The Magnate's Indecent Proposal (Harlequin Presents) [Mass Market Paperback]

Ally Blake (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373127626
• ISBN-13: 978-0373127627
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,176,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In her previous life Australian romance author Ally Blake was a head cheerleader, a maths tutor, a dental assistant, and the secretary of the Australian Cinematographers Society. She married in Las Vegas - no Elvis in sight, though Tony Curtis did put in a special appearance.

In this life Ally is a bestselling, multi-award winning novelist who has been published in over twenty languages with more than two million books sold world-wide. Her fun, fresh, flirty books are published by Harlequin Mills and Boon.

Ally and her family, including three boisterous toddlers, share a property in the leafy western suburbs of Brisbane, Australia, with kookaburras, cockatoos, lorikeets and the occasional creepy crawly. When not writing she loves eating M&Ms, watching The West Wing reruns, playing hide and seek, and barracking til hoarse for the Collingwood Magpies AFL team.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart, sassy and sweet, August 3, 2009

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Bibliofree "Bibs" (Mpls., MN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Magnate's Indecent Proposal (Harlequin Presents) (Mass Market Paperback)

In the past 3 months I've read over a hundred Harlequin romances and Ally Blake, along with Natalie Anderson, are my stand out favorite Harlequin writers. I wish they'd both expand their writing horizons to main stream publishers.
In this book, Blake's female protaganist, Chelsea London, is smart, fast on the draw with sassy comments, and completely believable; her love interest, Damien Halliburton, is everygirl's fantasy and the sparks really fly everywhichway in the course of their connecting. I laughed-out-loud throughout the book and smiled for hours after closing its covers. Now I await more of Blake's books! I'm amazed that such a denigrated genre as romance has writing talent of this caliber in its writing pool.

3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant pot-boiler with sketchy plot., November 20, 2011

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Diana M. Hockley "lacock2" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Magnate's Indecent Proposal (Harlequin Presents) (Kindle Edition)

I chose to read this novel because I wondered what Harlequin Mills & Boon were publishing in 2011. I haven't read a novel from these publishers for many years, but was aware that they now encourage raunchy sex between characters. Apart from that, I get the impression the formula hasn't changed in any meaningful way.

The plot of this novel is so straightforward to be almost non-existent. Gorgeous, bouncy, quite likeable animal-loving girl who owns small animal grooming parlour bumps into gorgeous, rich financial trader (stereotyped) magnate in restaurant(as you do!). They lock eyes and part, but when each leaves the restaurant, they get each others mobile phones! A good ploy for them to get together again but that is about it. Girl is negotiating bank loan to open another parlour, but this has no discernable connection with the story.

Over the course of about three days (with raunchy sex included) she falls in love with him, he doesn't want to commit - but at the last minutes of course he does. That's virtually the plot folks!

For what it is, Ally Blake has turned out a quite well-written pot-boiler, with characters of little substance. The imagery is good and the story is set in Melbourne, Australia.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What is it with thumbs?, August 15, 2010

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Sara (United States) - See all my reviews

I must admit I had to just speed-read this book; it was far too uninteresting. I think the setting is Melbourne, Australia, but seems more like New York. (I kept picturing it as an episode of Felicity.) The back cover is pretty accurate.

From the back: "A millionaire magnate had her phone! When Chelsea realized she'd accidentally swapped cell phones with someone, she knew how this would play out: she'd trek back into town, swap phones with some middle-aged man with a paunch and be on her way. ...now he wanted her body! Only, seriously sexy Damien "Rich-list" Halliburton was way out of her league. She'd sworn off men long ago, but with a guy this gorgeous, how could she refuse his wicked, seductive and very indecent proposal?"

It's a quick-witted romantic comedy, with emphasis on the comedy. It's clearly intended to be funny. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I prefer some substance to my romance novels. This book just seemed highly modern-day/casual with the "hero" not interested in being in an exclusive relationship until the last few pages. The heroine was a bit different than usual Harlequin heroines, too, desiring to keep her distance from all men and also not taking anything too seriously. It lacked warmth.