Betraying the Billionaire by Victoria Davies – a Review

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Description:
Julian Worth isn’t a man with time to spare. Ruling his billion dollar empire with an iron fist, work is the true love of his life. Which is why when it comes to marriage, a strategic alliance matters more than love. Julian is more than ready to sign on for a little superficial dating and a marriage of convenience if it allows him to take his company to the next level. What he wasn’t ready for was the woman who shows up as his prospective bride.

Holly Abbott has spent her whole life coming in second. Being born four minutes behind her twin sister has defined her life. But when her headstrong sister refuses to go along with their father’s plan to marry her off into a cold business arrangement, Holly has to step up. Knowing the infamous Julian Worth will only entertain marrying the Abbott heir, Holly sets her identity aside to transform into her sister. It’s an easy enough plan. A few dates with a man who isn’t hers won’t hurt anyone. 

Except Julian is nothing like the ruthless tycoon she expected. Soon she’s left to wonder, what will happen when her sister comes back and worse, how will she ever be able to give up a man who doesn’t even know her real name?

Review;

Betraying the Billionaire by Victoria Davies is another success for her I’d have to say. I really enjoyed this book from beginning to end.  It was full of everything I’ve come to know about Victoria Davies’ writing style. 

The so-called romance between Holly and Julian is slow to build allowing us to really get to know the two characters.  We get to learn why Holly is pretending to be her sister for her family and the family’s business sake. My heart really broke for Holly throughout this one because you can plainly see she’s falling hard for Julian and their isn’t a single thing she can do about it. You just can’t argue with love or who your heart chooses I guess. Plus her father could care less about her and her feelings.  He’s really a jackass as far as I’m concerned. To treat his daughters that way he does, oooo I wanted to slap him upside the head in every scene he was in.   

Whereas, Julian on the other hand isn’t in this for the right reasons at first.  He sees marriage to the Abbott heir as a way to further along his company’s name.  However, that plan quickly falls by the wayside because he notices there’s something different about Lillian/Holly that he can’t quick figure out and he’s a man who loves puzzles.  So he sets his mind to solving the puzzle that is Lillian/Holly and before long he realizes he’s fallen in love with her, Holly not Lillian at this point.  Julian and Holly are such a sweet couple and every scene they are in you can’t help but like them a little more each time they are together.  I particularly loved the scene where Holly meets his foster parents and learns about that part of his life.  It was a touching and endearing scene.  Just like in all romances when the man finally realizes he’s in love, and the girl is about to spill the beans and tell the truth, boom the secret she’s been keeping explodes in both their faces causing their blissful romance to go kaboom! 

When the truth is finally revealed and Julian learns that Holly and Lillian are twins, and Holly was pretending to be Lillian a new puzzles emerges for Julian and as he works to solve this new puzzle we can’t help but feel helpless as we watch both characters to struggle through what to do next, is it possible to salvage their relationship and just what is Lillian hiding from everyone.  It’s also during this part of the story that Ms. Davies slyly begins to spin a new secondary plot regarding Lillian.  Just why did she run off to San Franciso and what isn’t she telling Holly? But I digress, so back to Julian and Holly.  When Holly comes up with a ‘Hail Mary’ plan to save the company and goes to see Julian her meeting doesn’t go as planned. Their meeting at first is tense, but then the love that’s still between them begins to emerge and there’s a moment where I thought I’d need kleenex thanks to Mr. Davies superb writing of this scene.  All the emotion and love between them just pours off the pages and I found myself on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this would end for the two of them.  I never expected Julian to do what he did because of who he is but I loved how he chased after Holly after she left his office and made it perfectly clear that she’s the one and he can’t be without her.  I loved that he had the ring with him and put it back on her finger and made certain she knew this was it for him and that they were starting their lives together finally. I found it pretty comical that his only request for their weeding was her dad wasn’t invited and that Holly couldn’t agree more.  I couldn’t help but chuckle at that point.

I really enjoyed Victoria Davies new adventure in Betraying the Billionaire.  My only pet peeve about this book was how she ended this one by leaving us hanging in regards to Holly Abbott’s sister Lillian and what she’s still hiding.  Guess I’ll just have to tune into part two/sequel to Betraying the Billionaire staring Lillian Abbott. 

Until next time, happy reading everyone!

Reviewed by Marcie

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