Review: You're kidding, right?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2013
I keep wondering whether I should be reading Ebook romances since most of them are, at best, mediocre. Still, I keep getting suckered in by great reviews. I'm not sure who is writing these reviews but the reviewers are not very discriminating readers in my opinion.This novel opens at a party where the hero and heroine meet. He is pretending to be his brother who, she believes, seduced and abandoned her sister while becoming engaged to another woman. She doesn't correct his mistaken belief that she is her sister---a woman who he believes is trying to scam his brother out of a lot of money or force him to marry her due to pregnancy.The first bit of silliness is that, since their brother and sister were supposed to have had a long night of passion (sex three times), you'd think that, just maybe, the H and h would wonder why the other person doesn't realize they are not who they are pretending to be. Maybe she had drunk too much is his conclusion. In order to protect their siblings from having to deal with this terrible person, they don't even try to correct the confusion.The pair each believes the other is a reprehensible person and/or a liar and deceiver. Nonetheless, the very well-worn plot has already kicked in: rich man of the world is instantly wildly infatuated with ordinary young woman who has a similar reaction to him. So, within minutes of their meeting they have this argument about the other person mistreating/trying to scam the other.  Then they are passionately kissing and embracing a person who they believe is immoral and has hurt/is trying to hurt their loved one. A lot of the usual internal monologue cliches occur during this encounter: I never felt this way about a woman/man before, I can't wait to make love to this person.Now, this is stretching my suspension of disbelief a bit too far. I can't imagine that, if I believed someone (had just/was currently) treating my brother or sister reprehensibly, it wouldn't throw cold water on my ardor. The other really bad thing about the novel is that what the H and h say and think and feel and do is exactly the same as heroes and heroine say, think, feel, do, in thousands of other romance novels. Nothing to distinguish these cliched characters--same old, same old. It really IS possible to write characters who stand out, who think and say things a little differently, even in romance novels. But not here.Well, that is as far as I could hack this cliched silly story. So, a word of warning: this book may not be what you think it is from the 4 and 5 star reviews.