Billionaire Extraordinaire
Come on Leanne, I know you can write better stuff than that.
A Very Unusual Governess
Pip was adorable and Lisette and Octavia were fine. The judgmental playboy of an ML was a pain in the butt. He had way too much of the “Boo hoo hoo, my masculine pride has been hurt and I’ll never forgive you.” Guys with that attitude can fall over and turn blue in my opinion.
His Convenient Wife
God Almighty, that was bad. He pretty much forces her to marry him, then his reaction is to abandon her alone when anything goes wrong. It seems that the only way he can communicate with her is through sex and his desire to get her pregnant. And, for the Lord's Sake Harlequin authors, quit using the trope of "The Kiss" to make a woman forget all her critical faculties and values and turn into a mindless, sexually responsive airhead. It's an insult to all women, besides being stupid to the point of imbecility. It’s almost like the author wants them to become Stepford Wives.
The Marcolini Blackmail Marriage
His family treated her like s*^t, and he said that she misunderstood. His wife lost their baby, and he had to abandon her and throw himself into work to get over it. Then his mother lied to both of them separately, after driving the FL out. Now, when he comes to get her, he blackmails her and puts her in no win situations, and spends all his time trying to get her in bed. My conclusion: he should be euthanized.
Spellbinding
The ML and his little brother were a pair of complete a**holes. ML was a kidnaper, sexual harasser, and total control freak. Little bro was a lying, unfaithful turd. They both deserved to get mistaken as a cute heifer by a near-sighted 2000 lb bull.
The Italian Doctor's Wife
Wow, what a complete jerk. I guess empathy is too sissified a quality for these manly sex gods of MLs.
The Billionaire's Christmas Gift
I loved the FL and the little girl, but the ML was an entitled jerk. Trying to convince a girl to go against her values when she has made them perfectly clear is pretty much a cad's trick. This "I don't love her, but I want her and HAVE to have her" trope sucks and puts the male gender in an unpleasant light. It is completely un-empathetic and unethical conduct. To put it vulgarly, Nick was a dick.
A Spanish Marriage
Damn, that was bad. If his brain was TNT, if it went off there wouldn't be enough explosion to blow his nose! I know it would be against Harlequin Law, but wouldn't honest communication have been the best solution? And to the HQ authors: For the Lord's sake, stop making southern European men arrogant man-whores without a brain in their head (apparently they think only with another part of their anatomy). If English people really think that way, perhaps Brexit was a good thing for the rest of the EU.
Hunter's Vow