Favourite Scene: (aw, the hero knows he's no James Bond, cute)
She stared, goggle-eyed, as he picked himself up, righted the chair and walked in through the open glass doors. "I see I have some way to go before I become James Bond," he remarked dryly, dusting himself off and tucking his shirt back into the waistband of his trousers.
Another Fav Scene: (aw, he risks bodily harm to get her in his arms, then tells her he loves her)
"By the way," he grated out when he stopped to kick the main guest-room door open, "it came to me as I was swinging through space a minute ago, with the possibility of certain death if I slipped, that I hadn't made one thing clear to you."
She fluttered bewildered lashes open and looked up. His eyes locked with hers, startling her with their smoldering intensity.
"I love you," he said, and strode purposefully into the room.
My Review:
The premise of the book nearly made me dump the book without reading it. The heroine thinks the hero had sex with her mom ten years ago, and that he used her mom for sex and that led to her mom's nervous breakdown. Jeez, what relationship can start with "having sex with my mom" and end up working out ok? Yikes. Thankfully, all is not as it seems.
The heroine grilled the hero over using women for sex and never being in love. I kind of thought it was a bit of poetic justice that for once a HP man's experience was NOT considered a positive, his amount of lovers weren't impressive or a sign that bully for him he knew how to please a woman, his heroine should thank her lucky stars he got in the experience before he met her so that he can now give her multiple orgasms.
I liked that he toppled off his stance of thinking casual sex was the kind of sex he wanted. As soon as he locked his eyes and lips on the heroine, he wanted her very badly and he started to fall in love, he was the first one to say "I love you" and he was the one who NEEDED to hear her say the words to him. I liked seeing the hero as having emotional needs, and having sex with the heroine not be enough for him, he needed to know that she loved him. I think it was an interesting book, and I enjoyed the chemistry and inevitability of the hero/heroine's affair.
My Rating: 3.5/5 stars, the topic of the book might make a reader wary, but it turned out to be a great story.
FYI: Characters of Maddie and Miles were mentioned, they have their own story by ML called "Maddie's Child", I remember reading it and not really loving or hating it. The heroine was very unusual for an HP! She was a serial seducer of men because she had this complex about men.
Hi Janet
After discovering that I liked Miranda Lee's Presents, I found this one and I was also hesitant to read it because of the mother thing. That did not appeal to me at all but I figured there had to be something else going on and I'm glad there was. I enjoyed this one. I also read Maddie's story and I really loved that one. I didn't like that she was a seducer of men but I liked her and really enjoyed the story.
Margie :)