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Summary: The story got off to a great start . . .
Review: I love all of Lori Foster's books, and this one is just as lovable! Brian and Shay were hot, funny and mysterious. The book is written in perfect detail. You felt as if you were standing with the characters as the story unfolds. Great job, Lori! Keep them coming can't wait for Bruce & Cyn! Thanks!
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Summary: Another of Lori Foster's Best
Review: I love all of Lori Foster's books, and this one is just as lovable! Brian and Shay were hot, funny and mysterious. The book is written in perfect detail. You felt as if you were standing with the characters as the story unfolds. Great job, Lori! Keep them coming can't wait for Bruce & Cyn! Thanks!
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Summary: Another hit from Lori Foster
Review: I loved Foster's Say No to Joe? and this book brings back a supporting character, Bryan Kelly. Bryan is a bounty hunter currently undercover looking for the person or persons who put his preacher twin brother Bruce in the hospital. Shay Sommers, who had a small part in Foster's Harlequin romance "Fantasy", is a hands-on philanthropist, looking for ways to help women 'in the life' of prostitution, and is mistaken by Bryan as a prostitute herself. Despite the deceptions both are carrying out, their immediate sizzling attraction makes for a hot read.But as with most of Lori Foster's books, there are deeper, thoughtful themes of self-respect, self-worth, the value of every person's life, and the difficulties and rewards of remaking your life. If you are a fan of Lori Foster, you'll love this book, and if you aren't yet, its sure to win you over.
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Summary: The Secret Life of Bryan
Review: I loved this book! It was great on how people wanted to be helpful in different ways. Cyn with her deceased husband money and someone saying he is a preist and really is not. It was a great romance and would recomnd it to anyone who ask for a good book.
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Summary: Secret Life of Bryan
Review: I loved this book. Bryan and Shay were so much fun and I especially loved the hookers. :)
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Summary: Great!
Review: I thought this book was hilarious and sexy and had an interesting plot. Shay and Bryan - well, what can I say? They were a real treat! And the 'bad' characters were all fine.
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Summary: The story got off to a great start . . .
Review: I wanted to enjoy this book, the first of Ms. Foster's that I had read. I was looking for an entertaining piece of chick lit., so when I read the back cover I thought this story sounded fun. I failed to notice the cover identified it as Romance, not Literature. A big distinction in my view. At first I couldn't put it down, but about a third of the way through I lost my enthusiasm for reading it, and halfway through I gave up completely. There were too many implausible story lines. I can overlook one or two unbelievable schemes for the sake of a good tale, but more than that just muddies the story. I found it hard to believe that Shay could step out of her busy life running shelters for former sex workers, attending charity events and being hounded by the paparazzi to live in a shelter, without anyone noticing. And, why did none of the women in the shelter know Shay if she had been working shelters for so long? Why would Bryan think Shay was a sex worker for longer than a few minutes? No matter how Shay was dressed, it would be pretty obvious that a woman of her status with her level of confidence is not a pro, regardless of her sordid childhood or middleclass adolescence. What preacher worth his ministry would allow anyone, even his twin, to impersonate him? That is unethical on so many levels. Why would Bruce, the preacher, encourage his brother to get involved with a woman he thinks is a hooker and risk his ministry? I have a liberal pastor, but not even he would encourage a man to get involved or have premarital sex with a woman that he had just met. How can a twin with a hard drinking, skirt chasing, bounty hunting background so completely submerse himself in his preacher brother's life that no one notices? I expected all the women in the shelter to notice a change in personality, or something. And most of all I didn't like the lying. How could Bryan and Shay continue to lie to each other about their true identities and not be consumed with guilt? Why did everyone behave like a hormone driven teen rather than responsible adults? There was supposed to be a mystery revolving around an attack on Bruce, but halfway through the only thing that happened was more of a prank than an attack. The story seemed forced, as if the author stuck to this plot rather than let the story create a life its own. None of the characters really came to "life." They just became caricatures. I think Ms. Foster has a gift for story telling, but it didn't seem like she used her time and talents to write this book.
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Summary: Is it only me
Review: Is it only me or does it feel like Lori Foster did not write this book. I have read everything I can get my hands on that Lori has written and every single book I have read caught me at page 1, this one just didn't. I was really looking forward to hearing Bryan's story after reading Say No To Joe but it took me forever to get through the book.
It wasn't the worst thing I have ever read but it was not Lori's best work. The more and more I thought about it, it just didn't feel like she wrote it. Anyway, I just started When Bruce met Cyn. I'm only on page 50 but already I and enthralled with it and can't wait to get back to reading it.
I think The Secret Life of Bryan is important to read just to get to understand the characters of the next couple of books.
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Summary: Didn't finish, Don't Want to...
Review: It seemed an interesting idea, a man posing as his brother who is a minister. A woman posing as a prostitute in order to help them. What I didn't get is why Shay wants to help the prostitutes (very little background into something that is supposed to be her passion), why she thinks that no one will accept the help that she is willing to offer, and why oh why would a woman would so boldly try and seduce a preacher when it could put both of them in compromising positions. I got about half way through the book before I realized that I didn't care what happened to any of the characters and was more than happy to leave my questions unanswered.
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Summary: Steamy and Fun!
Review: It's a double case of mistaken identity! Bryan Kelly is a bounty hunter, but he is doing a pretty good job of impersonating his identical twin brother Bruce, a preacher. He mistakes Shay Sommers for a prostitute and tries to help her get off the streets and into a shelter. Little does he know that Shay is a wealthy widow with the same goal, to help ladies of the night leave their old lives behind. Bryan is nothing like any preacher Shay has ever met and she can't seem to convince herself that falling for him is a bad idea. Bryan is having the same problem. How can he fall for a hooker? Shay feels she can be even more helpful by really getting to know the other women at the shelter, so she doesn't want to admit her true identity. Bryan is trying to find out who hurt his brother, so he's not letting anyone in on his secret either! The chemistry between Shay and Bryan is undeniable. What will happen when the truth comes out? THE SECRET LIFE OF BRYAN is warm and funny, with plenty of steam in all the right places. There's a wonderful cast of supporting characters, especially the women Shay meets at the shelter. I loved revisiting Joe and Luna and the others from Say No to Joe? And I've been waiting a long time to read about Shay, the older sister of Brandi Sommers in Fantasy! Lori Foster has written another keeper.
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