Reviews for Mala Reputacion

The average rating for Mala Reputacion based on 1 review is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-12 00:00:00 Gianfranco Girotto Rancher hero married the heroine as revenge. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This was a disappointment. Hero blames heroine�s father for his father�s suicide. Seems his father made bad investments based on the heroine�s father�s advice. The hero speculates the father wanted to add to his landholdings and was hoping to buy his family ranch for a song. When the heroine offers her condolences at the funeral, the hero gets the bright idea that the way to wreck vengeance on the father is to come between him and his daughter. Why the father and daughter aren�t already estranged is a mystery. The heroine had been engaged twice before and twice before her father had paid off her suitors to go away. After a three-month courtship with the hero acting the gentleman, he proposes. Heroine accepts and ignores her father�s and brothers� objections. (Hero�s father also offered hero money to go away. Hero never told the heroine this. Why? So she wouldn�t think poorly of her father? If he wanted alienation � this was the way to do it. This made no sense.) Hero is conflicted about hurting the heroine, but he keeps visiting his father�s grave to remember his plans for vengeance. He gives the heroine one last out when he shows up at their courthouse wedding unshaven and wearing jeans and a tattered shirt. Heroine goes through with the wedding. And � Nothing. The H/h get along fine. The heroine cleans and paints the house. She takes over the bookkeeping and cooks and cleans and has sex, sex, sex. But the hero still isn�t happy because he has to see this vengeance thing through. He makes sure the heroine doesn�t see her father. Heroine knows hero has a thing about her father, but she doesn�t know why. She thinks by following the hero's orders and staying away from her family the hero will change his mind over time. To add to the hero�s shortcomings, the heroine realizes the hero has low self-esteem and keeps to himself because he didn�t do well in school. But never fear, hero is just another fix-it project to our intrepid heroine. She has him diagnosed as dyslexic, finds him a tutor, and he learns to read, etc. So it�s time to wrap it up. Right before Christmas, pregnant heroine wants to go to her parent�s for dinner. Hero gives an ultimatum: If she goes, he�ll lock her out. And yes, he knows she�s pregnant. She goes to the dinner and defends the hero to her father, but when she returns she finds that the hero has locked her out. She goes to her brother�s to stay. The POV shifts to the heroine�s father. He realizes he needs to clear the air. He finally tells the hero the real story of his father�s suicide. He had cancer and was going to die soon. He took on risky investments to help his son. When that failed, he killed himself before he got too sick to stop work. Hero accepts this version of the story. And then heroine walks out of their bedroom. Yes that�s right: The hero went to her brother�s house and groveled OFF PAGE. WTH? There were so many things wrong with this choice. No one cares about his reconciliation with his father in law. It�s reconciliation with the heroine that matters and the author chose to do it OFF PAGE. Also: Hero alienating heroine from her father is not vengeance and isn�t an eye for an eye as he tried to justify it. It�s controlling, abusive behavior and why the heroine put up with it is beyond me. The father was also controlling. Heroine admitted her father was right each time he paid off her boyfriends. So she was raised to be a doormat? Sadly, there was nothing admirable about the hero � he was not respected in town. He was considered lazy on top of his lack of school smarts. The heroine helped him gain confidence and get over his pity party. I guess if you like hurt/comfort stories this might appeal to you. It certainly didn�t work for me.