Harlequin Presents Readers discussion

I loved the ending of this one....the story I got a little frustrated with, but liked the way it wrapped up. The characters never really did it for me, but I felt the passion between them and liked the ending. I found the H to be way to arrogant to every really like him, but enjoyed the dialogue. There was also some conflict with the sister that came up and I never really felt it was dealt with or resolved.

I started reading this one before I read the reviews for it. But then I read the reviews and about the heroine's traumatic past, the horrible sister and comments about how the heroine was a total basket case and I got turned off by the book altogether. I am usually not a Carol Marinelli fan, so I think I will skip this one.

yeah, I can see that - Lululemon

I did not care for this one. Once I start reading a book I will finish it, so I did. I found it boring.I have liked some of Carol Marinelli's books. I did not care for the father, though he did change his mind about the h an also brought his wife home. He thought it was fine for him to have affairs but his wife could not have one. The double standard at play. I don't like the cheating at all.

Yeah, there was a lot of things that just didn't work in the book. Like you, I have to finish and because I liked the end, I am glad I did...but that was the only part of this book that was really good for me. I thought the H and his father acted like dinosaurs!

There were some things I liked about this book (gave it ★★★), but I felt like it just didn't go deep enough in character development and motivation.

I never could figure out if the hero was really a chauvinistic playboy or if he just acted the part because that's what people expected of him. There wasn't enough time spent exploring the heroine's past mistakes other than saying she'd been in rehab for an eating disorder and married an older man in an attempt to run away from her family/problems.

And while I really liked the way the book ended up being resolved, the true resolution was left up to an epilogue. I think the part between the last "chapter" and the epilogue would have probably made a more interesting book.

Also, I hate that the brother and sister's story was told in a book from the Harlequin Medical line instead of HP. I think it's confusing for Harlequin to publish continuity stories across lines. (They did the same for Marinelli's Kolovsky series.)

Just picked up this book and wishing I had the brother's story to read first. It's a medical? What is the title?

The brother's story is a HQN Medical -- Secret Sheikh, Secret Baby.

Thanks Kate! I'll download and read it first.