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    Baby of Shame

    By Julia James

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    Will one night of unforgettable pleasure lead to a lifetime of hatred and desire...?

    Rhianna has struggled against the odds to survive since that fateful night. But she knows that, one day soon, the secret she carries will cost her....

    Sure enough, Greek tycoon Alexis Petrakis has discovered that their shame-filled night created something beautiful...a baby that he will do anything to reclaim....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Presents
    Release dateMar 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426857997
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    Baby of Shame
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    Julia James

    Mills & Boon novels were Julia James’ first “grown up” books she read as a teenager, and she's been reading them ever since. She adores the Mediterranean and the English countryside in all its seasons, and is fascinated by all things historical, from castles to cottages. In between writing she enjoys walking, gardening, needlework and baking “extremely gooey chocolate cakes” and trying to stay fit! Julia lives in England with her family.

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    • 1/5
      Rhianna was stupid. She was on a mission to save her father’s company even spending her last wealth just to sit beside Alexis and convince him to go ahead with the take over but noooooo, she just couldn’t control her slutty self. Serves her right. She’s an adult and when your life is on the line you don’t go doing what she did.
    • 5/5
      A very nice and original story
      Very touching and emotional
    • 1/5
      Reading this book is an Utter waste of time. Could have been better
    • 5/5
      Yes, the characters are a little idiotic, but this is a great book. I definitely accidentally read it on here when I own it somewhere else bc after I opened it and realized what it was and couldn't put it down.
    • 5/5
      the story was excellent and quite thrilling for reading today.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      ok ok. I would recommend to read once. It's a revenge story.
    • 3/5
      Heroine is a pain in the rear. Too angry for too much of the book, couldn't help but wonder if the two of them just had a conversation with her not going into hysterics could everything been resolved 75 pages earlier.

      The HEA come too quickly after all heroine venom. I actually can't see why either love each other. Sure they both love the son, but they don't seem to have enough non-angry moments to love so neatly in the end.

      Alexis was a douche no doubt with mommy and daddy issues, but the constant hysteric and martyr of the heroine outweighed his issues. Really you love your son more than anything yet you risk his safety to take care of someone who has no love for you or the kid.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      another well written book by julia james. this is a beautiful story that tears at the reader's heart. but, the heroine should have hold up a little bit longer before giving in to the hero, after all he was an abominable jerk to her for almost three quarters of the time. she should have made him suffer, that would have added excitement to the story.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow vicious revenge on mother of his child, made me cry

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This book was as fantastically awful as we expected. I only read it because we found it at work and the title was too much. Baby of Shame? Really.

      The heroine, and I use that lightly, is quite frankly a moron. We start out with a disjointed scene where she is waking up in a hospital after being in a hit and run. We find out(flashbacks) that five years ago she has a (stupid) plan to accost a business tycoon (Alexis Petrakis) at a charity dinner with a business plan only to fall into bed with him. And, of course no one uses protection. And surprise! Out comes Nicky.
      While she is in the hospital a social worker going through her things finds a note saying that Alexis Petrakis is her son's father and contacts him to take over his care. Um, wtf? Social workers CANNOT go through your shit, and none of them would believe a random note clipped to a birth certificate saying Baby-Daddy. But whatever. He swoops in and collects the child and the mother and wisks them away to his private island in Greece. Which could totally happen. There he is super nice to Nicky and a cruel abusive bastard to Rhianna. And she's annoying. At times spineless at others a "venomous snake."

      The story was repetitive and predictable. The author uses the same descriptions over and over. Neither of the characters is likable, and very little of the story is believable even if you stretch your imagination. The title never really comes into it either. There was very little shame. I feel cheated. Oh, and I'm pretty sure he's related to the 50 shades guy. No bondage, but he was a brooding ass with a 'tortured' past who's mommy didn't love him.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Such an amazing storyline

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Secret baby, tortured alphahole, martyr heroine, one Big Misunderstanding one after another...typical HP in other words, and exactly what I was in the mood for.

      Bonus points for the heroine actually recognizing that she's beautiful and that men like her for it, because what usually happens is that we get a pages long description of a goddess and then are told that the heroine is completely unaware of how gorgeous she is. I also really liked that she knows how to hold a grudge when it comes to the Alexis, and she regularly tells him off for his behavior and assumptions about her. She's a martyr is many ways--she becomes destitute because of choices she makes to help the father who abandoned her when she was a child, FFS--but her spine makes its presence known when the hero oversteps.

      This book would have been 3-4 stars but the misunderstandings were too much. There was enough drama without them, and they made both characters look stupid.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      ok