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Summary: lighthearted romantic romp
Review: Thirty four years old Grace Noonan is having sex with her lover when his condom breaks inside her. While she calmly considers her options if pregnant, he blithely demand she go out and buy that French pill. Grace ends their relationship as she thinks "alone again, naturally".At work as production manager at Roxanne Dubrow cosmetics for mature women, Grace learns that the company is taking a major turn to sponsor the Roxy D line for teens. Feeling a bit (make that a lot) too old for a teen campaign, Grace still dives full throttle into the project, which brings her to Jonathan Somerfield also working the change in direction. Besides their fathers being friends at Columbia, Grace feels attracted to Jonathan, who cannot believe this amazingly beautiful thirty something is so much more mature than the picture of her at sixteen that his father has. Still with business and sires to overcome, can Grace and Jonathan find a mutual path to happiness? BOMBSHELL is an entertaining contemporary romance starring two likable lead characters. Grace is a terrific female trying to make it in a very competitive world in which anyone over thirty is considered geriatric at best and a DOP (politically correct dirty old person) at worst. Jonathan is a solid male counterpoint to Grace especially after the shortcomings (not that silly) of her previous lover. Fans of a lighthearted romantic romp will enjoy the cosmetics war between the generations. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Bombshell
Review: Thirty-something year old Grace Noonan has just dumped her boyfriend Ethan because he's made it perfectly clear that he doesn't want to have a baby with her. From that point, she embarks on a little bit of soul searching.
Unlike other chick lit novels, BOMBSHELL has much more than gusto and a happy ending. In this novel, our heroine has realistic insecurities and real life issues. Struggling with the emptiness she feels from losing the biological mother she's never known, her psychologist swears that every negative issue or concern that comes her way has something to do with this unfortunate event.
On top of it all, she watches as the only man who she's ever really had any true feeling for, marry a woman for the same exact reason he broke it off with her. Grace begins to slowly but surely take life with a grain of salt. Grasping the realism that it is quite alright to be a buxom, bodacious blonde, who doesn't have the perfect body, life, or outlook on dealing with the male species, Grace is the perfect example of the caterpillar turning into the beautiful butterfly.
But of course, there is always the prince charming that comes along and steals our protagonist's heart away. This is where Dr. Jonathan Sommerfield comes in. Her relationship with the good doctor is one that is best left with minimal details, as it is a relationship that the author has put together so adequately. The way the two evolved into such growing individuals just by being with each other was so sweet!
I didn't read ENGAGING MEN prior to reading BOMBSHELL, but not having the background on the characters prior, the way I see most of the other reviewers did, was definitely NOT a problem. I enjoyed this book all the same, and feel that it is completely worthy of 5 stars!
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