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Marriage Mayhem #1
The Marriage Contract
~ Jai ~
When I learned that my parents had sold me into marriage to pay off my sister's debts, I was in no way surprised. They'd taken everything else from me my entire life. Why not my freedom, too? But Jake D'Amato is unlike anyone I have ever met. He's sweet and kind, and seems to really care about me. When my family decides my sister would make him a better husband, I put my foot down. For once in my life, I was going to fight for what I wanted, and I wanted Jake.
~ Jake ~
I hadn't gotten to where I was in life without learning to fight for what I wanted, and the moment I discover the abuse Jai Thomas is suffering due to his family, I decided I wanted him. Getting him to agree was going to be the hard part. He wanted no part of my money, which was a switch for me, but it also intrigued me enough to consider making our marriage of convenience permanent. I just had to keep his family away from him long enough to convince him to take a chance on a total stranger. Easier said than done when his sister decides she wants to replace Jai, not for my affections, but for my bank account.
When I learned that my parents had sold me into marriage to pay off my sister's debts, I was in no way surprised. They'd taken everything else from me my entire life. Why not my freedom, too? But Jake D'Amato is unlike anyone I have ever met. He's sweet and kind, and seems to really care about me. When my family decides my sister would make him a better husband, I put my foot down. For once in my life, I was going to fight for what I wanted, and I wanted Jake.
~ Jake ~
I hadn't gotten to where I was in life without learning to fight for what I wanted, and the moment I discover the abuse Jai Thomas is suffering due to his family, I decided I wanted him. Getting him to agree was going to be the hard part. He wanted no part of my money, which was a switch for me, but it also intrigued me enough to consider making our marriage of convenience permanent. I just had to keep his family away from him long enough to convince him to take a chance on a total stranger. Easier said than done when his sister decides she wants to replace Jai, not for my affections, but for my bank account.
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First published September 22, 2022
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October 27, 2022
2✨ shameful ✨ stars
why shameful? because this book was next level of stupidity. look, I don’t wanna shame anyone but— BAHAAHHHHHAGSGAHHAHAHA H I AM WHEEEEEZING !!! 💀💀
OH MY FUCKING GOD, I swear this story straight up comes from some obsessive daydreamer 😂 I can’t stop laughing!!! HELP 😭😭😭 BAHSHHSHAH OKAY SO— It was all kinds of ridiculous from plot to storyline, one scene to another LMAO so either you guys 1) don’t read this 2) don’t look forward to realism or even depth 3) expect stupid entertainment and you should be fine. really, I was so entertained by this book! had me snorting for all the eye rolling scenes. And lemme say, the WHOLE book is eye rolling okay. at some point, I had to fucking close my eyes and take a deeeeepp breath because how the heck am I here?
PFFTTT (I still can’t stop laughing) 😭😭🤣🤣have you ever encounter something that’s so stupid you can’t even be annoyed anymore but just laugh so hard about it? this book is THAT THING 😭😭😭 And EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I was about to swoon, the fucking MCs decide to be idiots and the scenes switch to something so ridiculous out of nowhere HAHAGAGAG it kept coming back 😭😭😭 I SWEAR I SNORTED SO HARD EVERYTIME 😭😭
had to give it a 2 because I couldn’t stop reading, there were some cute moments (even though it was interrupted by some stupid scenes like I said) and this so called someone’s-daydream-written-in-a-wattpad-style made me laughed so hard. And I swear the drama at 80% makes it worse BAHAAHHHHHH 😭😭 LIKE PLEASE JUST STOP HAHSHSHSH IM FUCKING DYING WRITING THIS 💀
okay, phew! deep breaths
tbh, I wanted to give it a 4 at first, because it was really (rashly) entertaining and I always rate these books higher (who doesn’t love entertainment, right?) but I wouldn’t put this thoughtless storyline under my 4 stars shelf. So sorry, but seriously what the heck.
why shameful? because this book was next level of stupidity. look, I don’t wanna shame anyone but— BAHAAHHHHHAGSGAHHAHAHA H I AM WHEEEEEZING !!! 💀💀
OH MY FUCKING GOD, I swear this story straight up comes from some obsessive daydreamer 😂 I can’t stop laughing!!! HELP 😭😭😭 BAHSHHSHAH OKAY SO— It was all kinds of ridiculous from plot to storyline, one scene to another LMAO so either you guys 1) don’t read this 2) don’t look forward to realism or even depth 3) expect stupid entertainment and you should be fine. really, I was so entertained by this book! had me snorting for all the eye rolling scenes. And lemme say, the WHOLE book is eye rolling okay. at some point, I had to fucking close my eyes and take a deeeeepp breath because how the heck am I here?
PFFTTT (I still can’t stop laughing) 😭😭🤣🤣have you ever encounter something that’s so stupid you can’t even be annoyed anymore but just laugh so hard about it? this book is THAT THING 😭😭😭 And EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I was about to swoon, the fucking MCs decide to be idiots and the scenes switch to something so ridiculous out of nowhere HAHAGAGAG it kept coming back 😭😭😭 I SWEAR I SNORTED SO HARD EVERYTIME 😭😭
had to give it a 2 because I couldn’t stop reading, there were some cute moments (even though it was interrupted by some stupid scenes like I said) and this so called someone’s-daydream-written-in-a-wattpad-style made me laughed so hard. And I swear the drama at 80% makes it worse BAHAAHHHHHH 😭😭 LIKE PLEASE JUST STOP HAHSHSHSH IM FUCKING DYING WRITING THIS 💀
okay, phew! deep breaths
tbh, I wanted to give it a 4 at first, because it was really (rashly) entertaining and I always rate these books higher (who doesn’t love entertainment, right?) but I wouldn’t put this thoughtless storyline under my 4 stars shelf. So sorry, but seriously what the heck.
September 25, 2022
If you’re 16 and you still get a kick out of Cinderella this is your book.
October 31, 2022
DNF at 23%
I knew going in this would be no masterpiece, and was prepared to Not See many things, but man, I have a limit.
It was so much nonsense I couldn't handle it. The entire job setup was weird and nonsensical, the eeevil OTT family didn't honestly make much sense with the money/connection/??...who knows what else would have cropped up.
As much as I love the totally-not-legal nonsense that leads to arranged marriage/fake marriage plots, this was too much. Signing contracts for an adult? Weird prenup stipulations? It didn't work for me. i couldn't roll with this for a fake-marriage instigator. :(
Also a major pet peeve - the noble idiot poor MC turning down free, stringless money from rich MC for absolutely no reason. You fuckin moron.
The writing was not good enough for me to vibe past all of that. Most of the characters sounded the same.
The final straw.....why are they flying to Canada to get married?? How is that faster or more legal?? Just get hitched in your city, he's fast tracking a passport, why not just fast track a marriage license instead. what the hell lmao
overall, i could not. what even was this
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I knew going in this would be no masterpiece, and was prepared to Not See many things, but man, I have a limit.
It was so much nonsense I couldn't handle it. The entire job setup was weird and nonsensical, the eeevil OTT family didn't honestly make much sense with the money/connection/??...who knows what else would have cropped up.
As much as I love the totally-not-legal nonsense that leads to arranged marriage/fake marriage plots, this was too much. Signing contracts for an adult? Weird prenup stipulations? It didn't work for me. i couldn't roll with this for a fake-marriage instigator. :(
Also a major pet peeve - the noble idiot poor MC turning down free, stringless money from rich MC for absolutely no reason. You fuckin moron.
The writing was not good enough for me to vibe past all of that. Most of the characters sounded the same.
The final straw.....why are they flying to Canada to get married?? How is that faster or more legal?? Just get hitched in your city, he's fast tracking a passport, why not just fast track a marriage license instead. what the hell lmao
overall, i could not. what even was this
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September 26, 2022
This book makes no sense in so many ways.
I kept being unclear about whether it was set on this earth or a fictionalized one. Arguing for the former: there is no supernatural stuff (I think?), arguing for the latter: none of the characters make any sense and their behaviour so weird as to make me actually assume (again, I think, incorrectly) that the world is one of thoese alpha/omega ones where selling one's children to be married isn't so surprising.
So, here's the basic plot summary:
* young guy is being forced by his violent dad into bankrolling his entire family in NYC on his salary as a marketing assistant
* his uber rich boss gets worried and decides to intervene
* something something his boss pays $50,000 "as a dowry" to buy him as a husband
* they get married, and his sister tries to force herself at the boss because wants a dowry
* they go on a honeymoon to the rich guy's estates around the world, but it turns out that his horrible family actually sold their son twice, the other time to some mafia loanshark dude, so they interrupt the Italy part of their honeymoon so as to buy the young guy out of being called in by mafia dude
* they have a triumphant return to NYC that young dude's family crashes and then there are a bunch of hijinks and coincidences.
All of this is bad in a 50-shades-of-gray billionaire porn kind of bad way. And yeah, some of the badness in the writing is familiar badness of a typical romance novel sort, too. For example, if his eyes were slightly different, the young guy would be less hot:
"I was fascinated by those eyes. They weren't deep emerald green, but more of a light sea green color. I had an urge to take off his glasses and just stare into his eyes. I imagined I could do it for hours."
And the older dude is rich (something something tech gadget), so of course he has the penthouse with the fingerprint-activated elevator. But for the dinner he arranges after he and the young guy get married, of course, they have, uh, steak and lobster with baked potatoes. He's been showing off all day (they got their rings at Cartier); I'm sure that he'd bring in something more exciting, but the author doesn't really know what that would be. (Also, the young guy has never eaten lobster: leaving aside that a fancy meal would have, like, lobster medallions in beurre blanc, or filling ravioli or with pasta, not, "here, have a crustacean", with a little back story ["I'm from Maine", or "I needed to know you can be adventurous", or whatever], eating a whole lobster when you've never had it is *hard*. And this book skips it, probably because, you know, the author has never eaten lobster, but knows it's fancy.)
Similarly, Jai is a marketing assistant. So now that he's marrying the CEO, he, uh, needs a new job. He'll, uh, be marketing assistant to his husband. Doing, uh, all those marketing needs a CEO has. We don't know what those are, of course:
"What will I be doing?"
"You'll still be a marketing assistant. You'll just be my marketing assistant. You will be expected to attend all of my business meetings with me so that means you can travel with me, and you'll have to handle all of my marketing needs and coordinate with the marketing director at the company to see that it's done. I hope you can handle that.”
["Handling all my marketing needs" is my new euphemism for sex.]
Oh and the older dude is named "Jakue", though he goes by Jake. He chose that name, of course (plot twist not worth going into). The Internet tells me that this is a real Basque name, but Jake isn't Basque, I don't think. Oh, and he went to Harvard despite growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. (As an MIT alum, I kind of appreciate that for a change of pace, the tech billionaire is a Harvard grad. Sadly, this is much more often correct than the more common romance novel trope with the guy who started MIT at 15 and graduated with 3 majors at 18.)
The book reads as if we're in the tiniest of towns. Our hero knows everyone in every public service; sure, he's rich, but he's not grown up this way. Jai's family (who are not special in any way) are still somehow also known. Jai's family are also cartoon villains, but that's less surprising. And then we have penthouse visits and private jets and all of that shit on the other side.
Look, I get that romance novels are trope-y, and that "billionaire company owner throws all his resources at helping out younger guy with exact shade of green eyes and they have The Perfect Sex [I've spared you that, gentle reader] and his family gets what's coming to them" fits the tropes. But this book doesn't actually understand the real world around those tropes. It doesn't understand debts or contacts or expensive restaurants or marketing or passports or international travel. And those misunderstandings make it not just full of tropes, but inhibit suspension of disbelief. Please write about what you know, or push to a fantasy setting, where your weird world-builiding is less jarring.
I kept being unclear about whether it was set on this earth or a fictionalized one. Arguing for the former: there is no supernatural stuff (I think?), arguing for the latter: none of the characters make any sense and their behaviour so weird as to make me actually assume (again, I think, incorrectly) that the world is one of thoese alpha/omega ones where selling one's children to be married isn't so surprising.
So, here's the basic plot summary:
* young guy is being forced by his violent dad into bankrolling his entire family in NYC on his salary as a marketing assistant
* his uber rich boss gets worried and decides to intervene
* something something his boss pays $50,000 "as a dowry" to buy him as a husband
* they get married, and his sister tries to force herself at the boss because wants a dowry
* they go on a honeymoon to the rich guy's estates around the world, but it turns out that his horrible family actually sold their son twice, the other time to some mafia loanshark dude, so they interrupt the Italy part of their honeymoon so as to buy the young guy out of being called in by mafia dude
* they have a triumphant return to NYC that young dude's family crashes and then there are a bunch of hijinks and coincidences.
All of this is bad in a 50-shades-of-gray billionaire porn kind of bad way. And yeah, some of the badness in the writing is familiar badness of a typical romance novel sort, too. For example, if his eyes were slightly different, the young guy would be less hot:
"I was fascinated by those eyes. They weren't deep emerald green, but more of a light sea green color. I had an urge to take off his glasses and just stare into his eyes. I imagined I could do it for hours."
And the older dude is rich (something something tech gadget), so of course he has the penthouse with the fingerprint-activated elevator. But for the dinner he arranges after he and the young guy get married, of course, they have, uh, steak and lobster with baked potatoes. He's been showing off all day (they got their rings at Cartier); I'm sure that he'd bring in something more exciting, but the author doesn't really know what that would be. (Also, the young guy has never eaten lobster: leaving aside that a fancy meal would have, like, lobster medallions in beurre blanc, or filling ravioli or with pasta, not, "here, have a crustacean", with a little back story ["I'm from Maine", or "I needed to know you can be adventurous", or whatever], eating a whole lobster when you've never had it is *hard*. And this book skips it, probably because, you know, the author has never eaten lobster, but knows it's fancy.)
Similarly, Jai is a marketing assistant. So now that he's marrying the CEO, he, uh, needs a new job. He'll, uh, be marketing assistant to his husband. Doing, uh, all those marketing needs a CEO has. We don't know what those are, of course:
"What will I be doing?"
"You'll still be a marketing assistant. You'll just be my marketing assistant. You will be expected to attend all of my business meetings with me so that means you can travel with me, and you'll have to handle all of my marketing needs and coordinate with the marketing director at the company to see that it's done. I hope you can handle that.”
["Handling all my marketing needs" is my new euphemism for sex.]
Oh and the older dude is named "Jakue", though he goes by Jake. He chose that name, of course (plot twist not worth going into). The Internet tells me that this is a real Basque name, but Jake isn't Basque, I don't think. Oh, and he went to Harvard despite growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. (As an MIT alum, I kind of appreciate that for a change of pace, the tech billionaire is a Harvard grad. Sadly, this is much more often correct than the more common romance novel trope with the guy who started MIT at 15 and graduated with 3 majors at 18.)
The book reads as if we're in the tiniest of towns. Our hero knows everyone in every public service; sure, he's rich, but he's not grown up this way. Jai's family (who are not special in any way) are still somehow also known. Jai's family are also cartoon villains, but that's less surprising. And then we have penthouse visits and private jets and all of that shit on the other side.
Look, I get that romance novels are trope-y, and that "billionaire company owner throws all his resources at helping out younger guy with exact shade of green eyes and they have The Perfect Sex [I've spared you that, gentle reader] and his family gets what's coming to them" fits the tropes. But this book doesn't actually understand the real world around those tropes. It doesn't understand debts or contacts or expensive restaurants or marketing or passports or international travel. And those misunderstandings make it not just full of tropes, but inhibit suspension of disbelief. Please write about what you know, or push to a fantasy setting, where your weird world-builiding is less jarring.
July 24, 2023
Yo, this was ACTUALLY GOOD?
The underlying Cinderella trope in this made me eat this book all up.
Jake and Jai are so cute and perfect and I adore this book.
The underlying Cinderella trope in this made me eat this book all up.
Jake and Jai are so cute and perfect and I adore this book.
March 20, 2023
60% OTT CHEESY NONSENSE
April 16, 2024
This book gets a gold star 🌟 for loopholes avoidance tactics...the inside if that star is chocolate, and it's covered in hold foil, but still, hold star.
It's cheesy, out, but I didn't outright hate it.
Would I read the other books in this series?
It's cheesy, out, but I didn't outright hate it.
Would I read the other books in this series?
October 25, 2022
Unbelievable, but soooo fun... (a fairytale, Cinderfella)
We learn how horrible Jai's family is to him, since childhood, absolutely brutal and appallingly evil.
Jake, tall and handsome is Jai's boss,
he overhears a phone conversation, and puts a plan in order. He gets information and makes a huge decision.
He'll offer to marry Jai
and pay the debts, just to get that sweet young man, 25, away from the hate filled, abusive people. It's hard to hear how they treated Jai, but it's so bad, it's hard to believe. Suspend your need for perfection and simply enjoy this story.
Jake quickly gets married to Jai and convince him that he means what he says.
I liked these two characters and their relationship. I especially liked how Jake took care of Jai and protected him. Their sexy times are super hot.
Jai's family, especially his sister, were over-the-top horrible, but I really liked this story.
Bad guys got their due, and our men get their happy ever after.
ENJOY !
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We learn how horrible Jai's family is to him, since childhood, absolutely brutal and appallingly evil.
Jake, tall and handsome is Jai's boss,
he overhears a phone conversation, and puts a plan in order. He gets information and makes a huge decision.
He'll offer to marry Jai
and pay the debts, just to get that sweet young man, 25, away from the hate filled, abusive people. It's hard to hear how they treated Jai, but it's so bad, it's hard to believe. Suspend your need for perfection and simply enjoy this story.
Jake quickly gets married to Jai and convince him that he means what he says.
I liked these two characters and their relationship. I especially liked how Jake took care of Jai and protected him. Their sexy times are super hot.
Jai's family, especially his sister, were over-the-top horrible, but I really liked this story.
Bad guys got their due, and our men get their happy ever after.
ENJOY !
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September 27, 2022Im a sucker for contract marriages… but what did i just read. 😩
June 1, 2024
There were so many different things going on in this story. It was a little out there I felt like I was reading a soap opera. Things after things kept happening and it got crazier and crazier. It was a good read I enjoyed every second of it. I do think it was a little unrealistic and all the drama was not necessary. Straight out crazy but in a fun way.
September 27, 2022
Fun and a little silly making a perfect cold night read
I love Aja Foxx’s books because they have that perfect mix of sweet romance and silly action film. Is it likely that any of this would happen in real life? No way. But then I also highly doubt Ryan Reynolds is taking part in too many high speed car chases or that Bruce Willis has ever fought a man on the wing of a moving plane. The crazy drama and silliness is what makes these books so much fun. They take you out of your head and into a crazy world where all kinds of things can happen, including finding true love when you most need it and being able to solve all your problems. It’s fun, it’s sweet and it’s bound to put a big smile on your face.
I love Aja Foxx’s books because they have that perfect mix of sweet romance and silly action film. Is it likely that any of this would happen in real life? No way. But then I also highly doubt Ryan Reynolds is taking part in too many high speed car chases or that Bruce Willis has ever fought a man on the wing of a moving plane. The crazy drama and silliness is what makes these books so much fun. They take you out of your head and into a crazy world where all kinds of things can happen, including finding true love when you most need it and being able to solve all your problems. It’s fun, it’s sweet and it’s bound to put a big smile on your face.
January 14, 2023
1.5 gwiazdki, spodziewałam się czegoś innego. To było bez sensu, ale przeczytałam do końca 🙈
July 18, 2023
I was kinda wanted to murder some female characters in this story. Seeing them chasing after money was unrealistic, lol.
I'm seriously finished the story just to see them suffer in the end.
They did!
I'm seriously finished the story just to see them suffer in the end.
They did!
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June 30, 2024DNF This was not what I was expecting. No reviw
December 28, 2025
Ridiculous, but I finished it.
2.5 ⭐️
2.5 ⭐️
November 16, 2022
Suspend all belief, ye who read this! Good lord. I'm all for OTT Bad Guys and far-fetched storylines - I read paranormal romances where men can get pregnant and give birth to DRAGON EGGS, for Pete's sake - but this is Next Level ridiculousness!
Jai is 25. His father beats him (not just that, but *comes over to Jai's apartment to do so AND JAI LETS HIM IN*), his mother threatens him with fatherly beatings, his twin sister calls him useless and a loser in one breath, and demands $2000 in the next. He allows them to take 75% of his paycheque. He gives token pushback when he's told they've basically sold him into marriage (no, this is not an A/B/O universe), and believes there's nothing wrong with his father having signed a pre-nup on his behalf. Again, he's 25. And of sound mind. Not under a conservatorship, or having signed over power-of-attorney. YOU'RE AN ADULT. Tell them all to fuck off, go no contact, change your phone number, and reclaim your paycheque, ffs!
And then gets upset that a bodyguard who presents as just a driver would be treated as just staff, because "there's nothing wrong with only being a driver! That's just wrong!" Excuse me while I roll my eyes so hard I can see out the back of my skull. Good grief. I get it, Jai is supposed to be The Good One in a family of Baddies, but come on. Is there such a thing as too OTT? I didn't think so, but this book is telling me I might have been wrong.
Jai's sister Jasmine is cartoonish in her level of whorish gold-digging.
And yet...I read the whole thing. And despite how wildly cartoonish the whole thing was, I kind of enjoyed it. Like, I know pie is good in moderation. But when I decide I want pumpkin pie, I'm not just going to stop at a sliver with a small dollop of whipped cream. I'm going to have half the pie in one sitting, and I'm covering the whole thing with an inch of Cool Whip, calories be damned. Yeah, I know it's not healthy for me, but sometimes I just WANT it, y'know? This book was that Cool Whip-covered half pie. 🤷🏻♀️
Jai is 25. His father beats him (not just that, but *comes over to Jai's apartment to do so AND JAI LETS HIM IN*), his mother threatens him with fatherly beatings, his twin sister calls him useless and a loser in one breath, and demands $2000 in the next. He allows them to take 75% of his paycheque. He gives token pushback when he's told they've basically sold him into marriage (no, this is not an A/B/O universe), and believes there's nothing wrong with his father having signed a pre-nup on his behalf. Again, he's 25. And of sound mind. Not under a conservatorship, or having signed over power-of-attorney. YOU'RE AN ADULT. Tell them all to fuck off, go no contact, change your phone number, and reclaim your paycheque, ffs!
And then gets upset that a bodyguard who presents as just a driver would be treated as just staff, because "there's nothing wrong with only being a driver! That's just wrong!" Excuse me while I roll my eyes so hard I can see out the back of my skull. Good grief. I get it, Jai is supposed to be The Good One in a family of Baddies, but come on. Is there such a thing as too OTT? I didn't think so, but this book is telling me I might have been wrong.
Jai's sister Jasmine is cartoonish in her level of whorish gold-digging.
And yet...I read the whole thing. And despite how wildly cartoonish the whole thing was, I kind of enjoyed it. Like, I know pie is good in moderation. But when I decide I want pumpkin pie, I'm not just going to stop at a sliver with a small dollop of whipped cream. I'm going to have half the pie in one sitting, and I'm covering the whole thing with an inch of Cool Whip, calories be damned. Yeah, I know it's not healthy for me, but sometimes I just WANT it, y'know? This book was that Cool Whip-covered half pie. 🤷🏻♀️
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October 20, 2024The reviews are incredibly torn on this one, and understandably so! My first book by Aja Foxx and my brain has them linked with mafia so I was expecting this to be ridiculous and it was but to a level where I just rolled with it (I mean I did read Alli-Frogs yesterday, who am I to judge?)
I think the biggest struggle in believing this HEA is the fact that Jai has so much fucking trauma that he is numbed to such an extent that he's like "sold into marriage? Alright y'all" and instantly falls for the man he doesn't know (who is perfect (psst he's nearly a billionaire ofc he's perfect)) who is the first person to show him bog standard kindness.
The storyline and chatacters are OTT to such an extent they read like caricatures so I wasn't as mad at the misogyny as I'd typically be but it's still a big yikes.
Saw the green eye plot "twist" coming from a mile away, his family deserves everything shit and more and I'm glad he stood up to them.
NSFW infos
- Jai small man in his twenties who is too thin cause he often starves himself giving away too much of his paycheck to his evil family(bottoms)
- Millionaire CEO who sees him and makes him marry him (power imbalance is serious bro) (tops and makes them go bare from get go w/o showing his own test results)
- somnophilia (Jai wakes Jakue (who is only ever called that in combo with his surname otherwise Jake?) with a blowjob which wasn't consented to beforehand)
I think the biggest struggle in believing this HEA is the fact that Jai has so much fucking trauma that he is numbed to such an extent that he's like "sold into marriage? Alright y'all" and instantly falls for the man he doesn't know (who is perfect (psst he's nearly a billionaire ofc he's perfect)) who is the first person to show him bog standard kindness.
The storyline and chatacters are OTT to such an extent they read like caricatures so I wasn't as mad at the misogyny as I'd typically be but it's still a big yikes.
Saw the green eye plot "twist" coming from a mile away, his family deserves everything shit and more and I'm glad he stood up to them.
NSFW infos
- Jai small man in his twenties who is too thin cause he often starves himself giving away too much of his paycheck to his evil family(bottoms)
- Millionaire CEO who sees him and makes him marry him (power imbalance is serious bro) (tops and makes them go bare from get go w/o showing his own test results)
- somnophilia (Jai wakes Jakue (who is only ever called that in combo with his surname otherwise Jake?) with a blowjob which wasn't consented to beforehand)
March 26, 2023
DNF @ 4%.
I’m sorry, you open your story with OTT evil twin sister, threatening to get OTT evil parents involved. Couldn’t you just… cut your awful family out of your life? Couldn’t you come up with a better reason why your family must hate you besides having green eyes?
I’m sorry, you open your story with OTT evil twin sister, threatening to get OTT evil parents involved. Couldn’t you just… cut your awful family out of your life? Couldn’t you come up with a better reason why your family must hate you besides having green eyes?
November 25, 2025
3.75⭐️
Spice: 3.5
Tropes & tags:
forced marriage
POV: 1st person, dual
Heat: high heat
Angst: low
HEA: yes
Spice & k!nks:
somnophilia (bj)
Strict top/bottom or versatile: strict top bottom
Content warnings:
Dubcon: no
Noncon: no
emotional, financial, and physical abuse by family ( to Mc)
Spice: 3.5
Tropes & tags:
forced marriage
POV: 1st person, dual
Heat: high heat
Angst: low
HEA: yes
Spice & k!nks:
somnophilia (bj)
Strict top/bottom or versatile: strict top bottom
Content warnings:
Dubcon: no
Noncon: no
emotional, financial, and physical abuse by family ( to Mc)
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December 3, 2022
Crazy plot, flat characters and no flavor whatsoever.
December 3, 2022
What in the wattpad?
January 28, 2023
I didn’t enjoy this one sadly. It started out strong but was a super uneventful read.
February 27, 2023
All I can say is that this reads like a Wattpad story. Inconsistent and underdeveloped characters, flimsy conflict and plot, very bad pacing.
Great premise though.
Great premise though.
dnf
February 22, 2024I really tried but yah, all the low ratings were valid 😂
October 19, 2022
Short and sweet. Loved it.
October 11, 2022
Good
I liked this book. It was predictable but still
with surprises. A very good rom com. No more words. Done
I liked this book. It was predictable but still
with surprises. A very good rom com. No more words. Done
January 29, 2023
No logic
This book did not seem like it would be anything big, just and enjoyable and easy read, but it didn't do great at fulfilling that. It was indeed easy but it was quite difficult to suspend disbelief for the rather ridiculous scenarios and characters to get much enjoyment from such an easy read. At the end most of the relief was of the book being done more than anything else.
Jai has a crappy family who have used and abused him all his life. They sell him off to pay their debts but the man he gets sold to, Jake, actually wants a happy marriage and to help Jai out. So together they make sure to get Jai out from under his family's thumb.
There are several things in this story that are hard to stomach. To start with is Jai's family. They are so over the top bad guys as to be ridiculous. Yes, parents can be abusive, but the ways they are just seems silly. Jai giving all his money all the time to his sister, getting beat up by the Dad, the Mom calling to threaten, etc., etc. Through it all they really are rather dense as well, not understanding simple things and doing stuff that is so stupid. But at the same time we are to believe that they are also smart and sneaky enough that they track and spy on Jai? It didn't match. The end twist with the family just felt utterly unlikely to be orchestrated as well, because records like that don't exactly just disappear. It was so hard to believe anything this family did.
The marriage itself was another big problem. At least with this other people point it out; if Jake wanted to help Jai, why was marriage the most logical choice? He knew nothing about the guy outside of work and a background check and wanted a real marriage. Sure, Jai would have refused money out of charity but a real marriage was not the logical next step. Then they both really do throw themselves into this being a real marriage right off the bat. They say they'll take it slow but after about one conversation they're somehow both madly in love and everything is the best decision ever. The chemistry really wasn't there and it didn't work all that well.
With those two things being the core of the story it was hard to really appreciate anything else, not that there was much else. It was at least a very easy read, so if you're looking for something quick and easy this at least can give you that.
This book did not seem like it would be anything big, just and enjoyable and easy read, but it didn't do great at fulfilling that. It was indeed easy but it was quite difficult to suspend disbelief for the rather ridiculous scenarios and characters to get much enjoyment from such an easy read. At the end most of the relief was of the book being done more than anything else.
Jai has a crappy family who have used and abused him all his life. They sell him off to pay their debts but the man he gets sold to, Jake, actually wants a happy marriage and to help Jai out. So together they make sure to get Jai out from under his family's thumb.
There are several things in this story that are hard to stomach. To start with is Jai's family. They are so over the top bad guys as to be ridiculous. Yes, parents can be abusive, but the ways they are just seems silly. Jai giving all his money all the time to his sister, getting beat up by the Dad, the Mom calling to threaten, etc., etc. Through it all they really are rather dense as well, not understanding simple things and doing stuff that is so stupid. But at the same time we are to believe that they are also smart and sneaky enough that they track and spy on Jai? It didn't match. The end twist with the family just felt utterly unlikely to be orchestrated as well, because records like that don't exactly just disappear. It was so hard to believe anything this family did.
The marriage itself was another big problem. At least with this other people point it out; if Jake wanted to help Jai, why was marriage the most logical choice? He knew nothing about the guy outside of work and a background check and wanted a real marriage. Sure, Jai would have refused money out of charity but a real marriage was not the logical next step. Then they both really do throw themselves into this being a real marriage right off the bat. They say they'll take it slow but after about one conversation they're somehow both madly in love and everything is the best decision ever. The chemistry really wasn't there and it didn't work all that well.
With those two things being the core of the story it was hard to really appreciate anything else, not that there was much else. It was at least a very easy read, so if you're looking for something quick and easy this at least can give you that.
September 26, 2022
Nice little fairytale story
December 10, 2022
1.8 stars
This book was so bad while still being really entertaining. I was hocked from the moment I started reading and the characters made it even better. It was ridiculous yet so fun. To be honest I’d have gave it 2 stars but it wasn’t worth it. There were a lot of phrasing problems, plot holes, and grammar issues. The plot was shallow, vital info about the characters were overlooked and the ending was rushed. The book ends in a HEA, but it felt forced and It seemed like the author was scrambling to connect the gaps in the plot.
It was a frustrating but entertaining read.
Fun review:🕺✨
I’m all for being delusional, but the mc’s sister was a head case. She was a pick me gone wild. The mom💀she was such an enabler. The fact that she truly believed in her daughter’s bull shit was so funny to me. The dad should’ve came with a trigger warning any time he was mentioned. His character was the most shallow out of all of them. I’m pretty sure he only spoke once in the entire book.
I feel shallow characters were a theme in this book. The mc spent so much time proving he wasn’t a ‘gold digger’ that we never discussed his traumatic childhood. The author kept reminding us of it and it would have given him so much depth. This bitch was a flustered mess. (The author might have a thing for green eye with how mush they’re mentioned)🤷
The main love interest is a walking example of the shitty stereotypes people associate with entrepreneurs. He kept reminding the mc of where he ‘came from’ and it got old quick. It also seemed like he was holding that shit on the mc’s head. Also he was hella creepy in the beginning.
Have you ever read a book and thought, “I just know this author writes wear wolf stories too🧍.” That was me throughout most on this story. During one of their ‘spicy’ scenes the mc tells us, “When he pressed a slicked-up finger between my ass cheeks, I spread my legs like a bitch in heat.” 😭😭😭😭 idk why I found this so funny but it had me spiting out my tea.
This book was so bad while still being really entertaining. I was hocked from the moment I started reading and the characters made it even better. It was ridiculous yet so fun. To be honest I’d have gave it 2 stars but it wasn’t worth it. There were a lot of phrasing problems, plot holes, and grammar issues. The plot was shallow, vital info about the characters were overlooked and the ending was rushed. The book ends in a HEA, but it felt forced and It seemed like the author was scrambling to connect the gaps in the plot.
It was a frustrating but entertaining read.
Fun review:🕺✨
I’m all for being delusional, but the mc’s sister was a head case. She was a pick me gone wild. The mom💀she was such an enabler. The fact that she truly believed in her daughter’s bull shit was so funny to me. The dad should’ve came with a trigger warning any time he was mentioned. His character was the most shallow out of all of them. I’m pretty sure he only spoke once in the entire book.
I feel shallow characters were a theme in this book. The mc spent so much time proving he wasn’t a ‘gold digger’ that we never discussed his traumatic childhood. The author kept reminding us of it and it would have given him so much depth. This bitch was a flustered mess. (The author might have a thing for green eye with how mush they’re mentioned)🤷
The main love interest is a walking example of the shitty stereotypes people associate with entrepreneurs. He kept reminding the mc of where he ‘came from’ and it got old quick. It also seemed like he was holding that shit on the mc’s head. Also he was hella creepy in the beginning.
Have you ever read a book and thought, “I just know this author writes wear wolf stories too🧍.” That was me throughout most on this story. During one of their ‘spicy’ scenes the mc tells us, “When he pressed a slicked-up finger between my ass cheeks, I spread my legs like a bitch in heat.” 😭😭😭😭 idk why I found this so funny but it had me spiting out my tea.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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January 29, 2025December 2022 = DNF'd
I need some realism in my romances.
This had -
It's hard to believe this is a contemporary romance. If it had been omegaverse, it would've made a bit of sense. If you approach this as a farce, you might find it amusing from a comedic perspective. But if you try to take it seriously, you'll probably end up with a headache from regularly rolling your eyes at the stupidity of it all. 🙄
🤡 So, buckle up for a laugh and leave the seriousness at the door!
Jai at 25, is living alone, working hard, and struggling to support himself. For years, he's handed over 75% of his income to his cartoonishly evil parents and his equally wicked twin sister. Jai is practically starving and in poor health, while his dad regularly shows up at his apartment to beat him up. This nightmare has been going on since he was 15. He even answers their calls so they can give him orders and berate him.
Jai is a total doormat, but thankfully, his incredibly rich and handsome boss comes to the rescue. Jake pays the evil parents to marry Jai, who is a genuinely kind and hardworking guy who deserves so much better! Jai is SO good, he doesn't want Jake's money. 😇 (Unlike his money-hungry family.)
I managed to get a third of the way in before I had to throw in the towel. Thank goodness I did, because I learned that his family sells him off a second time—this time to a mob boss! And Jai discovers they put a tracker on him, to know where he is at all times. Of course, more chaos follows.
I need some realism in my romances.
This had -
It's hard to believe this is a contemporary romance. If it had been omegaverse, it would've made a bit of sense. If you approach this as a farce, you might find it amusing from a comedic perspective. But if you try to take it seriously, you'll probably end up with a headache from regularly rolling your eyes at the stupidity of it all. 🙄
🤡 So, buckle up for a laugh and leave the seriousness at the door!
Jai at 25, is living alone, working hard, and struggling to support himself. For years, he's handed over 75% of his income to his cartoonishly evil parents and his equally wicked twin sister. Jai is practically starving and in poor health, while his dad regularly shows up at his apartment to beat him up. This nightmare has been going on since he was 15. He even answers their calls so they can give him orders and berate him.
Jai is a total doormat, but thankfully, his incredibly rich and handsome boss comes to the rescue. Jake pays the evil parents to marry Jai, who is a genuinely kind and hardworking guy who deserves so much better! Jai is SO good, he doesn't want Jake's money. 😇 (Unlike his money-hungry family.)
I managed to get a third of the way in before I had to throw in the towel. Thank goodness I did, because I learned that his family sells him off a second time—this time to a mob boss! And Jai discovers they put a tracker on him, to know where he is at all times. Of course, more chaos follows.
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