A powerful lawyer with the perfect homelife gets addicted to the dangerous side of sex and seduces his grateful female clients. Then his luck runs out and he is brutally attacked. After he comes home from the hospital, he finds he is a stranger to his wife, his family, and himself. He wants to repent, but will his wife ever learn to trust him again?.
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The Crighton family gathers for a second go-round (after The Perfect Family), this time featuring Max, the rottenest apple in the Crighton barrel. A sadistic, abusive, profoundly unlikable lawyer, Max thinks of female divorce clients as fodder for his bedroom, and infants as blind kittens to be drowned. He tells his wife, Maddy, that he closes his eyes and thinks about her trust fund whenever they make love. When Max goes off to Jamaica, supposedly to find his brother, David (who disappeared in the previous book), Maddy gets a taste of independence. A brutal attack and near-death experience bring Max a spiritual awakening that changes his life and gives Maddy renewed hope for their future together. Unfortunately, Max's metamorphosis will likely come too late for readers; forgiving him, and learning to like him, are impossible, so convincing is Jordan's portrait of his earlier, distasteful personality.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Perfect Sinner (Paperback)
The Perfect Sinner is perfectly awful. The author spends over 100 pages going on and on what a jerk Max is and what a wimp his wife is. By this point you would wonder why on earth she would ever want him back. The plot is confusing with too many characters to keep track of and lacks emotional depth. I can't believe this got published.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A dissapointment...,
This review is from: The Perfect Sinner (Paperback)
This is my first Penny Jordan book and the only reason that I'll read another one is because I bought two at the same time. Max Crighton doesn't love anyone but himself. He doesn't love his wife, nor his two children, Leo and Emma. He's told his wife, Maddy, several times that the only reason that he married her was because of her money and the connections her family gave him as a lawyer. That all changes in a trip to Jamacia to look for his uncle David. While there, Max is brutally attacked and 'sees the light' where his wife and children are concerned. He even sees everything that is wrong with his relationship with his parents. Maddy Crighton has her love for her children to sustain her. When Max leaves to Jamacia, she realizes that she never loved the person that Max truly was, just the illusion of him. When he comes back 'different' Maddy is unsure of whether to trust this extrodinary change that she sees in Max. It's true that he seems to really love his children, but Maddy isn't sure that she can risk her heart again, no matter how much he is changed. The Perfect Sinner is a totally unrealistic book. Not even really a romance novel, these characters make me want to scream. No one as abusive and cruel as Max can 'reform' as quickly as he did and all of a sudden decide that he's loved his wife all along but didn't want to admit it. Even if he did love her, no one that loves someone treats them like Max treated Maddy. I could understand why Maddy stayed married to him, but I think that it took her way to long to get a backbone. Overall, I was very dissapointed with this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a Jerk!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Perfect Sinner (Paperback)
Okay, one would have to be a masochist to like the character Max! He was a complete creep and he made me want to deck him. His poor wife Maddy should have dumped him way, way before his reformation. By the time he was left for dead on the beach, he made me hope that he would push up daisies and that Maddy could get on with her life. The thing about this book, though, is that it stays with you. A lot of the romance books that I read, I can't remember the plot, let alone the characters in the books. This book hits on some very uncomfortable emotions and I think that you either like it or hate it, no in-between. What this book does do is make an impact. Quite frankly, after I read this book, I started reading Penny Jordan again. I hated Max but loved the book! This is a good book to read on a stormy night
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