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Summary: Where's the romance?
Review: Doctor Kate is a radio talk show host who has avoided jocks and sports like the plague after the death of her husband - a certified sports nut. So she is none-too-happy when a fellow talk-show host moves in next door. She is even more unhappy when he makes friends with her young son and encourages his love of baseball. Jeff is handsome, funny, intelligent, and good to her child - what more could Kate want? Unfortunately, she doesn't see these things and instead keeps looking for Mr. Perfect.Meanwhile, Kate thinks she has found the man of her dreams. Grayson White is handsome, successful, classy - and interested in things other than sports. He takes her to the opera and to expensive restaurants - literally sweeping her off her feet. She's immediately smitten.
I have known women like Kate - heck, she could be me! More than once in my single days what I thought I was looking for wasn't what I really needed. . . And so it is with Kate. She thinks Grayson is the man of her dreams when her real prince is sitting right next door - literally. Unfortunately, Kate very nearly gets herself in over her head with Grayson before the shocking truth about him is revealed. I applaud Sheila Rabe for not sticking with the "rules" of romance and, instead, making this book into something that is REAL. And she does this with her trademark wit and humor. Those who continually find fault with the romance genre should certainly take a look at this book. These things can happen in real life - and do. Thank you Sheila for another wonderful read.
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Summary: Don't be Fooled
Review: Don't be fooled by the cute cover and interesting description. I was so disappointed with this one. The story starts off well with Jeff and Kate not liking one another and barely on speaking terms and then slowly builds their friendship and attraction. Then out of the blue a third character is introduced who is supposed to be Kate's perfect man and she starts dating him and falling in love with him. Meanwhile Jeff has realized that he's in love with Kate and he thinks there's something fishy about this other guy. So here I am wanting to read scenes about Jeff and Kate and all I'm getting is Kate and the increasingly suspect other man. By the end I felt like I was reading the screenplay for a bad movie and even Kate and Jeff's reconciliation felt forced and unbelievable. Such a shame because the first half of the book was terrific.
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Summary: This one's no toad!
Review: I don't know about anyone else, but I *know* women who have tried to be "logical" and pick the "correct" guy when Mr. Right-But-Uncomfortable was staring them in the eye--and this is their story. I thought this book was a great read. Sheila Rabe strikes again with a funny, touching story about a real woman with all her quirks and blind-spots. True, there's no Cinderella here, but then I like a story with more to it than two perfect people going fight-fight-fall-into-bed. As long as she keeps writing like this--and as long as her heroines finally end up with the right guy at the end--Ms. Rabe stays on my must-buy list.
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Summary: Awful Heroine
Review: I have read the first half of this book, and although I usually force myself to complete a book once I've started it, I have no desire to read the rest of this one.
I simply do not like Kate. She is so repressed it's painful. She's mean to Jeff, and she's mean to her kids. There is no way that someone so unable to get along with others or to take an introspective look at herself could be a sucessful psychologist. Jeff is a great male lead, and should have her head over heels in love. Why is there so little ROMANCE in this romance novel?
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Summary: Missing The Romantic Spark
Review: I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, the story had a few interesting bits and pieces, but on the other, it never became a book that I couldn't put down. It never truly flowed well. The emotions of the characters were too superficial, and the introduction of a secondary love interest for the character Kate broke the flow of the main romance. I think the main problem was the character of Kate. There was nothing unique about her character - she was the stereotypical, self-important psychologist who had an almost pathological hatred of sports, which just never was believable. Her narrow-mindedness and gullibility became annoying after a while. While the character Jeff fell more and more in love with her, the source of the attraction eluded me. He actually seemed too good for her. The secondary characters never had much personality and really added very little to the story. Romantic tension was stated rather than created, giving the reader no emotional involvement in the story. Time seemed to just flow in the story without much of anything happening. There was a strange interlude where everyone went water skiing, which really made no sense, since it didn't seem as though the "sport experience" changed Kate's attitude at all. If you want a rather tame romance with no explicit scenes, and where the moral of the story is that true love doesn't necessarily have to conform to rigid rules, then this is the book for you.
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Summary: Missing The Romantic Spark
Review: I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, the story had a few interesting bits and pieces, but on the other, it never became a book that I couldn't put down. It never truly flowed well. The emotions of the characters were too superficial, and the introduction of a secondary love interest for the character Kate broke the flow of the main romance. I think the main problem was the character of Kate. There was nothing unique about her character - she was the stereotypical, self-important psychologist who had an almost pathological hatred of sports, which just never was believable. Her narrow-mindedness and gullibility became annoying after a while. While the character Jeff fell more and more in love with her, the source of the attraction eluded me. He actually seemed too good for her. The secondary characters never had much personality and really added very little to the story. Romantic tension was stated rather than created, giving the reader no emotional involvement in the story. Time seemed to just flow in the story without much of anything happening. There was a strange interlude where everyone went water skiing, which really made no sense, since it didn't seem as though the "sport experience" changed Kate's attitude at all. If you want a rather tame romance with no explicit scenes, and where the moral of the story is that true love doesn't necessarily have to conform to rigid rules, then this is the book for you.
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Summary: Ugh.
Review: This has gotta be the worst ... I've read in a long, long time. It's worse than what I've ever been assigned in all of my classes put together. The only thing worse than this that I can think of is the Red Wheelbarrow...and that was what, four lines long? Yeah.......it's not worth the paper it's printed on, much less the ink used to print it.
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Summary: The most CHARMING book of the year!
Review: This is the first time I've been compelled to write a review and, unfortunately, it's for all the wrong reasons. This book is awful. The heroine is judgemental, condescending, annoying, completely full of herself and neurotic to boot. All of this and a psychologist too! I was hoping that she would end up with the secondary love interest(the bad guy)it's exactly what she deserved. The hero deserved better and so do we.
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