This is about another plain Jane like yesterday’s book. Her name however is Jessica and she’s the cleaning lady at the hero’s office. She works on his floor and makes his office ready for the next day. Since he works late hours they run into each other often.
Later in the novel we learn that before the novel started the hero would use Jessica as a sounding board and sometimes he even took her advice. Jessica finds these moments the most intimate of her time spent with him – and this is after they’ve slept together!
The hero comes up with a crazy insane idea that if he arrives to parties already spoken for, perhaps his friends won’t attempt to hook him up. He gets Jessica to be his fake girlfriend and then his real mistress. She agrees figuring she’ll never have another chance with a man like him or Salvatore himself. Overtime she realizes being a mistress is very cheapening especially as she’s falling in love with him.
When he tells her he can’t possibly marry her because she wasn’t a maid as she had sexually relations with at least one other guy. He then proceeds to tell her that the woman will marry will be a virgin and Sicilian. It really just confirms what she already knew but it was very unromantic to say the least.
This novel wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t very good. There were a lot of plot elements that cold have been exploited. I felt like the author dropped them in and then decided to forget about them. For instance, Jessica’s roommate was very jealous about Jessica’s new position as Salvatore’s mistress. Then there was the selling of the diamond bracelet he gave her, the blowup was big but read very inauthentic.
Rating: 2 Stars
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