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Title: Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 0-312-97425-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (143 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good Sex Boring Book
Comment: Sadly this book was too long and extremely boring with a heroine who couldn't find her way out of a paper bag. A quarter of the way into the book i wanted to slap the lame heroine very, very hard; by half-way i gave up reading. Life is too short to waste any of it on this book. This is definitely a 90-page novella disguised as a real book. Oddly enough Crusie's characterizations were very well done. Too bad the plot wasn't.
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 1/2 stars. But GO OSU!
Comment: Welcome to Temptation...a not so welcomed dissapointment.
This is the story of one of the Dempseys, Sophie, the oldest. She has taken care of her 2 younger siblings, Amy and Davy, since she was 17. Her family has a long history with the law...on the wrong side of it, for that matter. Her father is currently serving time in jail, her sister had a juvie file thicker than the bible and Davy is coning whoever he can...but only as long as those he cons are coners as well. Follow me so far? Good.
To earn a living Sophie and Amy have a video company in which they film weddings mostly, but as luck may happen Clea, a one film actress...not counting the porn one, contacts Amy and tells her that she wants Sophie and Amy to shoot her coming back to Temptation, OH as part of an audition for a film company. Sophie and Amy agree and head to Temptation, where from the very begining problems arise.
Temptation is a small town, hence, gossip travels quicker than the former Condor.
Enters the picture Mayor Phinias Tucker, the very attractive town boy, only grown up. For Sophie he equals disgust because, without him knowing, Phin reminds Sophie of a very bitter moment when she was in high school and many other sour moments every time their parents moved from town to town. But the attraction between these two is undeniable, so why fight it? After all, is only a game.
Only it turns out not to be because soon these two start feeling a little too deep to make their liaison too casual.
To complicate matters Phin has a 9 year old daughter (who is a delight, a mother who thinks he's still 12 years old and a very jealous reporter who happens to be Clea's soon to be ex husband.
Zane, Clea's husband, is a lousy excuse of a human being, but he wants his wife back and resorts to all kinds of blackmail to push her back to him.
Suddenly a dead body is found and now everyone is a suspect. Especially the Dempseys.
Personally, I picked this book because I read in a review that the heroine was a plus size, the only evidence I found of that was that she was described as "round", "soft". The hero, Phin, was very annoying. If I want to read about men like him, I wouldn't be reading fiction and above all I wouldn't be reading romance. He was annoying. Obsessed with pool, which I'm sorry but that's not a sport, no matter what he thinks, he called her "dummy" every once in a while, just because he thought she didnt read (and she never confirmed or denied if she did or not), and she never told him to turn it down a notch or two because his ego was taking 3 out of 4 chairs in a table. He seems to be more interested in having hot sex with her than in getting to know her and I never saw a real base for their so called love.
Amy, Sophie's sister, is spoiled rotten and so selfish I was thinking maybe the devil was a bit more altruistic. She never once thought about Sophie and her life, well not until the very end, and she even got jealous of a 9 year old for the attention Sophie was paying to her and not to Amy.
Davy was about the most redeemable character. He was funny, warm and he played the role of big brother even though he is younger.
I'm not saying Sophie and Phin and their story are not likeable. I think it was very entertaining and a fast read all in all. But the points mentioned above made me roll my eyes various times and after I was done reading the book I didn't think it was memorable. The mystery of the death and other mysteries makes up for the weaker points in the novel.
And being an OSU alumni helped me find a point or two that were redeemable as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: I adore this book!
Comment: This is my favorite of the Jennifer Crusie books! I absolutely love this book! I can't even count how many times I have read this book. . and read it in just one sitting. It is very hard to put down. It's full of laughs, mystery, sexiness, hate, etc.
Throughout the whole book though, I was irritated at the sister, Amy. She was getting on my nerves! But I think any book that makes you feel like you are in the situation or make you feel for the main characters is always a great book!
I hope Jennifer Crusie continues to write fantastic books like this one! I recommend it to anyone. You won't be able to put it down!!!!!
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Title: Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 0312971125 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 0312966806 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: What The Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 155166951X Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Getting Rid Of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 1551668653 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie ISBN: 0312980159 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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