Sophia Andreou has always been the “good daughter” who tried to keep her domineering father happy. She followed the rules and did everything that was asked of her. But this time, her father is asking too much. The family company is crumbling, and her father has arranged a marriage to a Greek billionaire who can save their property business. What?! Umm no thank you. If Cinderella can dress up to … to win a prince, surely Sophia can do the opposite and ditch hers…
Dion Kourakis has come a long way from being an orphan with only a single friend to his name. Now he runs a billion-dollar investment company and has the respect of everyone in Europe. His charming personality covers a lot of emotional scars, including his desire to make his mentor proud. Dion doesn’t exactly want a bride to go along with his next business deal, and he plans on letting the lass down gently when they meet…
Only, his future bride has turned out to be nothing like what he thought she’d be. She’s quirky and has a habit of turning up to social events in strange outfits. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what she’s up to, but the harder she tries to convince him she’d be an awful wife, the more he wants to convince her they’d be perfect together.
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Stefanie London produces a wonderfully fun, sexy and witty romance.
Dion Kourakis has built a billion dollar Investment Empire with his only friend by his side and the help and support his ailing mentor. He needs nothing except a bit of revenge and in order to get it he requires acquiring a company that comes with a bride for him. Getting married and falling in love was never in his life plan, and now he’ll have to resist his future wife’s beauty and quirky personality. So as to not look focus of his objective.
Sophia Andreou has always put her family first. Pleasing her father comes as second nature, but not when he’s ordering her to marry a stranger on the other side of the planet in order to save his company from ruin. But being treated like cattle is something she won’t allow and has now devised a plan to make her fiancé not want her. But can she really hide behind the clown pants and taxidermy hobby from her future husband’s sharp eyes.
In this charming arranged romance we get to know Sophia who is tired of keeping up the appearance of good daughter in a perfect family wanting nothing more than a simple life away from her tyrannical father but in order to do so she’ll have to compromise and marry the handsome Dion. But not before trying to appear as the least appealing wife material in the world, giving the reader some very comical moments.
The more we learn about Dion though, the more Sophia and the reader realizes he’s a good man trying to overcome a difficult past. The story unfolds in a dual point of view presentation and I enjoyed experiencing how the fall for each other no matter how much they resist it.
This is a lovely romance with enough sexiness and a humor to keep things fun and enjoyable.
How to Lose a Fiancé is a standalone contemporary romance by Stefanie London. Told from various points of view with a happy ending.
I’m always hesitant to read a book in the middle of a series. This book really does read as a standalone which rarely happens. If I wasn’t told before hand, I wouldn’t have noticed. Many times, I completely forgot it was part of a series. I did find a few aspects slightly unbelievable, I went with it since those aspects were essential to the storyline. I suspended belief a bit to see how it played out. I enjoyed how the couple played tricks on each other–namely Sofia on Dion. There’s more to each character than what they originally showcase.
Sofia hates her current living situation due to her father’s controlling nature. He takes control freak to a whole new level. He uses her mother as leverage to get Sofia to do what he wants. This time, daddy dearest has went too far–marrying her off to as some business arrangement in order to keep control of the company her father inherited when his boss died. It’s not even truly his company! Everything about their lives is a complete facade. She can’t leave her mother. She would do anything for that woman. Even flying to Greece to marry a man she doesn’t want. Now if said man doesn’t want her…that’s a different story. She sets out to do exactly that from weird and strange clothes to her “obsession” with taxidermy, Sofia is pulling all the stops.
Dion wants nothing more than to buy this company and tear it apart so his mentor knows who is his father in Dion’s eyes. Certainly not the man who started that company and left his mistress distraught and knocked up. Nor leaving said child in an orphanage. But Dion will do whatever he has to to finalize this deal even if it means marrying a woman he doesn’t want–or so he thinks. He gets glimpses of the real Sofia–the sweet, kind, woman who loves wholeheartedly. When he finally breaks her shell, he wants to keep her for himself to build a life together. Something that he never wanted before. He was determined to be single for the rest of his life to protect his heart.
What happens when the house of cards go tumbling down?
Will Sofia’s father have another scheme to regain control of the company he sold to Dion?
Can Sofia break free from her father without losing her mother?
Taxidermy, Wacky Clothes & Bad Hair Can’t Derail this Engagement.
Sophia has grown up with a bullying father and thinks nothing he can do will surprise her but she is horrified when she discovers he is marrying her off to a stranger, as part of a business deal. If it weren’t for the fact that her mother would suffer, she would just refuse but her father knows her weakness is her mother’s welfare. Instead she decides to do everything possible to make her prospective groom reject her. This is the fun part of the book, later followed by darker life events. Set on the beautiful island of Corfu, I felt disappointed that there was so little description of the place. Even on Sophia and Dion’s trip to Paris, the city itself was glossed over. I liked the characters but I wasn’t moved by their emotions. An easy beach read for the summer.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.