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Katrakis's Last Mistress (Modern Romance) (2010)

by Caitlin Crews(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0263878376 (ISBN13: 9780263878370)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon

review 1: Nikos Katrakis HATES Tristanne Barbery family for a wrong he believes the committed against his family. He has been planning his vegeance but it isn’t too overt. It is subtle and when the opportunity presents itself in the form of Tristanne, Nikos isn’t adverse in using her as the tool to gain his vengeance. Tristanne will do anything to help her helpless mother. With her mother’s mounting health bills and Tristanne not having a job that can support both her and her mother, she must cowtow to her step brother. However, Tristanne finds that Nikos may be a bit more appearling in helpng her to achieve that goal of her trust fund three years before, rather than whomever darling step brother picks for her.First off this mysterious illness of Tristanne’s mom – wha... moret was it? Next, I could NOT understand why Nikos wanted revenge for those people. He seemed to have wanted something from them that they were unable to give. However, the icing on the cake is that he claimed he didn’t know what love is. Makes sense as to why he doesn’t express it much. UNTIL you recall that he claimed he loved his half sister!!!! He even thinks he could not and did not know what love is – therefore he wouldn’t know it if he felt it. Again note that he claimed it for half sister – he knew! More than likely it is a case of him not being able to accept love, but he can extend it to those that hate him. Nikos seemed to develop some rage at the evidence of her step-brother’s marks on her yet he still left her to him!!! I almost wished that she got smacked around a bit just to squeeze something out of cold H. Nikos even wanted to leave scars when he gets his final revenge. He was just way too cold for me. All Nikos did was lie and make promises to Tristanne that he had NO intention of keeping. However, w/ nasty half-sister he claimed honor?! This whole blame thing that Nikos had for Tristanne’s family didn’t seem completely resolved IMHO. The half-sister excuse mad a little sense, but the business deal sounded like Nikos was just as much at fault. Why would Tristanne’s step-brother lie about that especially then? Nikos on the other hand has proven that he will lie to get what he wants. Even Nikos’ half-sister claimed that it was Nikos’ fault as well. Near the end, Tristanne is thinking that she can’t trust Nikos and that his reaction to something she said to him should be a clue as well. But for some reason she is doomed because she can’t seem to get away from him. She didn’t want a life like her parents where her mother begged for scraps of affection from her father even though he took responsibility for her. Tristanne seemed so strong and I expected more at the end, I wanted more at the end not just ILY from him, but MORE!!! Even though Tristanne claimed she was hurt by what Nikos did to her, she gave in way to easily and it seemed that the theme was unconditional love w/ no consequences! Nikos claims he doesn’t wallow and yet his words to Tristanne in the end sound a bit like it to me. This is my favorite quote in the book and I think it sums up Nikos even though Tristanne was talking about her step brother when she said it: “They control. They demand. They issue orders and care not at all for the feelings or wishes of anyone around them. They crush and flatten and maim as they see fit. What is a little bruise next to everything else a man is capable of? Next to what you are capable of, for that matter?”
review 2: The plot is familiar to most who have read HP books over the past few decades -- disowned heroine is in financial trouble through no fault of her own and turns to the biggest alpha male on the planet to help her. This type of storyline doesn't bother me -- if it did, I wouldn't read HPs -- but I prefer books that reinvent those classic plots with a modern twist, and this book failed to seem fresh or new to me.The hero is the worst type of alpha male, and I didn't find a single redeeming quality about him (unless you count his supposed talents in bed). He is bossy, mean and aggressive, and at no point is he apologetic for his behavior.The writing style didn't win any favors with me either. The dialogue is stilted and unbelievable. In many places, there were long paragraphs of description and inner-monologue sandwiched between lines of dialogue, and I'd have to flip back a page or two to remember the question one character asked and the other was now answering. Lastly, I'd prefer the character show me how they feel (some sort of actions or gestures outside of the bedroom) instead of reading it through exposition or the characters' inner monologues. less

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