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More to Love (Silhouette Desire, No 1372)

More to Love (Silhouette Desire, No 1372)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: :(
Review: I must admit that I was not impressed with this book at all. Most of the time I found myself bored with it. Molly's recently wed sister asked her to housesit and petsit for a week. Molly figured she could consider it a miny vacation. Molly is the type of person with a big heart that most people tend to abuse. Molly also considers herself a bit over-weight with little self-esteem.

Rafe finds out that his brother has gone off and gotten married. Rafe considers it his responsibility to make sure that his kid brother that he practically raised did not make a big mistake. But, instead of finding his brother and new sister-in-law, he instead finds Molly.

The weather turns bad and Molly and Rafe are stuck together. They are completely opposite and yet they can't help but be attracted to each other.

There really was no interesting story to follow. The characters were a bit boring. The reader was given a bunch of information on their backgrounds, but that was basically it. After spending a week together Molly and Rafe must decide if they should chance a future together. I would not recommend this book to buy or even borrow. I hate to give this author a bad review because I have read other books of hers that were really good. She just missed her mark on this one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: :(
Review: I must admit that I was not impressed with this book at all. Most of the time I found myself bored with it. Molly's recently wed sister asked her to housesit and petsit for a week. Molly figured she could consider it a miny vacation. Molly is the type of person with a big heart that most people tend to abuse. Molly also considers herself a bit over-weight with little self-esteem.

Rafe finds out that his brother has gone off and gotten married. Rafe considers it his responsibility to make sure that his kid brother that he practically raised did not make a big mistake. But, instead of finding his brother and new sister-in-law, he instead finds Molly.

The weather turns bad and Molly and Rafe are stuck together. They are completely opposite and yet they can't help but be attracted to each other.

There really was no interesting story to follow. The characters were a bit boring. The reader was given a bunch of information on their backgrounds, but that was basically it. After spending a week together Molly and Rafe must decide if they should chance a future together. I would not recommend this book to buy or even borrow. I hate to give this author a bad review because I have read other books of hers that were really good. She just missed her mark on this one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: ANother trip to the Outer Banks with Browning
Review: Molly has gone to the OUter Banks for a vacation spent pet sitting her sister's pets- 2 salty tongued African Grey parrots and a large hairy and smelly cat.
Rafe is flying in to the small island in the Outer Banks to prepare his signature SURPRISE turkey dinner for his little brother and his new wife.He wants to check her out and make sure she is not a gold-digger after his inheritance.
Rafe finds Molly- the big sister to the bride- who is not anything like the pics he has seen of the bride.

Molly is short and round and curvy and soft- has vanilla skin so soft he wants to touch it.....

The attraction between Rafe and Molly is a warm and growing thing- kind of a nice and lazy progression over their week trapped in their tiny cabin where they meet and talk and get to know one another before giving in to attraction and desire....

This was a pleasant read with a yes innocent but not unbelievable heroine- ,Molly is a small town girl from West Virginia afterall who has never been out in the world. It is her freshness and kind heart and warmth that draw Rafe- a man who has never allowed attachment into his relationships with women.

I totally agree with the books listed by the other reviewers- Lavyrle Spencer's Sweet Memories is a classic! For real plus size heroines also read the Brenda Jackson et al anthologies Living Large and Larger than Life!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I enjoyed this book...
Review: Unlike the other reviewer, I really enjoyed this book. Molly had typical "fat girl" feelings about herself. She didn't think Rafe would be interested in her because she was not a "perfect" size. Molly is smart and beautiful in her own way, and Rafe finally sees her for who she is and not what she looks like. I would recommend this book!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I enjoyed this book...
Review: Unlike the other reviewer, I really enjoyed this book. Molly had typical "fat girl" feelings about herself. She didn't think Rafe would be interested in her because she was not a "perfect" size. Molly is smart and beautiful in her own way, and Rafe finally sees her for who she is and not what she looks like. I would recommend this book!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Rubenesque Heroine
Review: Years of raising her younger sisters on her own has made it impossible for Molly Dewhurst to take time for herself. But at 36 years old, the sweet, compassionate red-head is determined to change all that and start living life for Molly. She's ditched that low-life-leech-of-a-husband in divorce court; now she's ready to shed some bad habits and a few pounds and emerge from her cocoon to show the world a whole new, amazing, dazzling Molly! But first, she needs to do her newlywed sister a favor and pet-sit at her honeymoon cottage for a few days. Then Molly can finally get down to the business taking care of herself.

Ruggedly handsome Rafe Webber, coastal real-estate developer and culinary wizard, likes to have his life firmly under his thumb. So when his younger half-brother Stuart sends him a wedding picture out of the blue, Rafe is determined to rescue him from the gold-digger who snatched him up while he was away on business. Annoyed, Rafe makes a quick trip to Ocracoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, with the plan of catching the new bride off guard. But when he arrives it isn't the happy couple he finds but a very annoyed sister-in-law!

Stubborn as can be, neither Molly nor Rafe will leave the cottage and instead declare that they'll just have to try to stay out of each other's way as they share the quaint-yet-cramped quarters. But soon after declaring a truce, the pair find that spending time with each other is anything but horrible. Molly discovers that sweet and gentle Rafe certainly knows his way around both kitchens and women! Before long she feels her long-cold heart reawakening under Rafe's attentions, but is certain that he could never want a girl like her permanently. If only she had the courage to take a chance and tell him how she really feels!

What worked for me:

Our hero and heroine seemed to be genuinely nice people. It was nice to read a romance that didn't have contrived knock-down drag-out fights between them.

There was some subtle humor in the story, with some of the most enjoyable lines to be found in the good-natured bantering between the two main characters. Although, I must add that I appreciated the rather whimsical pet names as well.

Size-wise Molly was short, plump, and calorie-obsessed. Fortunately Rafe was able to show her that she was a valuable and desirable woman without losing weight.

What didn't work for me:

     Despite being divorced, Molly was another one of those fairly innocent plus-size heroines. She'd had some bad experiences with men in the past and was somewhat reticent about being with Rafe. Because of this, I felt the level of sexual tension between the two characters was lower than it might otherwise have been.

There was a lot more introspection than action in "More to Love", so it felt a bit slow in pacing, especially since I'd read a romantic suspense novel just prior to it.

Overall:

This category novel is a solid read for anyone looking for a short, tender story about two people discovering love together.

 Warning: This book has a couple of sexy scenes, and few curse words thanks to a couple of salty-tongued birds.

If you liked "More to Love" you might also enjoy "The Bridesmaid's Reward", "Runaway Bay", "His Seductive Revenge", "Carried Away", "His E-mail Order Wife", "Spellbound", "A Worthy Heir", "The Legacy Tree", or "Sweet Memories".

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Rubenesque Heroine
Review: Years of raising her younger sisters on her own has made it impossible for Molly Dewhurst to take time for herself. But at 36 years old, the sweet, compassionate red-head is determined to change all that and start living life for Molly. She's ditched that low-life-leech-of-a-husband in divorce court; now she's ready to shed some bad habits and a few pounds and emerge from her cocoon to show the world a whole new, amazing, dazzling Molly! But first, she needs to do her newlywed sister a favor and pet-sit at her honeymoon cottage for a few days. Then Molly can finally get down to the business taking care of herself.

Ruggedly handsome Rafe Webber, coastal real-estate developer and culinary wizard, likes to have his life firmly under his thumb. So when his younger half-brother Stuart sends him a wedding picture out of the blue, Rafe is determined to rescue him from the gold-digger who snatched him up while he was away on business. Annoyed, Rafe makes a quick trip to Ocracoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, with the plan of catching the new bride off guard. But when he arrives it isn't the happy couple he finds but a very annoyed sister-in-law!

Stubborn as can be, neither Molly nor Rafe will leave the cottage and instead declare that they'll just have to try to stay out of each other's way as they share the quaint-yet-cramped quarters. But soon after declaring a truce, the pair find that spending time with each other is anything but horrible. Molly discovers that sweet and gentle Rafe certainly knows his way around both kitchens and women! Before long she feels her long-cold heart reawakening under Rafe's attentions, but is certain that he could never want a girl like her permanently. If only she had the courage to take a chance and tell him how she really feels!

What worked for me:

Our hero and heroine seemed to be genuinely nice people. It was nice to read a romance that didn't have contrived knock-down drag-out fights between them.

There was some subtle humor in the story, with some of the most enjoyable lines to be found in the good-natured bantering between the two main characters. Although, I must add that I appreciated the rather whimsical pet names as well.

Size-wise Molly was short, plump, and calorie-obsessed. Fortunately Rafe was able to show her that she was a valuable and desirable woman without losing weight.

What didn't work for me:

     Despite being divorced, Molly was another one of those fairly innocent plus-size heroines. She'd had some bad experiences with men in the past and was somewhat reticent about being with Rafe. Because of this, I felt the level of sexual tension between the two characters was lower than it might otherwise have been.

There was a lot more introspection than action in "More to Love", so it felt a bit slow in pacing, especially since I'd read a romantic suspense novel just prior to it.

Overall:

This category novel is a solid read for anyone looking for a short, tender story about two people discovering love together.

 Warning: This book has a couple of sexy scenes, and few curse words thanks to a couple of salty-tongued birds.

If you liked "More to Love" you might also enjoy "The Bridesmaid's Reward", "Runaway Bay", "His Seductive Revenge", "Carried Away", "His E-mail Order Wife", "Spellbound", "A Worthy Heir", "The Legacy Tree", or "Sweet Memories".


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