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The Sicilian's Christmas Bride by Sandra Marton
2.0
I have joined Manali Dey, a friend on Bookstagram, for the #MillsandBoonReadathon for which we are reading 18 books, coz it's '18! This is Book 2.
It is three weeks till Christmas, and Dante Russo is at a charity ball, where he finally decides to dump his current "mistress". He is remembering Taylor Sommers, who left him three years ago (another mistress?). He, who grew up in poverty, but now at thirty two, almost ruled the world. How dare Taylor leave him like that and make a fool of him? So, he decides to take revenge, after he finds her, of course. And when the P.I. he hired comes up with the details about her new life, he is furious! She is living with one Sam Gardner, and Dante thinks that she left him for Samuel?
Taylor Sommers (Tally) is broke. The interior decorating business she started isn't working as well as she wanted it to. Three years ago, she had fled from Dante as she had had a secret, a secret which Dante would surely have felt burdened with. She gave birth to their baby, Sam, all alone.
Quite a thing Dante pulled off to rope in Taylor. He bought the bank where she had applied for a loan to help her ailing business, a loan she had taken against her house. But, their fist confrontation after all these years ends in Taylor saying to Dante that she was never his concern, which Dante conceded as the truth. And when a blizzard coops them up in her home, Dante is faced with his daughter, Samantha Gardner Sommers, not that he knows about it, yet. And when Tally tries to tell him, instead of listening to her/believing her, he assumes that the baby isn't his but someone else's! And to make matters worse, Tally agrees with him in order to 'protect' herself and Sam. The story seemed illogical after that.
I felt sad for the childhood Dante had had to live through, and Tally too. But the writing felt emotionally detached. And, blackmailing Tally into moving in with him, along with their daughter; always blaming her for sleeping with someone else; all that left a bad taste in my mouth. And that too in spite of him agreeing to this fact:
All this is followed by an 'almost rape' scene after which Dante says that he could never hurt her! Cringeworthy... And double cringeworthy when they have sex immediately after that! She says yes to living in with him, and tells him about Sam being his, and Dante tries get sole custody, and it's an abrupt The End with them marrying. Ugh...
Also, there were too many repetitions like this:
Which made it reading a bit childish.
The only redeeming thing about this book were the little scenes of Dante and Sam, together, towards the end.
P.S. I have read three other books by [a:Sandra Marton|145593|Sandra Marton|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442457368p2/145593.jpg], which I loved. But, this just didn't sit well with me.
It is three weeks till Christmas, and Dante Russo is at a charity ball, where he finally decides to dump his current "mistress". He is remembering Taylor Sommers, who left him three years ago (another mistress?). He, who grew up in poverty, but now at thirty two, almost ruled the world. How dare Taylor leave him like that and make a fool of him? So, he decides to take revenge, after he finds her, of course. And when the P.I. he hired comes up with the details about her new life, he is furious! She is living with one Sam Gardner, and Dante thinks that she left him for Samuel?
Taylor Sommers (Tally) is broke. The interior decorating business she started isn't working as well as she wanted it to. Three years ago, she had fled from Dante as she had had a secret, a secret which Dante would surely have felt burdened with. She gave birth to their baby, Sam, all alone.
Quite a thing Dante pulled off to rope in Taylor. He bought the bank where she had applied for a loan to help her ailing business, a loan she had taken against her house. But, their fist confrontation after all these years ends in Taylor saying to Dante that she was never his concern, which Dante conceded as the truth. And when a blizzard coops them up in her home, Dante is faced with his daughter, Samantha Gardner Sommers, not that he knows about it, yet. And when Tally tries to tell him, instead of listening to her/believing her, he assumes that the baby isn't his but someone else's! And to make matters worse, Tally agrees with him in order to 'protect' herself and Sam. The story seemed illogical after that.
I felt sad for the childhood Dante had had to live through, and Tally too. But the writing felt emotionally detached. And, blackmailing Tally into moving in with him, along with their daughter; always blaming her for sleeping with someone else; all that left a bad taste in my mouth. And that too in spite of him agreeing to this fact:
That was why he’d decided to end their affair three years ago. He hadn’t been bored. Who could be bored by a woman who could discuss the stock market and football statistics without missing a beat?
All this is followed by an 'almost rape' scene after which Dante says that he could never hurt her! Cringeworthy... And double cringeworthy when they have sex immediately after that! She says yes to living in with him, and tells him about Sam being his, and Dante tries get sole custody, and it's an abrupt The End with them marrying. Ugh...
Also, there were too many repetitions like this:
All that mattered was this. This... This.
Which made it reading a bit childish.
The only redeeming thing about this book were the little scenes of Dante and Sam, together, towards the end.
P.S. I have read three other books by [a:Sandra Marton|145593|Sandra Marton|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442457368p2/145593.jpg], which I loved. But, this just didn't sit well with me.