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Jess's Promise (2011)

by Lynne Graham(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373129874 (ISBN13: 9780373129874)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

series

Secretly Pregnant… Conveniently Wed

review 1: Jess seorang dokter hewan yang membuka praktek pribadi. Bukan karena dia kaya, semata-mata karena dia peduli pada hewan. Penghasilannya yang tidak seberapa dihabiskannya utk hewan2 yg diselamatkannya. Suatu hari ayah tirinya datang padanya meminta tolong atas kasus pencurian lukisan di estate tempatnya bekerja. Ayahnya tdk bersalah. Dan karena cintanya pada ayahnya, Jess memberanikan diri menemui pemilik estate, Cesario.Cesario seorang pengusaha Italia yang kaya raya. Satu lukisan sebenarnya tdk berpengaruh pada kekayaannya. Tapi dia memanfaatkan kondisi itu untuk mengajukan tawaran pada Jess, gadis yang sudah lama menarik perhatiannya. Cesario menginginkan ahli waris untuk mengklaim harta ayahnya, dan dia meminta Jess menjadi istri kontrak hingga batas waktu tertentu. Tid... moreak ada pilihan selain menyelamatkan ayahnya, Jess menerima tawaran itu.Tadinya saya mengira kisahnya bakal flat seperti pernikahan kontrak antara pria kaya raya dan gadis miskin. Hanya saja di bagian akhir, Jess mendapati bahwa ada rahasia besar yang disimpan oleh Cesario. Ada hal yang lebih penting bagi Cesario untuk mendapatkan ahli waris daripada sekedar mengklaim warisan ayahnya. Dan dia sudah memanipulasi Jess untuk itu. Sayangnya Jess menolak untuk mundur karena dia mencintai Cesario.
review 2: This book just missed all around for me. There were lots of elements that should have contributed to a nice angsty read but they were not really explored or utilized fully. She had been attacked by a stalker years ago and had some bad scars. That was only a blip. She was only a little worried about showing him her scars and he didn't really care when he saw them. Non issue. He is dying of a brain tumor (which the author mistakenly calls benign instead of malignant). He had evidently married her to have a child to leave his stuff to. That came out of left field at the end with extrememly little foreshadowing. It would have been much more effective if we'd seen his angst about it throughout the book. We were in his POV sometimes so hiding his thoughts from the reader is cheating. There's sort of a lame attempt at the mistaken other woman story line. But no real follow through there either. There was some lame stuff about him not telling her about the illness and pushing her away for her own good. But none of it was really explored in depth and it all kind of lacked cohesion. There was also a lovely honeymoon that they went on which while I would have loved that honeymoon, was really just a strange interlude in what should have been an angsty read.I did like that the heroine was a veterinarian and evidently good at her job and dedicated. All in all it just missed the mark. Too much stuff thrown in and inadequately utilized. less

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