author tries to make it sound as if ow was good with his decision, and as if she really didn’t love him, but to me it’s clear that ow was used and betrayed and in the end she had to see the hero marrying the heroine in that awful quaint little town where everyone knew everything. I feel for her. And no, I don’t care about promises he made when apparently he already was lusting for the heroine and was not in love with ow anymore but was comfortable using her for sex, being the heroine still jailbait. The child loss came well after he realized he had feelings for the heroine as he admitted, which it was when she was 16 and he 20, but he stayed with ow for other 7 years, wasting her time. So no, I couldn’t feel angst and empathy for those so called main characters. The heroine had a shitty childhood with severe abuse and I can understand she was traumatized but she had a loving family who never let her down and this doesn’t excuse her lusting for a man who was engaged for years. In the end we don’t know what happen to ow but I hope she found a better man who really loved her and not a selfish cheating user as the hero always was. ...more
I feel for those poor women who nowadays, in a world that is so progressed and equality is everything, still behave like doormats, like pathetic loserI feel for those poor women who nowadays, in a world that is so progressed and equality is everything, still behave like doormats, like pathetic losers and settle for so little. The heroine asked the hero a pause, because they went to different college. I know, wrong. She should have known better. She ignores him and his calls and oh, the poor heartbroken man! The same night or maybe the night after he goes out gets drunk and impregnates another woman. Ha! So the heroine was right! His love was so sos strong that it took him all of …7 hours? 24 hours? To jump in bed with another woman no condom. Oh, and no way he admits he cheated! No, he technically didn’t, but moved on at speed light. So the heroine was right to doubt his so great love. And the worst part is, the heroine came back in that lil quaint sad town where he lives, and she deduces to work there as the principal of primary school. Of course eventually she meets his lil girl. I won’t even go there. The kid is innocent but I hated that the heroine didn’t move on, I hated that she didn’t even go on one date in all her college years, but how does an author make this bs possible, in this time and age? And why? What is the sense of all this? That a woman is so sick that she is unable to move on or to at least try to move on, to feel any attraction for some young nice college student, can’t she? Because this is not the behavior of a sane and properly functioning young woman, this is pathetically pathological. Yes, she needs, needed therapy, long ago, eight years and she’s still there, hating the hero and pining after him. She’s deranged. It makes me think of that amazing romance written two hundred years ago or so, by Dickens, where poor miss havisham lived locked inside her house after decades still in her wedding dress and all the clock stopped in the hour where her fiance had just jilted her. I remember I was 19 and that was one of the first books I had to read for my English literature classes and I was so shocked about it, thinking that such a behavior was so quaint and vintage and old. But nope. I was wrong. Apparently there are still so many women who stop their clock on the day their man betrayed them and nothing, not even two hundred years, fights for equality, queer generation, feminism, discussions about the non consensual kiss of Snow White can change the fact that women are fundamentally, that sad, unhinged and unstable little miss havisham inside. What else can I say. The hero claims there was no other woman beside that one, and we thank god or else who knows how many kids the idiot would have fathered. Of course I didn’t like the book, not the style per se but the double standard, the pathetic attempt to justify what was really a sad excuse of a man and to magnify his bravery because he took care of his drunken mistake, and the usual loser woman who settles for the one who betrayed her without even experiencing another man. I’m done....more
I don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be editedI don’t know where to begin. The book is written in 3d person present tense which is weird. It looks like something from a script that has to be edited. Then the plot and the character. The only person I liked was the other woman. All the rest are trash. The heroine has been dating the hero for five months, she knows his family, she goes to his flat to take him some soup since he told her they couldn’t meet since he was sick, but she find him having sex with another woman, a woman who called him days before and he told her she was his cousin. The hero denies the heroine is his gf, and says they’re only dating unofficially. lol. These people are in their 30s I suppose. Ow cries, is angry and apologizes with the heroine. She didn’t know she was the ow because the hero picked her up at a bar and she thought he was free. The hero doesn’t try to stop the heroine and he acts disappointed that both women (not the heroine) are leaving. Days later he talks to the heroine and tells her he’s sorry she misunderstood and the heroine tells him she’s not the casual kind of woman. Weeks later ow introduces her to a nice man that the heroine decides to date and has sex with after two months. That’s when the hero decides he wants her back, and he’s ready for commitment. So he ruins her date with om and the heroine, instead of kicking him out and going out with her new date, basically tells them she doesn’t know what she wants. Of course om is angry, but the author couldn’t leave it like that, she has to make om a complete asshole, a borderline psycho and maybe even an abusive one. The fight they have with the hero towards the end was like being back to their early teens. Embarrassing. The hero explains his issues because he once were engaged and found out his fiancé had been cheating with his bff for years. So what? He basically behaved in the same way because he cheated on his gf. I hated him. He was hypocritical and selfish, even when the heroine explained how he should have behaved and what he did wrong he still doesn’t admit he’s an asshole cheater who did what his ex did. Had he really been honest with his intention that they weren’t exclusive he should have told her that he was seeing other women and not lying to her about ow being his cousin. But as the pathetic little loser he was, he wanted both his gf and other women too. He says ow was the first one but of course had the heroine not found out about them he would have kept seeing ow and others. The reasons the heroine gives for choosing him are pathetic. Because he sends her gifts and flowers, because he helps her with dishes, and he’s nice. Well, other men are just like that and they’re not cheating liars and assholes. Jesus these women. How low is their bar? How low are they ready to settle? And making other man a psycho and an abusive asshole is a cheap way to make the heroine choose the less stinky of the two shits. Please, spare me. No, I don’t care how he groveled and how he changed he’s simply not worthy. Being cheated on apparently didn’t teach him anything at all. He should have known what kind of hurt he could cause her, and how wrong it was. If he didn’t mean to be exclusive he should have been honest, but he couldn’t even do that so I’m sorry but he deserved his ex cheating on him with his bff. Eventually I could not even feel any angst because the heroine was a pathetic doormat who took him back as if he were the last man on earth. Yuck. And them being all friends with ow and her new man was weird as fugg....more
I’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy MonI’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters. There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here. The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse. The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not. She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her. One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman. The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom. Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced. The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero. When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman. Hit and run is his motto. Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since. When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine. His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child. The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s. He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow. He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault. So a very tortured man we have here. Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself. He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex. So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course. Really? Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time. Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself. After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night. I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch! All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island. Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say. So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man. Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has! I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good. They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that: - the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her. - they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication. - the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother. Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know. - there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two. Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent.
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I’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise. Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters. There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here. The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse. The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not. She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her. One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman. The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom. Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced. The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero. When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman. Hit and run is his motto. Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since. When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine. His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child. The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s. He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow. He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault. So a very tortured man we have here. Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself. He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex. So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course. Really? Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time. Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself. After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night. I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch! All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island. Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say. So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man. Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has! I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good. They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that: - the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her. - they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication. - the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother. Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know. - there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two. Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent....more
**spoiler alert** Well this was different. There’s so much humor in it that I laughed all the time. It’s about the usual stinky cheating husband who c**spoiler alert** Well this was different. There’s so much humor in it that I laughed all the time. It’s about the usual stinky cheating husband who cheats on his wife of more than a decade with a younger model and he leaves his wife for her. What is different in this book that made me love it? First, she doesn’t go back with the cheater and ends with a real hero. Second, she acts unpredictably and differently. Third, the final feeling is that she was more determined to end their marriage than he ever was, even when he was into ow. And this is a first. Usually heroines who are cheated on are hurt, betrayed, they suffer, they pine, this one didn’t bat a lid. I loved her, she was my goddess. She is a famous writers of erotic books, she is the daughter and the niece of artists, she is very eclectic and smart. She has millions, much more than her average husband. She married him because, after a peculiar childhood with a nomadic mother and no father, she wanted a normal family. It is perceived that she somehow settled with him, that she had so much better before him, artists, great sex, adventure, but she settled because she wanted a family, not the man himself. The husband is an average man, not too handsome and not too adventurous in bed, she names him speedy Gonzales in bed, which is far from a compliment. There’s not much love lost between them and the impression is that she loves him even less than he loves her. But she’s a faithful woman, who loves her family and her weird children, two amazing twins that she basically raised by herself since her husband was always away doing something else. She knows he’s been cheating on her, but she thinks he will end the affair sooner or later, she doesn’t care for him but she’s ready to stay married for her children. She’s enough satisfied with her career, and her writing. Mind, she’s a very practical and sensible woman, not a airhead. When her husband tells her he wants a separation because he loves another woman she does the unthinkable. She leaves him and her children. Now it’s his turn to be a father, and since for 12 years she’s been a mother to them while he was doing his shit, now he will be a full time father in their own home, new floozy or not. The man is astonished, but we only can blame his dumb slow brain since he married such a wonderful and smart woman, he should have known better. She doesn’t rave and rant, she doesn’t recriminate, she doesn’t leave with her children, she doesn’t say a world. And she’s out of the life that we know was too tight and suffocating for her, a life she wanted but when she had it, it was not as she expected. She goes and live in her loft, and there she meets the hero, a younger and hotter man, and guess what, he’s a contractor, a decorator, but also an artist on his own. So they easily fall in love with each other while she balance her new life and files for divorce without even asking for a penny, she wants her children to live with their father because she knows that he’s a poor kind of man, the man who would surely forget about his children while he lives his best life with his new girlfriend. She wants them to have what she never had, and she wants them to live with him, no matter if this means they will have to live with bimbo 2.0. Everyone is amazing here, except her husband and his bimbo. I laughed time and again. I laughed when his parents won’t accept his new girlfriend, and they make her sign a prenup where she basically is trapped in a marriage with the aging man or else she would lose everything, included the child she’s expecting. I loved that the idiot husband realized very soon that he didn’t want his new bimbo anymore and tries to win his wife back, sorry not sorry, she doesn’t even think about it. I love how he is trapped by her with a child, smashing his dream of traveling in exotic destination, savage sex at all hours, and he’s resignes to be a daddy of a new child and of his twins too, because the heroine leaves them with him and his parents threatens to dump his sorry ass and fire him from his job, and in the end he’s forced to marry ow and feeling already tired of her, and of her brown mousy hair, thinking he will ask her to revert to her blond self because people are asking why he ever choose her instead of the heroine. The heroine walks away with his new man, surprisingly pregnant herself, and happy as she never was before. She was really too much for the ex husband, he’s a mediocre man without any force, while she ate him for breakfast, he never stood a chance with her. Ow is a blond bimbo, typical gold digger who thinks she won the lottery but finds herself trapped in a marriage with an aging man with two spooky children and the heroines blessing, since the latter found her easier to manipulate and for this reason she agreed to her marrying her ex. And the twins, well, never laughed so hard as with the two creatures, the girl was really a clone of her mother, too smart to be true, and her father is really afraid of her, while the son is in his own world, silently communicating with his twin and spooking the father even more. Well, I liked it, no I really enjoyed it. Even when the idiot married ow, even when the heroine seemed too good for those two cheaters, we know she’s the mastermind behind everything, and she’s doing everything exactly as she wants it, and in the end she’s the winner and they’re only doing what she allowed them to do....more
Are you serious? The hero is a sad bastard cheater who files for divorce his wife because he found a younger and more exciting piece of ass. He has a Are you serious? The hero is a sad bastard cheater who files for divorce his wife because he found a younger and more exciting piece of ass. He has a stroke, he’s middle age, and the wife, instead of fucking him off and leaving him in a nursing home and forget about his sorry ass, as I would have done, takes him home and nurses him back to health. The idiot is never going back as he was before so she’s struck with him, coward cheater that he is, dumped by the woman he was shagging behind his wife’s back when he was fine and well, and now she does not want him anymore so he stays with his wife. There’s more to this lowlife. He had another affair years before with the neighbor wife and even got her pregnant. The woman died though. And the neighbor husband now wants revenge on him through the heroine. Why not dump the hero six feet under instead? Much more rewarding imo. Pitiful attempt to blame the heroine because she was too busy with her work, since only men ar entitled to a career and the poor coward needed attentions. Why do women writers hate women? Did they grow up in a cult where women are blamed for any sins? Please, I just can’t. I hated the book, I hated the hero, I hated the heroine and I hated that the writer put a nasty psycho neighbor so that the hero can viewed as a better option. Between a solid turd and a diarrhea which is better? They are both shit. No, just no. ...more
Three angsty stars because I had to read it all to see how it would end, but different rating for all the characters involved and for the plot itself.Three angsty stars because I had to read it all to see how it would end, but different rating for all the characters involved and for the plot itself. It was goo, with a good writing and very good psychological insight, so no beginner here and no teenage writing. The author makes a very good portrait of how things sometimes go when a beloved spouse dies. Sometimes, not always. The hero and the heroine are the perfect couple, married and have twin daughters, they’re made for each other. The heroine decides to go on a holidays for two weeks in Nicaragua, with a girlfriend of hers, while the husband stays home with their two little girls, not even one year old. During this holiday she has a bad accident and the bus she was on is completely burned, so everyone thinks she died with all the other passengers. She survived but lost her memories, completely, and she is rescued by a couple of old people that basically traps her and uses her as a slave. She spends two years with them and eventually recovers her memories and manages to run away and go back to her husband. No mob boss here, only an old couple of people that were too old to do the jobs they were paid for and used the heroine in their place. I was thankful that she didn’t end in some weird organization because I don’t love those and the focus here is elsewhere, in the main characters. The hero had a hard time and was helped by heroines bff, that basically leaves her job and house to help the hero who’s a zombie and his children. After one year and a half he has feelings for her and he proposes. But he always loves the heroine and thinks about her constantly, even if he’s quite content with ow. One month before their wedding the heroine comes back home. The hero’s feeling for ow die then and there of an abrupt death. She was only a poor substitute for his true love and he is ott in love with his wife and usual. The second half of the book is the heroine slowly adapting to her new situation, her grown children and finding out her husband was over her and had basically replaced her with her bff. There’s all you can imagine, the betrayal, the pain of knowing your husband was moving on, and your bff is in love with him, the doubts that he loves her still. There’s a lot of drama and ow turns into a bitch but I must admit the hero never faltered. He was obviously so sorry for ow, and so thankful for her help, and of course loved her but not as he loved his wife, and there was never a doubt that he would choose his wife over her. Ow realizes she lost him and the kids and leaves. There’s a bit of reconciliation between her and the heroine but of course there could never be a friendship as there was before. So, the heroine is the victim here, always. She was lost, abused and enslaved, and she suffered. She found out her husband replaced her, even throwing away all her things and renaming his boat ( and his boat is his life, he’s a captain) after ow, and he is more worried about ow feelings than hers. The hero is the worst character here. Yes, he though she was dead, but it’s not been two years since she died and she should have been the love of his life, his twin soul, and he was anyway quite happy with ow. Not a great love imo. Ok, he had his children to think of, and ow was always around and lived with them, but I think it was way too soon to replace the heroine and propose to ow. I didn’t like him. He also tried to protect ow feelings when the heroine came back, which I didn’t like at all since the heroine had been through much more than a broken engagement. I just hated him. The writer wants us to believe it was always the heroine and he only wanted her and when she came back he only wanted to be with her and kick ow to the curb but his actions tells a different story. Ow was a parasite. No one asked her to replace his bff and since she couldn’t have children she stole the heroines life and her husband. They had met first, she introduced him to the heroine and it was love at first sight so she never was with the hero, but she always liked him. I feel she wanted her life more than her friendship. I feel that the poor heroine was betrayed by the people that should have loved her most. But it’s a complex book and I liked it very much, I also appreciated that the hero was never intimate with ow, he only kissed her which is cheating even if he thought he was a widow, and when he kissed ow he saw the heroine. But at least he didn’t have sex. ...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
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
**spoiler alert** I knew there was physical cheating and I was ready to see if there was something else, so the one star is not because of the cheatin**spoiler alert** I knew there was physical cheating and I was ready to see if there was something else, so the one star is not because of the cheating but for other reasons. - the hero is a single dad who is still hung on his ex, a woman who abandoned both him and the child when the poor baby was only six months, without calling them again. Four years later he married the heroine, vetting her so she can be a unpaid nanny for his child until, hear hear, either he is 18 or his whore ex comes back to them so they can be a happy family. He also writes a prenup where if they divorce she leaves without a penny. She only puts a clause that if he cheats she will have the house, alimony and some money, not too much but enough. Instead of telling her he won’t do love and he needs a stable figure for his kid, he deceives her and chooses her because she’s sweet and loving and of course gullible and naive. He makes fun of her with his bestie bar lawyer and insists that his son doesn’t call her mommy, telling him stories about his real mum, the woman who basically abandoned him when he was a baby and never looked back. Four years later the ex bitch is back and the hero has a ONS, basically a hate fuck that she records and uses to blackmail him into paying for her reconstruction surgery. The bitch plans to have him back because of his money of course. So, after the hate fuck the hero regretted even answering her call and going on a date with her because he’s already in love with the poor idiot heroine but can’t leave his ex because of the blackmail. Until he is tired of her blackmail and decides to tell the heroine the truth about his cheating, but it’s too late. Pictures of him and the bitch already have leaked and since the ex is a d rated actress, the pictures are everywhere in the social medias. The heroine and her twin, with their bff who’s also a lawyer, file for divorce even if the hero begs for her to reconsider. To add angst to angst the heroine just found out she’s pregnant and she risks losing her child when ow sends her the video of the cheating where the hero not only has angry sex with her but also insults the heroine in every way there is, from her being too naive, to her not being able to give him a proper bj as that whore his ex does. After this the heroine doesn’t want to see the hero anymore and even sells the house. Then the reconciliation, because the hero was so sorry for what he did and now he’s in love with her, so they will divorce and he will date her and woo her again until she decides she can trust him. Why the one star. Because the message is all wrong. I won’t even talk about the angry fuck. Unbelievably it is the lesser of evils. What is unacceptable is how he behaved from the start, he purposely targeted her because she was good, naive and loving and deceived her for years letting her think he married her for love, even if he never told her the words. There were signs but they were all superficial, like him not wanting the son to call her mum, because he wanted the child to know he had a mum that could one day come back to him. This could have also been understandable because he didn’t want his son to believe his mother didn’t love him, which was the truth. Those were the action of a selfish, manipulative and sociopathic man, a man who doesn’t have any qualms about using an innocent woman for his purpose and is completely deprived of empathy because he never cared about what she could feel if his ex came back and he kicked her to the curb. He also made fun of her constantly with his friend and even with his ex, which makes me think he really is a sociopath, since he didn’t have anything but good from the heroine who loved him and his child like he was her own, so it’s even more alarming and symptomatic of a sociopath and not simple a selfish man. Sadly the author tends to file his behavior not as the one of a warped and not empathetic person, but only as a mistake, justifying it as a means to protect his son from the fact that his mother didn’t love him and simply used him as a means to keep the hero. No, sorry, this is wrong. The hero is a person to avoid like the plague and his redemption is another attempt at manipulation and selfishness. Actually he’s all about me, me ,me, I , I, I. There was very few about what the heroine wanted and even worse, about what his son wanted. What makes me say he’s a sociopath without empathy. Because his behavior to the heroine is utterly cruel, selfish and hurtful, he even enjoys making fun of her with his friend, calling her endearments that have actually a mocking meaning and all this is not justified by anything at all. I mean, I can understand mean and cruel heroes where they have some reasons to hate the heroine, even indirectly, like for instance when they have been scarred and think that all women are gold diggers, whores, heartless, or when the hero hates the heroine for some misunderstanding or other, but here the hero knows the heroine is a good, loving and honorable woman and even so, he uses her ruthlessly and even mocks her repeatedly. Of course the cheating was to be expected. It’s the cherry on top. Sadly the author makes another big mistake that is victim blaming. Oh, yes, the heroine eventually is not angry with the hero anymore and you know why? It’s laughable really. Because she admits she was also guilty because she believed he loved her and she was indeed too naive. WTF? Really? What’s wrong with these people? When is a person guilty of being naive because she believed a man who wooed her, courted her, married her while he was having his own agenda? Because her twin, who was also a bit smarter, told her so! But of course the heroine believed him! He was kind, loving and caring, why should she ever suspect that he wanted her only as a placeholder of his whore ex until the bitch decided to come back? I don’t think so. This victim blaming is wrong. The heroine loved the fact that the hero was a good father and of course she appreciated that she cared for children, I would too, because a loving parent is something to appreciate, and not to be wary of. And what about him reminding his child he had a mum? Was it so wrong? I don’t think so. The hero wanted his child to feel his bio mum loved him anyway, which is not bad, even if the boy understood very well that the person who loved him was the heroine and not the bio mum he never met. So the fact that the heroine blamed herself for his inhuman behavior is appalling and dangerous. The heroine should have divorced him and never taken him into consideration. A man who’s able to treat another human being like that is not worthy of a second glance. Another thing I didn’t like was the heroine twins behavior, that in the beginning was very protective to her while afterwards changed without a real reason, trying to bulldoze the heroine into meeting the hero again and forgive him. And let’s talk about how it’s useless to think about past things. Nope, it’s not. Past experiences are always useful because they teach us to recognize mistakes and wrong decisions. If you forget them you’re bound to make the same mistakes. And if it’s true that forgiveness requires strength, you don’t have to keep in your life people who hurt you and damaged you. The only one good thing in the book was the hero’s son. I loved the child who was the one to speak plain truth and crystal clear. He said his one and only mother was the heroine, he hated his father and his bio mum because they were selfish and bad and he wanted to live with the heroine when she divorced the hero. Never have I loved a kid more. He was the only one to really have the heroines back, until the very end. I loved when he told the hero that he could visit him at the heroines because he was staying with her. Cute and smart kid. The angst is very high, I appreciated the heroine until she blamed herself or the hero’s deception , afterwards I lost any respect for her. The hero was a lost cause and a mean, unpleasant and unworthy person, I don’t see anything in him to appreciate, not before and not after. His actions were always selfish and I wouldn’t want him in my life as in ever. ...more
Meh. I just don’t know. The couple gets married in a moc. She accepts because she needs money to give her lil sister for her college, her brother is bMeh. I just don’t know. The couple gets married in a moc. She accepts because she needs money to give her lil sister for her college, her brother is basically a pimp and the hero is bipolar. Yes, because the first half of the book is them having this amazing chemistry and not being able to consummate their marriage, but they have to because the contract says they have to have a child. They eventually have sex. Her brother wants to trap him because in the prenup if he cheats the heroine can divorce with a big alimony so he decides to trap him and pay a waitress to drug him and pretend they had sex together. The heroine believes him when he tells her he’s been drugged and he doesn’t remember anything, he made tests and it turns out he really was, she confesses that her brother wanted to trap him but she never accepted it, but the hero seems so determined to dump her because she knew the brother was scheming and she didn’t warn him. So he divorces her and of course she’s shattered. Basically no grovel here because the hero finds out she really didn’t plot against him and she never agree with her brother do trap him but the loses heroine accepted him back without batting a lid. Just no. And why was he so angry that she married him for money? That was what they initially agreed. Just too inconsistent for my taste....more
This is JS we know and love. Extreme, Uber dominant heroes and ott retribution for the cheaters, that is one of the reasons one of her last books SteaThis is JS we know and love. Extreme, Uber dominant heroes and ott retribution for the cheaters, that is one of the reasons one of her last books Stealing My ex was so unexplainable to me and most readers. She has some questionable heroes, that are domineering, possessive to the point it is borderline abusive but they compensate being forever faithful and unable to even look at another woman, caring and passionate in an unrealistic but cute kind of ways. Their women are protected, loved, cared for and cherished. Yes, their men have often the last words but this is the price you pay with a man who’s committed to that obsessive extent. So now we’re back to the origin and this one has a cheater just like SME, that finds his children annoying and his wife not sexy anymore because sh has not the same hot body as before the pregnancy, so he gives in to an affair with a coworker who’s younger and sexier. He divorces his wife after their second child and leaves her to be with his side piece. Ow is a bitch, she’s not happy that he left his wife for her, she wants to have his kids to and wants to see the poor wife completely broken. That’s where JS comes in. All the people around them dump the hero’s sad azz and take the heroines side, included his family. Ow is never included in their reunion, and the hero is scorned and loses all his social support. His bff that was the one who saw the heroine first and is always been in love with her secretly, jumps in and within some months he and the heroine are a couple. The heroine is a sweet thing, she tries to be cool because she doesn’t want drama for her children but she’s hurt, depressed and sad. JS has a very good psychological insight here because all characters are well defined instead of being left unresolved and shallow. The hero is a good and caring man, he didn’t go after the heroine even if he liked her because his bff showed a lot of interest in her. This may seem he didn’t care enough for the heroine, but the truth is that he didn’t pursue the heroine because he didn’t want to hurt his friend. He simply watched her from afar. The thing I didn’t like though is that he knew his bff had a mean streak since he hit one of his exes before and he didn’t stop him from marrying the heroine. Thank god the heroine was never hit. After he and the heroine gets together the ex spirals and he starts resenting ow because he lost the heroine. He starts slapping ow around and the social workers take his parental right after his own little sister call them signaling abuse. He becomes an alcoholic and an abusive man, while ow becomes a unhappy shadow of herself. JS does not spare them at all, they lose everything, their social circle, their jobs, their looks, their dignity. This is revenge at its best. This is what every cheated woman would like for his ex and the sk@nk he left them. They both die of a very painful and undignified death, that I know, it’s not realistic but very satisfying. I almost felt sorry for ow at a certain point because she was really alone and she was beaten, abused, and without a chance to run because he had her threatened and blackmailed, but in some way it was her own doing so this is her retribution, karma. The ex husband deserved his karma too, he was the one who cheated and betrayed his wife and well, why should he be happy and contented after what he did? The heroine though, was happier than ever, she had triplet with her new husband that was the opposite of her ex, loving, caring, richer, and much better in bed. She had her HEA. I understand this is not very realistic but god, it was satisfying. After reading all those books where cheating ex are taken back without fuss or worse, they have a happy life after they left the heroine while the heroine struggles and has no chance to find a better man, well, this is a palate cleanser for me. There’s a good psychological insight, the heroine goes though PPD and trauma and is still depresse months after the divorce, the hero is a good man who thought he was being a good friend and suffered for years alone watching the heroine with another man, the ex is a scumbag and no joke, and the obsessed selfish ow has her own karma served on a plate. I liked it, it’s fiction but I can’t anymore with books that make a martyr out of the heroines while azzhole heroes never have any punishment and ow even have a HEA. It can look a bit ott but in a good, humorous way that is JS....more
Too long but this is not what was bad in this book. The heroine is dumped by her fiance who cheated on her with one of their friends bar colleagues, sToo long but this is not what was bad in this book. The heroine is dumped by her fiance who cheated on her with one of their friends bar colleagues, she leaves town and job and goes to live with her big sister. Andddd guess what. She falls in love with her sister fiance. Bwuahahahahaha! No! Just no! It’s wrong! Even if they don’t have sex until he breaks up with his fiancee, this is all wrong. The sister was kind and wanted to help her, and she repays her stealing her fiance. The author tries to justify the fact that they only were engaged because she had a pregnancy scare and he proposed, but they were not in love. But it’s disgusting that he still slept and had sex with his fiancee while the heroine was in the nearby bedroom. And the heroine is a hypocritical hoe, that rejects the hero when he breaks up with her sister, because it’s not right for them to be together. Well, you could think about it before you kissed and smooched your sisters fiance behind her back, you hoe! In the end all is well but I didn’t like it, the heroine did to her sister the same thing her ex boyfriend did to her. And the hero is hypocritical sob too, who was jealous of heroine while screwing her sister. Trigger warning. Sisters sharing penis! Not for me! ...more
Ok this deserves the trashing I’m giving. These are the times when thank god, some very abusive and disrespectful behaviors such as racism and homophoOk this deserves the trashing I’m giving. These are the times when thank god, some very abusive and disrespectful behaviors such as racism and homophobia are considered unacceptable and unworthy of any human being, so they are thankfully absent from any books that is published, both officially and not. And in these better times some behavior as body shaming, that is blaming and making fun of people because of their looks, are considered equally unacceptable and wrong. And you’re supposed to expect that even chauvinistic and sexist behaviors and thoughts are equally considered unacceptable and wrong but no, this is not. This book is a pathetic attempt at a rom com where a doormat woman who has no self esteem, zero self respect and no self confidence to talk of is made fun of. She’s derided, abused, disrespected and in the end it all ends in cheers and hurrahs, because ahahahahahah, it’s all a big huge joke. No, really? Are we serious? In all this talking and expecting equal rights and telling that a woman is her own master and doesn’t need any man to be complete and happy we have a woman who accepts to be cheated on by her husband because she is too weak and has too low self respect that she has sex with him, a very unsatisfactory sex btw, he’s no sex god and she never even came during their coupling, only an hour or less after she saw him screwing one if his secretaries. And in front of all his staff and many other people. She also finds texts on his phone that confirms he’s having sex with other women, plural and she catches him again so finally she decides it’s the end of them. wtf? She should have dumped his sorry ass the very first time and with a bang too. I would expect that any self respecting woman would have left him the very second she found him balls deep into the woman and he didn’t even have the decency of showing remorse. So, she decides to leave him, better late than never. But of course the man makes a fool of himself and in one month he behaves like the clown he is which honestly, made me hate him even more because he has not only lack of understanding but also he doesn’t care that she is hurt and that she wants to leave no, it’s all about him, about how he can’t live without her, how he needs her, hoe he wants her. Nothing is about her anymore. And the poor doormat and worthless woman takes him back. Of course she does. Oh, he cheated because he could and he stopped because he was caught of course. No angst here, the heroine is a clown herself that has not even the decency of standing up for herself and go on with the annulment, because let’s be honest, she’s afraid of being alone this is what. I didn’t laugh at all, I thought there was humor, for me it’s a very sad parody when a woman who’s cheated and disrespected by her husband in her own house is made a joke of. Because this is not worse than it would be making fun of someone because they’re obese, or because they are of a different color of sexual preference, this is still a joke on someone who is abused. There’s nothing fun about it, I don’t care if the hero makes a fool of himself and I don’t care about the surrounding anymore, it was simply sad and degrading. It would have been better if the heroine had had sex with other men, other sexier and better men who knew how to give a woman pleasure instead than coming back with the cheater. I don’t care what he will do, he’s not worthy a second of her time anymore. To make fun of a woman cheated and disrespected and to put it all as if it’s no big issue is disrespectful for those women who have been through it. To keep writing about doormat women who take back losers who only stop cheating because they’re caught is a sad joke and I don’t find it funny, but unacceptable as if it was for any other behavior considered now unacceptable, slut shaming, body shaming, racism and homophobia. There’s nothing to make fun, there’s nothing to joke about. Minus 1 billion stars....more
You know when they say less is more? The author could have listened to it before writing the book. I didn’t like the previous one where the hero dumpsYou know when they say less is more? The author could have listened to it before writing the book. I didn’t like the previous one where the hero dumps the heroine to go back with the bitch ex who dumped him for another man, this one was no better. It is all over the place, there is simply too much happening and ott. The hero and the heroine are married happily with a baby on the way, he has an accident and has amnesia, but not total amnesia, only the last four years, basically he forgot the heroine and remember he’s still in love with his ex. So he rejects and is a jerk to his pregnant wife and starts seeing ow once again. The heroine seems to grow some backbone and decides, after almost losing her child, to divorce his sorry ass, and even if I, sympathetic to his issues I can well understand her. He’s a jerk and insufferable and I just didn’t like him because, even after remembering everything he wasn’t sorry enough for what he put her through. Unworthy until the end. Then of course she’s back with him and they have a daughter and that’s where the book had to end imo. It could have been rated differently because it would have been another amnesia story with a lot of angst and a hero who can’t choose between the woman he remembers and the one he doesn’t. The author then, sadly, went overboard. And she decides to turn the bitch, rich ex into a criminal psycho bitch, Glenn Close is mother Theresa in comparison because it turns out she planned the accident where the hero was almost killed and she kidnaps the heroine and has two thugs raping and beating her for days, until the hero finds her barely alive. Was it necessary? Imo no, it wasn’t. As I said there’s too much and too shallow, there are also mistakes and poor grammar, but this was not the worse, after some time I felt like I was in a soap opera of olds where unimaginable and unrealistic things happen one after another to the poor and jinxed heroine. I couldn’t even feel angst, I was simply annoyed and a bit amused because you know, enough is enough even in fiction. And anyway the hero was awful, I wouldn’t want him wrapped in gold if he was the last man in the world. ...more
**spoiler alert** So, I was conflicted about rating one star or two but since I was honestly interested and I read it very quickly without pause I dec**spoiler alert** So, I was conflicted about rating one star or two but since I was honestly interested and I read it very quickly without pause I decided for two. The story is ok and a bit different from the usual ones, since the characters are in their early forties and they both cheat on their own spouses. They were high school sweethearts and dated for years until college, then the hero was bored and attracted to another woman and dumped the heroine like yesterday’s garbage. This other woman was richer, more exciting and sexier than the heroine and he eventually married her. The heroine met another man and married him and had two children, but after the second child she basically became frigid and stopped having sex with her husband. He cheated on her after some time, she found out but decided to stay in the marriage because of her children. But things remained the same, she and her husband spent years not having sex and he became bored and unsatisfied. The hero after twenty years realized that he was tired of playing the high society man and left his high paid job to become a teacher as he always wished, and that he was tired of his high maintenance wife because after forty his sex drive didn’t seem that important. Just when the heroine has once again rejected her husband’s request for sex, they accidentally meet, and it is as if they never parted. And that was what pissed me off in a very bad way. Because ok, her husband was not the best man in the world because he didn’t help her enough with the children and the house but she was as frigid as a northern lake in January and guess what. Because nobody could compare to her sad loser of an ex! That dumped her and married another girl! Really? What a doormat and a loser she is! So the husband paid because he wasn’t as sensitive and as apparently good at understanding her as her loser ex was! And she really, really never made the least effort on her marriage, only submitting to her husband and never proposing anything like, you know, counseling? It’s not normal for a young couple never have sex and it’s frustrating and humiliating for a husband being rejected again and again by his wife. And this, before he cheated. While on the other hand, the ex, the hero, but I struggle to call him one, had great sex with his wife, because the good sex with the exciting life were the reasons why he dumped the heroine. So now that he’s reaching middle age he can settle with the more sedated and traditional heroine. FY with all my heart. After their first meeting he buys one of her paintings and at their third meeting they have sex. He breaks up with his wife afterwards and the heroine tries to give her marriage a try for the sake of her children that btw are in their late teens so no toddlers, until she finds out that the bastard husband has been cheating on her with her own sister for years. Now, ok this is disgusting, the sister is a woman with serious issues starting from alcoholism to eating disorders and is also a nasty woman, and it’s awful that he cheated on her with her own sister but honestly, this is maybe the first time that I don’t feel sorry for the heroine. The man was no Prince Charming and maybe they were not so compatible but because he didn’t like her paintings I don’t think it’s reasonable to say he was a monster. In her marriage there were three persons, the heroine, the husband and the ex, because she was always measuring them and finding her husband lacking. And that is not fair. It was her that never gave her marriage a change to begin with. And he found another woman, ok he could have chosen someone who was not her sister but I can’t blame him. She was really rejecting him as if she was repulsed by him. This was so painful even if he wasn’t the charming kind. But he tried, and he was as he was, so it is not as if he changed afterwards. And the same can be said for the hero, he liked his wife because she was exciting, reckless, rich then he got tired of her and dumped her. What an awful person. Of course in the end they get together and all is well for them the children are all grown up and the ex spouses are ok with everything but I didn’t like it. I don’t like yesterday’s leavings to begin with, and I don’t like that after how the hero dumped the heroine she was all over him after five minutes from meeting again. I would have loved that he had a great marriage and that he regretted leaving her and watched her from afar but she self sabotaged her marriage forever because of her ex that dumped her. And the sister was awful herself, a selfish, twisted creature that the heroine, a people pleaser, always tried to see and get on with. Really? Thank god in the end she regained her self confidence and didn’t spare her. But she was at fault too. Anyway. I could read it and end it without having cramps so two stars it is. ...more
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