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Kisses To Go (Zebra Contemporary Romance)

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When she spots her boyfriend with someone else's pretty heels dangling around his shoulders, chef Abby Porter decides she'll do her English vacation by herself. She's broke, and certain she'll never be able to get her stuff away from the awful Lance, but she's always wanted to go to England, stay in castles, and see Stonehenge.

Her day continues its downhill course the airline refuses to refund Lance's ticket, and when her neighbor in First Class glowers at her the whole trip. But a chauffeur meets her at the airport, the manor home where she'll be staying is beautiful--and home to an Earl of all things, and a gypsy fortune teller forecasts that she'll fall in love with a prince. Surely her luck is turning. Unfortunately, she soon learns, her luck is only turning for the worse. Because the Earl turns out to be the unfriendly hunk from First Class--and he wants her gone. Still, when his elderly cook breaks her hip, sexy Earl Ian Wincott decides maybe Abby has some use--he's expecting an important guest and desperately needs a cook--and a fiancee.

Abby drives a hard bargain for the acting job, but pretending to be in love with Ian isn't as hard as she'd expected. He turns out to have a human side after all--starting with the housing project he's engaged in, but extending to the way he treats her when he isn't keeping his stiff upper lip. And there is more than a hint of magic in the air--real magic.

Author Irene Peterson creates a spunky heroine in Abby Porter--a woman determined to regain control over her life and to enjoy her trip to England despite the efforts of every male whom she meets. Peterson keeps things light, with her humor poking through to create gentle smiles. Ian is the brooding, tortured hero type--abandoned by his mother as a child, forced to become the cold and indifferent male that England insists upon for her aristocracy, and responsible for the entire family (most of whom are unfriendly at best), but intent on his project no matter what the cost. The burdens of his magical duties only add to his difficulties, going a long way to explain his behavior.

I would have liked to see more magic in this story--Peterson teased with it, without really letting it play a full role, and I definitely have hopes for Ian's charming younger sister in some future story, but KISSES TO GO was all about Abby--and Abby shines through. Peterson's engaging writing kept me reading and made this a hard book to put down.

KISSES TO GO is not only a teriffic read, it will have you checking to see when Irene's next book will be out.

Abby is a wonderful charater, a modern woman who vows to make the most of a bad situation and flys to England where she walks right into the life of a cast of characters you'll never forget. And she gets her man!!

Bravo Irene. Great job.

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE PRESENT AND PAST ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE, WITH THE GENTEEL CAST OF WILD CHARACTERS, ALL OF WHOM YOU WILL WISH WERE IN YOUR OWN FAMILY! BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN WITH HISTORY AND EXQUISIT DETAIL IN MIND, IT FLOWS ALL TOO QUICKLY FROM COVER TO COVER. BUY IT, KICK BACK, AND ENJOY A COLORFUL ROMP SET IN ENGLAND THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WANTING.....GOOD FOOD, A GEORGEOUS, GREAT HEARTED MAN AND AN ADVENTUROUS SOUL. HAVE FUN.

Abby Porter is planning to surprise her live-in boyfriend, Lance, with a romantic get-away to England, but it's Abby who gets the surprise when she finds Lance with another woman they day they are to leave.

Locked out of her own apartment with virtually no money and only the clothes on her back, Abby decides to take the trip alone and soon discovers that Lance's infidelity was just the first of many unexpected turns her life is about to take.

Irene Peterson's second novel, Kisses to Go, is full of magic, mystery, and royalty. The story line is fairly predictable and the author's writing style is often distracting, but the story is sweet and Peterson's interesting cast of characters easily keeps your interest until the very end.

Armchair Interviews says: A quick escape from a wintry afternoon.

Kisses To Go by Irene Peterson was a amazing book. In this novel Abby flys to England after she finds her boyfriend with another women. She has reservation at an Earl's Home for two weeks. All is well until she meets the Earl. It was great book - buy it!

The premise of this book has merit, but then halfway through it went downhill with over the top antics and too many characters showing up. Anyone ever see the movie "Clue?"
An american women, who happens to be a chef finds her live in boyfriend having fun with another woman in her kitchen. With that in mind, she hops on a plane to England where they had planned a vacation of sorts. Her revenge would be taking the vacation and the money, and have him fend for himself.
The hero Ian is an English Earl, a snob in the truest sense but has no money. Without his knowledge, his sister rents out rooms of their huge castle for vacationers which happens to be where our heroine Chef Abby extraordinare ends up. And the fact that Ian and Abby have met before and don't like each other makes things interesting.
Peterson tries her hardest to make Abby likeable and Ian not the stuffed shirt he first seemed to be when Abby first met him. Ian has a secret on why he needs money and why he keeps it so hush-hush. (The secret is to good to be true, he is really a nice guy, or so the author tries to point out)
Abby takes over the castle's, or whatever building it is kitchen and cooks like there is no tomorrow. Ian also needs Abby to pretend to be his fiancee to save face and get money from a rich American investor for his secret project.
There is no passion between these two, even though the whole opposites attracts scenario should have worked. Even when Abby and Ian get together, the reader doesn't understand why and doesn't care how they will make it work.
Abby is spunky that soon grates on the nerves and Ian is just a two dimensional character, when he could have been so much more.
Other than the whole English countryside environment, the book is a dud.
Overall boring in a way that makes your eyes glaze over.

Katiebabs