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3.0 out of 5 stars
Par for today's course..., December 30, 2006
I never know what to expect from Lisa Cach. From Mermaid of Penperro through George and the Dragon, to Dream of Me, it can go from historic, to travel fantasy, to erotic succubus. Some I liked, some I didn't, but all have been original, all have brought out some degree of enjoyment or annoyance. This one, however... I don't know, Blah?
A spooky haunted house owned by a studly man, he needs a medium to help him rid himself of the ghosts. Naturally he finds a pretty medium, and the usual formula book for today's 20-30 somethings ensues. Raging hormones, lusty thoughts (the hero sees the heroine as dessert, the heroine ogles the hero as sumptuous eye candy), two minutes after meeting one another, they are both thinking condoms and the fastest route to the nearest bed, oral sex being, naturally, the prerequisite if a handy condom is not available. True love blossoms (how could such a promising start fail?). Because I am not of the 20-30 something generation, I find it all just a little tawdry, shallow, and a bit of a yawn.
So, Lisa Cach has now officially joined the MaryJanice Davidson, Katie MacAlister, Amanda Ashley, Lyndsay Sands, Lori Foster, etc. club. All very successful authors, all bestsellers, all pretty much interchangable.
Read it, forget it, go on to the next "romance", it should be listed on the top of the NYT bestseller list or the bargain bin of your nearest used book store.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Kind of dry, just so-so, March 28, 2007
I've never read a Lisa Cach book that I wanted to re-read or keep. Some are just ok, and some are just skimmers that go straight to the used book store. This book is no exception thus far.
Although most of Lisa Cach's books have very engaging plots, her characters are kind of 1 dimensional.
In this book, Case, a carpenter who buys fixer-uppers and resells them, finds the house of dreams that he wants to keep for himself. The only problem is that it's haunted by ghosts that are always molesting him at night in his bed or doing odd things around the house. Meagan, an antique store owner and retired ghost hunter; is offered the job of getting rid of the ghosts since she is known to have the 6th sense in speaking/seeing ghosts.
The story started out well, but the scenes got repetitive, and the main characters weren't very engaging. The ghosts were the most engaging of the characters, except their personalities or justifications for their actions were never truly explained. Why would a living person trap a ghost to a house? How did the owners know to trap a ghost if the ghost had died way before the owners? The conclusion never resolved all the questions I had in the book and was an extremely contrived no explanation happy ending.
Perhaps the story would have been better for me if the books was steamier, but frankly, the hero getting molested by ghosts or possesed people were a little hotter.
I think this is the last book of Lisa Cach I will buy new. In the future, I will only buy from used book stores. This one is definitely getting dropped of there too. Of the Lisa Cach books, the only one that I truly liked was "Dream on Me".
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Charming, January 13, 2008
This book was a light-hearted read that was entertaining but not excellent. It was a surface read good for weekends and lunchbreaks. I recommend for anyone who just wants a fluffy story to lighten your mood.
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