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Down with Cupid!
Elle Adams, Rebecca Potter and Lucky Morgan all have valid reasons for distrusting Cupid. And with February 14 coming on fast, they decide to take matters into their own hands. If the plucky little cherub can’t do his job, they’ll sweeten the odds.
But it looks as if Cupid wasn’t out to lunch. He was just waiting for the right moment to make things interesting. Now find out what happens when he finally launches those arrows.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Who Needs Cupid?: The Max Factor/A Valentine for Rebecca/Lucky in Love (Harlequin Superromance Anthology, No 1392) (Mass Market Paperback)
I would recommend these books for anyone looking for a well-written love story with a little fun and a little adventure. Debra's books always make me believe in love. She develops the characters slowly, sometimes with a surprise, and always in a delightful way that leaves one waiting impatiently for the next release. Buy them - you won't be disappointed.
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Down with Cupid!,
By Babs Ferret "a reading of romance fan" (Northern CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Who Needs Cupid?: The Max Factor/A Valentine for Rebecca/Lucky in Love (Harlequin Superromance Anthology, No 1392) (Mass Market Paperback)
What great stories!
Elle owns the Cup O' Love coffee bar and restaurant that Elle, Becca & Lucky have their get-together on Friday nights and end up planning the Valentine Party at Cup O' Love to help Elle get more business and Max has volunteered to install WiFi for this promotion. Everyone how signs up has their own webpage to get to meet that special person and the party is to be held on February 14th! Debra Salonen gives us the middle-age couple in Elle & Max in, THE MAX FACTOR. Elle is 51! They went through school together, she was the popular cheerleader and he was the geek! Lots of years later, with his widowhood and her divorce behind them they find love. Of course he has to be her friend before she can see that they are a great couple. Molly O'Keefe has written Becca's story. Elle is Becca's aunt and Becca is 27, her mother wants her to be an accountant with Mom & Dad's firm and she is but she's really an artist and makes wonderful valentines for Elle to sell in her coffee bar and Lucky to sell at her Lucky Duck Collectibles. She has an after-school art program in the room above the Cup O' Love. One of her pupil's is 10 y.o. Penny and Becca has a crush on Penny's dad Will. Penny and Aunt Elle try to be cupid for Becca & Will. Susan Floyd has the nicest story of Lucky and her best friend, Josh, that she's fallen in love with so has he but he's trying to make a new life and knows Lucky doesn't want to leave Fenelon Falls, Il. We get to watch them each learn what *love* means
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Sit back, relax, fill your own Cup O' Love and be prepared for an enchanting trio of stories with Who Needs Cupid?,
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This review is from: Who Needs Cupid?: The Max Factor/A Valentine for Rebecca/Lucky in Love (Harlequin Superromance Anthology, No 1392) (Mass Market Paperback)
Courtesy of CK2S Kwips and Kritiques
Sit back, relax, fill your own Cup O' Love and be prepared for an enchanting trio of stories with Who Needs Cupid?. In The Max Factor we meet Elle Adams and her two dearest friends as they plot ways to get back at Cupid for all the disastrous love they've had in the past. It starts as a joke, but when Elle decides to run a Valentines dateathon in hopes up drumming up more business for her failing coffee shop Cup O' Love, she gets more than she bargained for. Max loved Elle dearly in the past and had his heart broken when she stood him up for the Valentine's Dance in high school. He has since married and been widowed but has never forgotten his first love... Elle. Now he schemes to prove to her he's the only man she needs. This story is as much about family relationships as it is the romance between Max and Elle. While their story is strong and heartwarming as we see them find they love they both deserve, we get as much of a glimpse into their other relationships as well. Elle and her sister Jane have struggled with their relationship for years and it takes a little help from others to realize how much their battles are hurting them and everyone around them. There is also Max's relationship with his grown children, his grandchild, and the chess team he coaches at the high school. The chess team actually provides a lot of humor to the story through their antics and endear themselves to us. The second story in the collection, A Valentine for Rebecca, allows for us to meet Rebecca "Becca" Potter, the artistically gifted niece of Elle stuck in a job she hates and has to hide her work teaching art classes to the kids in town and her personally designed line of Valentines cards from her unaccepting parents. And it certainly doesn't help matters any that she has a crush (but is it really just a crush?) on Will Blakely, the father of Penny, one of her young students. Penny just happens to think Becca would make a perfect girlfriend for her dad. So with a little help from some friends, they decide to make all of Will's and Becca's dreams come true. Becca is torn between her perceived duties to her family and her true desire to make a living with her art. As she struggles with the weight of her family battles, she has not forgotten how to help other families. She touches the hearts of some very special children in her class, not the least of which is Penny, who is turning inward to get over the pain of her family breaking up. Through Will's relationship with his daughter we see the immense amount of love he has to share, if only he could find the right person. Watching these two reluctant lovebirds find happiness together is enough to warm anyone's heart. In the concluding story, Lucky in Love, we finally get to see Lucky win her man. Her dearest friend in the world is Pastor Joshua Watts, so much so she can't imagine life without him. So when she proposes on New Year's Eve and he rejects her, Lucky's heart is in pieces. Josh is going through a crisis in his faith and has decided to give up the little church his grandfather and father built and preached in for a new life in the big city. But Lucky thinks he is making a big mistake and would do almost anything to keep him in town. What both need to understand that their love for each other is all they need to restore their faith in life and each other. Lucky's story has the longest timeline, and is the most independent, of any in this trio. It starts with us seeing her heart crushed by Josh's rejection and her efforts to recover over the next couple months. She is stubborn and willful, which makes it that much more difficult for her relationship with Josh to recover from his announcement that's he's leaving town. There is also a more inspirational tone to this story as almost everything Lucky and Josh encounter during the story is related to their dedication to the church. Watching these two best friends turned romantic couple is a joy to experience, even through the setbacks they find along the way. Lucky, Elle, and Becca are three very different women bound to each other in friendship. Each of their stories are as unique as they are, though Who Needs Cupid? Shows us that underneath everything, all anyone really wants is their own Cup O' Love filled to overflowing. This is a heartwarming collection of love stories that are sure to remind everyone of what really matters in life. © Kelley A. Hartsell, January 2007. All rights reserved.
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