Holly

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Summary: Wonderful holiday romance
Review: This book is a beautiful book and also a great read. This is the first book that has made me laugh out loud in a long time. I loved it. I did however think it could have slowed down on the sex a little but it was a great book.

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Summary: Old Southern Love Story
Review: This is a wonderful love story with all the elements of old money and true Southern living. Holly Latham is an heiress to the Hollander Tool fortune. For all her money, she is a down to earth gal who cares deeply for others, especially her family.

One glorious teenage summer decided her future, a love of old plantations and their "care and feeding". To that end, she has almost reached her PhD but for her thesis. She decides to combine many loves and needs into one goal. She will write her thesis on Belle Chere whose owner just happens to be the reason for her career. That teenage summer was spent with Lorrie Beaumont working on his Revolutionary-period estate and falling in love. She goes after Lorrie to get him to marry her while she writes her thesis.

Holly's love of old houses gets her into trouble before she can begin her plan. She falls into a pit while prowling the grounds of such a house. No one knows where she is and the walls of the pit are concrete. What is a girl to do? Into her life walks Nick Taggert, a wealthy doctor who has come to the area to recover from a broken engagement. He is looking for someone to love him for him, not his money. Nick discovers Holly in the pit, helps her get out and from there sparks fly but not those of fury.

Nick doesn't tell Holly he's anything but the redneck she believes and Holly doesn't tell him that she is as wealthy as he and lets him believe she is a snob. They spend one spark filled weekend together and Holly vows never to see Nick again. But Nick has fallen in love and wants to find out if Holly feels the same. He hires on as Holly's family gardener to be near her.

Does Holly choose Nick's love or the wealth and old house Holly believes Lorrie has to offer her? To find that answer, you need to listen to the audio book, "Holly". Jude Deveraux has again written a story that you won't want to put down.

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Summary: Good, but not her best
Review: This is an fairly enjoyable read, although pretty short, the type and the margins are quite large. The plot is quite good and moves along at a good pace until about two-thirds through when all of the sudden one of the lead characters kills two other characters seemingly out of the blue, effectively killing the plot as well. It seems like Ms. Deveraux got sick of writing this book or hit her deadline, as the rest of the book is choppy and uninteresting.

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Summary: Please find a happy medium!!
Review: This latest offering of Jude Deveraux has a lot of sex. The last four or five Deveraux offerings had none, zip, zilch, zero! Now that every other word, thought or action leads Holly and Nick to...well, you know, I can't really quite complain. HOWEVER I WILL! Too much sex or too little sex does not a good romance make. Too much and the book is trash, too little and you might as well be reading a cookbook. Jude needs to find a happy medium and stick with it. She should know how to do this; her earlier novels prove it!

I thought it was hilarious how everyone around Holly believes her to be a virginal, innocent, angelic little girl. I'm assuming they never spent a lick of time with her or else they would know that this little vamp is sleeping with strangers on the hood of her car! Another thing that was terribly stupid was that this Holly chick could identify the age and value of an antique comb at a glance, but when given a unique and rare canary diamond, believes this multi-million$$ bauble is just a piece of glass and tin! Please! I know I probably wouldn't be able to tell a real diamond from a marble, but I do not profess to be an expert at valuing anything.

However, in the grand scheme of things, this book was much, much, better than any of the last four or five (maybe even six) novels by J.D. For me this is saying a lot as I have HATED her recent novels with a mad passion! I would also have preferred it if she wouldn't have plugged her next novel in the ridiculous "Forever" series by bringing in the annoying Darci (will she EVER go away?)

My advice is to try to borrow this book from a library or a friend. Don't waste money on it if you're hoping it may be a classic Montgomery/Taggert novel. It isn't.

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Summary: Disappointment!
Review: This must be the worst book Jude Devereaux has written. The characters seemed to be in the wrong time. He should have been dragging around a club. They act like cave people with carnal urges and no morals or self-control. Sex in a mini-cooper and later--on the hood of a car--is not my idea of romance. This is one book I would like to return for a refund. I wonder if Devereaux wrote this book because it is definitely not up to the caliber of others of hers I have read. Do not waste your money, if you want a book with substance.

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Summary: I loved this book and could not put it down.
Review: This was a funny romantic read. Worth the money.(And I paid $[$$]) I wish the people would have at least introduced there selves before they had sex though. Do People really have sex with strangers like that??? But I would highly recomend the book.

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Summary: DELICIOUS FANTASY!
Review: This was the first Jude Deveraux book I've ever read and I LOVED IT! Now I'm hooked. Between working full-time, running a household, doing the wife thing, mother of 2 kids and caring for an ill parent, I didn't think I'd have time to read, but once I read the first few pages of this book (which was a gift) I found I could hardly put it down! I read at every free moment I had because it took me away to another world. I love that Holly was a seemingly innocent girl, smart, educated and a bit naive and then she has spontaneous electrifying sex with a gorgeous stranger! Everyone has had that fantasy at one time or another! Can't wait to read more about Nick Taggert and what happens to he and Holly.

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Summary: I'm glad I'm not the only one...
Review: who thought this book was stupid! I've enjoyed thoroughly several of Jude Deveraux's books but this one was awful! I got to the scene after Nick rescued Holly from the "pit" and then they start making out and almost threw the book across the room. The waitress thought he "kidnapped" Holly because she went down the same road he did? Holly stripped down to her panties in a pit with dead animals in it? She starts making out with a complete stranger because he "saved her life"? Please. How stupid and contrived. I am not even going to waste time finishing it.

Is someone else ghost-writing for Ms. Deveraux now? This book didn't even read like hers. Yuck. Amazon won't let me leave off the stars rating, so I give it one star, but I really want to give it a rating of negative 5 stars.