This is a mixed bag for me.

First of all the author warns in the opening pages that the book contains cheating, recognising not everyone likes reading about that, I liked that.

That book is in 2 parts.
Part 1 the Hero and heroine are young, she is a virgin, he says he isn't a manwhore but let's just say he's "popular".
They have unprotected sex and surprise, suprise she's pregnant.
Due to his unsympathetic family, he offers to marry her as that way she can use his medical insurance for the baby.
There is a bit of ex drama, he brings a girl to the local pub, all childish stuff, trying to make her jealous, there's gossip, drama and childish tit for tat behaviour.
He comes from a wealthy family and she lives with her mum in a trailer.
They get married he goes abroad to get qualifications and a career set up. By doing this she gets the money for medical treatment.

Part 2 is 4 years later.
It starts with him in a brothel sharing certain intimacy with different women.
He decides to go home.
He only decides this as his friend opens a letter from the heroine as sees she is asking for a divorce.
The Hero has ignored her letters for 4 years, no contact, he has his reasons but still 4 years.....
During this 4 years he's cheating. He reckons he's slept with 50 prostitutes.
The heroine says...
" “I wondered if you were seeing someone else, if that was why you ignored me, every night while I waited faithfully alone in my bed.”
His grip tightens. “I’d give my life to take it back.”
“When you told me, you killed me fifty times over.”"

I was irritated she would even consider taking him back.
She is overwhelmed with the physical attraction everytime he is near.
She has been celibate in the separation though she is now planning to marry a much older man, as she's lonely and so is he, they haven't even kissed.

The heroine and her mum have been caring for the son and the Hero thinks it's okay to take the heroine away for 21 days, when her son has issues.... he doesn't speak... the whole behaviour of the kid was odd, there are comments about feeding himself, he's 3... I felt the author used he doesn't speak so she didn't have to make up lines for him.. it was wierd and not really explained medically, it was just he's 'delayed'.

He inherits money and on one page he is saying people are swarming around him as he's now a millionaire and then he is doing a job he hates at the factory cos it pays the bills and considering going back to Dubai to work, for 6 years away from the heroine and his son to have a better job. That didn't make sense to me, it felt like making drama out of a non issue.

Then we have other woman drama from his 'fun time' abroad and a woman claims she has had his baby. This was predictable but does come put of the blue in the story, it was like the author tried to create angst as they were happy.

When the other woman turns up she says she has poked holes in his condoms, she is one of these 50, and he finishes talking to her then has sex with heroine then has a paternity test and STD tests. They didn't think perhaps he should have been tested first before risking passing anything to the heroine.
The Hero for me although he had a sob story had gone too far, abandoning his son and wife for 4 years, he admits he wouldn't have come back if not for the last letter.

HEA.


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This is a mixed bag for me.

First of all the author warns in the opening pages that the book contains cheating, recognising not everyone likes reading about that, I liked that.

That book is in 2 parts.
Part 1 the Hero and heroine are young, she is a virgin, he says he isn't a manwhore but let's just say he's "popular".
They have unprotected sex and surprise, suprise she's pregnant.
Due to his unsympathetic family, he offers to marry her as that way she can use his medical insurance for the baby.
There is a bit of ex drama, he brings a girl to the local pub, all childish stuff, trying to make her jealous, there's gossip, drama and childish tit for tat behaviour.
He comes from a wealthy family and she lives with her mum in a trailer.
They get married he goes abroad to get qualifications and a career set up. By doing this she gets the money for medical treatment.

Part 2 is 4 years later.
It starts with him in a brothel sharing certain intimacy with different women.
He decides to go home.
He only decides this as his friend opens a letter from the heroine as sees she is asking for a divorce.
The Hero has ignored her letters for 4 years, no contact, he has his reasons but still 4 years.....
During this 4 years he's cheating. He reckons he's slept with 50 prostitutes.
The heroine says...
" “I wondered if you were seeing someone else, if that was why you ignored me, every night while I waited faithfully alone in my bed.”
His grip tightens. “I’d give my life to take it back.”
“When you told me, you killed me fifty times over.”"

I was irritated she would even consider taking him back.
She is overwhelmed with the physical attraction everytime he is near.
She has been celibate in the separation though she is now planning to marry a much older man, as she's lonely and so is he, they haven't even kissed.

The heroine and her mum have been caring for the son and the Hero thinks it's okay to take the heroine away for 21 days, when her son has issues.... he doesn't speak... the whole behaviour of the kid was odd, there are comments about feeding himself, he's 3... I felt the author used he doesn't speak so she didn't have to make up lines for him.. it was wierd and not really explained medically, it was just he's 'delayed'.

He inherits money and on one page he is saying people are swarming around him as he's now a millionaire and then he is doing a job he hates at the factory cos it pays the bills and considering going back to Dubai to work, for 6 years away from the heroine and his son to have a better job. That didn't make sense to me, it felt like making drama out of a non issue.

Then we have other woman drama from his 'fun time' abroad and a woman claims she has had his baby. This was predictable but does come put of the blue in the story, it was like the author tried to create angst as they were happy.

When the other woman turns up she says she has poked holes in his condoms, she is one of these 50, and he finishes talking to her then has sex with heroine then has a paternity test and STD tests. They didn't think perhaps he should have been tested first before risking passing anything to the heroine.
The Hero for me although he had a sob story had gone too far, abandoning his son and wife for 4 years, he admits he wouldn't have come back if not for the last letter.

HEA.


ARC. ( )

I was on tenterhooks here as this story contains an ultimate no-no in romance fiction of mine cheating.
Completely out of my comfort zone but as this author is a firm favourite of mine and I have also read a previous book of hers that contained a trope that I usually avoid (OW/YM) and I ultimately loved it I decided to give this a chance to see if she could do the same with this and convert me to its cause well at least here anyway.
So yeh two things originally stood in my way here the spoiler I mentioned earlier and the fact this was a second chance romance which I don't usually do either.
So forewarned is forearmed and all that and the author was very upfront here about what this story contained so I don't really think this counts as a spoiler considering the book contained an actual warning and all but I have spoilered it just in case you would rather not know.
So this wasn't as hard to read as I thought it would be I think mainly because the details themselves were not majorly expanded on and the emotional and feeling side of things were all for Kristi.
I'm trying to keep it, vague folks.
This made it easier to deal and even though I still wanted to throat punch certain individuals I was also able to feel a sense of empathy at the circumstances that had brought this all about.
So that old chestnut you don't know what you had until it's gone this book embodies that to an absolute tee and this story is an uphill battle of redemption and second chances.
This really was quite the emotional read all about forgiveness and new beginnings.
I also adored the dynamic between Jake and Kristi they were just so bloody explosive with amazing personal chemistry.
This was fabulously written and I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would.
A word to the hesitant the actuality of this was so much less scary than it at first seemed.
If you're at all on the fence here with this take a chance as I did you might just surprise yourself.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Catch Me Twice.



Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com ( )

I was on tenterhooks here as this story contains an ultimate no-no in romance fiction of mine cheating.
Completely out of my comfort zone but as this author is a firm favourite of mine and I have also read a previous book of hers that contained a trope that I usually avoid (OW/YM) and I ultimately loved it I decided to give this a chance to see if she could do the same with this and convert me to its cause well at least here anyway.
So yeh two things originally stood in my way here the spoiler I mentioned earlier and the fact this was a second chance romance which I don't usually do either.
So forewarned is forearmed and all that and the author was very upfront here about what this story contained so I don't really think this counts as a spoiler considering the book contained an actual warning and all but I have spoilered it just in case you would rather not know.
So this wasn't as hard to read as I thought it would be I think mainly because the details themselves were not majorly expanded on and the emotional and feeling side of things were all for Kristi.
I'm trying to keep it, vague folks.
This made it easier to deal and even though I still wanted to throat punch certain individuals I was also able to feel a sense of empathy at the circumstances that had brought this all about.
So that old chestnut you don't know what you had until it's gone this book embodies that to an absolute tee and this story is an uphill battle of redemption and second chances.
This really was quite the emotional read all about forgiveness and new beginnings.
I also adored the dynamic between Jake and Kristi they were just so bloody explosive with amazing personal chemistry.
This was fabulously written and I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would.
A word to the hesitant the actuality of this was so much less scary than it at first seemed.
If you're at all on the fence here with this take a chance as I did you might just surprise yourself.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Catch Me Twice.



Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com ( )