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una_macchia's review against another edition
4.0
Fun heroine, delightfully hateable hero, delicious tacky drama, and she makes him cry! It only falls flat at the end Bonus: the hero spends a lot of time smoking cigars, which is quite funny to me.
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because she decides that his shittyness is actually all his ex-wife's fault and he's a perfect angel. I mean, I understand that I'm reading a romance and they're going to end up together, obviously, and that's fine by me, I just think Mortimer went overboard in trying to absolve him. I would have liked to see them come to terms with his past bad behavior without excusing everything (which to his credit, he doesn't; the narrative does). The backstory also veered a little towards "women who don't want to have children are Bad, unlike the Good heroine" -- I'm not excusing the ex-wife's actions which were not great, I just don't appreciate that implication.paperbackstash's review against another edition
4.0
Another Harlequin with a different sort of pattern - I loved the heroine. She never got dewy eyed, there were no false electric sparks that made me roll my eyes, she handled herself well through the whole book. The hero was sexy and flirty and you ended up really digging him in the end. This one held a few surprise twists and a lot of hidden layers to uncover, surprises which was shocking - and depressing - at times. The suspense as you're waiting for the secrets to unfold and to see how the revenge scenario to play out was nail biting. The ending was honestly sweet and a bit eye watering. Mortimer delved into some deep themes and threw serious grief into a usually light-hearted genre. Sex isn't there much but when it is sometimes it's spicy. Highly recommended older Harlequin.
gamz's review against another edition
4.0
Easily one of the best HP's I have read.
Filled with emotion and angst the H and h's story grabs hold from the very beginning and doesn't let go.
The H, bitter because of a pending divorce, meets the h at a party. She's sweet and innocent and in complete awe of him. He uses her and treats her like a whore.
Seven years later they meet again. She recognizes him but he has no clue who she is. She is out for revenge for the way he treated her seven years earlier and proceeds to turn his world upside down.
This was an amazingly good read. The author created characters that were so real you felt all their anguish. Worth reading again and again.
Filled with emotion and angst the H and h's story grabs hold from the very beginning and doesn't let go.
The H, bitter because of a pending divorce, meets the h at a party. She's sweet and innocent and in complete awe of him. He uses her and treats her like a whore.
Seven years later they meet again. She recognizes him but he has no clue who she is. She is out for revenge for the way he treated her seven years earlier and proceeds to turn his world upside down.
This was an amazingly good read. The author created characters that were so real you felt all their anguish. Worth reading again and again.
bookreviewsbyria's review against another edition
3.0
I really like the first part, the heroine has backbone and the revenge is in motion.. but the last two chapters made me want to pull my hair or the heroine. I would love to have a different scenario in the last chapters, more groveling from the Hero because the things he said and did are just too awful, however I did enjoy this book.
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