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Change of Heart Mass Market Paperback – October 21, 2014

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (October 21, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1476779724
  • ISBN-13: 978-1476779720
  • Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (229 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By Smitten with Reading TOP 1000 REVIEWER on October 21, 2014
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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In theory this was a brilliant idea. 20 years ago, Jude Deveraux wrote a novella for an anthology that featured then 12 yo's Eli and Chelsea, best friends out to fix all the world's wrongs through Eli's brilliance and Chelsea's looks. That novella is the first part of this book and it's a fun story. After I read that first section (about 35-40% of this full length book) I was excited to see where Chelsea and Eli were as adults 20 years later. Unfortunately their adult portion of the story did not live up to expectations.

Chelsea doesn't want to see Eli again. She only does so to stop her parents from nagging her. Adult Chelsea has spent the last 20 years becoming all the things she hated as a 12 yo. She's shallow to the extreme and honestly isn't very likable as a character. And she knows that about herself. She doesn't want to answer to Eli about why she left without a single word to him ever again. She betrayed their friendship to become a party girl/model with hot boyfriends.

Eli is still brilliant and works for the government for chump change on things that matter and then designs video games on the side so he makes real money. He's spent the last 20 years in the gym so is now everything that Chelsea sees as her ideal guy...muscular, attractive, and extremely sexy.

And honestly those are the high points. 20 years later these two have NOTHING in common. Eli sees that Chelsea has mis-managed her life up to now which has just left her unhappy so he hatches a plan to "fix" her. Ugh. He's bossy and manipulative and I just truly didn't like how he saw her. Honestly if the two met today, they wouldn't even like one another. It's not a good match and that's why the book just didn't work for me.
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An expanded version of a novella in A HOLIDAY OF LOVE, Jude Deveraux gives readers two love stories. The original story of two preteen matchmakers, Eli Harcourt and Chelsea Hamilton who manage to find love for Eli's mother and then twenty years later Eli and Chelsea's romance.

THE STORY: Part 1: This is the story of Frank Taggert and Miranda Stowe who are complete opposites. Frank is a high powered workaholic who does the society scene and has never wanted to marry and have children because he had too much exposure to children being the oldest child of a large family. Miranda is the barely scraping by nurse and divorced mother. Her preteen son Eli is a genius but before he can begin to live his life, he wants his mom taken care of. He and his friend Chelsea decide that Frank would be perfect for Miranda and so they manage to get Miranda to Frank's secluded cabin where he is recuperating from a broken arm. Miranda and Frank fight and fall in love.

PART 2: Twenty years later, Eli and Chelsea have drifted apart but Eli still is in love with Chelsea. When he manages to orchestrate a meeting, Chelsea does not seem the vibrant person Eli remembers. The two end up on a new adventure that rekindles their friendship and moves them into love.

OPINION: I liked the first story better than the second. I enjoyed the romance between Frank and Miranda and I thought that Eli and Chelsea were precocious and well drawn. In part 2, I just didn't like Chelsea as much. She was closed in and shallow and her reasons just didn't resonate for me. That being said, I adored Eli and I loved that he was willing to do anything for Chelsea.
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I've read Frank and Miranda's story featuring Eli and Chelsea many times over the years since the story was initially published. So I got excited about this story and pre-ordered it. I wish I'd waited until finding out that the story I already knew so well takes up 38% of this book and would have gotten this book from the library.

But with that being said, I was surprised to discover that changes had been made to the original story and certainly make Frank and Miranda's story more romantic. The gist of it is still the same. So the first part of the book has Eli and Chelsea at around the age of 14, always trying to help others and the only way genius-IQ Eli is going to be able to go away to college is if they find someone who can take care of his mother and set up a scam to get his mother and his friend, billionaire Frank Taggert together. Both Michael and Samantha Taggert make an appearance.

The second part of the story takes place twenty years later and Chelsea had cut herself out of Eli's life when they were still teens. So when they get together again for a visit, it's a new sleuthing adventure that breaks down the barriers.

Some of the story was outright confusing in the beginning of the second part as Eli, now bulked up from the gym, looks nothing like the scrawny nerd he used to; but his personal assistance looks just like Eli did. Chelsea's not quite sure which of them is Eli and both of the guys are trying to assume the other's identity.

What I enjoyed were the other characters and all of the different couple matches that take place in this story. I thought the story finally got interesting in the second part when Eli and Chelsea know something is off and want to help a woman they were sure was just scammed as Eli's father used to do to his mother. Other than the initial story, I thought the adventure was the best part of the book.
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