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The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress (Harlequin Presents)

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While reading The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress, I felt I was on an emotional roller coaster. It's passionate, sensitive, and emotional; it's Jane Porter, at her best! This book was exceptional because it shared and described emotions women feel and men or some men never admit. Passion, lust, attraction, hurt, anger, betrayal and secrets. However, the emotional ride reading The Sicilian's Defiant Mistress was well worth it!

Max and Cass are dynamite, dynamic, sensual, volatile, passionate, and explosive is all I can say. I read this in one sitting and when finished, I felt emotionally drained yet privileged to have read such a wonderful and incredible story.

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Cass can't continue with a relationship that involves just her body when her heart is breaking.... But the deal she made with Sicilian tycoon Maximos Borsellino was for sex - and when that fails to be enough for Cass, Maximos ends the affair. Cass is completely destroyed. Worse, she discovers she's pregnant

Cass was Maximos mistress for several years when she decides she wanted more. It was not the plan so they part ways. Six month later she shows up to a wedding with Maximos slimy enemy. My first take of Cass was that she is pathetic and a lunatic to show up just for closure. Maximos had his own secrets too that just keeps unraveling. The dialoge was repetitive in regards to how she should of expect more from him and how she was leaving when she never does..I am partial to books where the heroine has a backbone. At the end the Maximos cries to keep Cass that made it better considering she was the one pleading and crying throughout the book...

For nearly three years Cassandra had been the weekend fling girl for Maximos, until the night she'd dared to ask for more by confessing she loved him. He'd walked out and never come back.

Six months later she shows up with his worst enemy at his sister's wedding in order to find closure for herself. At this point her life is a mess, she couldn't get over him and to make matters worse she'd found out she was pregnant not long after he'd abandoned her, only to find out that the baby was abnormal without a hope of surviving. She'd wound up miscarrying and almost lost her own life as well.

The story itself follows Cass while she tries to figure out her life and discovers some home truths about herself. It's very up and down because she's not an emotionally stable person, but the author paints the picture so well that you feel for her character and just want her to have a happy ending.

The problem is Maximos. The only pain it seems that he's really felt is the fact that his wife had been tricked by his business partner into trying to kill him and the baby that she carried wasn't his..probably.

There was no part of Cassandra's life that he didn't manage to destroy, love, children and her job, not out of revenge, not for any reason than the fact that he didn't know or care enough about her to realise how much he was destroying her.

Whenever she came to the point where she was through, where she realised that it was over and was going to leave and put her life back together, he dragged her back to him, only to completely undermine her again.

When we finally come to the end of the book, his explanation for why he was so cruel to her during their almost three year relationship was so out of the ballpark unemotional that it's hard to believe that he really cared.

I was very impressed with Jane Porter because of the simple fact that I was so invested in the character of Cassandra that I was happy that she managed to get a happy ending, despite the fact that I wished Maximos could have been a more sympathetic character. Because of the size of a harlequin presents book, I'd also like to think that some of the plot holes for the character of Maximos are entirely the fault of editing.

If, at some time during the book, Maximos had been shown to understand the torment that Cassandra had gone through, or the horrible things he'd done to her, and possibly felt bad or guilty, this book would have become an instant five stars. Instead the book ended with myself feeling that he'd selfishly taken whatever he wanted and he never really 'got' the fact that he hurt other people along the way.

I strongly agree with the reviewer that compared this book with a ride on a roller coaster! Cassandra is a lovely character that has gone through a lot. At first, I was mad at Max, but the way the author made up for him towards the end was great. You truly get to put yourself in his place and understand. I loved that Cassandra finally learned to stand up for herself. I could not put it down; the day I read this book no one at home got my attention. I strongly recommend it.

I love Jane Porter, but the heroine in this book really disappointed me. I mean, cmon! The guy cheated on his wife, and she was in a coma..! I thought the heroine was pathetic, weak woman. She went back to him even though he betrayed her so many times. He basically forced her to admit she still loved him. The ending was also a little corny (not the black and white wedding theme, I actually think that's cute)..Overall, I think this was a good book but not I would read over and over again.

Great story with loveable characters..towards the end to have a man cry for his woman its worth the read..I enjoy reading it there were highs and lows that they both went through but it came out wonderfully towards the end...


WARNING if you don't like constant arguing between couples then isn't for you...in this book they are trying to resolve the past to move on to the future hence the arguing



Good read..

Where do I start? Yeah, the heroin crashes the Hero's sister's wedding accompanied with another unwelcome guest (the Hero's worst enemy) and pretends to be his fiancé in order to get revenge on the hero. WHO DOES that? WHo goes on uninvited at someone else's wedding? huh? So she crashes the wedding, take note that the author wants us to believe her crashing the Hero's sister's wedding shows that the heroin (Cass) is somehow "tough". Good Lord no! It only showed how unstable and lunatic the heroin is really is. Once she appeared at the hero's foe' arms and crashes the party, she enters in a litany of whining and asking (not asking, begging) the hero to explain to her why he dumped, why she wasn't good enough for him, why he never presented her to his family, why Santa doesn't exist...etc BS.

The saddest part if not the most pathetic part was when the hero asked her to leave his sister's party, She said "NO" (I almost felt embarrassed) saying that she was there to stay and to get answers for him. HAHAHAHAHAHA ! Seriously? Sweetie, you aren't invited.

No woman with an ounce of self esteem would show up uninvited at a family event to beg for answers.

Only because I didn't mind the Hero, I give this book one star if not I would have given it zero. While really the book, I came to wonder why the hero would be attracted to someone as lunatic as the heroin.

first: I don`t usually cry when I read these books but when I read Jane Porter`s The Sicilian`s defiant mistress tears run through my cheeks...it was so full of emotions...I really lived through Cass`s pain...
second: Max`s excuse for doing what he did wasn`t enough. It was a disappointment though afterwards I think he loved Cass VERY VERY MUCH!
third: I think the story is worth 4 stars but because of its unique quality (Casses emotions` very talented description) I gave it all 5 stars : )