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3.0 out of 5 stars
A light-hearted read ..., March 19, 2001
This review is from: Too Good To Be True (Paperback)
It is funny and cute beyond words ~~ and a quick read. If you're looking for something is easy on the eyes and brain (meaning you don't have to think deep, probing thoughts), then this book is for you. It's about a rich and cranky billionaire ~~ the king of toilet paper ~~ who decides to throw his greedy heirs off balance by announcing that he has found a new heir ~~ his long-lost granddaughter, Annie. Grady Sullivan is hired to be Archie's bodyguard, only to fall in love with the sassy granddaughter. And that's just the beginning of the adventures that the Peevers family saga endures. Between a butler who is known to "lift" things from the ugly mansion they all are residing in, a son who hides behind his wife's skirts, a dumb blondshell who giggles through everything ~~ guns, arrows, car crashes and everything that can make a mystery novel work. And of course, the romance between Annie and Grady makes for a happy ending. It is a cute book ~~ one that you can take to the beach or read on the subway because it doesn't require a lot of thinking. And it is a guarantee that you'll laugh at some parts of the plot. Great book for a light read ~~ though the writing isn't of top quality. Like I said, if you want something light and sassy, then this should do it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ANOTHER GOOD BOOK!, February 16, 2002
This review is from: Too Good To Be True (Paperback)
Kind of an anomaly, don't you think? A guy who reads romances. (Okay, I've read three, and this is the third of them.) Well, this guy picked up the prequel to this book, the outstanding "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" and ran through it in a mere four days. If that was not a taste of things to come, nothing is. I got this book from the local Library on Monday -- and returned it on Tuesday evening, DONE. That's right, I demolished this book -- 377 pages worth -- in about 27 hours. Having been inspired by the other one, probably, I was eager to read about the adventure that Quinn's partner would have in this one. I was right. Although I didn't exactly root for Grady the way I had for Quinn, and didn't see as much of myself in him as I had Quinn, I really liked him, and found that he was just so root-for-able, especially when he leapt to protect Annie when her privacy was violated the way it was, which I found abhorable. Of course, I had to go back and forth a couple times to grasp how Annie was related to the Peeverses, but when I did, it was a shocker that helped me like the book even more. And when Grady got the Peeverses to make the $10-mln donation to the Kidney Foundation in Annie's name and told Annie that HE would take care of his OWN wife, that made me an even bigger fan of his. This was a book that was more grab-ya-by-the scruff-of-the-neck-and-pull-ya-in than the other one was. The other one, I just fell in love with the characters and stayed to the end. This one, I couldn't get away from. GREAT BOOK! I'm really starting to like stuff written by Kasey Michaels.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
cute and fluffy, February 23, 2001
This review is from: Too Good To Be True (Paperback)
I do like funny romances, and for that alone, I would recommend this one, really for that alone. The romance was light, with little conflict, and even less interest. The 2 main characters, started out well (you'll just love Annie at the beginning), but by the middle they were flat and unmotivated. And the end was so anti-climatic! Everything romantic in this book after the shopping scene (with the possible exception of the carnival) was dull as ditch water. The saving grace of this book was the minor characters, a druggie-doctor, a lawyer who cheats at golf, a stiff butler, and a whole passle of relatives so coniving they get tangled in the strings from thier own plotting. Over it all sits Archie, the patriarch, and he is so dispicable, you really can't decide whether to love him or loathe him. Anyway, read it if you have some time to kill, and you want a light, funny book with little to no involvement
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