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The Arrangement
When two strangers with absolutely nothing in common are forced to marry, their relationship will put the famous theory to the test - can opposites really attract? When two strangers with absolutely nothing in common are forced to marry, their relationship will put the famous theory to the test - can opposites really attract? Xavier Knights want for nothing. The billionaire heartthrob has money, fame, power and is used to having his pick of any girl in the room. When Xavier’s dad demands that he marry a woman he’s never met, he assumes that she’s a gold-digger and vows to make her life a living hell. The one vow he is determined to keep. Angela Carson is a bright and kind-hearted young woman who ended up married to the man every woman wants...except her. Cast as the villain in an arranged marriage, Angela has to deal with Xavier’s violent outbursts, philandering, and the havoc he’s determined to bring down on her.
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S.S. Sahoo
5 books206 followersS.S.Sahoo was born in Rourkela, Odisha and is currently pursuing Civil Engineering as well as keeping up with her passion for writing. She began writing when she thought she should and that included, not revealing it to any of her family members or friends and she anonymously posted her work in a reading platform and luckily for her, people liked her work and finally she revealed it to the people close to her.
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June 11, 2021
Horrible story.
Draging to the point of boredom.
And the fmc was a total pushover with absolutely no backbone at all. She had shitty friends, shitty brothers and a shitty husband. And honestly, the father in law is a total idiot also.
The mmc is just a total idiot. Disgusting man whore with a narcissistic tendency.
Dnf
Draging to the point of boredom.
And the fmc was a total pushover with absolutely no backbone at all. She had shitty friends, shitty brothers and a shitty husband. And honestly, the father in law is a total idiot also.
The mmc is just a total idiot. Disgusting man whore with a narcissistic tendency.
Dnf
February 7, 2022
This book isn’t romance it’s abuse porn trash. Essentially typical “I can fix him” abusive relationship.
The male lead is an irredeemable emotional abuser but gets a pass because, aw poor man baby, his ex hurt him and he’s rich. He takes out all his anger on his new wife, the spineless pushover female lead, who he was forced to marry by his naive idiot father who threatens his CEO position. He decides to make her life living hell as “punishment” for agreeing to the arrangement by constantly berating, humiliating and degrading her, literally every single chapter, because he’s convinced himself she deserved it. He hates all women and thinks they’re all “gold-digging sluts” (author’s actual words that he calls her to her face multiple times) and assigns that label to her the whole book. Idiot Father is blind and selfish by taking advantage of the fact that Spineless Pushover is desperate for money she doesn’t have to save her sick father, because “she’s a pure soul”, and convinces her to essentially let his son use her as an emotional punching bag to “save” his son’s heart instead of treating him like a grown man responsible for his actions and sending him to therapy. Then he convinces himself that they’ve fallen in real love just so quickly and his plan is working and they play into the charade to keep him convinced.
Side characters include sick father who’s like a forgotten extra most of the time even though he’s supposed to be her main motivation, neglectful brothers, a shitty opportunist best friend, and a sexual harassing ex-employer.
By the end of the first book she’s still just quietly taking abuse and neglect from all sides and I wouldn’t be surprised if things miraculously turn around without any actual character development, retribution or apology. I won’t know because I quit. This author just wanted to write about a perpetual victim and martyr.
The male lead is an irredeemable emotional abuser but gets a pass because, aw poor man baby, his ex hurt him and he’s rich. He takes out all his anger on his new wife, the spineless pushover female lead, who he was forced to marry by his naive idiot father who threatens his CEO position. He decides to make her life living hell as “punishment” for agreeing to the arrangement by constantly berating, humiliating and degrading her, literally every single chapter, because he’s convinced himself she deserved it. He hates all women and thinks they’re all “gold-digging sluts” (author’s actual words that he calls her to her face multiple times) and assigns that label to her the whole book. Idiot Father is blind and selfish by taking advantage of the fact that Spineless Pushover is desperate for money she doesn’t have to save her sick father, because “she’s a pure soul”, and convinces her to essentially let his son use her as an emotional punching bag to “save” his son’s heart instead of treating him like a grown man responsible for his actions and sending him to therapy. Then he convinces himself that they’ve fallen in real love just so quickly and his plan is working and they play into the charade to keep him convinced.
Side characters include sick father who’s like a forgotten extra most of the time even though he’s supposed to be her main motivation, neglectful brothers, a shitty opportunist best friend, and a sexual harassing ex-employer.
By the end of the first book she’s still just quietly taking abuse and neglect from all sides and I wouldn’t be surprised if things miraculously turn around without any actual character development, retribution or apology. I won’t know because I quit. This author just wanted to write about a perpetual victim and martyr.
August 2, 2021
Very poorly written, with minimal character development. Huge gaping plot holes and the story ended in the middle of a scene�� not even a cliffhanger, literally mid scene. I’m baffled why I even bothered to finish this drivel.
October 14, 2021
Average angela married spoiled brat son of successful business owner to afford medication for her rapidly quickly suffering father. believing this is her best solution she marries the brat and then spends her day trying to make friends with randos (cause she has no friends) and watch her husband the fuckboy bring in different women every night to feed his sex addiction, and emotional problems from a ex that could be greatly helped with therapy.
So anyway angelas only goal in life is to save her dad, but she sees him like once a month? when shes loves him so much and he's DYING and alone cause her brothers are to busy running the family restaurant which is somehow more important than the dying father.
The writing is god awful, the characters unlikable and story pace is slow as hell. DNF
So anyway angelas only goal in life is to save her dad, but she sees him like once a month? when shes loves him so much and he's DYING and alone cause her brothers are to busy running the family restaurant which is somehow more important than the dying father.
The writing is god awful, the characters unlikable and story pace is slow as hell. DNF
December 19, 2022
Honestly, it wasn't extremely well written. Many chapters seemed to end mid-scene, I thought that it would pick up in the next chapter but the story would move onto something else. Angela completely sucks as a character, she let's a narcissistic ass treat her like complete shit before his personality pulls a 180 and suddenly he's in love with Angela. I'm still reading the 2nd book now but I don't see myself finishing this series.
Also, the author really likes to have Angela cornered, harassed and stalked by some dude who's weirdly obsessed with her. It's happened twice (would not be surprised if this popped up again in the other books). Its just really repetitive and adds nothing to the story or plot whatsoever. I think that if the author wanted this plot line in the story, Angela's old boss shouldn't have been included if Jacques was going to be included later on.
Also, the author really likes to have Angela cornered, harassed and stalked by some dude who's weirdly obsessed with her. It's happened twice (would not be surprised if this popped up again in the other books). Its just really repetitive and adds nothing to the story or plot whatsoever. I think that if the author wanted this plot line in the story, Angela's old boss shouldn't have been included if Jacques was going to be included later on.
April 2, 2023
I want to punch so many characters in the face. Most of them. All of them but Dustin, really.
Angela, the female main character, is way too “damsel in distress” for me.
Xavier is a total arse. He is a scumbag and as cruel as can be.
Em is a total buttface of a friend. No one should hate of their long-term bff like that and just bail on them without explanation.
The others have their moments.
There’s too much drama. It ends hastily. And I’m just annoyed.
Angela, the female main character, is way too “damsel in distress” for me.
Xavier is a total arse. He is a scumbag and as cruel as can be.
Em is a total buttface of a friend. No one should hate of their long-term bff like that and just bail on them without explanation.
The others have their moments.
There’s too much drama. It ends hastily. And I’m just annoyed.
February 11, 2023
Xavier is the biggest asshat and is continually abusive in many ways
October 17, 2021
Oh…where do I start. One good thing is that the story is not a cliche, so it was refreshing first 30-60 charters out of 120 (it was audiobook), but then the main heroine is just sooo extremely naive, for someone who lives in New York seems like she was raised in closed village and had no idea that people can have sex (yes, she is 23 year old virgin who cannot say cock, sex etc. out loud), also she was extremely suspicions, fast on judgement, ungrateful and stupid. By the first intimate main hero got infected by heroine’s depression and stupidity, he lost his grip, wit and power. So I dropped the book even before their fist intimate scene, looks like sex itself would be somewhere close to the end of the book. I couldn’t continue listening to this torture, feels like I got grey hair already listening to it, never ending tasteless gum.
Please read it if you want to have your own feeling and opinion.
P.S. this is my 3rd book i couldn’t finish out of 1000.
Please read it if you want to have your own feeling and opinion.
P.S. this is my 3rd book i couldn’t finish out of 1000.
March 12, 2022
Read via the Galatea app and got to book three in the set of six and have to say I am done. Story feels like it has closed off and frankly I just don't care enough about the characters to want to continue on. DNF all of them but gave it a shot.
June 17, 2021
Very interesting and gripping story
February 7, 2023
This is not a good book. I am really having a difficult time trying to define why I even read this. Everyone is pretty terrible. The naive main character is just too nice for her own good. Everyone takes advantage of her and she thinks she is helping others, but is really just digging herself into more of a hole. This story is comprised of 5 books with over 20+ chapters. The rollercoaster of the author trying to come up with these characters to have an exciting story take you from a weird old man talking to his dead wife in a park then a marriage to a hateful slutty asshole, then a plane crash to a love story to death and company drama... all things that are not written well and it's just not very interesting. Have fun.
September 8, 2023
This was horrible and read like badly written fanfiction and yet I could not stop reading it.
April 20, 2022
Half a star is what this is. No star even, but that would do nothing for the rating?
Xavier Knight is an asshole - established within 4 chapters and then repeated indefinitely. Just in case you did not get it.
Brad Knight is crap at understanding other people, especially his own son, so how on earth did he become a billionaire?!?!
Angela is annoying. Starts off annoying and just does not stop.
Xavier Knight is an asshole - established within 4 chapters and then repeated indefinitely. Just in case you did not get it.
Brad Knight is crap at understanding other people, especially his own son, so how on earth did he become a billionaire?!?!
Angela is annoying. Starts off annoying and just does not stop.
August 16, 2022
If I could give this trash 0 stars, I would. The person who wrote this clearly hates women, and it shows in the characters and their actions. I could repeat what other reviewers have said on here, but what would be the point? I rarely say this about a book, but don’t waste your time with this pile of garbage.
November 25, 2022
This "book" is awful. If I could give it 0 I would. The ML is uncomfortably abusive. The whole story line is really bad. Going from an attempted sexual assault, to a plane crash, to the FL fishing with a stick while nearly naked, to "omg I almost died that island we were trapped on for half a day", to amnesia, to a dance competition, in like 5 chapters. What even is this?
February 26, 2023
Literally the most infuriating book I ever read. Took 2 months bc of the stupid Galatea platform. And literally just ended when a new plot was starting. They sold it well don’t do it
October 10, 2023
(I only listened to book 1)
Thank you to Galatea for providing me with a complimentary one month membership in exchange for review of this title.
Thank you to Galatea for providing me with a complimentary one month membership in exchange for review of this title.
March 21, 2024
It was okay. Not a huge fan of the main characters and I found the story to be very slow, a little frustrating at times.
January 29, 2024
It was so good at some point, but others like what. Main female character was a pushover. Not for me
July 3, 2023
I found a free audiobook version I was listening to while doing chores or driving. I DNF but got most of the way through it.
1) poorly written
2) the multiple POVs really didn’t work
3) this is one of the most toxic and abusive relationships I’ve ever read about
4) I hated the MMC and seriously disliked the FMC
5) literally nothing happened. It was the same thing over and over until I was bored to death
1) poorly written
2) the multiple POVs really didn’t work
3) this is one of the most toxic and abusive relationships I’ve ever read about
4) I hated the MMC and seriously disliked the FMC
5) literally nothing happened. It was the same thing over and over until I was bored to death
March 5, 2023
Finished up to book 3 on Galatea, liked the story but took so long for the main characters to finally get together, was a little drawn-out
June 19, 2023
2.5⭐️
I read via the Galatea app and got to book 3 of 6 and DNF the series.
That. Poor. Girl.
That about wraps up how I feel about this book.
Boss turns stalker, keeps her from working anymore.
Dad is dying.
Stranger offers to pay for dads expenses if she marries his son that she’s never met.
Son is an abusive douchebag.
Best friend is the WORST.
New best friend initially just wanted to use her.
Everyone in their world is awful to her other than Lucille, Marco, and Brad.
After getting rid of the first stalker, gains another that tries to rape her.
Freaking plane crash.
Husband is still a douchbag.
And then abducted and almost raped again??
And also, how naive is Brad? His POV made me want to roll my eyes. Oh, they are so in love. Yet you find out later that Marco has been telling him how he was treating her. I’m like… you think that’s love?
Then husband goes from yelling at her, calling her a gold digging slut to loving her all of a sudden?
Oh and don’t get me started on FMC. Heck, if she would have had just a smidge of a backbone and told him hey, Dustin is gay. I haven’t slept with anyone. My dad is dying. It would have saved her from soooooo many of those stupid fights. Not that it’s her fault that he’s a douche, but she needed to stand up for herself!
And who can still fall in love with someone while they are treating you like that? I mean, I understand when you already love someone and they start treating you like that, that it’s harder to leave. But that’s how they started. Him promising to ruin her. 🙄
I read via the Galatea app and got to book 3 of 6 and DNF the series.
That. Poor. Girl.
That about wraps up how I feel about this book.
Boss turns stalker, keeps her from working anymore.
Dad is dying.
Stranger offers to pay for dads expenses if she marries his son that she’s never met.
Son is an abusive douchebag.
Best friend is the WORST.
New best friend initially just wanted to use her.
Everyone in their world is awful to her other than Lucille, Marco, and Brad.
After getting rid of the first stalker, gains another that tries to rape her.
Freaking plane crash.
Husband is still a douchbag.
And then abducted and almost raped again??
And also, how naive is Brad? His POV made me want to roll my eyes. Oh, they are so in love. Yet you find out later that Marco has been telling him how he was treating her. I’m like… you think that’s love?
Then husband goes from yelling at her, calling her a gold digging slut to loving her all of a sudden?
Oh and don’t get me started on FMC. Heck, if she would have had just a smidge of a backbone and told him hey, Dustin is gay. I haven’t slept with anyone. My dad is dying. It would have saved her from soooooo many of those stupid fights. Not that it’s her fault that he’s a douche, but she needed to stand up for herself!
And who can still fall in love with someone while they are treating you like that? I mean, I understand when you already love someone and they start treating you like that, that it’s harder to leave. But that’s how they started. Him promising to ruin her. 🙄
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 6, 2023
It hooked me in the beginning because I thought I would see them slowly fall in love but instead there was very little development and so many things happening. It was almost painful to get through the last few chapters.
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September 4, 2021ehh...
October 11, 2022
Four Book Series:
Book 1 Angela is penniless with a sick father and needed money to pay for his hospital. She meets Brad Knight and he arranges with her to marry his playboy son Xavier and he will pay for the hospital. Xavier thinking she is gold digger goes out of his way to punish her.
Book 2- Going to try to review without Spoilers: We pick up with the rescue from the accident Xavier starts to see Angela in a new light and begins treating her better. A return of a book one Character is the villain
Book3 past comes back to xavier in a bad way, here comes the EX.
Still working on other books.
Book 1 Angela is penniless with a sick father and needed money to pay for his hospital. She meets Brad Knight and he arranges with her to marry his playboy son Xavier and he will pay for the hospital. Xavier thinking she is gold digger goes out of his way to punish her.
Book 2- Going to try to review without Spoilers: We pick up with the rescue from the accident Xavier starts to see Angela in a new light and begins treating her better. A return of a book one Character is the villain
Book3 past comes back to xavier in a bad way, here comes the EX.
Still working on other books.
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September 15, 2021This book seems to be quite interesting and I am loving it so far. It takes lot of waiting time on Galatea app to read the next chapter. How can I read this book for free without having to wait for 6hrs to read the next chapters?
February 23, 2023
This book right from the beginning didn't sit well with me. The LI was and still is toxic. I found it hard to believe that any woman, no matter how understanding would tolerate the abuse the LI threw at her. I didn't finish this book purely for the honest dislike for the LI.
December 7, 2022
Listened to the audiobook, so glad I didn’t waste time actually reading it.
This could have been a lot better than it was but there was just no feeling in it.
This could have been a lot better than it was but there was just no feeling in it.
March 8, 2023
It was toxic… the Idea is good, but the execution was lacking… He was disgusting and a bully…
August 7, 2023
Look. I'm embarrassed to admit I even read this. And not only read it, but read the entire series. Although "wildly scrolled through the pages within a matter of hours and still managed to gleam all appropriate content" is a more apt description.
I got sucked in by a marketed Pinterest ad (darn you, Pinterest algorithm).
It had an interesting premise; an interesting twist on the "two people forced to marry" trope:
"The billionaire heartthrob has money, fame, power and is used to having his pick of any girl in the room. When Xavier’s dad demands that he marry a woman he’s never met, he assumes that she’s a gold-digger and vows to make her life a living hell. The one vow he is determined to keep. Angela Carson is a bright and kind-hearted young woman who ended up married to the man every woman wants...except her. Cast as the villain in an arranged marriage, Angela has to deal with Xavier’s violent outbursts, philandering, and the havoc he’s determined to bring down on her."
I read purely to see how things played out, and to see when the tortured playboy philanderer would fall for the secret-keeping but good-to-her-heart golden girl.
Meh.
There were SO MANY problematic issues. I knew going into this there would be tropes of abuse and inexperience à la Fifty Shades of Grey. I was just in it for the tender, romantic moments.
Did it serve that? Meh.
Overall, it wasn't my cup of tea (we're ignoring the horrific writing and plot progression because let's be honest, that was a given going into this). Even the ultimate romance was lackluster. And there was too much sexual manipulation via Xavier's part with other women that just made me feel, for lake of a better word, icky.
Conclusion: Don't let Pinterest suck you in. Especially in supporting the Galatea app. Libraries have superior content in this department AND on top of that, they are 100% free. Heck, even buying a hardcover book at Barnes and Noble is money better spent than whatever pay-per-chapter nonsense or the hidden "monthly-but-actually-2-year-commitment fee" Galatea has going on. I read the entirety of their fine print to ensure I wasn't being taken advantage of with what I was choosing to sign up for, and I've already canceled the service because other than satiating my curiosity, the rest wasn't worth it.
I got sucked in by a marketed Pinterest ad (darn you, Pinterest algorithm).
It had an interesting premise; an interesting twist on the "two people forced to marry" trope:
"The billionaire heartthrob has money, fame, power and is used to having his pick of any girl in the room. When Xavier’s dad demands that he marry a woman he’s never met, he assumes that she’s a gold-digger and vows to make her life a living hell. The one vow he is determined to keep. Angela Carson is a bright and kind-hearted young woman who ended up married to the man every woman wants...except her. Cast as the villain in an arranged marriage, Angela has to deal with Xavier’s violent outbursts, philandering, and the havoc he’s determined to bring down on her."
I read purely to see how things played out, and to see when the tortured playboy philanderer would fall for the secret-keeping but good-to-her-heart golden girl.
Meh.
There were SO MANY problematic issues. I knew going into this there would be tropes of abuse and inexperience à la Fifty Shades of Grey. I was just in it for the tender, romantic moments.
Did it serve that? Meh.
Overall, it wasn't my cup of tea (we're ignoring the horrific writing and plot progression because let's be honest, that was a given going into this). Even the ultimate romance was lackluster. And there was too much sexual manipulation via Xavier's part with other women that just made me feel, for lake of a better word, icky.
Conclusion: Don't let Pinterest suck you in. Especially in supporting the Galatea app. Libraries have superior content in this department AND on top of that, they are 100% free. Heck, even buying a hardcover book at Barnes and Noble is money better spent than whatever pay-per-chapter nonsense or the hidden "monthly-but-actually-2-year-commitment fee" Galatea has going on. I read the entirety of their fine print to ensure I wasn't being taken advantage of with what I was choosing to sign up for, and I've already canceled the service because other than satiating my curiosity, the rest wasn't worth it.
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