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Summary: Corny and cheesy. Pass the ketchup please.
Review: 1909 India is a wonderful place to set a romance, what with the political turbulence just waiting to explode. Put in two cat burglars and a diamond and a heroine who sounds like the next Amelia Earhart and I can't get home to tear into this book soon enough.Alas - the book reads like a bad imitation of "The Hunky Mach Studly Hero And The Killer Pagans of Unggulu Island" or any other B-grade straight-to-video movies. People talk in grandiose manners - "I will die if you will ever leave me!" - they even die in impressive manners, slowly falling down staircases in slow-mo. It doesn't help that the heroine's name is Kitty, and her Barbie-doll name only reflects her nature fully as she clings to the hero whenever there's trouble. The hero with his superhuman strength can do everything, too bad that everything doesn't include some semblence of human emotion. Grandiosity, corniness, and some really cheesy adventures (check out the "Swimming With Crocodiles" scene!) can be fun when one mixes in enough humor and wit. Humor and wit are clearly lacking in "My One And Only" - rendering it a total loss even as a guilty pleasure.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I really loved this book! I read a lot of romance, and after a while, they all start to sound the same. This book surprised and thrilled me. The characters are fresh and different, and their romance is really touching and kept me hooked the whole time. The action is exciting and kept me guessing. After I'd finished it, I felt like I'd really been to India, and that I'd shared in their adventures. The hero is to die for! And the heroine is strong and sassy, but I felt like I'd really known her. I definitely plan to keep this book and read it again and again.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!
Review: I'm a great fan of Katherine O'Neal's books and I absolutely loved this latest addition. As I've come to expect from her books, it's adventurous, witty, has a hero to die for and a heroine that any woman would want to be, and has love scenes that are some of the best and sexiest being written today. I felt as if I'd really been to India after reading her marvelous descriptions. I was completely captivated by the story, and often surprised, which is rare in this genre. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who wants escape, who wants to be transported to a world where love really does conquer all. I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Good, not great
Review: If this book were a movie, it would be a "Movie of the Week". One of those stories that trys to have something for everyone; romance, action, suspense, danger, mysticism, revenge, exotic locales, interesting professions (aviatrix and cat burglar), but not enough of any one of them to be completely satisfying. However, the book is fast-paced and entertaining. I liked Kitty and Max but I would have liked to know more about them. How did Max develope his skills and became the 'Tiger'? Why did Kitty take up aviation and how did she get started? How did she afford it? The story doesn't answer alot of questions. It keeps moving us along from A to B to C, and yet when you get to the end you feel like you've had a rather fun adventure. Not great, but amusing and different. KCS
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Summary: An adventurous trip to India.....
Review: Kitty, the "Cat" and "Tiger" meet one night in the home of a wealthy Englishman. Each is searching for a ruby called The Blood of India. Tiger is actually Max, the adopted son of an Italian count. Kitty is the daughter of an Englishman and his half-Indian wife. Due to a freedom attack on English children, Kitty had left India in fear. Max reminds her of Cameron, a boy she was in love with while she lived in India. She saw Cameron killed; and she has dreamed of him, and India, through the years. Max and Kitty have an instant attraction. However, their desire for the same stone, will lure them into trouble and a reluctant partnership. Each has a compelling reason to find that stone, The Blood of India. And those reasons will pull them apart. The story itself, will tell us what, if anything, will bring them together. Max and Kitty are two magnetic leads. Kitty flies planes, is an adventuress, and is engaged to Cameron's half brother. Max is a wealthy womanizer, and adventurer, with a hidden past. His sensual pull, grabbed me, as a reader. I could easily see why Kitty would desire him. I learned things about India, it's beauty, some of it's history, while reading this book. Ms. O'Neal, herself, lived in India at one time. Combined with the history, is an interesting plot, lots of action, a complete cast of supporting characters, and several sexy love scenes. This is a book I really enjoyed. I do plan to read it again.
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Summary: An adventurous trip to India.....
Review: Kitty, the "Cat" and "Tiger" meet one night in the home of a wealthy Englishman. Each is searching for a ruby called The Blood of India. Tiger is actually Max, the adopted son of an Italian count. Kitty is the daughter of an Englishman and his half-Indian wife. Due to a freedom attack on English children, Kitty had left India in fear. Max reminds her of Cameron, a boy she was in love with while she lived in India. She saw Cameron killed; and she has dreamed of him, and India, through the years. Max and Kitty have an instant attraction. However, their desire for the same stone, will lure them into trouble and a reluctant partnership. Each has a compelling reason to find that stone, The Blood of India. And those reasons will pull them apart. The story itself, will tell us what, if anything, will bring them together. Max and Kitty are two magnetic leads. Kitty flies planes, is an adventuress, and is engaged to Cameron's half brother. Max is a wealthy womanizer, and adventurer, with a hidden past. His sensual pull, grabbed me, as a reader. I could easily see why Kitty would desire him. I learned things about India, it's beauty, some of it's history, while reading this book. Ms. O'Neal, herself, lived in India at one time. Combined with the history, is an interesting plot, lots of action, a complete cast of supporting characters, and several sexy love scenes. This is a book I really enjoyed. I do plan to read it again.
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR!
Review: This is the best book I've read all year. It takes us on a magical journey to India through the exciting experiences of two sexy cat burglars who are at odds not only because what they want differs, but because of a past that's being denied. The writing is superb, the characters are the most interesting I've encountered in romance. It kept me guessing with unexpected plot twists to the very end. Romantic, adventurous, sexy, a fabulous read that I'd recommend to everyone! I plan to read all of Katherine O'Neal's books after this.
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Summary: Great potential....
Review: This story had great potential, being set in a time period and location not usually written about. All in all, the story was good, and enjoyable to read, it just wasn't great. Max and Kitty are dynamic characters and play off of each other fairly well, but many of the scenes were stale and cliché. A crocodile wrestling scene? Although highly unlikely, and very convenient for the story, I enjoyed the fact that Kitty is an aviatrix. I would have enjoyed it even more if there were more details as to what exactly that meant in the early 1900's. There was a lot of talk about the first English Channel crossing, but little discussion on the actual planes themselves, what it meant to fly one, and how different flying was then than it is now. I can understand much of Max's physical training, especially since he had a long time to learn, but for an 11 year old girl, to train for 2 to 3 months, Kitty learned an awful lot and mastered her skills quickly. That she could call upon this learning 10 to 15 years later astounds me. I can appreciate that she is adventurous and out going, an auspicious thing to be for a woman at this time, it just seemed a little too unbelievable to be comfortable reading. Their feats as cat burglars were also highly suspect. The places they were able to break into would have been much more difficult to do. Once again, I call on the potential that this story could have had, this time in the secondary characters. I would have liked to have seen a little more interaction and depth between all of the players in both England and India. Also, a few more details wouldn't be amiss. There was a lot of interaction between India and England. How was this accomplished? How long did it take to travel back and forth? How long did to take to get correspondence through? I am a little shaky on the turn of the century inventions, did they use the telegraph? telephone? steam ships? We are told that the English were corrupt, but what about the people of India? We saw one faction group, were there many? Were they organized? I don't know much about India at that time, and would have loved to have learned more. All and all, My One and Only is worth reading, I just wish there was a little more there.
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Summary: Great potential....
Review: This story had great potential, being set in a time period and location not usually written about. All in all, the story was good, and enjoyable to read, it just wasn't great. Max and Kitty are dynamic characters and play off of each other fairly well, but many of the scenes were stale and cliché. A crocodile wrestling scene? Although highly unlikely, and very convenient for the story, I enjoyed the fact that Kitty is an aviatrix. I would have enjoyed it even more if there were more details as to what exactly that meant in the early 1900's. There was a lot of talk about the first English Channel crossing, but little discussion on the actual planes themselves, what it meant to fly one, and how different flying was then than it is now. I can understand much of Max's physical training, especially since he had a long time to learn, but for an 11 year old girl, to train for 2 to 3 months, Kitty learned an awful lot and mastered her skills quickly. That she could call upon this learning 10 to 15 years later astounds me. I can appreciate that she is adventurous and out going, an auspicious thing to be for a woman at this time, it just seemed a little too unbelievable to be comfortable reading. Their feats as cat burglars were also highly suspect. The places they were able to break into would have been much more difficult to do. Once again, I call on the potential that this story could have had, this time in the secondary characters. I would have liked to have seen a little more interaction and depth between all of the players in both England and India. Also, a few more details wouldn't be amiss. There was a lot of interaction between India and England. How was this accomplished? How long did it take to travel back and forth? How long did to take to get correspondence through? I am a little shaky on the turn of the century inventions, did they use the telegraph? telephone? steam ships? We are told that the English were corrupt, but what about the people of India? We saw one faction group, were there many? Were they organized? I don't know much about India at that time, and would have loved to have learned more. All and all, My One and Only is worth reading, I just wish there was a little more there.
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Summary: And the adventure starts here
Review: With another cat burglar keep tailing him, Max Aveli was curios to know who was the other person. And he met Kitty Fontaine, a daring woman that crossed men boundaries. Never did Kitty knew that Max was her childhood sweetheart when she was just a child in India. She was robbed of her innocence by Max. Their quest was the same, to find the Blood of India, a fabulous gem that was sought after many people. But fate was never on their side, when the police caught both of them and make them agreed to work for the government to get the ruby for England. Both were shipped to India, and that was where Max played with Kitty's heart.In truth,Max was afraid to take a chance in love since he was hated by his father, Sir Harold. In India, Kitty discovered who Max was, and lost him again when he 'died' at his own father's command. Back in England,Kitty was forced to marry Sir Harold's another son, Charles. In a nick of time, she was saved by her Max, got another dose of adventure and together they fled to India bringing the Blood of India with them. A wonderful ending of this story were they had an Indian wedding and settled down for an adventurous life in India.
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