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Summary: Blarney and Rubbish!
Review: I hated this book. The heroine, American, naive Rose Larkin is like an alien from Planet Ditz O' Dummies. Her Irish father dies, leaving nineteen year old Rosie with a heap o'bills. Nineteen! Rubbish- more like nineteen going on ten.
Rosie is an airhead! What's an absoltuely clueless heroine that is just a walking disaster to do? Marry only for love, of course, and have what seems to be the silliest 'motto' on the face of the Earth- Do it all for everyone but me. Rose seems to be suffering from an extreme case of no-brain trauma and self-hate! Poor girl.
Her rich Auntie Kate comes in, and what this equally peabrained woman tells Rosie to do is become an Irish adventuress! She wants Rose to have the time of her life before she settles down with a husband- she feels it's boring to have it good, have a loving husband, and be rich! Who knows where the woman got that idea from- maybe her silly girlish fantasies that she still thrives on, three or four decades later? Must run in the family.
When these two nutjobs head off for good ole' Ireland from New York, it's like a disaster in the making- especially when neither of the two have any idea of how to be an adventuress, and especially since Rose doesn't even want to be an adventuress! She wants to go live happily back in La-La Land with a loving husband and lots and lots of kids, but Rose just doesn't know how to say, well, NO!
So when they get there, innocent, 'spectacularly figured' Rosie gets in heaps and heaps of trouble, and the hero, widowed father Cullen O'Banyon has to save Rosie each and every time. She seems to walk through life with a haze- a pretty, pretty haze!- clouding her eyes and her brain. And the reader can count on dim-witted Rosie not to posses enough backbone or brain power to actaully save herself from the messes she creates and gets into. The hero saves everyone from the world, so that's why Rosie loves Cullen, and Cullen mainly loves Rose, I suppose for her beauty, I guess. It can't be her character, or her I.Q. Yee haw, jump on the wagon of love, Cullen!
I did not connect with any of the characters here, though I have to admit, this book was hilarious and made me laugh- a lot- in places where I wasn't supposed to. I don't think Ms. Wilson intended for the book to be hilarious, either. I actually felt kind of sorry for Cullen for falling in love with Miss Ditz and sorry for Rosie for being Miss Ditz. I feel they were both targets of the author, who obviously likes her charcaters, uh, meaningless? Idiotic? And all the way to two-thirds of the book, Rosie is still telling Cullen( this is a direct quote from the book) "I have to fall in love with an exciting man to please Aunt Kate!" You like? Dig right in!
In my opinion, the title of this book should have been "The Irish Babysitter and his Annoying Irish Rose." Really, this is what the book was like to me at the ending. Stupid, absolutely unreal plot with dingbat, half-baked characters and tired- very tired- plot devices, this book was not worth it at all in my opinion. And yes, Rose does get to return to La-La Land, and marries Cullen and makes lots of babies, in addition to his two boys from his first marriage. Aw, how sweet. I want my money and wasted two hours back.
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Summary: Hogwash, not blarney, without any brogue
Review: Possibly the worst read of the summer. Ludicrous situation, not a single character who could have existed outside of this fictitious nonsense. The very premise is insulting... two peabrained characters (the heroine and her aunt) decide that she needs turn-of-the-century adventure before marriage by becoming an adventuress, with no real understanding of what that entails. The hero is a staid, nice man who rescues them from the world. Bah humbug. I was bored and irritated...and the author has the talent to do better.
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Summary: Hogwash, not blarney, without any brogue
Review: Possibly the worst read of the summer. Ludicrous situation, not a single character who could have existed outside of this fictitious nonsense. The very premise is insulting... two peabrained characters (the heroine and her aunt) decide that she needs turn-of-the-century adventure before marriage by becoming an adventuress, with no real understanding of what that entails. The hero is a staid, nice man who rescues them from the world. Bah humbug. I was bored and irritated...and the author has the talent to do better.
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Summary: A delightfully amusing romance
Review: With the burial of her father in New York City, Rose Larkin has only one living relative, her Aunt Kate. Knowing she needs money, Rose plans to marry one of her boring suitors, but Kate objects. Kate plans to fund Rose so that her niece can live life to the fullest as an adventuress before settling into the doldrums of marriage.The duo travels to Dublin where they meet rogue Everett Costello who sets up the naive women so that he can have his way with the lovely Rose. Unable to remain on the sidelines, horse farmer Cullen O'Banyon intercedes and rescues Rose from the dastardly clutches of Everett. Kate informs Cullen that she found the perfect job for Rose to begin her adventures. Kate will sing and dance at the French Academy. Cullen explains that a lady does not sing nor dance at the French Academy. Unable to resist the two ladies, Cullen, the widowed father of two lads decides it is time for him to have an adventure too. MY WILD IRISH ROSE is an amusing historical romance set in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Rose and Cullen are a delightful charcaters who prefer a simple life, but go through the motions of adventuring due to their caring for Aunt Kate. Rachel Wilson provides her fans with a warm, humorous tale that is simply fun to read. Harriet Klausner
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