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2.0 out of 5 stars
Too bad you can't flog people any more, July 11, 2010
Raffaelle the hero in this story is a schmuck. No questions, doubts or arguments. While Lana the heroine, is a little too naive for her own good, I could empathize with her problems and felt badly for her.
As other's have mentioned the plot, I won't rehash it. I will say that Raff's decision for vengeance is completely stupid. If he was so concerned with his sister's adulterous affair and was convinced that Lana was holding up the divorce, why in THREE years did he never confront Lana? And what kind of stereotypical Italian male, as he appears to be in every other way, would let his spoilt baby sister be in an adulterous affair to begin with?
The reasoning in the plot was idiotic and Raff's actions were just plain spitefull and cowardly. I understand grief does crazy things to people, but how much of a brilliant businessman could he be if he couldn't even investigate what was really going on with his sister and her lover in three years. Obviously, he must have had really good people working for him, otherwise he would be totally broke.
I admit, I love my share of bad boys in romance novels, but Raff isn't bad he is just stupid, spitefull and petty. Keelhauling is probably too good for him. My only hope for the unbelievable HEA was that Lana would eventually see a therapist to get over her distressing taste in men and kick him to the gutter, where he belonged.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
HIGHLY SUSPECT, August 25, 2007
[grin] I own it but not for long.
Why did Raffaelle Rossellini allow his bull headed little sister have an affair with a married man? Do the Italians think this is normal?
He wants revenge because Lana Whittaker would [suppossedly]not give her husband a divorce. Was she just a trophy wife? I don't think that her husband thought her rich father would cut her off.
Now he has betrayed Lana [maybe because she couldn't have any children] and he didn't want to adopt. Kyle was full of lies.
Marie Rossellini was only portrayed as a victim by her brother. But where was her responsibility? She appears to be one spoiled young lady.
Well Rossellini and Lana were very skillfully brought to bed despite their antagonism - but you know, I would have recognized all of the working body parts and their functions without such graphic details. Again the hormones rule.
Passionate and Provocative - oh well, if you say so. Tsk! Tsk!
Not exactly a miss but not a hit either. I could have given another star for the cover but that wouldn't prove anything.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hard premise to understand, August 15, 2007
I read this book mainly based on the premise and trying to understand how it would work. I mean, a husband is having an affair, there's an accident in which he dies and the mistress is in a coma. And her brother is all set to destroy the wife? Why? Isn't she an innocent party in all this? Shouldn't you be angry with the guy who's cheating? And yet, the hero(?) not only intensely dislikes the wife, but blames her for the accident AND sets out to destroy her financially. All a bit over the top to avenge his sister and her love of a married man.
Suffice to say the author answers these issues, but I still didn't like it. The hero took what the husband said at face value and never tried to verify it, although early on you find out the affair had been going on for three years! And yet, this brilliant, successful, rich guy did nothing to check to make sure that the story the husband was saying was true. He knew the guy was married and yet he did nothing. His guilt over not protecting his sister was understandable. But I could not get past the fact that he, again brilliant, successful, rich, did not do anything to check out the story. (Maybe talk to the wife and try to buy her off?). Nope, he did absolutely nothing during the course of the long affair. I had a hard time overcoming that entire issue. Yea, finally near the end the hero realizes he took things at face value and never questioned but I found it a bit late for that not to mention hard to swallow given his overwhelming success in business and the fact he loved his sister so much (but, again, did not do a single thing to investigate the MARRIED man she was having an affair with).
The only plus is I did like the chemistry between the two characters.
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