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Summary: Believe the Title
Review: About as improbable a story as I've ever picked up. Fiona comes from a Scottish castle, but runs a high tone secretarial service in the city. But takes on the difficult client personally when three previous assistants fail to cut it. She charms, she works instinctively with nary an error. And it gets worse. All the men are gorgeous, including the Greek God ex-husband, the Oklahoma oil baron boss (Redford look alike) and his unlikely business partner, a 6'4" "heroicially handsome ... pale copper Apollo." Then we move on to the bodice ripping, complicated misunderstandings, and so on. Ad naseum.One of the silliest things I've chanced upon.
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Summary: Believe the Title
Review: About as improbable a story as I've ever picked up. Fiona comes from a Scottish castle, but runs a high tone secretarial service in the city. But takes on the difficult client personally when three previous assistants fail to cut it. She charms, she works instinctively with nary an error. And it gets worse. All the men are gorgeous, including the Greek God ex-husband, the Oklahoma oil baron boss (Redford look alike) and his unlikely business partner, a 6'4" "heroicially handsome ... pale copper Apollo." Then we move on to the bodice ripping, complicated misunderstandings, and so on. Ad naseum. One of the silliest things I've chanced upon.
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Summary: why didn't anyone tell me?
Review: I quite enjoy Vera Cowie books, and given that most of them seem to be out of print, have been trying to get hold of them, and looking forward to new ones. So I'm wondering, why didn't anyone tell me that this book was just an abbreviated version of Secrets, which I read at least 10 years ago? The book in itself isn't particularly bad, but having read the complete version (Secrets), I much prefer the original - it goes into a lot more character development, and the plots are far more fully explained, and they make a lot more sense for being fully explained. Living in Australia, it takes about 3 months for books to get here with standard shipping - it was a big disappointment to wait that long for what I thought was a new book, only to receive a very shortened version of a book I'd already read. The book itself - maybe 4 stars; the fact that it's an abbreviated version, and nobody told me - two stars. Average, 3 stars!
Rating:
Summary: why didn't anyone tell me?
Review: I quite enjoy Vera Cowie books, and given that most of them seem to be out of print, have been trying to get hold of them, and looking forward to new ones. So I'm wondering, why didn't anyone tell me that this book was just an abbreviated version of Secrets, which I read at least 10 years ago? The book in itself isn't particularly bad, but having read the complete version (Secrets), I much prefer the original - it goes into a lot more character development, and the plots are far more fully explained, and they make a lot more sense for being fully explained. Living in Australia, it takes about 3 months for books to get here with standard shipping - it was a big disappointment to wait that long for what I thought was a new book, only to receive a very shortened version of a book I'd already read. The book itself - maybe 4 stars; the fact that it's an abbreviated version, and nobody told me - two stars. Average, 3 stars!
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