Customer Reviews

Behind Closed Doors

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Like the original series, all three stories are well worth reading but not all are equally excellent. My favorite Made For Each Other is about reluctantly reunited lovers. I did have a couple of minor complaints. My first is a disappointment in the reason provided for the pairs' initial falling out. A second, a quibble really lies in the fact that the cover says the break-up took place eight years ago, making Gina at that time much younger than the text states. The current conflict and reconciliation is a fun read.

I confess however I bought the book in hopes of finding out about the future of Tyler high school football player, Rick Travis and wonder of wonders, The Bride's Surprise, gives me just that. A nice write up of Rick's short-lived pro career and his subsequent life and loves culminating in his marriage to a long-time friend. The girl, a non-Tylerite asks him to be her 'man of honor,' - a nice twist - at her wedding which happily doesn't come off and the story takes off from there.

The third story suffers slightly only by way of comparison. Behind Closed Doors details the meeting between a millionaire businessman identified in a magazine as the sexiest man in America and the Tyler children's librarian. The story is slow moving, the women in it including unfortunately the librarian rather unpleasant in their pursuit of the visitor from out of town. I found it hard to accept that the pair falls in love after spending only a few hours talking about books while locked in a basement. And I am a librarian. The plot didn't require the fantasy ending it got for the story is a fantasy indeed.

All in all though there are many excellent secondary characters in the ten part Tyler series whose stories I would like to read. Here's hoping we get more of them. Overall I gave this book five stars because it was such a pleasure to revisit the younger Tyler characters.

I enjoyed this short novella, the characters were not well developed but the storyline was good.

This was only the story by Jacqueline Diamond not all three books. Rick and Rebecca are best friends, Becca is getting married and Rick is her "Man of Honor" she has alway done the right thing and picked a safe man, Becca and Rick have been friends since college, he's a former NFL football star and she's an accountant. She decides that she won't make the mistake her mother did because her father left when she was young and her mom had to work to hard to make her way in life.

Becca and her groom never argue, Rick and Becca argue all the time. Two hous before the wedding, she finds out there is a problem, she lets he mom know there won't be a wedding and leaves, the only place she can think to go is to the Inn she booked for their honeymoon, Rick figures out where she is and follows her there. Great story, the character of the groom was not well developed.

I read this book real fast because I loved it. I`m from Wisconsin and truely enjoyed it. I just went and ordered all of the books this author has writen. A good story line with suspence and funny to boot.

This book reminded me of that reality tv show Dating in the Dark. I enjoyed this one. It was good, but the ending sort of ruined it a little for me. Not completely but enough.

Basically, Delia is trying to get more people to support the library. It's not doing so well and the Library Appreciation day is coming up and she know she needs something huge to get people to show. She tells everyone a surprise visitor is coming. Little do they know it's Bobo, the retired hockey player that lives in town and his act has been done over and over again. That is until Justin Archer shows up out of now where. Voted American Woman's sexist man alive. Unfortunately, before Delia could ask him for his help he leaves.

Delia finds herself locked in the basement with Justin and he wants to keep their identities secret. Mainly, because he doesn't want the girl to recognize him as the sexiest man alive. What Justin doesn't know is that Delia knows exactly who he is. They talk for hours and hours and really get to know each other. Without being able to see each other.

The ending was a little too gooey for me. I'm thinking there should have been some hard feelings in there somewhere. Things doesn't always work out the way you want them to. I'm thinking if the ending was a little more dragged out, it would have made more sense. Or at least been more believable. It was a cute fast read.

It was a good read but not the 380 pages that was said. It was about 120 pages.

i loved these three storys. it was great how harlequin developed the town of Tyler Wisconsin and then went back years later to share more stories of the children that are not children anymore. a must read romance collection!