Chantelle Shaw

Inutilmente prolisso, sarebbe stato anche carino ma si perde in continue elucubrazioni senza alcun costrutto, per una storia scontata senza che accada mai nulla di particolare.
Leandro Vialli, ricco, bellissimo e, soprattutto, egoista e malfidato per un’esperienza negativa del passato, ha come amante segreta e ben nascosta, Marnie Clarke, un’ingenua cameriera che resta incinta per sbaglio. Non credendole pretende la prova del dna e poi, quando un incidente le farà perdere la memoria cercherà di raggirarla per ottenere l’affidamento del figlio.
Ma quando il destino ci mette lo zampino …… (mais)

This is one of my favorite tropes in the HP world. Heroine is mistress to the hero. She gets pregnant but he throws her out, convinced she was cheating because he's had a vasectomy. But this one just failed in execution for me.

Once he finds her again and she has a fairly reasonable explanation of what happened even though he knows that some vasectomies fail he still refuses to consider he might be one of the failures. He calls her every nasty name in the book but still gets her in bed every third page it seemed like. She was totally spineless. I think any man who called me those sorts of names and told me to my face I was trash would not be able to talk me into bed 5 minutes later especially after first time he said "see I told you you were a 'ho" afterwards.

I'm used to a certain amount of asshatery and spinelessness but CS just didn't sell me on it this time.… (mais)

This book frustrated me. I know it's not my book and I didn't write it but the author made some choices that just bothered me. Here's an example of the type of thing I mean. He comes on to her. She says "no thank you I don't want to date you in fact I'm too involved in my music to date anyone". Several times this happens. When she finally gives in and he finds out she's a virgin, he blows a gasket. He says words to the effect that "If I'd known you were a virgin, I'd never had taken you to bed. I only sleep with experienced lovers, yada yada." And do you know what she didn't say? She didn't say "I told you to go away and leave me alone asshole."

As for the rest he blows hot and cold. She gets her feelings hurt when he says nasty things and she just falls back into his arms at the drop of a hat. The ending was too quick. Overall just below so so for me.… (mais)