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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Bark Book Around, July 6, 2010
This review is from: Home is Where the Bark Is (Mass Market Paperback)
I love this book. It has laugh-out-loud moments with a very sexy hero and a charming heroine. If you are a person who needs a cheer up and who loves animals, this is the book to read.
Almost as gorgeous as the hero are the dogs. There are a lot of them, each with entertaining personalities and endearing qualities. I want to adopt Mac, but then I'm animal mad.
Shepherd's writing has star quality and I look forward to future books.
Cathleen Ross.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
a light-hearted, fun romance set in an unusual location and peopled by fur-folk, July 6, 2010
This review is from: Home is Where the Bark Is (Mass Market Paperback)
Home is Where the Bark Is by Kandy Shepherd
Contemporary Romance - July 6, 2010
3 stars
I was at the Romance Writers of America meeting when Editor Kate Seaver said to me, "Send me a romance with dogs in it!" and that's precisely what this book is: a light-hearted, fun romance set in an unusual location and peopled by fur-folk.
Home Is Where the Bark Is opens in a doggie day spa of staggering indulgence. This is a very uncomfortable place for ex-FBI, now private eye hero Nick Whalen to go undercover posing as dog owner for a puffy Yorkie-poo (his aunt's dog). But this dog spa seems to be the point of origin of several recent identity thefts, so undercover it is. The proprietress of the spa, Serena Oakley, has her own reasons to be uncomfortable around big, handsome men, including the fall-out of a modeling-career-gone-wrong, some bad boyfriend experiences, and a dislike of authority figures. So, of course, the two characters are instantly attracted, and have much baggage to overcome.
This book is a reasonably fun and a fast read. Some ideas don't entirely pan out. The suspected micro-recording-camera is every bit as far-fetched as it sounds, given that Serena doesn't bother to password-lock her business computer. But if the reader is willing to suspend disbelief over a few technical issues, they'll enjoy a nice beach read. The sexual tension between the characters in this novel are well written and not too in-your-face, and the cuteness-factor of the many dog personalities contributes to some fun along the way, so the book is appropriate to many reader-types. Animal lovers will enjoy the sympathies directed toward the dogs by caring, interested characters.
Reviewed by Adreinne from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Must love doggies, October 10, 2011
** spoiler alert ** It's a doggie dog world out there and no-one is learning this better than Nick Whalen. A recently retired FBI agent and new private investigator, Nick's newest case has sent him to the "Paws-A-While" doggie day care and spa. His job is to investigate the owner for possible identity theft. Nick is convinced, since many of the recent victims have been clients of the business, that there has to be a connection. So armed with his aunt's Yorkie Poo Bessie and his determination to crack the case, Nick enters "Paws-A-While" only to come face to face with the loveliest woman he has ever faced. The case has just entered a direction Nick was not planning on heading in. Serena Oakley's new business is booming. At least it was. Lately a lot of her clients have been pulling out due to "financial troubles". Therefore she is determined to make sure her new client stays, and when he does it's for more than one reason. Nick Oakley and Bessie are the weirdest dog-child and human pairing Serena has seen since she started her business. Nick is way too masculine of man for a fru fru dog like Bessie. One thing Serena knows is the moment Nick came into her shop is that things are going to be getting fairly hairy quite soon; just how hairy Serena could never guess. I have to say I rather enjoyed this book. Living in a house with five dogs I found myself laughing at the doggie humor in Home is Where the Bark Is. I found myself relating to Serena's dog-kid talk and Nick's "a dog is a dog" talk at the same time. Speaking of Nick and Serena, their relationship is masterfully planned. There is some lust at first sight, but it took a while for the characters to realize they trusted and truly loved each other. Serena had to get past her issues as the result of a crazy stalker and an ex who dumped her by email on Valentine's Day. Nick has to stop seeing Serena as a possible suspect. It was sweet seeing them bond over Mack and the other dogs in the story. You could almost track their relationship as progressed over the weeks. Truly nothing brings people together like animals and this story exemplifies it. The stories side subplot of indentify fraud is well written as well. You really go through all the motions believing that one person is guilty only to find them cleared. Then as you get nearer to the end of the book, you start getting suspicious of one particular character. So suspicious you find yourself mentally yelling at Serena to listen to Nick and stay away from said person. The big reveal at the end is wonderfully written and really brought things full circle. So if you're a doggie person that likes mysteries with romance, than this book is for you.
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