Yuri and Marla wasted so much time tipping around each other growing up
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Yuri and Marla wasted so much time tipping around each other growing up,
although they were each other's first & true love. The death of his grandfather, Pops is what forces them to at least acknowledge their connection is still there. Even if she is "married" to crazy Ricky. Who's obsession with Yuri's life lead him to blackmail Marla into marriage. Grief, love,&  conflicting emotions lead to a one stand and Baby Scarlett. Add family,secrets, money,& good ole jealousy and you are introduced to the Scarletts series. I can't wait to read the entire series.
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Poor little rich girl Louise does not want to disappoint Daddy so she agrees to marry Chad, for the sake of Dad's upcoming merger with Chad's mother's company.

At the beginning of the novel, Louise leaves Chad at the altar and escapes in her father's limousine. While being driven around by dad's chauffeur, she notices a travel agent, specializing in extreme travel and decides that this is the perfect way to get away from it all and realize all her life's dreams (getting drunk, smoking, and giving a cop the one-finger salute being some of her lofty ideas ).

This has to be one of the most annoying, spoiled, immature heroine in the history of romance novels. The fact that she sometimes realizes her mistakes cannot save the plot.  If I were her father, I would cut her off her money and see just how she manages. Brainless as she is, that, at least, would have been an entertaining novel.
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What I got out of Flirting With Disaster, which features Chloe, was another superficial gold digger who thinks the sun rises and sets on her beauty and banging body and that Trey should be honored to spend his (supposed)hard earned cash on her while receiving nothing in return but her receipts. Then she ignored all the wisdom her mother had bestowed on her from childhood and the warning of her younger sister with the repeated phrase, "I'm grown", yet had no job and still lived at home. I was totally disappointed with this story.

Wild Cherry - Featured Gina being disrespected and abused by her husband and Princess, a striper being dominated by man, who conspire to make both of their lives easier. This story had lots of drama with a very shocking ending.

Twice in a lifetime was the story of a young woman getting a second chance at love. Just an ok read.
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Identical twin sisters Tabitha and Harper and Tabithas sixteen-year-old daughter are the primary story tellers of this novel. None of them are particularly likeable at the beginning. Tabitha is upright and not good at expressing her feelings; Harper is laid back but doesnt have a real career and is having an affair with a married man; and Ainsley is a spoiled brat. The changes in their circumstances transform all of them over the course of the bookfor the better.

Tabitha and Harper haven't really spoken for fourteen years, since they were twenty-five when tragedy struck. Even before that, the twins, who had once been inseparable, started growing apart when their parents divorced and Harper moved to Marthas Vineyard with her father and Tabitha went with her mother to Nantucket. They were seventeen-years-old when their parents divorced, so that cant account for why Tabitha and Harper are so different. Had they been thirteen or younger, I would understand why Tabitha is so concerned with appearancestheir mother is a fashion designer with a boutique selling expensive outfits to the wealthy. Their father, however, lets his home fall into disrepair and, like her father, Harper just throws clothes on without concern for what she looks like as long as shes comfortable. With her string of waitressing and delivery jobs, she doesnt need to look stylish.

When their father dies (at the beginning of the book), the sisters are forced to talk, especially when new events call for them to essentially switch places. I liked reading about the characters transformations.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book.
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I cannot compliment either one.
Their main objective in their life,
was constantly on themselves.
How selfish of them to try to
con the public that they were special.
Disappointed in this book!
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The sequel to Sweet Savage Love started out great but by page 300 it began to drag and just became a bore.  Once again Ginny and Steve waste more time and energy trying to prove that they do not love one another. Ginny flaunts other men in Steve's face to make him jealous.

Though Steve loves her, he thinks the worse of her in all things. He assumes that any man she flirts with is a lover of hers. Any bad situation in which Ginny becomes a victim is perceived as orchestrated by her. After pushing Ginny away, Steve actually admitted to himself on page 335 that he had just not wanted her to know his weakness. That weakness being that he loved her. He was so prideful that he refused to tell her he loved her until the very last paged of this long drawn out book. Steve was a total jerk in Sweet Savage Love but I could never bring myself to hate him. However he and Ginny both drove me crazy in Dark Fires.  I also grew tired of Steve's many lovers. More love scenes were spent with him and other woman, than with him and Ginny (his wife).

Ginny drove me mad throughout this book. After Steve left her, she was brutally attacked and went into shock. She then spent over 200 pages as a victim and a drug addict carelessly floating through life in a daze. Oh the Angst! Since Steve had hurt her, she refused to let him in on her secret. That secret being that she loved him, but was too prideful to let him know.

I won't give anything more of the plot away because there was so much that took place, I felt as if this book could have been three separate books. There was just so much going on. Dark Fires was so well written and would have been a solid 5 star if Ginny and Steve could have put their energies together to fight as one against all the conflicts instead of fighting each other. I would have loved it if Steve and Ginny had worked together to uncover the evil that was the Russian prince. Or if they had teamed together to take down the wicked Toni Lassiter. That would have been so much better than all of this angst. I don't believe I will ever be able to read another book involving this couple. But they are so memorable that I will never forget them. And for that I thank Rosemary Rogers.
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I love Melissa Francis and watch her daily with David Asman on FOX BUSINESS NEWS CHANNEL. She is a  witty, beautiful and very intelligent  woman whose childhood was robbed by her mother who used Melissa as the "cash cow" for the family income.  The story of her beautiful sister and the sister's ultimate fall into drugs was the fault of an insensitive mother who played "favorites" openly and cruelly.  I read this story with sadness because Melissa's mother was obviously mentally ill before the two girls were born but no one seemed to see the behavior as such.  The story ended on a really disturbing note because the mother's behavior was so horrible toward the family that Melissa had to break all ties with her-----permanently.
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Keela needs a date for her ex's wedding to her cousin. She ask Alec as a favor to escort her. Being an escort is what he did in his former employ and this brings loads of trouble down on them. Keela's character was bratty. She had a lot of trust issues.  Alec 's character was more difficult to capture, clownish, uncertain and egocentric. Quite a mixture, but he does love Keela to Neptune and back.  Cute book.
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So this is a family that has their minds stuck in the 60's when they are the 90's right now.  How lame its not worth it
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What a way to pick up where you left off!
And to think i thought it was all said and done. Nope, not at all when it comes to women like Lachez and Sarena. They just do not know how toleave well enough alone. They are always scheming up a way to hurt the next man that comes along, really all they do is scar that man when he fidns the right woman for him. So sad. These women are viscious when it comes to limits, they have none. They will do whatever they feel they are ccapable of to get things by any means necesssary.

Thankfully, Parker was able to get out of all the drama althought he did gain Semaj in the end result. To think James was lead to believe that Semaj was his child when really Serena had schemed yet again and managed to conceive a child with a man who unbeknownst to him was livign a life as another man's daughter. Women these days are known to do such trifling things. pitiful.

And please lets not forget about those twins that were not even by the famous basketball player. She really thought she was about to get some money. Should have left well enough alone. But then againt hat is too much like right. She had to go and get greedy and lost her best friend in teh process.

Sometimes getting with a famous person is not all its cracked up to be, especially when you are not with that person for the right reasons to begin with then you have set yourself up for failure.

Let that be a lesson to those who think that they can treat people any old kind of way.
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It was difficult for me to empathize with Meredith and Rachael.  Their  lives seemed to have everything, but their lack of maturity stopped them  from realizing this and finding joy.  These two women were in deep need of  therapy to resolve past mother-issue problems that now seemed to dominate  their decision making capability and their day-to-day functioning.  Both  Meredith and Rachel are smart, financially stable and have, what seems,  very understanding, caring, and husbands.  I found both Meredith and Rachel  very spoiled!  They totally erased these blessings to dwell on their angst,  their woe is me! attitude, and their inability to self-sacrifice.  Alison,  the third women, has the same advantages of Meredith and Rachael, but  approaches life pro-actively.  She looks for counsel among friends and  professionals, she evaluates situation, and handles frustration and  inequity with aplomb and class.  Alison, knows that every decision in life  entails some sacrifice.  I wish the book were more about women like Alison.  Since it was not, I give it one star...the star goes to Alison.
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It was amazing at the beginning! But when Anton died, nope, I stopped there and never finished it. And the fact that the girl (I forgot a name) was 12 and Anton was 22, I was like, no way!! D:<
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She was self centered and he had a mistress.  She was jealous and he kept in touch with the mistress.  They get mad, they make up, over and over throughout the story.  I can't blame her for being jealous of a mistress, and he is terrible at communicating. She is also very immature and self centered throughout the story.  A good read even though there are lots of frustrating characters which make it entertaining.
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This book is okay but one you have experienced Sasha Silver, it's impossible to get better. Plus I have a lot of complaints.
First, Lauren Towers is nothing like a regular twelve year old. She wears full on makeup and her parents don't care?
It's also offensive to girls around her age who aren't dating. I mean they go on full on dates, hold hands and kiss? They are 12 not 16!!!!!!!
Also, she gets all these designer clothes and makeup. They is a three pages of how she gets her makeup and clothes on and there's nothing about the horses!!! Plus they just switched characters on us? I loved Sasha not Lauren.
Jessica I know you can do better. Hopefully I am impressed with the next books
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Jeannette Walls has made a respectable life for herself after being literally raised in squaller by her undisciplined parents.  Her father was an alcoholic and arrogant dreamer of a man who was fired from most every job he ever held.  He was unemployed for long stretches of time where he would spend a great deal of time and energy trying to come up with inventions which would make him rich.  Not surprisingly, none of his "get rich quick" schemes would ever be completed and his children would become so hungry that they would forage for food in the school garbage cans.  Jeannette's mother was blindly loyal to her husband and went along with every half baked scheme he would come up with.  She was college educated with a teaching degree but lacked any drive or motivation to work for a living.  Both parents would rather go with their whims rather than take any responsibility to properly feed, clothe, and house their four children.

As repulsed as I was at the parents, I could not help but admire the children and their maturity throughout the difficult lives they led.  The oldest three children, including Jeannette, grew to have normal productive adult lives.  The youngest child grew into a troubled young woman and lost touch with her siblings.

This book is a testimony to anyone that you can truly overcome your problems and make something of yourself.
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This is a Camilla panegyric. After the best childhood in the world and being the most popular girl in school and the most popular debutante, Camilla has the rotten luck to fall in love with an absolute rotter, but she is still the perfect wife and mother. She even cooks. Though the Prince loved her, she stays true to her cheating husband, until she can't take the heartbreak. By the way, the Prince is an autocratic, but weak willed ditherer, who was forced to marry the beautiful teenaged Lady Diana. Who, despite her charm and beauty, was an absolute psychotic b****h, and made the Prince's life miserable. By the way, she cheated first. And while her husband gave his former girlfriend expensive presents, wore her gifts on his honeymoon, and kept her picture with him, his new bride was wayyy too jealous. This ranks up with the worst of Lady Colin Campbell's biographies/ tell alls. I would rather have a root canal without anesthesia than to finish this. I will never buy anything written by Ms. Junor.
Ms. Juror fancies herself an amateur psychiatrist. She is not even a good amateur writer.
The Duchess and Prince got a happy ending. I was hoping to read a biography of a real woman not a hagiography of the newest 21st century saint. Glad I returned this book.
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Oh my goodness this book made me nuts. They both had issues they had to get over and it seemed that one would get over it than bam the other one had a stupid issue. She made his life hell. Poor guy! Dumb book