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Summary: Loved those tea parties
Review: This book had everything....suspense....romance... I especially liked the tea parties...could picture grown men sitting in tiny chairs...drinking tea from miniscule cups...loved the pets also...loved the misplaced sailors filling in as housemen...the hero was great.,the heroine lovely...will save this book forever...and read it again ...
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Summary: DELICIOUS & HEARTWARMING
Review: I really loved this book. The plot and the characterization were both outstanding (The secondary players were hysterical!), and Hayley was someone I could definitely relate to. Even though the book takes place in 1820, Hayley still had the same problems all women have--juggling home, kids, and career--and falling in love. And Stephen was just wonderful--aloof on the outside, but the poor guy WAS thrust into a completely foreign environment with Hayley and her unusual family. Not to mention that there was a killer after him! Seeing Stephen change from a cold, unloved man into the sort of man we all dream about through the warmth and love of Hayley's family is something I will never forget. I wish there were more like him around! Bravo Ms. D'Alessandro on a fabulous debut. You've made it onto my very select list of must-buy authors.
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Summary: A historical women's libber for sure!
Review: The heroine of this book is really great, she's writing "men's stories" in a "men's" magazine to support her family. Very cool. All the characters were funny and believably real. I was glad to see the 'hero' came around and turned out to be a good guy after all. I can hardly wait for Ms. D'Alessandro's next book in May "Kiss the Cook". The excerpt on her web site has made me impatient for the rest. Good Job Jacquie!
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Summary: Predictable and prejudiced
Review: I am sorry I did not like this book, I wanted to kick the hero for being so selfish and the heroine for being so weak. I did finish it but only because I do not like to leave a book halfway through.
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Summary: This was a great book and I hated to see it end!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone looking for an exciting, charming book. Your writing created clear images of the characters. I was so happy you fully developed the character and did not leave the outcome up to my imagination.I have shared this book with my mother-in-law who also enjoyed your writing style and read the book from cover to cover in less than 2 days.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I really liked this book. Great to read on a rainy day. It is a great love story.
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Summary: Loved the Heroine, LOVED the Hero!
Review: What a wonderful book this is! I was going to give my sister my copy to read, but after finishing Red Roses (I stayed up all night to finish it!), I told my sister she'd have to buy her own because my copy was going right onto my keeper shelf. The characters were REAL people. No cardboard people in THIS book. Hayley was a strong, loving heroine, and Stephen was marvelous. The poor man, in spite of having every material advantage, had never known love in his entire life--until Hayley and her family came along. I loved how the author took a sad, lonely, cynical man and let him grow into someone I fell in love with. He had his flaws, but the strength of this family's love showed him a new way. It was wonderful from the first page to the last. It made me feel so good, I'm still smiling! If I could give it FIFTY stars I would!!
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Summary: A wonderful, heartwarming love story!
Review: This book has it all--it's a murder mystery, a comedy, and one of the most romantic love stories I've ever read. Run--don't walk--to the store to get this one. I've visited Ms. D'Alessandro's website and saw that her next book isn't coming out until next May!! How am I going to wait that long?
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Summary: Wonderful wonderful wonderful!
Review: I don't usually keep books that I really enjoy (my shelf would be too full!) but this is going on that shelf. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Loved her - hated him
Review: I enjoyed most of Jacquie D'Allessandro's Red Roses Mean Love. It offers good writing and despite predictable, but charming, secondary characters in scenes that are sometimes just too precious, a lot of laughs. But it has the most obnoxious hero I've met in ages. Although Hayley, the heroine, is sweet and too good to be true, I was willing to go along with her because I liked her courage and grace. But she's wasted on Stephen. He's mean and boorish and turns nasty at the most inappropriate times. If he's thinking about anything but himself it sure doesn't come across! And Hayley forgives this creep! How does this help women in the real world? D'Alessandro has a lot of talent, but should have used it to create a hero that we can admire. He's the only drawback to a fun read, but he ruined the book for me.
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