An entertaining and engagingly written tale that will please fans of its genre.
A steamy contemporary romance featuring a reluctant hotelier and the public relations expert who works for him.
Reid Davenport is in charge of the Hollywood-based Davenport hotel chain after his father suffers a stroke. His dyslexia makes it even more difficult for him to learn the ins and outs of the business, and his famous ex, Marion, is spreading malicious rumors about him to the tabloid press, saying that he’s an insensitive jerk. Reid had planned to just let the scandal blow over, but when his teenage sister, Bianca, says that her classmates are saying bad things about him, he breaks down and calls a public relations firm, which puts Hailey Connor on the case. At first, Hailey believes Reid to be stuck-up and unpleasant, but she changes her mind when she sees how he clearly cares for his younger sibling. She’s completely onboard with the PR job when she finds out that Marion cheated on Reid with his former hotel manager. The more Hailey works with Reid, the more she starts to fall for him—and the attraction is definitely mutual. This is the latest installment in Hagen’s (Fighting for You, 2019, etc.) Connor Family series, featuring the final Connor sibling. The chemistry between Reid and Hailey burns hot from their very first meeting, and it remains so for the rest of the novel. Family is clearly important to both of the main characters; Hailey’s parents died when she was 11, so she’s tight with the surviving Connors. The other family members who appear over the course of the story are also well developed. Their appearances add welcome depth to Reid’s and Hailey’s lives and offer readers something beyond the primary drama about falling in love and dealing with exes.
An entertaining and engagingly written tale that will please fans of its genre.Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-68646-876-6
Page Count: 322
Publisher: Time Tunnel Media
Review Posted Online: Sept. 12, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.
Sisters work together to solve a child-abandonment case.
Ellie and Julia Cates have never been close. Julia is shy and brainy; Ellie gets by on charm and looks. Their differences must be tossed aside when a traumatized young girl wanders in from the forest into their hometown in Washington. The sisters’ professional skills are put to the test. Julia is a world-renowned child psychologist who has lost her edge. She is reeling from a case that went publicly sour. Though she was cleared of all wrongdoing, Julia’s name was tarnished, forcing her to shutter her Beverly Hills practice. Ellie Barton is the local police chief in Rain Valley, who’s never faced a tougher case. This is her chance to prove she is more than just a fading homecoming queen, but a scarcity of clues and a reluctant victim make locating the girl’s parents nearly impossible. Ellie places an SOS call to her sister; she needs an expert to rehabilitate this wild-child who has been living outside of civilization for years. Confronted with her professional demons, Julia once again has the opportunity to display her talents and salvage her reputation. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love, 2004, etc.) is at her best when writing from the girl’s perspective. The feral wolf-child keeps the reader interested long after the other, transparent characters have grown tiresome. Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her.
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.Pub Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-345-46752-3
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
Page Count: -
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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