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The Italian's Suitable Wife by Lucy Monroe
3.0
Debbie didn't exactly recommend this, well ... far from it. But her review assured me of a trainwreck and I'm currently loving those! And yeah, I picked it up in spite of her warning about the cringe-worthy scenes. This is the eighth book I'm reading by Lucy Monroe.
This book had a very saucy beginning, but the author just wasn't content to let me dream away. Lol. Gianna Lakewood soon gets news from his younger brother Andre that Enrico DiRinaldo has been in an accident and is in a coma. It's been eight years of unrequited love, since when she was fifteen, but that doesn't stop her from getting to him in New York immediately. Theirs was the only family Gianna now had and the feeling was reciprocated.
Thirty-one-year-old Rico comes out of the coma but his lower body is completely paralysed. He has a supermodel for a fianceé, Chiara, who's as self-centred as the other women usually are in HP. But of course, he doesn't know that and is smitten with her. Gianna is an assistant professor in Massachusetts, and Rico has no idea how in love with him she is. But he also doesn't like the idea of her with his brother, and always tries to stake a claim on her. This reaches a point where his condition drives away Chiara, with him insisting that Gianna marry him and have his babies.
Due to Rico's condition and with his advancing age, he is eager to marry and have children. For which Gianna would have to go through IVF. Gianna, the besotted woman that she is, agrees in spite of her reservations about whether Rico really loves her or not. She is too good for Rico and surprisingly, unlike other HP heroines, she knows it fully well!
This is a family-oriented kind of a romance. My first in that respect, I think. Which also deals with other medical issues and its fallouts on near and dear ones. The DiRinaldo's are very close, a strong Italian unit. Same goes for Gianna till her parents died. Rico and Gianna both want children, they have a strong bond in that respect. A classic story of two people whose mothers were like sisters settling down, a long bond of friendship being converted to lifelong togetherness.
It isn't revealed of which subject Gianna is a professor of. Also, this story would have been more heartfelt had Rico's words had less of a bite. He was all barky and that got on my nerves.
P.S. Andre, the younger brother, gets his own story in [b:The Playboy's Seduction|7454312|The Playboy's Seduction|Lucy Monroe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1262194482l/7454312._SY75_.jpg|9498625]. But, it is a Harlequin Mini meaning, not a full-fledged story.
This book had a very saucy beginning, but the author just wasn't content to let me dream away. Lol. Gianna Lakewood soon gets news from his younger brother Andre that Enrico DiRinaldo has been in an accident and is in a coma. It's been eight years of unrequited love, since when she was fifteen, but that doesn't stop her from getting to him in New York immediately. Theirs was the only family Gianna now had and the feeling was reciprocated.
Thirty-one-year-old Rico comes out of the coma but his lower body is completely paralysed. He has a supermodel for a fianceé, Chiara, who's as self-centred as the other women usually are in HP. But of course, he doesn't know that and is smitten with her. Gianna is an assistant professor in Massachusetts, and Rico has no idea how in love with him she is. But he also doesn't like the idea of her with his brother, and always tries to stake a claim on her. This reaches a point where his condition drives away Chiara, with him insisting that Gianna marry him and have his babies.
Due to Rico's condition and with his advancing age, he is eager to marry and have children. For which Gianna would have to go through IVF. Gianna, the besotted woman that she is, agrees in spite of her reservations about whether Rico really loves her or not. She is too good for Rico and surprisingly, unlike other HP heroines, she knows it fully well!
This is a family-oriented kind of a romance. My first in that respect, I think. Which also deals with other medical issues and its fallouts on near and dear ones. The DiRinaldo's are very close, a strong Italian unit. Same goes for Gianna till her parents died. Rico and Gianna both want children, they have a strong bond in that respect. A classic story of two people whose mothers were like sisters settling down, a long bond of friendship being converted to lifelong togetherness.
It isn't revealed of which subject Gianna is a professor of. Also, this story would have been more heartfelt had Rico's words had less of a bite. He was all barky and that got on my nerves.
P.S. Andre, the younger brother, gets his own story in [b:The Playboy's Seduction|7454312|The Playboy's Seduction|Lucy Monroe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1262194482l/7454312._SY75_.jpg|9498625]. But, it is a Harlequin Mini meaning, not a full-fledged story.