Review: The Sicilian’s Ruthless Marriage Revenge by Carole Mortimer.

Hero: Cesare Gambrielli
Heroine: Robin Ingram
Grade: 4 out of 5

For Sicilian billionaire Cesare Gambrelli, the death of his sister was the fault of reckless Simon Ingram. The feud between the two families could only be settled by vengeance!

It was Ingram’s sister Robin who would pay the price. Cesare’s plan of revenge demanded marriage and motherhood. It was the last part Cesare savored—with passionate pleasure….

This book started out pretty hot damn corny. The hero’s sister and the heroine’s brothers are contemplating suicide when their cars crash into each other and kills them both. The sister left behind a 3 month old baby for her brother (the hero) to raise. The hero left behind a father and a sister, who had to live down the shame that he caused them by gambling his money and his inheritance away. The hero is pissed off and is Sicilian so he’s out for blood or a marriage between the families to mend the bad blood. He meets Robin Ingram and his revenge against Simon Ingram (the brother who died) changes from trying to ruin the family to a revenge marriage between himself and Robin so that Marco (the son of the hero’s sister) would have a mother.

Robin is of course totally against this, thinking that Cesare is frickin’ out of his mind and totally insane but he’s determined and he means what he says, so with a little bit of blackmailing and then an introduction in which Robin falls madly in love, Robin agrees to marry Cesare.

The way these two people came together had my eyes rollin’ down the river. It started out like one of those Skinamax movies but then Robin meets little Marco for the first time and the story picks up and I stopped reading the story with an eye roll and started reading and reading and reading until it ended and once we get to the happy ending, I was delightfully surprised at how quickly my mind changed about this story.

Cesare is one of those heroes that is screaming for the right woman to come along and complete his world. He doesn’t want one to and feels he doesn’t need a woman to complete him but seeing this hard man fall madly in love with his sworn enemies daughter made for some great reading material. The love Cesare had for his little nephew and the lengths he went to, to make sure that Marco had the kind of family that every kid needs made me love Cesare just a little more. He was very family oriented and he was a good father figure for Marco and the way he was with Robin after he came to know her was great to read. It was a delight to watch the ice melt away from his heart as he let himself fall in love with Robin, it was just great great great!

Robin was a great heroine. She was strong and yet she was normal. She was just a normal woman who was fortunate to find and fall in love with two very special men. One love was at first sight and the other love took some work but she got through it all with ease. The way she handled Cesare, her Dad and just reading about her with little Marco made me love this woman! She was just what Cesare needed and she was great with Marco. I really enjoyed getting to know her and I couldn’t have been happier with her character.

If you can get past the cheese in the beginning of this story then the rest of the ride is quite enjoyable. I’d definitely recommend this for those quick reads you do at like the DMV or at the park while the kids are playing, it’s a delightful little romp of a story.

This book is available from Harlequin Presents. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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