Pasión En Río De Janeiro (Harlequin Bianca, #1942) (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
A steamy read....the hero is an alpha latin man so full of possiveness, sexiness, and arrogence that he goes through women like Swiss cheese, he is afraid of love and doesn't know how to express his feelings. So of course he would need a naive sweet fresh small town girl to show him the errors of his way and how to love. There is some drama in this story but you will have to find that out for yourself........ This book just has one too many of the bad tropes, without the good characters to back it up and make you overlook it.So the country bumpkin heroine goes to the city and becomes a junior secretary to the hero. While on a trip he's happy about securing a good deal and they sleep together. She was a virgin and he knows that country bumpkin virgins think that sex means relationship so he completely ignores her existance for months after that. Until she shows up and tells him she's pregnant and that she's getting married and quitting. Then he's upset that he wasn't tapping that the whole time when he could have been. And all that leeway he was giving her thinking she was crying over his loss was really her mooning over the new guy. While out on a date with another woman he realizes that maybe the baby is his!Okay, first of all, I can't stand the country people are good people with simple good values. Uhm, bullcrud. People who live in the country can be jerk, evil, slutty, lazy etc. People are people and location doesn't really change that.The heroine had to go home as an unwed pregnant woman from the result of a one night stand. What would people think?She didn't care what people thought in so far. She cared about herself. She didn't want people to look down on her when she'd been looking down on everyone else. Because she was such a good value holding person.So when all her little dreams of the hero failed, she agreed to marry the guy that's been asking her since she was 16. She didn't tell him that she'd slept with the boss, she just agreed to marry him. Then she finds out she's pregnant, and tells him the day she's going to marry him.Leaving the heroine for now, let's talk about the hero. His relationships don't last longer the a week. No really, one week. And he's always got someone. He had a vasectomy just to make sure that he doesn't get any unknown kids floating around from all these women he's sleeping with. BUT, he didn't go back to have his check up to make sure that it took. Which just means that while he's sleeping with all these many many women *that's 52 different women a year, 260 different women in a mere 5 years* he doesn't go check himself out for...oh...stds for example. I mean, if he can't even be bothered to do his follow up for his vasectomy, you know he doesn't go get regular check ups to make sure he's clean. And guess what, condoms don't protect against all STDs, nor are they 100% and if you can get someone pregnant, you can get an STD. So our sanctimonious heroine sleeps with the hero without a condom on the assurance that he can't get her pregnant. That's right, there was no heat of the moment I didn't even realize I didn't use one, it was a concious choice from BOTH the hero and the heroine to NOT use a condom. Also note that the hero did not know she was a virgin before he slept with her. Which just means that either A, they exist in the alternate reality where the only thing you can get from unprotected sex is pregnancy, or neither one of them cared about getting an STD, which means neither one of them was particularly cautious.So just there is the major beginnings of not liking either character.Next we have the heroine who falls apart, agrees to marry a guy she doesn't love because she can't have the guy she wants. And the hero's being all I'm such a great guy because I'm not leading her on and I'm letting her get away with screwing up so bad at work because she's heartbroken over not getting me. No really, he thinks all her trips to the bathroom are to cry over him.So when he figures out it might be his kid, he goes to her wedding, questions her in front of everyone at the church, and then kidnaps her to ANOTHER COUNTRY. He wants to buy her baby from her as long as she leaves when the baby is born, and she's not leaving his sight so he makes sure his baby is okay.The heroine refuses to give up her baby, but falls all over him in lust. Ugh. They find out it's twins, and he decides the only way he can be the dad he wants is to marry the heroine. He keeps tons of secrets from her, he's not lovable, but then neither is she. There's no reason for her to love him, she just has to convince herself she is so that she can stay on her I'm such a great and wonderful person full of wholesome values. I'd appreciate it more if she just admitted that she liked the sex and that was all.The hero didn't care about her, he wanted his kids and she was convenient. The heroine didn't love him, she just liked the sex a lot and had to excuse herself. Reading this book is not like a trainwreck. It's like watching people getting pulled over by the cops and being curious about what they did and if they're going to get arrested. I kept reading this one because it was so horrible I just kept going to see if they ever get better. If I can ever like the characters, if they actually turn into people I can like and care about.It doesn't happen.
What do You think about Pasión En Río De Janeiro (Harlequin Bianca, #1942) (2009)?
read it through but didn't love H's caveman tactics.
—Kristi
I thought this book was really really good.
—nicgaster
