Reviews for Novia Del Deseo: (Bride of Desire)

The average rating for Novia Del Deseo: (Bride of Desire) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-15 00:00:00 Marc Brenneman [Married Englishwoman Allie, 20, engages in an adulterous affair with a hot, 30-something, French doctor, Remy, who has no clue he's become the other man. Uh-oh. While visiting her great aunt in Brittany, Allie meets Remy after he saves her from rising tides overtaking a cove in which she'd taken sanctuary in. (This symbolizes, of course, the liberation from the emotional turmoil Allie's been drowning in ever since she entered into a loveless and unconsummated marriage to a man whose biggest handicap isn't that he's a cripple, but is a verbally abusive jerk. Her reasons for marrying him? Pity, compassion, and emotional blackmail. Seems like alpha-hero logic rubbed off on Allie too.) Like the protagonists of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, Allie and Remy have an all-consuming affair that is as sexual as it is emotional. Since Allie's nobleman husband is bound to a wheelchair they are unable to engage in sexy times. Nothing is more important to him though�and his super-controlling and graceless mother, Grace�than procuring the next Marchington heir. So when Allie announces she has miraculously conceived a child, her news is greeted with joy and a virtual red carpet. Both son and mother are unable to acknowledge the obvious: his inability to father a child and Allie's adultery. For her part, Allie admitted that withholding her marital status from Remy may have been, and I'm paraphrasing, a dumbass move. She hadn't wanted to disturb the romantic dream or lose Remy, which happened anyway. She did try to tell him once, but he fell asleep after they'd had sex for the first time, and the timing just never panned out in other instances (weak excuse, hon). So the honor of spilling the beans went to the evil and wannabe OW, Solange, who arranged for Remy to discover the magazine article detailing Allie's big society wedding. (No worries, revenge fans. Solange actually gets a proper smackdown from Remy! She was pretty vile so I wouldn't have blamed Remy if he'd used bodily force to take her down permanently. LOL.) Things went downhill after the reveal, but Allie and Remy do receive their HEA. Only after she gives birth to his secret love child, the husband conveniently dies, and after a two-year separation, of course. Whew. (It's not clear if Remy remained celibate during their separation. Allie thinks he wouldn't do well with celibacy, and he did have a condom readily available in his wallet when they had reunion sex. I like to believe he only carried it to be responsible, he's a doctor after all. *Rose-colored glasses firmly on.*) So back to the hot topic, the cheating. In a perfect world, Allie would have divorced her husband first and then hooked up with Remy. Or, at least, told Remy the truth before things got out of hand�who admitted later on that he would have stopped seeing Allie if he'd known she was married. As I always say, there'd be no story if people made all the right decisions. It's just a matter of what the reader will tolerate. In this case, I understood how their palpable love and desire for one another led to an affair, which caused them both much suffering later on. (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-11 00:00:00 Paul Stoker Allie�s current existence is comprised of passive aggressive conversations and lonely staring at odd garden features. She has a baby the Nanny and her mother in law don�t really want her to see, and she�s miserable and stuck. A couple of years ago she married an English lord after he had a polo accident that left him a wheelchair. She went to live with him and his mother, and they were awful to her. So awful that she had a mental breakdown and at doctor�s orders took herself off to stay with her great aunt in France. There, she pretended not to be married, and that story involves meeting Remy and is told in lengthy flashback. When she came back she had a baby, her husband died, and she suffered post partum depression. When I had something of an understanding of where this story was going, I had to stop reading. I had to have a think about whether I could do this, with a heroine who seemed to be more in need of a story of sorting out her life and personal growth than romance. I had to talk myself into finishing this book, and I like Sara Craven�s books. Some of them have been enjoyably horrifying and silly, but a few of them have been that perfect emotional build of trial and dramatic payoff. I wasn�t sure if I could persuade myself to suspend judgement on Allie�s decisions enough to enjoy her story. I came back, started again � and it wasn�t a complete struggle to finish this book. Allie does get herself unstuck, and while she never becomes a truly likeable character, I didn�t spend the book hating her and hoping she�d suffer more terrible things, and I cared enough about her to hope she and Remy would work out. Remy�s a good hero � he�s not too good to be true, or far better than Allie deserves, or so horrible that they horribly deserve each other.