Talk of the Town (Glory NC, Bk 1)
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Helpful Score: 3
From the Karen Hawkins Website (and the back of the book):
DO BLONDS HAVE MORE FUN?
Newly divorced Roxie Treymayne is dying to find out. After years of being the perfect Southern lady, all she ended up with was a cheating husband. So she goes bombshell blond, gets a provocatively placed tattoo, and prepares to live it up as a Bad Girl. But then her mother falls ill, Roxie is forced to return to Glory, North Carolina where, no matter how she dresses now, shes known by one and all as that nice Treymayne girl. Only Roxie is feeling anything BUT nice!
HED LOVE TO KNOW.
Once the town bad boy, Nick Sheppard is now Glorys highly respected sheriff. When the hot blonde he stops for speeding turns out to be formerly prim Homecoming Queen Roxanne Treymayne, Nick doesnt quite know where to look though hed like a much closer one at the tattoo peeking from her shorts.
BUT IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO.
Roxie and Nick had a steamy fling in high school, but a love affair between a Southern princess and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks was doomed from the start. Now they have a second chance. Can they get it right? Or will they just end up . . . the talk of the town?
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So for her first contemporary, Talk of the Town wasn't bad. But was it a good book? Unfortunately, no.
KH is known to write pretty decent regency romances, which is why it surprised me that the romance in her first contemporary was inconsistent and all around aggravating! Mostly because the Hero (H) and the heroine (h) kept switching how they felt!.... one moment they wanted each other, the next they didn't. Or the H wanted the h, but she didn't want him. Or vice versa. And they don't really "get together" until more than halfway through the book! Also it was one of those books where things don't get resolved until the very end!
The mystery/whodunit aspect was better. Not good, mind you, but much better than the romance. The secondary characters were all interesting, quite possibly more so then the main ones. And the book was funny!! I didn't expect it to be, so it was a nice surprise!
So all in all, if Ms Hawkins writes another modern, and from all the people she introduced in this one, I'm assuming she will, I'll give them a chance:-)
DO BLONDS HAVE MORE FUN?
Newly divorced Roxie Treymayne is dying to find out. After years of being the perfect Southern lady, all she ended up with was a cheating husband. So she goes bombshell blond, gets a provocatively placed tattoo, and prepares to live it up as a Bad Girl. But then her mother falls ill, Roxie is forced to return to Glory, North Carolina where, no matter how she dresses now, shes known by one and all as that nice Treymayne girl. Only Roxie is feeling anything BUT nice!
HED LOVE TO KNOW.
Once the town bad boy, Nick Sheppard is now Glorys highly respected sheriff. When the hot blonde he stops for speeding turns out to be formerly prim Homecoming Queen Roxanne Treymayne, Nick doesnt quite know where to look though hed like a much closer one at the tattoo peeking from her shorts.
BUT IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO.
Roxie and Nick had a steamy fling in high school, but a love affair between a Southern princess and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks was doomed from the start. Now they have a second chance. Can they get it right? Or will they just end up . . . the talk of the town?
*************
So for her first contemporary, Talk of the Town wasn't bad. But was it a good book? Unfortunately, no.
KH is known to write pretty decent regency romances, which is why it surprised me that the romance in her first contemporary was inconsistent and all around aggravating! Mostly because the Hero (H) and the heroine (h) kept switching how they felt!.... one moment they wanted each other, the next they didn't. Or the H wanted the h, but she didn't want him. Or vice versa. And they don't really "get together" until more than halfway through the book! Also it was one of those books where things don't get resolved until the very end!
The mystery/whodunit aspect was better. Not good, mind you, but much better than the romance. The secondary characters were all interesting, quite possibly more so then the main ones. And the book was funny!! I didn't expect it to be, so it was a nice surprise!
So all in all, if Ms Hawkins writes another modern, and from all the people she introduced in this one, I'm assuming she will, I'll give them a chance:-)
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