Reviews for Bajo Sospecha/Marriage Under Suspicion

The average rating for Bajo Sospecha/Marriage Under Suspicion based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-20 00:00:00 John Joyce Re Marriage Under Suspicion - Sara Craven brings us this dated little anachronism that is not only tedious when there isn't over the top LaToya Jackson Online Detective investigative heroine drama, it also always gives me a headache because of the copious amounts of Captain Morgan I have to drink to actually read it. So being that my hangover is massive and the milk thistle isn't cleansing my liver fast enough, this is a very quick summation of the Typhoon of Tackiness that is this book. The book starts with the h getting an offer of a fling with a very handsome man, the h does think about it- her marriage hasn't been going so well recently, but she turns it down cause she really does love her husband. She has been married for five years and her husband tossed in his job, without her agreement, to go be a writer. Since this is HPlandia and our authors really believe in the power of positive thinking, of course the husband hits the big time and then guilts the h into being ashamed of herself for not supporting him. The h has her own successful business herself and financial security is a huge deal for her, so when her husband went out on a financial limb, she felt that she had to work doubly hard to keep them financially secure. But that security came at the cost of her intimacy in her marriage. When she gets a letter in the mail saying that her husband is in love with another woman, plus her formerly open and honest husband turns cagey and there is evidence of another woman in their home, the h prints off her LaToya Jackson Online Detective School diploma and gets to work. What follows is a series of embarrassing and painful situations for the h as she tries to figure out just who her husband is shagging on the side. In the process of 'fighting for her man', the h manages to get her own husbandly shag in, but he berates her massively afterwards and I had to wonder why she bothered. The h also gets to learn first hand from her husband's seriously skeevy snot pustule family just how inadequate as a wife and daughter in law she is because she has been busy making a living and having some self worth and self respect. But because LaToya's investigative techniques are the finest on the internets ever - the h realizes that her husband is more than likely shagging both her female business partner and his new and beautiful editor. (The increasingly despondent h even tries for her own shag on the side, but it totally tanks as the potential OM tells her she still loves her husband and she might break his OM heart if she goes through with it. I was kinda hoping the OM was actually the H in disguise - alas this disappointment led to more Captain Consultations and thus increased my hangover.) The husband has lied about his whereabouts more than once, has booked himself into writing conferences with a Mrs., who is not the h, in tow and the big confrontation comes when the h is now preggers. She decides to burst in on one of his writing workshops - the contrivance of which was really stupidly pretentious for a guy who has only been writing for a year or so- and announce she is pregnant to all and sundry. The husband takes the opportunity to once again humiliate her in front of everyone with a sarcastically nasty comment and the big explanations begin after the h assures her husband she will finish using that Lime Away to let the rest of her backbone completely dissolve. The h promises to abandon her business, (her partner who was having an affair with a married guy, but is now sorry for it, can take over,) and do nothing but pop out babies, grovel at the husband's and his family's feet and spend the rest of her life in the HP heroine doghouse for being a capable career woman who thought she was an equal partner in marriage. (Sadly, LaToya can lead a heroine to the water of truth, but even the mighty Ms. Jackson can't make her drink. *sigh*) All this h groveling motivates the husband to lie and say that he was never shagging anyone on the side, he just thought the h needed a wake up call, so he made the whole affair thing up to make the h fight for him and then he felt bad when the h went full on LaToya Investigation Mode. Since this is HPlandia and even the great writing of SC can't maintain such a shallow farce for more than 185 pages, the husband and h are now presumably reunited. They are having a stork visit at the new house in the country the husband bought for the HEA, while the h's skanky tart business partner gets to marry the h's much nicer and more preferable OM. Don't get me started on this, it was probably the dumbest book SC ever wrote even when it was current and twenty years of circulation have not improved it. The drama and the h's increasing desperation was well done, but drinking hemlock is probably more palatable than trying to believe the HEA of this HP outing.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-07 00:00:00 Catriana Hernandez After five years of marriage, Kate Lassiter returns home from a business trip to find an anonymous letter waiting for her. It simply reads, "Your husband is in love with another woman." Shocked, Kate finds an empty bottle of champagne with two glasses; apparently her husband, Ryan, has been celebrating with someone in her absence. Later, she overhears him talking on a phone assuring someone he addresses as "sweetheart" that his wife doesn't know anything yet, and that everything will be all right. He tells Kate that he is meeting his editor for lunch, but lies about the restaurant they are going to, and doesn't bother to correct her misconception that his editor is a man (when in fact he has a new editor who happens to be a sexy young woman). And so it continues... This was really, really stupid. I mean, really, really, REALLY stupid. It started off all right, with Kate trying to find out the truth. She keeps reaching out to her husband, who in turn keeps rejecting her and lying to her. Everything points towards him having an affair with her best friend, but of course the reader knows it will all turn out to be a BIG MISUNDERSTANDING and Kate and Ryan will live happily ever after. Well, it turns out that the mysterious letter was actually written by Ryan. Apparently he was worried about the state of their marriage, so naturally instead of trying to talk to his wife, he decided that making her think he was cheating on her was the smart thing to do. He keeps rejecting her because, well, he's obviously an idiot. Apparently he decided a time of celibacy would be good for them to work out their differences. Sure, if both parties know what's going on and actually communicate. How refusing to spend any time with his wife was going to save their marriage, I have no idea. Finally he succumbs to his lust and they spend a passionate night together. Ryan is worried that he and Kate only seem to connect on a physical level, so instead of trying to talk to her (gee, you think the reason you don't connect outside of bed is because you refuse to talk to her?) he mocks her for making herself so sexually available to him, and tells her that the sex didn't mean anything. Finally, he goes off on a business trip, turning down Kate when she offers to go with him. She calls his hotel after he leaves, only to discover that he is not due there for another day, and that he has booked into a suite for himself and his "wife". It all finally comes to a head when Kate goes there in a rage, ready to confront her lying, cheating husband and his woman. No other woman can be found, and the truth comes out. For some reason Kate is perfectly happy with all of Ryan's excuses. The champagne in their apartment is never explained, by the way. Personally, I don't see much hope for their future. For all Kate knows, Ryan could very well have been cheating on her all along. She is just so relieved when he claims to love her, that she swallows all his excuses. I find it hard to stomach that after five years of marriage, Ryan's method of conflict resolution is lying to, rejecting, and hurting his wife, rather than open and honest communication. I wouldn't want to stay with a man like this. At the very least, Kate and Ryan should probably get some marriage counselling.