Reviews for Bride of My Heart

The average rating for Bride of My Heart based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-17 00:00:00 Barbara Tuck OMG - so many levels of fail here. And yet it was readable enough for me to persist until the bitter end. The story opens with a trial. The hero's wife is suing him for divorce citing his adultery with the heroine as the reason. The heroine must testify even though she only had a crush on the hero for years and nothing ever happened between them. The cross examination is brutal. The heroine holds up well. Turns out she's thrown away 8 years of graduate study (hero was head of the Basque department) in order to appease the hero's crazy ex, plus she's never dated anyone, plus she's now living in another state working for her aunt and uncle all in the hopes of making the hero's life easier. Turns out the hero was in on it. His ex was having an affair before and during his arranged marriage. She was having an affair with his sister's fiance, and she had his baby. So the hero betrayed his sister and the heroine for his skanky ex. No, just no. To make matters worse, in chapter six, the first time we see the H/h together, the hero asks the heroine to marry him so he can have a family. Seems no Basque girl would marry him since he's been labeled an adulterer. Heroine, who has rocks in her head, agrees and pretends she is willing because she wants to finish her graduate studies. So H/h marry each thinking the other doesn't love them. It's the *heroine* who gives a long speech about how much she loves the hero. And the hero doesn't tell her how he feels until the next day, after having sex. No, no, no. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. The hero was liar and ethically challenged for all the years he knew the heroine. He never grovels for the grave injustices he's done to her and he doesn't have the balls to tell her how he feels. Awful story. The Basque cultural info was interesting, but the arranged marriages and how everyone was cheating and lying in order to keep up traditions, was not a good intro.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-06 00:00:00 Ricky Garmon Not putting this in a spoiler because warning readers against this monstrosity of a book is a public service in my opinion. Hero and heroine practically grew up together, spent all their time together and fell in love even though they never confessed it or acted on it since hero was contracted to marry a woman picked out by his parents because of "basque tradition" supposedly. Hero went ahead with the marriage even though he knew his wife did not love him but was in love with and having an affair with their mutual friend since she was 16. They basically decided amongst the three of them to have the hero and wife enter a paper marriage and have the wife and her lover continue their secret affair while trying to find a way to end the marriage "honorably." Hilarious that these weasely liars, users, cheaters and cowards thought they knew the meaning of "honor." Meanwhile, they had no qualms deceiving both their families and making the heroine the scapegoat as the "other woman" who eventually got subpoenaed in court and publically humiliated in a scathing cross-examination when hero and wife finally decided to get a divorce. Did I mention the wife's lover was engaged to hero's sister? After all this, when hero's friend asks him why he STILL hasn't gone after the heroine three months after his divorce finalized and wife married her lover the day after the divorce went through, he whines that the heroine testified on the stand that she only ever loved him as brother. O.M.F.G. I can't even with this. Train wreck to end all train wrecks!