Tall, Dark, And Cajun

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Summary: The long anticipated sequel to THE LOVE POTION......
Review: After dumping her fiancée, Rachel Fortier leaves D.C. in a red hot truck, and heads for Louisiana, the home of the grandmother she has never met. When Rachel reaches her destination, she finds eccentric, little old ladies, a machete-welding cousin, and Cajun hunks. One hunk in particular catches her eye and she is awestruck!!

Remy LeDeux, equally awestruck by the sexy redhead, now has more on his mind than talking a crazy old lady into selling him some of her land to secure his business deal with the DEA. Remy is sexually revved up, and Mais oui, he wants Rachel bad!

Regardless of Rachel's intial reluctance, she becomes quite fond of her stay in Cajun country. As a Feng Shui decorator, she takes on a couple of jobs for LeDeux family members, one being Remy's houseboat on the bayou. During all the craze, Remy and Rachel hit it off, and the sex between them is sizzling hot. However, they each have emotional scars that threaten a lasting relationship.

Oh, wow...this book was fantastic!!! Like it says on the cover, it is spicy and fun!! Remy and Rachel's story is awesome but also characters are revisited from The Love Potion, such as Luc and Sylvie, their marriage is still going strong. Tee-John is growing into quite a sexy young man, he will one day make a yummy Cajun hero for sure. Also, Tante Lulu, what a riot that little old lady still is! Sandra Hill out did herself with TALL, DARK, AND CAJUN and happily the next LeDeux story is set up, which is sure to become as eagerly anticipated by readers as Remy's story was. Don't miss this book! L'aissez les bon temps roulez...let the good times roll.

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Summary: SHEWIE!!
Review: Feng Shui decorator, Rachel Fortier, decides to ditch her fiancé and head to the Louisiana Bayou to meet her grandmother. She was thinking Tara and found something closer to the Beverly Hillbillies. As soon as she steps out the car, she meets Remy LeDeux. Both of them feel like they've been struck by lightning.

The first 10 pages were amusing, and the rest of the book was downright laugh out loud funny. Imagine putting Grandma Mazur in the Bayou with a wad of tobacco in her mouth and you'll get the idea. The SHEWIE level was off the scale. You'll need to splash ice water on yourself between giggle fits. The novel has everything from drug runners to big hair to keep you interested from beginning to end.

If you like Crusie, Phillips and Evanovich, you should love this book. It is rather like cloning those three with Jessica Speart.

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Summary: Tall, Dark, and Yummy
Review: Feng Shui decorator, Rachel Fortier, decides to ditch her fiancé and head to the Louisiana Bayou to meet her grandmother. She was thinking Tara and found something closer to the Beverly Hillbillies. As soon as she steps out the car, she meets Remy LeDeux. Both of them feel like they've been struck by lightning.

The first 10 pages were amusing, and the rest of the book was downright laugh out loud funny. Imagine putting Grandma Mazur in the Bayou with a wad of tobacco in her mouth and you'll get the idea. The SHEWIE level was off the scale. You'll need to splash ice water on yourself between giggle fits. The novel has everything from drug runners, to big hair to keep you interested from beginning to end.

If you like Jennifer Crusie, Carly Phillips and Janet Evanovich, you should love this book.

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Summary: Sadly Disappointed
Review: I am a book lover who hardly lets anyone near my books for fear of getting it handled too much or horrors--bent at the corners and such. As such, I've never in my life came across a book I would so much throw against the wall. And I did, too with Tall, Dark and Cajun. I can't say about her other books since this is the only one of hers I've ever read. I'm sorry, but I was so irritated by the writer's inaccurate reactions to the human behaviours. The funny parts weren't funny, and the steamy parts were gross when characters were quoted as saying,"Oh. Oh." Or something like that. I felt that the writer was just moving the story along and not actually writing.

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Summary: Sorry Rach I just don't buy you.
Review: I have read all of Hill's books and enjoyed them all. This one however I could have lived without. Rachel came across as a shallow empty headed vapid twit who deserved the "Northern" self centered stuck up guy and Remy deserved a lot better.

This is the first one of her books that didn't make me laugh. It was also a first in making me want to pitch it across the room. Rachel's indecision and rapid assumptions are wearing and tearing without much of a basis to understand her motivation. There is not enough there to justify me caring about her as a character and she doesn't get beyond two dimensional.

A check out at the library if you must read it rating. Interesting to note my husband who also reads em and I who never agree on anything both agree on this book and on the character of Rachel. Not Hill's usual style. The jokes are old, the character is a twit and the plot?! Well at least she got her man even if he deserved a better leading lady.

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Summary: Whooey! What a winner!
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK!

I first stumbled across Ms. Hill's Cajun series when I was browsing through Target's book racks one day. It was The Cajun Cowboy and I figured that any book with "cowboy" in the title was worth giving a try. It was AMAZING and I immediately set out to find the other novels in the series.

Of course, when I actually found them I was faced with the inevitable fear that it wouldn't be as good as the novel I'd already read and adored. My fears were COMPLETELY unfounded b/c this novel was AMAZING!!!

I love the way that Ms. Hill make the reader love Remy's scars. And the legitimate issues that each character overcomes leaves the reader feeling as though he or she has just experienced something real.

I think this is my favorite Sandra Hill novel to date!

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Summary: A wonderful romance
Review: In DC, Feng Shui decorator Rachel Fortier ends her relationship with her former fiancé David Lloyd because he went and had a vasectomy without telling her what he did. To make it final, she burns all the physical fitness equipment he has given her as gifts over the years in his quest for the perfect female specimen, a goal that Rachel no longer strives to achieve. Rachel also has taken a three-month leave of absence to travel to Terrebonne Parrish, Louisiana to meet her fraternal grandmother Gizelle for the first time.

Upon arriving at Granny's estate, two things catch her eye. First the place looks like a nineteenth century hillbilly disaster area. The second is more a showstopper as she sees helicopter pilot Remy LeDeux for the first time. Neither can take their eyes off one another as if Cupid struck both down. However, he cannot believe she could love someone with the burn scar on his visage and their respective relatives play un-matchmaking roles trying to insure that the End Days have not begun with the forbidden marriage between a Fortier and a LeDeux.

The first moment that the lead couple see one another is simply "Oh my" as readers will sense and believe in the deep feelings of love at first sight. Though Remy's denial of her loving behavior becomes boorish after a while, Rachel is a delightful female protagonist and the support cast provides regional charm. Readers will enjoy this DC cosmopolitan and Bayou pilot falling in love contemporary romance.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: A wonderfully witty contemporary tale!
Review: It's not often that I give a contemporary, humorous novel a five star rating. Often, they seem to be truly paper cutouts - all the same with different names. But this is Sandra Hill and she can write humor with such a unique flair and keep her leads real and charming AND interesting. I really have enjoyed her hilarious yet touching Viking books

Remy LeDeux, the hero, was badly injured in a helicopter crash during the Gulf War where he served as a pilot. That crash led to more than a dozen surgeries and lifetime physical scars. He now lives in a Louisiana bayou and owns a helicopter surveying business. He is surrounded by a very colorful family but prefers to keep mostly to himself. Remy is self conscious of his scars and knows that they can startle people when they first see him. Wanting to expand his business, he visits his neighbor, a crazy old woman who hates all LeDeux men, and proposes to buy additional acreage from her. She vehemently denies his request but Remy keeps asking. One day, visiting her at the point of shotgun, a beautiful woman drives up and addresses this crazy woman as her grandmother. Remy is surprised at his immediate strong attraction to this new arrival to the bayou and a little embarrassed for her to see him is such a situation. But he does wonder how this irrational, old woman could have any normal relatives and tries to dismiss the entire incident from his mind.

Rachel Fortier is meeting her grandmother for the first time since locating her and has come to stay for a while. She needs a break from her life in the Washington DC area where she has just broken up with her long time, live in boyfriend and works as an interior designer of a different sort. When she sees her grandmother, for the first time, holding a shotgun on an extremely handsome man, she is more than a little dazed. So this is her grandmother - umm - okay. And who is that gorgeous mans who lures her so? Oh, well, the last thing she needs in her life at this moment is another man.

Of course, Remy and Rachel meet again and are soon in agreement about the strong pull of attraction both of them feel for the other. Remy can hardly believe that Rachel can find him so good-looking and Rachel cannot understand his total acceptance of her beautiful body. After all, her last boyfriend was obsessed with it and constantly trying to improve it through exercise and diet. But regardless of scars, failed relationships, and many other vulnerabilities, the two sense their relationship is "for keeps" and forge ahead. As the reader, you suddenly sense that things are going too smoothly too early in the book and begin to look for the event that will separate them.

Before, during, and after that required romance trouble spot, you will find yourself laughing again and again. This is a highly enjoyable book but it does take a serious turn and some rather sad pages follow. Both of the leads are very pleasant characters and there are pages and pages of delicious dialogue and interaction between them. Sandra Hill is up to usual form with the sensual scenes and they rate a solid 4.0 out of 5.0 (see More About Me for rating guidelines).

Tall, Dark, and Cajun is not a perfect book but it is pure fun and hard to put down. Some of the situations seem too contrived for believability and some of the secondary characters are a little too eccentric. It is the sequel to Love Potion and the hero from Love Potion appears quite a bit in this story. I think you will find Tall, Dark, and Cajun a notch above even the most popular light contemporary romances.

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Summary: A wonderfully witty contemporary tale!
Review: It's not often that I give a contemporary, humorous novel a five star rating. Often, they seem to be truly paper cutouts - all the same with different names. But this is Sandra Hill and she can write humor with such a unique flair and keep her leads real and charming AND interesting. I really have enjoyed her hilarious yet touching Viking books

Remy LeDeux, the hero, was badly injured in a helicopter crash during the Gulf War where he served as a pilot. That crash led to more than a dozen surgeries and lifetime physical scars. He now lives in a Louisiana bayou and owns a helicopter surveying business. He is surrounded by a very colorful family but prefers to keep mostly to himself. Remy is self conscious of his scars and knows that they can startle people when they first see him. Wanting to expand his business, he visits his neighbor, a crazy old woman who hates all LeDeux men, and proposes to buy additional acreage from her. She vehemently denies his request but Remy keeps asking. One day, visiting her at the point of shotgun, a beautiful woman drives up and addresses this crazy woman as her grandmother. Remy is surprised at his immediate strong attraction to this new arrival to the bayou and a little embarrassed for her to see him is such a situation. But he does wonder how this irrational, old woman could have any normal relatives and tries to dismiss the entire incident from his mind.

Rachel Fortier is meeting her grandmother for the first time since locating her and has come to stay for a while. She needs a break from her life in the Washington DC area where she has just broken up with her long time, live in boyfriend and works as an interior designer of a different sort. When she sees her grandmother, for the first time, holding a shotgun on an extremely handsome man, she is more than a little dazed. So this is her grandmother - umm - okay. And who is that gorgeous mans who lures her so? Oh, well, the last thing she needs in her life at this moment is another man.

Of course, Remy and Rachel meet again and are soon in agreement about the strong pull of attraction both of them feel for the other. Remy can hardly believe that Rachel can find him so good-looking and Rachel cannot understand his total acceptance of her beautiful body. After all, her last boyfriend was obsessed with it and constantly trying to improve it through exercise and diet. But regardless of scars, failed relationships, and many other vulnerabilities, the two sense their relationship is "for keeps" and forge ahead. As the reader, you suddenly sense that things are going too smoothly too early in the book and begin to look for the event that will separate them.

Before, during, and after that required romance trouble spot, you will find yourself laughing again and again. This is a highly enjoyable book but it does take a serious turn and some rather sad pages follow. Both of the leads are very pleasant characters and there are pages and pages of delicious dialogue and interaction between them. Sandra Hill is up to usual form with the sensual scenes and they rate a solid 4.0 out of 5.0 (see More About Me for rating guidelines).

Tall, Dark, and Cajun is not a perfect book but it is pure fun and hard to put down. Some of the situations seem too contrived for believability and some of the secondary characters are a little too eccentric. It is the sequel to Love Potion and the hero from Love Potion appears quite a bit in this story. I think you will find Tall, Dark, and Cajun a notch above even the most popular light contemporary romances.

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Summary: Party-on down, Cheri!!
Review: Sandra Hill continually trods where no tepid writer dares and gives some wonderfully original books. I loved many of her Time-Travelling Vikings who refused to stay put in their own time, and her last - Very Virile Viking was one gem! It's hard to do humour and get consistent good reviews, because what strikes our funnybones is free-ranging and vastly different from person to person. Having been raised on both sides of the Pond, I see Yanks not get Brit humour and Brits sniff at what passes for American jokes.

I was raised in Scotland and Britain and I delight in the humour and their quirkiness. Same for the places I have lived in the US, mostly Kentucky - truly full of characters. But I have a great aunt down near the Big Easy, so New Orleans and the area holds a soft spot in my heart as well. Another place that truly appreciate humour and the offbeat. Believe me, I have a younger brother who thinks he is a Party-on-down-Cher, Cajun!

So, I was really looking forward to Hill's Tall, Dark and Cajun. And I must say, I hurt from laughing after reading this wonderful, charming and witty book!

Thoroughly Yankee Rachel Fortier wants romance in her life - and her jerks fiancé thinks keeping her buns and abs in perfect tone is romantic. The snooty decorator decides a change of pace is needed - and a change in men, and envisions dropping in on her gran's cabin in the bayou is a picturesque destination. Only her bottled water ways is about to come a cropper as she lands on grannie's bit of swampland. The log-cabin on stilts - al la Clampete decor - and is hardly what she had in mind. Neither were some of the other complications. There is a whole mess of cajun characters angling for the old ladies land, including the sexy, bedroom eyed, Remy LeDeux. Rachel's rapidly comes to the conclusion her stay is going to be a passel of trouble and rightly so, as Remy is about as spicy and hot as Cajun hot-sauce! what woman could resist that them Alpha-Male pheromones?

However, his mini-skirted great-aunt, is ready to marry him off, and beadily eyes Rachel as the perfect candidate, only in the love-never-runs-smooth catch, Rachel's shotgun totting Gran is ready to shoot Remy the instant he put foot on her front porch. Toss in an Alligator named Useless (must be a cousin to Crockett's Elvis!!) and you have all the fun mix to rival cajun gumbo!

Party on down, Cheri! It's one steamy hot time!! Way to go Ms. Hill. Don't wait too long to you take us back to bayou land!!