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Seducing Simon Review

Toni Langston has gotten herself into a bit of a pickle. OK, it's actually a pretty big mess, if you want to know the truth. Not only is she pregnant, but the father doesn't even remember having slept with her, having been uncharacteristically drunk the night it happened. To make it even worse, the father is Simon, her long-time friend and one of her roommates, who she has harbored a secret crush on for more years than she can count. Toni sees this as her last chance - if she wants Simon, she must seduce him, preferably before their baby is born.
Simon has never noticed Toni, not romantically. They are best friends and he'd do anything for her, but he has never seemed to feel the same way about Toni as she does for him. But he starts to see her in a different way after learning she is pregnant. It drives him crazy that she won't divulge the father's identity - he wants nothing more than to bash the idiot's face in for leaving Toni in this mess. In fact, the thought of her being with another man unearths feelings he never suspected he had for her. Sure, he has always been protective of her, knew he loved her, but only in a brotherly way, right? Then why has a sneaky possessive feeling suddenly started to surface, and why can't he take his eyes off of her? And above all, where did these sexy dreams about her that feel all too real come from?
Before you even buy this book, make sure you are stocked up on tissue. I think I went through at least one box while reading Maya Banks' Seducing Simon! This book has been on my wish list for quite a while and I could kick myself for not having read it much sooner. I guarantee the story will stay with me for a long time to come and I will pull it off of the bookshelf time and time again.
Toni absolutely broke my heart. Her struggle to cope with her unrequited love for Simon and an unplanned pregnancy while also dealing with the financial pressures to make a life for herself and her child, possibly alone, would be enough to break many women. The unconditional love and support she enjoys from her brother, Simon, and their other roommate, A.J. is phenomenal, and gives her the strength to keep going. The foursome fight the major life changes they know can't be avoided as they deal with Toni's pregnancy, her brother's impending marriage, and the fact that these events will require them to separate and find new homes, leaving the unconventional, yet comfortable family nest they have built together.
Watching Toni learn how to seduce Simon is hilarious! Growing up a tomboy who never had eyes for any man but Simon, she has not had much experience developing seduction skills. Taking tips from their firefighter friends on how to catch his attention, she sets about her task with a vengeance, knowing her time is short, and she must soon tell Simon the baby is his. The changes she goes through in her attempts serve to confound Simon at every turn - and who doesn't love to watch a man in utter bewilderment trying to make sense of his own feelings as well as a woman's actions? Toni learns fast, keeping Simon on his toes as he slowly starts to realize his own feelings for her.
But the secret Toni has kept threatens everything they build. She's taken so long to spill the mystery of her baby's father that she can't quite figure how best to tell him without leaving him feeling betrayed, or worse. Readers, who enjoy an omniscient view of the tale, and the one friend she confides in, well understand and support her reasons for the delay, but empathy for Simon is present as well when he finally learns the truth. His reaction sets off a chain of events that threaten to destroy everything he holds dearest, and force him to face his innermost feelings and truths.
Maya Banks can write a tragic heroine like no one else. She knows just how to tear your heart to shreds, and then put it all back together better than it ever was before. If ever I've finished a story and started to think of the characters as real people, this would be it. The characters were so very lifelike, the situation so possible, that I could easily believe it if someone told me it was a biography. Ultimately, Seducing Simon serves to remind readers that even situations which seem impossible to recover from can have a happy ending. It is a book I'll read whenever I need to recharge my own hope.

Seducing Simon Overview

One fateful night, Toni Langston seduces her best friend, the guy she's been in love with forever. Two problems-he doesn't remember a thing that happened and now she's pregnant. Toni Langston has been in love with Simon, her best friend, for years. The night Simon breaks up with his long time girlfriend, he and Toni make love. Toni is devastated and humiliated when, in the heat of the moment, he calls her by his girlfriend's name. The next morning, Simon remembers nothing of the previous night and Toni is only too relieved not to remind him. Two months later, she discovers she's pregnant. She wants Simon to love her, apart from any obligation he might feel because of the baby. So she embarks on a quest to seduce her best friend, to make him see her as more than a little sister, to make him love her as much as she loves him. It works. Maybe too well. Now when things are perfect, she faces telling him of the secret she's kept.

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Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Desire) Review & Ratings

Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Desire)
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Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Desire) Review

Books like Maya Banks's THE TYCOON'S PREGNANT MISTRESS are why series romances have a bad reputation. Banks may be good writer, but you can't tell it by this book. Perhaps the series format is too short for her amnesiac story line. I am not normally one of those romance readers that insist that everything be accurate, logical and make perfect sense, but my suspension of disbelief only goes so far. In this vein, I have decided to cathartically list some of the most bothersome aspects of this story. I won't be giving anything away that the book summary doesn't already highlight, so here goes.
1) The hospital releases the heroine, a rescued amnesiac kidnap victim, to a man (the hero) who lies about being her fiancé, and they don't require any proof of his relationship to her even though her abductors are at large and she's still purported to be in danger. 2) Even though she was just released from the hospital, Banks inserts a scene where the hero insists that the heroine get a medical checkup where she has an ultrasound so the doctor can confirm the health of the baby. So the hospital not only violated the laws of the state and the laws of decency by letting some stranger take her home, but they didn't see to the health of her five month old fetus before she was released? I get that this scene was probably an attempt to make this jerk seem caring, but all I could think was, "what kind of quack hospital did they take this poor woman to?" 3) The hero believes himself betrayed by the heroine and seems to genuinely hate her. But instead of simply providing for her care (and thus the care of his unborn child), he lies about them being engaged and proceeds to treat her schizophrenically with equal parts tender care and contempt. 4) His brothers treat her (the recently kidnapped, five-month-pregnant, confused, traumatized, amnesiac woman carrying their nephew) abominably. Their stories will be published soon. I can't wait to skip those. 5) The hero, while believing the heroine to be a lying, conniving, backstabbing, spying witch who slept with him to get at his corporate secrets, doesn't let his contempt stop him from having frequent sex with her even though (let me reiterate) she has been recently kidnapped, held for three months, is pregnant with his child, and is so traumatized she has almost complete amnesia. Ahh, romance!
I was set to give this book one star until I got to the part when the heroine gets her memory back. Her subsequent pain and struggle, along with the hero's guilt and contrition, were so well written it got another star out of me. But it certainly didn't make up for what came before.

Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Desire) Overview

Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis's former mistress was pregnant? And had amnesia? That meant Marley Jameson didn't remember betraying him by selling company secrets. Or that he'd thrown her out of his life. So he told her a little white lie: they were engaged. Then he swept her away to his Greek island to await the birth of his baby and enjoy her sudden devotion...before tossing her out.But he didn't count on Marley regaining her memory so soon.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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