Reviews for Misterio Familiar

The average rating for Misterio Familiar based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-24 00:00:00 Danny Street Unfortunately H was not cruel and not as angsty as other SC's book. 3,5 stars

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-01 00:00:00 Dees Deeds This one had a vintage feel to it - one sex scene that didn't turn out so well - and lots of interesting backstory and character development. H/h were childhood friends. He was the son of the housekeeper of a manor house. And the h lived nearby. All that changed when the heir to the manor (OM) showed up and made mischief. The hero was sent away to boarding school for his supposed crimes. When he returned for the h's 18th birthday, he was accused of stealing her garnet pendant (by the OM) and the head of the manor house fired his mother and sent them both packing. The heroine has very bad memories of the hero and has tried to block him from her mind. In the seven years since the trauma of her 18th birthday, she has become an interior designer working out of her old home that her parent's left her after they died. She has taken on a single mom to help her with the sewing and the two of them are doing well. When the heir to the manor moves back, he hires to heroine to re-do the house. He also starts romancing her with promises of marriage. This is to keep her sweet while she goes into to debt to all the tradesmen to renovate the manor. There is no contract since it's to be for their personal use after the wedding. The hero shows up the day the checks start bouncing. Seems the heir to the manor has impregnated a rich Portuguese woman and her daddy is sending them to Brazil in disgrace after the shotgun wedding. The heir has sold the house to the hero's company and has no plans to pay the heroine's personal debts. The angst during this is delicious as the heroine realizes the extent of the betrayal and how the hero is there to witness her humiliation. The hero isn't gloating though and isn't seeking revenge - he tells the heroine he'll pay those debts if she becomes his mistress. He feels they have unfinished business and he's always wanted the heroine. Heroine turns him down, but then realizes that not only will she go bankrupt, but the local tradespeople and her single mom friend as well. Heroine gets drunk and then calls his hotel to accept. Hero turns up to dry her out and take her out to dinner. The middle kinds of sags as the heroine relives her resentments against the hero and throws "housekeeper's son" at him one too many times. The hero doesn't force her - and in fact withdraws to his own room during the first night together in the manor house. Heroine goes to him and that's when the hero realizes he has been given a virgin sacrifice, something he didn't want. The heroine thinks she's being rejected yet again. Hero thinks he's being noble. The evil heir shows up to congratulate the heroine for landing on her feet and to make more mischief. (He left a message for the hero so that he could see him kissing the heroine). It works. Hero is jealous and suspicious of the heroine all over again and tells her to leave after an important weekend with VIP guests. One of the VIP guests is the hero's mother (the housekeeper!). Seems she and the lord of the manor were an item for years. The lord's wife was in a nursing home with a degenerative disease. The hero was the illegitimate son of the lord of the manor. The lord couldn't leave the manor house to the H because the wife's relatives were blackmailing him into leaving it to their evil son (OM). When the hero was sent away for what the evil heir to the manor had done, he went to an exclusive boarding school. He knew his exile was unfair, but he kept the family secrets. Same with the garnet pendant, which was actually a ruby and was his gift to the heroine. When the lord of the manor "fired" his housekeeper, he just moved her to Spain where he lived with her until his wife died and then he died. Now that the heroine has the facts, she realizes how blind she has been and how she conflated the hero with the OM in her memory for years. It was a coping mechanism for dealing with her acute disappointment of the hero. She confesses this to the hero, he in turn grovels nicely for forcing her to be his mistress. He realizes he's approached it all wrong. He really has been carrying the torch for her all of this time. He feels terrible her first time wasn't that great. They will get married ASAP and rectify that. HEA This one was good, with a vintage feel - although there were plot holes. Like why did the hero stay away for so long? And why did the secret not come out when the wife died? Also justice was not done with the evil heir to the manor. (OM) Hopefully he'll contract malaria or some other horrible jungle disease and won't have a PJ heroine around to sponge him down. The single mom and her son were interesting side characters. The hero's passion for the heroine was very evident. The heroine had a huge blind spot, but was no shrinking violet. A solid Sara Craven story.