Pick Up Seducing His Convenient Innocent Authored By Rachael Thomas Displayed As EPub

"Seducing His Convenient Innocent" by Rachael Thomas Lysandros Drakakis and pianist Rio Armstrong have a strong attraction to each other but the one night they were going to commit Xena knew that Rio and her brother Lysandros belonged together, but never told him about what kept them apart.
Know they meet again in because Xena has been in a car accident and doesn't remember them breaking up.
A fake engagement to appease his family, and to help her best friend possibly remember brings them close again.
Lysandros needs to trust that a woman will not cheat on him, and Rio needs to just trust again.

The Greeks terms

She must wear his diamond!

Lysandros Drakakis always gets what he wants, and hes never stopped wanting beautiful pianist Rio Armstrong! A fake engagement to please his family is the perfect opportunity to uncover why she walked away from their powerful connectionand indulge their stillsizzling desire under the Mediterranean sun.
But Rios heartbreaking revelation changes the stakeshes given her his ring, yet now Lysandros finds himself wanting to give Rio everything SEDUCING HIS CONVENIENT INNOCENT by author Rachael Thomas is a Marchrelease by Harlequin Presents series.


When without letting him know the reason, Rio Armstrong broke off her date with Lysandros Drakakis, he was determined to find out why.


His chance came when his sister lost her memory and believed Rio and Lysandros to be still together.
So he asked Rio to become his fake fiancée till his sister recovered her memory, But the chemistry still flaring up between them makes Lysandro want it all to be real, And when Rio finally told Lysandro her heartbreaking secret, he got determined to make it all right for her.


SEDUCING HIS CONVENIENT INNOCENT is filled with emotion that will make your heart ache and then rejoice.
Author Rachael Thomas has done a fabulous job in bringing Rio and Lysandros together, Like all her books, it was hard to put down, The story line had plenty of twists and turns and the characters were well developed, Romantic but also haunting. I loved it and can't wait for her next book,

Highly recommended for all readers of romance,
An intriguing tale with all kinds of emotional twists and turns along the way! Ok,./Ehhhhhh. I was somewhat surprised by how "soft" the hero in this was, In the first scene, the author described him as "gentle" and "tender" and other related adjectives SO many times.
Which is a nice foil to the asshole who sexually assaults the heroine in the first scene, Overall, this was kind of boring, though, The story is okay, not that good amd not bad either, The heroine and the hero met because his sister was her bestfriend, they had relationship for awhile without sex, but then suddenly she ended it because she

was assaulted and almost raped.
They got back together because his sister got into an accident, Inocencia Y Placer Versión Ugh, Though the story has potential, the writing is awful, Dialog is frequently stilted and the narrative rough, Seducing His Convenient Innocent by Rachael Thomas is an enjoyable slow burn romance between an accomplished pianist and the wealthy Greek man who falls for her beauty and talent.


Rio Armstrong is ready to take the next step in her budding relationship with Greek businessman Lysandros Drakakis, brother of her best friend Xena when an attempted assault causes her to pull back, not just from him, but from her music.
She breaks things off with him, and it would have stayed that way except that a car accident injures Xena and she rushes to her side.


Xena has amnesia from the accident and doesnt remember what happened to Rio, or that Rio and Lysandros are no longer together.
When she sees them both in her hospital room, they pretend to be a couple, not wanting to risk further trauma to Xena.
When Lysandros wants to take Xena back home with him to Greece to recuperate, he insists that his girlfriend accompany them, and Rio cant refuse.
She feels badly for not having had the courage to confide in Lysandros about why she broke things off, and the recurring PTSD she still has from the assault.
Will being with him again, pretending to be in a relationship, give her the strength to tell him the truth and give them a second chance

For more of this review please visit Harlequin Junkie: sitelink com/reviewse

A copy of this story was provided by the publisher for review, I really hate to write negative reviews and that's why I end up shelving some books as "DNF" and storing them on my shelves under "not for me personally".
But sometimes, unfortunately, I will read a novel and find so many things wrong with it that I'm duty bound to write a review.


This novel was more like a Harlequin Presents fan fiction story and a B one at that rather than a real HPlandia romantic escapist fantasy.
There were quite a few things wrong with this book and so much that was lacking:

.
What shall I say about the style of writing Well, it's competent rather than evocative and at times seemed immature.


. The prose Basic rather than emotive, And that part really bugged me, because I'm an emotional reader, who needs to forge a connection to the MC's.
There were also a couple of sentence fragment errors that popped up,

. The author's descriptive skills need to be developed, I finished reading this book and my sensory/imaginary perception of what I'd just read was terribly lacking.
I couldn't even get a clear image in my head of what both MC's looked like, The author kept repeating that the H was sexy, had black hair, dark eyes and a firm jaw while the heroine had long hair, soft brown eyes and was beautiful.
This is a very generic and amateurish description, I expect more from an HP author,

. There was ZERO world building aka minimal attention paid to setting details , I know this should not be a huge deal, because HP novels aren't massive sagas but many other authors manage to give readers a few interesting, specific details that tell us a little about the setting/country/environment etc.
The story started out in London, then it moved to Greece and I couldn't really tell that the setting had actually changed much.
The author only mentioned some stuff about the beach, the waves, the yacht, the sand etc but I could not visualize the setting ! I don't even know why the author chose to move the setting from London to Greece, when all the conversations seemed as if they occurred in one room.
LOL.

. The dialogue was bland, boring, stiff, at times unrealistic and very forced, On many occasions, the MC's kept talking in circles and even thinking in circles ! The MC's spoke in a robotic manner to each other they didn't speak the way real people do.
And, when they did talk to each other, the content of their conversations was supremely BORING and repetitive.
Here's an example:

Example:

She swung back to face him, Is this really the way to help Xena

It is the only way to help Xena.
. .


Now, I don't know if anyone has noticed it as yet, but wouldn't it have been more economical for the author to have the H respond with a "Yes", rather than to repeat the heroine's comment And, yes, I can see how hilarious it is that I'm the person talking about "economical writing.
" LOL.

I can provide many more examples of this but I need to move on with this review.
The fact is: the storytelling sucked !




As everyone can clearly see, the doggy is reluctant to give a highor even a "thumbs" up for this novel !


Now, on to storyline issues that annoyed me:

.
There was too much emphasis placed on the H's sister Xena, It almost seemed as if her little love story with a married man was almost as important as the MC's romance.
This woman was the heroine's best friend, Xena had been having an affair with a married man named Ricardo, Xena knew he had a wife and still had an affair with him, Why Because he claimed his marriage was over blah blah blah, . . the usual shit that cheating husbands say when they're too much of a weasly scumbag pussy coward to go get a divorce before they start to fuck other women.


As you guys can guess, I have a very low opinion of that skank Xena because no woman with an ounce of integrity will knowingly have sex with a married man.
A woman with integrity will wait until he's divorced, I understand that marriages break up and people fall out of love, I have no problems with divorce, A human being has one life to live and if that person isn't happy with his/her partner then it's only fair that he/she moves on to find happiness elsewhere.
My parents got divorced and lived happy lives without each other, but at least they got divorced before one of them actually cheated !

I hate cheaters and I despise people Xena who enable them with their cheating.
As far as I'm concerned, Xena can go suck a dismembered dick,leagues under the sea during hurricane season ! That didn't happen in the book, unfortunately, because Ricardo divorced his wife, married Xena and they end up expecting a baby.



. I felt that the romantic storyline with the MC's was too tepid, They were both likable characters but I couldn't enjoy their romance because the writing was so basic and limited in scope.
I tried to feel some affection for the H Lysandros and the heroine Rio but I couldn't, They didn't seem like real people, In order words, they were like card board characters or robots, I wanted to root for Rio after she'd been assaulted by that jerk Hans but the writing was just not leading me in that direction.
It kinda made me feel bad, because it's instinctive to feel sympathy for a fellow woman who's almost been raped.
My brain felt sorry her but my emotions just couldn't be engaged with the way the story unfolded.


. The sex scenes were mechanical and not passionate at all, I actually kept reading and started a new chapter before I realized that Rio had just lost her virginity to the H ! LOL.
I am not lying ! Seriously, LOL. My eyes were seeing words but my mind was bored, so nothing registered, It was only when a new chapter started and the H went to get "more" condoms that I had to go back and see if they'd already had sex for the first time !



Anyway, I don't think I shall be reading anymore HP's by this author.
has just started and I've already added to my "author to avoid" list ! I guess Rachael Thomas will have to go spend time with Louise Fuller, Cathy Williams, Susan Stephens, Jennifer Hayward and the other sleeping pills on my "not for me personally" bookshelf.
LOL.



For those readers who want to give this novel try, I will still provide safety information.


Safety: No cheating, no OM, no OW, the heroine was a virgin, both MC's were celibate during theirweek separation and the H was a reformed manwhore.


And now that I've done yapping my mouth off, I'm just gonna shut up and relax !

Beautiful pianist Rio finds herself falling in love with her best friend's brother, the powerful shipping magnate Lysandros.
On the very night that she decides to give herself to him, she is assaulted by another man, and it traumatizes her to the point where she breaks things off with Lysandros completely, unable to give him an explanation as to why.
Six weeks later, her BFF Xena is in a terrible car accident, resulting in amnesia, Lysandros asks Rio to accompany Xena back to Greece to help her recover, and proposes that they enter into a fake engagement to surround Xena with happiness, coaxing her memory back.
Once she recovers, they'll break up for good, . . if they can.

This is my first HQN "Presents," and it's obvious from the start that this is a line of pure fantasy, with glitz, glamour, drama, and foreign accents.
Everyone is impossibly rich and cultured, and live their lives on a completely different planet that us mere mortals.
Alpha males and innocent girls abound, matched together in purely ludicrous circumstances, This sort of thing has limited appeal for me, but I am a sucker for secondchance romances, so I pulled the trigger on this book, and its tropey goodness did not let me down.


Sometimes you just have to meet a novel where it is, and adjust your expectations accordingly.
This is not the best story I've ever read, or the best treatment of any of these tropes.
It is very simply plotted and very simply written, with an almost irritating emphasis on Rio's "innocence" and her virginity and how cold and emotionally unavailable Lysandros is, but when the writer gets out of her own way, she weaves an emotional story about two people who are afraid of putting themselves out there and being rejected.
It is a base fear that we all have, so watching it play out not once, but twice over, is alluring.


This is pure idfic, and on that level, it works, It satisfies a craving for my favorite guilty pleasures, Sometimes you just have a fever, and the only solution is more cowbell, .