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Hero at Large
Hero at Large
Author: Janet Evanovich
He cooks a pot holder in the spaghetti sauce and needs lessons on making Jell-O. Still, single mom and ice skating coach Chris Nelson is committed to keeping her sexy, scruffy, new "house husband" around. After all, she did break his arm . . . and his toe . . . and she can't just turn him out into the cold...   — It seemed like...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780061985942
ISBN-10: 0061985945
Publication Date: 4/1/2010
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 271 ratings
Publisher: Harper
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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orchid7 avatar reviewed Hero at Large on + 266 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
This is a re-issue of Janet Evanovich's first published book... (originally printed under her pen-name Steffie Hall). I love her work, but you can definitely tell with this one that she's just starting out. While the story had it's funny moments, (and the character of Aunt Edna is a foreshadow of her Grandma Mazur character from her Plum series), it was mostly silly and unrealistic. I found myself shaking my head through most of it. It's cutsie, but I don't think I'd call it that great.
kevinsbebe avatar reviewed Hero at Large on + 165 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
I am a huge Janet Evanovich fan but this book was just to "formulaic" for me. I felt like I'd read it before although I hadn't. Still an okay quick read but not one of her better ones in my opinion.
frazerc avatar reviewed Hero at Large on + 672 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
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The story is cute and the characters are interesting - but overall it was pretty much the same old stuff from her previous romances. Cute dialog, old ladies with agendas, and a dog. Unfortunately for the dog lovers, the dog fades out about chapter 3 and is never seen again [after digging up the neighbors garden, the hero has someone elsewhere take care of him].

Probably the hardest thing to handle is the hero, who's supposed to be so smart, but doesn't get around to telling the heroine that he lied about his name and he's a wealthy construction company owner, not a down-on-his-luck carpenter BEFORE he proposes and is accepted...

When the heroine finds out [and not from him] she is understandably livid.

A read-once.
rgraceh avatar reviewed Hero at Large on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Really cute book. I found myself laughing while reading it. Janet Evanovich is so entertaining.
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Enjoyable book! I really Evanovich's early books as much as her numbered books.
Readnmachine avatar reviewed Hero at Large on + 1474 more book reviews
Romance by-the-numbers. They meet cute, circumstances throw them together, and they spend the next 100 pages each secretly wanting to jump the other's bones. Then they do and very quickly after that A Complication Arises, and they spend the next hundred pages being miserable without each other until Everything Works Out. This one features a perky divorced ice skating instructor and a hunky carpenter who is more than he appears to be. Oh yeah, and there's a dog. This is Evanovich, after all.


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