A smart, sexy romance for readers who thrive on girl power.
In star-studded Hollywood, a blossoming romance between two talent agents grinds to a halt when their agencies merge and there’s only enough room for one of them.
Evie Abbey and Carter Aaron have the ultimate meet-cute when they both show up solo to a couples' Halloween party thrown by mutual friends. As the only single people in attendance, they bond over the awkwardness of their situation and the coincidence that they’re both dressed as characters from Harry Potter. Since they both know how demanding an agent’s schedule can be, they try to keep things platonic, until they experience one mind-blowing date. But there’s no morning-after glow once they arrive at their offices Monday morning to learn that their agencies have merged and the two of them will be working together until their contracts are up and a decision can be made on who stays and who goes. Though Evie and Carter do their best to act as a team, Evie’s frustration at the boys’ club atmosphere that emerges turns their workplace competition into a full-blown battle of the sexes. Carter is the boy next door, with an infectious sense of humor, while Evie is a fearless, feminist powerhouse. Her struggles as a modern woman, having to work twice as hard as a man for the same job, endure being called “girl” and “kiddo,” and exhaust herself over remaining assertive yet still approachable, elevate the book from a romantic comedy to a deeper tale about trying to have it all in a world that can be unforgiving to what’s often seen as the fairer sex. The romance is deliciously tense, as readers will be begging for Carter and Evie to just kiss already. Filled with high jinks, pop-culture references, and grin-inducing flirtation, it's truly a romance for the 21st century.
A smart, sexy romance for readers who thrive on girl power.Pub Date: June 6, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5011-6581-8
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: March 20, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2017
Lyrical and light, with an appealing small-town cast.
The author of Friendship Cake (not reviewed) takes readers to tiny Pleasant Cross, North Carolina, where everybody knows everybody else’s business—and some know more.
Eighteen-year-old Tessa Ivy, for one. She has second sight, like all the women in her family: Grandma Pinot can foretell the weather; Aunt Doris interprets dreams; and Tessa’s twin sister, Liddy, reads palms. Townsfolk fear the supernatural skill the Ivy women call “Knowing,” although some see it as a strange gift from God. It certainly hasn’t made them rich: the local undertaker pays a monthly allowance to the twins’ Mama Bertie, who can predict who will die next, but aside from that small windfall the Ivys just get by like everyone else. When Liddy takes a job at a seedy bar on the outskirts of town, Mama Bertie is furious, but she’s got other things to worry about. Tessa is injured in a car crash, slips into a coma, and awakens to find that her ability to perceive what others can’t has intensified. She drifts through her days, seeing the mundane world around her in a very different light, then falls in love with a young man she barely knows: Sterling Renfrow, the adopted son of a traveling black preacher. Sterling is biracial, but no one seems to know who his parents were. Tessa doesn’t care, even though it’s risky to cross the color line in rural North Carolina. She is beset by visions and nightmares that provide tantalizing clues to the identities of Sterling’s parents. Reverend Renfrow, a charismatic and powerful man, dies of a stroke before he can enlighten her, but Tessa understands at the close that the reverend had a Knowing all his own.
Lyrical and light, with an appealing small-town cast.Pub Date: June 1, 2001
ISBN: 0-06-251727-9
Page Count: 159
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2001
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Astoundingly original story that may stun fans of Lindsey’s Home for the Holidays (2000): the first interplanetary romance novel! Near-giantess Brittany Callaghan, hitting 30, lives near San Francisco. Her dreams: to design and build her own home, and to find a really tall, well-formed man to love and surrender her virginity to. And she meets. . . . Dalden Ly-San-Ter, a gigantic prince whose home planet is Krystan, although he has lived all his life on Sha-Ka’an, where he’s a Sha-Ka’ani warrior and where Sha-Ka’ani warriors had once enslaved all the Krystani women—though Dalden’s mother Tedra has freed them again. So this is as well the first interplanetary feminist romance novel. Brittany is one bold, likable big snip, a Judy Davis or early Kate Hepburn—and a real match for Dalden.
Pub Date: May 1, 2001
ISBN: 0-380-97854-7
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2001
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