Just Like a Man [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Bevarly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 2004

Hannah Frost is used to being surrounded by cute, sweet, troublemakers. After all, she's the principle of Indiana's upper class private elementary school, a popular repository for kids who "don't fit in" at public school. But even though she's been single since dinosaurs roamed the earth, what is interesting Hannah these days isn't her worst student㟩t's his father,

What she can put her fingers on? Michael Sawyer, aka Raptor, former FBI computer specialist, has a few good ideas. Trouble is, he's too busy trying to save the world––or at least the world's internet connections––from certain doom at the hands of an old enemy, and trying to get his imaginative son back on course at school. But there's always time for a gorgeous, oh–so–prim, slightly mysterious headmistress, isn't there? Michael plans to make time, and do whatever it takes to convince Hannah to do the same.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Bevarly wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long -- and that was with college rule notebook paper -- and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it "Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up till dinnertime reading!" Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 50 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and her last book for Avon, The Thing About Men, was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She's been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers' Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two Career Achievement Awards. There are more than seven million copies of her books in print worldwide. She resides in her native Kentucky with her husband and son, not to mention two very troubled cats.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Avon (December 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060509473
• ISBN-13: 978-0060509477
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,367,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Bevarly is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty works of contemporary romance. Her books have been published in two dozen languages and three dozen countries, totaling more than ten million copies in print worldwide. Although she can't remember wanting to be anything other than a writer, her career side trips before publication included stints as a salesclerk, waitress, bartender and editorial assistant. She has called home places as diverse as New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but now lives in her native Kentucky with her husband and son.

She is delighted to be offering some of her out-of-print works on Kindle and is looking forward to the publication of her first women's fiction title in trade paperback. THE HOUSE ON BUTTERFLY WAY will be published by Berkley Trade in February 2012. Visit her website at www.elizabethbevarly.com or, even better, "like" her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ElizabethBevarlyReaderPage.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Tale of Two Stories, January 9, 2005

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Connie "conniedallas" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Like a Man (Mass Market Paperback)

I like Elizabeth Bevarly's books, I really do. They are very witty and have interesting characters. It was hard to decide how many stars to give this book because it has two separate stories in it, only connected by the most tenuous of threads.

First, you have the story of Hannah and Michael, which I would give 3 stars. I liked the characters and their emotional connection, but the plot was pretty far-fetched and it seemed Ms. Bevarly couldn't come up with an idea about why the villian of the piece was a threat. Also, this story had an absolutely flat ending with a non-resolving resolution.

The story of Selby and Thomas was more enjoyable with an actual end to their story. They each found themselves to be better than they had realized. Thankfully, no villains were involved in this story that had a decent romance plot line and an emotionally satifying ending.

Many novels with parallel plot lines at least have some plot-advancing interactions among the various protagonists. This one has only the sparsest of connections.

Having read it, I didn't feel like my money or my time had been wasted. I got some belly laughs out of it and enjoyed all the protagonists, but the potential buyer may want to take all of the above into account when deciding how to spend his/her gift cards/money/gift certificates.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Romantic, very funny, but incomplete, April 7, 2005

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S. Reader "scibarfan" (Franklin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just Like a Man (Mass Market Paperback)

Well, I for one really enjoyed Bevarly's wacky humor in this book. (It's my first time reading her work.) The repetitions were intended as humor, and I found them funny. In fact, only the first one, which was used more often, got old. Yes, many of the sentences start with "and," "but," etc. People do not think in complete sentences, and much of what is written is the workings of the minds of one of the characters. I thoroughly enjoyed both romances in this book; the characters were very well developed, and their relationships were emotionally compelling, romantic, and steamy.

The suspense could have been equally good, and I thought Bevarly would tie everything together at the end. Unfortunately, she did not. The two romances barely tied together, and the spy plot was left dangling with no resolution. That was bad, very bad. She could so easily have connected the spy plot to Pax's computer business and tied everything together. Alas!

So, great on romance, and I thought it was very funny, but the lack of resolution in the spy sub-plot and the failure to tie the two romances together loses some points. Come to think of it, Bevarly doesn't really put the finishing touches on the second roance either. I've set the stars at 4 because the rating could use the boost, but it's really about a 3 to 3.5.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I'm not seeing a real resolution here- 2 1/2 stars, March 6, 2005

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Dr. Edward Dow (Pewaukee, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Like a Man (Mass Market Paperback)

This story was set up to be a romance with a suspense twist, but the suspense part is left hanging. There were two parallel stories told of two budding relationships, but I never felt like the suspense part was developed. Without the promise of a thrilling climax to the suspense aspect, the stories could have stood on their own without the reader feeling like the resolution was left hanging.

This also took me over a week to read which means it was not very compelling. All in all it was a below average read.