Revenge of the Second Son

The Wealthy Ransomes #2

by Sara Orwig

Millionaire Nick Ransome was just the type of man heiress Julia Holcomb had been warned to avoid. And when she found out he was after her family's company, she knew their mutual attraction was destined for disaster. Yet Nick's seductive ways had her agreeing to a weekend getaway…then a passionate affair.

For Julia, there was no place for business in the bedroom. And for Nick, love—like business—was an all-or-nothing proposition. Would she be the object of Nick's revenge once he learned she would never give him what he really wanted?

Genres: Harlequin

181 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

USA Today bestselling romance author, Sara Orwig, has over sixteen million copies of her books in print. Internationally her books have 200 translations of her novels into 26 languages. She has written 97 books and was one of the first 6 inductees into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame and 2-time winner of Oklahoma Writers Federation awards for Best Oklahoma Novel. Sara is winner of eight ROMANTIC TIMES awards which include the Award for Best Western Historical Romance Writer and the Award for Best Contemporary Fiction Writer. aka Daisy Logan.
Sara currently is writing books that are a published by Harlequin Desire.

Reviews

[Mojca]

Nick Ransome hates Julia Holcomb's family and is about to ruin their business. He's gonna relish that accomplishment, but he's just thought of an additional bonus to his plan. He'll seduce Julia Holcomb to make his revenge even more sweeter.

This book was 184 pages too long.

In a reading-challenge group I've encountered an interesting post about how much pages you have to read before you can officially abandon a horrible book. Apparently all it takes is some simple math. 100 - your age = pages needed before being able to discard a book as DNF. In my instance it would take me 74 pages, but with this beauty (notice the sarcasm) all it took was the first five.

The writing was high-school essay-writing 101, the characters more like cardboard cutouts, the pacing dragged, and the theme was so clichéd it made my teeth hurt. I know, I know, I should've been prepared judging from the title and the blurb, but sometimes these been-there-read-that revenge plots can be rather pleasurable to read combined with likable and interesting characters and great writing (take Tessa Radley's Rich Man's Revenge for example)

Well, this wasn't one of those. I've never been more thankful for the DELETE button.

[Emma Black]

Diciamo che, risate a parte per il costume da bagno di lui, che veniva costantemente descritto come microscopico, minuscolo, una striscetta di stoffa, salvo contenere una bestia indomita, non c'era molto altro. Una lettura veloce, da dimenticare con altrettanta rapidità.

[eva]

Normally I don't like to leave books unread, but after a third of this book I could no longer continue.
I tried, good god I tried so hard to read this book. Force feeding it didnt work.
I expected something a bit better as a previous reviewer said, while you should expect to be average read since of its genre and title but god!it lives so much to be desired. Other romance books that I have read with cheesier titles are better than this one.

[Britlover]

Good. Love the first half. Second half was okay.