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Waiting for Cary Grant

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A great brake-out effort by a talented new author. Intrigue and humor from beginning to end. Each encounter between the leads leaves you craving for more and Ms. Mathews delivers. I eagerly await her next work.

This new author has such a poetic use of language and provides a refreshing depth in her character development. The book held my attention from beginning to end and I greatly enjoyed the romance and intrigue. The story has a gentlness to it which is not often found in current novels. I am hopeful we see more from this gifted lady!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and recommend it for light, fast paced reading on the beach or patio. The characters are believable and understandable. This is accomplished through dialogue usage that is current and realistic in today's "fast lane" world. The contrast between the world that the hero offers the heroine and what she truly desires for her emotional fulfillment is vast in the beginning of the novel and involves the reader in the tension between the two characters as the plot reaches the ultimate conclusion of a romance novel.

Harlan Michaels man be a lawyer but he really was a good guy. He at times may be an ambulance chaser, but overall he a man trying to do the right thing for those that have been wronged.

The case Harlan is working on right now involves an 11-year old girl who lost her family in a tragic accident. Kathy is lost, scared and alone in a boarding school she hates just dreaming of her family coming to get her and take her home. Kathy's therapist, Lana is working with her to help out and she sees Harlan as a threat to this stability. But Harlan is not going to be put off by some slip of a woman because he does not get distracted by women, or does he?

Lana and Harlan find themselves fighting each other but in the end fighting for Kathy's well being and discover they are on the same side. Kathy feels she has no one but Harlan and Lana and going to convince her she does and that heroes are out there.

Harlan fights corrupt lawyers, an irresponsible company that didn't care about anything but money and a system that does not see him for the good guy he is. So in the end does Harlan convince anyone he is their salvation or will he burn to ash?

This book hits all the levels of a completely romantic tear jerker and reminds you that if you keep looking you will find the man of your dreams.

I must be reading a different book than the other reviewers. I've checked the title and the author . . . it certainly looks like the book that I've downloaded to my Kindle, but what these reviewers were reading and what I read just appear to be different books. I do have to admit that the formatting of the book for the Kindle was so poor that it was distracting to the flow of the writing . . . which turned out to NOT be a bad thing.

I got less than a quarter way into the book (23% according to my Kindle) and deleted this book from my Kindle. The attitudes by the primary characters toward the young orphan are unconscionable and so 'in your face' that I couldn't get past their character to see if they became better characters. Obviously the other reviewers continued reading, but with as many books as I have on my Kindle, I was unwilling to keep going "just because it must get better, other reviewers enjoyed the book, what am I missing."

Life's too short and I have too many books to read . . . I'm disappointed that I wasted money on this book --- I don't feel as badly when a book is free if it's this bad.

Review by Karen: Harlan Michaels is an attorney handling the lawsuit against the company manufacturing the faulty tire that killed his client's family. Lana Stewart is a therapist who works with children; in this case, the child whose family was killed by a faulty tire on a passing truck. He's not a fan of commitment. She wants to fall in love with someone like Cary Grant - at least the characters he portrayed in his movies. It's an interesting premise.

I think there will be people that like this story; it's a romance with a little suspense and a happy ending. I found Waiting for Cary Grant to be very difficult to read. The formatting seemed to be off and made it confusing to follow. There were numerous occasions where I had to stop and re-read a passage a couple of times in order for it to make sense. These things detracted from the story for me.