Review: I enjoyed the story line.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
The story line was interesting and a bit funny at times and I enjoyed it. This was the second book I have read by Elizabeth Lennox. The other book was The Tycoon's Marriage Exchange. The main characters from that book Kallista and Hector have a cameo appearance in this book which was nice.Sasha is a painter who meets Dante while dropping off her paintings to an art gallery owner name Robert. Well its love at first sight for Dante and he asked her to dinner but Sasha's doesn't want to go out with him. Anyway Dante shows up at her loft for the date that Sasha doesn't want to go on. One thing leads to another and within a month or so they get married. Dante turns into a nightmare husband. He leaves her on her own and then accuses her of having an affair with his brother. Who by the way I was thinking the brother was gay by the way the author wrote his story line. He didn't bother to verify all the facts. It was like he didn't really want to be married to her and was looking for an easy escape. He worked late hours for no reason didn't believe Sasha when she told him his mother mistreated her regularly. Sasha leaves Dante to start over since he doesn't want their marriage anyway.When the story starts it's a year later and Sasha has turned into a lonely depressed, broken down woman basically a former shell of herself. Who just sets in her cottage out in gods nowhere painting and wants little social interaction. Even her art gallery friend Robert worries about her health because she's lost a lot of weight since her break up. Well one day out of the blue her ex honey Dante shows up on her doorstep asking for her to come with him because his granny is sick. He doesn't ask her politely he just demands that she go with him. I was with Sasha when she demanded that he leave her home and wanted to throw him out on his butt. Dante plays the my poor granny is dying and asking for you card and Sasha folds like a lawn chair. Apparently his granny and Sasha have being keeping in touch since she left Dante. Dante isn't pleasant bringing up her alleged cheating and actually gives the impression like he's doing Sasha a favor. Dante actually believes that he can mistreat her because she allegedly cheated on him even though he had no proof other than his brother was comforting Sasha after his mother was mean to her. The one night Dante deems to show his face at the dinner hour.Sasha goes with him only god knows why. Sasha went willingly and even wanted to stay in a hotel near the hospital so she could be near granny. Dante pitches a fit about her embarrassing him by wanting to stay in a hotel. He compares the embarrassment of a hotel stay to cheating on him. I'm thinking put the bat down Dante the horse is dead. Sasha just wants to stay in a hotel by herself where she doesn't have to be mistreated by him and his mother. I'm not sure why Sasha doesn't stand up for herself through most of this story that part is really sad. She's so beaten down that she just complies with Dante and puts up with the nonsense. Let's say that Dante's mother isn't happy to see her and lets her know it. His mother is such a coward that she says and does things behind her sons back. No worries though his mother runs her mouth one night about Sasha being fat and needing to squeeze into a dress and Dante over hears his mothers nastiness. Dante finally believes Sasha when she says that his mother was always mean to her. Little by little the story gets better and truths long hidden finally surface when Sasha stops being a door mat.