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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Susan Andersen has got to be one of the best contemporary romance authors I have had the pleasure of reading. I have thoroughly enjoyed every book of hers I've read. This one was no exception. This book really reminded me a lot of the movie "The Big Easy" in certain ways (a movie I loved btw). The hero was sexy and charming, and the love scenes were sizzling. Rush right out and buy this book along with every other Andersen romance you can find!
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Summary: A Sultry and Sexy Mystery by Susan Anderson
Review: Susan Anderson really kept my attention from beginning to end. The storyline has just enough twists and turns to make it interesting. Although we anticipate a happy ending for our dynamic duo, the fussing and the fighting make it so much fun getting there!
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Summary: Humor doesn't work
Review: Susan Anderson's first book was fun and fresh. In this book she had to try to hard and it shows. The awkward dialect doesn't help.
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Summary: Mr.Good Old Boy Meets Ms. Straitlaced
Review: This book reminded me of so many others. I can handle bad boys, but good old boys are beyond redemption. Then there's the preacher's daughter, no I mean the spinster schoolteacher. I know she was neither of those, but you get my drift. Just did not like book, characters, and what was that plot?
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Summary: This book sizzles!
Review: This book reminded me of the movie The Big Easy. It has the same sultry setting (New Orleans) and the same wonderful sexual tension. The dialog is witty and fun. The characters are fabulous. Who wouldn't fall for Beau Dupree? This is a fabulous summer read. It's just plain fun! Once you start it, you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: A bit disconnected, difficult to stay with...
Review: This is my first Susan Andersen book, I think I'll try her others... I thought her leading man (Beau) was lacking, and personally can do without the "F-word" in romance writing. Steamy is good (especially in New Orleans) but does he have to throw the word around as much as he does? I thought the character development was weak, the development of intrigue very slow. (Read a Sandra Brown or two and you'll understand what I mean.) I quit reading this book two-thirds of the way through. (Not like me at all!) I hope her other titles are more enjoyable!
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Summary: Try as I might, I couldn't like this - its just too trite
Review: This the second of Susan Anderson's books that I have tried on recommendation from friends - and they just don't seem to be my cup of tea. I really loved Janet Evanovich which is why they said I should try Andersen's books but they simply don't work for me. All the things I love about Evanovich (the strange plots, the complex and intertwined mysteries, and the wierd characters) are missing from Andersen. I really tried to like her but I don't see that flare that interests me in a book.In this case she has set her book in New Orleans, when policeman Beauregard Dupree is given an assignment to protect rich Northern newcomer Juliet Astor Lowell as she converts one of New Orleans finest old houses into a new hotel for her family chain of hotels. There are three sub-plots - 1 - of Celeste Haynes - New Orleans socialite and resident of the house, 2 - a case Beau is determined to solve, the so called Panty-snatcher, and 3, that of Beau's youngest sister Josie Lee who is determined to seduce and capture Beau's partner Luke. So much of this story just didn't gel. First of all the sub-plot of the panty-snatcher who conveniently just humiliated women by having them strip off and give him their underwear. Beau's sister Josie Lee was one of the victims but because, apparently, she new all about the case from Beau she wasn't that scared. It just didn't sit right with me - it seemed a convenient type of case - crimes against women, but not dirty rape - in other words a handy plot device that, to me anyway, stuck out like a sort thumb. Also Celeste seemed another convenient, but not very convincing plot device. Celeste keeps plotting to kill Beau and failing at it, almost killing Juliet in the process a number of times. The reason why is explained quickly at the end but it just didn't work for me. I also found Juliet's reactions either trite, annoying, or unconvincing. There were so many instances of this - whether she is jumping in Beau's lap kissing him, or being a 'lady' when he drags her around strip joints, or even being shot at , or saving her best friend from going over the edge of a balcony - all the reactions just jarred. Even the sex scene seemed trite and unimaginative. I guess, for me, the writing didn't help much. Things like "The words bounced and rebounded in her mind like a hard rubber ball shot into an empty closet." Frankly, sentences like that just jarred. Sorry - despite all the recommendations for this author she just isn't my cup of tea at all. It doesn't have the flare and imagination of a really good romance. I guess I'll go back to Evanovich.
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Summary: Steamy & hot with wonderful local dialect
Review: This was a page turner & a keeper. The New Orleans accent was "dead on" and I'm amazed at how well the author conveyed it. The back of the book gave no indication that she was from New Orleans, but she must have lived there to have it down so well. I get so tired of books portraying the accent wrong. (Can you tell I'm originally from New Orleans?)
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Summary: The Bodyguard
Review: This was my first novel by Susan Anderson and I found it quite entertaining. The chemistry between Juliet Lowell and Detective Beau Dupree sets the pages on fire. This is definitely a fast read and I believe you will enjoy it, I did.
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Summary: Laugh out loud funny
Review: This was my first Susan Andersen book but not my last. I really enjoyed it. I don't want to give anything away but I expected her to tie Beau and Celeste together by way of the Butler name. Celeste's reaction would have been a hoot. Anyway, I highly recommend this book.
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