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girlwithhearteyes 's review for:
The Devious Husband
by Catharina Maura
3.25 stars
I really liked the first half, which seemed like a return to the soapy rich people vibes of The Wrong Bride and The Temporary Wife… but then suddenly the characters had to get all dark and dabble in crime. Why couldn’t Sierra and Xavier just have a cute not-really-enemies-to-lovers arranged marriage?
I don’t mind a bit of crime in my romance, but the Windsors were originally introduced as being rich and powerful in a ‘we’ll silence you because we control the media’ sort of way, and not a ‘we’ll silence you because we’ll cut out your tongue’ sort of way, which gave me certain expectations for the stories I’d be getting.
I also couldn’t get into the audiobook performances (the narrators did not seem like the right choice for Sierra or Xavier), so I switched to the ebook and then skimmed quite a lot of the second half.
I really liked the first half, which seemed like a return to the soapy rich people vibes of The Wrong Bride and The Temporary Wife… but then suddenly the characters had to get all dark and dabble in crime. Why couldn’t Sierra and Xavier just have a cute not-really-enemies-to-lovers arranged marriage?
I don’t mind a bit of crime in my romance, but the Windsors were originally introduced as being rich and powerful in a ‘we’ll silence you because we control the media’ sort of way, and not a ‘we’ll silence you because we’ll cut out your tongue’ sort of way, which gave me certain expectations for the stories I’d be getting.
I also couldn’t get into the audiobook performances (the narrators did not seem like the right choice for Sierra or Xavier), so I switched to the ebook and then skimmed quite a lot of the second half.