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Summary: Lola should have stayed unrevealed!
Review: I love Rachel Gibson's books but this one was a bust! A lingerie model who has posed all but naked for catalogs who is devasted because her ex put nude photos of her on the Internet??Lola was shallow (tweezing her eyebrows on a deserted island) and not too bright! She's stranded in the Bermuda Triangle, with a stranger, in a disabled boat, drug runners hunting them and she's freaked because Max used her TOOTHBRUSH!! Uh, duh, not real high on the priority list! I also had to agree with what another reviewer said about the editing! So many mistakes!! I read four or five books a week and many of them are the same way! Does anyone edit these??
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Summary: Fabulous!!!!!!
Review: I loved this book. Max and Lola and BD were great!! Can't wait for the next Rachel Gibson
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Summary: Lola Carlyle Reveals All...but nothing of Gibson's Talent
Review: This weekend, I plopped down on the couch with a pint of Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk and my long awaited copy of LCRA...and boy was I disappointed! (Not with the B&J, of course.;)) I was expecting a great, quirky, smart heroine, not the bland, silly heroine Lola turns out to be. What sexy bra and thong model would get seriously upset about some naked pictures on the 'net?...and would a person really get someone to pay $25 to see them? No. When Lola realizes a stranger is on the boat, why didn't she pick up her cell phone instead of a flare gun? It is all so far-fetched, and ultimately, disappointing. Hopefully, Gibson's next book will showcase her obvious talent revealed in Truly, Madly Yours and True Confessions, because it certainly isn't revealed here.
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Summary: Lola Carlyle Reveals All
Review: I loved Rachel Gibson's first book "Simply Irresistible". It was funny and had a little bit of heart at the same time. However, this last one "Lola" was so bad it gave romance novels a bad name and that's pretty hard to do. It fit so perfectly the stereotype of romance novels, and how they use whatever excuse they can to have the heroes and heroines run around half naked in a semi-state of arousal no matter what the situation. It seems when a new author gets some recognition they write whatever and people will buy it. I will not be one of them.
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Summary: Less Than Gibson's Best
Review: First, let me just say that I am a huge fan of Gibson's works. I've read and re-read everything she has done. So, naturally I was biting my nails waiting the release of this book. LOLA CARLYLE REVEALS ALL sets off at a fast pace, with gorgeous Lola contemplating how she was going to get even with her ex and Max, who was contemplating on how not to get killed. Max, an ex-Navy SEAL, commandeers a yacht after getting himself beat up, but unknown to him is that a sexy underwear model is aboard with her little dog. The two react to each other like oil and water at first, but then, slowly, they start to realize their attraction. The tension builds and they find themselves on an island running for their lives. What makes this book so disappointing to me is that Gibson's usually outrageous, off-beat heroine isn't present. Lola, though with flaws and a spunkiness of her own, falls short of Gibson's earlier heroines such as Gabrielle (IT MUST BE LOVE), Delaney (TRULY MADLY YOURS) or Hope (TRUE CONFESSIONS). Lola still struggles with her bulemia, is self conscious about her weight and those internet photos. I felt Lola was too staid to be a "Gibson Girl" and would much rather have had Gabrielle out there with Max, even if only to channel the bad energy away from him. As it was, Max was a tough, loner ex-SEAL, bent on a mission and made himself pretty clear as to what he wanted and didn't want in life. I found it too convenient that he gave up his job and wanted children - a turn around from his earlier testimonial. I think if Gibson had them spend less pages on the yacht, more in depth emotional entanglement, that particular about face might have been plausible. The other thing I found lacking in LOLA was the absence of great secondary characters. Besides BD - the loveable little dog, there were no zany, funny, weird or even interesting secondary characters to speak of. More of a plot driven romance than character driven, the predictibility of LOLA leaves this reader less than satisfied. For those of you who've not read Gibson before, you might not find anything lacking in this romance. For the rest of us, it is less than her best.
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Summary: Great book, though ending a bit rushed.
Review: This was the first Gibson book I've read, and I only picked up because the reviews for it were so great and I had been hungering for a good adventure romance. I have to say that this book did indeed live up to its high praise. The dialogue and the prose was never purple and Gibson does a fantastic job of giving both her characters depth without oozing cheese all over her book. She gives them introspect and human reactions as well as thought. I won't recap the plot line because so many others already have. Instead, I will just give my opinion. I loved the interaction between Max and Lola's dog, Baby Doll. It's so cute, but funny and entertaining all the same. Though Max is your ultra alpha hero, he has what many other alphas' lacked in other novels, and that's depth. He has dimension to his character and his vulnerabilities are believable and explained so that the reader sympathizes and can understand why he reacts as he does. Though he has his definite rough edges, there's also a chivalry about him. He's honest and keeps his promises, no matter how hard (consider the many, many times he's had to save Baby Doll). Lola is a lovely heroine. She's smart and sassy, but her vulnerabilities are very real as well. They don't seem like they were contrived just to make her interesting. Her self-doubt and her inner strength shine through, and though she loves her independence and can do for herself very well, like many women, she also wants someone to be there for her and want to protect her. She wants a man who will respect her independence but will also be gallant without patronizing. Gibson does a fabulous job of making her characters believable. Her characters' vulnerabilities aren't farfetched which happens all too often with characters in romances. Also, their personalities, both strengths and weaknesses, are played on through the whole story, and not brought up and dropped off whenever convenient for the author's storyline. Like real people, their baggage is always with them. The reason why I gave this book a four instead of a five is I feel there should have been a little more action and less floating in the water (though that was crucial in their relationship development). I feel this book could have been made much longer, perhaps another hundred pages. Though it was great, I feel it was crushed together a bit. Action should have been integrated a bit more, as well as a little more romance between the two main characters while they were on the boat as well as the island. Maybe they should have been stranded on the boat longer. Who knows. I also feel how Gibson tidied up Lola's troubles was a little rushed as well. It seemed too easy and convenient. I feel as though there should have been more to the last half of the book. I loved the story but wish there had been a little more romance, a little more action, and a little more time. Overall, a great book though. I will be looking into more of Gibson's books.
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Summary: humorous romantic suspense romp
Review: Former supermodel Lola Carlyle needs time to recover before she kills her ex-fiancé Sam the Jerk for peddling fifteen nudes shots of her over the Internet. She relaxes on a yacht in Nassau Harbor when American government agent Max Zamora boards her vessel. Beaten to a bloody pulp, Max needs to flee this Bahamas paradise as his mission completely tanked. While escaping from drug lord Andre Coselli, a badly beaten Max killed the kingpin's son so right now Florida sounds quite nice.
Lola and her companion miniature pinscher Baby Doll are quite upset when Max commandeers her boat. Her efforts to stop the ship-jacking leads to her destroying the yacht. As they drift along knowing that Coselli is sure to follow, Max and Lola form an attraction when she is not trying to kill her hijacker. If they survive this fiasco, could love blossom between this duet especially with a tiny chaperone objecting?
LOLA CARLYLE KNOWS ALL is a humorous romantic suspense romp that combines danger with laughs in a sort of modern version of a 1930s madcap tale. The story line is fun as the thrills and amusement cleverly intertwine into an entertaining romance. The lead couple is a dynamite duo while Baby Doll makes it clear from the start what he thinks of this third wheel. Rachel Gibson insures her fans have an insanely good time with this wild ride that hopefully leads to sequels starring the kinkier members of Lola's lunatic family. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Lola & Max A Hit
Review: One of the things I love about Rachel Gibsons writing is that it's unpredictable. "Lola Carlyle Reveals All" was not only unpredictable but humorous and sexy. The chemistry between Max and Lola as they struggle to make it back to civilization is amazing. Gibsons style in this book is reminiscent of Jennifer Crusie's and very rare. This book has a lot of action. It's easy to tell that this author put in a lot of research to produce this book. I was definitely not disappointed. I was hooked from the beginning and felt compelled to finish reading it in one sitting just to see what happened in the end.
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Summary: Cute, But Misses the Mark
Review: Lola Carlyle contains all the expected elements of a good novel by Rachel Gibson - it's cute, funny and sexy. Despite the recipe for success, I was never completely drawn into the story. Lola is a lingerie model hiding out after being "over-exposed" in the National Enquirer. Max Zamora, a former Navy SEAL, secret agent on the run from a drug czar. He commandeers the boat Lola's snoozing on and much hilarity and sexy scenes ensue. The problem is, this book is NOT edited well (or at all). I'd just get drawn into the story and a glaring typo or leap of logic would jump off the page and distract me. For example, an exclusive neighbourhood becomes an elusive one, Max says "she was killed before she got to the hospital" and there's the mysterious dis/reappearing binoculars. I don't usually get bogged down in details, but the fact that I did, means I wasn't completely engaged by this book. Although it was interesting having this author set a book in the Caribbean, she does a better job with Idaho as her backdrop. Once Lola and Max become close, she demands he give up his life in black ops so he can be safe and secure with her. Well, that's nice, but she's just met the guy, he's complained about women demanding he quit his job in his past and here we go, Lola asks too. I thought her demands were a bit presumptious. I'd put Lola in the same category as "It Must Be Love", a good story with good characters, but somehow missing something. Here's hoping her next is in the same league as "True Confessions" or "Truly Madly Deeply".
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Summary: Rachel Gibson Does it Again....
Review: This was a very charming book. I have read all of her books and think she is such a great author. Max and Lola are fun characters. My favorite part of the book was Lola's family reunion. I think the book would have been funnier if she had spent more time with the insane family members... If you love Rachel Gibson you will love this book.
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