Penniless and Purchased
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780263213386 (0263213382)
Publish date: May 2010
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Edition language: English
For HPs with the poor, misunderstood waif heroine and the judgmental asshole Greek billionaire hero. It's very much a guilty pleasure and Julia James is a master with this plot. This one's just a tad too overwrought to make it over 4 stars but on the plus side: No Secret Baby! Since I am in co...
Sophie had always been well protected and shielded from the hardships of life by her loving father. Allowed to fulfill her childhood dreams of playing the piano, and pampered beyond belief, the arrival of Nikos in to her life seemed to add to the fantastic fairytale existance she lead. But like many...
This was so exactly the sort of high-octane read I was looking for, that it was easy to overlook its flaws. You can't criticize a book for being cliched when you're looking for a story about a mean hero who thinks the heroine is a conniving slut, now can you? And there actually was a teeny bit of tw...
The balance between introspection, flashbacks and the pacing/development of the current day romance didn't quite work for me. And all exclamations peppered throughout the story might have been for emotional emphasis, but they were ultimately distracting. I haven't rated this one because I'm not sure...
This was a little ridiculous that the heroine's only choice to earn extra money was to be an escort. I mean later in the book we find out she turned down working at a "bar job" because of the sexual harrassment she would receive. Seriously? Because there is no harrassment when working as an "escort....
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