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Summary: Ridiculous to keep on tweaking old stuff
Review: to try to get readers to read it. With all the competition for new titles to get on the shelves, the author would do better to try to come up with something new and original. something with verve and sizzle and some characters we can really like, not posturaing and rapacious Alpha Males.Her career has evidently hit a real slump if this is the best she can do. Because You're Mine was tired, (all those years ago!!) as was Someone to Watch Over Me and Lady Sophia's Lover. This is worse! Dreaming of You and Worth Any Price are the only readable books she has come up with in years, and even the latter was not so good. All the romance from the big houses is starting to become cookie cutter. Kleypas may have been a star once, but this is just depressing. Please can't we have something new and juicy and well-written, not stale and cliched. Or give some new authors a chance! And find some better editors-anyone who agreed to this must be loopy.
Rating: 
Summary: a pleasant surprise
Review: Well, this is a different kind of book than I usually like; It wasn't overly humorous nor action packed - however, I really did enjoy it. It has a pretty good political history lesson & really gives a lot of info on the difference on American & Creole customs in the early 1800's. As usual, LK wrote a very original storyline & a really good love story. The hero & heroine did not hate each other & fight all the way through the book - but showed each other kindness & respect even though they had things to work through. I loved watching them grow together. (And, as usual with LK, the love scenes were enough to blush over! lol) I also enjoyed the very end of the book when LK took a few pages to tell a little of where the characters went on to. Very enjoyable. I'll definitely keep buying her books!
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Summary: New story line.... very decent
Review: Well, this is a different kind of book than I usually like; It wasn't overly humorous nor action packed - however, I really did enjoy it. It has a pretty good political history lesson & really gives a lot of info on the difference on American & Creole customs in the early 1800's. As usual, LK wrote a very original storyline & a really good love story. The hero & heroine did not hate each other & fight all the way through the book - but showed each other kindness & respect even though they had things to work through. I loved watching them grow together. (And, as usual with LK, the love scenes were enough to blush over! lol) I also enjoyed the very end of the book when LK took a few pages to tell a little of where the characters went on to. Very enjoyable. I'll definitely keep buying her books!
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Summary: Only in Your Arms Gets a Makeover!!
Review: When I first heard that Lisa Kleypas was re-working her 1992 novel Only in Your Arms, my first thought was, "what is she thinking?" After all, Only in Your Arms, in my opinion, is one of those novels whose epic love story lasts through the ages. I must say, though, after reading When Strangers Marry, I realized that you CAN improve upon perfection!!! The story of Maximillien Vallerand and Lysette Kersaint is magnified and enhanced!! Max is sexy and charming in a way that he never could have been in OIYA. Max still has that dangerous quality that attracts and repels us to him, but he is much more approachable and easier to laugh. Lysette is a lot stronger heroine in the re-work. Even in her slight size, she stands up to Max and appears unafraid of the man that everyone else calls "murderer". The best thing about this book is that the sensuality is more intense between Max and Lysette. These characters sizzle in each other's arms. I think all of Ms. Kleypas' fans will be pleased to see Max more open and tender with Lysette. And, Lysette is Max's dream come true. I was happy to re-visit the Vallerand family. It was good to see Justin (that wicked man!!) and Phillipe again. I am glad that Ms. Kleypas chose to maintain Justin's dangerous rebellion, but temper it with an earlier reconcilliation with his father. And, although the murder of Max's first wife is still looming over the family, the love story between Max and Lysette is not overshawdowed by it. Kudos to Ms. Kleypas.
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