In three connected romances, Torrey Benson, the author of How to Marry a Millionaire, tests her methods on three volunteers--including cocktail waitress Emilie, career woman Camille, and Christopher, Torrey's ex-husband. Original.
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
So contrite, I left it behind on the plane,
By A Customer
This review is from: How To Marry A Millionaire (Silhouette Special Products) (Mass Market Paperback)
Simply the most unrealistic book I've ever read. Fairy tales have more chance of coming true than any of these three short stories! Situations like those just don't occur in nature. Good fiction at least gives you a HOPE that something like it could happen in real life. Trust me, I've never heard of a man with the name "Rio."
3.0 out of 5 stars
insulting premise, cute stories,
This review is from: How To Marry A Millionaire (Silhouette Special Products) (Mass Market Paperback)
Torrey Benson wrote a bestseller called How to Marry a Millionaire. As part of the promotion for the book, a popular talk show is hosting a contest based on the book: three contestants get coaching from Torrey and have one month to return to the show engaged to a millionaire. Each of the novellas in this anthology is about one of the contestants.*** "Rich Man, Poor Man" by Judith Arnold. Emilie Storrs is a newly-unemployed social worker whose sister is married to a rich man. She's tired of seeing the worst side of life, and wants to use a rich husband's money to do good. So, following the suggestions in the book, she gets a job as a cocktail waitress at the Golden Key Caribbean Resort. Unfortunately, the man she's most interested in is bartender Tyler Weston. The Good: There's a nice bit of very mild suspense as they uncover a prostitution ring. The Bad: If you've ever read a book before, or seen a movie, you know what the twist is. There isn't much in the way of actual romance in this story--other than the two of them lusting after each other, so I had a bit of a hard time believing they were really in love. _____ ***½ "Family Wealth" by Muriel Jensen. Millie Brown is an accounting whiz who wants the money to pay for her three half-sisters' educations. To that end, she proposes a marriage of convenience to her new boss, Rio Corrigan, heir to a cigar family fortune. It's not a complete shot in the dark, however: Rio was quoted in a magazine as saying that if he could find a woman who could set his new company's finances straight and warm his bed, he'd marry her in a heartbeat. The Good: This was for me the best story of the three, because the romance made a little more sense. Rio and Millie were both rather lost souls, and each had something to offer the other. They also ended up falling in love convincingly--getting to know each other first. Rio's nephew was a realistic child, as well. The Bad: Millie is rather too much of a martyred saint in the way she's willing to sacrifice all for her sisters. And the sisters got on my every last nerve. The premise everything hinged on--Millie needing money to pay for their educations--bothered me too, likely because of my own experience. The sisters are all adults, and I didn't see why they couldn't get jobs to help out, or get educational loans or grants. _____ *** "Once Upon a Husband" by Suzanne Forster. The heroine in this story is Torrey herself; the hero, her ex-husband Kit McGrath. They'd been high school sweethearts, married when Torrey had thought she was pregnant, and divorced when Kit was more focused on his hockey career than on his marriage. Now Kit is the third contestant in the contest, and he seems to be trying to sabotage her, just when she desperately needs her book to succeed because she's completely broke. The Good: It's a second-chance story, which is always appealing to me. The Bad: It lacks direction. Kit doesn't really do much to try to get Torrey back until near the end of the story. In a longer book, this would be a decent plot--the clueless hero is a particular favorite of mine--but it's not developed enough here. Then there's Kit's disastrous "pursuit" of the 20-years-older Bubbles, with a twist, but that's not developed enough either. And there's the running gag/theme of body language signals which, you guessed it, isn't developed enough. _____ The Verdict: I have to admit that I wasn't particularly fond of the premise in general, so these stories were a harder sell for me than they might have been otherwise. Overall, this wasn't a bad anthology. I'd bought it at the flea market at 3/$1, so the price was definitely right. And as quick beach reads (literally, in this case), they were fine.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is Romance Fiction, not War and Peace, Please!!!!!!!!!,
By Reader in Alabama (Alabama) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How To Marry A Millionaire (Silhouette Special Products) (Mass Market Paperback)
This anthology by 3 of my favorite authors, was nice read, it will entertain you, The other reviewer must have left it on the plane before they finished all 3 stories. Like I said in my title, it is not War and Peace
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