book started strong but fell apart completely at the end, Uh the sister wants more money, . . and nothing is said about it at the end Please use force to get that baby away from her ABUSIVE mother! That's what ticked me off the most, This poor baby is in literal danger from it's mother and the heroine is all weepy about it, No, lets lock this uncle down and tell him that we need a game plan to make sure the sister NEVER sets eyes on the baby again, But terrible flat ending, which is sad because it was building to a good climax but it never got there, Good, entertaining read with lots of the traditional HP angst, My only complaint, is I think she forgave him way too easily, But this is HP land,
But the dynamics between the two, the baby, the evil twin sister were all very compelling and I found I couldn't put it down,
This book should be retitled The Twin from Hell,
SPOILERS AHEAD
Evil twin This chick is messed up! She is a true blue slut, Not just because she sleeps around at the speed of light, but because she is always looking for a return on her investment, She throws herself continuously at the heros brother, pokes holes in his condoms and proceeds to get pregnant, She wants to abort the the baby if she cant get cash for it, but the heroine convinces her to keep it, After having the baby she proceeds to harass the lover and his family to get money, The lover ends up dying in a car crash after evil twin visits him, Hes dead, so she goes after the dying dad, When she doesnt get the response she wants, she decides to haul her cookies to America for the new guy, leaving her baby to the heroine until she can essentially sell the baby to the highest bidder.
She has no maternal instincts what so ever and has even been abusive with her child,
Heroine is the good twin, pretends to be her nieces mother when the hero arrives to make claim of his dead brothers babythe only grandchild to bootThe heroine cant stand the thought of losing her beloved niece and takes
on the identity of the evil twin.
She also knows if the hero sees the bruises on the baby there is no chance in hellher sisters birthplace of having access to the child, So she acts the part of a manipulative, slutty, gold digging tramp so hero will believe shes the evil twin, She marries hero as a convenience and has to fork any money she gets to the evil twin or the evil twin will spill the beans,
Hero uncle to the plot moppet, hates the heroine with a vengeance and blames her for his brothers death, decides to marry heroine thinking she is mother to his nephew so he can have access to the baby and maybe eventually get custody.
it doesnt take long for the hero to start developing feelings for heroine, you see our heroine may have model worthy looks, but her acting skills are not on par with Meryl Streep.
She slips in and out of her role often, . . leaving the hero confused and wondering who the “real” Nina is, Heroine loses her virginity to hero, this is explained away as the heroine obviously had a difficult birth He feels guilty about this episode, because he probably felt he didnt need to be delicate with a woman who opens her legs with the same consistency as the automatic doors in a busy airport.
They overcome this and begin to have frequent love making sessions, . . all the while our heroine is still mum about her true identity,
The beans get spilled, . heroine was going to tell hero about her identity, but sex against the car temporarily silenced her, . . they go in the house to be greeted by the evil twin, . . who goes out of her way to make the heroine look just as money grubbing, In a moment of anger, because of the heroines betrayal, he tells her he wants her gone in the morning, While he is hashing out the particulars with the evil twin, our heroine sneaks away into the night and heads back home, Once the hero gets the evil twin out of the house, he goes to heroine quickly only to find she has left, After a few days apart, the heroine returns to the hero where they declare their undying love and plan to adopt the niece, unfortunately until the papers are signed, they keep paying the evil twin who really needs to reunite with Hades and disappear!
I like StMargarets review and some of the implausible things that come up.
First of all, there is no doubt in my mind that our extremely wealthy hero wouldnt had used his ultra talented super sleuthers to uncover everything there was to uncover about our heroine.
. . a twin would have been discovered! I also wasnt a fan that the heroine kept the secret that long!!! It got annoying, I am wondering if the story could have been angstier if this secret had been discovered earlier, Ive read last year. It was around,stars. Good one
Nina And Marc are lovely characters, They both love each other yet there is an invisible wall in between them that was nothing but a pure mask of lies,
I could help but wonder how similar these two are , As they would describe , A match made in heaven, Soulmates perhaps.
I wish the ending lasted a little long , It was too soon of her to forgive him so easily , of course there is no mistake of his but still I longed for a lil more romantic ending and perhaps an epilogue with a pregnant Nina and a happy Georgia in Marc's lap.
Sigh The entire premise of this story rests on the heroine pretending to be her evil identical twin in order to be with her sisters baby, Its the worst kind of idealism since the sister is still alive and the heroine has no legal right to the baby, The gig will be up eventually its just a matter of when,
The hero is the babys uncle, his brother is dead after he and his fiancée were killed in a car accident, The brother never acknowledged his child and the evil twin behind the scenes is working on selling her four month old to the highest bidder,
Enter the hero who has the bright idea of marrying the mother of the baby a woman he calls a whore and a golddigger in order to have custody of the child.
Cause mean old dad is dying and the baby is the only thing left of his favorite son,
So H/h marry with the heroine being the worst liar who lies and the hero who believes her, What happened to the alpha billionaires who are suspicious of everyone, who have private investigators on speed dial, who have their minions follow the heroine around The heroine goes to work at her job as a librarian and after being caught tells the hero she is trying to improve herself.
For eight hours. And the hero shrugs it off,
Ow!
My mind,
It is boggled.
Other great heroine excuses for her behavior versus her sisters
Pregnancy hormones
Grief from mother dying
Postpregnancy hormones
Sudden need for selfimprovement
Love of Berlitz tapes has given her fluency in Italian in just a few months.
Language teachers hate her
Her virginity after giving birth is explained as the magic of Caesarean Post birth stitching I dont know, I was too far in the land of makebelieve to take it all in,
Honestly, the twins in the Parent Trap had more sophisticated lies,
The gig is up when
And the evil twin gets off scotfree with no comeuppance and a huge cash settlement, She will be back because beta hero and delusional heroine havent filed a restraining order, Shell be threatening to tell the baby that her “mommy and daddy” are really her aunt and uncle, etc, . . Or shell go to the tabloids or some other diabolical plan,
Romance authors, contain your OWs if you want a believable HEA! Although, to be fair, there wasnt much that was believable in this story,
Still, I kept reading and yes, I was entertained by the silliness, "Nina's been left holding the baby, now her evil twinwho attempted to trap a wealthy playboy by getting pregnanthas passed away, " WARNING: The first sentence is this book description is either extremely misleading or downright wrong, I kept waiting for Nina to find out that her sister was dead, Never happened. The baby's father, not mother, has passed away,
First off, contrary to Goodread's and Amazon's summary, Nina's twin is not dead, nor does it ever suggest in the book that she is, In fact, Nadia is very much alive and is determined to cause all kinds of trouble throughout the book,
This was a good story of Nina pretending to be her twin so the baby's uncle will accept her as Georgia's mother, Nina is determined to protect the baby from her mother, Nadia, at any cost even marriage to Marc, the uncle, who loathes Nadia for killing his brother, I was in the mood for hating someone so I thought a book with a twin evil sister would do the trick, . . And it did!
I won't even start with the legal or better say illegal and illogical side of everything happening in this book, but if you omit it you can enjoy the story like I did.
You get a mean H, but he did have very good reason for being mean to Nadia, problem was Nina made him think she was evil Nadia,
I loved Nina especially when she gave Marc pains in you know where,
Nadia was everything you wish for, . . In a character to hate,
The plot moppets were nicely used,
Only problem was the lack of epilogue I was very pleased with this book! My five might be a little generous let that in no way belittle the book, it just didn't hit all the buttons some otherstar reads did but I gave the extra star because the author went where no HP has ever gone before.
. .
Dum dum dum,
Our heroine wait for it explored herself!!!! Shrieks of puritanical horror!!! No, just kidding, I loved this! HP heroines NEVER master their baits spelled incorrectly to throwoff any visiting minors wouldn't want any googling hehe leading to a blindness epidemic now, would we Now, while the book doesn't say this outright, it does allude strongly enough that I can't see how I could have possibly misread it.
Hurray! That's the first I've ever seen it in an HP holla if you have, and which book and it's about time, I like stories about innocent heroine's, I prefer the first love last love aspect, but what nonreligious prude who doesn't have hangups because of possible past trauma doesn't, . . ahem!
Another thing, there were scenes in this story that reminded me of the romance we read HP's for, Case in point, Nina is seeing her period and having major cramps and, even though there is a very present, though slightly cooling, war between them, he takes her into his bed the first time since they married and just holds her.
. . and kisses her and strokes her and tells her he doesn't mind bodily functions :O WHAAAAT Yes folks, one more groundbreaking declaration in the samek words HP! On the side, forgive me for sounding impossibly innocent, but do people actually do that Like, people who aren't Bill Clinton or don't do it for kinks No judging, I just want to know if it's normal practice.
Anyway, loved the hero, loved the heroine, hated the gawdawful twinsister, and absolutely adored baby Georgia, I usually don't notice the kids too much in these babymamma drama novels, but this fourmonth old had a definite presence,
Thanks Ms. Milburne. I needed this as a palate cleanser after reading sitelinkThe Odds Against, a book so disappointing I must malign it in two reviews,
P. S.
This was a rather long review for me, HMMM where is my epilogue !' Harlequin has tentatively arrived in thest century, The hero is still allowed to have episodes of chauvinistic asshattery equating promiscuity with prostitution demanding celebacy from his brideofconvenience without willingness to do the same but now the outspoken heroine calls him out on it and makes him see reason.
This actually sounds more terrible than it was because the hero turned out to be a relatively sensible, sensitive and caring guy,
There was a small problem with the fact that he falls for her while she plays the role of her superficial twinsister, She lets her real persona slip once in a while and he picks up on it but I would have liked to see them interact as themselves more before the big ILY.
Nevertheless this was a decent variation of a story told abouttimes before and I enjoyed it,
As all Harlequins are practically the same I thought I try a visual review for once:
Reread
It was just as good as the first and second reread.
Loved the story one of my favourites
by this author, I wish the title was different though other than that love the cover and story! Good premise but bad execution, The story reminds me a bit of baby of shame, one of the best harlequin I have read, but the plot doesn't make a lick of sense here, It is so contrived I cannot understand of imagine a person will act like that given their personality,
The h is ridiculous right off the bat, I have no idea why she agreed to the deal at all, She doesn't have the right to keep the child, so going into it knowing what the H wants is just so absolutely wrong, I can understand her stalling but cannot understand her agreeing, Her acting like her twin is just as ridiculous, considering she doesn't know anything about being a seductress, I don't get why she does it when her twin is so anal and it doesn't endear her much nor does it help convince the H that she is a fit mother.
The whole thing will make more sense if she stalls till forced by the twin later, All through the book she is more or less a doe caught in the car light, always got caught in this one lie and afraid of being found out, There is no room to show her personality much besides being a good nanny, just a glimpse of it when H has family issues, but all these are only brief sentences, so I can hardly connect well with her.
Her twin also doesn't make much sense, If all she wants is a meal ticket, it will seem more likely she take over the h's place right from the start instead of chasing after another maybe,
Now the H is a decent guy, Though again with so much focus on the h there is hardly any glimpse of him to know what type of hubby he will be, Seems we don't even see him being tender or loving to the h much, We just know he is great with kids and loves the h being in his bed, His outburst blaming his dad also doesn't make sense, Dude you have been the meek son for years, so why would you upset your dad when he has only a short time left to live weird, . .
Even the reconciliation scene is bad, I think I will feel better if H actually locate h and confess his feelings, instead of h running back to do do, And considering how evil the twin is, I would definitely feel better if she got her comeuppance instead of her ultimate millions, I really am real upset about that, Since she is such an unfit mother, there is no chance any sane court will grant her custody anyways, so no idea why both h and H got their hands tied and it just makes me real mad and think both real weak.
I think this could have been a great book of more time is spent on the relationship instead of h freaking out then making out with H every other page.
I have no idea that people can fall for others because they are great parent, just absolutely weird reason, They hardly spend time together and most of them are bickering or having their tongues in each other's mouth, so again I don't get why all of a sudden they are in love, especially when h kept up the bitchy personality according to H's confusion, so I don't even know if the H is falling for a real person or not.
This is not a good one in my book,