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Summary: What a fun read!
Review: This is an easy book to read, filled with wonderful, funny dialogue that makes a reader laugh out loud. The premise is compelling right to the end, and if there are any holes in the plot, those holes are not apparent; in fact, the story is deeply engrossing. Like too many romances, the ancillary heroines are not given enough attention--I assume that this is an official publishing industry policy so as not to tax the readers' attention, and to save paper at the same time. But Linda Howard is a master of her genre, and if you're going to read just one romance novel this year, MR. PERFECT is a...perfect choice. One warning, however: don't buy this as a gift for a teenage goddaughter or and 80-year old grandmother. The language is explicit, though not disgusting, and there's lots (and lots!) of racy sex.
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Summary: good juicy stuff
Review: wow! this book was really good, i just couldn't put it down. i'm 19, and i am not a big fan of reading, unless i find a book that i really like... and i liked this book, because i read it in five days. i loved it when they told the juicy details of jaine and sam. i could just picture then together in my head. I had no idea this was a murder mystery, and a romance all in one.... great combo! I would definately recommend reading this book... i bought it from the book store because I read an excript of it in Cosmo magazine and it sounded juicy and interesting, and it was... believe me... pick up a copy today.
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Summary: VERY, VERY FUNNY
Review: This book is laugh-out-loud-fall-over-on-the-floor-and-roll-around funny. If you are female, and you don't mind a bit of (...ahem) bawdy humor, you won't be able to stop laughing. The conversations between Jaine and her friends, Sam, and the signs in the elevator, all of it is hilarious. The characters are refreshing and very real, almost as if they were people you know (in fact, some of them might be people I know, hmmm.) Unfortunately, that is pretty much all there is to recommend the book. The mystery was predictable, every part of it, even down to who would die. The psychotic killer was remarkably easy to recognize, and though there was a bit of a twist, I had seen it by the middle of the book. The romance was hot, very hot, but that was all there was to that, too. Though you liked both of the characters a lot, you never really got the feeling that they knew each other. They went from flirtation to affair to marriage in about five pages, all in the middle of the book, and though they seemed to like each other well enough, there wasn't much to tell me that this would last. Anyway, read it if you want a really great, female laugh. Pick it up with a pint of Ben and Jerry's (preferably something sinful) and sit down to read. You will feel like this is a night out with the girls, where the jokes are dirty, and the calories don't count.
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Summary: She's a pathetic writer. It was embarrassingly bad.
Review: Run. Don't read it! This book had the most pathetic dialog I've ever read. The characters were like something out of a bad, teen novel. The whole premise of the book - that the Mr. Perfect list ends up on national TV was ludicrous. It was just a dumb, drunken conversation that a group of college women would have and no one else would care about. I apologize for the unintended insult to college women. The characters would frequently say something that was borderline funny and it would be followed by a line like "and they laughed so hard, they fell off their stools. They didn't breath for several minutes and they had tears streaming down their cheeks. Then, they couldn't stand up." It comes across as "This is funny. Really, it's funny. It's so funny I have to tell you it's funny." I finished the book because I kept thinking that it had to get better, but it only became more predictable. The police detectives were dumb, dumb, dumb. Even the sex scenes sounded forced. Whew, I feel better now.
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Summary: Terrific!
Review: I have been a fan of Linda Howard's for a while now. I read the library copy taken out by a friend. As soon as this comes out in paperback, I am adding it to my LH collection. This book was great. Laugh-out-loud funny and sexy. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not perfect, but still a great read
Review: I'm not a huge Linda Howard fan, so this book was a perfect surprize. The story is entertaining and had an intriguingly dark thread, and most of the characters are appealing. Parts of this story are just laugh out loud funny. Though the relationship between the protagonists evolves in perfectly predictable fashion, the dialog is sharp and witty and fairly plausible. Someday, though, I'd love to read a story where it takes longer than a second for the heroine to recognize the scary bad boy is really the hot sexy bad boy. Howard tries to draw it out here, but just can't resist the easy almost mid-stream persona switching. It took a little while for me to keep the characters sorted out, but I kind of liked that here. It meant I had to read with more attention and the distinguishing details and antics were worth it. In this book I think Howard does a very good job with the secondary characters (the scene where Jaine is in bed with hunk Sam talking on the phone to her sister is clearly drawn from life, for anyone who's been there!) My major complaint with the book is how obvious the villain is, and yet how uncompelling and cryptically the picture is drawn. Yes, there had to be some evil going on somewhere to make this whole thing work, but this just didn't seem plausible or comprehensible enough for me. What I really liked about this book is it has plenty of plot, mostly engaging and entertaining characters, antics and exploits, and funny dialog with the perfect spicing of sex scenes.
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Summary: GAIL FROM THE UK AND AVID FAN OF LINDA HOWARD
Review: LINDA DID NOT DISAPOINT ME WITH THIS NOVEL. IT MADE ME LAUGH, CRY AND HOLD MY BREATH.. I ADORED HER CHARACTERS AND SHE HAD ME IN STITCHES WITH LAUGHTER AT THE ANTICS OF JAINE AND HER NEIGHBOUR... THE SCENE INVOLVING THE MURDER OF HER FRIEND WERE EMOTIONAL. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED LINDA'S RECENT BOOKS SUSPENSE NOVELS JUST KEEP ON GETTING BETTER. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE.
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Summary: Gidget Bright?
Review: Though Gidget never cursed as much as Jaine, the whole book really did read like the main characters were teenagers and not older, supposedly mature people. The only reason why I kept reading was because it was lunch time and I was at work and I only had the one book with me. If this was the first Linda Howard book I had picked up, I never would pick up another one by her. I regret buying the book in hardback but some of the reviews were so glowing that I took a chance even seeing the few negatives. I should have listened to the negatives. I really don't get much of a chance to read, so when I can find some time I want to get into something really, really good. With Mr. Perfect, I feel I have wasted my valuable time on trash. Where I really wanted to give this book a 1, I opted for 2 because I did laugh at some parts.
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Summary: Uh...what about the litter box?
Review: Linda Howard is adept at writing sexual dialogue, I will give her that much. However, I found the plot and the characters to be rather unbelievable. To me, if you've got these 3 "best buddy" girlfriends you would DEFINITELY share with them your ordeal with the drunk, wouldn't you? I found the reasoning to be shallow. Also, what WalMart is open at 7 in the morning? She gets up at 6:00 in the morning and then she's out the door to go shopping? Puhleeze! And then putting down Leah because she brings a bag lunch to work? That's a bad thing? I thought that was a poor characterization. But, the thing that really got me was all the space given to describing the antics of BooBoo, the cat...how she had to rush home to feed him, his expressions, etc., but NOTHING ABOUT CHANGING THE LITTER BOX! As every cat owner knows, this is an absolute necessity! A fact that cannot be ignored, and never once did she mention a thing about it. This led me to believe that Linda Howard has NEVER owned a cat and she obviously has a poor editor who did not catch this oversight. This bothered me so much, that I couldn't suspend my disbelief for the rest of the book--she had lost credibility with me as a reader. The only reason I continued reading was because I wanted to read the description of the sex I knew Jaine would finally have with Sam. That relationship sure was forecast from the first few pages....duh! By the way, I had guessed who the killer was before I was halfway finished with the book. No surprise, there.
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Summary: Mr. Perfect is one of Linda Howard's best!!
Review: Mr Perfect was wonderful. I've read all of Linda Howard's books and this one was one of my favorites. Sam and Jaine are hot! . He sounds yummy! I would love to have a neighbor like him. I took my book after reading it the second time and had Linda Howard sign it and she was so nice. I love her books. I just wish she would write them faster.
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