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tessisreading2's review
2.0
This was just... annoying, honestly; the hero and heroine were both thinly-characterized stereotypes and hoo boy did Thorpe lean fully into the Macho Spanish Men/Weak English Lady With Betraying Body dichotomy. Our hero (who is a big muckety-muck in the cigar industry) routinely sexually harasses the heroine, gets cranky at the idea of her so much as speaking to another man, lectures her on not letting him open his door, punishes her with kisses, threatens to spank her, tells his brother to spank his nineteen-year-old fiancee, and claims all women have a streak of masochism that makes them unable to respect men who don't dominate them. When the heroine insists that she wants to give two weeks' notice to her boss instead of quitting on the spot, he says he'll quit for her if she doesn't do it. And the heroine realizes that "the conditions she was trying to impose on her own emotions seemed petty and unimportant" and she should just let him have his way, because he's doing it out of love. Oh, and her nineteen-year-old sister - who changes her mind every ten minutes, is spoiled rotten, doesn't like anyone in the extended family, and loathes children - is going to marry his thirty-something twin brother and get pregnant right away because she'll just "have to adjust" somehow.
I mean, I guess I didn't expect it to be any better than this, so it's not really a one-star read? But it's also not particularly good, or even particularly engaging.
I mean, I guess I didn't expect it to be any better than this, so it's not really a one-star read? But it's also not particularly good, or even particularly engaging.
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