Reviews for Rich Man's Revenge

The average rating for Rich Man's Revenge based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-05-20 00:00:00 Terry Hightower Just a strange story all around. Hero worked for the heroine�s father as part of his security team. When heroine was 16, she and the hero were in the same car accident that killed her mother and grievously wounded the driver. Hero was concerned about the heroine�s quiet grief and trauma after the accident and was nice to her. Heroine thought he was in love with her and visited his room one night. Hero was happily married and threw her out. The next night the heroine�s jealous younger sister tried the same thing and he also threw her out. For his troubles, he was accused of rape, was fired and drummed out of the country. This caused his wife to miscarry, his father to stroke out and for his wife to later commit suicide. Hero has inherited his wealthy wife�s estate and he is now back in New Zealand ready for revenge. Since heroine�s sister is happily married, heroine is the target. He wants a $, shares in the company, an executive position, and one of the daughters to impregnate. Oh, and the heroine has a stalker as well, so he will be her bodyguard while also blackmailing her and her father. So � yeah � it doesn�t make a lot of sense. Are you an avenging alpha or a protective alpha? Pick a lane. Heroine is equally odd. She is traumatized, submissive to her father, but also a talented, workaholic executive. Heroine�s sister never gets a comeuppance for falsely accusing the hero of rape. Hero�s father was part of it all? He is supposed to be a tyrant, but crumbles at the first hint of a threat from the hero and then has a good cry with the heroine at the end. Oh, and there�s a kidnapping from the stalker, just for funsies. I give up.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-24 00:00:00 Whitman Lam I�m not really into SD stories, but this one was a truly nice surprise. It was a nice combination of a little bit of everything I like in a story � drama, suspense, romance, laughter, tears, steam (that last bedroom scene was hot!), and a nice little revenge scheme thrown in for the fun of it. I don�t particularly like revenge-driven plots in HQ and S books, because they�re usually pretty shallow and fall short. This was different, the hero actually had a pretty good reason for wanting revenge and though his plan was cruel and heartless, I somehow understood him (if not condoned his actions). The guy had lost everything, his wife, his child, his home, his reputation. But despite his rage and disdain for everything to do with the heroine�s family, there was that little spark, always hovering in the background. It turned him from cruel and heartless bastard intent on revenge into a man that had lost everything, wanted to make the heroine and her family pay, yet he somehow still couldn�t bring himself to go all the way. Danielle, the heroine, wasn�t your typical SD chick (though, I�m no expert on what makes SD heroines tick). Under her father�s thumb for years, she desperately wanted to get free and took the opportunity Rico offered with both hands. Yet, she was no pushover. She had her goals, she had her vision, and she wanted to live her fantasy life for as long as she could. Because her secret, the last lie and ultimate betrayal, would surely drive him away sooner than he expected. Their romance was sweet, tender, and slow-blooming, covering all ranges from traumatic-events-inspired friendship of four years ago, to disdain and hate (thanks to Danielle�s little sister), to fury and revenge-driven rage, to tentative companionship and friendship, and ultimately love�With the requisite happy ending of course. The only thing spoiling this was the predictability of the resolution to the heroine�s dark little secret (like we didn�t see that one coming a mile away!), the villain (though the suspense undertone set everything in motion, the villain and his motivations just didn�t convince me), and the extremely poor editing on some pages (I usually don�t notice that, small and few mistakes don�t bother me, but the sometimes sloppy editing in this story really caught my eye). A really great story, with two wonderful � and realistic � characters with amazing chemistry. A keeper! 4 � stars