una_macchia 's review for:

The Petrakos Bride by Lynne Graham
3.0

Fun read. The author's sense of humor manages to make the ultra-sleazy hero amusing instead of infuriating or just gross, and the heroine has the backbone to stand up to him despite their mutual instalust. Hero is a real idiot (
Spoilerjust one example: the scene when she's trying to tell him about her pregnancy and takes off her coat so he can see her bump but he's too busy staring at her breasts to notice
) but he gets it right eventually. And I appreciate that at least there's an attempt at safe sex.

A note on infidelity: the hero is engaged to another woman when he meets and seduces the heroine before she (the heroine) finds out and ditches him. But the fiancee seems to be fine with his womanizing ways (she's not into sex with him anyway and they're obviously not in love) so, though it isn't directly stated, I would consider that more an open relationship than cheating. The hero was still wrong for not being up front about his engagement and intention to install the heroine as his permanent side-piece when she made it clear she wasn't into that, but I'm not so bothered by the infidelity itself. He never cheats on the heroine.