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This Must Be Love

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Though she knows every time she does a favor for her cousin Molly Applegate she gets into trouble, pre-school owner Jane Preston agrees to pose as her relative at the Sixth Annual Intellectual Retreat in Cape May, New Jersey. Molly admits she cannot attend because her face is too well known as that disastrous intern, but she needs to report a scandal involving a potential presidential candidate Senator Aubrey Harrison or lose her position as a reporter.

John Romanowski also attends the event. John, better known as author JP Roman, wants to find mud to not just abort Harrison's run, but to destroy the SOB who unceremoniously dumped his mother after a love affair for a better political wife. His mother never recovered so John was orphaned as a teen.

Singles are matched up with John and Jane assigned to one another. They are immediately attracted, but their mutually exclusive inquiries cause problems for the dueling Js. If they are to succeed on their endeavors and come away with a loving relationship, one of them must step forward and trust the other with the truth.

Though coincidence brings the lead protagonists together, readers will applaud this amateur sleuth romance. The story line is very amusing as John and Jane trip over one another in their efforts to find the loaded gun that will destroy Harrison. Jane especially is an intriguing character because she is the classic amateur sleuth as she stumbles from one mistake (except for loving John) to another. Together they make for a delectable novel.

Harriet Klausner

While I found this book to be full of good-natured humor, and the bantering dialogue between the couple was well-written, the plot was seriously lacking and the circumstances weren't very believeable. The beginning of the story dragged on-and-on. It was at least half-way through the story, if not further, before Jane and John began confronting the problem. From that point on, I found the clues too vague and the unravelling of the situation too confusing to follow. I'm still not sure exactly how it was resolved...the detective work at the end was rushed, especially compared to the slow-moving beginning to the story. Not well-balanced at all.

As well, Jack and Jane fell in love way too quickly, especially considering how mismatched they were. It's hard to imagine that after spending less than a week together, they were ready to marry "immediately" and live happily ever after.

The only problem I had was the fact I read the book that comes after this one "This Can't Be Love" before I read this one! Anyodd, it was a great read. I enjoyed the charactors, even though I pretty much knew what was going to happen because of reading "This Can't Be Love First". My view of Jane as a character changed immensely with this book, and I found her to be much like her wacky cousin Molly, only a tad more reserved. In the other book, Michaels portrays Jane as a dull stick in the mud spinster. These two books have made me quite the fan of Michaels works, and I will continue to read her books. I recommend this as a light read, nothing too heavy in it, take it with you on a beach vacation!

This book is everything you ask for in a romantic comedy - finally drawn characters who are actually funny not trying to be funny. So often romantic comedies involve characters spouting funny lines, but in this book the humor seems natural. Jane and John are people you'd want to spend time around. Splendid from beginning to end. I can't wait for "This Can't Be Love" next year!

This book started out with a funny and promising plotline, but petered out rather soon. By the middle of the book I had given up on all of the characters and the book itself. There wasn't any romance (at all) within the first half of the book, and the chemistry was lacking between the main characters (John and Jane) throughout. Their involvement with one another was unbelievable, and the circumstances they often found themselves in were extremely contrived. This was a disappointing book. I guess if you're a fan of the author you might be pleased, but only if you can tolerate a rather blah story.

Janie Preston is a day care owner who got roped into attending a political convention in NJ by her cousin Molly Applegate. Molly who works at a newspaper is trying to get a story about Senator Aubrey Harrison and wither or not he is going to run for President. However Molly found out his nephew Dillon is also going to be there and he does not like her, which is why Molly asked Janie to go.

Janie is scheduled to attend with John Patrick Romanowski a Professor at a local university. However John has a secret-he is really J.P. Roman an author of political novels. He is going to try to investigate Senator Harrison and get dirt on him so that Harrison does not run for President. John's motivations are because his mother was used by Harrison and that is the reason why he wants to take Harrison down.

At first Janie and John do not get along with each other, but after explaining why they are there they decide to work together to try to get the dirt on Harrison. After several days sparks begin to fly between the two, as they uncover something they think might actually be able to nix Harrison being President.

This is an interesting book, and while the first part is sort of slow it definitely picks up once they actually get to the retreat.

What happens next? read This Must Be Love.

Fun and cute summer read. It had the tendency to push the cliches to the very, very edge before backing off and saying "just kidding." At first, it made me nervous, but I was used to it by the end of the book and it was actually kind of charming.

This Must Be Love by Kasey Michaels is a fun story about falling in love. I liked the characters and thought they worked great together. I enjoy fun stories like this one.

I was disappointed with this book. I have loved her past reads, and was excited to get my hands on this one. However, while reading it, the plot was confusing at times. I'm still not sure how it happened in the end - it certainly didn't satisfy me. It felt the the book was hurriedly written, and edited lightly. I found typos and a couple grammatical errors. While these are human errors, it happened enough times I was distracted from the story.

The characters were only semi-believable to me. The premise just didn't seem to fit them. I had a hard time buying that in real life they might have fallen in love - just seemed a stretch.

Courtesy of A Romance Review

Good girl Jane Preston is a pre-school nursery owner. Before she closes up for a two-week vacation to celebrate the 4th of July, her cousin, Molly Applegate begs her to save her job by replacing her as an escort to a college professor, John Romanowski, in an exclusive intellectual retreat in Cape May, New Jersey. What Molly wants Jane to do is to dig up some secrets and scandals of Senator Aubrey Harrison, who is going to announce his run for presidency.

Professor John Patrick Romanowski, aka J. P. Roman, New York Times No. 1 bestsellers of political thrillers, is also invited to the retreat but his main purpose is to bring the Senator down by catching him in the act of something scandalous.

The meeting of Jane and John is quite comical as they both dressed up and pretended to be someone that they were not - plain Jane as a ...sex babe and John as a... OMG!

THIS MUST BE LOVE is a romantic comedy that is filled with humorous and funny situations. Ms Michaels has once again penned an unbelievable story that makes you laugh out loud. Like most of her books of the same genre, this one is another refreshing read that surely will uplift your spirit after a long day's work.