Header PromotionSweet Sinner by Diana Hamilton (HP 1841)
Back Cover:
Zoe Kilgerran's friend and flatmate Gary has broken up with his girlfriend Hannah and he desperately wants her back. So he gets the idea of having Zoe dress like a tart for a vicars and tarts party and pretend to be his date to make Hannah jealous. This works and Gary has a friend drive Zoe home. However the friend has roving hands, Zoe objects and he tosses her out of his mini in an unsavory part of London. A flash car happens by, the magnetically handsome occupant mistakes Zoe for the tart she's dressed as, calls her a cab and an embarrassed Zoe goes home. However the next day at work she finds out her knight in shining armor turns out to be none other than James Cade the CEO of the company she works for. She hopes he won't recognize her from the night before.
Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers
Favourite Scene:
‘Were you hurt?’ The dark, gravelly voice was abrasive and she took a small, defensive backward step, shaking her head, just wanting him to go away, shivering uncontrollably now despite the heavy warmth of the June night air. ‘There have to be better ways of earning a crust.’ The wide slash of his mouth indented cynically. ‘Don’t you understand the risks you’re running?’
My Review:
Great sexual tension! The hero thought she was a 15 year old prostitute when he first met her, so when he finds out she's actually a 25 year old accountant, he doesn't really trust her to work on his confidential business matters, especially when he arrives at her home and gets the impression that all her roommates are into swapping beds and mistakes the heroine's twin nephews for her own fatherless babes. The heroine flies into a rage at his accusations and rashly offers to let him take her to bed and find out firsthand just how virginal she is. Having that said sets their relationship on edge, he's tempted to take her up on it. They work together, but the hero still disapproves of her and suspects she's flirting around.
They fight the chemistry between them and don't want to give in to it. A few too many of their confrontations ended with the hero angrily huffing off, and I started to think it was a bit repetitive. The dialogue though was great and you could cut the sexual tension with a knife, so I enjoyed it! The heroine thinks the hero is engaged to the ugly daughter of his boss, and is jealous. The confrontation scene, when the hero comes to find her after she just disappeared upstairs with another man for an hour, is intense (he tells he he's giving in, there's nothing to keep him from taking what he wants)
My Rating: 3.5/5 stars, great sexual tension, there's so much ridiculous misunderstanding that it was fun to watch the absurdity of it all and the author really did a good job of harnessing the plot and taming this massive misunderstanding. I really love Diana Hamilton, her books never have ick factors for me.
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