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Summary: I Had A Good Time With This Book!
Review: The romance idea was clever with having the carpenter-contractor pose as the heroine's psychologist and become her stand-in therapist without her knowing it. The heroine needs someone to give her a hand up from the bottom more than she needs a shrink. Enter the Handyman. His idea of coping with living in a high crime neighborhood is to install deadbolt locks and start a neighborhood watch not to regress her to past lives. The hero and heroine are pretty much regular people. And that's what makes the rest of the novel pretty funny. Many of the other characters are trendy West Coast types with their own agendas which they follow come hell or high water. The hero's former girlfriend is "on" every whacked out idea currently being tried out there and is obsessed with her looks and preserving them. The heroine's friend is a real estate saleswoman who when the latest trend doesn't work out, hires a private detective to get even. The real psychologist is a big deal on the West Coast because he has written best sellers with techniques like past life regressions. He has a heart attack on the East Coast while his trophy wife watches Jerry Springer, shops and ignores him. The carpenter-contractor is turning the psychologist's office into a spa complete with hot tub because the psychologist hates counseling individuals and wants to try counselling groups in the hot tub next. It seems many readers want this author to go for full out comedy for her next novel but I don't know if I could handle every character in the book being a whacked out West Coast type. I tend to doubt it. This book is a good evening's entertainment and I enjoyed it as it was.
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Summary: Funny and entertaining
Review: This book is good, clean fun. No sex, no violence, and no language. At times, it did drag but I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an easy, entertaining read.Some of her characters are annoying and you wonder why Maggie would associate with them. You find yourself liking Maggie and her son Tim, hoping things will work out. Again, not a great read but enjoyable.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: This book is S-L-O-W! I picked it up because it sounded like a good story. I assumed it would be funny and entertaining but the author spends way too much time writing about her character's thoughts (which are already pretty obvious) and not enough time adding to the plot. I got tired of reading page after page about the past and what the characters were thinking and skipped to the end. No big surprise there either.
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Summary: Fluff!
Review: This book is too cutesy for my liking and there are entirely too many coincidences. I'm usually not a big fan of the romance genre, but picked this up on a whim. No one in this day and age is as naive as Maggie are they? No man is as wonderfully sensitive and good looking as Jake ( at least not in my experience). I don't think you should waste your time on this book unless you really like light fluffy romance.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: This book sounded like a whole heck of a lot of fun. Imagine all of the amusing scenarios possible when a handyman (architect actually) poses as a crackpot psychologist to a woman in desperate need of one. Sadly, what followed was hardly laugh out loud funny for this reader though. The heroine Maggie Ivey is a total wimp (and, of course, is a paragon of all that is loving and good) whose life is in shambles. With a young ill son and no health insurance she should elicit reader sympathy. Unfortunately, her total dependence on the hero (who she naively believes is "her doctor") to fix everything bad in her life quickly strained my patience. After one speech the fine, strong hero scares off her lecherous boss who immediately gives her a huge raise, benefits etc. and so on. We should all be so lucky . . . Besides a lame heroine, the plot hinges on a huge and totally unbelievable big misunderstanding that could've been cleared up ten minutes into the book. The hero is a great guy, don't get me wrong (he's the only good thing about the book) but his silly excuses to withhold the truth of his identity from Maggie were an obvious and annoying plot tactic created by the author to drag out her story. And, boy, did it drag. I won't even get started on the stereotypical female secondary characters who were all self centered, workaholic, super ( ) taken straight from the archives of a bad Melrose Place episode. Another thing that really bugged me throughout the reading of this novel was the fact that the heroine was called "Maggie Ivey" whenever the hero thought of her - even after they got close. Here's an example of the hero thinking about Maggie: "oh, if only I could tell Maggie Ivey the truth" -- "if only Maggie Ivey didn't think I was her psychologist" -- "If only Maggie Ivey weren't such a dunce" - whoops that last one was mine. This may sound like a minor nit-pick but it quickly becomes major when one is listening to it on an audiobook. Finally, the reading of this audiobook nearly put me into a coma because the actress exhibited zero emotion and all of her characters sounded eerily similar. This great hero was worthy of a much better heroine. For his sake and sanity, I only hope that Maggie perishes (probably while helping a kitten cross the street) so that he can find one. I'll be the first in line to buy that sequel!
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Summary: When's the movie?
Review: This book was fun! I read about one book every day, and this is the first time I wanted to write a review. I liked it because it was a fun story without a moral lesson, and also without language, sex, violence or drugs. I can picture Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as the stars!
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Summary: Sweet, funny, and heartwarming!
Review: This book was such a pleasant surprise! In the same warm, fuzzy vein of stories like "While You Were Sleeping" and "Sleepless in Seattle," it is a present day romance with wonderfully developed characters, a sweet, though slightly predictable plot, and no graphic sex or language to detract from its charm. If you are looking for some light reading that will make you smile and wish you could live next door to the characters, this is a great pick!
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Summary: Sweet, funny, and heartwarming!
Review: This book was such a pleasant surprise! In the same warm, fuzzy vein of stories like "While You Were Sleeping" and "Sleepless in Seattle," it is a present day romance with wonderfully developed characters, a sweet, though slightly predictable plot, and no graphic sex or language to detract from its charm. If you are looking for some light reading that will make you smile and wish you could live next door to the characters, this is a great pick!
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: This book was very touching. It kept you wondering what was going to happen next. If you like Nicholas Sparks try this one, that's how I came across it and I wasn't disappointed. I hope she does another book soon.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: This book was very touching. It kept you wondering what was going to happen next. If you like Nicholas Sparks try this one, that's how I came across it and I wasn't disappointed. I hope she does another book soon.
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