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Proud Revenge, Passionate Wedlock by Janette Kenny
4.0
This is my first read by [a:Janette Kenny|200022|Janette Kenny|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1401315302p2/200022.jpg]. And first Harlequin based in Mexico. Proud Revenge, Passionate Wedlock is a story about Allegra Vandohrn and Miguel Gutierrez. Allegra's back in Cancún, to seek closure. Her one-month-old baby girl - Cristobel - died, and her husband blames her for it. In her beach house, where she met Miguel for the first time two years back and came to the decision not to go ahead with her marriage to the English doctor. So soon after the accident she and her daughter were in, which killed her daughter, she has a gap in her memory and - doctors orders - she isn't strong enough to face it all, face the grief. But she wants closure. Enters Miguel, seeing Allegra after six long months, burning with rage and a thirst for revenge. Revenge for deserting him and for the death of his daughter by running away with her lover - the bodyguard he had hired for her.
The book starts on a bleak but angtsy note. The author brings out the emotions of the characters perfectly. Her Uncle Loring and his madre, who's out of the picture till much later, seem to be the culprit, feeding fake stories spiced with gossip about each to the other. While Miguel believes she was with her lover, she was actually in a private sanitarium, recovering from the accident. And from the trauma of losing her child and the ability to conceive. He has many other charges against her, and hence the passionate hate. While her select memories are yet to come back, Miguel's mother lashes out at her behind his back. Miguel, on the other hand, continues to judge Allegra based on his past and prejudices. They come together again, share the sadness, anger, pain at what they couldn't prevent and what all they lost, of what could have been.
When his heritage, his lineage was revealed at the end, it was quite the surprise, and I wasn't expecting that. This is a romance, and I was expecting something very sinister, more than what the author showed here. Ha! For all the wrongs that were listed, where's the justice? The ending left too much to be desired.
The book starts on a bleak but angtsy note. The author brings out the emotions of the characters perfectly. Her Uncle Loring and his madre, who's out of the picture till much later, seem to be the culprit, feeding fake stories spiced with gossip about each to the other. While Miguel believes she was with her lover, she was actually in a private sanitarium, recovering from the accident. And from the trauma of losing her child and the ability to conceive. He has many other charges against her, and hence the passionate hate. While her select memories are yet to come back, Miguel's mother lashes out at her behind his back. Miguel, on the other hand, continues to judge Allegra based on his past and prejudices. They come together again, share the sadness, anger, pain at what they couldn't prevent and what all they lost, of what could have been.
When his heritage, his lineage was revealed at the end, it was quite the surprise, and I wasn't expecting that. This is a romance, and I was expecting something very sinister, more than what the author showed here. Ha! For all the wrongs that were listed, where's the justice? The ending left too much to be desired.