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Summary: Oh! Come On!
Review: Can a whole town be this stupid??? This book was boring, I did finish it, but it left me feeling nothing but relief that it was over. The characters had no depth and the plot was downright foolish. My first and last Sue Civil-Brown book.
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Summary: Oh! Come On!
Review: Can a whole town be this stupid??? This book was boring, I did finish it, but it left me feeling nothing but relief that it was over. The characters had no depth and the plot was downright foolish. My first and last Sue Civil-Brown book.
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Summary: sorry I believed the reviews.
Review: I had already read the reviews on Amazon when I picked this book up. It was another case of not being able to trust the reviews. This book is poorly written, the characters are not charmingly quirky at all, and the plot is as tedious as sitting on the dunes on Paradise Beach.
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Summary: Yuck, I expected much more!
Review: I have read all of S.C. Browns and have enjoyed them in the past but I absolutely hated this one. Boring and completely inane plot! Usually I pass books on to my friends and this one went in the trash. I hated it!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I love this book. I've only bought it yesterday and I've already read it twice. Something about it just draws you in. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I love this book. I've only bought it yesterday and I've already read it twice. Something about it just draws you in. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Really funny romance!
Review: I've been following this whole series of books about kooky people in a small beach town in Florida. All of them, including this one, are wonderful. Try out Paradise, and have a good laugh!
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Summary: All the pieces are there, but it just doesn't work
Review: I've tried and tried to like Sue Civil-Brown, but she just doesn't do it for me. She knows all the elements that make for a great contemporary romance, but she just can't seem to make them work. Zany characters - check; fun plot - check; witty dialouge -check; sensual tension - check. The problem is that it all seems so forced. Take "Next Stop - Paradise." The lead characters are promising, but the heroine is poorly developed. She's a cop who used to work in some vague corporate job - that's about all we know. She thinks the hero is sleezy because he has a television career debunking supposed miracles and strange happenings. Last time I checked, it was promoting supposed miracles and strange happenings that was sleezy, not debunking them. There's no real chemistry between the leads, and the love scenes are very rote. Then there's the plot. A sea monster and/or a very large reptillian egg appear on a beach. Why do we care? It never makes any sense, isn't explained and is nothing but a device to bring people together. Way too much time is spent on the secondary characters - we learn more about the mayor's wardrobe than we do about the lead characters' feelings for one another. Civil-Brown is striving to write like Jennifer Crusie, but the result is more like romance road kill.
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Summary: All the pieces are there, but it just doesn't work
Review: I've tried and tried to like Sue Civil-Brown, but she just doesn't do it for me. She knows all the elements that make for a great contemporary romance, but she just can't seem to make them work. Zany characters - check; fun plot - check; witty dialouge -check; sensual tension - check. The problem is that it all seems so forced. Take "Next Stop - Paradise." The lead characters are promising, but the heroine is poorly developed. She's a cop who used to work in some vague corporate job - that's about all we know. She thinks the hero is sleezy because he has a television career debunking supposed miracles and strange happenings. Last time I checked, it was promoting supposed miracles and strange happenings that was sleezy, not debunking them. There's no real chemistry between the leads, and the love scenes are very rote. Then there's the plot. A sea monster and/or a very large reptillian egg appear on a beach. Why do we care? It never makes any sense, isn't explained and is nothing but a device to bring people together. Way too much time is spent on the secondary characters - we learn more about the mayor's wardrobe than we do about the lead characters' feelings for one another. Civil-Brown is striving to write like Jennifer Crusie, but the result is more like romance road kill.
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Summary: This is one of my favorite authors
Review: So I was very disspointed in this book. I expected more. Generally her books are funny, enjoyable, quirky and fun to read. I would rate this book a high three or a very low four. This book was quirky and there were some funny parts, but much of it was just too far beyond belief. The national guard comes out to guard and egg and start aiming their guns at themselves and everyone around them? Please... The egg glows and makes colors and noises and then when the great hatching begins, no one is there to witness it? I'm sure... It was just so far beyond belief it was hard to suspend belief and enjoy the book. To top it off, I felt that the characters were not well developed. I would have liked to learn more about what made them tick. What saved this book from being a two star book were the funny parts of the book. The mayor with his wild clothes and bunny slippers, the alien was a riot. I would consider buying other books by this author before I bought this one. I think there are other books out there that are worth your money more than this one is.
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