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The Sicilian Boss's Mistress (2009)

by Penny Jordan(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373128193 (ISBN13: 9780373128198)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

series

Leopardi Brothers

review 1: 4.5 stars / Actually a very good book for this type/line. The heroine is especially likeable since she's with her flaws and issues; I like her realistic hesitancy and the cinderella-like feel, but she's also with humor and strength. The hero is almost too jerkish, especially in the first half, but he's delicious and toe-curling. I liked how the side character brother, Falcon, was friendly and "warm", the weird angle of the bitter father, and how what the couple had in common wasn't typical - being a middle child, both with mothers who passed away when they were both young, both wanting to make their way in the world on their own. She was more because she was a girl and raised by her father and brothers without a female presence, and he because his father ridiculed and verb... moreally abused him his entire life. The ending was so sweet, there was some spice, the spider scenes were just hilarious, and the dialogue/argument exchanges were quirky. I'm curious to see what happens with Falcon next because of the wrap-up. The only real complaint I have is that the ending was too rushed; I needed to hear more about the piloting - was she going to quit work, work with him, work somewhere else? An epilogue would have been nice to see how they fared (well, DUH, they would have stayed together and happy, but it just felt so cut off!) Overall impressed. Penny Jordan can be hit and miss - books like this make me want to read more of her.
review 2: I read because I like novelty, and Jordan's writing is just too cookie-cutter for me to enjoy it. She also commits phrase abuse (for which I hold her editor jointly responsible), some notable examples from this book being bathrooms (always referred to as "state-of-the-art") and lack of breath (constantly referred to in terms of "oxygen"). Plus the theme abuse, which in this case is Middle Children, with added Virginity Shame and Tomboy Cinderella on the part of our heroine.So I stopped somewhere in chapter seven and debated with myself whether it was worth keeping reading. My new litmus question for these kind of situations will be "Does the rest of this book have the potential to surprise me?" Unfortunately in this case, the answer was no. I skimmed ahead (thus I'm not marking this as DNF) and felt no regret. This book did not subvert or add anything new to the romance genre, nor to the alpha-hero, socially inferior heroine trope. less

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