Review: We get our cherry popping sex and Rafe is pretty good with the vagina clenching one liners
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
I know what you're thinking because I was thinking it too ." I hope he chains her a$$ up in the basement and she gets Stockholm syndrome," but I think we can clearly tell from the cover that's not what we'll be getting here. I went into this one knowing I was getting a sappy gooey pile of love and I was ready to roll around in it.Cat grew up knowing that she had been promised to marry Rafael Renaldi. While the notion is outdated and no one would really hold them to it, she had always been drawn to Rafael so she never protested the contract. As she grew older and started to see the world through not such naive eyes, she began to question if she should really marry him. It wasn't because she didn't like the idea of being with him, but more not wanting to end up in an unfaithful, empty marriage like her parents because it is well known that Rafael liked the ladies... I know another manslut *rolls eyes*Rafe has always liked the idea of marrying Cat and is even a little in love with her. Now he feels she is grown up and I guess he is done "sowing his wild oats" and he's come to claim his bride. Cat isn't quite ready yet because she has been having second thoughts so she asked Rafe for another year and he reluctantly agrees. When the year is up he returns to claim what he hopes is his "perfect, quiet, submissive little wife" and lucky for us she isn't quite that.I wasn't sure how Cat's character was going to be at first. Our first real look at her, her sister is being a total b!tch to her and she is pretty much just taking it. Cat's sister is adamant about her not marrying Rafe and is always chirping in her ear about how horrible of a man he is while secretly masturbating to thoughts of her having his babies... well that's what I'm guessing she is doing because she clearly wants him.This made me worry Cat was going to let Rafe just walk all over her. But she doesn't and she comes out swinging thinking the same motherflipping thing I had been. She asks him flat out if he has been faithful to her during their engagement. Of course he hasn't so she calls it all off. Rafe is more devastated by this than he thought he would be and is surprised he actually likes this feisty side to Cat. He decides he must win her back and makes a plan..... he drugs her, shoves her in the trunk of his car, and takes off! Ok.. Ok.. I'm joking. He sneaks into her room and talks her into coming back to the states with him in his luxury plane.Once in New York, Rafe slowly starts to show Cat that a marriage to him will be loving and completely faithful. This is where you get all your sappy sweetness you're looking for and I did rather enjoy it. We also get our hot, virgin, cherry popping sex and Rafe is pretty good with the vagina clenching one liners. Most of the story is a pretty drama free, laid back read. We hit a bit of cray cray with the sister, but eventually we get our happily ever after.I think I would have enjoyed this book overall more if it wasn't for the man-whoreness. I get that a young man growing up would not have kept it in his pants all these years, plus she still needed to grow up because there was a small age difference.... I get that. I really do. What I don't get is was he faithful during that year he was waiting for her? Or even when he really started thinking about taking her as a wife? I REALLY wish the author would have clarified that in some way with a passion filled scene, but it never came. This bugged me and I never felt like this subject matter was pulled back around for me. When I finished this question was still on my mind and it killed some of that oh so sappy that I wanted from a book like this. If you're going to do a sappy as hell book then hit me with a sappy all the way around book or get the hell out of my sappy a$$ kitchen (no one count the sappies in this review!) I think if maybe Cat would have gotten some action in her past I wouldn't have been so hung up on this, but I'm so sick on the virgin girl waiting around for the man-whore to finish getting his D-wet. Chicks need some action too!While this story line was better than the first in the series, I still think I like the first couple more. I will say I'm invested in this family now so I will be checking out the next.Mistress M