Reviews for Herencia De Amor

The average rating for Herencia De Amor based on 1 review is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-17 00:00:00 Dbs Cks Re Temporary Parents - Sara Wood does a second chance romance with an interesting mix of Benny Hill slapstick and some serious angst. The book starts with the 24 yr old baker h mourning the loss of her baby. In a very bleak and bizarre flashback, we learn that when the h was 18 she fell in love with the son of the local prominent family. He claimed to love her back and they had one night of love before familial business duty called him to France. The h soon learned she was pregnant and even worse, the H's parents came to her modest home she shared with her widowed mum and sister. They were very embarrassed over their son's pump and dump behavior, but wanted to explain that he had only had a bit of fun with the h, his fiancee was a nice girl of wealth and breeding currently waiting for the H in Somerset. The parents claimed they wanted to apologize for their son's callous behavior with a respectable village lass, but that the h should not hold hope that she would be seeing the son again. The h was heartbroken and preggers, so she took herself off to London to have her baby and stay with her aunt. Five months later, the h's sister calls her up to let her know that the H is back and that he and the sister are involved in a mad affair. The sister claims she is almost five months pregnant with the H's baby herself and the h spirals into depression. She also stops feeling the baby move and rather than go seek medical help, she mopes about the place and pines until a nearly fatal infection grows. The h is forced to have a hysterectomy in the aftermath of the terrible loss and her pregger sister winds up marrying the H's younger brother. The h hates the H with the fire of a thousand furnaces and her pain is even worse knowing that her beloved sister, who is also the family star in looks and man catching, is having the H's son. The h manages to make a life for herself in London, but she can't stand being around children. She is also in deep mourning and her only friend besides her married and kind male boss is an African Grey Parrot named Fred. Fred was a rescue bird and is a bit battered and manky, but the h loves Fred and we are pretty sure that Fred at least tolerates the h back - she does a good bird seed mix apparently. The H shows up after all this time and he is there to drag the h off to a cottage in Cornwall. It seems that her sister and her brother in law went to Marrakesh in Morocco and got caught with a significant amount of drugs. Their two children, the H and h's nephew and niece, are alone in a cottage with a temporary carer who isn't too keen on the week or so she has been stranded on the stormy Cornish coast. The woman is threatening to call Child Services unless a family member comes to care for the children. The H supposedly has a business meeting in Paris and the h has a phobia about children. Nevertheless, we all go to Cornwall in a huge storm. After the obligatory h slapstick falling about in scanty clothing in front of the H and a few verbal exchanges that rapidly switch between arguing and flirting and teasing each other. The H and h arrive at the dirty small cottage in the midst of a fierce gale. The H shows he is a good person when he goes back out into the storm to carefully bring Fred into the cottage wrapped in his bespoke suite jacket. The niece is a baby and the nephew never speaks. Again the H proves his worth when he brings along a lot of books on childcare and takes over the main parenting duties, while the h vacillates about having to care for someone else's children when she will never have her own. The original plan was to get the children into a better housing situation and hire a really professional nanny. But as the next few days pass and the H and h can't keep their hands or other extremities from clasping together, (often on the kitchen table,) the H and h renew their fierce attraction. After a lot of kid-oriented time, family outings and some more weirdly inserted slapstick comedy, the H professes he loves the h and the h has her ranty moment about him two timing her with a fiancee and then taking up with her sister and being the h's nephews bio father. The H is absolutely stunned. His parents did not want him hooked up with a lower social status village girl, so they lied to the h that he had a fiancee. Then her sister, who has really been massively jealous of the h all her life, lied that the H was having an affair with her. The H despises the sister and thinks she is a slag, he wouldn't even look at her or speak to the woman when his own brother married her. He is estranged from his indifferent parent's as well, they moved to Scotland. The H also blames the h's sister for leading his brother down a path of crime and drugs, then abandoning her own kids to the vagaries of indifferent child minders too boot. The h believes the H and we get a lot more slapstick and happy family outings. Then the H proposes and the h has to do a 180 and refuse, because of her deep, dark secret about her infertility. While the h is being a witch to the H to drive him off, the H has to go to Marrakesh to see if he can help his brother and the h's sister. Later he returns with the news that the gruesome druggie twosome are getting a minimum of twenty years and he and the h will have to adopt the children and raise them as their own. The H proclaims his love and proposes again and this time the h explains about her infertility and being only half a woman and makes plans to leave in the morning. The H spends all night doing icing and cardboard decorations to prove his love to the h. The next morning the h wakes up to a whole host of icing kisses and notes and decorations all proclaiming the H's undying love for her forever. The H does a great speech about how they can get kids almost anywhere, but he can't live without her love. The h finally believes in the H and Fred has learned to say a lot of risque words while getting the nephew to finally speak and become a bit of a chatterbox. We leave the h and H and Fred and kids all happily united into a nice little family, breathing a sigh of relief that SW managed a coherent plot. True, there is a lot of h whining, but it is a highly believable HEA with an H who probably deserved a lot better. The h got on my last nerve with her whining, but the H is shown to be very nice and a good person, so I was forced to round up my 2.5 stars to three, in one of SW's few enjoyable HP outings.