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The Boss's Little Miracle (Harlequin Romance)

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This book started off strong. I liked the main characters. The hero is a corporate exec who has been burned by his ex-wife. When he gets involved with the heroine the inevitable sparks fly, but neither imagine marriage. The hero unexpectedly ends their relationship, and a few weeks later the heroine discovers that the reason he did so is that he is her new boss. Awkward right? Also fun reading!

The trouble starts when it becomes clear that the hero will not allow the heroine to grow professionally. He keeps her from getting a promotion that she earned and that EVERYONE felt she was the best person for because of his own possessiveness. He brings in an outside man- an unqualified and unprofessional one- to do the job that she wanted instead. Wow. Isn't this everything that the women's movement fought to keep from happening? Isn't this the kind of thing that gets companies sued? Sorry, but that is not love. That is ownership. And it KEEPS getting worse.

Instead of some acknowledgment of the heroine's wants and personhood, we get the last few pages. The pages where our heroine who has worked for YEARS to attain her goals did a COMPLETE 180 and decided that instead of managing her career and following her own personal dreams what she REALLY wanted was to be "the perfect CEO's wife". I could not make this up. She LITERALLY said she wanted to be his perfect accessory.

I could not be more disgusted. What is this, the 50's? Books like this one give the romance genre a bad name. I read these because the heroines are fun, and the stories are warm and sometimes touching. This wasn't warm or touching, it was gross. It was about one person changing who they are entirely just to please someone else. That is not love. Not even romance novel love.

In real life things like this do happen. Women have babies and their priorities change. But you know what? I don't want to read about it in my Harlequins. For very good reason- this writer is CLEARLY not skillful enough to write about such a thing even a little bit well or even believably.

If I hadn't been reading this on my kindle the book would have gone flying at the wall. I am beyond annoyed. What were they thinking? I want my money back.

PASS!