Customer Reviews

Blonde Heat

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

As an avid reader of romance and erotica, I can honestly say this has to be the worst combination of genres I've ever read. Notorious for her ability to inundate readers with multiple love - no,excuse me - sex scenes, Ms. Johnson has a devoted following; however, with her latest she has taken a bend in the road. Perhaps it's her age (no I'm not an anti-age, I enjoy Dorothy Garlock who is roughly the same age) or because she has not explored the contemporary world of romance enough, I'm not sure. I am sure Ms. Johnson not only left her novel unresolved (a BIG No-No in the romance genre), but left the reader having no empathy for any of her characters. Immature and beautiful; well-endowed and mysoginistic....need I say more?
I would only recommend this novel to those who thumb through the pages looking for the "naughty" parts. There are many, and they are the only decent part of the book. I wish I'd done that, it would have saved me some time.

Susan Johnson has done it again - soft porn without interest. Even the old Playboy stories had more characterization and plotting than Johnson now serves up. If all we're going to get is sex, it could at least be more interesting. Thumbs down!

This is the first book of Susan Johnsons that I have read and I loved it. I am looking forward to reading more. It is a dreamers book and that's what I like to read.

This a rambling, disorganized waste of time. It's probably more approximates "Chick Lit" than a true appeal to a reader's hope for a romantic escape. Again Johnson displays poor characterization, overemphasis on sexual details, not quite believable "sex talk" and totally "modern" bitchy,women's libbers who delight in being with it and bashing all men. This is escape romance? Can I identify with any of the characters? No way! Would I want to be any one of them? Nope. Susan J. wrote wonderful books when she first published. I kept them all. Her writing has deteriorated into pages and pages of meaningless conversation between the protagonists and dirty details of sexual intimacy devoid of human feeling. Where is the foreplay both mental and physical? I will no longer buy any of her books!!

Three childhood friends (Lily, Cece and Serena )return to the small town of Ely where they all grew up together and find love and romance with three bad boys. The book mainly centers around the relationship of Lily, a divorcee and Billy, a NHL star who returns home every summer and has secretly lusted for the older Lily when she was a lifeguard in high school. Cece hooks up with Ely's biggest womanizer Zuber and Serena falls for the local Sheriff Frankie. I enjoyed the highs and lows of all three relationships although I found Serena just a bit annoying and childish. This was a great sexy read and I recommend it highly.

This is one of the first books I've read that didn't appear to have a ... PLOT. What the...? I guess having three couples to focus on triples the sex scenes, but there wasn't much substance to hold the story together and move the story along. What few obstacles were presented for the couples to overcome just petered out (no confrontation between Billy and Heather, a sister who, due to her need for therepy/detox delayed two of the characters from...having sex). I grew up near Ely. It was fun to recognize some landmarks, lakes, etc. But that was the sole enjoyment I got out of this book. Glad I checked it out of the library.

I enjoyed reading Susan Johnson's new offering, Blonde Heat. At first I thought it was more of the same -- one gets tired of the same worn, tired formula from a really good writer. It's a little bit more of the same, but at the same time, the book is humorous. It's a dreamer's kind of book. Home town boys who had crushes on home town beauties get beauties. The title is sorta clichéd, and I think that that is part of the fun of the book. I'm hoping that this book signals Susan Johnson's turn away from just the basic stuff to a story with more depth. I can only hope.

Susan Johnson was always been an automatic book purchase for me...however, I wish I had left this book on the shelf.
I do not like these newer books of this author and am very
sad to see the last of her wonderful books seemingly coming to
an end. I own all of them but I guess I am done purchasing
the new ones for now.

What could be more surprising than Susan Johnson kicking off her contemporary debut with a theme that departs from her usual historical style and screams chick-literature? Blonde Heat is an unabashed sexual outing for three childhood friends who find romance and a summer of love in the town of Elys - with Lily, the betrayed and divorced soap-opera actress fulfiling her fantasies with a NHL star hockey player Billy Bianchini. Her friends Cece and Serena seek passion in the arms of playboy Nicholas Zuber and sheriff Frank respectively. However love always don't come easy when Billy is ensnared by a tenacious enamored single mother who fawns over his parents and using her kid as an excuse to further her advances; Zuber can't change his frivolous ways in the face of business and Frank isn't sure that Serena can accept him as an equal partner with their deviant background...

Sure, Blonde Heat is full of sizzling passionate scenes and is a breezy irreverent read filled with bitchy remarks and celebration of the women's camaderie. Jealousy, rage and dumb blonde vengeance are refreshingly detailed by Johnson. Yet one feels the lack of development in the characters' premise especially Lily in her angst of her marriage. Lily and Billy's romance could have been a poignant one but one gets the feeling that Susan Johnson intends to rush to the next carnal description. It is erotic and smoldering but Blonde Heat is a no-holds-barred reckless ride that lacks a bit of subtlety and redemption to strike gold.

This book was terrible! I enjoy a good romance mixed with a lot of passion, but this book failed on both accounts. There is no real plot to the story and someone must have poured cold water on the hot passion because it was sex, that read more like a how to guide, then a story. I tried finishing this book for 3 months, but could not do it. I had heard a lot of good things about Ms. Johnson's writing, but I am afraid to read the other books that I have of her's because of this book. If you must read this book do yourself the favor of finding it for a dollar or less, other wise you are wasting your money.