Reviews for Amarga Promesa

The average rating for Amarga Promesa based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-25 00:00:00 Philip Duncan Re A Weekend to Remember - Miranda Lee's second book in the Affairs to Remember Series is a secretary saving her boss trope. The book opens with the 30 yr old h diving into the breach to save her amnesiac boss from the unscrupulous cheating gold digger tart OW out to scam the H by pretending to be engaged to the H herself. The h's divorce has just become final and the h really likes and respects her boss. He gave the emotionally battered housewife h a job as his secretary a year or so earlier, after she spent years being berated and belittled by her cheater plastic surgeon emotionally abusive husband. She has two teen sons in boarding school too and the h has nothing but kindness in her heart for the H who gave her a chance to regain her financial independence and dignity after she caught her husband In flagrante delicto with one of his repeat 26 yr old patients. The h herself would never consent to plastic surgery, even when her husband used to stand her on a scale every week and and harangue her if she gained an ounce. The blatant cheating was the final straw for the h and her ex husband put a very nice luxury flat into her name for tax purposes, so the h just moved right into it and wouldn't give it back in the divorce. The h also has joint custody of her sons, but they really like boarding school as they are into all kinds of manly sports and games and the h knows they are happy there. So the h only has to the H to nurture and fret over and he seems to like it. The H grew up an orphan and eventually made it big in the house construction business. A few weeks before the book starts, he met a blonde femme fatale type and after a wild boudoir bouncing moment, proposed. There was a huge party to celebrate, filled with friends of the OW fiancee and also having the OW's current lover present. The OW's lover happens to be another land developer who is trying to cozen the H into a dubious sounding business deal. The h is trying to quit smoking, but the OW Fiancee's really mean and witchy remarks stress the h out so much that she sneaks off to outside to have one. There she finds the OW fiancee and her lover engaging in hand jobs on the balcony. The h is shocked, but decides to tell the H what she saw. Before she can do that tho, the H has a tile fall on his head and he loses his memory of the last six weeks. Terrified that the OW is going to convince the H to do something irrevocable - (like get married)- before the h can explain the OW's perfidy, the h tells the hospital and the H that they are engaged and hauls the H off to her Blue Mountain cabin for the weekend while they wait for the H to get his memory back. It doesn't take long before the Lurve Force Purple Passion Mojo kicks in and after the h rescues the H from a near fall into an abyss, the usual descriptive ML lurve clubing events are on, pretty much all over the place. There is also a baby ring tail possum rescue by the H that ends very tragically when the baby was too young to leave it's mum and both the mum and the baby die. (I did NOT like that! We all know my feelings about killing off animals in HPlandia and this brought the book down a star for sure. Prove manly nurturing feels another way ML, this one sucked big time, so skillets to the head for that.) Eventually the h's guilt over lying to the H causes her to confess she lied about the engagement and why. The H isn't too concerned about it tho, mainly cause he is really into lurving up the h and he has been trying to approach her for a year, but she was standoffish and he is a nice man. However, now that he and the h have consummated the relationship, he isn't giving her up and we already know her kids like him from having met him before while there were on holiday. Then the OW and the h's belittling ex husband show up. The OW gets an EPIC H smackdown when he denounces her as a cheating tarty trampy con artist and then the H scares the color right out of the ex-husband's hair for being a snot licking bully nematode slime slurper to the h. The ex-husband actually apologizes to the h for being a slime slurper and the h thinks the H has gotten his memory back. He has not really, he just had a flashback about the OW and an argument and between that and what the h told him, he gave the OW enough to hang herself with. The h and H then make tracks back to the H's office, the work week is about to begin and the h asks the H to keep quiet about their new relationship status because she doesn't want a lot of nasty office gossip about herself. The H get angry at the h for wanting to hide things and storms off for the day. The h starts feeling really ill and collapses on the H's office couch. When the H gets back to the h, she is burning up with fever and the H carries her up to his penthouse apartment. The doctor is called and we get genuine SPONGING� from the H as he tenderly soothes the h's fevered brow. This makes the h finally realize that the H loves her just as much as she loves him. The H explains that he really did dump the OW fiance the night he got hit on the head and that he has been in love with the h since he first hired her. The h is even more overcome when the H claims that nursing the baby possum changed his stance on not having kids and the two of them have a fervent avowal of True Love Forever with extra SPONGING� as needed for a pink sparkly rosy glow baby making HEA. This one was pretty cute and the H was super nice. The h did lie about the H being engaged to her, but the OW was so horrible and the h was so cuddlesome in her little frets, that I pretty much forgave her the deceit. I especially liked how the OW got a serious H smackdown and then the H made the h's ex feel afraid too. I am not getting started on the baby possum again, but overall this one was a pretty decent HPlandia outing.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-12 00:00:00 Arturo Escarze A Weekend to Remember is the second book in Miranda Lee's Affairs to Remember series. The stories in the series feature love affairs with unforgettable twists. Hannah Althorp, the heroine, just got her final divorce papers in the mail. She was married young to Dwight, a plastic surgeon and had 2 kids with him. Their marriage lasted 16 years and he was a crappy husband. Spoiled, insensitive and very critical which left Hannah feeling insecure and unattractive. Things reached a climax when Hannah caught him with another woman. She moved, started divorce proceedings and got a job as a private secretary for the owner of Marshall Homes, an important construction company. Jack Marshall is the hero of the novel and Hannah's boss. He grew up in an orphanage and is a self made multi millionaire. At his engagement party, Hannah overhears Felicia, his fiancee, talking to another man who is her lover. They planned to cheat him. Hannah, who admires and likes her boss very much wants to tell him what she heard but Jack has an accident and can't remember the last six weeks of his life. Hannah is afraid Felicia will take advantage of him so she pretends to be his fiancee and whisks him away to her cabin. She wants to tell him the truth in a few days after he regains his memory but things are more complicated and not exactly like she thought. I've read one or two of this author's books but I'm not a big fan. I wouldn't have read it if it wasn't for a review I've read and that would have been a pity because the book is awesome. I loved how sweet Jack was with Hannah and how well he treated her. Hannah was so cute and I loved how much she grew as a character throughout the book. They were seriously adorable together.