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Sweetest Revenge (Harlequin Presents)

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I really liked this story. It was a cute little read that is great on an inclement day. I curled up with this book and a cup of coffee and had a good time. Although the storyline is a little hookier that Emma Darcy usually does, it does work, and I think the characters are very honest if a little bogged down with analyzing their situation. Barbie is one half of a new business that puts a new spin on singing telegrams. Unfortunately her newest client is man who, when she was younger, broke her heart, and now he doesn't even recognize her!! She plots her revenge, but gets tripped up when she acknowledges that she is really still in love with him. All ends well when our heroine and the reader finds out that the hero always liked Barbie, he just stepped out of the way because his younger brother liked her and he felt he was too old for her. His whole family help him to get Barbie to understand that he loves her now, and it is a very nice ending.

Harlequin boks having been going downhill for some time, and you only have to try and read this abysmally bad book to see why! The heroine is called 'Barbie' and prances around dressed up like a "Barbie Doll" fairy, wings and all, and carrying a magic wand with which she sprinkles fairy dust on all and sundry. Plus the hero, of course. Mercifully, the book is only 40,000 words long (which would seem to be cheating readers, who normally expect a Harlequin book to be at least a decent 50 - 55,000 words) and finally ends in a hilariously-awful episode whereby Barbie (dressed up in her fairy costume) skips down a large staircase singing "Over the Rainbow" to the poor fool of a hero, who tells her that he thinks she sings better than Judy Garland! YUK!

This is a good book to read.