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Summary: Delightfully Surprisingly Enjoyable
Review: I discovered this book quite accidentally. I had never heard of Amanda Quick (or Jayne Ann Krentz). I thought it would be boring, but it was engrossingly interesting. I thought the hero was a very sexy guy and the heroine was ok,if not quite believable. The plot was obvious almost from the beginning, but I still had no trouble reading it. I plan to read all the books I can by Amanda and Jayne Ann.
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Summary: Absolutely amazing!
Review: I have just finished this book and I found it very different from anything I have read so far. Firstly, the hero is (surprisingly) a scientist and this is already a difference. I was surprised actually and quite expected to find him not quite up to the Adonis kind of hero but he proved to be just as capable as if he had a title to his name and was rich. His dry wit was amusing and his fustrations very understandable. The herione, as independent and reckless as ever, was just as funny. I love the way that Amanda Quick can turn males and females who might not be perfect in looks into memorable characters that you'll never forget. I think that it's always refreshing to read about characters who are not always so perfect in every way to understand that not only true love can happen when you are attracted to looks but everyone has their own inner beauty and you just need to discover it. Another effective mystery in the book though it was a bit easy to solve but the process which they hero and heroine took to solve it themselves was just as great. A must read!
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Summary: This was better
Review: I like this one because it has a great deal of affection and just more affection. I do think this one is one of her more better novel. This had a hero that i rather liked and the girl was alright....in this book it was fun seeing how the main characters played off each other. So I do recommend this one.
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Summary: Formula, but not all bad
Review: I liked the alchemist angle and the fact that the guy isn't an Earl or Duke. That set it apart from her other novels. However, the physical stuff is ALWAYS the SAME. First, they have an encounter where he satisfies her. Later, they actually do the deed, and frequently this is how he discovers she's a virgin. Quick doesn't make the horrendous grammatical errors that are present in some other works, and her research appears to be adequate. However, the books are so similar I don't think I can afford the time to read another of them.
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Summary: Enchanting and thrilling.....edge of my seat kind of reading
Review: I love the characters. Charlotte just can't falthom Baxter being a man-of-affairs. He sounds wonderful and brilliant and exactly what she needs!!!
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Summary: This book is thrilling.
Review: I really enjoy reading your books because with your books you can place yourself inside as you read along. Each of Amanda Quicks book is thrilling until the end and then you wish that it wouldn't ended. I have almost all of her books and each one it is very hard to put down until the end because there is always something happening. Also it is not hard to imagation your self place in that setting. Each word she writes it seem to connect together. thanks
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Summary: Different (In a Pleasing Way)
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It is not the same perfect guy meets a perfect girl and they fall in love with obstacles along the way. Baxter is one of my favorite heroes. He is intelligent, sexy (I thought so anyway), and isn't really as dull as pudding, even though he would like to think so. Charlotte was really refreshing however. After the death of her guardian, she had to think up a way to support herself and her sister, so she begins a buisness to check out potencial husbands for women who have recently inherited money. Charlotte makes sure that these men are not fortune hunters or "rakeshells" and are not into drinking or frequenting brothels. I found this occupation to be very amusing and unuasual. Also Charlotte was not one of those heroines who believes in any of that communicating on the metaphysical level crap. She is very levelheaded and intelligent. I thought these two made a great pair and enjoyed reading their story. Happy Reading!
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Summary: Not her best
Review: I used to really like Amanda Quick. But lately her stories have gotten predictable, her characters very similar and rather boring. This is an ok book, but I misss the Amanda Quick who wrote Desire. That had characters you could really enjoy and connect with. This book I probably won't do more than glance through again.
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Summary: This was not one of her best!!!
Review: I was dissapointed in this book. It didn't really hold my attention. It took until the end of the story for the two main characters to finally profess their love for one another. It was too drawn out and not very romantic. I wouldn't recomened it.
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Summary: Same old formula, but this time very dull
Review: I was quite disappointed with this novel. I went into it with high expectations and I was ultimately disappointed. I've only begun reading Quick this summer and I'm fairly new to the romance genre. I thought Quick did an excellent job with her older books but this one was decidedly flat. Everything was loosely tied together, and the tone was impersonal all throughout the novel. Quick did not convince me that Baxtor and Charlotte are greatly in love with one another. There is obviously lust, but no sense of deep, heartfelt love. The two characters seem to fall together in the end only because they both wanted to escape a life of loneliness. Although Quick did allude to the two as being destined to be together, I did not get the impression that their love is close to the binding of souls.Baxtor does not fit into the ideal hero category. He's a scientist with a very methodical mind. He's inclined to keep all chaotic emotions out of his life and he does not welcome the disruption that Charlotte has cause to his peaceful and dull existence. Baxtor could have been devastatingly alluring with his keen intelligence and quick wit, but he comes off as being insensitive, hard, and clumsy. His character does seem to mature close to the end of the novel, but by then it was too late to develop any great affection for him. Charlotte's character was more developed than Baxtor's, yet not nearly enough. She is an optimistic, bright and independent woman, but I could not establish any connection to this woman all throughout the novel. Quick failed to develop her character throughly and I did not know enough of this woman to call her a friend or to invest much of my emotion in her relationship with Baxtor or her little adventure involving the investigation of her client's murder. Quick could have done better if she had focused more on character development, the budding love between the two characters, and the inevitability of their love.
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