Throwback Review: Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins

Title: Too Good To Be True
Author: Kristan Higgins
Published: February 1, 2009
Publisher: HQN
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
Source: Harlequin Reader Service
Genre: Contemporary
Characters: Grace Emerson, Callahan O'Shea
My Rating:

Synopsis:

When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone...exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart.

Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so...right?

{This book was read in January 2009; This is the review I posted on Goodreads}

I absolutely loved it! This is the first book I've read by this author but I'm positive it won't be my last. Between Grace, her grandma Meme, and her sister Margs, you'll be laughing out loud from page one. All the characters are well developed and it makes you feel like you're apart of it too. Callahan. What can I say. The almost perfect man, he's looking for the same things she's looking for. There's only one slight imperfection, at least in the eyes of her family. The only thing I didn't like about this story (and there isn't much) was Natalie and Andrew. Without giving anything away, (you can read the back cover of the book to know that Andrew is her ex-fiance who leaves her for her younger sister Natalie) I just felt that Grace was a too forgiving to both of them. Sometimes I just wanted to scream at Grace to stop babying Natalie and helping her plan her wedding to the man you were supposed to be marrying! But other than that, it was a nice lite read that's highly entertaining.

Throwback Review: Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy

Title: Flat-Out Sexy
Author: Erin McCarthy
Published: October 30, 2008
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 274
Source: Public Library
Characters: Tamara Briggs, Elec Monroe
My Rating:

Synopsis:

She met him at the racetrack...

...which was the last place Tamara Briggs wanted to find a man. Even a deeply intriguing, seductively sexy man like Elec Monroe. Tamara's a single mother now after losing her daredevil husband in an accident--and she's not about to get involved with another driver and put her kids, or herself, through that again. Besides, Elec's young enough to be her...younger brother.

Now things are moving a little too fast...

But he sure does get her heart racing. And after she's tricked into a blind date with him, Tamara gives in to her passion. Things screech to a halt, though, when he asks to meet her children. Whatever happened to wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am? Suddenly Tamara has to decide how big a risk she's willing to take to experience the thrilling, terrifying power of true love...

{This book was read in December 2008; This is the review I posted on Goodreads}

Love It! Love It! Love It! Elec and Tamara were smoking hot together! They couldn't seem to keep their hands off each other. Not only was this book steamy hot, it was laugh out loud funny as well. Elec is every woman's dream man; not only is he "flat-out sexy," he's caring, charming, great with her kids, attentive, and a great listener. (If only he was real and not a character in a book. LOL) Everyone has, or wish they had, a friend like Suzanne. She's absolutely hilarious. She and Ryder have an interesting dynamic that I hope will be explored further in a book of their own. I read the snippet at the back of the book which is Imogen (Emma Jean, lol) and Ty's story. From what I read it promises to be another sizzling hot read. I'm impatiently waiting to read it. I got this one from the library, but I definitely will be picking up a copy to add to me "keeper" shelf! Absolutely worth the read.

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