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Summary: "When you look at the other team think N A K E D !"
Review: Phoebe can't stand the sport football and hasn't seen her father, who is now deceased, in years. But Phoebe Sommerville has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team through the death of her father. She has one year to bring the team to the Super Bowl and receive her full monotary inheritance or it falls back permanently to her cousin who she despises. But along with the team she has to contend with Coach Dan Celebow. Dan is an ex-quarterback himself and has the talent to be a great coach if the team will just follow his plays- he has a tough job to do and now having to put up with a flakey but gorgeous team owner who likes to give her own instructions like "when you look at the other team think naked" has just added to his headaches. Needless to say Phoebe and Dan don't hit it off and are constantly butting heads. But there is a sexual attraction that is stronger than either one of them. Can they work things out personally and work together for the team's sake? This is SEP's the prequel to THIS HEART OF MINE. Though I read them in the wrong order they are both good. They are fun, heartwarming and sexy- a recommended read!
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Summary: Good, but hated the unbelievable climax.
Review: There are so many things to like about this book. The lead characters were funny, complex and engaging. Most of the plot was interesting. Unlike some reviewers, I was not turned off by Phoebe's over-the-top bimbo act. I thought it was consistent with her past experiences, and it was a refreshing change from the heroine who's unattractive or doesn't know how to use her sexuality. My main beef with this book was the hokey, unbelievable climax, where Dan essentially proves his love for Phoebe by being willing to throw the AFC Championship game. Not at all credible, and actually a little disgusting, when you think about it. If you love or are knowledgeable about the NFL, you will hate this book. Otherwise, I recommend it.
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Summary: Extremely entertaining and a well written book
Review: This was the very first book I had read written by SEP and would highly recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour. Phoebe and Dan kept me laughing, crying and highly entertained. I could not put the book down until it was finished. Am going to order all books written by SEP.
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Summary: A keeper!
Review: This book started a little slow, but picked up soon. It combines football, romance, humor and mystery. It is a worthwhile read! I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
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Summary: A book you won't regret reading....
Review: Pheobe Sommerville has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team and she is thrilled that her father apparently believed in her enough to leave her his beloved Stars. There was a catch though, she has one year to win the Superbowl, or ownership of the team reverts to her cousin. Needless to say, Pheobe knows absolutley nothing about football and winning a championship with a losing team is beyond her comprehension. So, she decides that she will not get involved with the Stars, owner or not. She doesn't count on Dan Cabelow though, or her explosive attraction to him. Dan Cabelow is the head coach of the Chicago Stars. When he meets his new 'boss', he can't believe that her father left his daughter, the bimbo, the team. Then, as the season passes, he learns that she really has a brain beneath all the makeup and hooker clothing. What he can't figure out is why she would want people to think she's a bimbo. Regardless of his attraction to Pheobe, he knows that she's not the woman for him. When he thinks of marriage, he thinks of children and peace, something he definitley can't see Miz Sommerville wanting. Susan Elizabeth Phillips brings the reader a story of love and courage, heartbreak and loss. She does it in a way that is so extrodinary, the reader feels like they're actually a part of the book. I didn't want this book to end, but I was so satisfied with the ending that I cried. Dan and Pheobe's story is so heartwrenching, you'll want to keep a box of tissues by your side. You'll not only cry, but you'll laugh until you cry. Don't miss this book!
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Summary: I found a new author!
Review: As soon as I read the first page of this book, I knew I had to read it! I loved the characters, Phoebe and Dan, along with all the others. It was so funny. I liked how Phoebe was strong yet vunerable. She made the book! The love scenes were hot yet sweet and the ending was so good! I never felt that good at the ending of a story in a long time. If you like authors such as my favorite, Jill Barnett, you will love this book. It's like a Jill Barnett book, but contemporary. You learn while you read and have a good time doing it.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I have read all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' books, and this is one of my favourites. It is wondefully written and Phoebe and Dan are great characters. I loved the way they never seemed to get along but just couldn't help falling for each other. This is my idea of a great romance! I recomend it to anyone who hasn't read one of SEP's books before. It is really a great romance novel.
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Summary: Funny and romantic
Review: When I bought 'It Had To Be You' I was looking for some witty and charming book to cheer me up when I was in a kinda bad mood. Well, needless to say, 'It Had To Be You' was a perfect pick. SEP features funny situations, crazy but lovable people around the world of pro football, a plot tense enough to keep you hooked until the last pages - and a heroine and a hero you just gotta root for. The relationship between Phoebe and Dan starts out as fire and water, but even though you know from the start, that these two will eventually get together, the way it happens is chaotic and romantic at the same time...
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Summary: Bombshell Bests Ball-boy
Review: Heroine: voluptuous Phoebe Somerville had them all fooled. The blonde bombshell, va-va-voom vixen shielded a hurt innocence and sharp intelligence within. As an overweight, graceless child unloved and unwanted by her father, she had it out with him and ran off from home to lead a life of which he couldn't approve. In turn, the old man stuck it to her in his will by forcing her to inherit his football team (and her teenaged half-sister) for a few short months, to prove that she could really make something of herself. A mixed blessing at best, since Phoebe loves her little sister, but can't stand football. And she can't stand the team's hunky coach, either! Stars Coach Dan Calebow is hard, driven, and cold. How could he be anything but, with a nickname like "Ice"? Though dedicated to his sport, he was more inclined to living fast and loose when it came to women. Dan used to love them hot and wild but a bad marriage and empty, brief physical encounters have left him craving a baby-loving kinda gal who can warm his frozen heart. But right now his top priority is getting hoochie-mama-turned-temporary-team-owner Phoebe's luscious backside outta the big boss's chair so he can get his team, and his life, back on track. Can these two damaged souls discover how much they truly have in common with each other before it's too late? What worked for me: I must say this is the first time I've ever seen football mixed with romance in a story. That certainly made it unique and did allow for several funny quips from the heroine. I also liked underlying theme of healing and bonding, especially where the two sisters were concerned. (Molly has her own story covered in "This Heart of Mine", for those folks who enjoy family series.) Size-wise Phoebe was built a bit curvier than is currently en vogue, a la Jayne Mansfield. (Actually the descriptions in the book had me picturing the hero and heroine as Tom Berenger and Jennifer Tilly.) What didn't work for me:
I've always been a bit uncomfortable with rape scenarios in my romance novels, though in this case the heroine is trying to recover from an assault that occurred years earlier. I felt that the contrived conflicts made the characters seem juvenile. Overall: A solid read, especially if you like truly despicable villains and prefer your hero and heroine to be firmly at odds with each other. A few good comic as well as dramatic moments shine in this story, but it may not be humorous enough for some readers nor suspense-filled enough for others. Warning: This book has some steamy sex scenes and coarse language in its pages. If you liked "It Had to be You" you might also enjoy: "This Heart of Mine", "Plum Girl", "Lola Carlyle Reveals All", "Fast Women", "His Seductive Revenge", "Dear Cupid", "Looking for Laura", "Too Much Temptation", "Say You're Mine", "Carried Away", or "Walking After Midnight".
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Summary: Worst book
Review: I cannot believe that the heroine Phoebe is only prentending to be a "bimbo"? She really is one, honest. SEP would like for readers to believe that Phoebe is a very intelligent woman hiding behind the "bimbo" mask. This book is even reprinted?? Isn't one print of this book worst enough? The heroine loves to dress in sluttish clothes to prance around in front of her fellow football employees, coaches, sister, reporters, basically in front of an audience. And SEP even uses words like "sturt" to show that Phoebe is doing it on purpose. The book starts out with Phoebe wearing something highly inapporiate for her father's funeral showing that she doesn't care. She had pose nude for a man's magazine, slept with the photographer and supposedly many men, although I believe that is also another of her ploys. Then she and the coach for the football team Dan does not get along. Somehow Dan always comes out the loser and Phoebe just wiggles her butt and breast and all men comes to her aid. How is that for women liberators? If that is not a woman going back to caveman tactics I don't know what is. Phoebe's little sister Molly (who will get her own book, which is just as bad as this one) hates Phoebe and makes up many lies about her. Eventually there is some sort of scandal and Phoebe risks losing her football team, everyone gets together and stands by her including Dan, and The End. At the end there is a mention that Phoebe can no longer act the "bimbo" because everyone including the press and media "knows" how "intelligent" Phoebe is and she could no longer get away with the brainless sex kitten act. Save your money for something better. I'm certainly glad I did. I borrowed this book from someone else. The sequel "This Heart of Mine" lacks romance, and tries to bring together two characters who are not suited for one another.
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