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Summary: Call It Drivel
Review: JAKS prints are somewhat dated since they are 12 - 15 years old, but some don't show the wear and withstand the test of time. This one sort of walks the fine line. I got a little irked by the arrogance of the female character, but as the book went along it turned out well. Heather was the headstrong daughter of a hotel owner in Tucson. At 18, the last the family saw of her was her waving bye bye from the back of a yamaha (sheesh JAK, you could have shown some class and made it a Harley, but this was not in the heyday of the Harleys so I shall excuse this!! lol). 10 years later she had come home to assume, what she presumes is the reigns of the family business. Her father is ready to retire and she is itching at the bit to be boss. She also decides that a marriage of convenience - a partnership, is just what she needs so she proposes marriage to Jake Cavendish, her father's business manager. On the night before the marriage, Heather learns she is not to take over the family business, because Jake already owns it and he would be boss, not her. Kicking off her well controlled image, she dons her bike outfits, rolls up to the curb of the church and tells the groom in front of the guests just what she thinks of him. Naturally, in JAK it is a battle to the end between two headstrong people that find love is the winner. Some of the action is a little contrived, but on the whole a very pleasant read.
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Summary: A Marriage of Convenience is not Convenient
Review: JAKS prints are somewhat dated since they are 12 - 15 years old, but some don't show the wear and withstand the test of time. This one sort of walks the fine line. I got a little irked by the arrogance of the female character, but as the book went along it turned out well. Heather was the headstrong daughter of a hotel owner in Tucson. At 18, the last the family saw of her was her waving bye bye from the back of a yamaha (sheesh JAK, you could have shown some class and made it a Harley, but this was not in the heyday of the Harleys so I shall excuse this!! lol). 10 years later she had come home to assume, what she presumes is the reigns of the family business. Her father is ready to retire and she is itching at the bit to be boss. She also decides that a marriage of convenience - a partnership, is just what she needs so she proposes marriage to Jake Cavendish, her father's business manager. On the night before the marriage, Heather learns she is not to take over the family business, because Jake already owns it and he would be boss, not her. Kicking off her well controlled image, she dons her bike outfits, rolls up to the curb of the church and tells the groom in front of the guests just what she thinks of him. Naturally, in JAK it is a battle to the end between two headstrong people that find love is the winner. Some of the action is a little contrived, but on the whole a very pleasant read.
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Summary: Clash of the Titans!
Review: Once a wild child, Heather Strand has matured and returned home to take over her father's hotel and enter into a marriage of convenience with Jake Cavender, her father's second in command. Then the night before the wedding, Heather discovers it was all a lie. Jake owns the hotel. Heather must work through her anger, feelings of betrayal, and newly discovered love for Jake. It isn't until danger appears that Heather and Jake work through their fierce independence. Krentz is known for her Alpha males and strong-willed females, but Jake and Heather must be the poster children. An exciting tale from start to finish.
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Summary: once upon a time...
Review: once upon a time, i loved Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz). I moved onto her contemporaries and likd them as well. I read Quick's entired backlist, until one day I realized.. they.. are.. all.. the.. SAME. yes! they are! change the names, change the plot a little, give this heroine a slightly different quirk. New book! Sorry to say this, But JAK needs to stop writing. Either that or get some new ideas. She might be prolific, but she recycles her books all the time. I haven't read an original book of hers in years. and i have given up now. sigh. it's sad that JAK is still a best seller (of hardcovers no less!) with mediocre books while freshn, talented up-and-comers don't get the same exposure.
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Summary: Call It Drivel
Review: THis is the sort of plot and the sorts of main characters that make me want to give up romance fiction. The heroine, Heather, found out the night before her wedding that she didn't own the resort that she thought was hers: it really belonged to her marriage-of-convenience fiance Jake, who didn't tell her because he thought, with complete justification, that she would back out on the marriage. Am I the only one who found Heather's anger to be completely justified? These heroes of JAK are dishonest with the heroines all the time, and NOTHING HAPPENS. The men get away with it, because it 's for the heroine's own good, of course.(Even the heroine's FATHER is in on the deception in this one-no wonder she can accept being treated so disrespectfully!) Heather is, at happy- ever-after time, agreeing to slave away at the resort that she thought would be hers, but thanks to a pre-nup, not actually getting to own any of it nor seeing a dime in her own name. How likely is it that a fiercely independent woman is going to voluntarily accept not only being lied to and deceived by her man,(who really doesn't think he's done anything wrong-in fact, it was all Heather's fault for being arrogant) but making herself financially helpless? Is she really so stupid and lacking in backbone that she would accept Jake saying that "We'll run the resort together" knowing that she has no real power and certainly no money of her own, and absolutely no security?
If you want a feisty, independent heroine, you have to make winning her somewhat of a challenge.Heather talked a good game, but Jake had her in bed and bowing to his will pretty quickly.
I'd walk out on any man who did to me what Jake did to Heather, and I don't even ride a motorcycle. Let's hope this kind of plot stays in the past where it belongs.
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