Kissing Frogs

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Summary: IRRITATING READ
Review: The one thing I liked about this book was the cute cover....that is what prompted me into buying the book in the first place.....however, it fell short on every single aspect...
It was supposed to be funny....it wasn't...
The heroine, Lucy Gordon, was a biologist; hence, you'd think she was intelligent.....she wasn't....
Wolfe, who was turned into a frog by a sorceress a thousand years ago, because he wouldn't marry her daughter, who he impregnated, wasn't anything to write home about, either....he was overbearing and obnoxious....and nothing was hardly mentioned regarding the fact that he was totally naked the first few days!
I love comedies! Honestly! However, I didn't even chuckle once while reading this....I wanted to throw it against the wall I was so irritated.....but I forced myself to finish it, hoping I'd find something to like about it...some witty dialogue perhaps? Nope, didn't find it.
I've read lots of book with fairytalelike settings and loved them.....unfortunately, I found this author's writing to be choppy and uninteresting.....if I read her again, I'll buy a used copy......

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Summary: cute idea, but irritating characters & choppy writing
Review: don't let the cover description suck you in -- this author has wasted a fun premise on 354 pages of moronic schtick and undigestible characters. there's a few -- very few -- promising moments, but not worth the wade through the morass of etc.

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Summary: cute idea, but irritating characters & choppy writing
Review: don't let the cover description suck you in -- this author has wasted a fun premise on 354 pages of moronic schtick and undigestible characters. there's a few -- very few -- promising moments, but not worth the wade through the morass of etc.

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Summary: I love the irony of this story!
Review: Fractured Fairytales, remember those? In KISSING FROGS Ms. Altom
takes my all time favorite fairytale, The Frog Prince and gives it a delightfully contemporary twist.

I love the irony of this story. Biologist Lucy Gordon would rather have the new species of frog than the thousand year old Prince. Okay so he doesn't look that old and in fact looks pretty good naked...

Yes, Wolfe is arrogant, but so what? It's a romance, you know he's going to redeem himself in the end. And he does. The outragous set up is what makes it so fun and a smile a minute book.

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Summary: charming tale
Review: I read some bad reviews here, and frankly, totally bad reviews always make me buy the book just to see if it was that bad. And imagine my surprised when I found an utterly charming tale!

She's a scientist trying to create a super frog to please her papa, only she accidently finds a prince.

Hey, this is the perfect modern day fairytale! I simply loved it!

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Summary: delightfully original slant on a princely tale
Review: In the not too distant future, scientist are the superstars not movie stars or athletes. Lucy Gordon's father is one of the best of the best. Being a good daughter, she aspires to be like daddy dearest. She is working with frogs as a barometer for the environment - if the frogs skin is nice and green everything is okey dokey; if the frogs or a sickly shades then bumpy roads are ahead. To this aim, Lucy wants to breed a new strain of frog. But it backfires and she is set down, and made to teach science in a Brit boarding school. This has not stopped her from trying to find the trick to get back in the good graces of the Scientific Community and daddy's eyes.

Her efforts results in a very unique species of from - or so she thinks. The Frog she had transforms into 200 pounds of pure hunk, when Lucy excitedly kisses it. Dazzling one might say, but Lucy wants her frog not a prince! 1000-year-old Prince Wolfe Graye refused to marry a Sorcerer's daughter, and for his temerity he is put under the old standard spell of being turned into a toadie hop hop. The Welsh warrior is delighted someone finally released him from his amphibian form, so he is not happy Lucy wants Kermit for company more than him. He must charm the lucky lass into loved him human self or be banished back to a diet of flies and living on lily pads. Chugerumph! Medieval warrior finds himself out of league in this modern world, so he must upgrade Male 5.0 for Male XP quickly to woo his lady. He has only until the next full moon to break the spell or its back to the Muppets for life. Lucy had to choose between the Prince trying to be charming and winning daddy's approval. Frankly, not much choice, in my opinion, but in Laura Marie Altom's charming spin on the Faerytale, you're given a great time and some charming fun...princely style.

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Summary: Very nice...
Review: Lucy Gordon has lived in shame's shadow since the debacle several years ago when she introduced a "new" frog to the scientific community. Unfortunately, her steely eyed father had already discovered it. Humiliated, she retreated from public life, quietly teaching school and having a safe, unexciting romance with a British peer.

Then, it all changes with a bang. She finds a frog with gorgeous EYELASHES in the middle of the road. Since no known frog has eyelashes, Lucy knew her redemption was at hand; until she gleefully kisses her discovery and bamf! he turns into a prince, a gorgeous, naked prince. While most women would love to find a single, handsome prince instead of a frog, Lucy is disturbed. Her dreams have gone up in smoke, and now she has the aptly named Prince Wolfe who needs shelter, clothes, and for her to declare her love for him in a month's time, or he'll become a frog again. Lucy is glad to give the shelter and companionship; Wolfe is a very amiable housemate, handsome and helpful, but she is not going to love him. That way, she'll have her find back in a month. That is her brain's plan. Her heart knows it's a Faustian deal, and has another idea.

*** Ms. Altom has taken an age old concept and given it a new twist. Though at times the humor seems a bit stretched, as in Monty Python, laughter is to cover the tears. Wolfe will make you want to go out in the garden and look for disgusting frogs, if there's a half chance one of them might be like him. ***

Reviewed by Amanda Killgore.

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Summary: Reader from Midwest
Review: Ms. Altom has written a delightfully, funny book based on a fairy tale. This fairy tale has a twist with a wonderfully sexy hero who many women would like to find by their pond.

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Summary: fine Fractured Fairy Tales like rendition of The Frog Prince
Review: Scientists realize that frogs are the perfect barometer of the health of the environment for if the species has hearty skin, the quality of the surroundings is safe; on the other hand sickly frogs mean a deadly environs. Cotswold boarding school teacher Lucy Gordon knows she has come along way from her hometown of Springdale, Alabama to instruct the aristocracy in the equivalent of fifth grade biology. However, what she really wants is to find her own special frog species to make her father proud of her achievement.

Lucy swerves her car to avoid a "bouncing green blob", but her tire blows. The green blob turns out to be a unique species of frog. Euphoric, she kisses her amphibian, only to find herself pinned under a muscular naked hunk. Lucy has liberated Welsh Prince Wolfe from a millennium old spell that turned him into a frog. He feels obligated to his rescuer and needs her to survive in this strange world. As they fall in love, Lucy wonders if her dream of universal acknowledgment of frog success is incompatible with her hunk while also wondering if his feelings are love or just gratitude.

KISSING FROGS is a delightful amusing modernizing of the classic fairy tale, The Frog Prince. The story line is filled with fun leaps and frolics as author Laura Marie Altom plays this novel to bring joy and laughter to her audience. The prime romance is delectable because the lead couple is a fine duo struggling between his medieval outlook and her ambition and doubts. This reviewer anticipated Rocky and Bullwinkle to show up (they didn't) with this enjoyable version of Fractured Fairy Tales.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Not Worth the Price!
Review: Sorry guys, but I found this book to be very boring and very unrealistic!

Lucy is a total wimp who seems to spend all her time trying to become something she is not just to please a father who no one could please. She is supposedly this very smart scientist, but can't seem to accomplish the necessary research to back up her great "frog find". Then, after kissing this "frog" and turning him back into a Prince, she spends several days with the naked Prince Wolfe swaggering around her cottage trying to get her in bed (with her "almost" fiancée drifting in and out) before she thinks to get him some clothes! In the meantime, Lucy spends a lot of time either fending Wolf off, thinking he is crazy as a loon, melting whenever he touches her or trying to get her "fiancée" to pop the question!

Prince Wolfe is a swaggering, egotistical man who seems to think every woman he meets is only out to get his body. He also seems to think that after 1,000 years as a frog he is still king of all he surveys, even though he seems to have a pretty good grasp of current times (all that eaves dropping on visitors to his ponds). He does have his good points and in the end turns out to be an okay guy, but through most of the book he is just too unrealistic to believe.

And to top it off her fiancée is just so dumb and gullable you have to wonder why anyone would want to marry him. With Wolfe in the background yelling "Wench bring me food", he believes Lucy's tale about "recording a TV program". And that is just one incident of many before he gets a clue that all is not right with the woman he "has feelings for" (but can't get seem to get around to asking to marry)!

I just found the characters to be too unrealistic, naïve, and unbelievable!