Reviews for El Regreso

The average rating for El Regreso based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-04 00:00:00 David Ruch [Framed by her SIL and should be ex-best friend (I said she was spineless) as the other woman in a tabloid (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-01 00:00:00 Henry Lupori The soap opera is alive and kicking this oldie by Lynne Graham. It's a second chance romance with a twist because the H has been imprisoned in a fictional South American banana republic and his wife and relatives don't know he's alive until after 5 years have elapsed. I couldn't mesh with the heroine Eden that much. She's had an extremely conservative upbringing and was therefore very prudish in the bedroom with her husband, the H. That had caused much distress in and out of the marriage bed and the couple's troubles were compounded by the fact that the heroine was very uncomfortable and unhappy living in the same mansion with her husband's snobbish and hateful siblings. Eden was a bit of a martyr too because she suffered in silence when she should have confided in Damiano. The H returns to find his wife living on her own and supporting herself as a seamstress. His brother had failed to provide her with money for living expenses and she couldn't use the H's money since his funds had been frozen as his "death" had yet to be determined. I could have happily given this 5 stars if Eden had not made the dumbest move ever by taking the blame for her sister in law's adultery. A few months after Damiano went missing, his brother's slutty wife Tina had started having an affair with a childhood friend of Eden's. The paparazzi had taken photos of the couple's clandestine meetings and since Tina was superficially similar to Eden ( a petite blonde ) and had borrowed the heroine's car, everybody assumed that Eden was guilty of adultery. The most stupid part of this was how Tina convinced Eden to take the blame since Damien was probably never going to return and it wouldn't be fair ( gasp ! the audacity ! ) for Tina and Nuncio's marriage to be destroyed over a little old affair. I can't understand why Eden would make this huge sacrifice for a bitchy sister in law who had snobbed her and treated her like crap. Firstly, Eden would be ruining her own reputation. That just pissed me off. This girl had a very pristine reputation and was even prudish, prim and proper and here she is willing to ruin her image for a cheating slag like Tina. And even if Damiano never returned, why was Eden willing to let his memory be tarnished by the rumours that she had turned to another man a mere 4 months after he went missing. I couldn't blame Damiano for being mad as hell when he found out about this act of stupid martyrdom. Of course, before Damiano discovered that it was really Tina who was with Martin, there was lots of angst and drama because he didn't believe Eden when she first told him the truth. Damiano also suspects Eden had cheated because the new incarnation of Eden loves having hot sex with him. In his calculating brain, that meant ( obviously since former man whores don't know how to give wives the benefit of the doubt ) that Eden had been "practising" her sex skills with other men - in this case, Martin. The soap opera drama gets upped with Martin blackmailing Eden by saying he would support Tina's story. Dumbo Eden withdraws all her pitiful savings and gives it to her former friend turned snake. Damiano was angry when all this was revealed but he located the photographer who had snapped the photos and was surprised to see that in the unpublished photos the woman had obviously been Tina. Guess that newspaper will be getting a lawsuit... Another plot twist is added to the soap opera when an old girlfriend/former fiancee of Damiano's enters the tale. Annabel had been Damiano's fiancee years before he met Eden and she was also his sister Cosetta's bff. Damiano had broken his engagement to Annabel when he overheard some gold digging comments she had made to her sister. That hadn't stopped Annabel, with the full cooperation of Cosetta, from trying to break up his marriage to Eden. Cosetta was such a vile witch of a sister ( even her name gives me the creeps because it sounds like some wart nose witch in a hypothetical Iberian fairy tale ). Anyway, when Damiano had gone missing, Annabel, who had been pregnant with some other man's baby, decided that the time had arrived to pull the long con. She conned Nuncio and Cosetta into believing that her kid was fathered by Damiano and that the latter had made plans to divorce Eden, marry her and live HEA. DUNCio and Cosetta were such gullible fools that they ate that story up like fettucine shrimp mascarpone. Towards the end, the truth is revealed about Tina's adultery and DUNCio is squawking around like a headless chicken while Cosetta shrieks like the witch she is supposed to be. Added to that revelation, DUNCio and Cosetta are shocked to discover that they've been giving tons of money to Annabel for the upkeep of her kid who is not related to them ! These simpletons really got a comeuppance because Damiano tells DUNCio that it's his hard luck he wasted his money on a scheming liar like Annabel. The scheming con artist turns up next, all pale, trembling and wringing her hands in anxiety because she doesn't have a cent to pay back the money. Damiano threatens her with a lawsuit should any newspaper print a word about her son being fathered by him and he sends her on her way by telling her that it's up DUNCio to decide about the money. The epilogue is lovely because the MC's have twin babies and are celebrating their wedding anniversary. We also hear that DUNCio divorced Tina and found out via DNA testing that his daughter is not biologically his. I felt not an ounce of sympathy for DUNCio after the way he had treated Eden. Cosetta has been ignored by Damiano until Eden asked him to invite her to their babies' christening ( Lynne G loves to make her heroine be all sweet and full of the milk of human kindness to bitches who had been evil to them ). We also hear that Annabel rushed to marry some rich old man because DUNCio had started to demand repayment of his money. As for the blackmailing snake Martin, well he ends up in prison because his employers discovered proof of his embezzlement. Lynne G really wraps up the punishment for the wrong doers in this novel. This was ok. I confess I enjoyed the soap opera drama a lot more than the actual romance because the latter seemed to take a secondary place to the former.