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The Greek Prince's Chosen Wife (Harlequin Presents)

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Sadly this novel ranks pretty low on the totem pole of romantic fiction. The leads were detestable to each other at times and both had major communication problems. Initially neither one takes time to listen to the other.

Hero Damien, a Greek Prince is furious that his ex-fiancé, Kay (who is now dead) played him for a fool not once but twice with fake pregnancies. So imagine his surprise when his ex fiancé's sister shows up to tell him she is expecting his baby.

Ivy Madison is enraged when Damien does not own up to his part in the pregnancy. She calls him all manner of names. She can curse with the best of them. Seems that sister, Kay was lying to both of them but Ivy is too blind to see that. Never mind that Kay has been really horrible to her in the past, Ivy hints that she owes Kay. This is her explanation as to why she would go along with her sister's pregnancy plans.

Finally Damien believes her, but only through paternity testing, and who could blame him. He then runs roughshod over Ivy and she lets him but she also keeps her own secrets too.

In the last chapters, both characters suddenly metamorphosis into nicer human beings. Damien becomes a sensitive person and Ivy finally figures out that maybe saintly Kay was not so saintly. By this time though, their happily ever after was a yawn.

This book was torture to read! What happened to the Sandra Marton who wrote the Knight Brothers series last year and The Disobedient Virgin the year before that?

The plot of this story is ridiculous- that any grown woman with half a brain would volunteer to become a surrogate to a stranger is insane in itself, but that she would allow anyone other than a doctor to inject her with the sperm of a stranger put me through the roof. As this is how the story begins, you can imagine how the rest of it goes: they fight, they call each other names, the man almost forces himself on the woman and after they finally go to bed together, all is forgiven and they fall in love.

Awful book, until Marton deigns to give her readers a quality story, I will refuse to read anything else of hers.

This is unbelievable! I am not in the medical field, but getting pregnant the way described in the book, we might not need fertility medical doctor in the future. Please do a little bit more research. The coming back from 'presumed' dead, how can that be in these modern days, not creditable at all.
I'd say that was insulting the readers' intelligence, or, to put it in a nicer way, was trying to get attention (bad review is better than none?).
The author's characters (in other books too) have the tendency of talking in riddles, heated arguments going round & round. Maybe trying to build up the atmosphere, but unfortunately this writing style sometimes backfired, especially when using it over & over throughout the same book.
Her other book 'The Spanish Prince's Virgin Bride': Very degrading to female gender, especially when the author tried to make it funny. The male character was abusive, physically & verbally; the female character got excited (I could use 'in heat' instead) by that kind male's behaviour. Please have some respect to humankind. I disliked those 2 characters so much that I couldn't finish that book. It was very unpleasant to me.
This author had written a few better books some time ago.

The worse thing is, I couldn't even have the pleasure to throw these 2 books across the room since I bought them in e-book version.

This book is terrible. The "hero" manhandles and almost rapes the heroine several times. She seems too spineless to do anything to save herself. Her reasons for having the baby were also silly. I disliked both main characters in this book I had to force myself to finish the book. The hero seems to have a personality transplant in the final chapter(s) and so ultimately becomes a "good" guy but he used his physical strenth so often in the beginning of the book to bully Ivy that I could never enjoy the novel.
I also think the book suffers from being told too much from the male perspective. It seems to justify male violence. I just can't say enough how much I hated this book.

I didn't always agree with the characters' actions, but I thought it was an enjoyable and well-paced romance.

The Greek Prince's Chosen wife is the second book in Sandra Marton's Billionaires' Brides series and it is magnificent! It begins in such a "fierce" manner, with all kinds of interesting twists and turns.

Damian has been in a perpetual bad mood for months because his past mistress had lied and cheated. She went so far as to tell him she was pregnant not once but twice with his baby and now, she is dead. Therefore, when he sees a stunning woman emerge from a taxi he is taken back. It's been months since he's been with a woman and this beauty catches his eye.

Later on one learns this stunning woman is Ivy Madison and she is expecting his child and is the stepsister of his conniving past lover Kay. However, how can this be? He has never slept with Ivy so how can she be carrying his child and future heir? Damian sees Ivy as another conniving woman out to get him and his money but he turns the tables when he demands she return to Greece with him so he can watch over her pregnancy and make sure she doesn't pull a fast one. This proud Greek is just that.....proud, handsome, rich and stubborn and is determined he will win the battle and have his son. What he doesn't count on is Ivy, this sweet, haunted and beautiful woman will reach something deep inside him and touch his heart.

This is such a lovely story especially in the final chapters. For starting out so forcefully, it's ending is beautiful. Again, Sandra Marton has penned another emotional and passionate story in The Greek Prince's Chosen Wife