Rating: B-
This book took off in the beginning but towards the middle and definitely the end, I felt like we were going in circles with Alexandra Dupree aka Xandra Fortune and Dimitrius Petronides.
Xandra Fortune is Dimitri's mistress/lover. She's a model. He's a Greek heir. He's forced by his grandfather to get married and produce his own heir. He's basically betrothed to a lady named Pheobe, the supposed perfect Greek wife. Dimitri breaks off the arrangement he has with Xandra. It's dramatic. Xandra wants him to marry her and love her, but he says he can never marry a mistress. She's heartbroken. She tells him she's pregnant with his child. He doesn't believe her because of all the times she was away on a modeling assignment. He has her escorted out of their apartment they shared in secret, but she leaves everything he's ever given her, along with the pregnancy test.
She gets rid of the Xandra Fortune name and everything with it. Modeling, bank accounts, etc. Anything with that name tied to it, and becomes Alexandra Dupree once again, like she was before her modeling days. She goes back to New York and lives with her sister and brother in-law. She experiences awful morning sickness and mood swings. Her mother will not speak with her because she became pregnant out of wedlock,and while she was a mistress and model. She hated her being a model to begin with. The women in her family aren't supposed to work.
Later, when she's 5 months along, she finds out she's having a boy. She goes back and forth trying to make up her mind on whether or not she should call Dimitri. She eventually calls the apartment they used to share, only to hear Phoebe's voice on the other end. Their conversation starts with Phoebe wanting to know if she wants to talk with her husband, Mr. Petronides. Alexandra is crushed. She believes Dimitri went through with the wedding after all. Phoebe tells her he's been looking for her since she left. Alexandra ends the call.
Dimitri ends up finding her sister. At first, he thinks it's "Xandra" but ends up knowing it's not really her. Her sister goes on telling him Xandra is dead. He freaks. But, he never knew that Xandra was never a real person. Alexandra comes out as he's leaving but ends up coming back in, shocking her. He goes all caveman on her and tells her he wants her and the baby. She doesn't believe him because he's married. He says he's not. Spiros, his brother, ended up marrying Phoebe. She doesn't believe him, so he requests proof.
She ends up believing him and they get married. What bothered me about this is that there's nothing to read about the wedding. It goes straight to the reception. WTF. They honeymoon in Athens, and then she meets his grandfather. She ends up really liking him, but then he tells her that Dimitrius didn't disappoint him, because he kept his promise in marrying her. Alexandra grows upset at this because she believed he wanted to marry her on his own, not basically be obligated to marry her. This causes a whole scene between both of them.
I feel like at this point, we're going around and around in circles about their problems they've had since he basically told her to leave. I got really bored. I wanted to finish the book though, so I could read about the baby being born.
Only, we don't. It skips ahead a year down the road (in another paragraph, mind you, not an epilogue), to where the baby, Theo (named after his grandfather) is 9 months old. Another WTF. As soon as I read this, I skimmed the last few pages to be done with the book.
So, basically, my opinion is that it starts off great but ends really fast and poorly. I've seen better. But, then again, it is a Harlequin romance novel.
I hope my first blog hasn't disappointed you. This is the first time I've reviewed a book that is this in depth. Hopefully, I'll get the hang of it.
Thank you!
Ashley
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