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A Man to Call My Own

A Man to Call My Own

List Price: $32.95
Your Price: $23.07
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth it!
Review: This book was very disappointing. It appeared to be written in a hurry, with little thought to setting and character development. It was very hard to feel sympathetic for either the hero or heroine. It was also poorly edited; surely a good writer and editor should notice the inappropriate slang for the time period. Luckily I didn't spend money on this book (it was from the library)!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: This book wasn't the usual Lindsey - it didn't have the same intelligent conversation and witty dialogue. It was, however, a fun book to read. Twin girls, both beautiful, hate each other since they were young because one is selfish and cruel but the other is kind and sensitive. So the kind one dressed like a dowd to avoid notice and her sister's cruel attention.

When Amanda, our nice sister, meets Chad who has come to escort them to her aunt's ranch, she falls for him. But she is so busy plotting to make sure her sister doesn't know her feelings that all sorts of misunderstandings occur. This adds to the book's light charm. There is also enough action (train robberies, kidnapping...) to keep the fan of the western genre interested as the girls struggle to fit into their new ranching life.

Of course, we have our happy ending but there are also a few twists and turns you wouldn't expect to find in a typical romance - they keep you turning the pages, though.

Overall, I enjoyed the book and finished it quickly. I look forward to the next Lindsey novel!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: What happened?
Review: This is the first Johanna Lindsay book I've bought in at least five years. Not that I didn't like her earlier works, I just grew away from them. A friend of mine is a devoted fan and I thought "OK I'll give her try again". The cover is gorgeous, the story sounded good but was a HUGE letdown. The sex scene in the barn was great ;-) but Marion just came off as silly and a little childish and her sister as a witch....Neither were really redeaming--the best part was Chad (and his dad!) I never finished it and told my friend to save her money for the paperback :-(

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I wish I could give this 0 stars
Review: This was the worst Johanna Lindsay book I have ever read. Both the "evil" twin and the "good" twin were annoying. The evil twin because Lindsay spent the first few chapters telling us all the reasons we should hate her, the good twin because she was unnecessarily mean to the hero for no good reason. The hero was easily manipulated and not too smart.
The worst part of this book was the fact that after spending so much time convincing the reader to hate the evil twin, by the middle of the book Lindsay has this character do a complete turnaround. POOF!!! She's married and slowly but surely she's turning into a nice girl while the good twin is getting meaner and nastier. At this point I disliked most characters in the book and I couldn't give a hoot what happened next.
The humor and emotion that are usually the main ingredients in Lindsay's books are woefully absent in this horrid story. Don't waste your time or money on this pathetic tale.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Little Better than her last book...but still not up to par
Review: Those of you who truly love her books will probably be disappointed, as I was. This book is better than The Pursuit (her worst book ever in my opinion, not worth the paper it was printed on) but it's still not as good as most of her other books. The plot was good. Twin sisters, both beautiful but one hides behind ugly glasses, the other is petty and jealous. The man of course sees the beauty on the outside first, but does finally get it right in the end and sees the beauty from within also. The book does not have good dialogue though...it was like poof...they are in love and pretty much skipped any real dialogue between them as to how and why they fell in love. Definitely not worth the hardcover $$$.

Lindsay used to be an automatic buy for me as soon as the book came out. After her last 2 books, I am not so sure now.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Very Disappointed Fan- AGAIN
Review: Well, this book was certainly better than "A Man To Call MY Own". There still not the magic you feel of Johannah Lindsey's characters getting to know each other and falling in love. The characters were more apart then together in this story. The character development in this book sucked. One minute Jeremy is enjoying his affair with Danny and then suddenly you turn the page and he is in love with her. What's up Johannah Lindsey??? You haven't produce a story of your potential in a long time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: where did our johanna go???!!!
Review: What happen to johanna? Her earlier books were so wonderful you could'nt put them down. The last few years her books-- dull, dull, dull. I say pass on this book. Come on Johanna you can do SO much better. I will still read anything you write but from now on i get them at the library or wait for paperback.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ehhh....Okay
Review: While I love Johanna Lindsey's earlier works, this as most of her recent books fell flat. Ms. Lindsey spent too much time in the beginnig telling us how rotten Amanda was and to what lengths Marion hid her beauty. I think Ms. Lindsey rushed to get us to the hero/heroine conflict. She elaborates on Marions distrust of Chad's attentions toward her sister then BOOM! Their doin' it in the stables. Then follows the trite misunderstandings and unspoken secrets that could clear everthing up. If you want to read a novel that exhibits why Ms. Lindsey is a best selling author, I would suggest "Man of My Dreams".

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not A Lindsey!!!
Review: Writing is not an easy thing to do and as a result I hate to tear an author down still this book was not up to Ms. Lindsey's standard.

The premise of one good twin, one bad twin, and one yummy guy is a old tried and true formula but this just did not work here. First off the nasty one was nasty but the "good" one was equally nasty. Yummy man was not only fooled by a nice face but was unable to tell the two apart and as a result made a fool out of himself. How stupid was he suppose to be. One thing I had a big problem with was in the fact that after sharing two kisses with Marian (thinking that she was Amanda for one of them) all of a sudden "BAM" he's attracted to Mari while giving her a lesson on how to saddle a horse???? Hello, from 0 to bada boom in a nano second. I did not understand what set him off or where the attraction came from.

This was not a Lindsey in any way shape or form. The plot drifted and eventually was non-existant, the character developement was totally lacking as if Ms. Lindsey could not decide on which twin was going to be the heroine until the end. Do yourself a favor if you really want to read a book by Ms. Lindsey pick up one of her older books, or if you're dead set on reading this one, pick it up at the library or borrow it from a friend.


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