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Making Up (Not Breaking Up) (Harlequin Presents, No. 1907)(2 - in - 1: Something Borrowed, by Lee, Vendetta, by Napier)

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Miranda Lee's story "Something Borrowed" features Ashleigh who is supposed to be marrying James, who's kind and reliable, unlike his twin Jake, who broke her heart. Of course, Jake comes back and switches without telling his bride-to-be. As Borat would say, "Naaaahhhhhhccccceee!" (nice)
Susan Napier's story "Vendetta" has a woman going to an island to face a man's revenge in place of her sister. He prevents her leaving the island and tries to frighten her, threatens her, and generally romances her. Not! Where DO they come up with these ideas? Neither one of these stories is worth reading. Generally I don't give bad reviews, but life is short and you don't want this book to be the last one you read before checking out.

This book has two stories as mentioned and they are both half the pages of a regular harlequin presents.

SOMETHING BORROWED: Ashleigh is marrying James. He's kind and reliable - unlike Jake, his wild identical twin, who loved Ashleighand left her long ago. This time, Ashleigh is sure she's chosen the right brother... Until her wedding night turns out to be so passionate that she wonders if she knows her new husband at all!

VENDETTA: Vivan goes in place of her sister to face Nicholas Thorne's retribution - and walks into his trap. Nicholas is now Vivian's captor and she must play him along until she can outwit him But Nicholas has waited ten years for this... To seduce Vivian into falling in love with him will be the greatest revenge ever!

MY THOUGHTS: I thought the first story was pretty readable and entertaining. I actually read every word because I was curious as to Jake pretended to be James and when the big reveal was gonna happen. The story is Ashleigh was in love with Jake but he breaks her heart by throwing her away cruelly, he was in jail for drug smuggling in Thailand, life imprisonment. But he is set free later and even then never contacts Ashleigh so she becomes traumatized, and reaches the age of 30 without ever being involved with another man - until she meets James again, Jake's brother. So because her biological clock is ticking and she does want to have a family she agrees to marry James even though she doesn't love him and doesn't think she can ever have that super duper physical passion & love she had for Jake. And yes, of course, there is a twist in the story as to why Jake did what he did, why James wanted to marry Ashleigh, etc. Even though the book was 86 pages long, they were able to put the whole story there and still be a little exciting.

The second story I actually skimmed. I didn't like the short synopsis and then when I started reading it, the heroine didn't seem appealing to me, she had glasses, and red hair, and I guess the author in my impression made her sound to be plain 0_0 I know, I'm shallow. And eh, anyway, the story didn't appeal to me. But what its about is that the hero Nicholas Thorne wants to avenge the fact that back when Vivian was 15 along with her sister drove a car and had an accident and the other car carried Nicholas, his pregnant wife and son. So now he wants revenge for that. Of course, all is not what it seems and there is a twist in the story - in Nicholas' case and Vivian's case. Anyway, I wasn't too emotionally involved in the characters so I gave it a 2 stars.