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Summary: Absolutely Fabulous!
Review: Sweet Liar is one of the most well written book I have ever, ever read. Jude Deveraux made me feel as if I was part of the story. As a thirteen year old I believe this book was incredible! Now Jude Devaraux is my favorite author. My advice is go out and find this book as soon as possible! You won't regret it. You willl absolutely love Mike and Samantha. Oh, and the loving, handsome Kane. This book was funny, romantic,mysterious,adventurous all wrapped in one. I get so giddy anytime I think About it! I won't mind having my life like that. With Mike, who needs anything else!
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Summary: Jude Deveraux ceases to amaze!
Review: This book uses lots of continuity for Jude's readers, including the fate of Dougless Montgomery (A Knight in Shining Armor), and provides a preview for those who have yet to read The Matchmaker, a short story included in The Invitation, with the background on Kane Taggert.
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Summary: Bestest book ever!
Review: I work in a local libray here and when I first picked up this book I figured it would be like all the other books I had read. I was wrong! I've probably read the book TEN times by now and it still strikes the same place in the romantic-sappy part of my emotions. Ya gotta love that! It has also made me read many other Deveraux books and I have become totally infatuated with the Montgomery family. Yummy!
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Summary: The Best Romance of All Time
Review: This is the book that made me fall in love with Jude Deveraux's writing. You really get to know and understand the characters. This book makes you laugh and cry. The mystery adds a great number of twists to the plot. I've since read other Jude Deveraux's books and loved everyone, but this one is by far my favorite. You won't be able to put this book down until you finish the very last page.
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Summary: Taggert Love Story
Review: When Samantha Elliott's father passed away, he made a strange request in his will. Samantha was to move to New York City for one year and live with a man named Mike Taggert and look for her missing grandmother was left twenty seven years earlier. Samantha was angry. She didn't want to leave Kentucky to go to dirty New York City. But in order to receive her money from the will she had to.When Samantha arrives in New York the first person she meets is Mike Taggert, the man she is to rent a room from. They take one look at eachother and fall into eachothers arms. When Samantha collects her senses she is mortified. That is not like her at all. Now that she is in New York Samantha has no desire to look for her missing grandmother, especially a grandmother rumored to have had an affair with a local aging crime boss. Finally Samanta and Mike begin the search, only to find more questions with each answer. Why did Maxie leave, who was Samantha's real grandfather, and what happened to the missing 3 million dollars that turned up missing back in 1928. Mike and Samantha begin to fall in love, but Samantha has so many problems from a past marraige and personal problems that she cannot open up to Mike. Slowly the two find eachother, but they are also playing cat and mouse with a crime lord nicknamed Doc. The author of A Knight in Shining Armor has written a good contemporary, once again bringing the Montgomery and Taggert's back to us. If you're a fan of Jude Deveraux, this is definetly the book for you.
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Summary: Sweet Jesus!
Review: Michael Taggert is a man who will throw you against the wall. Strong and sexy and charming, he actually took a woman shopping!!! That had to be one of my favorite scenes ... Willing to spend any amount of money on Samantha in Saks. This was my first Deveraux novel and will remain my favorite, for I think it is one of the strongest love stories I've ever read.
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Summary: My dream man lives, if only in a book.
Review: Many a night I've dreamed of my own Michael Taggert. Tall and handsome with curly black hair. I've imagined his face so often, that I could pick him out of a police line up. The ease of his stride, his patience with the trifles of life. No one would guess that I have dreams of such a man. My professional demeanor and no nonsense attitude belie my true feeling, my yearning for my perfect man. If it were "me," I'd shout such that all the world could hear, " I too am a woman desirous and worthy of the love of a perfect man." Hoping, praying that someone anyone would help me find him, bring him to me, I'd stand still, patient, waiting. This display of desperation is no longer necessary, Jude Deveraux has brought him to me. Thank You Jude. I know now that my dream lives, if only in a book.
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Summary: THIS IS THE BOOK TO GET!
Review: This was the first novel I've read by Jude Deveraux. This novel had everything: love, mystery, suspense, drama, and sorrow. I thought Mike and Sam were wonderful together. You can feel their passion for each other at the moment they saw each other and how it blossomed with love through the novel. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: My all-time favorite book
Review: Jude Deveraux is, in my opinion, the best romance author to date! Sweet Liar is the best example of her excellence. I've read this book so many times that, even with all the care I take of it, the cover has fallen off, and many of the pages are ready to come out. How many books can you read to your boyfriend, and actually hold his interest?? This is definitely a classic. I'd have to say, though, that the problem with this book is that, after reading about Michael Taggert and his divinity, I will never be able to find a real-life boyfriend who will ever live up to my expectations. Michael Taggert is the perfect male. Why can't he be real? And why can't he be mine? And I have to mention, my favorite scene in the book is Sam's shopping adventure in "big, bad New York City." Since reading this book (for the first time), every time I do something quite ordinary, but daring, in my view, I think of Samantha and her wide-eyed view of life. A work of art.
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Summary: But for all the unanswered questions...
Review: ... I'd have given SWEET LIAR five stars for sheer entertainment. It was smart, funny, heartwarming, and a great celebration of family. The mystery was interesting, even if it did often get lost for chapters on end, and the romance was magnificent. This novel is Jude Deveraux's best contemporary and the second-best book of her career, just behind A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. Even so, I feel obligated to only rate it with 3-1/2 stars. I was frustrated with questions Ms. Deveraux raised that she didn't answer. What happened to Ornette? Ms. Deveraux creates an interesting black character -- practically the only multi-dimensional non-white character in all of her books -- then leaves him hanging. We never find out if the record producer took an interest in Ornette's music. Ornette would have been perfect for a secondary romance, and he was a great foil for Samantha when he brought out her sass even better than Mike. And what about Kane? Why would he have anything to do with "testing" Sam after his family rejected his beloved late wife when she couldn't "tell the twins apart"? This episode in Kane's life is detailed for Sam (and the reader) but the inconsistency is never explained. This is especially frustrating given that Ms. Deveraux later shows the depth of Kane's anger with his family over this in his story, "Matchmakers" (found in THE INVITATION). Then there's Sam's grandfather. (Don't worry; I don't believe I'm giving away anything.) We're told that when he saw the newspaper picture of Maxie holding her granddaughter, Sam, he knew the baby was *their* grandchild and was happy. How in the heck could he have *known* Samantha was his grandchild simply by the newspaper photo and story? At that time he didn't know that Maxie's husband had been sterile when Maxie married him. For all her former lover knew, Samantha could have been Maxie's grandchild by a child Maxie had with her husband. At best, he could only have suspected and hoped Samantha was his grandchild. I don't believe I'm nitpicking here. The author Phyllis Whitney once said that a writer has to be careful to catch all the balls (plot questions) she's been juggling throughout the story. When one of the balls drops and rolls under the couch, readers are left frustrated. SWEET LIAR was great fun, but I couldn't help leaving it feeling frustrated and even a bit cheated.
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