Raffaella's Reviews > The Wrong Husband

Here goes nothing.
I never learn. But I must admit I read some Uber enthusiastic review and I wanted to give it a try. I’m always sorry when I butcher some authors work because they worked hard and I know, I know.
So now I try to be less emotional and more helpful with my feedback.
I would love a plot where the hero is a vengeful cruel nasty man who uses the heroine and does not feel bad because he’s nasty and he does not know regret. The hero here has been engaged with the heroine older and more beautiful sister for three years, in an on off relationship where they fight, leave, have sex, reconcile, rinse repeat.
He’s 32 btw not 18 so this makes him a lot of an immature guy. This last time though, he’s found out his fiancé was cheating on him and for months so he decides to gets his revenge by having sex with her lil sister that has had a crush on him since preschool. Yeah, that sad. He goes overboard and gets married to her in Vegas. They have amazing sex, oh she’s a virgin but it’s the best sex he had in his life and that’s ok, it’s fake as a pornstar tits but let’s believe it. HP had a thing for virgin turning out to be sex goddesses. Whatever. The day after she realizes it was a mistake and offers an annulment. But the hero wants to hurt his ex a little more and decides to go on a bit longer so he tells the heroine to stay married six months for PR sake. The things I really didn’t like. Beside the fact that hero screwing both sister is always creepy and yucky as hell.
-the heroine is stereotypical loser and the author doesn’t stop reminding us over and over again. She’s a caricature. How many times do we have to hear how plain, frumpy, flat and unattractive she is? This author doesn’t understand the limits. Either her heroines are on the curvy side, then they are fat, or they are slender then they are boyish and flat. Really? The heroine is slender and not curvy but does it mean she’s unattractive for this? Basically 80 % of the models are flat and have no curves, so why are they attractive and she’s not.
- she is an artist, she paints, but she looks like a homeless person. Stressing over and over again how frumpy she is, and dressing her as if she’s out of some kind of hippy community is well, too much. She goes out to lunch with an overall and a checked shirt over it, and her hair has a paint brush on them. Really? Cartoonish. She’s from quite a wealthy family but she doesn’t know that at home and while you’re painting you can be dressed in one way and when you go out on a fashion restaurant you should dress properly. This is not being herself, this is being stupid and really disrespectful because I believe that each setting has a dress code and you should respect it. She doesn’t need a makeover, only to know how to dress properly according to the place and people. It’s ridiculous and it makes her really shabby and grubby just because.
- she’s a martyr. She is a codependent and can’t understand that family can be toxic and you can get rid of toxic and find your own people who love you, they’re called friends. She has one. Her family is abusive, they slap her, her sister is the devils spawn and her mother makes you want to be an orphan. The heroine always blames herself for the situation but is a passive aggressive. She’s the plain sister, the one no one notice, the one no one sees. Well, if this thing bothers her she should change it and not let other people throw shit at her repeatedly, I couldn’t feel angst because if you let people stomp over you time and again you deserve it. There are millions people in the world, go and find the right ones. No, she stays and blame herself and booohooo she sniffs because she is so plain and unwanted and unhappy. Yuck. Too much.
- the hero. A failure. He’s not ruthless. He’s not damaged. He’s an immature selfish coward and I felt a lot of second hand embarrassment for his behavior. He uses the heroine to make her sister unhappy but then he doesn’t know how to get out of the situation he made and lets the heroine take the brunt of it, she’s bullied everywhere and blamed because she married and stole her sister fiancé, and he hides behind the bush because he has no balls, he doesn’t stay at her side until she’s basically broken. Because she is not a ballsy woman, she doesn’t answer back and she is passive with people. Man, it was a repeat of eye roll. His actions are the ones of a coward, he doesn’t protect her, he doesn’t go home because he is attracted to her, he doesn’t defend her from her family and even goes to lunch with her awful sister and family every Sunday while she’s at home alone, a home he forced her to be, his home. And you know why? Because he does not think she knows about the lunches. How coward is this. How can a man like him be attractive? He’s simply a loser. And she’s worse. She has loved him from afar but why does she? Is this some kind of Diana Palmer kind of thing? I never understood unrequited love, to me it’s simply not possible after 15 yo, because if someone doesn’t love you they don’t deserve you and it’s wasted time to pine for them. Never done after 11 yo when I had a crush on an older boy at school. And the hero is really unappealing, he’s been with her bitch of a sister that is evil, selfish and nasty so what does it tell us about him? The hero must be strong, he must react with determination and be sure of what he does, even when it’s wrong. This one was a sulky child. And the heroine forgave him too easily.
To me it’s a big no no.