Review: One Night to Risk It All by Maisey Yates

One Night to Risk It All by Maisey Yates
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What a great start to this story…..Rachel, the heroine is spending her last night in Corfu, before she is marrying a man she likes but does not love but doing it because it will make her family happy - when she notices the most gorgeous Greek man …….how could I resist??
A beautiful island and a beautiful Greek hero ( my absolute favorite of all heroes…ooh, I have one of those myself!!), named Alexios

Okay, I thought that but really, Rachel had the same idea as me!!!!!
Within a matter of hours, she has lost her virginity to the fabulous Greek, Alexios and had the most mind-blowing sex!!!!!! Sexy and hot is not enough to describe it!!

And then she discovers who Alexios is……..the guy who has been trying to bring down her fiancée….and even worse, he admits he knew who she was and had finally done the one thing he had been planning all along….slept with his enemy’s soon to be bride!!!
Poor Rachel, after all the grief she had gone thru when she was 17 years old……..yet another betrayal by a man!!

So, I’m into this story….and getting into Alexio’s about his childhood and I think….Wait a minute, haven’t I read a book where the hero had an exact childhood like Alexios? And I mean, EXACTLY THE SAME!!!
Are you kidding me!!!!! Maisey Yates rehashing a plot that has been written by someone else. No way!!!
Turn the page and the next and I’m going crazy…..am I imagining this? And suddenly it all comes back to me.
I had read His Ring is not Enough https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... by the same author a few months back and this is the hero from that book’s brother!
Wow, we now get to find out why Jax Kouros was left at the altar by Rachel and then married her sister instead.
Alexio’s past is absolutely horrific (view spoiler)[his mother was a prostitute who killed herself in front of him when he was still a child, his father was a human and sex trafficker and after Alexios escaped the horrors of his home at 14, lived in the streets where he survived by stealing (hide spoiler)]
Your past can drive you crazy at times….the thought that it’s impossible to move on…

That’s what Alexios believes but in the end, he’s shown that it does not have to be so.
And the person who made that possible was Rachel, who has some serious baggage of her own. Talk about two screwed up adults!!! Insecurities, low self esteem, keeping their feelings inside, fear, anger, which at times I did feel was a bit of overkill!!! But there magic between these two. The way they saw the good in each other. There was something sweet and endearing about them that made me really like them.

I read a few reviews that mentioned the fact that Rachel was a bit “slutty”….yes, she slept with another man whilst engaged to another but does that necessarily make her a bad person? Would it be any different if it had been Alexios doing the same?
Great dialogue. Loved the interaction between the two mc’s.

I really love that Mills & Boon have moved with the times!!!!! Where before we just had kissing and petting, these days …..wow….the sex scenes are hot and more explicit…which just by the way I really like. The days of Barbara Cartland are so totally over!!! I thought I would share something I read somewhere about Violet Winspear, one of the all-time popular M&B authors.

She created a maelstrom in 1970 when she claimed that her heroes "frighten and fascinate. Winspear received hate mail for her comment. Winspear's full comment, which clarifies her writing style was:
“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of course. Oh and they've got to be rich and then I make it that they're only cynical and smooth on the surface. But underneath they're well, you know, sort of lost and lonely. In need of love but, when roused, capable of breathtaking passion and potency. Most of my heroes, well all of them really, are like that. They frighten but fascinate. Men it's dangerous to be alone in the room with.

It’s totally believable that a woman would want to be more involved in bed with a man…..so I was so not shocked reading Rachel’s thought…

She wanted to taste him, not because it would pleasure him, but because she wanted it. Wanted him in her mouth. Her tongue flicking out to taste the head of his shaft.”

I did say there were some HOT parts in this story!!!!

Take a trip with Alexio’s and Rachel and see them overcoming their obstacles and then finding their HEA……..with baby and all!!! Sorry, is this a spoiler? But you know there is going to be a HEA….why else would we love reading these books?????

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