Down And Out In Flamingo Beach (Kimani Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Marcia King-Gamble (Author)

Book Description

Series: Kimani Romance | Publication Date: May 1, 2007

Every smart woman needs a plan!

Mine is simple: return to my old hometown to help my ailing Granny "J" give her failing quilt shop a major makeover, and hightail it back to Los Angeles and civilization.

Settling down in small-town Flamingo Beach isn't on the agenda. Neither is falling for someone like Derek Morse, even if the gorgeous construction worker has velvet-smooth skin and a rock-hard body that's been starring in all my illicit daydreams. Besides, Derek has me pegged for a seriously high-maintenance sister.

But as I'm about to learn, first impressions can be misleading. And taking the time to learn the truth about someone could lead to all kinds of delightful and mutually satisfying discoveries….

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kimani (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373860161
• ISBN-13: 978-0373860166
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,742,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge this book by its cover, April 18, 2008

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Denny "Den" (London,UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Down and Out in Flamingo Beach (Kimani Romance) (Kindle Edition)

I give this book 2.5 stars. The plot line is good, heroine prejudges hero due to her past superficial attitude. (Who says construction workers have no ambition are not educated, what do they teach you all in the USA?) Hero rightly prejudges heroine for her high maintence, superficial ways. I did not root for them to get together, I wished there was a twist at the end where the guy dumps the woman permanently after finding out that she only finds him suitable, even tho she is very attracted to him after she finds out he used to earn big bucks and has 2 degrees.
A weak link in a series that is not really about the romance and more about the town.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!, April 29, 2007

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R. A Rippy "rarippy" (Shelbyville, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down And Out In Flamingo Beach (Kimani Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Joya Hamill comes back home to her hometown to help out her Granny J because she has some health problems plus she was getting a little burned out with her job. Her stay ends up being longer than she anticipated and finds herself falling for 'construction worker' Derek Morse who she thinks has no ambition thus not her type. Derek thinks she is too high maintenance so he fights his attraction to her. They both assume the wrong things about each other and find out that they were both wrong about their assumptions. Great third installment of the Flamingo Beach miniseries.

2.0 out of 5 stars Just not well written, April 17, 2011

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Leci D. Steele "prolific reader" (NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down And Out In Flamingo Beach (Kimani Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book without having read the others in the series. The story had enough background to stand alone. The plot was good. Two people are brought back to their hometown to care for aged and or ailing grandparents. The problem with the book was the author's lack of character development. All of the characters in the book were flat and one dimensional. The heroine was very difficult to like. She liked the guy was wouldn't date him because he was a construction worker. Without ever having any in depth conversations with him, she decided he lacked ambition. He was likeable enough but pegged her as high maintenanced, which she was, but he dated her anyway. At the end, he considered going back to a corporate culture he hated to please her...A lot of characters were sterotypes and not very plausible...Story just didn't live up to the potential of the plot.