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Carrying The Greek's Heir
Pregnant with the billionaire’s baby!
From the moment hard-working Ellie Brooks met mogul Alek Sarantos her life started to go off the rails. First she was fired. Now she’s pregnant with the ruthless Greek’s baby!
It was only supposed to be one wild, passionate night. Yet when Ellie shows up demanding Alek legitimise their unborn child he shocks himself…and agrees to her outrageous request!
Catapulted into a world she wasn’t meant for, with a husband she shouldn’t desire, Ellie finds her resolve wavering. Until a tiny kick from within reminds her why she made a deal with this handsome devil: her baby, his heir…
From the moment hard-working Ellie Brooks met mogul Alek Sarantos her life started to go off the rails. First she was fired. Now she’s pregnant with the ruthless Greek’s baby!
It was only supposed to be one wild, passionate night. Yet when Ellie shows up demanding Alek legitimise their unborn child he shocks himself…and agrees to her outrageous request!
Catapulted into a world she wasn’t meant for, with a husband she shouldn’t desire, Ellie finds her resolve wavering. Until a tiny kick from within reminds her why she made a deal with this handsome devil: her baby, his heir…
192 pages, Paperback
Published March 20, 2015
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Sharon Kendrick
1,220 books454 followersI was told off as a child for making up stories—little did I know that one day I’d earn my living by writing them!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
To the horror of my parents, I left school at sixteen and held a bewildering variety of jobs: I was a London DJ (in the now-trendy Primrose Hill), a decorator and a singer. After that I became a cook, a photographer and, eventually, a nurse. I waitressed in the south of France, drove an ambulance in Australia, saw lots of beautiful sights but could never settle down. Everywhere I went I felt like a square peg—until one day I started writing again and then everything just fell into place. I felt like Cinderella must have when the glass slipper fit!
Today, I have the best job in the world, writing passionate romances for Harlequin. I like writing stories which are sexy and fast-paced, yet packed full of emotion—stories that readers will identify with, laugh and cry along with.
My interests are many and varied—chocolate and music, fresh flowers and bubble baths, films, cooking and trying to keep my home from looking burglarized! Simple pleasures—you can’t beat them!
I live in Winchester, one of the most stunning cities in the world, but don’t take my word for it—come see for yourself! I regularly visit London and Paris. Oh, and I love hearing from my readers all over the world…so I think it’s over to you!
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March 26, 2015
I liked the start of this story ……but by the end I was so not impressed.
A poor waitress gets her virginity taken by the rich and totally horrible Greek billionaire.
This guy sleeps with her because he finds her sweet and not a gold-digger like the women he usually beds……then after the deed, leaves her after shutting the bedroom door softly!!!! What a damn cad!!!
So anyway, poor Ellie finds herself without a job…and pregnant!!! What is a girl to do with no money or prospects?
Yes, she looks up Alek, the not so nice hero, on the internet and pays him a visit at his headquarters to tell him the news!!! No, more than just the heir news…she demands that he marries her!!!! What!!!! This is something the hero usually demands not the heroine!!! Look, she says she’s not a gold-digger!!!
Right!!!! She’s doing it all for the baby!!!! Okay!!!!
All of a sudden, Alek becomes the good guy…caring and all so nice…and Ellie becomes this so not likeable character. So we know that these two characters have had some bad things happen in their past but jeez…was all that baggage drawn out…by the end there were so many things happening….all new discoveries that it became a bit too much.
I have enjoyed some of this author’s books but this was one of those that was a bit unrelatable and characters that I did not warm up to. It was just so-so!!!
A poor waitress gets her virginity taken by the rich and totally horrible Greek billionaire.
This guy sleeps with her because he finds her sweet and not a gold-digger like the women he usually beds……then after the deed, leaves her after shutting the bedroom door softly!!!! What a damn cad!!!
So anyway, poor Ellie finds herself without a job…and pregnant!!! What is a girl to do with no money or prospects?
Yes, she looks up Alek, the not so nice hero, on the internet and pays him a visit at his headquarters to tell him the news!!! No, more than just the heir news…she demands that he marries her!!!! What!!!! This is something the hero usually demands not the heroine!!! Look, she says she’s not a gold-digger!!!
Right!!!! She’s doing it all for the baby!!!! Okay!!!!
All of a sudden, Alek becomes the good guy…caring and all so nice…and Ellie becomes this so not likeable character. So we know that these two characters have had some bad things happen in their past but jeez…was all that baggage drawn out…by the end there were so many things happening….all new discoveries that it became a bit too much.
I have enjoyed some of this author’s books but this was one of those that was a bit unrelatable and characters that I did not warm up to. It was just so-so!!!
October 10, 2017
This was a pretty typical ONS story that led to a pregnancy that led to a marriage. It only got interesting when the heroine made the hero drill down into his origin story and find his twin brother.
The heroine was fine. The hero wasn't too horrible. The journalist was Rita Skeeter's Muggle cousin.
The heroine was fine. The hero wasn't too horrible. The journalist was Rita Skeeter's Muggle cousin.
September 9, 2016
Waitress Ellie works in a fancy posh boutique hotel in the New Forrest. She’s got a sad origin story and she doesn’t think she’s got much going on in the face and body department, but she has ambitions. She’s going to be a hotel manager. I love ambitions. Even if a woman is going to end up marrying a billionaire and having babies (not necessarily in that order), I will love her if she at least started out really wanting something else.
Ellie’s been serving Alek drinks and food all week, and he’s super into her. He’s fantasizing about touching her. She’s all soft and curvy and he wants to get all over and into and around and under any body part or collection of body parts she cares to put in his way. And it’s not just her sexy bits: he actually likes her! It’s pretty shocking, although it doesn’t mean he turns out any readier to make sensible adult decisions than any other sexy Greek billionaire.
He likes the way she carries herself, and her calm and direct way of being around people.
I first came across Alek in ‘Christmas in Da Conti’s Bed,’ where he was known as Alekto. I’m a little disappointed that he’s dropped that last syllable. It made him sound like a funky robot, and I’m not opposed to a little cyborg kink. Alek is also remotely linked to Qurhah. I haven’t read the Qurhah books because I’m not that much into sheikhs (they’re further down the sexy list than cyborgs, but still rate slightly higher than cowboys and SEALs), and because I’m still conflicted about whether it’s racist of me to find it funny that a fictional country and people (Qurhahians) sound like a description of a dog laughing.
Alek had terrible (and now dead) parents. He is self-made, he left his nasty dad’s evil fortress when he was 15, and never went back. He works long hours and sleeps with beautiful bankers and lawyers. He values smarts and discretion in a woman, and a woman who knows when to put on her clothes and take herself home.
Alek doesn’t quite manage to seduce Ellie at the end of his holiday. He gets a smooch behind the bike shed (I am NOT kidding), and goes home to London. Ellie’s not even thinking about how that smooch was the best smooch of her life and destroyed her chance of finding happiness on another man’s lips, when some blonde guest starts pumping her for information about Alek. Unnamed Blonde (she really needed a name, because she was actually a little bit important) witnessed the midnight bike shed smooch. Does Ellie know who Alek was? (yes). What does Ellie think of Alek, who is as scary as he is handsome? (Ellie thinks he’s a pussycat). Did Ellie know he had a girlfriend? Poor Ellie. No, she didn’t know, but she’s not going to let it bug her.
Unfortunately for Ellie that guest was a journalist, and Ellie’s revelations about Alek’s pussycat nature are splashed across some gossip rag. Alek is stroppy about Ellie’s betrayal, and has her fired.
Which Ellie, although she’s not happy about it because it kills her dreams, acknowledges as a fair cop. She made a stupid mistake and was indiscrete about a guest. I loved her. I thought she was a great character, who went after what she wanted without a whole lot of hand-wringing and sulking. She transcended her terrible background. Sure, she had hang-ups about her appearance and about family and men, but she wasn’t letting them define her, or get in the way of who she wanted to be.
She has this great little story about her troubled relationship with her mother, and I have to put it in because it’s so beautiful and sad. When Ellie was little, she went on a school excursion to the natural history museum, and she used her pocket money to buy her mum a little dinosaur-shaped soap. Her mum looked at the gift and was all ‘woe unto us! If your father wasn’t such a low-life bastard you’d have been able to buy me a big dinosaur-shaped soap!’ This is darkly funny but also memorably awful for a little girl. Her mum was an unhappy and terrible person, but Ellie was adorable. It’s like just for that moment she became that cute kid from thousands of fabric softener commercials. The one who looks up at the mother who has made clothes/bedding/towels so amazingly soft with the biggest, most liquidly adoring eyes in the world. She earned her billionaire in that moment.
And she deserved to be happy for being so completely straight about her own desires without thinking they were dirty. She even owned the obligatory shopping spree without turning into a puddle. I was so proud of her all the way through the book.
So Ellie is packing up to leave when Alek shows up, and they make wild passionate love on Ellie’s single bed. Contraception is employed. It’s just not employed very effectively, as Ellie soon discovers she’s pregnant. She’s got a new job, and morning sickness, and she’s sad and mad with Alek for just getting up and leaving after the best sex ever.
But Ellie is strong. She takes her big girl pills and goes to see Alek because he deserves to know that she’s up the duff. And he’s only mildly nasty about the whole ‘are you sure it’s mine?’ and ‘I used a condom’ deal. Ellie’s all ‘they aren’t 100% effective’ and Alek’s all ‘you seem to know a lot about it (sneer)’ Look buddy. My new theory is that condom companies are being kind when they put those warning labels out, because they don’t want to accuse customers of being incompetent. Sharon Kendrick made it very clear that you weren’t putting that thing on right, so this is your fault. Maybe you need to practice some more, with bananas and socks?
Ellie wants to get married. Alek points out that they don’t have to, which is legit, but that’s what she wants, so that’s what they do.
Everything about how Ellie and Alek handle what usually turns into a crazy drama is just lovely. I don’t know what got into Sharon Kendrick with this one and ‘Christmas’ but I really like it. Not that I don’t also love ‘Stable Girl,’ I totally do. One of the ways I cheer myself up is remembering that in fiction man-gods can be absolutely slain by love for girls who get so overwhelmed by passion and drama that they must flip their aprons over their heads and dash off to some domestic cupboard.
There is still plenty of conflict for the characters to work through, but the work Kendrick put into the developing intimacy between Alek and Ellie was just lovely. There’s the intense passion, but they also notice and are kind to each other. The passion was still there, but I really appreciated the times when they were so sweet and charming and caring towards each other.
I totally loved this book, and think Sharon Kendrick is immensely clever in how she can shade crazy-drama plots in such different ways.
Ellie’s been serving Alek drinks and food all week, and he’s super into her. He’s fantasizing about touching her. She’s all soft and curvy and he wants to get all over and into and around and under any body part or collection of body parts she cares to put in his way. And it’s not just her sexy bits: he actually likes her! It’s pretty shocking, although it doesn’t mean he turns out any readier to make sensible adult decisions than any other sexy Greek billionaire.
He likes the way she carries herself, and her calm and direct way of being around people.
I first came across Alek in ‘Christmas in Da Conti’s Bed,’ where he was known as Alekto. I’m a little disappointed that he’s dropped that last syllable. It made him sound like a funky robot, and I’m not opposed to a little cyborg kink. Alek is also remotely linked to Qurhah. I haven’t read the Qurhah books because I’m not that much into sheikhs (they’re further down the sexy list than cyborgs, but still rate slightly higher than cowboys and SEALs), and because I’m still conflicted about whether it’s racist of me to find it funny that a fictional country and people (Qurhahians) sound like a description of a dog laughing.
Alek had terrible (and now dead) parents. He is self-made, he left his nasty dad’s evil fortress when he was 15, and never went back. He works long hours and sleeps with beautiful bankers and lawyers. He values smarts and discretion in a woman, and a woman who knows when to put on her clothes and take herself home.
Alek doesn’t quite manage to seduce Ellie at the end of his holiday. He gets a smooch behind the bike shed (I am NOT kidding), and goes home to London. Ellie’s not even thinking about how that smooch was the best smooch of her life and destroyed her chance of finding happiness on another man’s lips, when some blonde guest starts pumping her for information about Alek. Unnamed Blonde (she really needed a name, because she was actually a little bit important) witnessed the midnight bike shed smooch. Does Ellie know who Alek was? (yes). What does Ellie think of Alek, who is as scary as he is handsome? (Ellie thinks he’s a pussycat). Did Ellie know he had a girlfriend? Poor Ellie. No, she didn’t know, but she’s not going to let it bug her.
Unfortunately for Ellie that guest was a journalist, and Ellie’s revelations about Alek’s pussycat nature are splashed across some gossip rag. Alek is stroppy about Ellie’s betrayal, and has her fired.
Which Ellie, although she’s not happy about it because it kills her dreams, acknowledges as a fair cop. She made a stupid mistake and was indiscrete about a guest. I loved her. I thought she was a great character, who went after what she wanted without a whole lot of hand-wringing and sulking. She transcended her terrible background. Sure, she had hang-ups about her appearance and about family and men, but she wasn’t letting them define her, or get in the way of who she wanted to be.
She has this great little story about her troubled relationship with her mother, and I have to put it in because it’s so beautiful and sad. When Ellie was little, she went on a school excursion to the natural history museum, and she used her pocket money to buy her mum a little dinosaur-shaped soap. Her mum looked at the gift and was all ‘woe unto us! If your father wasn’t such a low-life bastard you’d have been able to buy me a big dinosaur-shaped soap!’ This is darkly funny but also memorably awful for a little girl. Her mum was an unhappy and terrible person, but Ellie was adorable. It’s like just for that moment she became that cute kid from thousands of fabric softener commercials. The one who looks up at the mother who has made clothes/bedding/towels so amazingly soft with the biggest, most liquidly adoring eyes in the world. She earned her billionaire in that moment.
And she deserved to be happy for being so completely straight about her own desires without thinking they were dirty. She even owned the obligatory shopping spree without turning into a puddle. I was so proud of her all the way through the book.
So Ellie is packing up to leave when Alek shows up, and they make wild passionate love on Ellie’s single bed. Contraception is employed. It’s just not employed very effectively, as Ellie soon discovers she’s pregnant. She’s got a new job, and morning sickness, and she’s sad and mad with Alek for just getting up and leaving after the best sex ever.
But Ellie is strong. She takes her big girl pills and goes to see Alek because he deserves to know that she’s up the duff. And he’s only mildly nasty about the whole ‘are you sure it’s mine?’ and ‘I used a condom’ deal. Ellie’s all ‘they aren’t 100% effective’ and Alek’s all ‘you seem to know a lot about it (sneer)’ Look buddy. My new theory is that condom companies are being kind when they put those warning labels out, because they don’t want to accuse customers of being incompetent. Sharon Kendrick made it very clear that you weren’t putting that thing on right, so this is your fault. Maybe you need to practice some more, with bananas and socks?
Ellie wants to get married. Alek points out that they don’t have to, which is legit, but that’s what she wants, so that’s what they do.
Everything about how Ellie and Alek handle what usually turns into a crazy drama is just lovely. I don’t know what got into Sharon Kendrick with this one and ‘Christmas’ but I really like it. Not that I don’t also love ‘Stable Girl,’ I totally do. One of the ways I cheer myself up is remembering that in fiction man-gods can be absolutely slain by love for girls who get so overwhelmed by passion and drama that they must flip their aprons over their heads and dash off to some domestic cupboard.
There is still plenty of conflict for the characters to work through, but the work Kendrick put into the developing intimacy between Alek and Ellie was just lovely. There’s the intense passion, but they also notice and are kind to each other. The passion was still there, but I really appreciated the times when they were so sweet and charming and caring towards each other.
I totally loved this book, and think Sharon Kendrick is immensely clever in how she can shade crazy-drama plots in such different ways.
February 28, 2015
Carrying the Greek's Heir provided a nice armchair trip to a bit of Greece. Alek was the typical rich alpha male who usually got his way and never settled for one specific woman due to watching how his father behaved with women and treated his own mother. He takes a short vacation and meets a waitress at his resort and things get carried away between him and Ellie. This Alek was so arrogant and elitist that it was hard to like him. When Ellie becomes pregnant and demands marriage Alek agrees. But, things go as they usually do when two people from vastly different backgrounds come together and one of them considers himself above the person he is marrying, volatile. Alek is also very angry because of what happened with his mother and has a huge disdain for women outside of having sex with them. Ellie has a backbone and she stands up for herself. She makes him investigate his own feelings about his childhood as he realizes that he doesn't know his own feelings at all. Watching these two grow as people and grow as a couple is what makes this story enjoyable.
April 12, 2015
Not a fan of non virginal heroines when I read a Harlequin Presents.
November 11, 2017
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May 31, 2017
Absolute garbage. This novel is everything I loathe about romance: flat characters who clearly shouldn't be together, and a nonexistent plot. The male is the stereotypical, dime a dozen cold Alpha males who can't have emotions because of reason. The female was the stereotypical down on her luck girl next door who always gets the short end of the stick. There was nothing about either that made them special and the conversation made me want to slam my head repeatedly against a wall. And then she becomes pregnant, and the already bad story goes downhill.
I am glad it was free because I would have be furious had I paid money for this. I am already annoyed that I wasted the time reading it.
I am glad it was free because I would have be furious had I paid money for this. I am already annoyed that I wasted the time reading it.
March 1, 2015
I love the pregnancy harlequins but I have to say this one was pretty average. I've been pretty disappointed with what harlequin has put out recently.
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December 22, 2017
I'm the odd one out on this one. I liked it. 3.5 stars
April 5, 2023
Not very fun or romantic. I don’t think the characters like each other much. That random journalist, the sad backstories(wish heroine’s dad apologize, even to get to the hero’s money or something), random long lost sibling, just a wahh woooaaa book. Skip it.
July 14, 2021
Typically cheesy romance.
March 12, 2015
Ellie and Alek's story was a mix of interesting and lopsided. I liked it alright, but I did not love it.
Initially, Alek came off as a bit arrogant and creepy. Ellie, on the flip side, was so sweetly innocent and naive that it was like she needed looking after. After inviting Ellie to connect with him, in a sense, sparks suddenly flew in a major way. Fast forward like two steps and the next thing you know, these two were in a wham bam thank you mam situation. As a result, an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy happens. Suddenly, Ellie is tougher and Alek is more sensitive, past issues are resolved (albeit slowly), and love is finally professed. Uh...yea but no.
Things That Left Me with ???:
- The reporter's role in the reunion
- The twin
- The mother's letter
- The great emotional shift in Alek's character
- Ellie's lack of relationships and then sudden reliance on Bridget at the end of the story
Rating: 3/5
Recommend: +/-
Audience: Adult
Chemistry/Intensity: Yes
Conflict/Drama: Yes
HEA: Yes
Initially, Alek came off as a bit arrogant and creepy. Ellie, on the flip side, was so sweetly innocent and naive that it was like she needed looking after. After inviting Ellie to connect with him, in a sense, sparks suddenly flew in a major way. Fast forward like two steps and the next thing you know, these two were in a wham bam thank you mam situation. As a result, an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy happens. Suddenly, Ellie is tougher and Alek is more sensitive, past issues are resolved (albeit slowly), and love is finally professed. Uh...yea but no.
Things That Left Me with ???:
- The reporter's role in the reunion
- The twin
- The mother's letter
- The great emotional shift in Alek's character
- Ellie's lack of relationships and then sudden reliance on Bridget at the end of the story
Rating: 3/5
Recommend: +/-
Audience: Adult
Chemistry/Intensity: Yes
Conflict/Drama: Yes
HEA: Yes
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March 18, 2015
Book Summary
Published by - Harlequin
Release Date - 17th March 2015
Pages - 192
My Rating - 2 Stars
Review:
I was all on board with this story, right up until the moment that Ellie demanded that the man she barely knew, the man that she'd had a one night stand with, marry her. THAT was the point where I lost all faith in this story,
I understand her thought process, but to me it showed a massive weakness in a woman that claimed to be strong and wanted to be different from her mother. Not to mention it just made everything inside me scream at how unnerringly cliche it was.
After that point I couldn't find it in me to enjoy anything about the book, the drama was ratched up unneccesarily and the ending was lackluster to say the least. I've come to enjoy Sharon Kendrick's books, but for me this one missed her usual pizazz.
Published by - Harlequin
Release Date - 17th March 2015
Pages - 192
My Rating - 2 Stars
Review:
I was all on board with this story, right up until the moment that Ellie demanded that the man she barely knew, the man that she'd had a one night stand with, marry her. THAT was the point where I lost all faith in this story,
I understand her thought process, but to me it showed a massive weakness in a woman that claimed to be strong and wanted to be different from her mother. Not to mention it just made everything inside me scream at how unnerringly cliche it was.
After that point I couldn't find it in me to enjoy anything about the book, the drama was ratched up unneccesarily and the ending was lackluster to say the least. I've come to enjoy Sharon Kendrick's books, but for me this one missed her usual pizazz.
March 13, 2015
Carrying the Greek's Heir is the story of two people trying to make a better life for themselves and their unexpected child. Neither Alek or Brook had the greatest childhood. Alek was raised in loveless marriage by a cruel and unhappy father and Ellie was an illegitimate child whose father would not acknowledge her and mother resented her. Each knows they do not want to repent the same pattern as the parents they had. So when these two broken people cross paths as adults and spend one night together resulting in a pregnancy, they are determined to do what is best for the child. Received an ARC for my honest viewpoint. Sharon Kendrick wrote an emotion filled book that I found quite compelling.
July 26, 2015
Magical tale. Alek, world's most eligible Batchelor, a billionaire of such exclusivity, hotel staff bow and scrape in his midst. Waitress Ellie dreams of being a hotel manager one day and takes her job very seriously and politely declines Aleks request for a drink, but he's very pursuasive!
Tricked into sharing their amazing kiss with a tabloid reporter, Ellie is fired and Alek is seething! Amongst other things he is NOT a pussycat and decides it's anger that sets him on the path to Ellies boarding room, not lust! As per the series title, one night leaves its consequences.
Throughly engaging, didn't want to stop reading. Both Ellie and Alek great characters, lots of dialogue, beautiful chemistry and I'd highly recommend for all xx
Tricked into sharing their amazing kiss with a tabloid reporter, Ellie is fired and Alek is seething! Amongst other things he is NOT a pussycat and decides it's anger that sets him on the path to Ellies boarding room, not lust! As per the series title, one night leaves its consequences.
Throughly engaging, didn't want to stop reading. Both Ellie and Alek great characters, lots of dialogue, beautiful chemistry and I'd highly recommend for all xx
October 6, 2015
I enjoyed the way Author Sharon Kendrick put a new spin on a plot that has been used a lot. Ellie, and Alek shared one night of passion. Ellie gets fired, then she found out she was pregnant. It was Ellie that went to Alek and told him she was carrying his child, and asked him to marry her.
Alek, and Ellie had rough childhoods. Alek's childhood made him a cold man. He never let his heart feel. Ellie started chipping away at the wall he had built around his heart. There was a point she almost gave up. It was at the point that he knew he loved her, and started fighting for the love that was between them. It turned out to be a sweet book.
Alek, and Ellie had rough childhoods. Alek's childhood made him a cold man. He never let his heart feel. Ellie started chipping away at the wall he had built around his heart. There was a point she almost gave up. It was at the point that he knew he loved her, and started fighting for the love that was between them. It turned out to be a sweet book.
January 1, 2016
Esta novelita es linda como todo, no separando cada parte porque ahí sí que no funciona. Me gusta la simplicidad de la protagonista y lo valiente que fue, no se amedrenta y tiene una relación muy adulta con el héroe. Sharon Kendrick escribe buenos Harlequines; te cuenta una linda historia de amor con todas las inseguridades que puede tener una pareja real. Era una de mis lecturas "must" del challenge porque la tenía en el kindle hacía mucho.
October 20, 2015
This book was just OK. I mean I know what to expect from a Harlequin. This was free on Amazon so I figured what the heck? Aside from the silly game playing, and the ridiculous plot I enjoyed the character development and watching the MCs grow to know each other and themselves was a nice read.
June 10, 2015
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September 25, 2016
There was something I didn't really like this book that made me hesitant about reading another one night with consequences series book. But it ended well
December 17, 2022
Ellie adalah pelayan di hotel tempat Alek menginap, dan Alex sudah tertarik kepada Ellie sejak pertama kali melihatnya. Alex mengajak Ellie minum di suatu malam selepas jam kerja Ellie, dan dengan impulsif Alex mencium gadis itu. Ellie sendiri tidak menolak, tapi dia tahu hal tersebut adalah salah. Ketika berita tentang dirinya dan Alex menyebar, Ellie dipecat dari hotel. Alek yang merasa reputasinya tercoreng mendatangi Ellie dengan marah, tapi akhirnya berakhir dengan tidur bersama gadis itu.
Ellie hamil, dan ingin meminta Alek menikahinya. Masa lalunya yang besar tanpa kehadiran seorang ayah membuat Ellie tidak ingin anaknya juga mengalami hal yang sama. Meski sempat ditentang oleh Alek, akhirnya dia menikahi Ellie dengan kesepakatan mereka akan berpisah setelah anak mereka lahir. Hanya saja ketertarikan di antara keduanya membuat mereka bepikir, bahwa mereka gila jika tidak memanfaatkan kesempatan bersama ini untuk dinikmati. Tapi kebersamaan mereka tidak cukup bagi Ellie, karena dia merasa ada bagian dari diri Alek yang masih disembunyikan.
Membaca HQ ini saya kok jadi sedikit iba sama Alek ya... dia memang punya masa lalu yang kelam, membuat dia membatasi diri dan tidak percaya dengan struktur bernama keluarga. Ellie yang awalnya hanya ingin agar anaknya menjadi sah dan memiliki seorang ayah, mulai menginginkan lebih banyak. Dia ingin Alek terbuka padanya. Ellie bisa berkata dia menjadi berdamai dengan masa lalunya setelah bertemu ayah kandungnya, tapi seharusnya dia tidak menuntut Alek seperti dirinya. Toh mereka sudah membuat kesepakatan di awal. Tapi ya... HQ mah berakhir bahagia. Untungnya Alek bisa berubah setelah hampir kehilangan anaknya sendiri.
Ellie hamil, dan ingin meminta Alek menikahinya. Masa lalunya yang besar tanpa kehadiran seorang ayah membuat Ellie tidak ingin anaknya juga mengalami hal yang sama. Meski sempat ditentang oleh Alek, akhirnya dia menikahi Ellie dengan kesepakatan mereka akan berpisah setelah anak mereka lahir. Hanya saja ketertarikan di antara keduanya membuat mereka bepikir, bahwa mereka gila jika tidak memanfaatkan kesempatan bersama ini untuk dinikmati. Tapi kebersamaan mereka tidak cukup bagi Ellie, karena dia merasa ada bagian dari diri Alek yang masih disembunyikan.
Membaca HQ ini saya kok jadi sedikit iba sama Alek ya... dia memang punya masa lalu yang kelam, membuat dia membatasi diri dan tidak percaya dengan struktur bernama keluarga. Ellie yang awalnya hanya ingin agar anaknya menjadi sah dan memiliki seorang ayah, mulai menginginkan lebih banyak. Dia ingin Alek terbuka padanya. Ellie bisa berkata dia menjadi berdamai dengan masa lalunya setelah bertemu ayah kandungnya, tapi seharusnya dia tidak menuntut Alek seperti dirinya. Toh mereka sudah membuat kesepakatan di awal. Tapi ya... HQ mah berakhir bahagia. Untungnya Alek bisa berubah setelah hampir kehilangan anaknya sendiri.
August 28, 2017
So typical HQP. That demanding, hard-ass hero, sweet heroine, one night stand, and the predictable pregnancy. Sounds OS and it is but there's more underneath both his and her childhoods that is eventually revealed. Not to excuse or pardon the hero's attitude but even in real life it's damned hard to rise above dysfunctional childhoods. Anyhow, I always find it interesting and fulfilling to see the hard-nosed hero slowly begin to unravel, one little soft feeling at a time.
ALSO: I love a good groveling by a hero - Alek didn't grovel enough. Hehehehe, I wanted more!
One thing that had me squeezing my eyes shut and wanting to scream: while this book is part of a series called "One Night With Consequences" there are secondary characters / couples who belong in TWO other, individual series. I was like a maniac trying to track down all those other titles so I could dig them out (yes, I do have them all, I've been buying the Presents ever since Book #1, but those particular books I haven't read yet), but I decided it was a waste of good reading time - I'll find them eventually and read them eventually. There's no rush.
ALSO: I love a good groveling by a hero - Alek didn't grovel enough. Hehehehe, I wanted more!
One thing that had me squeezing my eyes shut and wanting to scream: while this book is part of a series called "One Night With Consequences" there are secondary characters / couples who belong in TWO other, individual series. I was like a maniac trying to track down all those other titles so I could dig them out (yes, I do have them all, I've been buying the Presents ever since Book #1, but those particular books I haven't read yet), but I decided it was a waste of good reading time - I'll find them eventually and read them eventually. There's no rush.
December 20, 2021
Not good enough to be typical
Harlequin Presents are exotic destination books as well as romance novels. They star an English girl and a foreign business man. He is sexy, demanding, mysterious and foreboding. She isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, usually. Sometimes she's smart. But they are always dumb enough to allow their entire lives to be dictated by the mercurial man who has taken control. This book is a pretty poor example of a Presents because the author is trying to modernize an idea that was old fashioned when it came out. The descriptions of the beautiful places are almost entirely ditched. Instead, we get a traumatic childhood backstory, no one asked for. The reason these books work is the prince sweeps the fair maiden away to a foreign land where she shall be his love. She falls in love with the land and him. But he never tells her that he loves her and she doesn't understand that he's showing her instead of telling. Because she's not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, she also listens to an ex-lover that is motivated to want her gone. She runs he chases. And that is a way more compelling story than this garbage.
Harlequin Presents are exotic destination books as well as romance novels. They star an English girl and a foreign business man. He is sexy, demanding, mysterious and foreboding. She isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, usually. Sometimes she's smart. But they are always dumb enough to allow their entire lives to be dictated by the mercurial man who has taken control. This book is a pretty poor example of a Presents because the author is trying to modernize an idea that was old fashioned when it came out. The descriptions of the beautiful places are almost entirely ditched. Instead, we get a traumatic childhood backstory, no one asked for. The reason these books work is the prince sweeps the fair maiden away to a foreign land where she shall be his love. She falls in love with the land and him. But he never tells her that he loves her and she doesn't understand that he's showing her instead of telling. Because she's not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, she also listens to an ex-lover that is motivated to want her gone. She runs he chases. And that is a way more compelling story than this garbage.
June 21, 2018
Not a fan of the heroine
I tried to like the heroine in this book. At first she was fine, even someone you could root for, but as the book grew on she got worse. She decided, with nothing but her personal experience to go on, that she knew the best way for her new husband to deal with his traumatic childhood. She even went as far as to ‘end their relationship ‘ because he wasn’t confronting his past as she wanted. No suggestion of counseling, therapy, or having a professional who works with trauma step in. No instead this uneducated 23 year old decided she was the expert on how the man she loved she be able to deal with the very real demons that marked his upbringing. The fact that in the end the H took her advice, cried, and then thanked her for showing him what to do was the end for me. I can accept a lot Harlequin but this was too much to swallow.
I tried to like the heroine in this book. At first she was fine, even someone you could root for, but as the book grew on she got worse. She decided, with nothing but her personal experience to go on, that she knew the best way for her new husband to deal with his traumatic childhood. She even went as far as to ‘end their relationship ‘ because he wasn’t confronting his past as she wanted. No suggestion of counseling, therapy, or having a professional who works with trauma step in. No instead this uneducated 23 year old decided she was the expert on how the man she loved she be able to deal with the very real demons that marked his upbringing. The fact that in the end the H took her advice, cried, and then thanked her for showing him what to do was the end for me. I can accept a lot Harlequin but this was too much to swallow.
June 24, 2020
I don't like the beginning of the story, the heroine seemed like a clown for talking to the journalist and for asking the hero to marry him LMAOOO. All jokes on her. And the heroine wasn't a virgin. But as the story flew, i grew to like the story. The hero had his demon because of his past, finding out he got a twin brother made a conflict between these two, though at the end the hero was willing to face it all.
October 13, 2018
Carrying the Greek's Heir
After a short affair gone wrong she finds herself fired from her job and pregnant. She confronts him and demands marriage. With her background she needs her child to be taken care of. But he also doesn't want her to get to close. He has his own demons from his childhood. Will they be able to help each other enough for love to grow?
After a short affair gone wrong she finds herself fired from her job and pregnant. She confronts him and demands marriage. With her background she needs her child to be taken care of. But he also doesn't want her to get to close. He has his own demons from his childhood. Will they be able to help each other enough for love to grow?
August 28, 2020
A typical Mills & Boon read where a one night stand results in an unplanned pregnancy. Even though our couple initially comes together for the sake of their unborn child, I appreciated that the author gave us a heroine that I felt would have made it as a single parent.
May 19, 2017
My first Sharon Kendrick story. Not the cheezy romance the cover suggested. It was a quick, emotional ride. Perfect for a lazy weekend. I plan to check-out more from her.
May 27, 2017
Good book. Recommend this book!!
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