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Summary: Fun, but not Sandra Hill's best.......
Review: "The Love Potion" was definitely a fun book...it had some great moments..and some REALLY sexy love scenes...the book was a bit silly...but sweet...my main reason for not loving this book? Well, while I found the characters to be endearing...they just werent really "my type"...maybe thats sounds odd, but I dont know how else to explain it.....all in all.... an entertaining read...but not my favorite.
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Summary: Recipe for Love Potion
Review: Add one aristocratic and extremely shy Creole chemist; one sexy cajun `Bad Boy of the Bayou", and a bowlful of "special doctored" jelly beans, and you get a steamy, lighthearted, romantic comedy set in the heart of The Big Easy.Dr. Silvie Fontaine has invented a real live honest-to-goodness love potion. Experimenting, she places the potion along with her own enzimes, into a bowlful of jellybeans to use later on her volunteer test subjects. Imagine her horror when they get accidently eaten by her childhood nemesis, Lucien LeDeux, bad boy attorney with a penchent for "slooooow dancing".....and that's when the fun begins.... LOVE POTION is filled with romantic sparring, playful erotic chemsitry and delightfully kooky supporting players (not to mention a couple of ....um.....lovesick lab rats) set in the steamy atmosphere of New Orleans. If you like your romance with a touch of comedy, you'll have a great time with this book. As they say in the Big Easy, LOVE POTION is a little bit of laniappe. Read when you want some lighthearted fun.
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Summary: HOT, but you can tell it's the first attempt.
Review: Before I begin, let me say that I HIGHLY recommend this book. I love Sandra Hill's sense of humor and writing style and I would read ANY of her Cajun romances in a heart beat.
Now to be fair, I must say that you can tell this one is her first try at writing about the Cajun lifestyle. If you read this novel first, you won't pick up on her gliches. But, if you're like me and you sought this novel out after having read all of the other Cajun specialties, you'll see that Tante Lulu hasn't quite come into her own and the Brothers LeDeux don't have the same camaraderie that they do in the later novels.
You also may have a hard time believing that Luc is really struggling with anything, because he always seems so put together in the later novels. And you might have trouble believing that Sylvie is shy, because she's never portrayed as such in the other books.
Nevertheless, the romance is still steamy and this Cajun boy can melt your heart! Read it, love it, take it at face value, and enjoy your time in the Bajou!
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Summary: Hilarious and Sexy
Review: Dr. Silvie Fontaine and bad boy attorney Lucien LeDeux have never gotten along. They've had bad blood between them since childhood. But they've also carried an attraction for the other that neither of them will acknowledge aloud. Enter into the equation "the jelly bean fix"--a new drug Silvie is working on that has the physical implications of Viagra, while simultaneously stimulating the emotions of the subject--and you have the jist of this novel. This is Hill at her wittiest and sexiest. The dialogue was hilarious, the relationship between the hero and heroine was intriguing, and the plot threw enough twists and turns to keep my attention. This is the perfect lighthearted, romantic comedy to read if you need a little pick-me-up.
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Summary: Sandra Hill has done it again!
Review: Each time Sandra Hill comes out with a new book, I just know it can't be better than her previous one but she's proven me wrong each and every time! THE LOVE POTION was absolutely wonderful. Sylvie was a wonderful heroine and Lucien was the best bad boy I've ever read! I eagerly look forward to any and all books that Sandra Hill writes. She can't write fast enough for me!
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Summary: You'll Laugh Out Loud!
Review: I enjoy the humor in Sandra's books, and "The Love Potion" made me laugh out loud. The teasing between the main characters is refreshing and Luc truly reminds you of the kid that bugged you to death back in school.
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Summary: A Great Way to Spend the Weekend!
Review: I loved this book. I don't think I have laughed so much while reading a book in a while. Luc and Sylvie are great! Sylvie has created a love potion that is taken in the form of a jelly bean. It has not yet been tested on humans only on her furry companions Sampson and Delhila and it has been very very sucessfull with them. They can't keep their paws off each other. Luc is a dark, sexy cajun, lawyer who is known as "the swamp lawyer" has to ask Sylvie a favor. He would rather die then have to do that! While he is busy tormenting and teasing her he eats one of her special jelly beans. What happens when two people who despise (not!) each other are now drawn to each other? Why they help to keep the Louisiana bayou all the steamier of course! Throw in some danger from those that feel Sylvie is messing with Voodoo, Luc's 78 year old aunt with purple hair who rides a Harley and knits things for Luc's hopechest, two horney rats in a Happy Meal box, and you have the makings of a great weekend read!
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Summary: A Great Way to Spend the Weekend!
Review: I loved this book. I don't think I have laughed so much while reading a book in a while. Luc and Sylvie are great! Sylvie has created a love potion that is taken in the form of a jelly bean. It has not yet been tested on humans only on her furry companions Sampson and Delhila and it has been very very sucessfull with them. They can't keep their paws off each other. Luc is a dark, sexy cajun, lawyer who is known as "the swamp lawyer" has to ask Sylvie a favor. He would rather die then have to do that! While he is busy tormenting and teasing her he eats one of her special jelly beans. What happens when two people who despise (not!) each other are now drawn to each other? Why they help to keep the Louisiana bayou all the steamier of course! Throw in some danger from those that feel Sylvie is messing with Voodoo, Luc's 78 year old aunt with purple hair who rides a Harley and knits things for Luc's hopechest, two horney rats in a Happy Meal box, and you have the makings of a great weekend read!
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Summary: hot cajun romance
Review: I recently read Tall, Dark and Cajun, which was the first time I'd read Sandra Hill. That book was so great that I had to track down Luc and Sylvie's story, The Love Potion. Sylvie Fontaine grew up in a family of wealthy, overachieving, Creole women. It was not an easy childhood for a painfully shy girl. Luc LeDeux grew up in an abusive, poor, Cajun household. Since childhood, Luc perceived Sylvie as a snob and Sylvie perceived Luc as the baddest boy in town. As an adult, Sylvie works as a chemist. She's currently working on a love potion, which she packages in jellybeans. Luc is now a lawyer who is helping a group of shrimp fishermen, led by his brother Rene, fight a big oil company (which Luc's father is a major shareholder for). Luc brings a water sample to Sylvie's lab and asks that she analyze it for petroleum contamination. While Sylvie's back is turned, Luc eats about half of the love potion jellybeans. When a reporter overhears part of a conversation between Sylvie and Luc and then pries the rest out of Sylvie's best friend, he goes front page with the story. Sylvie and Luc start running when bullets start flying. Luc tries desperately to fight the affects of the love potion, but why is Sylvie feeling just as attracted when she didn't take any of the love potion? This is a great story. There is plenty of romance and action and a good dose of Luc's hilarious family. I'm glad I tracked it down.
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Summary: hot cajun romance
Review: I recently read Tall, Dark and Cajun, which was the first time I'd read Sandra Hill. That book was so great that I had to track down Luc and Sylvie's story, The Love Potion. Sylvie Fontaine grew up in a family of wealthy, overachieving, Creole women. It was not an easy childhood for a painfully shy girl. Luc LeDeux grew up in an abusive, poor, Cajun household. Since childhood, Luc perceived Sylvie as a snob and Sylvie perceived Luc as the baddest boy in town. As an adult, Sylvie works as a chemist. She's currently working on a love potion, which she packages in jellybeans. Luc is now a lawyer who is helping a group of shrimp fishermen, led by his brother Rene, fight a big oil company (which Luc's father is a major shareholder for). Luc brings a water sample to Sylvie's lab and asks that she analyze it for petroleum contamination. While Sylvie's back is turned, Luc eats about half of the love potion jellybeans. When a reporter overhears part of a conversation between Sylvie and Luc and then pries the rest out of Sylvie's best friend, he goes front page with the story. Sylvie and Luc start running when bullets start flying. Luc tries desperately to fight the affects of the love potion, but why is Sylvie feeling just as attracted when she didn't take any of the love potion? This is a great story. There is plenty of romance and action and a good dose of Luc's hilarious family. I'm glad I tracked it down.
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