Shocking Behavior [Mass Market Paperback]

Jennifer Archer (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell (August 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0505525070
• ISBN-13: 978-0505525079
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,253,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

At the age of ten, Jennifer Archer made up her mind to become a writer. Then she grew up, became "sensible" and earned a business degree with a minor in accounting instead. After years of trying to find her way through a confusing maze of debits and credits she realized that, for her, accounting was no more sensible than becoming a World Federation wrestler. So in 1993, she enrolled in a creative writing class, and five years later, sold her first novel. Since then, Jennifer has written many novels and novellas, as well as numerous non-fiction works.

She has twice been a finalist for Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart award, and in 2006 was a finalist for the prestigious Rita Award and a nominee for a Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award. Her debut novel for teens, Through Her Eyes, will be published by Harper Teen in April, 2011.

Jennifer has taught creative writing and has presented numerous talks and workshops for educators, students, writers' organizations and bookstores. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, travel and hanging out with family, friends and her dogs, Marge and Harry. She lives in Texas.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A charmingly different story!, August 11, 2002

By 

M. Bradley "Mimmi" (Bluegrass State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shocking Behavior (Mass Market Paperback)

Roselyn Peabody sees herself as the typical nerd. She's always been smarter than just about anyone she knows, she's the kid who always threw the grade curve in school, the one that other kids made fun of just because she was so different. She's never really grown out of seeing herself like that, although now she is a college Professor and a Scientist, and involved in helping to invent a contraption that could change the beliefs people have always had about science. She came to Pecan Grove, TX to help Professor Hershel Drake, who at one time was a teacher of hers, and whom she just felt drawn too. Part of that draw had to do with his son...

J.T. Drake, or Jerome as he didn't like to be called, newspaper columnist, true crime published author, and Professor Drake's son, has come to Pecan Grove after a phone call from his father's neighbor lets him know that his father is up to some sketchy things in his basement--Billowing green smoke, and an acrid burning smell just to start. Having been the brunt his whole life of jokes about his 'absentminded professor' father, he comes to Pecan Grove thinking he'll see what his father is up to, and convince him to move closer to him. Waiting until his father retires for the night, J.T. sneaks into his father's basement laboratory, never realizing that his life would be changed from then on out...

When Roselyn meets J.T, after his father's frantic phone call, she is prepared to dislike him on sight. Little could she have guessed that not only would she like him, actually be 'sparkingly' attracted to him, but also that she wouldn't be able to see him. J.T. had been rendered invisible by the refractor she and the professor have been working on. And while she's thrilled that it actually works, it would have been nice if it had worked after they had figured out how to make him visible again.

What a charmingly different story!! The plot is new and fresh, and the characters sparkle. J.T. is so true to life. While he admits to being drawn to beautiful, perfect women, he just can't seem to help but be drawn to Roselyn, even though he sees her as another nutty professor when he first meet her. He's got some definite baggage and problems going on, but he doesn't let them rule his life. Roselyn is full of insecurities, but once she lets herself loose, she comes into her own. They're both characters that we can easily relate to, and most definitely admire. It was great fun getting to know them, and witnessing them travel the road to love. That road is filled with some zany and wonderful secondary characters, which will alternately crack you up, or bring a tear to your eye. Miss Archer painted a truly beautiful picture with her words, one I found myself lost in. While this is classified as a paranormal romance, there is actually very little to categorize it so. Heads up to those who read contemporary and don't read paranormal-don't miss this book! It will satisfy you on a level you cannot even imagine!!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars unique plot, October 2, 2002

By 

Brenda Condit "satinskper" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shocking Behavior (Mass Market Paperback)

I was excited by this book when I first read about it. The plot sounded so unique that I jumped at a chance to get it. It took me a while to get into it though and even though I enjoyed it I was looking for more humor and passion. There are several scenes that could have been hilariously funny and only got a mild chuckle out of me.

The plot line has the hero, J.T., coming home to find out what his nutty professor father is up to now. He stumbles into his fathers lab and POOF! He's now invisible. Now his father's assistant is a beautiful woman named Roselyn. Roselyn has a interesting past herself which introduces us to her unique family. Roselyn, J.T. and his father must find the solution to make J.T. visible and also catch a bad guy in the process.

This book has some excitement and is cute at times. I found the book enjoyable but I was hoping for more from it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Neon Blue will never be the same for me..., August 11, 2002

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Crazy for Words - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shocking Behavior (Mass Market Paperback)

A call from one of his father's neighbors urges J.T. Drake to do
something about the outrageous behavior and mysterious goings on in the
basement of his childhood home. Confronting his dad and returning to
Pecan Grove, Texas are not on the top of the list of fun things to do,
but J.T. knows he'd better or Pop and his antics might end up being
fodder for another humiliating incident. You'd think he'd be impervious
to embarassment after growing up with an absent-minded, hippie-scientest
as a parent. But he wasn't. J.T. didn't want to be disappointed again
by the man he was supposed to look up to. He waits in a rainstorm for
the lights in Pop's house to go out, then sneaks into his father's home
laboratory to search for the latest oddball gimmick. He is caught and
stumbles into a strange contraption that not only shocks him to his
socks, but makes him invisible!

Roselyn Peabody, Pop's smart and unusually attractive assistant tends to
J.T. and he soon wakes from his stupor. Her touch is electrifying, and
it isn't just the results of his condition. He sees unwelcome
characteristics that she shares with his father as far as her strange
fascination with science, yet he is drawn to her.

Rosy promised to help him regain his visibility, but wonders if his
seductive maneuvers are only because she is the only one who can help
his father recover the information needed to help return J.T. to
normal. It wouldn't be the first time a man has pretended an interest
in her for what her mind could do for him. She also isn't happy about
the derisive way J.T. treats his father. Would he let her help in more
ways than the obvious? Would she be able to resist J.T.'s seductive
charm, or would it really hurt anything to indulge in a little shocking
behavior of her own?

I didn't want to put this book down, and when I had to, I returned to it
as quickly as I could! Jennifer Archer puts a twist on the invisible
man like one I've not seen before. Her creative humor makes the
intriguing, fresh plot sparkle. A definite keeper!