Head Over Heels

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Summary: I love Susan Andersen!!!
Review: "Head Over Heels" was just what i was looking for in a quick read.....Susan Andersen has a knack for creating a book with romance and suspense all woven together to create one perfect book!

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Summary: Head Over Heels
Review: All I can say is this is the first time that I have read a Susan Anderson book and I was hooked after I started reading it. This book was good. Funny with the banter and the bar scene about him being a good soldier for so long. And his growling voice. This book was good!!

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Summary: Enjoyable Beginning of a Trilogy
Review: An enjoyable introduction to what looks to be a welcome trilogy about three former Marine buddies. This one takes place in Fossil Washington, and concerns the murder of Crystal Davis, the owner of the Baker Street Honky Tonk, her late father's tavern. The whodunnit itself wasn't that complex, since the reader is quickly able to eliminate most of the possible suspects, but it serves to provide the framework for the meeting between Crystal's sister, Veronica Davis who is a restoration specialist, and Cooper Blackstock, an ex-Marine of mysterious means and also the man hired to run the tavern. Their working relationship and developing romance is the main focus of the story.

Veronica and Cooper are both running from their past, yet both wind up in the town where they've been hurt the most. Each has unresolved issues with their deceased parents, issues which molded both of them and which also serve as a stumbling block to their growing attraction to one another. There is also the complication of Crystal's young daughter Lizzy - she's now motherless, her father has been charged with the murder, and now he's jumped bail. Adding to all that is the fact that Veronica now has to deal with settling Crystal's affairs, providing a stable homelife for her niece, and temporarily help out waitressing at the tavern (putting her in close proximity to Cooper, but also bringing back unpleasant memories of her teenage years). To make matters worse, Lizzy's father, Eddie Chapman, is also Cooper's half-brother, a fact which he has omitted telling Veronica. There is also a nicely done secondary romance between Veronica's best friend Marissa, a widowed mother of three, and a local businessman named Kody, who is afraid to commit.

This story was a bit more serious in tone than some of Ms. Andersen's other books due to the issues raised, but it still contains her excellent dialogue, amusing scenes, and fine character development. Unlike some authors, all of her main characters seem real, their behaviors true. They don't make the reader cringe in disbelief. The children in the story are real children, not discardable plot devices, but kids you could easily take to your heart. The relationship between Veronica and Coop flashed nicely, both in language and deed. Needless to say, both are good looking, smart and sexy, with strong independent streaks. I'd say this book is a keeper.

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Summary: Fast, hilarious and passionate
Review: Even without the complexity of emotions as in her last effort All Shook Up, Susan Andersen dishes her romance with zippy humour and solid characters in the form of Veronica Davis and Cooper Blackstone. When Ronnie returns to Fossil, Washington upon receiving the devastating news of her sister Crystal murdered by her husband Eddie, she hurries back to her niece Lizzy and plans to sell the bar that Crystal has inherited. Her original intentions gets impeded by the deliciously roguish Cooper who is the bartender of Honky Tonk. He compels her to take over the vacated position of the waitress - and her sister's house is leased to him. Staying under the same roof will hurtle both of them to catastrophe with their hostility. However passion heats up with their sizzling chemistry hanging - and what with Cooper hiding the true agenda - investigating Eddie's (his half brother) case - things will no doubt get a little bit complicated.

Susan Andersen compensates the lack of complexed characters with fluid narration that strums with laughter and joy. It engages the readers to fall head over heels with the flawed characters and their insecurities towards marriage with their scarred childhood. Ronnie desires security and Cooper yearns for her trust; it is a tussle of emotions and conflicts. The honesty of the emotions may be muted by the comedic pitch of the book, but it is fast and passionate enough to elicit a riot.

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Summary: I love Susan Andersen!!!
Review: Head over heels for this book is almost what sums this up! I loved it! Lots of funny scenes to keep you laughing and Ms. Andersen's trademark wit.

Veronica Davis is from Fossil, Washington, but you wouldn't know it by what she says and how she acts. She owns a nice condo in Seattle and has a thriving business that takes her around the world, for example, to Scotland for a year.
Being forced to go home again, Fossil, not Seattle; Veronica is miserable and dreading it. She worked so hard over the years to forget the small town that drove her nuts in her adolecent years when she was forced to be a waitress at her father's saloon. Now however extenuating circumstances has made her come back to tie up loose ends and sell the dreadful saloon. Once the deed was done, she'd flee the town once and for all...what she doesn't expect is to find it being run by ex-Special forces Marine Cooper Blackstock...a little too sexy and hotblooded for her at the moment, but Cooper had ideas about defrosting her blood to match his!
Cooper is undercover and is pretending to be a bartender. Hard to swallow? Not in this case. He looks the part and acts the part, so much so that Veronica really thinks he is a drifter/bartender with no goals, great, just what she needs to complicate her life right?
Things get hairy between these two as a murder investigation makes it rounds and who-dun-it becomes commonplace in a town with one main road and alot of nosey people. Death threats ensue along with too many dangerous secrets the bartender is keeping. Good thing Cooper is there to catch her if she falls...head over heels that is...Veronica just might find Fossil interesting afterall.

This is the first in her new series and was wonderful!!! I am looking forward to her newest installment or ANYTHING by her!!!

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Summary: First in the 'Men of the Marines' Series! 4 1/2 Stars!!!!
Review: Head over heels for this book is almost what sums this up! I loved it! Lots of funny scenes to keep you laughing and Ms. Andersen's trademark wit.

Veronica Davis is from Fossil, Washington, but you wouldn't know it by what she says and how she acts. She owns a nice condo in Seattle and has a thriving business that takes her around the world, for example, to Scotland for a year.
Being forced to go home again, Fossil, not Seattle; Veronica is miserable and dreading it. She worked so hard over the years to forget the small town that drove her nuts in her adolecent years when she was forced to be a waitress at her father's saloon. Now however extenuating circumstances has made her come back to tie up loose ends and sell the dreadful saloon. Once the deed was done, she'd flee the town once and for all...what she doesn't expect is to find it being run by ex-Special forces Marine Cooper Blackstock...a little too sexy and hotblooded for her at the moment, but Cooper had ideas about defrosting her blood to match his!
Cooper is undercover and is pretending to be a bartender. Hard to swallow? Not in this case. He looks the part and acts the part, so much so that Veronica really thinks he is a drifter/bartender with no goals, great, just what she needs to complicate her life right?
Things get hairy between these two as a murder investigation makes it rounds and who-dun-it becomes commonplace in a town with one main road and alot of nosey people. Death threats ensue along with too many dangerous secrets the bartender is keeping. Good thing Cooper is there to catch her if she falls...head over heels that is...Veronica just might find Fossil interesting afterall.

This is the first in her new series and was wonderful!!! I am looking forward to her newest installment or ANYTHING by her!!!

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Summary: Great!!
Review: Highly recommended. One of my fav-rits! Looking forward to others in the series.

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Summary: Can't wait for the next book!!!
Review: I completely agree with the reviewer from Huntsville. The worst book SA wrote was OBSESSED. I had a hard time finishing that one. It is not at all the same with Head Over Heels. This book is fun and entertaining. I really liked the hero. Yes, he does keep some secrets about himself from the heroine, but please it was not like he was an ax murderer or something. He is also extremely sweet when he tries to redeem himself. The sexual tension between the two main characters was exciting. I felt it was a big plus that the secondary characters were also interesting. I would highly recommend this book.

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Summary: READ IT AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF!
Review: Judith, Judith, Judith. . .HEAD OVER HEELS is not the worst book SA has written. OBSESSED is the worst book she's ever written. HEAD OVER HEELS is great. You have our hero - who granted is a little different from her former heroes - but not nearly as bad as Judith's review indicates. Of course we have to have him resisting his attraction to our heroine (and she got in her verbal licks, too!), that's what makes the sexual tension heat up. This is a smart, sexy story. A good mystery which is not in your face obvious, and best of all - no psycho/rapist/serial killer!!! Let's face it! There are a lot of books out there with that plot and authors who keep reusing it. At least SA varies her plots and the characteristics and personalities of her main characters. If you want the same old thing time after time, read Jayne Ann Krentz (no, that's not a compliment). For another GREAT, SEXY read - try LONE RIDER by LAUREN BACH. I recommend this book in just about all my reviews, but it's a KEEPER and you'll thank me for the recommendation. HEAD OVER HEELS is a keeper, too. Can't wait for SA's next book.

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Summary: One of the Best Books of 2002!
Review: Susan Andersen has an incredible talent for creating multi-dimensional, likable characters, a skill beautifully showcased in Head Over Heels. Even secondary characters have a richness to them that draws a reader deeper into the story.

Ronnie and Coop have pasts that reverberate in their behavior now. Each of them is forced to deal with their issues and work toward overcoming them as the story progresses and their relationship moves forward. Their actions and reactions are always true to who they are and always believable.

I've read all of Andersen's books now and I'd have to say this is definitely among her best. If you like a story with characters that feel real, Head Over Heels is a good choice.