The Millionaire's Marriage Demand

Rating:
Summary: Typical Harlequin; no depth
Review: This book has a really good first chapter, but it's downhill all the way after that. The author takes the time in Chapter One to set up her heroine as being a strong woman who can think for herself and stand by her choices in life; then, after she meets the (initially) mysterious & compellingly handsome hero, she develops a wishbone instead of a spine. From that point the story degenerates into the typical Harlequin formula of alpha-male takes over wishy-washy heroine from a bad (or non-existent) family, and shows her the best sex she's ever had. And of course, despite the plethora of birth control around these days, the heroine ends up pregnant after all that fantastic sex, and the alpha male has to demand she marry him. And she's full of doubts over whether he loves her or he's just marrying her for the baby, and will her poor experience with her unhappily married parents make her marriage equally bad?

Why oh why do I buy these things? The first chapter was good and that hooked me -- but it didn't make this one a keeper.

Rating:
Summary: Typical Harlequin; no depth
Review: This book has a really good first chapter, but it's downhill all the way after that. The author takes the time in Chapter One to set up her heroine as being a strong woman who can think for herself and stand by her choices in life; then, after she meets the (initially) mysterious & compellingly handsome hero, she develops a wishbone instead of a spine. From that point the story degenerates into the typical Harlequin formula of alpha-male takes over wishy-washy heroine from a bad (or non-existent) family, and shows her the best sex she's ever had. And of course, despite the plethora of birth control around these days, the heroine ends up pregnant after all that fantastic sex, and the alpha male has to demand she marry him. And she's full of doubts over whether he loves her or he's just marrying her for the baby, and will her poor experience with her unhappily married parents make her marriage equally bad?

Why oh why do I buy these things? The first chapter was good and that hooked me -- but it didn't make this one a keeper.