Love in the time of jellyfish? Not quite, but when Caro McClure finds herself stranded for three months in a mosquito-infested salt marsh, the only consolation is that she’ll be free from the complications of her love life, including the trouble that comes from dating her friends. A biologist doing summer field-work, Caro doesn’t want a working partner, let alone a lover; she wants to play with her boat and count the mosquitoes. Little does she know that her job on the remote but beautiful eastern shore of Virginia will bring not one new man but two: Hugh Thomas, who shares her house and her willingness to slog through the mud in the line of duty, and Roy Robinson, a gorgeous lawyer who doesn’t have to get his hands quite so dirty. One offers her romance; the other may offer her more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
New Angle to Romance,
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This review is from: Trip, Stumble, and Fall (Paperback)
Great writing, differentt style, but kept my attention. Not too, trashy, exciting and refreshing.
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Birds, and Bees, and Brouhaha, oh my!,
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This review is from: Trip, Stumble, and Fall (Paperback)
Probably the hardest thing to do in a romance is generate really strong emotions between the characters and on the page without sliding into the goo. Cate Moore not only avoids the goo, but manages to generate wonderfully rich, complex emotions for her characters, and then makes us care about the secondary plot, too. The second hardest thing to do is writing non-cliche sex scenes, and Moore manages that beautifully, too. There's plenty of steam (at one point, literally), and a good deal of nicely erotic writing. The consistent use of humor, much of it off-beat without being off-putting, helps drive all these factors. Also, the secondary plot, which revolves around the preservation of wetlands and endangered species, provides the book with a juicy villain, and the reader with another issue to root for. Really engaging characters, fast and smart dialogue, wonderful secondary characters, great sex, nice laughs, an intelligently developed plot, and convincing emotions . . . what else is there to ask for in a romance? This is first-rate fun.
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Worth the time but a little odd,
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This review is from: Trip, Stumble, and Fall (Paperback)
I had a lot of fun with it. The characters are better developed than in a lot of romances. Not much of the plot depends on unlikely coincidences. And the heroine's not so perfect that you want to throw up, and I can believe in the central relationship (wish I had one like it.) The setting really made me want to be there.I'd give this book five stars instead of four if I knew for sure it was really a romance. The publisher doesn't seem sure either; there's no clinch on the jacket... It was good, but not exactly what I was expecting; I mean there are two guys around for half the book (she picks one, but it takes a while) and there's some other stuff going on too. It all ties up tight, but you kind of want to say "just get together, already." The sex isn't all that graphic--a lot is suggested instead of described in detail, more is done with the lead-in--and in a couple of places I wondered if the author was having too much fun.
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