A Summer Smile [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Iris Johansen (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 273 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing (January 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405643293
• ISBN-13: 978-1405643290
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Iris Johansen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Daughter, Stalemate, Killer Dreams, On the Run, and many more. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sexy Sedikhan Story, March 9, 2000

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marymary (State College, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Summer Smile (Loveswept) (Paperback)

This is another wonderful Iris Johansen romp through the desert. Daniel (huge barbarian mercenary, VERY sexy) is sent to rescue Zara (sweet innocent college graduate) from terrorists in Said Ababa. He mistakenly believes that she is David's lover (David, hero from Touch the Horizon). However, she is not and her secret past causes some miscommunication that almost tears them apart.

If you have followed her Sedikhan series, this is a must have. This also sets up Philip & Pandora's story in ....And the Desert Blooms (#126). Great sex, fun characters and exotic locales...what more can you ask for?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The plot changes... and changes, March 20, 2008

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Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Summer Smile (Loveswept) (Mass Market Paperback)

The book's plot first tells us about some kidnappers... and you'll get zilch about that story.
Then the love story starts so abrupt... that you won't believe it.
After that you'll hear of her problem... and you'll read a dull story.
And then you'll finish the book and that will be perfect because you'll not have to open it again.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Please be aware that this is a re-issue of previous work!, February 21, 2008

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new york girl (new york) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Summer Smile (Loveswept) (Mass Market Paperback)

Many reviewers are rating this Johansen novel quite poorly. Please realize this novel is reissued from 1985. It is one of several related to the Sedikhan series in the line of Loveswept books. Iris Johansen was not able to adequately develop characters and storyline due to space constrictions involved in writing romance novels for Loveswept. These books were of a stipulated number of pages and followed a rigid format. It is only later in her career that Johansen was able to break away from the Loveswept "mould" and establish herself as the writer she is today. I enjoyed A Summer Smile while taking into consideration it's original year written and the fact that it is a Loveswept "novelette". I only wish I could read And The Desert Blooms to continue the relationship between Philip and Pandora...