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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
I liked it but I love the first one. Sucks when you love the first book in a series but the next is well...okay. I actually wish we saw more of the first couple than have a brand new couple. Although, while I did enjoy this book, it's nothing spectacular.
Like the first book, this book is pretty simple and a straight forward romance novel. It plays it loose and doesn't delve into anything too deep, when it comes to the characters that is. It's basically a sheer mention of important moments in the main characters lives but that's as really as far as it goes.
So, I recommend this book if you just want a fast easy read but I wouldn't go into it looking for much.
On to the next!
This was just too much schmaltz for me. I'm into romance for the witty banter and this just did not have enough of it.
Loved it!!! The fierce dedication Michael has to be responsible and to take care of his family is great. As well as Maggie's protection of her family. I was hooked from the start and unable to put the book down.
Damit seine Schwester heiraten kann muss Michael Conte selber vorgeben verheiratet zu sein. Dabei hilft ihm mehr oder weniger die Fotografin Maggy Ryan. Sie hat eigentlich nur zugestimmt, damit Michael in Zukunft nicht mehr bei ihrer besten Freundin auftaucht. Diese ist mit Maggys Bruder verheiratet und sie unterstellt Michael nicht einwandfreie Absichten. In Italien angekommen werden beide auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Einerseits müssen sich Michaels Familie überzeugen zum anderen wollen sich beide ihre Gefühle nicht eingestehen, den körperlich können sie schon fast nicht mehr die Finger von einander lassen.
Maggy versucht dran festzuhalten das Michael mur ein Macho ist, der weiß wie er die Frauen rum bekommt. Dabei bemerkt sie wie liebevoll er mit seiner Familie um geht aber auch blind ist was seine Schwestern betrifft.
Typische Katz-und-Maus-Liebesgeschichte mit den ein oder anderen lustigen Faktor. Man fiebert teilweise mit da in manchen Situation sich mit die Haare am raufen ist.
Angenehm beschrieben mit einen leichten Schreibstil.
Maggy versucht dran festzuhalten das Michael mur ein Macho ist, der weiß wie er die Frauen rum bekommt. Dabei bemerkt sie wie liebevoll er mit seiner Familie um geht aber auch blind ist was seine Schwestern betrifft.
Typische Katz-und-Maus-Liebesgeschichte mit den ein oder anderen lustigen Faktor. Man fiebert teilweise mit da in manchen Situation sich mit die Haare am raufen ist.
Angenehm beschrieben mit einen leichten Schreibstil.
I loved all three of these books. They were so good!
I don't know why I forced myself to read this all the way to the end, but I did.
I found the first book a bit silly but not a bad read, this wasn't that.
Maggie is the sister of the Billionaire from the first book. Apparently she has a blind date with Michael (also a Billionaire) offers a second date and he blows her off. Humiliated, she rationalises it by deciding it is because he is in love with Alexa, her sister-in-law.
Michael is an Italian Conte whose family owns a chain of bakeries in the US and Italy. He also has long hair which he wears in a pony tail - I found it odd because he sounded more Native American in the description than Italian. Also, I kept thinking about all that long hair in the pastry!
There is a ridiculous story that Michael's father said on his deathbed that he wanted the family to follow traditional values such that none of his daughters could marry until his son. Of course one of Michael's sisters wants to marry, she feels the need to appease this ridiculous rule and her fiancée won't wait.
So Michael decides to pretend to be married. He makes a bargain with Maggie, he will stay away from Alexa if she pretends to be his wife at go to Italy with him - Maggie is a photographer who specialises in photos of half-naked men for underwear adverts (I wouldn't have thought there was that much specialisation) and was going to Italy anyway.
To be honest, dire as this sounds it was the best part of the story. Frankly Michael sounded like a dick. He was arrogant, rode roughshod over his sisters and ignored pretty much everything Maggie said.
Once in Italy, despite apparently ruling the entire family and ignoring their feelings, Michael abdicates any authority when it comes to Maggie and allows his family, particularly his mother, to force her to do things she was uncomfortable about.
I also hated the idea that a career woman just wanted to be able to cook pasta for her husband to feel complete. If my mother-in-law dragged me into the kitchen, forced me to cook when I have no interest and then condescended to me I would walk out. Of course Maggie as a hard-nosed career woman couldn't possibly know how to cook.
Maggie is a walking cliche. Her parents were so neglectful it bordered on child abuse. She was raped as a young teenager and her mother told her she deserved it. This of course prompted her to develop a hard shell and mistrust everyone. Use before you are used became her motto.
There is a then a pathetically contrived plot that Michael and Maggie would get married in Italy but it would take too long to get the necessary authority. Of course the plot device is soo tired that we already know what is going to happen. Add in the mother pretending to have a heart attack in order to guilt them into a wedding plot.
Then Michael decides that Maggie's issues with needing control in the bedroom (ie panic attacks when a man is lying on top of her) would best be addressed by a bit of light bondage - right!
Basically, I thought the book had every tired clichéd plot-device (including a love spell) going, the writing was nothing special and I HATED both characters.
I found the first book a bit silly but not a bad read, this wasn't that.
Maggie is the sister of the Billionaire from the first book. Apparently she has a blind date with Michael (also a Billionaire) offers a second date and he blows her off. Humiliated, she rationalises it by deciding it is because he is in love with Alexa, her sister-in-law.
Michael is an Italian Conte whose family owns a chain of bakeries in the US and Italy. He also has long hair which he wears in a pony tail - I found it odd because he sounded more Native American in the description than Italian. Also, I kept thinking about all that long hair in the pastry!
There is a ridiculous story that Michael's father said on his deathbed that he wanted the family to follow traditional values such that none of his daughters could marry until his son. Of course one of Michael's sisters wants to marry, she feels the need to appease this ridiculous rule and her fiancée won't wait.
So Michael decides to pretend to be married. He makes a bargain with Maggie, he will stay away from Alexa if she pretends to be his wife at go to Italy with him - Maggie is a photographer who specialises in photos of half-naked men for underwear adverts (I wouldn't have thought there was that much specialisation) and was going to Italy anyway.
To be honest, dire as this sounds it was the best part of the story. Frankly Michael sounded like a dick. He was arrogant, rode roughshod over his sisters and ignored pretty much everything Maggie said.
Once in Italy, despite apparently ruling the entire family and ignoring their feelings, Michael abdicates any authority when it comes to Maggie and allows his family, particularly his mother, to force her to do things she was uncomfortable about.
I also hated the idea that a career woman just wanted to be able to cook pasta for her husband to feel complete. If my mother-in-law dragged me into the kitchen, forced me to cook when I have no interest and then condescended to me I would walk out. Of course Maggie as a hard-nosed career woman couldn't possibly know how to cook.
Maggie is a walking cliche. Her parents were so neglectful it bordered on child abuse. She was raped as a young teenager and her mother told her she deserved it. This of course prompted her to develop a hard shell and mistrust everyone. Use before you are used became her motto.
There is a then a pathetically contrived plot that Michael and Maggie would get married in Italy but it would take too long to get the necessary authority. Of course the plot device is soo tired that we already know what is going to happen. Add in the mother pretending to have a heart attack in order to guilt them into a wedding plot.
Then Michael decides that Maggie's issues with needing control in the bedroom (ie panic attacks when a man is lying on top of her) would best be addressed by a bit of light bondage - right!
Basically, I thought the book had every tired clichéd plot-device (including a love spell) going, the writing was nothing special and I HATED both characters.