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Summary: Treat Her Right is a treat to read!
Review: Lori Foster's TREAT HER RIGHT is the second book in the "Men to the Rescue" series from Harlequin's Temptation line, starting with CAUGHT IN THE ACT, and finishing up with MR. NOVEMBER, due out on shelves next month.
Zack Grange is a single father to a precocious little girl named Dani, who describes her father as "A Hero". A fitting title; since Zack happens to be a paramedic, and though it can be trying profession (life or death in fact), he's a man who loves his job. He takes it, his life, and his responsibility as a parent very seriously.
Enter Wynn Lane, the new face in the neighborhood who moves into the house behind Zack.
Wynn is loud, boisterous, carefree, and...big! Not big as in heavy or overweight, but solid, and big boned. Wynn doesn't have a dainty bone in her body, but her heart is sweet, and her interaction with his daughter gives him worry. The two are wonderful together, and Zack feels himself being drawn in despite his determined resistance. You see, Zack has been looking to marry again, but Wynn is so far from the woman he envisioned to fill the roll of wife, and mother.
Zack begins to see, however that his attempts to banish her from his mind become increasingly more difficult with every saucy turn of her head, or each glimpse of the skimpy shorts she favors when doing yard work, or spotting her napping in the hammock she's set in her backyard.
Secondary characters add to the laughter and they lend a quirky aside to the serious relationship that is developing between the two. Though Zack keeps repeating to himself that it's only physical, his heart has other ideas. And Wynn, with her wild hair, and past bad experience with love, fears Zack will never see her as anything other than a friend, and an occasional late-night playmate.
We first met Mick as a cop in CAUGHT IN THE ACT, and Josh is a fireman who shares a stationhouse with Zack. Both are his best friends, and add to Zack's troubles with their constant ribbing. Josh has an eye for the ladies, and sees Wynn as quite a woman. Zack has personal decisions to make concerning Wynn, but will he lay claim when Josh shows interest in his new neighbor? Will his friend back off when he sees that Zack is falling in love with the girl next door, Even if Zack doesn't yet realize it himself?
Ms. Foster's stories never fail to entertain, and TREAT HER RIGHT is no exception. Her tales of love, and relationships focus on the male point of view more often than not, and is a refreshing perspective. To see the male struggle with desires, and feelings for the heroine gives her stories a twist that is different, and insightful. You'll chuckle at the antics of Wynn's friends and family, and Josh, Mick, and Mick's wife, Del, will make you feel as if you are sitting down and reading about people you know and care about. A lively, sexy, and charming read, Ms foster sets the standard for time spent with a good book! TREAT HER RIGHT is one of those that make the grade! Congratulations, Ms. Foster! Another winning story!
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Summary: Not your ordinary heroine -- Very highly recommended
Review: Paramedic Zach Grange knows what he needs in a wife and in a mother to his four-year-old daughter Dani. His brash new neighbor, Wynn Lane does not meet his expectations in any way. He needs a quiet, unassuming, domestic, soft spoken woman that does all those frilly, frippery female things Dani's going to need. Wynn is outrageous, outspoken, and, as his neighbor, out of limits. Only an inch short of his six feet, she speaks before she thinks, acts before she considers the consequences, and presents herself as one of the guys, except that her sloppy sexy clothes and glimpses of skin drive him wild. Never has he known a woman like Wynn, and Zach hasn't a clue what to do with her. Wynn boldly admires Zach, never making any secret of her desire. Indeed, the first day they meet he catches her audaciously checking out his crotch the way most guys check out a woman. She looks at him with tenderness, humor and hunger, and makes no moves to conceal her attraction. Further, Zach made her heart boil the minute she spied him. Worse, when she watched him tenderly brush his daughter's hair and put it up in a pony tale, she was irretrievable hooked. She's never felt this way before, preferring to hang out with the guys rather than dating them. She doesn't see a problem with their living across the street from one another, but she does know she's not a petite beauty like Zach's first wife. Hammocks and hot tubs make for sexy, fun encounters in Lori Foster's TREAT HER RIGHT. Wynn's amazon woman appearance defies stereotypes, and her impetuous, out spoken honesty makes a mockery of ordinary courtship games. Sizzling emotions and stunning encounters in addition to creative characterizations, including Wynn's equally extreme parents, make for a marvelous reading experience. TREAT HER RIGHT is destined for the keeper shelf. Very highly recommended.
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Summary: What a fun book!
Review: This book had me hooked from the minute i read the first page. we met Zack Grange in Caught in the act, which was also a fab. book, but this is his story, he meets Wynn with her outragous personality and is instantly actracted to her, even though she is a less than idealized woman, which i think is awsome, someone who isnt described as being little miss dainty and willowy, but sexy with her less than little figure. the whole book is like a cat and mouse game. The dialoge cracked me up. I love knowing what the characters are thinking and Zack had some pretty funny thoughts. The book was fun, and meets the standards of a good romance, heat mixed with fun, the best combination.
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Summary: The tall girl gets the hero!!
Review: This book's hero is a paramedic, one of our everyday heroes, whose life revolves around his daughter. Then tall, loud Wynn moves next door and they strike sparks immediately. The only thing is that our hero Zack believes he needs a quiet, reserved wife to help him raise his daughter.
I loved this book! Wynn had me in stitches throughout the book. I can't wait for the next book.
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Summary: Sexy, funny, thoroughly wonderful romance!
Review: Wynn Lane is a six-foot-tall, athletic Amazon, and paramedic Zack Grange has never seen anything like her. In their stocking feet, they look eye-to-eye, and she is almost as strong as he is. In fact, she's constantly challenging him to prove she isn't actually =stronger= than him. This is the boy/girl-next-door story with a real twist! From Zack's first meeting with Wynn, shouting zingers and arguing with her burly brother as she moves in next door to Zack at the crack of dawn, he is in turn irritated, appalled and screamingly attracted to her. But he refuses to get involved with her, because as a young widower, he has a four-year-old daughter to raise, and she has to come first. He is determined that a "feminine" woman is going to be his new wife and mother to his daughter, and in no way does tomboy Wynn fit the bill. Wynn has spent most of her life being "one of the boys," hanging out with her brother's friends, and she has never, ever responded to a man as she does from the first moment she lays eyes on Zack. Not only is she totally attracted to him sexually, she adores the tender way he takes care of his little girl. Wynn has no defenses against what she feels, and she openly shows Zack her immediate, intense attraction. She is thrilled that he seems strongly drawn to her, too, but the push-pull Zack is giving her is driving her crazy. I am a big fan of Lori Foster--I've read every book she's written since she first burst onto the romance scene a few years ago. And as good as all her books are, I have to say, she's outdone herself with this one! I have never seen characters so vivid and alive. They just leap off the page! Especially Wynn Lane. You just don't run into passionate, whimsical, eccentric heroines like her very often in romance in general, let alone in category romance, and I am delighted that Harlequin is encouraging such innovation! I love the way Wynn always says exactly what she thinks, no matter how "unladylike" it is. Zack is also a very worthy match for her. Though he starts out preaching very macho, sexist ideas about what the "ideal" wife would be, you can tell immediately that he is =not= a real sexist because he never worries about his manhood when he is taking care of his little girl. And this is another terrific thing: you aren't just told why Wynn can't resist Zack's tenderness, you see and feel it in the loving interactions with his daughter. Speaking of Zack's daughter, little Dani is another remarkable character. It is hard to do kids and not have them be sickeningly sweet or predictably naughty, but Foster avoids both these traps with Dani. All the subcharacters, in fact, are super. In particular, Wynn's eccentric parents are a bizarrely comic pair, and her gym-owner brother and his weight-lifting friends are hilarious. Finally, in my listing of everything I like, I come last, and anything but least, to the sexuality in Treat Her Right. Whew! Stunningly passionate and intense, it is hot enough to be in one of Foster's Harlequin Blazes! In short, this book has magnificently achieved the most prized objective of the well-done comic romance--humor that is actually funny paired with deep emotion and searing sex. Who could ask for anything more?
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Summary: Great book, loved it!!!!!!
Review: Zach & Wynn are great & Danni is adorable. Just loved the the new characters as well as seeing old one's as well, all those muscle bound men & Wynn is no small petite shrinking violet. I wonder if Lori's new book "Just a hint Clint" due out soon is about the Clint in this story, I hope so. There is one very funny part where Mich, Zach & Josh are oggling Wynn through the the kitchen window & Danni shouts to Wynn that they're peeping tomming her. It had me in stitches especially when they dropped down behind the kitchen sink & then had to stand up & face her. This series just gets better with every new book.
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