Always an outsider, Rafael spent his life looking in on his privileged Wolfe siblings, a boy in the shadows. And so, determined to create the lifestyle and family illegitimacy denied him, Rafael punishingly worked his way to the top. His marriage to beautiful supermodel Leila was the icing on the cake of success!

Now his marriage is crumbling and the vows he took seem in vain. Rafael chased a rainbow—but made his wife feel as though she was never more than a trophy.… Now it will take all of his courage to win his wife back.…

Review

The Trophy Wife is a romantic tale of finding out what’s important in life and doing anything to protect it.

Rafael da Souza is a man on a mission. He wants to reclaim his marriage and move onto the next phase of having children with the woman he is crazy in love with. Leila Santiago, his wife of five years, wants to be with him too, but doesn’t want to give up her career.  She is willing to be a wife, but due to a past struggle with anorexia doesn’t believe that she can have a baby.

I really liked these two characters separately, but had a problem with the repetitive “I love you, but…” in their relationship. Neither one was really willing to be one hundred percent committed to their marriage. They both put their careers above their relationship.

The Trophy Wife is part of the Notorious Wolfes series, but there isn’t much to the story about the famous family.  Rafael was the bastard son of the head of the family and didn’t grow up with his half brothers and sisters. There are a few mentions of brothers and a small part where Rafe talks to Leila about his past, but it doesn’t really have the amount of references to the past as the other books in the series have had.

The writing is well done and the story moves at a quick pace. The characters are well developed and three dimensional. I just felt as if the major issue of the book was too drawn out and that the characters were too selfish for their happily ever after to be believable.

Reviewed by Carrie

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