3.0
Pregnant in the Italian's Palazzo
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The consequence of their sky-high encounter:
Fashion designer Aria Dane needs to get from New York to London. The simple solution? Nysio Bacchetti's private jet. Yet there's nothing simple about the collision between free-spirited Aria and guarded Nysio. And for one flight, they yield to explosive desire…
Weeks later, the Italian billionaire can't get Aria out of his head. To stop his perfectly ordered world from descending into chaos, Nysio's sole option is to finish what they started… Only, once Aria arrives at his grand palazzo, they discover something truly life-changing—her unexpected pregnancy!
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“I used to read Harlequin Presents a lot when I was a teenager, as it was the only romances I could easily and cheaply get. I had a love-hate relationship with them. I didn't love the millionaire crap and the exoticisation of certain nationalities (Italians and Greeks are always possessive and sexist), but sometimes the tropey goodness did work.
I haven't read stuff from this line for a while, but I've been watching with interest how Harlequin has incorporated more diverse characters and stories over the years (and put them on the covers accurately!). So when I had the prompt "A book in a genre, or literature type, that you do not usually read" in my yearly reading challenge, I decided to go for it.
The first half of the book got me quite excited. First of all, we have two neurodiverse characters (Aria has ADHD and over the years has developed very effective strategies to cope quite well, while Nysio struggles with anxiety). Then the opening scene is pretty subversive, with Nysio attempting to go to Aria's rescue, and then the roles changing when he's accosted by a paparazzo and freezes, with Aria coming to his rescue instead. And the initial relationship was pretty nice. There is chemistry there, and the "hey, let's explore this a bit more" vibe is good. Yes, there's the whole "I'm a millionaire and I pointlessly fly around in my private jet" nonsense (seriously, this needs to die), but ok, I can live with it.
In the second half, however, the book basically disintegrates. As soon as Aria's pregnancy comes to light, Nysio goes all caveman and kidnaps her. Ugh, seriously? It's completely unnecessary, because it seemed pretty obvious that if they let the relationship continue to develop naturally, they'd get to where he wanted to go. But no, he becomes a total idiot. And then the connection between them disappears. Plus, it felt like the author stopped writing an actual story, and instead realises she doesn't have the page length left to actually develop anything, and starts just having most stuff happen off-stage. We're told this and that happens, quite important stuff, but we don't see it. It was very unsatisfying.
And then there's the overarching series story. This is supposed to be the third book in a mini-series called The Greeks' Race to the Altar, and apparently this plot drives the first two books. Here, though, the series element felt shoehorned in and didn't make sense with the rest of the story. It felt like the author just wasn't interested in finishing the series, but felt she had to. It doesn't work at all. It's one of the elements that happens offline, and honestly, it was done in what I can only describe as an inept way.
The whole second half felt inept, like the author lost all the talent she showed in the first half. It pissed me off. This was a D for me.”
“Short travel romance set in Florence with lots of wealth/billionaire fantasy. The main couple has anxiety and ADHD and are supportive of one another. They were cute together but the heroine’s BFF was so flaky and MIA that I am not inspired to read her book in the series.”
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