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Devil's Mistress
Alex Brent was a dangerous man!
Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her.
Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds.
Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget.
Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her.
Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds.
Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget.
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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February 25, 2017
First, the writing in this book is Awful with a capital A. Painfully, gob-smackingly, makes-you-stupider-by-association awful. Every single line of dialogue was a cliche! Of course most HPs have some common lines, but not as EVERY SINGLE sentence. I actually made a little challenge game for myself to find a line that WASN'T tired, generic and repetitive, and I counted about 3 by the book's end.
Secondly, the characters were... I thought I knew what Over-The-Top meant, but I soon realized that I had never before encountered true OTTness til now. This is OTT in its final form, the ultimate evolution. For Exhibit A, I give you BB Jackson:
B.B. Jackson jumped out of his seat.
'Natasha!' he exclaimed, pumping her hand. 'Wonderful to see you!'
He was the producer of the film. He had an incredible, livewire energy which had apparently burnt every hair except three off his head, leaving him as bald as an egg.
He's completely bald except for THREE HAIRS on his head, Charlie-Brown style. Three hairs. Count 'em.
BB waved a fat cigar between his podgy fingers and ran a hand through his three black hairs.
'I want you to meet Mr. Alex Brent- or should I call you Lynx?' He roared with laughter.
He ran his hand through his hair... his 3 black hairs...
‘We have got a big hit on our hands,' B.B. was saying, waving his cigar about with a flourish. 'I can feel it in my guts and when I feel it in my guts, I rely on it.' He patted his stomach. 'I've got very reliable guts!' He roared with laughter.
Do you see what I mean about the dialogue? You tell me you read that without wincing, go on, you can't! And you notice how all this particular character does is wave his cigar and roar with laughter? They're all like this, all extreme archetypes with overplayed mannerisms.
I was annoyed and contemptuous at the start of this book, but as I kept reading, I found my mood lightening, until... I mean, consciously I was fully aware I was reading a travesty of "writing", but... I couldn't deny I was actually being entertained. It was all so stupid, a book made up entirely of generic borrowed sentences and the most overblown trite characters ever imagined. But it was actually... fun.
I was in such an unexpectedly good mood by the end that I just took the last, ridiculously stupid scene with genuine amusement. The H comes crawling on his knees back to the heroine, groveling for his life, and insists that she come with him to the park because he has something he wants -no, he needs- to show her. She's not inclined to go with him after all his horrific crimes against her, but he's so insistent that she is intrigued and follows him out. I'm all, He'd better at least have a horse-drawn carriage made of roses and diamonds, or maybe the whole set and cast of the movie flown out to burst into a rehearsed musical number for her...
Let me tell you, if my fiance did some egregious shit to me then hauled me down to the park to pull this crap, I'd chuck his dumb butt into the pond and post it on YouTube so everyone can laugh at how dumb he is. But somehow, I giggled with delight as I read it here because it just seemed such a fitting ending to a rather sweetly retarded story. It wouldn't make sense at this point to have a cool, truly epic gesture; it's the idiocy, even down to the final scene, that made it actually stupidly charming.
Secondly, the characters were... I thought I knew what Over-The-Top meant, but I soon realized that I had never before encountered true OTTness til now. This is OTT in its final form, the ultimate evolution. For Exhibit A, I give you BB Jackson:
B.B. Jackson jumped out of his seat.
'Natasha!' he exclaimed, pumping her hand. 'Wonderful to see you!'
He was the producer of the film. He had an incredible, livewire energy which had apparently burnt every hair except three off his head, leaving him as bald as an egg.
He's completely bald except for THREE HAIRS on his head, Charlie-Brown style. Three hairs. Count 'em.
BB waved a fat cigar between his podgy fingers and ran a hand through his three black hairs.
'I want you to meet Mr. Alex Brent- or should I call you Lynx?' He roared with laughter.
He ran his hand through his hair... his 3 black hairs...
‘We have got a big hit on our hands,' B.B. was saying, waving his cigar about with a flourish. 'I can feel it in my guts and when I feel it in my guts, I rely on it.' He patted his stomach. 'I've got very reliable guts!' He roared with laughter.
Do you see what I mean about the dialogue? You tell me you read that without wincing, go on, you can't! And you notice how all this particular character does is wave his cigar and roar with laughter? They're all like this, all extreme archetypes with overplayed mannerisms.
I was annoyed and contemptuous at the start of this book, but as I kept reading, I found my mood lightening, until... I mean, consciously I was fully aware I was reading a travesty of "writing", but... I couldn't deny I was actually being entertained. It was all so stupid, a book made up entirely of generic borrowed sentences and the most overblown trite characters ever imagined. But it was actually... fun.
I was in such an unexpectedly good mood by the end that I just took the last, ridiculously stupid scene with genuine amusement. The H comes crawling on his knees back to the heroine, groveling for his life, and insists that she come with him to the park because he has something he wants -no, he needs- to show her. She's not inclined to go with him after all his horrific crimes against her, but he's so insistent that she is intrigued and follows him out. I'm all, He'd better at least have a horse-drawn carriage made of roses and diamonds, or maybe the whole set and cast of the movie flown out to burst into a rehearsed musical number for her...
Let me tell you, if my fiance did some egregious shit to me then hauled me down to the park to pull this crap, I'd chuck his dumb butt into the pond and post it on YouTube so everyone can laugh at how dumb he is. But somehow, I giggled with delight as I read it here because it just seemed such a fitting ending to a rather sweetly retarded story. It wouldn't make sense at this point to have a cool, truly epic gesture; it's the idiocy, even down to the final scene, that made it actually stupidly charming.
December 12, 2019
Bookjunkie wrote the definitive review, so I’ll just echo her sentiments. This is ridiculously OTT and “bad” for even for a category romance from the early 1980’s. And therin lies the entertainment value.
Any reader can see where this is going from the beginning. H/h are slated to appear in a movie called the Devil’s Mistress. They have a HISTORY.
Ohhh, what could it be?
H/h were secretly married three years ago. Then hero’s 17 year-old brother told hero that the heroine had sex with him while hero was out of the country.
Excuse me while I guffaw.
Heroine won’t “confess” to the truth. Hero wants to punish her. Rinse, repeat.
When the author finally runs out of page count, the hero learns the truth and makes a grand gesture. (see Bookjunkie’s spoiler)
That made me guffaw as well.
He’s cheap and unimaginative as well as stupid.
Any reader can see where this is going from the beginning. H/h are slated to appear in a movie called the Devil’s Mistress. They have a HISTORY.
Ohhh, what could it be?
H/h were secretly married three years ago. Then hero’s 17 year-old brother told hero that the heroine had sex with him while hero was out of the country.
Excuse me while I guffaw.
Heroine won’t “confess” to the truth. Hero wants to punish her. Rinse, repeat.
When the author finally runs out of page count, the hero learns the truth and makes a grand gesture. (see Bookjunkie’s spoiler)
That made me guffaw as well.
He’s cheap and unimaginative as well as stupid.
January 10, 2014
Hero was stupid enough to believe the awful lies of his jealous brother. He blames the heroine at every turn and even though evidence were against her, he should have trusted her. I love cruel heroes but he was a bit too abusive and violent even for me.
May 26, 2019
"The Devil´s Mistress" is the Master-piece of a second chance slap-kiss of a Romantic Tale between a married couple that are Movie-Stars, written by the popular author Charlotte Lamb´s daughter Sarah Holland.
The brutal angst flowed hotly through out this story-and the minute the Angel-like beautiful actress Natasha Fox gets to know that she will play the leading role Sabrina in the film "The Devil`s Mistress" opposite Alex Brent with his role of the hero as Lynx, i knew this would be a train-wreck of a roller coaster. And damn how right i was..and i loved every second of it!
Their short marriage had been a happy one three years ago, and since Alex younger selfish brother destroyed it with his lies-and Alex savage jealousy and mistrust had ruined it all. Now they will have to play the passionate couple as Sabrina and Lynx in this romantic drama. Alex never missed out on his opportunity to show his hate towards her, while he also couldn`t keep his hands to himself. It was clear that he hurled out hate-ful words to hide his pain, and their chemistry was so strong it LITERALLY was explosive to read it!
Natasha Fox was somehow a different heroine- in the way that she knew that Alex still loves her made me WOW. What a woman! Other heroines are always too blind to see that their heroes still loves them. She was a very vulnerable woman, and a beauty that easily pitied humans which also got her into lots of trouble. Even so she still stood on her ground opposite her savage husband and tried to explain the misunderstandings which he in return told her that she is a lying cheating bitch. Even though she knew that he loved her, in the way she saw his explosive jealousy and his raw suffering. But he didn`t trust her and that was the problem.
Alex Brent is described as a passionate man with Satanic violent sexual looks. A very brutal man, quite capable of murder his hate could be as strong as his love was. He fell in love with Natasha on first sight and has been besotted with her since then, and still are. He was ready to let go of his pride (much to his pain) thinking that she did have an affair with his younger brother years ago, and be together with her. That one sex-scene before she left him was a truly passionate one..and it really left me with a dreamy OMG sigh! He does a decent grovel in the end, after all he did suffer much more than Natasha all this time. I love this hero- he reminds me of Charlotte Lambs Anti-heroes with their vehement natures!
If you want a satisfying and really AWESOME written Hate-Love Romance with the second-chance trope between a hero and heroine to die for," The Devil's Mistress" is the perfect choice! A Keeper that left me tearful in the end.!
The brutal angst flowed hotly through out this story-and the minute the Angel-like beautiful actress Natasha Fox gets to know that she will play the leading role Sabrina in the film "The Devil`s Mistress" opposite Alex Brent with his role of the hero as Lynx, i knew this would be a train-wreck of a roller coaster. And damn how right i was..and i loved every second of it!
Their short marriage had been a happy one three years ago, and since Alex younger selfish brother destroyed it with his lies-and Alex savage jealousy and mistrust had ruined it all. Now they will have to play the passionate couple as Sabrina and Lynx in this romantic drama. Alex never missed out on his opportunity to show his hate towards her, while he also couldn`t keep his hands to himself. It was clear that he hurled out hate-ful words to hide his pain, and their chemistry was so strong it LITERALLY was explosive to read it!
Natasha Fox was somehow a different heroine- in the way that she knew that Alex still loves her made me WOW. What a woman! Other heroines are always too blind to see that their heroes still loves them. She was a very vulnerable woman, and a beauty that easily pitied humans which also got her into lots of trouble. Even so she still stood on her ground opposite her savage husband and tried to explain the misunderstandings which he in return told her that she is a lying cheating bitch. Even though she knew that he loved her, in the way she saw his explosive jealousy and his raw suffering. But he didn`t trust her and that was the problem.
Alex Brent is described as a passionate man with Satanic violent sexual looks. A very brutal man, quite capable of murder his hate could be as strong as his love was. He fell in love with Natasha on first sight and has been besotted with her since then, and still are. He was ready to let go of his pride (much to his pain) thinking that she did have an affair with his younger brother years ago, and be together with her. That one sex-scene before she left him was a truly passionate one..and it really left me with a dreamy OMG sigh! He does a decent grovel in the end, after all he did suffer much more than Natasha all this time. I love this hero- he reminds me of Charlotte Lambs Anti-heroes with their vehement natures!
If you want a satisfying and really AWESOME written Hate-Love Romance with the second-chance trope between a hero and heroine to die for," The Devil's Mistress" is the perfect choice! A Keeper that left me tearful in the end.!
September 22, 2019
"The Devil's Mistress" is the story of Natasha and Alex.
'You're my sun, Natasha,' he said deeply. 'Without you I'll die. Don't go out of my orbit, because without you I would be nothing.'
A couple estranged for three years due to the hero's jealous brother's lies regarding the heroine get reunited when they both get cast in the same movie as protagonists. Thus the book is filled with the heroine pleading her case when the hero goes into multiple fits of jealous rage, threatening to harm the heroine and believing his brother over his love, while the heroine flees in terror. Oh, and the cherry on the top is the heroine was almost raped by the hero's brother, and when he did not believe her, she tried to commit suicide.
This was messed up in so many ways. The only reason that this isn't a one star is that the heroine made the hero grovel quite a bit.
Safe?
2.5/5
'You're my sun, Natasha,' he said deeply. 'Without you I'll die. Don't go out of my orbit, because without you I would be nothing.'
A couple estranged for three years due to the hero's jealous brother's lies regarding the heroine get reunited when they both get cast in the same movie as protagonists. Thus the book is filled with the heroine pleading her case when the hero goes into multiple fits of jealous rage, threatening to harm the heroine and believing his brother over his love, while the heroine flees in terror. Oh, and the cherry on the top is the heroine was almost raped by the hero's brother, and when he did not believe her, she tried to commit suicide.
This was messed up in so many ways. The only reason that this isn't a one star is that the heroine made the hero grovel quite a bit.
Safe?
2.5/5
January 1, 2011
Old school Harlequin story. I was unsure on how to rate this one; three is such a neutral ranking, but the ending took away a star, leaving this one with a 3 star final rating for me. Our hero was totally un-PC and cruel all the way until the end where he miraculously realizes the truth and becomes all mushy-romantic in a most unbelievable way. I wanted that mean guy back - at least he was fun to hate.
December 4, 2013
Hero is simply awful. Whilst heroine takes the biscuit as a complete door mat.
The two protagonists are apparently famous movie stars/ actors. Despite this, they have apparently been able to hide the fact that they married 3 years previously and then separated after the 'hero' wrongly accused the heroine of sleeping with his brother.
The whole thing was a complete mess.
The a hole 'hero' just came across as unattractively aggressive from the get go and throughout the book was on the verge of violence. He was forever grabbing the heroine, forcing himself into her room, forcing his attentions on her, grabbing her by the hair, pushing and shoving her around.
He never says a single nice thing to her and spends the whole book calling her a lying whore and whilst they are having sex he climaxes whilst telling her he hates her....
The heroine is supposed to be a famous and successful actress in her own right. Yet she has no self confidence or awareness of what she is entitled to expect as basic behaviour. She tolerates the aggression and repeatedly always moans after the event that she should have asked for help. One simple example of this, is that the a hole gets her spare room key on the first night. The obvious thing to do would be to report this to the hotel and ask for the lock to be changed or for a new room. Given that she is a movie star this would not exactly be asking too much. Does this occur to her? not on your nelly. This twit would rather be traumatised by the a hole breaking into her room , assaulting and insulting her on a regular basis.
I can't tell you how much I hated the 'hero'. The heroine just came across as a total spineless vicim.
I did finish the book but this was more out of a sick fascination re car crash territory than anything else.
The couple reconcile in the end.
I really was not rooting for them.
I'd have advised the heroine to get a divorce and an injunction against the 'hero' preventing him from coming within 500 yards of her.
Dreadful.
The two protagonists are apparently famous movie stars/ actors. Despite this, they have apparently been able to hide the fact that they married 3 years previously and then separated after the 'hero' wrongly accused the heroine of sleeping with his brother.
The whole thing was a complete mess.
The a hole 'hero' just came across as unattractively aggressive from the get go and throughout the book was on the verge of violence. He was forever grabbing the heroine, forcing himself into her room, forcing his attentions on her, grabbing her by the hair, pushing and shoving her around.
He never says a single nice thing to her and spends the whole book calling her a lying whore and whilst they are having sex he climaxes whilst telling her he hates her....
The heroine is supposed to be a famous and successful actress in her own right. Yet she has no self confidence or awareness of what she is entitled to expect as basic behaviour. She tolerates the aggression and repeatedly always moans after the event that she should have asked for help. One simple example of this, is that the a hole gets her spare room key on the first night. The obvious thing to do would be to report this to the hotel and ask for the lock to be changed or for a new room. Given that she is a movie star this would not exactly be asking too much. Does this occur to her? not on your nelly. This twit would rather be traumatised by the a hole breaking into her room , assaulting and insulting her on a regular basis.
I can't tell you how much I hated the 'hero'. The heroine just came across as a total spineless vicim.
I did finish the book but this was more out of a sick fascination re car crash territory than anything else.
The couple reconcile in the end.
I really was not rooting for them.
I'd have advised the heroine to get a divorce and an injunction against the 'hero' preventing him from coming within 500 yards of her.
Dreadful.
December 4, 2013
In the end I really liked this one. Yes, Alex was very mean and violent and perhaps he could be accused of manhandling Natasha as well. But I never believed he would strike her or really physically hurt her. He stated at the beginning that he had never hit a woman. I didn't believe that he would hit her either. I did have to go through w/ the whole idea that if he was that passionately angry w/ Natasha then of course he must feel something for her - at least old school HP feelings, right? After all they like to state that hate/love are just different sides of the same coin. Now indifference is a whole other coin in and of itself! I enjoyed the characters and felt that Natasha did defend herself to Alex several times, but without Roger backing her up the circumstantial evidence was just bad! I felt that once she was tired of beating her head against the Alex Brick Wall that she was justified in running. He was never going to listen and she couldn't continue to subject herself to his cruel punishment. She was willing to risk/lose it all in regards to her career as well. He begged her to listen to him at the end! Of course he had decided that he would much rather have her in his life even believing that she had slept w/ his 17 year old brother than having her gone from his life forever. He had to beat the information out of him though. Apparently Roger is very intimidated by Alex - a lot of people were but it seemed that Natasha would still make remarks to him that riled his temper. My one hang-up: why would he mistrust her so much? There wasn't anything that indicated that he should unless I missed something. I couldn't figure out why he would be that insecure. So for an UN-PC book it was a good read. I think I was just in the mood for one and it flowed well for me :)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 4, 2013
This was a train wreck. Both the Hero and the heroine are actors. The Hero is a brute. A tyrant who manhandles the heroine at the drop of his hat. Says some pretty nasty things to her. Distrusts / Hates her immensely yet as it happens in most HPs can't keep his hands to himself.
Our poor little heroine tries her best to fend off his advances but can't really help herself from turning into a puddle at his feet the moment he touches her. You see, she still loves the brute in spite of every damn thing he had said and done.
The hero refuses to listen to any of the heroine's explanations and treats her badly all throughout the book. Then suddenly the truth is out and our Hero does a double take. He sprouts some really romantic lines and all is well in HP land again. We get our HEA. Meh.
I would not recommend this to anyone unless you are in mood of some old school HP and don't mind a train wreck.
Our poor little heroine tries her best to fend off his advances but can't really help herself from turning into a puddle at his feet the moment he touches her. You see, she still loves the brute in spite of every damn thing he had said and done.
The hero refuses to listen to any of the heroine's explanations and treats her badly all throughout the book. Then suddenly the truth is out and our Hero does a double take. He sprouts some really romantic lines and all is well in HP land again. We get our HEA. Meh.
I would not recommend this to anyone unless you are in mood of some old school HP and don't mind a train wreck.
December 4, 2013
A classic alpha male, Alex left his wife when his brother told him Natasha had slept with him.
After three years, they have to work together on a film and all hell breaks loose. Alex is bitterly angry and makes Natasha's life a misery.
This is one of those old fashioned romances where the hero is obviously still in love with his wife but treats her badly because his anger and jealousy over the supposed betrayal is all consuming.
Natasha isn't a doormat, but she's worn out from trying to combat the lies of her BIL.
These are great escapist reads if you don't mind an aggressive hero behaving badly.
After three years, they have to work together on a film and all hell breaks loose. Alex is bitterly angry and makes Natasha's life a misery.
This is one of those old fashioned romances where the hero is obviously still in love with his wife but treats her badly because his anger and jealousy over the supposed betrayal is all consuming.
Natasha isn't a doormat, but she's worn out from trying to combat the lies of her BIL.
These are great escapist reads if you don't mind an aggressive hero behaving badly.
December 4, 2013
I've recently reread this book and I liked it very much. I know Alex is very forceful and always near being violent, but he is so passionate.
Apart from this, there is a so romantic and poetical statement like this one here:
Alex's black eyes burned on her. 'You're my sun, Natasha,' he said deeply. 'Without you I'll die. Don't go out of my orbit, because without you I would be nothing.'
Apart from this, there is a so romantic and poetical statement like this one here:
Alex's black eyes burned on her. 'You're my sun, Natasha,' he said deeply. 'Without you I'll die. Don't go out of my orbit, because without you I would be nothing.'
September 16, 2021
A besotted, jealous, dominant, alpha male H. That works for me in a HP.
But this wouldn’t work for everyone. He is quite overpowering and there’s a semi-forced seduction in it.
The OM (the H’s brother) got imo too much attention, too many pages, in the book, therefore it’s not 5 but 4 stars.
But this wouldn’t work for everyone. He is quite overpowering and there’s a semi-forced seduction in it.
The OM (the H’s brother) got imo too much attention, too many pages, in the book, therefore it’s not 5 but 4 stars.
April 22, 2019
Alex Brent was a dangerous man!
Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her.
Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds.
Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget
Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her.
Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds.
Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget
July 27, 2018
The H is pretty mean to the h throughout the book. He was a complete jerk.
October 20, 2011
Meh -- violence in general in these old HPs doesn't bother me all that much, but this one just didn't quite draw me in emotionally.
November 28, 2013
The violence equaled the passion. I was pretty entranced. The heroine had a lot of forgiveness in her. I don't think I'd be able to do it. I'd be bitter.
December 7, 2013
Really wished the HEA was based on him trusting her instead of younger brother coming clean
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 6, 2023
Lately, I've read more than a few books where it's the H that acts TSTL and believes the worst of the h, in stead of the more usual other way around. This is one of those cases, where the H, famous actor Alex Brent, believes that his sweet, innocent young wife (the h, Natasha, an up-and-coming actress) is having an affair with his younger brother, Roger! The fact that Roger is a troubled 17-year-old, with an inferiority complex and very envious of his older brother, doesn't seem to give him a clue that that the kid just might be lying about what really happened. (The truth was, he had been coming on to Natasha for some time - she being only 19 and closer in age to him than to Alex - and then went so far as attempting to rape her!) Having once been molested by the sleazy boyfriend of her aunt/guardian, Natasha wanted to put the unpleasantness behind her and not cause trouble between the brothers, as she realized how troubled Roger was. Her thoughtfulness and concern backfired on her, as Roger used her silence against her, to convince Alex they were having an affair.
And Alex the A--hole believed him over Natasha, and kicked her to the curb!
Three years later, she's offered the lead in a fantasy/horror film, about a supernatural-like female being seduced against her will be the devil incarnate; and guess who'll be playing that part???
It soon becomes clear that despite everything, Natasha still loves the man that's still her husband. (For publicity's sake, they kept their marriage a secret, which prevented them from seeking a divorce, though not the only reason, of course.) Though he tries to pretend it's only lust, it's pretty clear Alex still loves her, too. There are some passionate, as well as borderline violent, scenes between them, made worse when Roger appears on the scene.
One weak point is the lack of time spent on the set for the film. Usually in cases where the H and h are in a movie together, the author will have scenes with them acting, while their real feelings come through and enhance things. In this book, there was only one rehearsing scene, and it didn't go well. Later on, Natasha drops out of the movie, which was a ridiculous plot move, as in real life an actress would never do that and risk all the lawsuits, not to mention damage to her credibility as a professional. It was cowardly of Natasha, despite her understandably not wanting to work with Alex at that point in the story. after that, the whole film thing is dropped, and not mentioned again.
I liked the about face Alex does at the end, as he goes all out to win Natasha back. I also liked her friend, Ruth, whom she was staying with while trying to sort things out. She should have had a bigger part in the story.
It's one of those books that's not bad, but has definite flaws.
And Alex the A--hole believed him over Natasha, and kicked her to the curb!
Three years later, she's offered the lead in a fantasy/horror film, about a supernatural-like female being seduced against her will be the devil incarnate; and guess who'll be playing that part???
It soon becomes clear that despite everything, Natasha still loves the man that's still her husband. (For publicity's sake, they kept their marriage a secret, which prevented them from seeking a divorce, though not the only reason, of course.) Though he tries to pretend it's only lust, it's pretty clear Alex still loves her, too. There are some passionate, as well as borderline violent, scenes between them, made worse when Roger appears on the scene.
One weak point is the lack of time spent on the set for the film. Usually in cases where the H and h are in a movie together, the author will have scenes with them acting, while their real feelings come through and enhance things. In this book, there was only one rehearsing scene, and it didn't go well. Later on, Natasha drops out of the movie, which was a ridiculous plot move, as in real life an actress would never do that and risk all the lawsuits, not to mention damage to her credibility as a professional. It was cowardly of Natasha, despite her understandably not wanting to work with Alex at that point in the story. after that, the whole film thing is dropped, and not mentioned again.
I liked the about face Alex does at the end, as he goes all out to win Natasha back. I also liked her friend, Ruth, whom she was staying with while trying to sort things out. She should have had a bigger part in the story.
It's one of those books that's not bad, but has definite flaws.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 29, 2025
As an example of how horrible and violent the MMC was:
There was an attempted rape scene by the villain, and it was somehow less violent and degrading than the many scenes of attempted """""seduction""""" of the MMC to the FMC.
There was an attempted rape scene by the villain, and it was somehow less violent and degrading than the many scenes of attempted """""seduction""""" of the MMC to the FMC.
October 18, 2020
Want to read more books by this author!
June 28, 2023
This was very amazing story I've read in my hole life
not-for-me
October 9, 2024Movie star Hh. Estranged.
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July 30, 2011There's just something about this story that bothers me. The main charachter is very violent and I'm not sure if I like that.
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