Review: Jay: Castle Ink #2

Jay: Castle Ink #2 by Amy Davies

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Rachel is a crazy bitch and left our hero's mind fucked up.
She teased him of his feelings, used him only for sex, and rubbed another guy she took home to an ONS in the face of our hero. She humiliated him and when she saw him with another woman she had a fit of jealousy and tried to have sex with him again. He refused to be used again and she was furious with him.
He really had feelings for her and wanted more.
The bitch leaves and still lies about the reasons for her departure, putting the blame on him. What a bitch!
He ends up meeting Cassie, our heroine, and is charmed by her, but all his insecurities appear at various times almost fucking everything up.
Rachel, the bitch, is always in his thoughts. He looks pathetic in several scenes.
Cassie has also left an abusive relationship and is afraid. But she's charming and that's all he imagined in a partner.
She is intelligent, humorous, loves tattoos, loves animals, superheroes and movies. She's perfect for him.
There are scenes where we feel like slapping the hero's face so he will not be a fool anymore. He does a lot of shit and is an asshole.
The bitch comes back causing more trouble and leaving destruction in her path.
Her ex also appears out of nowhere causing problems.
We have a satisfactory HEA.

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Review: DEX: Castle Ink #1

DEX: Castle Ink #1 by Amy Davies

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The hero is a big asshole.
Our heroine is a fool who serves as a doormat for the hero to step on.
He still loves his dead wife and became a womanizer after her death.
He rubs the women in the face of the heroine and humiliates her constantly.
She is a poor second choice ever, a replacement. She lives in the house of the deceased wife and even names her daughter with the name of the ex.
I found it hard to swallow his sudden passion for her. I was not convinced. He always despised the love of our heroine and made other choices.
She's always been left behind.
But we have an HEA.

I just buried my heart.

There will never be another woman for me. No other woman will own my heart.

But with me being with Fiona, I couldn’t admit that I stopped seeing her as a little sister when she was around fourteen; I was eighteen at the time.

She told me that she couldn’t be around me and Fiona living happily together. It hurt her heart.

Addy gives in to fighting me as I rip her clothes off and I remove my boxers. We make love right there on the sofa, in front on the blazing fire. After I feel her third orgasm pulsing through her body, I finally let go.

“It should never have happened, Ads.” She flinches at my nickname for her.

I push her away but it hurts me to be close to her, I always feel as if I am cheating on Fiona; even after three years.

“I needed to forget and you were there. Easy.”

I think of my love for Fiona as well. I know that she is gone but she will always be with me.

The family I wanted with Fiona.

Addison has always loved you and was always there for you. But you brushed aside her feelings for Fiona.

...but you enjoyed rubbing it in my face that you were fucking every other girl but me, to what? Hide your feelings for me? That was a shitty way to do it.

...my stomach is churning at the amount of women Dex has been with since Fiona died. He used to flaunt them in front of me all the time. He knew how much he was hurting me but being the dick that he is, he ignored my feelings.

I have wanted but I had always pictured my future with Fiona.

She made it very clear that living in Fiona’s house didn’t bother her.

“I want to name her Phoebe Fiona Castle.”

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Goalie (Juked #3) by M.E. Carter

Goalie (Juked #3) by M.E. Carter

Kindle Edition, 242 pages

Published February 18th 2017

Review in Portuguese and English.

Blurb:

Goalie 
[goh-lee] 
noun 
a player in the goal whose duty is to prevent the ball from entering or crossing it 

See Santos and Mariana DeGuajarado 

As goalie of the Texas Mutiny, Santos is damn good at protecting that net. But he never bothered to protect his marriage. 

Letting the fame and notoriety go to his head, he lost the things he loved the most… his wife and kids. Now he has one shot to make it right before losing at this relationship game and he’s determined not to miss this time. 

Mariana has been scarred so deeply by Santos’s betrayals, she will carry the wounds forever. After almost ten years of marriage though, she knows him well, and she knows he won’t let go without a fight. Still, she refuses to be a push over. 

Because love is never enough… 

#assholealert #cheaterscumbag #cheater

Review:

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.”

Sarah's Child (Spencer-Nyle Co #1) by Linda Howard

Sarah's Child (Spencer-Nyle Co #1) by Linda Howard

Paperback, 251 pages

Published August 1st 2006

Review in Portuguese and English

Blurb:

A tragic accident took everything that mattered to Rome Matthews -- his wife, Diane, and their two little boys. And it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend. In the two years since the tragedy, Sarah has wanted to reach out to Rome, but she knew she needed to stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diane all those years -- that she was in love with her best friend's husband. But now Rome needs her. And though another woman will hold his heart forever, Sarah agrees to be his wife, knowing that everything has a price, including love. Then something totally unexpected rekindles her hidden hope that a marriage of convenience will become a union of love. Will Rome keep fighting his own growing need for a woman who dares him to believe there are second chances in life... or will he give in to the healing power of love and miracles?

Review:

Sarah embarca em um relacionamento completamente fodido. 

O herói ainda ama a esposa morta e sofre a perda dos dois filhos pequenos deles. 

Ele sente tesão por ela e a pede em casamento assim ele tem sexo e companhia. Ela ama ele desde que o conheceu e ela aceita assim mesmo que ele oferece. 

Eles transam e imediatamente ele sai da cama dela e vai pra cama dele dormir sozinho porque ele sente falta da esposa morta. Tudo muito impessoal.

Ele avisa ela desde o início que ele não quer filhos porque nada nem ninguém vai substituir a família que ele perdeu.

Aí o impensável acontece e Sarah engravida.

Ele exige que ela aborte a criança. 

Mas ela se recusa e ele a trata como se a criança não existisse e se recusa a saber sobre a gravidez ou a criança. Sarah sofre calada e aceita tudo.

Aqui é o ponto onde eu realmente odiei a atitude dela e a aceitação de toda porcaria que ele fez como se isso fosse a coisa mais normal do mundo. 

Eu tive vontade de gritar com ela e demandar uma atitude de coragem e espinha dorsal. 

Ela aceita tudo como se o herói tivesse o direito de ignorar a criança, afinal o coitadinho estava sofrendo. Francamente me irritou muito!

E quando ela fica imaginando até colocar a criança para adoção só para não perder o amor do herói. Fiquei muito brava! Que mosca morta!

Mas no final tudo deu certo.

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Sarah embarks on a relationship completely fucked up. 

The hero still loves the dead wife and suffer the loss of their two small children. 

He feels the hots for her and asks to marry him so he has sex and companionship. 

She loves him since he met him and she accepts what he offers. They have sex and immediately he gets out of her bed and goes to his bed to sleep alone because he misses his dead wife. All very impersonal.

He warns her from the beginning that he doesn't want kids because no one will replace the family he lost.

Then the unthinkable happens and Sarah gets pregnant.

He demands that she abort the child. 

But she refuses and he treats as if the child did not exist and refuses to know about pregnancy or the child. 

Sarah suffers quiet and accepts everything.

This is the point where I really hated her attitude and acceptance of all the crap he did as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

I had the urge to yell at her and demand an attitude of courage and backbone. 

She accepts everything as if the hero had the right to ignore the child, after all the poor were suffering. Frankly annoyed me a lot!

And when she wonders to put the child up for adoption to avoid losing the love of the hero. I was very mad! That dead fly!

But in the end it all worked out. 

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Highlights:

“You"re thirty-three years old. Why in hell would you still be a virgin?”

"What would Diane say, if she knew he"d just seduced her best friend?"

"He was gone, but then she"d never had him, not in any way that counted. She hadn"t had his trust, or his love."

"He almost groaned aloud, thinking of another wedding, and Diane"s radiant face as she came down the aisle to him, the hunger in the kiss he"d given her at the end of the ceremony. His wife! Diane had been his wife, and he"d never thought an-other woman would occupy that position, bear that title. Until the ceremony had begun, he hadn"t had any doubts about this second marriage, but when the familiar, haunting words reached his ears..." 

"He knew that no other woman should be in his mind tonight, but he couldn"t stop thinking about Diane, couldn"t stop comparing her to Sarah."

“I"m sorry,” he said in a low, raw voice. „Things have re-ally hit me hard tonight, and I can"t…I have to be alone tonight. I"m sorry,“ he said again, waiting for her reaction."

"Sarah knew, in his heart his only wife was Diane."

"I can"t accept another child, so don"t…don"t ask me to try."

"I can"t do it. Don"t have the baby. If you love me, don"t…don"t have the baby.”

“I"ll try to keep the baby away from you, out of your way. I"ll never ask you to care for it, or hold it. I swear, Rome, you"ll never even have to know its name if you don"t want to! For all in-tents and purposes, you won’t be a father!”

"But I don"t want to know about the baby,” he said

“I don"t want the baby between us. Take care of it, yes, but when I come home at night..."