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Secret Kept From The Italian is a pretty gorgeous flirty cover that I read in paperback, Maisie Dobson is a night time cleaner on second floor of an office building, while at music school, I felt sorry for Maise, she has had a tough life with her parents dying suddenly, Maise has a kind heart she had to be a mother and father to her younger brother and he has made something of himself, While Maise is cleaning at the office building she gets talking to a good looking man, Antonio Rossi who is working late and drinking whiskey, But he's wealthy, powerful and can have any woman he wants, I like reading fiction novels about men who thinks they can have any woman that they want, but in real life I do hate it when men think that they can have any woman that they want.
Antonio came across to me as being inconsiderate to boast a bit too much to a young cleaner who is scrapping by about his wealth and that he has three homes a yacht and a private jet.
Beware a shocking scene is about to take place between Maise and Antonio Rossi, Loved this story with business mixing with flirting and more, I liked the woman and the guy was okay, I mean he wasn't vicious, just an idiot, The Italian's ruthless vow: he will claim his onenight baby!

Looking up from the table she's serving, waitress Maisie Dobson is horrified to meet the intense gaze of Antonio Rossi, merciless billionaire and father of her child! Rejected after one mindblowing night, Maisie kept her unexpected pregnancy a secret.
Antonio's determined to claim his daughter, but their connection reminds Maisie that she still has to protect her heart because billionaires don't wed waitresses, . . do they For once, this author didnt totally depress me, H/h had dueling backstories, though, Hero feels responsible for his brothers death since bro died when they were racing their cars, egged on by the hero, Heroines parents died when she wasand shes put everything on hold until her brother graduated from college,

They meet on the tenyear anniversary of the Hs brothers death, He is getting drunk in a borrowed office, she is cleaning to pay for her music course at Julliard, They have a onenight stand and the virgin heroine ends up pregnant, Hero pretends not to know her when she confronts him six weeks later,

He pretends not to know her, Let that sink in.

Heroine gives up on him and has her daughter on her own, She meets the hero while waitressing, three months after her daughters birth, The action then shifts to Italy where the hero has asked her to stay for six months so they can figure out what to do,

I liked this well enough, but the hero was a little too human for my tastes, He cries in the heroines arms twice, He is cowardly about his feelings, He isnt a bad guy just really messed up, I did feel for him but the heroine has way more patience than I do, Even when there is a crisis at the end of the story, heroine had to be the emotional rock, Im not sure how much of a partnership theyll have if the heroine has to do all of the heavylifting during a crisis, but hero makes a lot of money and is good in bed, so heroine seems happy.


I also wish there would have been some kind of reconciliation with the heros parents if not for the heros sake, but for their daughter.
She has no grandparents to spoil her, otherwise,
Cute read. Skanky dress thoat CVS Pharmacy. Maisie met Antonio while she worked as an office cleaner, It was the anniversary of his brothers death, They spoke a few sentences to each other, He offered her a drink, He was already mostly drunk, After the minimum of protest, she accepted the drink and then gave her virginity to a man she met ten minutes earlier,

Yeah.

Ok

She got pregnant from her one night stand, Went to Antonios office to tell him, Got the brush off. He pretended he didnt know her, She walked away hurt and humiliated,

A year later they met again while she was working as a waitress at a function he was attending, He remembered her then. Then he saw her with a baby that she handed off to some guy, He started doing mental calculations and realized that the baby might be his,

Yup. His baby.

Now hes making demands, She agrees to move to Italy formonths so he could get to know hismonth old daughter,

When they get there, Antonio becomes Dr Jekyll and Mr, Hyde. Sweet and kind one minute and cold and distant the next, He had issues surrounding his brothers death that a good therapist would have helped him resolve, But no, hes emotionally damaged and is making other lives misery because of it,

The book was ok, There was too much “hot and cold” by Antonio, Maisie was also too much of an enabler, She needs to stand up to Antonio and demand answers, Instead she let him walk all over her and then her all angry with her,

The book was ok, It didnt bore me to tears, I liked Maisie for the most part, The end of the last chapter was a bit sacchariney, Just too much sweet for me, Otherwise, I can recommend it,

Looking up from the table shes serving, waitress Maisie Dobson is horrified to meet the intense gaze of Antonio Rossi, merciless billionaire and father of her child! Rejected after one mindblowing night, Maisie kept her unexpected pregnancy a secret.
Antonios determined to claim his daughter, but their connection reminds Maisie that she still has to protect her heartbecause billionaires dont wed waitressesdo they "The Secret Kept from the Italian" is the story of Maisey and Antonio.


Hmmmm. . Nah.

In this tale, we have a h who is a cleaner and has a ONS with a very sad and drunk hero who's celebrating his late brother's death anniversary.
He pours his heart out to her, only to realize next morning, Oh shi!, bad Antonio and decides to ignore the heroine when she returns later with a life changing news.
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One year later, H finds the h again and realizes she has a baby, and ding ding, it is his, He soon cough forces cough coerces her to move to Milan with him, so they can have this shared custody agreement, but things become more complicated than what is expected.


Positives
One hot sex scene check
Cute baby Ella check
Occasional bursts of spine in h check

Now for the glaring negatives
OTT self pitying and whiny coward hero check
Emotionally blackmailing the wuss heroine check
Unsatisfying grovel check

Meh
SWE
/En realidad no lo estoy leyendo sino escuchando.
Luego les cuento por el momento ya saben un millonario, extranjero seduciendo una chica de la limpieza, Overall I never quite felt a love connection between Antonio's and Maisie , I felt the lust for sure and at times I felt like that was overdone.
I enjoyed this readstars
wanted more passion but it was good, It was missing something but I can't tell you what, I don't believe he would have ever looked for her so when they met again it was kind of fate I guess, I hated that he was so hot and cold to her but he did have some serious mental issues and survivors guilt to boot, He was racing his brother in cars when the brother crashed and died, His parents won't talk to him and he blames himself, The heroine meets him on the anniversary of his death, they have unprotected sex and she of course gets pregnant, She goes to tell him and he pretends he doesn't remember her, It was bad but it could have been much more dramatic I think with a different writer, One year later She sees him, he sees baby and he knows, He doesn't offer to marry her like HP guys usually do but wantscustody, He also tells her that she should have tried harder to tell him, I just wanted to smack him upside the head at that point, Plus of course while she was carrying his baby he was out playing international playboy even though it was starting to bore him, I just didn't feel their love, It was just meh. I wouldn't read it again, Mehh. . no connection I adored this story and I loved Maisie and Antonio, It was sensitive, emotional, moving and real,

Ivy H has written a superb review and I recommend you read it she says everything I wanted to say but so much better.


If the epilogue had been setyears down the road I would have given itbut Im knocking half a star off, I like this writer, I must read more of hers, Ivy has the definitive and beautiful review,

sitelink goodreads. com/review/show

My two cents,

Slow burn romance where Kate Hewitt throws away some of the more aggravating tropes in HPLand which is great, but does lower the angst and drama.


One, the heroine actually resists having sex a couple of times with the betadisguisedasalpha hero despite her attraction to him, YES! THANK YOU, KH! Finally a heroine who has a modicum of selfrespect,

Two, the hero does not slut shame, belittle, or rough up the heroine physically, emotionally or mentally,

Three, the little brother the heroine works hard to raise is actually appreciative and reciprocates in helping his big sis as much as he can.


Thoughts:

The H is a charmer, and our hardworking little virgin has a ONS with consequences, For once, the connection was believable rather than the author telling us how overwhelming the quivering loins were,

The hero has a major fail when he pretends not to know her when she comes to alert him to the consequences, This big fat fail lingered in my mind as well as the heroine, and she serves it back to him at an appropriate time,

He has a sad backstory which has prevented him from connecting with anyone since his family has ditched him, and the rest of the book is the push/pull on the part of the hero.
The push/pull results in the heroine verging on booty call material as he uses her as an anesthetic for his pain, but he gets over it.


Yes, it was missing some of the major drama you get in an HP, but it made it more of a real story than the regular HP tropes stamping through the weeds.


One issue that definitely needed to be developed before the epilogue was the H's parents, but we do get out HEA,

P. S.
I wonder if Kate Hewitt is a fan of Jacquiline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series as the heroine is called Maise Dobson, Very similar. .