6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother, July 17, 2008
The heroine in the novel, Lissa is totally unsympathetic. The hero Xavier was a bit arrogant but just about every problem these two had could have been solved with communication.
Xavier is a CEO of a luxury item company, think Gucci. His brother Armand in London has e-mailed him telling him of his upcoming nuptials. Since Armand has been duped by women before, Xavier must check out this future sister-in-law but he must do so on the down low.
He has Armand followed and sees a heavily made up woman leaving the flat his brother visited. Said girl works at a casino. Now this is where as an American, I might be missing something because respectable American casinos do not employ women who make sure customers drink champagne, also act as hostesses and who are forced to dance with customers but apparently this is how casinos operate in London. Xavier walks in and Lissa is forced to spend time with him. She feels uncomfortable doing so and has no idea he is Armand's brother.
Xavier's feels his fears about his brother marrying a gold digger are founded after seeing Lissa dressed as a tart. His mind is changed however, when he sees her leaving the casino without make up and she is beautiful and desirable. He takes her to dinner the next night and asks her to his room she says no but wants to say yes. He gets mad.
Now Lissa has a sister and the reader surmises her sister was in some sort of car accident but instead of being explained fully, the author reveals the accident in abrupt disjointed images.
Lissa and Xavier begin an affair but I never felt like Xavier really liked Lissa and I wondered how he could hurt his brother in this fashion. Lissa is a total contradiction. She hates her job, but does works at the Casino because she needs the money (this makes little sense even when I found out what she was using the money for, Britain has National Health), she has an affair with Xavier but will not share her feelings and worst of all never explains herself. I guess she believes Xavier must have telepathy powers. She does not even try to clear up misunderstandings, and the conclusions Xavier draws about her character are very reasonable. Lissa, however, just expects him to know her character in less than a month. This was exasperating and so annoying that I disliked her and this novel immensely.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good romance..., January 19, 2008
Lissa lives a really crappy life. She works hours and hours and hours, trying to make money for a very good reason.
Xavier thinks Lissa is a con-girl, and that she's out to capture his step-brother's heart (and money.) So, he sets out to seduce her and nip the other relationship in the bud.
It's obvious from pretty early on that She is not what he first thought, and he's completely captivated by her. When suddenly she finds herself free to have a relationship with him, she does so.
And then it all blows up.
There is much agita and angst. There is a bit of question for me - like what's going to happen when the step brother finds out what Xavier did? That won't make for brotherly trust and love, for sure. But the story itself is a good, hot romance.
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