3.5
Greek's Baby of Redemption
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A housekeeper helps a brooding tycoon get an heir and save his business in this modern take on Beauty and the Beast by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Scarred tycoon Alex Santos’s Greek island estate is a fortress—protecting those outside from the darkness within him. When he needs a wife to secure his business, his discreet, compassionate housekeeper, Milly, agrees to his proposal. But their wedding night sparks an unexpected fire, and the consequences force Alex to face his painful past . . . Could Milly—and his unborn child—be the key to Alex’s redemption?
Escape to the Greek islands with this marriage of convenience.
Scarred tycoon Alex Santos’s Greek island estate is a fortress—protecting those outside from the darkness within him. When he needs a wife to secure his business, his discreet, compassionate housekeeper, Milly, agrees to his proposal. But their wedding night sparks an unexpected fire, and the consequences force Alex to face his painful past . . . Could Milly—and his unborn child—be the key to Alex’s redemption?
Escape to the Greek islands with this marriage of convenience.
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“This book immediately jumped into the action with Alex Santos asking Milly to proposition of become his wife and giving him an heir in order to inherit his company down the line. Milly was has been his housekeeper for the last six months and proved loyalty to him all those months of working for him so he figured she would be perfect for this arrangement. The twist being that this was the first time that Milly had ever met her boss and this sudden proposal seemed out in left field when he was practically a stranger. The reason that she had not met him before was cause Alex kept himself locked away from prying eyes to revel the burn marks on the on side of his face that he wanted to keep hidden from the world.
I was surprised that the book started her, but it immediately had me intrigued with such a proposition so early on. I would have expected it to come later in the book as Alex came to observe Milly more closely as he spent time at his villa that she was working in and realize that she was the perfect choice to be his convenient wife with lots of tension rolling between them as they spent more time together.
This was very much a Beauty and the Beast theme that was even commented on by Alex later on in the book. He believed himself a beast with the half of his face damaged and refused to face the outside world just like the beast did in the story. It also felt very Beauty and the Beast > like in the beginning where Alex remained in shadow while talking to Milly and convince her of this arrangement where she would marry him and provide an heir. He made sure that kept his face hidden during that entire time. It reminded me of the beast who was in the shadows when he talked to Belle and only revealed himself when she insisted. Milly did the same, though later on in the book, adn though she may have not expected the scars she wasn’t repulsed or frightened just surprised. She saw beyond that to the man that Alex truly was just like Belle did. I appreciated very much all the Beauty and the Beast elements here and I really like when it is in a Harlequin Presents.
There were a lot miscommunication and misunderstanding between Alex and Milly concerning their attraction and desire for one another. They wanted each other, but they didn’t believe the other wanted them like Milly believing she was too plain while Alex thought his scars were a major turn off for Milly. In romance, I love misunderstanding and miscommunications because it adds so much drama, angst, and friction in the story where hurt feelings become involved, and it was involved in this story with both of them, however I kind of wanted to shake the two of them and just tell them to communicate already to avoid all this unnecessary drama and angst that was going on. If they just talked out, they would have been fine, but because they didn’t it was a big old mess. Again I usually like that type of thing in romance, but in the case it was too much and I just wish they talked or said something. Yes, I understand that neither of them wanted to get rejected or put themselves out there to be hurt, but I just think that they could have communicated and it would have been a much better way to go in the story.
Their first time was an utter and totally disaster and due to those misconceptions that I mentioned above. This scene was very detailed of what went wrong during their encounter. It was kind of heartbreaking especially knowing what both of them were thinking at the moment. They both wanted more, but never said anything so they didn’t get more. It was more of clinical type of love scene, which wasn’t that sexy. I was expecting the next love scenes to be so much better and passionate. They were passionate, but they were kind of quick and not as detailed as the first time scene was, and that followed for the rest of love scenes in the book. This is one of biggest issues with Kate Hewitt is the fact that she usually only has one detailed love scene while the rest are kind of summarized and not detailed and doesn’t show off the intimacy and the closeness that is developing between the couple. In the case of this book, there needed to be more intimate and detailed scenes between Alex and Milly if only to make up for the first time scene because I really don’t consider that a love scene, but more of clinical sex scene, and that’s a big difference. They needed that intimate love scene into order to show off the connection that was building between them, and they were in fact building on something special. So, that was a little disappointing.
I also wish there were more intimate scenes between them that weren’t confined to the bedroom that showed off more of the romance between Milly and Alex. I wanted to see them fall in love, and I don’t think I got the quite from here. Their journey to love was more summarized than actually shown, and I wanted to be shown. Just a little bit more romance between them. However, he did do a couple of romantic things for her like bring her sister to the island before the wedding so they could spend time together and giving her his mother’s necklace to show he did in fact care about her. I would have liked to see more scenes like that, or even scene where she touched his scars thoroughly and kiss them to show that she appreciated them and that they were apart of him. If they did that during a love scene, that would have taken the cake, but if they just a more exploration where touched him throughly would have spoke volumes of the intimacy between them.
They did have some moments where they got to know each other by revealing truths of what happened in their pasts. In Alex’s case, it was the abuse his suffered as a child and the fire that scarred him while Milly revealed her unhappy childhood with uncaring parents and the guy she was falling for was only after her to win a bet with his friends. They did expose their vulnerable selves to the other, which was really telling, and it showed that they were in fact developing that closeness between them. Again I wish there were more scenes like this that would have been easy to see that in fact they were falling deeper for each other, but I just didn’t quite get that.
Even though they had a ton of misunderstandings and miscommunications throughout the story and Alex tried to pull away from Milly whenever she got too close to him, I felt like their romance was pretty easy. There wasn’t really a lot of angst or friction between them. Not really butting heads, or anything that would have had that cat and mouse type of game in play. It was smoother than I would have expected with a lot less up and downs going on. Again yes, he pulled away from her, which hurt her terribly, but even still I thought there was a lack of intensity. There was almost a lack of conflict between them that would have lead to all that great angst that I love in romance. If there was more than the intensity would have be elevated to such a degree that I know that I would have loved this book, instead of just liking it
Overall, even though I didn’t love the book, I did like it and enjoy it as I was reading it. Jumping right into the story got me immediately hooked, and made want to keep on reading. I loved the whole Beauty and the Beast aspect of the story and that played up a lot in the story. In my opinion it could played up more like with her exploring his scars and such with her fingers, hands, and lips, but Kate Hewitt did adequate job of exploring this type of trope. It really did remind me of the story so much. I wish there was more angst, more intensity, and just more drama that would have put it over the top and made me love it. I think there were many missed opportunities that could have been explored and developed to show off their romance and how that was growing and building over the course of the book. I wish there was more of proper love scene and not just a rushed one especially after the disaster that was their first time. I just wanted to see more romance between them, but the story wasn’t boring and it intrigued me throughout the pages, and I was able to get through it rather quickly. It was solid read that I’m glad I got to read. It was good.”
About Kate Hewitt
Kate Hewitt has worked a variety of different jobs, from drama teacher to editorial assistant to youth worker, but writing romance is the best one yet. She also writes women's fiction and all her stories celebrate the healing and redemptive power of love. Kate lives in a tiny village in the English Cotswolds with her husband, five children, and an overly affectionate Golden Retriever.
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