Reviews for Esposa De Otro Hombre

The average rating for Esposa De Otro Hombre based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-02 00:00:00 Johannes S�re Re Mistress and Mother - Lynne Graham brings us a couple that manages to bicker their way to the HEA in this one. While it has a TON of drama, it can be a bit wearing on those HP Voyagers who aren't inspired by bitter, shouted emotional exchanges every chapter. So be warned before reading this, this couple fights and argues and frequently try to verbally one up each other. While the h is no slouch in the angry Italian shouting drama, the H is a very typical arrogant LG H and usually manages to twist the h's very valid feelings into shame for daring to be so above herself as to think she is an equal in the relationship. This one starts with the h travelling to the H's now deceased uncle's former home. She has decided to ask the H if he will help her idiot brother and his equally idiot wife sort out their very messy financial situation. It seems the h's brother knows gardening and got the H to loan him money for a garden center four years earlier. At the time, the h was 20 and was going to marry the 27 yr old H. They met by accident when they literally ran into each other and the H was fascinated by the naive, but voluptuous, prim small town h. The H's courtship seriously irked his female cousin, who is a brilliant evil OW in the best classic style. There were months of catty remarks, criticisms of the h's looks, hair, weight and the woman deliberately encouraged the rest of the H's social circle to participate in the h's bullying. The h was desperately in love and desperately trying to fit in. Her mother and her stepfather were the disapproving, stern ministerial types and they also DID NOT APPROVE. The H, in his typical ramming the barriers down fashion, threw away any attempts at diplomacy with them and pretty much arranged everything to his liking - which may or may not have been in line with what the h wanted. The H resolved every one of the h's valid concerns by either dismissing them, or when she finally lost her temper and had a ranty moment, taking off on a jungle adventure for three weeks as a way of manipulating her emotionally by telling her he thought maybe he should call off the wedding. So by the time the wedding day had actually arrived, the h was a bundle of nerves and sporting a rather mismatched, almost clownish look. She was so fraught she appeared intoxicated and then her world came crashing down at the wedding reception. The OW cousin manipulated things to where the h overheard a conversation that seemed to indicate the OW and the H were lovers and that he was only marrying the h for a broodmare for his children. The blinders fell with a thud from the h's eyes and she was pretty irately hysterical on the wedding night. The H had no patience for this behavior and took off, only to be photographed leaving the OW's flat at dawn and when the h saw the tabloids, she decided enough was enough a took off for a friend's house. The H showed up at the h's stepfather's home and he phoned the police, inciting more of a tabloid frenzy. The friend the h was staying with spilled all the beans about the slime swiller cousin OW and in a well deserved stroke of LG justice, the OW cousin was vilified in the tabloid press. The h never intended any of this regarding the OW to get out, but she also wasn't too unhappy about it, the OW cousin had done a really good job of wrecking the h's life. Four years on the h needs the H's help and their first meeting winds up being another crashing moment as the H tackles the h in the dark of his late uncle's home. There is a bitter exchange about the failed marriage that ended in annulment and the H proves he can hold a mean grudge when he details the horrible treatment his beloved OW cousin got in the press. The H also threatens the h's brother and his family with fraud charges and homelessness. The h probably wouldn't mind so much if it was just her brother or his pathetic limpet wife, but they also have two small children and the h feels that the H giving them so much money without proper supervision was largely to blame. The H tries to deny his collusion in her brother's downfall, but the h doesn't want to hear it and she is tired and it is cold and snowing, so she goes to bed. Only to find that there is only one bed in the house and the H expects her to share it. The h protests, she is almost engaged to another priggish minister type, but the H gets his way and of course the inevitable unicorn grooming license revocation ensues. The next morning the H claims her chastity removal was his revenge and the h is once again done with this unrepentant toad of an H. But this is LG and her H's be cagey, the H shows up at the h's work and it is clear that he still has a yen for the h. He tries to proposition her, but the h is having none of that and her verbal H smackdown made me want to run and hide. So the H has an overnight think about things and comes up with the plan that he will bail her brother and family out if the h will move in with him as his personal tart. The h almost passes out from the shock of the H's implications, but we can tell that this H is deeply hooked and doing everything to get the h back without losing the whip hand. The thought of her niece's and nephew's sad little faces make the h agree to the H's proposition. The H is pleased as punch and can't understand why the h keeps making tarty harlot references. The h is also having bouts of nausea and a quick look at her day planner makes her think about emergency pregnancy tests. The H and h have another fight about what a bovine snot snarfer the H's beloved OW cousin is and the H loses his temper again, so he has to turn things around and blame the h for being childish and vindictive. Then the h makes the big surprise! discovery (not), that she is preggers. The H is delighted, but the h calls him a toad and tells him she won't marry him. The h still believes that the H wants a broodmare and while she may have to play his tart for hire, she has no intention of being trapped into a marriage where she will be second best and patronized for life. Enter the smarmy, prig ex almost fiance. He guilts the h into marrying the H by pounding it into her head that she is selfish to want to actually have a happy, loving marriage and raise her child with two marginally compatible with each other parents. The h decides that the baby should have his father and the ex almost fiancee fades away, hopefully to be hit by a train on his way home. The H and h marry after the pathetic worm of a sister in law expresses shock over the h's scarlet dress and insists that the H would have married the OW cousin if he really loved her after he and the h separated. The h has been speculating and thinking about the various tidbits she has heard about the H's family in the privacy of her mind, and she guesses it might be hard to legally marry a woman who is probably your biological half sister. (It appears the H's father liked to spread it around a bit and the OW's mother was said to be exceptionally seductive and lovely.) But the h keeps her thoughts to herself and then the pathetic worm of sister in law is booted off, hopefully to a very low oxygen planet where she can just sit and vegetate. The big wedding night surprise for the h is that the H has totally played her. The H's uncle left her a vase that was worth half a million pounds and the h could have sold it to bail out her brother. The H knew this and deliberately withheld the information - until one of his friend's mentions it in front of the h. The H then decides that the best honeymoon ever will be to take the h to the secluded island house where his father took his lady buffet samples. The h, who was starting to have doubts about the H's complicity with his cousin OW, is now reminded that this H was raised in an environment where mistresses were kept openly and she can only wonder if the H is keeping his cousin OW in New York to be his main dish while she resides on the broodmare side. The h and H have another argument about the H's lack of seduction attempts during their first engagement. The H unbends enough to explain that he had heard the h's stepfather berating her like she was some kind of fallen woman for coming home late from a date, so he daren't take things any further as her stepfather would have abused her more. Then the H clues the h in that he never told her about the vase's value cause he wanted to get her into his clutches - astoundingly he also confesses he acted like a sewer swilling rat the morning after their first purple passion moment, and the h is so gobsmacked she falls easily in with his grand plan o'seduction. The H and h finally seem to work their differences out and the honeymoon goes pretty swimmingly. Until they are going back to England and the h finds out that the cousin OW, who was supposed to be marrying someone else, has broken her engagement and the h decides to test the H. This leads to the big revelation that the h believes the H is in love with the OW, but unable to do anything about it because the OW is his half sister. This stunning lack of trust seems to anger the H, just what kind of men does she think his family has anyway, and he has a huge ranty moment and banishes the h to his country home, after she tells him she loves him. The h is now fretting and moping and then the cousin OW shows up with the H. The cousin OW explains that her father was abusive and shot himself after the H and his father intervened. Then she sorta apologizes for messing things up with the h and H. The OW knew the h was listening when she made her big play after the first wedding reception, then she deliberately overdosed on their wedding night to pull the H away. The OW claims she was not in love with the H, he was just her only support. I totally did not believe her sorry, tarty hiney, but supposedly she had therapy and the h is all about being understanding and kind. The H then makes his apologies and explanations to the h in a pretty good speech. I really liked the part where he claims it was very hard to brave when the mother of his child called him an irresponsible toad who had wrecked her life and then looked suicidal about the whole situation. But the H admits he was determined to persevere and prove that they could be happy together and he confesses he loves the h for the big HEA. We get a little epilogue where the H and h have little boy. Unfortunately the ex almost fiance wasn't hit by a train, cause he does the baptism, and the cousin OW is now the h's BFF and married and pregnant as we call in a day on another whacktasticly dramatic HPlandia outing with a very typical LG HEA.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-07-13 00:00:00 Holger Bergmann A second chance story between a bitter, resentful hero and a bitter, resentful heroine. What's good about the story is that they each had good reason to be bitter and resentful and the ledger is fairly balanced in bad behavior so that by the time they come to an understanding, I believed their happy ending. Not that I particularly liked either character. The heroine was insecure, jumped to conclusions and had a vile temper. The hero was insecure in a different way - he craved love but also found it stifling. While the hero didn't jump to conclusions, he expected a lot of understanding from an 18 year-old girl when he married her the first time. (I call this Prince Charles syndrome whenever I see an older man judging a younger woman for her inexperience and neediness. He's older - he should know better). That the hero has a vile temper goes without saying as well. A short plot recap - on the day of her wedding, the heroine thinks the hero is really in love with his cousin (she actually thinks this until the last pages of the book). On their wedding night, when she tries to confront him about a conversation she overheard, she loses her temper and is hysterical. Hero doesn't want to deal with her histrionics and leaves when he gets a phone call from his cousin. He stays with the cousin all night. The heroine goes to her friend (who sells the story to the tabloids). The heroine's stepfather won't let the hero see the heroine. She files for divorce and he makes sure the world knows it's an annulment. This tit for tat dynamic continues when they meet again after 4 years apart. The hero's uncle has left her a vase in his will. Hero is in the house when she arrives in the middle of a snowstorm. They share a bed. Hero takes her virginity and all is well until the next morning when the hero claims he has now gotten his revenge. Heroine is devastated - knows she can't marry her pastor fiance and has further worry about her brother who can't pay back a loan from the hero. *Luckily, the hero has been thinking of a way to get heroine back in bed - he'll pay off the brother's debts if she'll be his mistress. *Then she finds she's pregnant and the cousin is going to marry a Brazilian businessman. *Then they marry and have a honeymoon. *On the way home, the heroine sees the cousin has broken off her engagement. *The hero banishes her to their country manor. The cousin shows up to explain what's really going on. For each * - there was a huge argument and horrible things were said on each side. Tit for Tat. Each argument and incident moves them closer to understanding the other - so it's productive communication. Some readers might not like that much conflict, but I didn't find it repetitious - even though I wished the heroine would grow up a bit faster. :)