His ex made him bitter 3. He is attracted to the h and loved her all along, but had to keep his hands to himself. Except those two times they had sex 4. He is insanely jealous of the OM always pawing the heroine 5. He is "sensitive" just like his boys - his behavior mirrors theirs. If you buy any or all of the explanations for Mr. Grumpypants, then you'll believe the HEA. I buy the sexual frustration and the heroine's ridiculous inability to knee brother in law in the groin.
The rest? Not so much. He's always going to be grumpy and hard to live with. His two boys will make great next generation alphas, though! Also, brother-in-law never gets his comeuppance and heroine's sister is criminally stupid for staying with that asshat. View all 11 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. Re Research into Marriage - PJ is on the dance to the beat of her own drum roll again with this one. The h is a 26 yr old psychologist researcher who has written two books about the effects of broken homes on children. She also has a mental case sister who is married to a gropey hands man and the skeevy nematode keeps trying to seduce the h. The sister walked in on them when the nematode was trying to force an embrace on the h and she went hysterical.
She insists the h has to be married for her Re Research into Marriage - PJ is on the dance to the beat of her own drum roll again with this one. She insists the h has to be married for her to believe that she wasn't coming on to her husband.
So the h takes out an ad in the paper, looking for a business like marriage, to get herself a husband. Cause srsly who reacts like her sister did when confronted with the scene she walked in on? The h is totally assertive all over the place and yet can't pick up skillet and knock the nematode hubby on his back end? In fact, who continues to put up with such a whacked sister when it is obvious she is totally deranged?
PJ gives the reason as the sister is pregnant with a difficult pregnancy, but this h is supposed to be a psychological professional, especially with kids, and she thinks it is great idear to bring a child into such a dysfunctional relationship with a nematode father and a sister who is totally messed up and a bad mother to the child she already has to boot? I know, it is PJ so we just roll with it, but the PJ latitude was straining my tolerance on this one.
So the h has an ad and she gets a response. An overworked physician with two sons writes her and the h makes an appointment to see him. Except it wasn't the physician H who answered the ad.
It was his all too conniving and managing sister who wants the H's sons out of her house. It seems the budding Hannibal Lectors tied their cousin up to a stake in a bonfire and were on the verge of lighting it. The sister bullies the H into meeting the h, she states it is because the kids need a parent and she doesn't like them and can't continue to help her brother out. PJ has just lovely sisters in this one. The H reluctantly agrees to the bullying, he hated his first wife and when they divorced she got custody of the kids she never wanted.
The H has been too busy being a doctor to be a parent and so his kids hate him too. He and the h initially meet when she is blocking the road to his house and she points out his zipper is undone when he is yelling at her. Then she shows up at his house and he is highly antagonistic but the h explains she has to marry to put her fragile mentally deranged sister's mind at rest and plus she thinks she can help his kids.
The H decides he can handle a business arrangement, so they marry. The H's sister comes over to the h's house and expounds upon the situation, rather than throwing the conniving skunk out, the h actually likes her. Then she involves herself in rag rolling, being the bestest HP step-mum ever and massaging the H's head when he gets a migraine. She also runs around after her sister whose whining could drown out a hurricane and putting up with the H's bossy cow of a sibling.
The h is reluctantly attracted to the H but thinks he is in love with his first wife, who conveniently died so he got the kids and they wind up in bed - as you do in a PJ novel. Then the whiny sister winds up in hospital, cause her pregnancy blood pressure is too high. The h agrees to watch her son until his nematode parent returns. The nematode parent insists that the h is using the H for research and that they are lovers, the h doesn't do anything to claim differently, and the H kicks her out.
A few weeks go by, with the H's sons visiting and complaining about missing the h. The h is in a hotel room, cause her flat was rented out for a few months and the H shows up to say he wants the h back. He really can't care for his own kids and they love her. The h says she can't return because she loves him and was never having an affair with the nematode.
The H explains that he never loved his first wife, she made him miserable and he never wanted to marry after the divorce, but his sister made him for the boys. He supposedly loves the h too and they like playing hide the lurve club, so it is HEA's all around.
I don't recommend this one unless you really like PJ and are willing to drink the PJ kool-aid. The whole thing requires multiple leaps of believability and large amounts of Captain Morgan to get through. The h and H hardly develop any relationship, the h actually spends more time with the budding sociopath sons than she does the H. The nematode husband of the sister gets no comeuppance and the sister is pretty much a plot device, once she is in hospital, she disappears, as does her son.
However if you like making great leaps of imagination or rag rolling paint, doing the garden and an h who thinks she will be happier with domestic engineering than continuing her career, this story might be a good choice.
View all 3 comments. Great arranged marriage story filled with angst and misunderstandings. Loved the sweet heroine and jealous hero. Community Reviews 0 Feedback? Lists containing this Book Never Read Again. Loading Related Books. August 29, Edited by EdwardBot. August 12, Edited by ImportBot. March 11, August 19, Edited by IdentifierBot.
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She never thought love would spoil her marriage Harassed by her brother-in-law's loathsome advances, Jessica decided that the only solution was marriage.
Subjects Fiction, romance, contemporary , Marriage, fiction. Research into Marriage September 1, , Harlequin. Libraries near you: WorldCat.
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