Review: Goalie

Goalie by M.E. Carter

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Eu li várias resenhas negativas e então resolvi ler o livro para ver qual era a coisa toda.
A autora escreveu uma história bem realista e que não vai deixar aquela sensação boa ao terminar a leitura, mas faz pensar.
O herói é um atleta profissional que transa com as groupies que cercam os jogadores do time dele. Durante os 10 anos em que foi casado com a heroína e tiveram os 3 filhos deles ele trai a esposa dele inúmeras vezes com mulheres diferentes. O herói deixa o leitor com muito ódio e nojo do comportamento dele.
Ela enfim acorda para a situação e o chuta para fora de casa e pede o divórcio. A heroína é a típica que foi traída e foi a última a ficar sabendo de tudo.
Ele reluta em aceitar a responsabilidade pelo ocorrido e continua cometendo os mesmos erros.
Nossa heroína fica firme nas posição dela e aos poucos vai ficando mais forte e independente apesar de ainda continuar amando o herói.
Eu confesso que se estivesse no lugar dela eu chutaria a bunda dele e não tocaria mais nele nem com a ponta do meu dedo.
Mas ela aos poucos vai perdoando e ele realmente tenta mudar o caráter dele e se tornar uma pessoa melhor.
Eu fiquei esperando ele trair novamente até o final e fiquei com a sensação de que ela vai ter uma vida muito difícil tentando ter paz sabendo que ele não vai estar lá fora transando com outra mulher.
A confiança nunca mais será a mesma e não sei se mesmo um grande amor vai sustentar o casamento deles. Mas ele pareceu estar disposto a mudar e realmente aos poucos foi demonstrando isso.
Gostei da leitura e mais um traidor para minha lista de leitura.
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I read several negative reviews and then I decided to read the book to see what was the whole thing.
The author wrote a story very realistic and it's not going to let that feeling good when you finish reading, but makes you think.
The hero is a professional athlete who has sex with his groupies that surround the players of his team. During the 10 years he was married to heroin and had 3 children he cheated his wife numerous times with different women. The hero leaves the reader with a lot of hate and disgust of his behavior.
She finally wake up to the situation and kick him out of the home and asks for a divorce. The heroine is the typical who was cheated and was the last to know everything.
He is reluctant to accept responsibility for what happened and keep making the same mistakes.
Our heroine is firm in her position and gradually gets stronger and independent despite still loving the hero.
I confess that if I was in her place I'd kick his butt out and wouldn't touch him anymore even with the tip of my finger. But she will slowly forgiving and he really tries to change his character and become a better person.
I was waiting for him to cheat again until the end and I got the feeling that she's going to have a very hard life trying to have peace knowing he won't be out there having sex with another woman. The trust will never be the same and I don't know if even a great love will sustain their marriage. But he seemed willing to change and actually slowly came to demonstrating that.
I like reading and more a cheater to my reading list.

Highlights:

"Admittedly, I haven’t been exactly celibate since Mari left me."

"there has never been a time in our entire relationship when Santos wasn’t cheating on me. Not in college. Not when we first got married. Not when I was pregnant. Not ever."

"How could you do this to me? To us? How could you humiliate me like that in front of everyone we know? Do you know what that’s like?"

"You’re not sorry for doing it; you’re sorry you got caught"

“So it never occurred to you that you kissed these whores on the mouth, probably right after they got done sucking someone else’s dick without a condom, did it?”
“God, Santos. It’s a wonder I don’t have herpes in my mouth, you asshole.”

"How many more pieces of myself can be broken before I disappear forever?"

"Have I really changed my patterns enough for Mari to trust me again? Obviously not since I just got a blow job from some random chick."

==>rolando de rir aqui! LOMAOF!

“You’re saying Santos cheated on me for all those years because he might have a medical condition that exacerbates his stupid superstitions?”
“I call bullshit.”
“Why?”
“Why?” I laugh, humorlessly. “Because we were married for ten years. He could have easily come home and gotten his ‘medical condition,’” I sarcastically use air quotes, “… under control with me. But he didn’t. He chose to go out and bang any groupie who was willing to spread her legs for him. No way. He made a choice. Every time.”

==>the prospects don't look very favorable for the couple

“Mari, the kind of trust I broke doesn’t take weeks or months to rebuild. It takes years. Years. You have every right to doubt me. I can promise all day long, but in the end, the only way to help you feel better is to show you. Never be sorry for looking. Never be sorry for reminding me not to let my guard down. This is how we’re going to rebuild what was broken. Together.”

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Review: Runaway Wife

Runaway Wife by Charlotte Lamb

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I did not like the hero.
He dropped the heroine at their home in the country and continued his life in the city. And the secretary accompanied him in all social functions in the city and in his travels.
He dispatches their son to boarding school against the will of the heroine.
If he lived practically alone in London in my opinion he did not even care about his family. It was another sign of social status.
In my opinion he must have cheated on her at some point. He is too arrogant and too aggressive and in no time I felt that he really loved her. She is more of a possession.
Our heroine is a doormat and does nothing against the other woman. She should have marked her position from the start and not been passive.
She should have imposed her position as a partner in the company and put the secretary in her place or demanded that the bitch be fired.
Keeping the secretary was more important than keeping his marriage.
She should have kicked the hero's ass and ripped off the other woman's hair.

It was the last straw when Oliver could not make it home for their 10th wedding anniversary.

Miss Sylvester wasn’t there. She was in Wales with Mr Ransom, Francesca was informed.

Francesca wished she had someone to talk over problems with, someone she could trust the way Oliver trusted Miss Sylvester.

He hadn’t taken her seriously for years; she had merged with the wallpaper of his life, along with Lambourne, Jon, even his father. The things that really mattered to Oliver were up here, in London. This was where Oliver lived. Their home in Sussex was a place he visited, and she and Jon people he visited; they were peripheral to Oliver’s real world, the business world in which Miss Sylvester and Matt belonged and where Oliver most truly existed, was most himself, a self Francesca did not know.

he shook her backwards and forwards so violently that her hair came tumbling down, the long blonde strands flying around her face and tangling in his fingers.

She hadn’t been imagining things; there was something going on between Oliver and Janice Sylvester. Humiliation stung in her throat. It was bad enough that he had cheated on her, but for everyone to know about it made it seem worse.

You’ve been flying about all over the world with Janice Sylvester for years and getting away with.

Matt looked at him then. ‘You’re the one who keeps forgetting . . .that’s why she left you!’

Oliver might not realise it, but by taking Janice instead of her to this party he was practically making a public announcement to the staff, and Janice feverishly wanted him to commit himself.

Janice was not having coffee. She was sitting on Oliver’s lap, her arms around his neck, kissing him passionately.

She had begun to wonder months ago, puzzled by Oliver’s lack of interest in her, by his long absences and his cold remoteness, picking up the malice and dislike in Janice’s voice whenever they spoke on the telephone. It had all pointed to one answer--that Oliver was having an affair with his secretary--and everyone had been dropping hints since she started work here. Matt had betrayed his suspicions by his unhappy...

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Review: Tattered

Tattered by Devney Perry

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Reading the book THE CLOVER CHAPEL in which we know the hero as the boyfriend of the heroine who is most concerned with work and partying in high society, I had a hard time liking him in this story.
I imagined him different.
I separated some highlights from that book so we could have an idea of what I felt when reading.

“Do you want to call me when you get home?” I asked hopefully.
“It’ll be late,” he said.
“I’m two hours earlier than you are. I’ll be awake. You could tell me good night. We could talk for a while. Catch up.”
“Uh, maybe, but don’t wait up.” Papers shuffled in the background. “I might put in a long night and crash here on the couch.”

Logan and I had been together for the last five years. We’d met at a fundraising gala where I had been working for my father and he had attended as a guest, representing the extraordinarily wealthy Kendrick family.
I had been dancing with my father when Logan approached and asked to cut in. My father had gladly handed me over after telling me that I “wasn’t to fuck up his setup.”
I’d felt so confused at that moment. I hadn’t wanted to be with someone because he’d passed my father’s criteria as suitable boyfriend material, but I also hadn’t been able to walk away from Logan.

“It’s okay. Where are you?”
“A cocktail party in Midtown benefitting the Kohlberg Foundation. I ran into your friend Alice today at lunch. She’s working for them and invited me to come along with her.”
“Alice Leys?” I asked.
“Yes, that Alice,” he said. “She’s been inviting me for years to her events. We always had conflicts in our schedules. But now that you’re in Montana, I was available.”

In this book we learned that 6 months before he met Emmy he had a night of sex with our heroine and that night they did not exchange surnames or other personal information. 👀
But they supposedly felt a special connection. 💞
She became pregnant 🍼 and without any possibility of finding him, she having to seek support from friends in another city. He got involved with his work and the hectic social life when he remembered to look for her, it was late.
Each one moved with life. She raising her daughter 👧🏼 and him a serious relationship 💍 with another woman.
Surely if they had not met again he would not even remember her.
When he discovers that he has a daughter he compartmentalizes and thinks that in a week he solves everything and returns to his normal life.
I confess that I find him a moron to think that he will meet his daughter and form a bond with the child in a week and that all is settled. 😂
He ends up discovering that life can not always be controlled and that nothing else will be as before.
Throughout history we get to know our heroes and their lives better. I liked them and how they sought a better version of themselves throughout the book.
She came from a terrible childhood where abandonment marked her forever and he from a rich and seemingly normal family. But each with its own issues.
I started the reading without waiting too long and I ended up hooked from start to finish.
I noticed that in all stories the author puts a stalker to give a touch of mystery 🕵️ and action to the plot.

I recommend.

“I’m Logan.” I placed my hand in his, already lost in the fairy tale. “Thea.”

I’d come to Montana to surprise Emmeline for a Thanksgiving weekend. The ring I’d bought for her had been in my coat pocket. My plan had been to propose and convince her to move home after she finished a year teaching kindergarten. Instead, I ended a five-year relationship when I learned she was still in love with a man from her past. Her husband.

—I’d been busy with work. Then life had moved on. Not long after I’d tried to find Thea again, I’d met Emmeline.

My phone vibrated in my pocket, interrupting my thoughts. I dug it out of my jeans, assuming it was Nolan, but frowned when I saw the name Alice Leys.

I’d spend this week in Montana and then things would go back to normal.

I have one week. One week to get to know my daughter and build something of a relationship with her. Then I need to wrap this up and get my life back to normal.”

Logan would regret a kiss with me. Maybe he regretted ever stepping into that hotel bar.

The last time a woman had told me she’d needed some time away to think, she’d moved to Montana and found a husband. There was no way I was going to lose Thea like I’d lost Emmeline.

“I like to take the tattered and lost and make it shine. Garbage doesn’t have to stay garbage. Things just need to find their right place.”

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