Review: Tempestuous Reunion (Harlequin Presents, #1551) by Lynne Graham

Tempestuous Reunion by Lynne Graham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow….what a tempestuous reunion it was!!!!! A Lynne Graham vintage – secret baby, sweet and innocent heroine seduced by a gorgeous and chauvinistic Italian billionaire, amnesia, kidnapping…ooh filled with so much melodramatic moments….and yes, I did get hooked!!!

Catherine Parrish - is eighteen, working in an art gallery has always felt abandoned and unloved by her family, has a disability (view spoiler)[ she’s dyslexic (hide spoiler)] meets the successful businessman, Luc, who shows an interest in her but ignores her for weeks on end. When he finally contacts her, she falls like a ton of bricks. She gives him her virginity…yes, of course she’s a virgin…remember, alpha males love those!!!!!!!.....then spends the next two years being his mistress – he makes it quite clear to her that she’s not good enough material for a wife…uneducated and no background to speak of!!!

Just get rid of this guy I kept saying…and then she does. Enough is enough. When Luc leaves on yet another business trip, she leaves their home and then………disaster!!! Before she can fone him to tell him she made a mistake, she’s hit by a car and is in a coma for 3 months. But the good news!!!! She doesn’t lose their baby and she decides not to go back to Luc!!!

Five years later and Luc finds her….yes, apparently he’s been searching years and years for her…why I wondered!!! Didn’t he think her not good enough when she was with him????

As usual, Catherine has been used once again by people…..she’s far too trusting and kind-hearted….but that’s who she is. Anyway, Luc forces her back to his pad, they have an argument, and she hits her head on a table when she stumbled and the next thing…..SHE HAS AMNESIA!!! She’s forgotten the last five years of her life – no idea she has a child…thank heavens little mini Luc was staying with her friend for a few days otherwise….visions of little one all on his own, no food, no Mommy!!!

Luc continues being a total unlikeable guy….he doesn’t tell Catherine about their split, spirits her in his private jet to his castle somewhere in Italy, where he makes lots of love to her and even gets her to marry him. Yes, a total so not nice guy. Allright, he has no idea that he has a son that is somewhere without his mother!!!!
So, Catherine is besotted and sooooo in love and now married to her soul-mate….things seem to be going well with this couple when Catherine suddenly regains her memory. Oh my goodness. She has to tell Luc about their son but ….hell, things just seem to not be working for her….because he discovers the secret son and – just as I thought…turns again into a nasty twit!!!!

Let me just clarify something about Luc…yes he had trust issues too. A hard childhood and all of that and he just finds it hard to express his feelings to Catherine….oh dear…he loved her all along…all those years he pined for her!!!

Well, why did he not tell Catherine how much he loved her then?????
It’s really weird…despite this guy’s behavior, by the end, I really liked him. He actually turns out to be a nice guy….and a great dad too!!!! Yes, he meets cute and beyond smart son, who falls in love with Dad IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

It is a rather cheesy and sometimes OTTT story but I was so engrossed that I couldn’t get enough of these characters.

If you are a LG fan…like me….read this one. It’s really a good and fun story.


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