Reviews for Esclavos Del Amor

The average rating for Esclavos Del Amor based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-27 00:00:00 Jo Ann Tonks Re Slave to Love - Michelle Reid makes her h a very distant sloppy second in this story of an H who continually prioritizes his ex wife and his Parvo toxic, bovine daughter over anything other than his mega corporate business in life. MR lets us know that the h has been the H's live-in girlfriend for just about a year. She is the PA for his younger brother in the family firm and met the H a few days after she started working there, the H wasted no time in sweeping her off her feet and into his bed. The problem the h is having isn't that she wants to marry the H necessarily, she understands that he is gun shy after he got his suitably appropriate wealthy teen-aged date preggers 19 years earlier and the two families were happy to force them into a shotgun marriage. The H and his ex were massively unsuited to each other, but they stuck it out for ten years and then divorced after his ex wife brought another man into the marital home while the H was off on business and in front of his daughter. The divorce doesn't please their now 18 yr old daughter, who firmly wants her parents back together and the girl takes on a level of nastiness usually reserved for HP OW to force it. When the book opens the H's daughter is wandering around her birthday party, (that the H invited the h to hoping she wouldn't show,) telling everyone that she is outraged that her dad's bimbo has been let in to contaminate the bonhomie family togetherness mood. The h, who got pawned off on the H's brother so everyone else at the family party can ignore or insult her, is finally realizing that the H only wants her for her bedroom skillz and has no intention of ever making her a significant part of his life. Because the h is the child of two environmentalist parents who also made her a distant second priority in their lives while she was growing up, the h is finally figuring out she needs to move out and move up with a man who is actually man enough to stand up to the manipulative family the H doesn't have the chutzpah to deal with. She is really tired of being second to everyone else's priorities. The h concludes that if she eventually wants a husband and a family, she isn't going to get it from the H, who can't even make it clear to his own people that she is important to him. (Tho I would also recommend not responding to the nickname 'Bunny' if you don't want to be thought of as a guy's bimbo blow up toy.) So the h gets the H's brother to take her home from the party early and moves out of the H's flat that he put her in for easier access. When the H furiously corners the h at work on Monday because the h wasn't where he put her when he called, the h calmly points out that for all his ranting and raving, he only called, he did not leave his devoted family to actually look for her. Then the h tells the H they are through, she wants to think about staring a family and she needs to find a man to do that with. The H complains that she has years as she is only 25, the h responds with a tart 'I should wait until your through with me then?' The H does manage to look a bit abashed at that statement, because he quickly retaliates with the strong application of roofie kisses and attempted lurve force mojo moves. The h is perilously close to weakening her stance, but the H's brother saves the day. We get a big scene where the H and his brother square off over who has dibs on the h. To her horror, the H winds up punching his brother in the face and the h kicks both of them out, cause she isn't the brass ring on the local merry go round. Then the H manipulates the h into an overseas business trip on her own, so the H can try and corner her there. The H's brother managed to get one of his friends to woo the h on the trip, trying to thwart his brother's devious plans for seducing the h when he crashes it. The H manages to mess up the OM seduction attempt, but does do a lot of sexual harassing of the h on his own when he suggests the h sleep with him and he will save the business deal for his little brother and preserve lil' brother's status in the family firm. (That may be a problem for some readers of the book. The H is the Head Honcho and ultimately the h works for him. That leads to a lot of abusive and outright sexist behaviors that the H never makes up for. So try to keep in mind that we aren't very far out time wise from the flagrant misogyny of the HPlandia of the 70's and 80's and adjust your mental mindset accordingly.) Eventually the H manages to seduce the h again, she just has NO resistance to the H's lurve force mojo - which really messes with her attempts to leave his hiney. The H is thinking he has won and the h will be his blow up doll to play with again, when the phone rings. The H's ex wife is in hospital with a serious infection, so the H and h have to rush back to England. The H's daughter manages to corner the h in the hospital waiting room and makes all kinds of vile and nasty accusations to the h about the H two timing her with his ex wife and various other tarty tramps names. Then when the H shows up, the daughter dramatically throws herself on her doting daddy and accuses the h of being mean to her and wanting her mother to die. The H kicks the h out of the waiting area and tells her to leave, full of contempt for the h who abused his precious bovine parasite. The h is finally done with the H and leaves the country with her parents for two weeks. The h and her parents have a little mini-reconnection while educating us readers on on environmental preservation. When the h gets back to England, the H is furious she walked out again and the h tries to resign. The H also admits he deliberately set the h up on the business trip and then he practices more roofie kisses on the h. Sadly she totally melts and all the calcium she recently acquired is flushed away by the Lurve Force Mojo. The H refuses to accept she is leaving and asks her to wait a week while he travels for business. The final day of that week arrives and the H's daughter shows up at the h's office and runs her sewer swilling mouth again. This time the h doesn't tolerate the brat's excrement laden mouthy spewing and proceeds to deliver a very well deserved and long time coming verbal smackdown. It is the very, very best moment of the book. The h does it with class and dignity, but she does do it very well and the H is nowhere to be found to ruin anything. The H's daughter then has a conniption fit and the h doesn't care. At least she doesn't until the H shows up and starts to berate the h for being mean to his daughter. So the h explains just what the girl has been doing behind his back and also explains that the H better help the girl sort her baggage or he is going to have a problem child for life. The H's answer to that is to drag the h over to ex-wife's house and both the wife and the H tell their daughter they are not getting remarried. Then the H tells the h he is marrying her and the h goes utterly brain dead. The H's daughter decides she will have more fun driving daggers into the h if she is her stepmother and the bovine little blob pustule fakes a conversion in attitude which the h believes. However the h does gather her wits enough to say no to marriage with the H, so he gets to make a pretty decent I am sorry I treated you like dirt speech, which does convince the h he loves her and he does a pretty good apology too. The h and H then realize that they need to cement their newfound commitment on the Golden Shores of Transcendent Bliss and we leave them planning the wedding and lurvin' it up for a sorta sparkly HEA. This one is very intense and it is very well written, I just have no hope that the H will be able to hang on to his manly Alpha mojo for more than a night or two. This H was clearly a wimp in the face of his family and his daughter was probably a better Alpha, so I am not holding out hope for the long term HEA. Plus I think if the h gets a few more Flinstones with extra calcum, the h might actually develop enough spine to dump the H, her job and find another HP millionaire to get herself an HEA. Still I liked the story and I liked the h. As far as OW drama goes, the H's daughter was exceedingly excellent and that makes this one a pretty nice jaunt for an HPlandia outing but a bad day on the long term HEA believability front.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-17 00:00:00 Geocorey Brooks This was such a sad, sad, disturbing book. Our heroine and hero have been in a relationship for one year. She is the Personal Assistant to his brother, and he is the CEO of the company. Ok, for me that is a major 'ick' factor...Some author's have pulled this off, but not here. The "ick" really shines especially in one scene where she threatens him with sexual harassment and he outmaneuvers her by insinuating she is the one harassing him. Unfortunately, the poor thing falls for his flawed logic which makes her even more pitiful. The book opens with a birthday party at the family estate for the hero's 18 year old daughter. At the party, we get a glimpse that all is not well in this storybook romance. He totally ignores her, pawns her off on his brother to entertain all because he does not want to upset his selfish, jealous mean spirited daughter and his viper ex-wife. Seems like this is par for the course for their relationship. However, at the party she snaps and decides enough is enough and walks. He can't understand why she is so upset. After all he was clear, he didn't want more kids, didn't do love and they were just together for a good time. He is appalled that she won't get with the program and sacrifice love, marriage and family just to be with him. The rest of the book is about the horrible manipulations and gyrations he goes through to keep her, and how she caves every time..Seems like all he has to do is kiss her and she is mush. And it goes on and on....to the point that she really is a Slave to Love...So I guess the only thing I really liked about this book was the title. Seriously, I would definitely pass on this one. I am shocked that Michelle Reid wrote this book.