| Title | : | Marriage: To Claim his Twins (Needed: The World's Most Eligible Billionaires, #3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0263213536 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780263213539 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1989 |
Ruby's shocked that she's still so attracted to dark, sexy and powerful Alexander. She's afraid she might lose her beautiful boys, whom she's struggled to bring up on her own, but maybe there's a solution.... Can she wed Sander—a virtual stranger—and live as his wife, and in his bed?
Marriage: To Claim his Twins (Needed: The World's Most Eligible Billionaires, #3) Reviews
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and by "twins" he means "boobs"
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I asked karen to send me this book because with a title like this I thought it must be really good. Who knows - maybe even some threesome action.
But no. No threesomes. The twins were his sons. Don't despair though. There was lots of sex anyway.
The main character had sex once in her life when she was 17 or so. But during that one night she climaxed so many times she was all good for the next 6 years of celibate. Then that mysterious stranger reappears in her life and they are at it like rabbits. He makes her come over and over again, all the time every 10 pages. He also happens to be a multimillonaire and a prince on some made up island near Cyprus and wants to buy her lots of clothes and other things. It also turns out he's good and kind to his subjects and an excellent father. Logically, she hates his guts. But luckily towards the end of the book she falls down the stairs and hits herself in the head. In the hospital she realizes that's as good as it gets and if she was hoping for some paranormal lover - a vampire, demon or a werewolf maybe, she is in the wrong book. So she settles for her multimillionaire prince who gives her multiorgasms and they live happily ever after. -
★★½☆☆☆ I didn’t particularly like this one. The hero was an asshat for too long, especially considering the heroine’s age at the time of their first meeting. Granted, he didn’t know it then, but he did later and continued to think badly of her. And she knew how he felt, but she still “melted” for him. He had enough money to investigate how she’d been living and that she wasn’t a slut. Boo to him. **Lisa Kay blows raspberry**
I agree with
Jacqueline’s review: the “secret baby” theme has been done better by other authors, and the only neat thing was twist of her playing the “marriage or else” card. -
Sander treated Ruby cruelly at times, but underwent significant character development by the time the novel ended. That counts for something in my book. Ruby may have once let Sander use her without impunity at age 17 (he did not know her real age), but she made up it for later by sticking up for herself after reuniting with him. She'd matured, and had children to think of first now.
In addition to Sander's metamorphosis and Ruby's present-day backbone, I also liked the strong chemistry between them. Plus, the twins weren't annoying.
I'd rather be agitated by a book than bored and, thankfully, I was neither while reading this romance.
The best out of the series! -
Asshole alpha hero, lots of sexual tension, cute twin boys! There were so many times I wanted to slap the hero for being so cruel and condescending. But as much as I got annoyed, I was drawn into the story and their emotions! 3.5 stars!
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Re-reading this one, and I won't be reading the second book in this trilogy. This is the story of the youngest Wareham sister, twenty-three years old Ruby. We already know from the first book that she has two five-year-old twin boys, and that she's living with her sisters.
Alexander (Sander) Konstantinakos, thirty-four years old 'billionaire head of an internationally renowned container shipping line', is staring at a picture of those twin boys at his home in Theopolis, Greece. The picture brought by his sister Elena, accusing their younger brother Nikos of having fathered them.
Hmm...the oldest and the youngest's husband's are Greek while the middle sister has an Italian hubby.
Sander and Ruby had a seedy beginning. They were nothing but a one-night stand in a Manchester club, but - oh, my - she was pregnant with his babies when only seventeen! She was grieving the death of her parents in an accident, while he acted out of his character because of the pressure his grandfather was exerting concerning his marriage and business decisions. Due to her not so desirable behaviour that night six years ago, Sander thinks of Ruby as an unfit mother for his sons. Neither of them are proud of their behaviour that night.The truth, in her opinion, was that children thrived best with two parents in a stable relationship—a mother and a father, both committed to their wellbeing. A mother and a father. More than most, she knew the damage that could be done when that stability wasn’t there.
I applaud Ruby for standing up to Sander. She's the one who demands to be Sander's wife in order for him to be the boy's father, where Sander was all about taking them from their mother. Hence, they marry. Not that Sander wanted it. His parents' bitterness was too stark an example for him.
I love stories with identical twins. And Freddie and Harry are sweethearts. With both her sisters gone, Ruby didn't know whom to turn to for advice. The rest of the story is mostly about them trying to make a new life in Greece, while trying to forget the past in which they were involved with each other, most sordidly, and the respective reasons for it. There are certain aspects though that I didn't like at all, the sometimes common no means yes condition and the despicable way Sander behaved with Ruby in the climax.
Now that I've read one other sister's story in this trilogy, I was eager to read the conclusion. As they all come together. Because, all the sisters were busy in their own problems, if I may call it that, almost one after the other, starting with the eldest and going down to the youngest. -
On rereading this it wasn't that bad. He met her at a bar when she was 17 and thought she was a slut and he used her. He kicked her out the next morning and tried to give her money but she thought they fell in love. Remember she was 17 and a virgin and thought sex was love. She ended up pregnant and raised the twins on a very tight budget. She couldn't even afford to buy herself a coat because she spent everything on the boys so they wouldn't suffer. They were really poor. Hero sees a picture his sister took and remembers the ONS girl and knows they're his. He shows up to buy them from her, after all she's a slur but she isn't selling. H was her only lover and she has dedicated her whole life to them. She dares him pretty much to marry her and he does. But he is really mean to her still believing she is a gold digging tramp. She signs a prenup and refuses money but he is still an ass. She gets pregnant And he says it's not his and drama ensues. Just an okay book. Had a cute epilogue but all in all it was not that great.
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Wow an almost 30 year old guy gets a 17 year old grieving girl pregnant with twins as a lesson in the consequences that happen when he go with an older guy at a party. Seriously grow up man. He was like a little kid constantly throwing a tantrum. You will go on the pill for there can be no other mistakes!? Wtf!!! Why the hell did he not use a f ing condom if he was truly thinking she was a slut and on what evidence did he base this on. Let's see nothing. Ass! Just a total male dominating ass!!! She was a Virgin and scared and wanted comfort instead she had to pay and pay and pay. While he did whatever he wanted with whoever he wanted plus her. Really not PJ best and he was never sorry enough he ruined her life. No way was he a hero. Does not make the grade for a PJ novel but it was a good read and nightly emotional so 2 stars. If he had actually apologize to her really I would have given it more. But he no grovel scene after pages and pages of treating her like shit and a whore was just too much for me. Not all her books are great one that's for sure.
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Secret babies have been better done elsewhere. The plot was thin but cudos to the author for coming up with a twist. Instead of him forcing her to marriage, she forces him.
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Double Standards.
The hero is feeling pressure by his father to be some upstanding greek traditional guy. As a result he goes to a bar where a lot of football groupies hang out to get it on with some football players. He sees the heroine, who is 17 by the way, and decides to have sex with the little groupie in order to get back at his daddy for trying to plan his life.
Oh yeah, he's great.
Meanwhile, 17 year old heroine of the story recently lost both of her parents and her older sister is now the boss. She's upset and going through rebellion stage. She's not a groupie but her no good rebellion stage friends are and dress her up and drag her there. She sees the hero and being 17 and suffering from all this at home rebellion trauma, she thinks he's a knight in shining armor. He's the answer to everything so when they get together and have sex it's okay because he's 'the one'.
Instead he gets up, drops some money on the table for her and walks out.
Now years later his sister sees these kids at the airport and snaps a picture of them. She goes to show the hero that these children look so much like them as children that they must be the younger brother's kids. The hero recognizes the little groupie so he goes to get his kids from her.
The heroine and her sisters are running into a bunch of financial trouble, all the sisters have their own mediocre books as well. The hero shows up and wants the kids and the heroine basically tells him he'll marry her or else.
The whole story is about him making the heroine feel like crap for sleeping with him.
Okay the dumb 17 year old slept with a guy after weaving fantasies around him because she was emotionally traumatized with all the upheaval in her life. But the hero basically met up with a groupie, that he knew was a groupie, and had sex with her to get back at his father, or grandfather, or whoever, and then paid her for the sex. So the hero thinks of her as a hooker but he's the great guy and she's the nasty little slut.
Maybe if the book had focused on her reasonings and his own shortcomings and failings, it would have been good.
But no, it's all about the terrible thing she did in her youth and the great guy who didn't know about it but is stepping up to the plate for his dear sweet children now.
A strong heroine who realized the mistakes she made but wasn't about to let people put her down, and certainly not someone who made the same if not worse mistakes as her would be asking too much here. -
A very angsty book with an uber alpha H. Sander meets Ruby at a bar where she’s a young teen trolloping in a drunken state. They have a ONS and Sander abandons her right after thinking her to be the image she presented at the bar.
Years later the h’s twins have grown up from being toddlers. The H’s sister meets the h at the airport and notices how the twins look just like her brother. Eventually the H is back asking for his twin sons. There’s a quick moc followed by pretty appalling behaviour from the H.
Sander consistently accuses Ruby of having been around with men all the time. The accusations only grow and nothing the h does can satisfy the H out of his vile contempt.
I liked ruby who was young and yet very tolerant of Sander’s uncalled for contemptible behaviour. Eventually there’s a bit of a mishap in which ruby has a slight fall but thankfully that has Sander get out of his stupofia and take Ruby for the kind sweet girl she actually is!
Glad I got this out of my tbr. -
Estranho Sedutor - Harlequin Paixão 205 - paperback portuguese edition
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In style and tone it didn't read like a PJ to me, but what do I know. It's a bit bland. The h, Ruby is bringing up 5yr old twin boys that resulted from a ONS in a 'loved by footballers' nightclub in Manchester. At the time, she was grieving her dead parents, under the influence of both a rather too grown up friend and alcohol. Oh and she was 17. Quite how losing her virginity in those circumstances allows at least 10 years older, unquestioning angry-sexing Greek despot Sander the moral high ground idk. He takes a bad view of her (supposedly because of his cold gold digger mommy issues) when he rediscovers her and his twins 5 years later completely by chance. (Typical M&B non sequitur: if she's been raising them by herself in poverty for 5 years, how can she be trying to trap him for his money?!) He makes her sign a prenup, go on the pill and whisks his little family off to his Greek island where they will never have to work or worry about money ever again. I guess putting up with his issues has a price. (Although as my dad always said, money doesn't buy you happiness but at least you can be miserable in comfort).
There was quite a lot of sex in this. The h of course has never had sex with anyone but him as only he has a magic penis that unlocks her horniness. Despite living with her 2 older sisters she has been in celibate baby jail ever since their ONS. I mean, I get it, those first five years are knackering (although I'm betting 2 sisters in situ could be a lot more help than some fathers and also up for free babysitting 😂) but even so. -
I enjoyed it. I kind of feel a bit guilty about enjoying after reading some of the other reviews but I'm a Penny Jordan fan. I will excuse her heroes a lot because they are rarely manwhores. In fact we have absolutely no idea if he had affairs in the last six years because it is never explicitly mentioned.
So six years ago, both Sander and Ruby were in really bad places in their lives. His granddad was trying to marry him off to a cheating adulterous widow just like Sander's faithless unloving mother. The boy has issues about women.
Ruby has just lost her parents in an accident and her family home is sold so she's acting out by letting her friend sleaze her up and take her to a club. She immediately regrets it, feeling out of place so when she meets Sander's eyes across a crowded room and there seems to be a connection, she grabs onto it.
Now I'm of the opinion that there was a connection made. Ruby felt it and thought he might come back for her. He felt it but despised himself for it but could never forget her, no matter how hard he tried. In fact he recognises her immediately six years later in tatty clothes with no make-up looking entirely different to the little ho he hooked up with at the club. Nuff said.
He also feels an instant connection with his kids, first in the photograph, next when they first meet. So when Ruby insisted marriage in order to scare him off, he agrees. And he insists on it being a real marriage because he's still feeling that connection that he despises himself for. Considering that he has sworn that he will NEVER marry, this instant turnaround is telling.
So...this being the situation...I'm prepared to forgive Sander for saying mean nasty things to Ruby because they are a reflection of the way he despises himself for wanting a woman who to all appearances is another money hungry gold digger. He has proof of this because he heard her friend at the club talking about why they were there...to catch a rich footballer and become a WAG (wives and girlfriends).
There are ups and downs on the way of course. Something happens to shatter Sander's burgeoning trust of course. He is hot to trot with her right from the start...something he has never experienced with any other woman. I always like it when it's obvious from the get go she's the one even if he's only thinking with his male appendage and fighting it. The ending was sweet and included updates on the other two sisters from the first books in the trilogy. -
Alexander Konstantinakos has discovered that one passionate night in England had its consequences: two, to be precise. Out of the blue he's turned up on Ruby Wareham's doorstep--to take his twin sons back to Greece!Ruby's shocked that she's still so attracted to dark, sexy and powerful Alexander. She's afraid she might lose her beautiful boys, whom she's struggled to bring up on her own, but maybe there's a solution.... Can she wed Sander--a virtual stranger--and live as his wife, and in his bed Third book in series
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It was an ok read. Penny J was not up to her usual standard but I'm still a fan as always. If you haven't read any Penny J before maybe you'll like this one otherwise don't bother, you'll just be disappointed. I thought the way they met and came together was not bad but after that, it barely held my interest maybe because I hate it when heroines are too young (17) when they have babies.
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heroine made me cry , God that asshole was mean to her , I hated him.
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Didn't like this one... 1.5
1. h was 17, H 28 when they met and had sex
When they reconnected he was 34. she 23 - they spend 6 years apart.
H didn't know she was so young at the time, but still. She went with a friend to a bar all made up "like a whore" (his words, basically) and looked more adult. They got into the bar, even though they were underage. Though I did Google and see drinking age in the UK is 16 - so maybe they would have had access at 17? I don't really know. In the US, with drinking age 21, it's different.
So I can see how the H would have assumed she was older, but still...why couldn't the author make her just-turned-18? Or him slightly younger? I feel like he should have had a clue she was younger than the other woman at the bar.
Also, she was pretty drunk at the time, they both were, but she was more affected by it. I feel like it was more in the realm of dub-con with the whole thing. I mean, her being naive, emotionally vulnerable, drunk and all...could she really consent at the time?
Though again, I Googled and age of consent in the UK is 16, so maybe he wouldn't have a statutory rape charge? From my US perspective, it's more of a problem and he would have possibly faced criminal charges.
Anyway, I just felt like the age difference put them at in unequal footing and he should have been the more responsible one, being nearly 30 at the time. Plus, he admitted to using her as a release for his anger at the time, so I feel like he took advantage of her, even if she was willing.
2. The hero spent a lot of the book with his harsh judgements of the heroine in the forefront.
Calling her a whore, basically. Implying she was one that night (even though she was a virgin) and even though she was celibate for SIX years after, he implied she was still.
He blamed her for his part in their 1-night-stand - equating her to Eve tricking Adam. So he takes no responsibility in it, even though he was an ADULT - she was 17!
And though he didn't know she was so young that night, when he comes to collect her and his twins, he knows (did research on her) and still holds her actions over her head. I mean, did he ever do something reckless and stupid at 17? I'm sure he did! I don't like how he was taking that one incident and using it to color his total view of her. How would he liked to be held forever for 1 bad or stupid action he did?
The fact that he was 34 at the time of the story and their reunion, I was disappointed that he didn't have better perspective and ability to reason. Step back and look at how things were now. Even if she was everything he thought she was (gold-digger, whore, etc) then, that doesn't mean she still was now. People change. Is inability to take stock of the situation annoyed me as did his constant insults at the heroine's character.
3. It took the heroine injuring herself for him to see the light and realize he loved her.
Right before that though, he basically called her a whore and implied she got pregnant on purpose, etc. He was still acting like a judgmental ass until nearly the end of the book. She told him off and then fell down the stairs. When she comes to in the hospital, he's all I-Love-You and I just didn't believe it. Too quick of a turn and not enough hints throughout the book that he cared anything for her other than sexually. His desire for her was was at the core, sexual. Yes, there were a few times when he questioned if his perception of her were correct and he expressed a bit of emotion, but it wasn't enough for me to believe the HEA at the end. -
It's hard to pull off convincingly an ONS that would later on lead to HEA. It hinges on the lasting impression of only a handful of hours h and H have with each other. It have been done in the past and still is, but this book is not one of them. The imbalance of power was off the scale; h was way too young, 17(!) year old schoolgirl and H ( anti H in my view) was 28 year old angry, primitive misogynist. Yeah, PJ threw kitchen sink at this poor h: death of parents, loss of home, company of more experienced girlfriend, drunkenness and to top it all, rampaging misogynist for a ONS. She didn't stand a chance in hell.
Didn't like the story one little bit. This was no romance. Also, I didn't like much the author's tone when describing the Manchester night club scene and her catty remarks about women there. Not cool.
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:) welll, um pouco mais do mesmo.
a trama é fraquita, muito elementar e pouco desenvolvida.
o modelo comum que não traz nada de novo. dá para uma horita de "vazio mental" em que nao tem propriamente de se "pensar" basta ler e "visualizar" algumas das cenas um nadita mais gráficas, coisa que vem sendo comum neste tipo de historia.
um bilionario grego (o que nao poderia deixar de ser) e uma mocinha virgem de 17 anos (!!!!).... uma noite de paixao e a cena passa para 5 anos depois onde, já existem uns gemeos amorosos... um encontro imediato e é como se os 5 anos de interregno e de um encontro ocasional nunca tivessem existido.... e instalove! hummmmm
digamos que para quem goste do tema (gregos bilionarios) esta é uma trilogia que cumpre o que promete :) -
I must agree with another reviewer, the twins were her boobs! He loveded them boobs...all through the book!
Ok. This is the third and final book in a series about the Wareham sisters. I read all three and I'm glad that's over. I was disappointed in the first two books and I am disappointed in this book as well. I know it's a Harlequin, but this story is just too over the top to have any sense of reality. The hero is just freaking mean to the mother of his kids and she let's him talk down to her, accusing her of all sorts of nonsense. Nah. This one will not get read again. -
I don't like it at all. The hero was a major asshole from beginning to end. The epilogue was the only reason why I gave this book a 2 stars.
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What a crappy book to read on Valentine’s day. I don’t know if I wanna give it 2 stars because I hate him or reduce it to 1 because she pissed me off at the end.
Wtf was his problem. His mommy issues drove me insane. Insane!! His view on women was disgusting and he honestly could only see the world through his mommy issues and nothing else.
Even if what he thought of her was true, that she’d slept around trying to find a rich bf who tf cares. It’s not like wouldve been hiding it. AND the whole fact that she never came after him after getting pregnant disproved that anyway. Plus the fact she’d obviously changed and was an amazing mother should have made him be nice to her from the start. So fuck him for that.
BUT the fact that she wasn’t even that way. And she never once acted that way after he saw he again and he still was thinking she was faking everything and being horrible and boohoo pretending to be not like his mom. Pissed me off again.
And the absolute worst of it? She was 17 to his grand old 28!!! 17!! He’s a grown ass 28 and didn’t think to ask her age given that she looked young. And the fact that she was crazy drunk. She was so drunk in her memories it’s disgusting he slept with her like that. And he hated fucked her. Literally angry fucked her and took out all his anger at his grandfather and his anger at his mom and women on her. While she was drunk and young. And she was just so whimsical and upset about her parents death. And never once, NOT ONCE did he feel bad for what happened and take any of sort of blame. He also wasn’t even sorry he’d gotten a 17 year old pregnant and that she’d worked her ass off to raise her kids. Fuck him again.
And the way he acts years later. 34 and all those mommy issues and rage at women. Not that any age is okay but jeez. I hate him so much.
Her I liked up to the end. I even forgave the stupid falling into his arms whenever he touches me storyline. I loved that she was gonna leave him because of how he treats women and she didn’t want her sons to see that and become that. But he treats her like crap, never eases up and she still decides she’s in love with him. And then she does the most annoying thing.
“Can you forgive me?’
‘I love you, Sander. You know that. What I want now is for you to forgive yourself.”
Barf. Literally will throw up. I don’t forgive him for being a women hating asshole. And then she goes on about him forgiving himself about his mom being a shit mom. The crappest apology scene ever. I didn’t even care about them anymore.
And man they had the most boring sex scenes ever. I didn’t get their connection at all. Just him angry fucking her and her melting with passion whenever he touched her. They were so boring. -
I miss Penny Jordan.
Most likely I read this back when it was released as my mum had a m&b subscription where I would frequently half inch the books and replace when read. Penny Jordan was our favourite and I haven't found an author now that matches her for me.
This book is a really nice read. It did take a while but I did see how in love they were.
