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Summary: How Utterly BRILLIANT!!!
Review: I am beginning to believe Katherine Deauxville is one of the most misunderstood romance writers around. She wrote some of the most memorable historicals with The Crystal Heart ( my favourite), Blood Red Roses and the funny, brilliant Enraptured. She is very well researched, creates such original characters....well, I fear so is SO ORIGINAL people are just not getting with the program. Her writing is so witty, her tongue firmly planted in cheek...she delivers you works so unlike any others and I am THANKFUL for it!!
I have read so many thousands of books in my lifetime, and a LOT of them just fade into nothing, blur into the stereotypical...NOT with Any of Maggie Davis/ Katherine Deauxville's works. Each and everyone will live on in your mind!! I have noticed that Brits tend to appreciate Maggie more than Yanks!...hum...say no more...say no more...;-) But I have to admit, Out Of The Blue is one that is hard to write about!!! I start laughing, just thinking about it! Maryellen Caswell awakens on morn, to gasp!!! find that her body has been taken over by an alien. She is not even lucky enough to be taken over by a female alien, she gets stuck with Sub-commander Ur Targon. Since he not only has the ability to control her body, he also controls her voice, poor Maryellen finds herself a mess. Well, New York has seen their share of fullmoonitis and the loonies it brings out, so a lot of weirdness can be taken without a raised eyebrow, but Targon is something even the most hardened New Yorker cannot ignore. He is not really thrilled with his new assignment, and is sort of P.O.ed about the mix-up that lands him in a female body, thus he is looking for find a replacement as soon as possible. Maryellen is more than willing to help him, naturally wishing to see him on his way, if he would only keep his....er....her mouth shut and stop drawing attention!!! Her sisters thinks she is losing her marbles and sends her to a shrink, but he is confirmed UFOer and is thrilled with the concept of 'catching one'. Enters Wolf Madder ( hum sounds suspiciously like Fox Mulder X Filer)...then they figure out Targon can materialise outside of her body with some help from orange juice...(well the breakfast drink ever be viewed again and not chuckled at???). I have seen several people refer to this book as unrealistic...HUN??? Maggie is taking wide swipes and anything and everything....IT's NOT MEANT TO BE REALISTIC...earth to reader....Did you watch Men in Black and say, nice try, but unrealistic??? Targon over and out!!
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Summary: This needs to be a movie(...)
Review: I had a Katherine Deauxville weekend and read three great novel. This one, her Last Male Virgin and I was lucky enough to get a mint perfect copy of Entraptured (Figured these are going to start going for high prices on the collectors market!). And it shows the wonderful range of the marvellous writer. She is AMAZING. The books are sheer genious. So funny, so sexy. I read Deaxville back when she was the Queen of Medivals with books like Daggers of Gold and Crystal Heart, and I was exhausted after one of them, because she pulled you through so many emotions. It is just unbelieveable, one that writes so marvelous middle age sagas, can turn around and create this wacky ones. Applause!(...) More Katherine!(...)Please(...)
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Summary: This needs to be a movie(...)
Review: I had a Katherine Deauxville weekend and read three great novel. This one, her Last Male Virgin and I was lucky enough to get a mint perfect copy of Entraptured (Figured these are going to start going for high prices on the collectors market!). And it shows the wonderful range of the marvellous writer. She is AMAZING. The books are sheer genious. So funny, so sexy. I read Deaxville back when she was the Queen of Medivals with books like Daggers of Gold and Crystal Heart, and I was exhausted after one of them, because she pulled you through so many emotions. It is just unbelieveable, one that writes so marvelous middle age sagas, can turn around and create this wacky ones. Applause!(...) More Katherine!(...)Please(...)
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Summary: out of reason
Review: I love romance novels! I really love time travel and futuristic romance novels. This one was inane and dumb, dumb, dumb! I kept trying to read it and half way through gave up. The story line went nowhere, the characters were insipid, and the plot ridiculous. Don't bother to read it unless you are into punishment.
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Summary: Funny Sci-Fi Romance Novel
Review: I normally do not read fiction (not even science-fiction), and I NEVER read romance novels. Yet I THOROUGHLY enjoyed "Out of the Blue!"
It is also rare for me to finish a book of this size in only two days. I only put it down when my one good eye couldn't handle it any longer -- then got back to it at the next opportunity.
The clever dialogue, the humor, the plot twists, the avoidance of crude language, and the discrete handling of the romance portions, together with the frequent references to popular names, places and events (and the "inside jokes" of some character names) all coordinated to make this book a pleasure to read. A movie and a sequel are naturals!
(By Fred "Crash" Blechman, author of over 800 magazine articles and seven books about electronics and flying.)
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Summary: Funny Sci-Fi Romance Novel
Review: I normally do not read fiction (not even science-fiction), and I NEVER read romance novels. Yet I THOROUGHLY enjoyed "Out of the Blue!"
It is also rare for me to finish a book of this size in only two days. I only put it down when my one good eye couldn't handle it any longer -- then got back to it at the next opportunity.
The clever dialogue, the humor, the plot twists, the avoidance of crude language, and the discrete handling of the romance portions, together with the frequent references to popular names, places and events (and the "inside jokes" of some character names) all coordinated to make this book a pleasure to read. A movie and a sequel are naturals!
(By Fred "Crash" Blechman, author of over 800 magazine articles and seven books about electronics and flying.)
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Summary: Just Too Too Silly
Review: I really wanted to like this book. The fantasy premise seemed funny to me: an alien (Sub-Commander Ur Targon) transporting to Earth is mistakenly inserted into a woman's (Maryellen) body, and she tries to figure out if she's having a mental breakdown or if he really exists. I could think of a lot of directions this story might have taken, but unfortunately for me, the author took a completely different route. This book is written as an extreme, and I mean extreme, screwball comedy. The story went from amusing to silly to just plain boring after a while. There was just too much going on and amusing sequences that should have been isolated events became whole subplots. In addition to silliness like having Targon get drunk while Maryellen is dining at 21 in NYC, she winds up dancing and singing in NYC traffic. Her sister (the former fashion model who resembles Jerry Hall) is married to a multimillionaire named Crump and they live in Crump Tower. Yeah, right. She goes to a trendy psychiatrist who behaves in a totally unprofessional manner and is actually an alien cult groupie. He refers her for some group therapy, but the group is actually the cult. For some reason this cult is made up of a lot of Trekkies, behaving in a totally non-Trek-like fashion. There is a long treatise on Area 51 which was totally unnecessary. Targon manifests himself to the group, so now of course, we now have a whole subplot of the cult trying to capture him. Targon and Maryellen are constantly on the run with many supposedly wacky things happening to them. On top of all this, we have the government involved, specifically the FBI, in the person of Wolf Madder, a Fox Mulder [take off].. You get the picture. Maybe someone else would find this all amusing, but I didn't. The characters were shallow and comic-bookish, and the book failed in its primary goal of engaging the reader, namely me. This book just tries to hard to be hilarious, but sadly doesn't suceed. I'm sorry that I bought it.
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Summary: Secret Longings
Review: I recently finished a novel called Falling for April which had me bored to tears during the entire first half. When I'd finished it, I picked up Out of the Blue and read like crazy until the second half when the story spiralled wildly out of control - and into inanity. The story is nuts to begin with but if you've managed to suspend your disbelief sufficiently to even start the book, you'll be [pulled] in and propelled forward without a chance in hell of getting your fingers to release the book. This author certainly knows how to move a story forward but she needs to move it forward with a little more control. Secondary characters without much appeal begin to dominate the story to the extent that you lose patience and start skimming and skipping ahead. Then, the end, the climactic love scene you've been waiting for...well, it seemed pretty anticlimactic. This was far better than Falling for April and there are a lot of laughs in the first half. Maryellen and Targon are funny and strike sparks off each other (literally!) but the story comes unglued eventually. The laughs in the first half probably make this worth a try but, gee, this could have been great.
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Summary: Could've Been Great
Review: I recently finished a novel called Falling for April which had me bored to tears during the entire first half. When I'd finished it, I picked up Out of the Blue and read like crazy until the second half when the story spiralled wildly out of control - and into inanity. The story is nuts to begin with but if you've managed to suspend your disbelief sufficiently to even start the book, you'll be [pulled] in and propelled forward without a chance in hell of getting your fingers to release the book. This author certainly knows how to move a story forward but she needs to move it forward with a little more control. Secondary characters without much appeal begin to dominate the story to the extent that you lose patience and start skimming and skipping ahead. Then, the end, the climactic love scene you've been waiting for...well, it seemed pretty anticlimactic. This was far better than Falling for April and there are a lot of laughs in the first half. Maryellen and Targon are funny and strike sparks off each other (literally!) but the story comes unglued eventually. The laughs in the first half probably make this worth a try but, gee, this could have been great.
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Summary: wacky, outrageous, and entertaining
Review: Insanity is Maryellen Caswell's first reaction to the male voice suddenly speaking to her inside her brain in what should have been an incoherent foreign language. Her sister's more plausible answer is Manhattan. However, the voice co-occupying her head belongs to a stunned Sub-Commander Ur Targon. He knows something went wrong, probably sabotage, when he landed inside a live female rather than a dying specimen as directed by the standing operating procedure.
Ur believes that an anti-government incident on Styrex Three will happen, but has no idea why this remote orb the locals call Earth is the target. His first order of business is to escape his current host who is driving him crazy. However, the proximity between the two of them makes them even loonier as they begin to fall in love. However, can a body hopping alien and a grounded third rock from the sun local form a relationship outside her head?
Ponder The Man with Two Brains merging with the Men In Black inside a romance to understand Katherine Deauxville's wacky, outrageous, and entertaining tale. The story line is amusing due to the witty dialogue between the charming lead characters as if Steve Martin landed inside the head of Sigourney Weaver. This novel comes OUT OF THE BLUE, but fans of jocular science fiction romance that satirizes the convergence of the two genres will wan to learn if Ur is a hunk or not? Harriet Klausner
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