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Summary: Glad I didn't spend money on this book.
Review: As the title for this review states - I am so glad that I didn't spend money on this book! I checked it out at the library. The cover of the book looked wonderful but I could not get past the first few pages. When the hero appeared wearing a long gray ponytail and Birkenstock sandals I would have tossed the book across the room if it was not a library book. Instead, I dutifully returned it and vowed to never buy another Hailey North book.
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Summary: Perfectly Delightful
Review: Granted this book isn't a work of literary perfection, but it did provide for me what I was looking for. A little fun, a little romance, and 2 characters I adored from the start.
Alistair and Lauren just had this innocent chemistry that went way beyond innocence. There was plenty of sexual tension, and yes Lauren might have been a little flighty, I didn't consider her to be immature. Innocent is the word I chose to describe her, and a free spirit. A girl who is naive, but isn't afraid to speak whatever her pops into her mind.
The other 2 characters in this four-some Oliver and Barbara were the boring pair, and maybe that is why she left them underdeveloped, I just didn't feel the same connection to them as I felt to Alistair and Lauren. If the author was going for genuine romance between 4 people she fell seriously short, but if the focus was to be Alistair and Lauren, then the book was spot on.
I enjoyed this book immensely and the rating of 3 is because of the underdeveloped characters. Not based on the story.
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Summary: Messy
Review: I agree with heindenkind. This was a very messy book. All of the characters change their minds about who they want from chapter to chapter. First Lauren wants Alistair, then she wants Oliver, then she wants Alistair again. Alistair can't decide between Barbara and Lauren. Oliver can't decide between Barbara and Lauren. Barbara can't decide - anyway, you get the picture...Halfway through the book, I was shouting, "Would you make up your minds?!" Unfortunately, by the end of the book, I was thinking, "Who cares!"
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Summary: Messy
Review: I agree with heindenkind. This was a very messy book. All of the characters change their minds about who they want from chapter to chapter. First Lauren wants Alistair, then she wants Oliver, then she wants Alistair again. Alistair can't decide between Barbara and Lauren. Oliver can't decide between Barbara and Lauren. Barbara can't decide - anyway, you get the picture... Halfway through the book, I was shouting, "Would you make up your minds?!" Unfortunately, by the end of the book, I was thinking, "Who cares!"
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Summary: Perfect Match
Review: I liked all the characters. I agree with other reviewers who felt that the heroine, Lauren, was too immature. She and Alistair remind me of the characters who are usually the secondary characters in a book.
In attempting to have two full blown romances in one novel, the author tended to get vague in some areas. I can only guess at how old any of the characters were. At times, it was difficult to keep track of the passage of time.
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Summary: What a marvelous book!
Review: I live in New Orleans. This book, set in New Orleans, brought the city I love and live in, to life like no other. I think sometime we take the Romance writer for granted, thinking that great fiction, great writing is not to be found between the covers of a paperback book. Not true in this remarkable case. Albeit somewhat quirky at times, and a bit offbeat, this book, Perfect Match is nonetheless a classic buried in an underappreciated genre. Take it from a true denizen of the Big Easy. It captures romance, the city that time forgot and the sense of fun that only Hailey North can deliver.
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Summary: What a marvelous book!
Review: I live in New Orleans. This book, set in New Orleans, brought the city I love and live in, to life like no other. I think sometime we take the Romance writer for granted, thinking that great fiction, great writing is not to be found between the covers of a paperback book. Not true in this remarkable case. Albeit somewhat quirky at times, and a bit offbeat, this book, Perfect Match is nonetheless a classic buried in an underappreciated genre. Take it from a true denizen of the Big Easy. It captures romance, the city that time forgot and the sense of fun that only Hailey North can deliver.
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Summary: A Book Unlikely to Light One's Imagination
Review: Lauren Stevens is stranded in New Orleans with only ten dollars and a parrot, when she is rescued, in a fashion, by Alistair Gotho. Unbeknownst to Lauren, however, Alistair's brother, Oliver, wouldn't mind "rescuing" her himself. Add to the mix Oliver's attractive bank consultant, Barbara, whom Alistair has set his sights on, and what you get is . . . a mess. Barbara wants Alistair, Alistair wants Barbara, Oliver wants Lauren (he spotted her first, after all), and all Lauren wants is a roof over her head, and a job so that she can afford it. Oh, and she wants Alistair, but she's not about to admit that! One may get the impression that this book is interesting, but that would be incorrect. The back of the book tells us that it's Alistair and Lauren who wind up together, and just in case you might have been a little tense over the out come any way, both men change their minds so quickly and easily, it leaves one snorting in disgust. Even the spice of a New Orleans setting isn't enough to liven this book up. The main problem is that the characters don't DO anything, and nothing seems to happen. Alistair's and Lauren's love story may have been interesting condensed to a shorter length, but in PERFECT MATCH, it drags out. The book is only supposed to go over a two-day time span, but it feels like forever. And Oliver and Barbara aren't present enough to make one care about them. I didn't like PERFECT MATCH, but I didn't dislike it, either. It couldn't seem to affect any feelings in me one way or the other. All in all, I thought this book was an uninspired, and uninspiring, effort.
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Summary: Glad I didn't spend money on this book.
Review: Lauren Stevens thought she was all through with relationships and men after her last breakup. After seeing the Gotho brothers, Alistair and Oliver, however, perhaps Lauren would change her mind. Both brothers have their eyes on Lauren, but it's Alistair who does his best to capture her heart. Can he, or has the romance gone sour? This book is fast, funny and offbeat in the beginning, but somehow falls flat toward the middle. Though Ms. North often writes with a sense of humor, it's best to make sure that humor doesn't go stale.
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Summary: Perfect Match
Review: Lauren Stevens thought she was all through with relationships and men after her last breakup. After seeing the Gotho brothers, Alistair and Oliver, however, perhaps Lauren would change her mind. Both brothers have their eyes on Lauren, but it's Alistair who does his best to capture her heart. Can he, or has the romance gone sour? This book is fast, funny and offbeat in the beginning, but somehow falls flat toward the middle. Though Ms. North often writes with a sense of humor, it's best to make sure that humor doesn't go stale.
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