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Summary: Another sizzler !!
Review: Like the other Donna Kauufman books I have read - I could not put this one down. Probably because I saw alot of myself in the character Tanzy.... and having known more than my share of "wolfish" men - this one really hit home. ha ha ha I have to admit that I am not a big reader.... but it seems like I can't get enough of Donna's intriguing and exciting stories. There is never a dull moment and always a twist that catches you by surprise. BBW is just another example of the wonderful experience you can treat yourself to .... it is a fabulous read for a hot, steamy, summer night.
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Summary: Fabulous--Need I say More?
Review: Loved it, loved it, loved it! I really can't say enough about The Big Bad Wolf Tells All (TBBWTA), it's one of the best books I have read recently. I happened upon The Cinderella Rules not too long ago, and enjoyed it so much that I sought out TBBWTA to see if it could also stand up to my rather stringent standards. Tanzy and Riley are intelligently written characters that I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know, and Tanzy's eclectic circle of friends reminds me of my own. Donna Kauffman is a fabulous author, blending romance with mystery and comedy into a genre that far defies traditional romance rules. I can't wait until Dear Prince Charming is released in August--buying it is definitely at the top of my To-Do list!
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Summary: Going on my keeper shelf
Review: Ms. Kauffman just keeps getting better and better. This is a book for all of those who feel like they should be reading Bridget Jones type stuff, but want a good old romance. I found Tanzy to be a well-developed character, flaws and all, and Riley was just great as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The secondary characters spice up the tale without distracting from Tanzy and Riley. I'm really looking forward to more books by Donna Kauffman!
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Summary: Chick-lit at its'best
Review: San Francisco columnist Tanzy Harrington classifies the world quite simply around the concept that two types of males populate it: wolves and sheep. Tanzy prefers the dangerous wolves as her bed mate over the flock of dependable husband material. The key to her unusual attitude is that she loves them and leaves them with her heart untouched.Her Aunt Millicent feels that Tanzy is missing out on real life so she chooses a candidate for her niece. Tanzy immediately blows away Millicent's selection as a sheep or why else would her aunt select him. In actuality Millicent hired security expert Riley Parrish to protect Tanzy from an anonymous fan threatening her. As Riley escorts Tanzy throughout the Bay area they fall in love, but she begins to wonder if he might be a wolf in sheep's clothing. Fans of chick lit will enjoy this contemporary romance due to the uniqueness of Tanzy. The story line moves slowly forward, as the suspense elements remain de-emphasized though suspects surface. Instead, the tale focuses on Tanzy's Baa Humbug attitude towards sheep and her doubts about which classification Riley belongs to while she disregards the well known fact that wolves mate for life. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Baaah-d (I apologize)
Review: Seemed like a cute enough idea for a book, but the implementation falls flat. Tanzy is pretty unlikeable as a character. If I read another book where the main character is a (supposedly) incredibly successful writer, I think I'll choke. I wasn't emotionally involved enough with Tanzy to care if her stalker got ahold of her or not, and I didn't care whether or not she got her happy ending with flip/flop sheep/wolf Riley Parrish. And how did Aunt Millicent even know someone was e-mail stalking Tanzy to begin with? I never got that, and Millicent as a character was merely stock. It was all quite weak. Donna Kauffman also relied heavily on the use of phrases like "damn if he wasn't..." and "she was damn fine." It seemed there was a "damn" on every page in this book. I think a writer with more than a few books to her credit could find some better modifiers.
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Summary: Fizzled
Review: This book started okay. So we've got a heroine with a newspaper column, she's going to meet with a sexy man who's not all he seems, and maybe some hot sex will ensue. Well. That's what I *thought* would happen. Suddenly, in comes this secondary plot line about a stalker. Kauffman didn't put enough emphasis or thought into this for it to be decent, simply threw it in so that she could give the heroine some tender comfort and say it was more than just a boy-meets-girl chick-lit book. and as mysteries go, this one sucked, considering that the culprit only appeared in the book within the last seventy-five pages of the novel, and the only other suspect was far, far too obvious to have done it. The heroine went on throughout the book about relationships, suddenly declaring all her woes due to family troubles, and then in the last half of the book there kept being long streaks where all that was going on was the main characters talking about how much they loved each other but how one feared commitment (although this never actually surfaced...) Okay, we get it, they love each other. I don't want to read a thesis on the subject. Not to mention that all the hype over the character's column seemed unwarrented, especially in the later excerpts. It's a bit like reading a very tame diary. The male lead had his flaws, too. The secondary story-line between him and his father seemed overdone, and Kauffman went too far when she had to make him start speaking with an irish-accent half-way through. It's clear he's a fantasy man: he's a football player, private investigator, and he has a dreamy accent. *sigh.* Pick your poison, but don't mix them. The ending was completely unexplained and anticlimatic. Very disappointing, all in all. Only read it if you have a lot of free time on your hands... like if both of your legs are broken.
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