The Temptation of Rory Monahan (Men Made in America: Indiana) [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Bevarly (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373360177
• ISBN-13: 978-0373360178
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,931,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Bevarly is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty works of contemporary romance. Her books have been published in two dozen languages and three dozen countries, totaling more than ten million copies in print worldwide. Although she can't remember wanting to be anything other than a writer, her career side trips before publication included stints as a salesclerk, waitress, bartender and editorial assistant. She has called home places as diverse as New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but now lives in her native Kentucky with her husband and son.

She is delighted to be offering some of her out-of-print works on Kindle and is looking forward to the publication of her first women's fiction title in trade paperback. THE HOUSE ON BUTTERFLY WAY will be published by Berkley Trade in February 2012. Visit her website at www.elizabethbevarly.com or, even better, "like" her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ElizabethBevarlyReaderPage.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What were they thinking????, June 10, 2001

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Janet S. Pink (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Temptation of Rory Monahan (Man of the Month-April #148) (Silhouette Desire, No 1363) (Mass Market Paperback)

Silhouette Desire has this book listed under the Man of the Month. I think it deserves the title wimp of the month. Its hard to believe that Rory the main charactor is an adult male. The rambling thoughts and actions remind one of a pre-adolence boy. The female charactor isn't any better. The whole story line of an awaking dull but intelligent male is tedious and both charactors need help. This one will be giving away and never missed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too sweet by half, September 9, 2001

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Lee Hyte (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Temptation of Rory Monahan (Man of the Month-April #148) (Silhouette Desire, No 1363) (Mass Market Paperback)

Humor is all well and good -- romantic comedy is one of the most popular types of fiction (print and screen). But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and this book exemplifies it. You know how some literary writers take their "luminous prose" so seriously that they (and their poor readers) lose sight of the story along the way? You're left admiring the gorgeousness of the writing and wondering what the heck they were trying to communicate, story-wise. This is the romance-novel equivalent. It's trying so hard to be cute that you begin to lose sight of the story, a cardinal sin in romance fiction. The love story is the heart of the book -- or it should be. Instead, I found that I was caught up in the writer's self-conscious cleverness. She was very clearly straining to be funny. But just as make-up is most flattering when it's not obviously make-up (you know, the "natural look"), humor is most effective when it looks effortless and spontaneous. This book felt like watching a stand-up comedian whose audience is losing interest. They begin begging for laughter and it gets embarrassing to watch. The archness of Bevarly's writing wears thin, FAST! About half-way through, I abandoned the effort and skimmed through the remainder in a few minutes (we know they'll get together, the only question is how). I'll look through her novels VERY carefully in future before buying. The writing style undermined the reality of the characters, who are a little hard to believe in to begin with. Sure, everybody has known someone who was so immersed in their work, they could ignore a 7.7 earthquake, but Rory is the male version of TSTL. If you're going to have such an over-the-top character, then you need a more subtly humorous style. Bevarly and her editors need to rein in her style, before she becomes a parody of herself. First Comes Love was genuinely cute. Rory Monahan was overkill.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, June 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Temptation of Rory Monahan (Man of the Month-April #148) (Silhouette Desire, No 1363) (Mass Market Paperback)

I can't believe how highly unbelievable and TORTUROUSLY dorky the male character is. If just one more time I had to read his "I, I, I" utterance before every communication with the female character, "I,I,I" was going to scream!