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Summary: "RACHEL GIBSON DOES IT AGAIN"
Review: Take an undercover cop who's been having a really bad year and mix him up with a beautiful New Age woman who believes in Karma and has a mother who is psychic, and you've got yourself a Rachel Gibson novel. Rachel has the wonderful ability of being able to weave her characters together, even when they are complete opposites. This book is laugh-out-loud Funny.
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Summary: Not as humorous as her last two
Review: Maybe this is not my year for humorous books. As I was disappointed in First Lady, I was also disappointed in this book. Maybe both are a case of too high expectations. The funniest scene is the opening one, when the heroine tackles the hero and has him cornered with a can of hair spray. From there on the heroine is either chanting, I have to find my center of peace or hyperventilating. That was the humor. The hero thought the heroine was wacky, lacking in common sense, but sexy. For comic relief she added a parrot that mimic the phone ringing. Since her other two books are on my keeper shelf, I still plan on buying Rachel's books but this one missed the mark with me. I would be interested in others' opinion.
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Summary: Simply irresistible humorous tale
Review: Boise Police Detective Joe Shanahan has been tailing antique storeowner Gabrielle Breedlove for a week. He suspects that she and her partner Kevin Carter stole a Monet from the state's wealthiest person Norris "The Potato King" Hillaird and that they plan to sell it on the black market. He also thinks the store is a front for selling other illegally gotten items. However, Gabrielle believes Joe is a stalker. She not only confronts him, but she somehow gets the jump on him, something that has never happened to him in his fifteen-year law enforcement career. Joe manages to reverse his embarrassing position and arrests Gabrielle for holding a concealed weapon. Since his cover is already blown, he questions her about the stolen Monet. Wanting to get the law off her back and believing her partner is innocent, Gabrielle agrees to cooperate on the stolen masterpiece investigation by pretending Joe is her boyfriend and new employee. As they stay in close proximity and encouraged by his matchmaking siblings, Joe and Gabrielle fall in love. However, he is a by-the-book cop and she is a free spirited sprite, a combination that makes a lasting relationship seem improbable. In just two years, romance fans who enjoy reading sexy humorous tales have found the works of Rachel Gibson to be SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, believing the novels are truly madly written for them. Her newest book, IT MUST BE LOVE, is a jocular but passionate tale of love between opposites. Joe and Gabrielle are a warm couple trying to fight their growing attraction to one another. The support cast helps bring Idaho to the forefront of the entertaining story line. Ms. Gibson is one of the top authors of romantic sexy romps in the twenty-first century.
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Summary: Juvenile
Review: It wasn't so much the bland writing or the feeling that I've read this story before, but that the hero and heroine seemed more like high school kids dealing with issues most likely found on the school playground than adults. Reactions were over the top, and at times I wanted to smack some sense into the heroine. I welcome a variety of characters in my literature, but Gabrielle was far too flighty and clueless for my taste. Joe was overbearing, pushy, and crude. Hey, love alpha males, just don't like reading about obnoxious ones. I couldn't buy the premise of how these two came together, or how they stayed together for that matter. If you're looking for a cleverly written book involving a flaky heroine and a tough as nails cop, then read Jennifer Crusie's "Getting Rid of Bradley." It's far more entertaining and believable.
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Summary: It Must be Love
Review: I thought this book had real possibilities when I first started reading it, but it just went flat and the male main character was pushy, overbearing, and crude as one customer reviewer said. It was hard to see how they were going to fall in love since after 150 pages the guy still didn't like the girl at all, and since he was such a jerk, she couldn't like him. The female main character was kind of sweet, so it seems like he should have pretty quickly been somewnat charmed. I think Susan Anderson could have taken this plot and made it really funny and the characters really likeable.
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Summary: yin and yang
Review: Detective Joe Shanahan thought he'd hit rock bottom. He'd been shot, forced to kill in the line of duty, demoted from narcotics to property crimes, his mother and four sisters are trying to marry him off, his bird has a dirty mouth, and now it's raining. But when suspected fence, Gabrielle Breedlove, jogs by in a pair of short-shorts, Joe thinks maybe his day is looking up. That is until she gets the jump on him and sprays him in the face with hairspray, an antique derringer pointed at his family jewels. And if that wasn't bad enough, the Lieutenant gives her immunity for the assault and the fence charge as long as she agrees to cooperate in bringing down her business partner. So, Joe's going undercover as handyman boyfriend to the curvy, auburn-haired new age kook, Gabrielle. Gabrielle Breedlove's mother is psychic, her aunt is telepathic, and her cousin talks to whales. In comparison, being a lapsed vegetarian who believes in auras, aromatherapy, and astrology is really quite down to earth. But tell that to Joe, the undercover cop she's forced to put up with. If he's not teasing her and making her life a pain, he's kissing her silly then asking her to channel Elvis. And he calls her crazy? With her charkas all out of balance and her mother predicting that fate has brought Joe and Gabrielle together, how will she ever convince the cops that her business partner, Kevin, is innocent? In this story of yin and yang there's only one conclusion - it must be love. Rachel Gibson strikes again. "It Must Be Love" is funny, entertaining, full of zany characters, and an enjoyable read. The anticipation of romance between Joe and Gabrielle is great fun, and when they finally get to their senses the love scenes sizzle. This is a story of opposites attract told like only Gibson can. If you like modern comic romances, "It Must Be Love" must be for you. Emily Flippin Maruna
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Summary: Don't buy this...
Review: I disliked both of the main characters. She was stupid enough to fall for him and he was a slimy user. (He reminded me of Scott Peterson, if that tells you anything). My copy went straight into the trash.
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Summary: Loved this book!
Review: I just can't decide which one of Gibson's books is my all time favorite. This one comes so close to being at the top of my list. It takes off on page one and doesn't stop.....you will laugh, love and smile your way through this story. Best hero and heroine yet. I loved everything about them AND Ms. Gibson's writing.
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Summary: New Age Hippie vs. Hard-nosed Cop....5 Stars!!
Review: Very impressed by yet another Gibson book. This author is new to me and I am entralled by her wit and writing. She adds just the right amount of humor and romance and doesn't clutter the story with unnessasary junk or filler. Just plain ole fun and old fashioned romance with of course a very sexy and funny hero to die for and oh yeah, a heroine to be proud of. In this humorous tale, a new age hippie named Gabrielle Breedlove finds herself being arrested in the park jogging right after she sprays her 'stalker' with hairspray for following her for days. How was she supposed to know the weirdo smoking and jogging on the trail was an undercover cop?
Joe Shanahan is trying to decide if this woman who thinks auras and karma is plain nuts or just essentric, or just a way of deceiving the public into thinking she is innocent of stealing priceless antiques. His job? Pose as her boyfriend and hired hand in her antique/hippie shop to nab her business partner and friend for stealing a Monet recently. In return she gets immunity.
Things aren't as easy as he'd planned. They never are in Joe's case. Attraction to the crazy woman is not something he plans but gets anyway and now he is starting to think she is honestly telling the truth about not knowing anything.
While his mother and sisters trying to find him a wife and his parrot Sam learning his vocaulary from Jerry Springer shows, Joe has enough problems at home, he doesn't need this flighty woman trying to tell him he is making bad karma by spying on her partner.
Gabrielle doesn't need a big muscle man with bad karma and a red aura intruding on her peaceful llife anymore than she needs a hole in the head. Then why is her 'pychic' mom telling her he is the man in her future? Her yang? Impossible. Or is it? Hilarious and well worth the time and money spent! A true gem. Excuse me while I read all this author has to offer..... Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Is it really love?
Review: Though Rachel Gibson has written some great books, she's not perfect. It Must Be Love had a cute premise, but the execution wasn't as good as I had expected. Gabrielle Breedlove is a new-age chick who believes in karma and aromatherapy but not fate. Together with her partner Kevin, she owns an antiques/curio shop. But during her morning jogs, she's noticed a guy - a handsome, sexy guy - who seems to be following her and, coming to the conclusion he's a stalker, confronts him with a can of hairspray and an unloaded gun. Well he turns out to be police detective Joe Shanahan who takes her into custody for assaulting a police officer! But once at the station, she discovers that she and her partner are under suspicion of having stolen a painting and that they want her to turn informant or else she will be prosecuted as an accessory. Without much choice, she agrees to the scheme wherein Joe will pretend to be her handyman boyfriend in order to be in the store and collect evidence against Kevin. Gabrielle is a very trusting (some might say naïve) largely solitary and introspective woman who wants to believe the best of people - except for Joe who she considers an unenlightened Neanderthal. Joe is your typical Irish-Catholic only son in a large, rambunctious family. He avoids his mom and sisters attempts to marry him off, but inside he has considered it, especially after being shot in the line of duty the year before. But if he gets married it will be on his own terms in his own time. While the relationship starts out OK with a reluctant opposites attract thing going on, as things heated up between them, sure there was lust, but I did not feel true affection - especially not on his part since he was still flirting and making dates with other women! He's completely written her off as relationship material, thinks she's "kooky" and seems to have little respect for her or her beliefs. Meanwhile she's falling madly in love with him! Once the case is closed and it looks like each will go their separate ways, he finally comes to his senses about what he really wants. But I hate to say I had my doubts about this couple lasting for the long haul. Oh, me of little faith! Still, I did enjoy this book even with my doubts. Joe was sexy and sweet in his own gruff way and though her new-aginess got on my nerves at times, Gabrielle was a truly kind and caring person. Not flawless, but still a good read.
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