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Love By Design: Loving Jack\Best Laid Plans

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I've never been an avid reader of the straight-up romance novel, but have been spending a lot of time at the beach and was given this book from a family member, so I gave it a read. I've also been wanting to read a book by Nora Roberts for some time. Boy, was I underwhelmed.

The book is a compilation of 2 stories: "Loving Jack" and "Best Laid Plans." I read almost all of "Loving Jack" before throwing in the towel. (There are just too many GOOD books out there to continue wasting time on this.)

To be fair, I can't review the second story since I didn't get that far, but "Loving Jack" is possibly one of the most tedious things I've ever had the misfortune of trying to read. It is completely formulaic, with the near-perfect Jackie falling for the emotionally-distant Nathan after coming to live at his impossibly-perfect house in Florida. (The setting, by the way, is one of the few good things going for this story!) "Here's how Jackie feels, and these are her thoughts", followed by "here's how Nathan feels, and these are his thoughts." Ugh. Honestly, if I had to read another description (of the hitting-you-over-the-head-with-it variety) of how comfortable and in-touch with her emotions Jack was, I think I would have thrown the book in the ocean.

From what I gather, Nora Roberts' writing has gotten exponentially better as time has gone on. I'm going to give her another shot, but with a more recently written novel.

i love all the books bought at Amazon, so continue like this and this books from Nora Roberts are the best that i have read.

This was my second Nora Robrets book, and I was disappointed in this book. After reading my first Nora Roberts book (high noon)I could not wait to read another one of her books, but I found love by design boring.I am not going to let it stop me from reading more Nora Roberts books, but this book was no where near as good as the first book of hers that I read.

Nora Roberts wrote yet another amazing book. I was a little worried at first that it would be kinda boring but once I started I couldn't put it down. The second story about the contracter Abra was the better of the two., but I liked how the two stories shared characters. I would highly recommend this to anyone that likes Nora Roberts books.

I am under my husbands name writing this review but I loved reading this book You just fell in love with Nathan and Jackie, Cody and Abra...I think if you read Nora Roberts books then you need to read this one if you have not already..

Did not realize this was a harlequin romance. Storyline was predictable and expected.

Read only if you need to escape from your own life for a couple of hours.