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Summary: The family way is a nice easy read!
Review: After reading some of the reviews, I have to say I'm disappointed that I haven't read any of Amanda Quick's books,but I shall look them up. Reading Jayne Ann Krentz books have been a joy to me. I was not impressed with book, but it was a nice easy read, I like the fact that it was an already established couple as well albeit it was three months. I've only begun to read her books just last year so I have to say any book titled under her name I will read, I like the fact that she details the strong masculine types as her heroes.
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Summary: Good Sunday Afternoon read
Review: I have read almost all of JAK's books and I enjoyed re-reading this one. The story line was good, plot was good, characters were good, and the ending was good. If you read an authors books over a long period, then re-read an earlier novel, you appreciate how far the author has come. Bravo to JAK for her talent, people are easy to criticize what they can not accomplish themselves.
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Summary: Who Needs a Family Like This?
Review: I usually love Ms. Krentz' books but this one was a turkey. Why? I found the hero completely unlikeable and couldn't imagine why the heroine wanted him. Self-centered, cold men and women without much pride don't do it for me.
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Summary: Vintage Jayne Ann Krentz
Review: Since this book was first published in 1987 and now has been published in a reissued edition and RAVISHED by Amanda Quick wasn't published until at least 1990 (when JAK first began using the Quick pseudonym), THE FAMILY WAY is obviously not a RAVISHED rehash. Perhaps JAK was expanding on the theme she first fleshed out in THE FAMILY WAY in her later historical novel.In any case, THE FAMILY WAY is vintage Krentz. I appreciate that some of her earlier contemporaries that I haven't before read are being reissued (always check those copyright dates!) because lately her contemporary novels such as FLASH and EYE OF THE BEHOLDER have been real disappointments. Her earlier work shows why Jayne Ann Krentz became a superstar in the romance genre and THE FAMILY WAY is a prime example. I especially like how Ms. Krentz explores a relationship that has already begun, rather than introducing the characters to each other and letting a relationship begin. Exploring established relationships is a device that I haven't seen in another author besides Krentz, and I like the change of pace. Pru and McCord are a good couple together. They have great chemistry and I appreciated their struggle to make a casual relationship a committed one. It would have been nice however if Ms. Krentz had done more descriptive work of the San Diego-La Jolla areas. I have seen exactly one historical set in San Diego, and now this one contemporary. Given that San Diego is a major metropolis, I don't understand this and am sorry that an author who did set her book here made the setting so generic it could have been any seaside locale. The only major drawback: I'm sick and tired of heroines who piously proclaim that pregnancy is no reason for marriage and they want to be married "for themselves" and not because of any "responsibility" the hero may feel toward the baby and the woman carrying his child. Give me a break! Responsibility toward one's spouse and children is one of the major underpinnings of marriage, for pity's sake. Tell women whose husbands experience "midlife crises" and want to be unfettered from their responsibilities that they should be generous and not expect their husbands to honor their commitments and shoulder their responsibilities! Just once I'd like to see that when an unexpected pregnancy occurs, a heroine swallows her pride, puts the welfare of her child first, and demands that the father of her baby face his responsibilities, marry her, and honor his duty to their child and to her. No matter how much "liberated women" protest to the contrary, nothing a mother can do, however devoted to her child she may be, can replace a father's place in her child's life and its HER responsibility to do everything possible to try and insure that her child is not raised fatherless.
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Summary: Re-write of her Amanda Quick "Ravished."
Review: This book, copywritten in 1987, is a modern-day version of one of Ms. Krentz's most successful Amanda Quick novels, "Ravished." The plot line still works, however I enjoyed this story when written for Harriet and Gideon; it seemed to work better for the characters. "The Family Way" is still a fun read, but becomes a bit of a let-down for die-hard Krentz/Quick fans.
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Summary: Who Needs a Family Like This?
Review: This one will be reprinted in April 2003, so I dug it out and see if it was worth a reprint. And yes, not likely at the price they will offer, so suggest used if you can. The story is a simple one, but as usual it is JAK's character and her incisive writing that makes the book. Case McCord wanted Pru Kenyon in his life but not that the cost of marriage.
Carrying baggage from a previous relationship that ended in death of his fianc? and estrangement from his family, it is cutting off from any such ties that blind - and hurt. Only Problem with that, is Pru - in spite of living with him for three months - is basically an old fashioned girl at heart and thought eventually their relationship would lead to marriage. She is in a quandary when she discovers she is pregnant. She wants McCord to marriage, but because he loves her, not because he has to...so after giving him marriage or I am leaving and he refuses, she leaves, never expecting to see him again. He naturally comes after Pru, convinces her he has changed his mind and wants her. Everything is fine until the morning after he wedding when she discovered the bill from the doctor in his pocket. He had none she was pregnant. Pru must face staying and fighting for the love from the man she loves. The characters and real and warm, and lots of humorous touches that leaves you smiling.
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Summary: a fun read!
Review: This one will be reprinted in April 2003, so I dug it out and see if it was worth a reprint. And yes, not likely at the price they will offer, so suggest used if you can. The story is a simple one, but as usual it is JAK's character and her incisive writing that makes the book. Case McCord wanted Pru Kenyon in his life but not that the cost of marriage.
Carrying baggage from a previous relationship that ended in death of his fiancé and estrangement from his family, it is cutting off from any such ties that blind - and hurt. Only Problem with that, is Pru - in spite of living with him for three months - is basically an old fashioned girl at heart and thought eventually their relationship would lead to marriage. She is in a quandary when she discovers she is pregnant. She wants McCord to marriage, but because he loves her, not because he has to...so after giving him marriage or I am leaving and he refuses, she leaves, never expecting to see him again. He naturally comes after Pru, convinces her he has changed his mind and wants her. Everything is fine until the morning after he wedding when she discovered the bill from the doctor in his pocket. He had none she was pregnant. Pru must face staying and fighting for the love from the man she loves. The characters and real and warm, and lots of humorous touches that leaves you smiling.
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Summary: Corny and overly sentimental...
Review: Unable to convince Case McCord to marry her, Prudence Kenyon leaves, keeping her pregnancy a secret. When Case realizes Pru is carrying his baby, he must work to woo her back and convince her he wants to marry her. After the marriage, Pru works on reuniting Case with his family and clearing up the mystery surrounding the death of Case's fiance. I've always liked when the heroine defends the hero without knowing the whole story. This is one of those books. Pru is wonderful and Case is truly appreciative. While his family should've known Case better than to believe the story told, it was a deathbed statement, taken far too seriously in most cultures. I, for one, believe that marriage should be for each adult involved, not for the sake of the child. The child suffers when the parents are together only for them, believe me.
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Summary: Family problems.
Review: Unable to convince Case McCord to marry her, Prudence Kenyon leaves, keeping her pregnancy a secret. When Case realizes Pru is carrying his baby, he must work to woo her back and convince her he wants to marry her. After the marriage, Pru works on reuniting Case with his family and clearing up the mystery surrounding the death of Case's fiance. I've always liked when the heroine defends the hero without knowing the whole story. This is one of those books. Pru is wonderful and Case is truly appreciative. While his family should've known Case better than to believe the story told, it was a deathbed statement, taken far too seriously in most cultures. I, for one, believe that marriage should be for each adult involved, not for the sake of the child. The child suffers when the parents are together only for them, believe me.
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Summary: Corny and overly sentimental...
Review: What a lousy book. It has no real plot, other than some boring family intrigue wrapped around a couple of corny sex scenes. It was a waste of time... or, on second thought, maybe it was a good opportunity to see how fiction should not be written. Who the hell goes referring to his/her spouse by the last name anyway? If you want stereotypes, clichés and a naive love story, go ahead, knock yourself out...
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