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Summary: bullseye! Right on target!!
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!!
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Summary: WOW...thoroughly enjoyable
Review: Sandra Hill does not disappoint the reader with this book. This book will make you laugh and sigh...at the same time being enjoyable. I look forward to her continuations in these characters and also the Viking series.
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: The characters were great in this book! All of them totally unique and not a boring one in the bunch! It's hard to decide who was my favorite! Remy had been in a helicopter crash while fighting for his country, was severely burned, had 17 operations and was permanently scarred. After knowing each other for less than two weeks, Remy trusted Rachel enough to tell her his accident resulted in sterility. He'd never told anyone before and it was apparent this bothered him deeply and made him feel lacking as a man. Rachel's reaction is to break up with him because he hadn't "been honest" with her. What she should have done was be happy that he was able to share this with her and reassure him that it didn't matter if he couldn't father a child. Instead she validated his fears and made it look as if her real reason for leaving him was that he couldn't give her children. While I understand her need for honesty it was unrealistic of her to expect a person to blurt out something like this when they first met. But irregardless, I really enjoyed this book. It was a great follow-up to "Love Potion" and I'm looking forward to Charmain's story!
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: The characters were great in this book! All of them totally unique and not a boring one in the bunch! It's hard to decide who was my favorite! Remy had been in a helicopter crash while fighting for his country, was severely burned, had 17 operations and was permanently scarred. After knowing each other for less than two weeks, Remy trusted Rachel enough to tell her his accident resulted in sterility. He'd never told anyone before and it was apparent this bothered him deeply and made him feel lacking as a man. Rachel's reaction is to break up with him because he hadn't "been honest" with her. What she should have done was be happy that he was able to share this with her and reassure him that it didn't matter if he couldn't father a child. Instead she validated his fears and made it look as if her real reason for leaving him was that he couldn't give her children. While I understand her need for honesty it was unrealistic of her to expect a person to blurt out something like this when they first met. But irregardless, I really enjoyed this book. It was a great follow-up to "Love Potion" and I'm looking forward to Charmain's story!
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Summary: Two thumbs down.
Review: The early books were fun and well written. She could carry off jokes that most could not in the same circumstances. I howled. This one was a snore. Like others I had a hard time with the female character who bored on the sterotypical dumb woman syndrome with a bad case of PMS. I don't like that portrayal. I like females with a bit more brains. Perhaps that is because I like having one. It was a desperate confused romance. The male character had a lot of potential but never reached that. The ditzy female would not have been missed. This had great potential. I almost wonder if the contracts aren't forcing books too fast for Ms Hill. A bit more time in Pattee wouldn't hurt either. With such resources available a bad soap opera is not acceptable. Badly written. Badly plotted and GREAT for those with raging horomones and the syndrome.
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Summary: Mon Dieu, hotter than the cajun sun, the Le Deuxs are back!
Review: The long anticipated sequel to "Love Potion" is everything I'd hoped it would be and more. Plenty of humor Sandra Hill stlye and tons of romance and all that cajun sex appeal mixed into one firecracker of a book.
We get to catch up once again with the funniest family in Loo-zee-ana, whoo-ee! The infamous Le Deuxs of the swamp.
Tante Lulu; the aunt who loves to change her hair color every day it seems and doesn't care if she's 80 or not.
Charmaine; the sister who has Texas hair even though she's in cajun country and goes through men faster than you can say Mason Dixon.
Little Tee-John and Rene who don't know the Civil War is over.
Luc and Sylvie from 'Love Potion'; they prove the more kids, the merrier.
Last but not at all least, the hero of this tale, Remy Le Deux. Bachelor extordrinaire and hottest cajun man in the swamps! Oh yeah, also former Air Force pilot and flew in Desert Storm...looks great in uniform and has a secret...hmmmm....
What could make this even better?
Well, mix in a woman who practices Feng Shui, or as Tante Lulu says, 'fungus-way', from D.C who goes down to meet her grandmother for the first time, also the rival neighbor of the Le Deuxs and ex-taxidermist Gizelle Fortier, oh and her cousin Beau who thinks mullets are what all the hot guys are sportin' this far south and you have what decorator Rachel Fortier thinks is one screwy bunch of people.
Fresh from a break-up with her doctor fiance who thught her butt and abs needed toning, Rachel embarks on a trip down south to meet her family for the first time. What she finds is her grandmother holding a shotgun yelling at two strangely handsome guys dressed up like a cowboys in the overgrown yard and the 'mansion' she envisioned in her mind's eye as the Gone With the Wind Tara is a cabin on stilts!
Things only seem to get weirder when she finds herself attracted to one of the 'cowboy rivals' named Remy who also seems deeply attracted to her.
Trouble brews when these two find out that the families aren't too happy about this and to avoid another civil war they try to cool their heels and get in even deeper.
Can the mini-skirted great-aunt bring these two together at last? Or will grandma Gizelle shoot Remy before he can cross the porch?
A bundle of laughs and some truly touching moments that only Ms. Hill can deliver. As funny as the prequel 'Love Potion' and just as sexy. Ms. Hill lives up to her nickname once again as the Queen of Romantic Comedy! Sit back, enjoy this romp through the bayou once again to Bayou Black and the crazy Le Deuxs and meet the equally funny Fortiers. Trust me, you wont be sorry.
And as Remmy would say...Laissez les bon temps rouler. Let the good times roll! ...
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: There's no author that makes me laugh out loud more than Sandra Hill. Every book I've read from her has been a delicious, sexy and sweet romp. Kudos to Ms. Hill on a job well done. Wonderfully entertaining!
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Summary: Where Can I Get One????
Review: This book was great I just love the LeDeux men it was fun to vist with this great family again. This is Remy's story. We briefly met him in "The Love Potion" and now this tall dark, yummy but scared man has is own story that will grab you from the beginning. Remy is an ex-Air Force pilot that was injured several years earlier in a helicopter crash. As a result Remy's face is badly scarred and he does his best to try and live life not listening to those around him and he buries his pain. Rachel has just left her fiance of five years. On her way out of town she has a bon fire and burns the gifts that he has given her over the years on Valentines Day or her birthday---Goodbye butt buster and the exercise bike! Hello freedom. She is on her way south to visit the grandmother she never knew, and perhaps find herself while she is there. The second these two incredible people meet the fireworks blow and the air is electric! And the best part is the fun has only just begun! These two are a riot and have great chemistry. I was so sorry when I came to the final pages but I console myself knowing Ms. Hill is hard at work on the next story in this series! Sylvie, Luc, Tante Lulu and other family members come out for a visit and you will fall in love with them all. Add this book to your MUST READ list. Especially if you love laughter with your romance!
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Summary: A good light read
Review: This is the first Sandra Hill book that I have read and it was very good. It is a contemporary romance with a some nice hot scenes. I liked the main characters and the Louisiana bayou setting. The story is told with humor and introduces some charactors who will probably appear in her future books. I think that this book is worth the price and I would buy Sandra Hill again.
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Summary: If all men were like the LeDeux, I would move to Louisiana!!
Review: This was a great escape read. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to get my hands on the other books from Sandra Hill!! I will be reading ALL the others. I love her cheeky writing style--it's just what I enjoy!!! Read this book!!!
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