Lemon Drop: I will have you know Auntie Wendy that I picked out this stylish outfit all by myself.
Me: Well, yeah. Obviously.
Lemon Drop: Of course it's obvious! Mommy is, like, hopeless when it comes to fashion.
Me: Well you certainly look....colorful? Yeah, let's go with colorful.
Lemon Drop: Let's get this show on the road, Mommy and I gots shopping to do!
Me: Well, yeah. Obviously.
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Portrait of a Scandal by Annie Burrows - Historical romance, Harlequin Historical, 2014, Grade = C+
- Slow beginning, dynamite middle, tacked on conflict that annoyed at the end. Loved the Paris setting, loved the business-woman heroine. Also, hero is fourth son of earl, which is something a little different from the usual proliferation of dukes.
- You know how some readers complain about the proliferation of small-town contemporaries? Um, yeah. Ryan story = series-itis and it's a prequel novella! Terry = nice enough but if you're a female character who isn't a heroine watch out! Seasons = Cute story but a hero who talks like no guy, anywhere.....ever. Unless he's your 85-year-old grandfather.
- Sets up the serial, introduces the main characters and like all Hart stories - you get hooked by the characters.
- Sex, sex, sex and more sex. A thin plot, but enough to keep the whole thing going. What wasn't there? Character development. What are these people thinking? What are they feeling? Why are they making the choices they are?
- My TBR Challenge read of the month. I did think the romance got lost at times with all the delicious angst flying around and that knocked my grade down a bit. But dang, O'Keefe writes emotion and angst and desire and longing and.....well, everything.....so well. I inhaled this.
- Telling me the heroine is smart doesn't make her smart. A bag of rocks has more going for it. Also, lumpy writing. Nothing I liked here.
- What I loved about this second installment was how confident the heroine was. Love her! Hart is slowly peeling the layers back on her characters and I'm hooked.
- God bless Merrill, I read her books because I never know what crazy-sauce she's going to throw into the recipe. This one asks the question - did the hero, in fact, rape the heroine? I'm still not sure.
- What I love about Templeton's books is how she gives us all this wonderful romance that features "normal" people. Younger hero starts helping out his newly signal, pregnant, and slightly older than him next-door-neighbor.
Lemon Drop: I look fly, I look good....
Me: Really, Chamillionaire?
Lemon Drop: Chuck Taylor's killing, Adidas still grooving.....
Me: I just can't even.
Me: I just can't even.
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