He was a male slut, and then he expected her fidelity, in fact, he didn’t want her showing her body off to the public between shoulders and knees. Lysander was wealthy, a tycoon, busy most of the time, and bored with his sophisticated girlfriends, of which there were many. I couldn’t see much connection between the hero and heroine. And the poor dear girl didn’t seem to be very bright or even intuitive, only seeing what was happening when it was shoved right under her nose. The magic vayjayjay kept Lysander, the hero, going. Her heroine, Ophelia, was exasperating, vacillating between the innocent and the knowing, never really settling in a satisfactory manner and the romance was one of those “I hate you – until there’s a bed in the room” ones that leave me irritated and wondering why they bothered. I could read it as a complete fairy story, although I do prefer well-researched reality if the book is set in a realistic setting.

I usually put the book down at this point, because the plot falls apart, but I wanted to see what Graham was up to, so I read on. It isn’t completely impossible, but the way it was depicted in the story was. One of my uncles died seemingly intestate, but it took, oh, a week before the will showed up because of the legal networks. Second, that a legal will registered with a solicitor can remain unknown to any of the parties mentioned in the will. That’s an infringement of civil liberties and wouldn’t last five minutes in a British court of law (in case you readers of historical romances are reading this – it’s always been that way). A will can specify that a person will inherit once they are married, but it can’t say who they must marry. The first being that a will can specify that two people must get married in order to inherit. It can squick or it can work very well, or it can exasperate. She deals in very young and feisty heroines, and dark, impossibly gorgeous heroes. It put up my hackles from the start, but then, the stupid HMB titles usually do.

The title is even worse than usual, because of the adjective. Lynne Connolly‘s review of The Greek Tycoon’s Disobedient Bride by Lynne GrahamĬontemporary romance released by Harlequin Presents 1 Dec 08

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