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Summary: A Good Read...Surprising & Unpredictable But Good
Review: I spent an afternoon reading Hot Pink, and found it to be a good book. I thought it was well written, and different from the usual run-of-the mill romance story. The plot had lots of twists and turns. I would have preferred if Rocco & Chloe's relationship was monagomous, but hey....its a book. As far as whether the characters practiced safe/safer sex, remember it's a story. I thought the love scenes were fantastic. The characters were not your usual persons written about in love stories, they were unique and memorable. The fact that they didn't have a perfect relationship made it all the more believable. I wanted to pull "Amy" up and hang her by her hair, when I read the story. Ms. Johnson's comparison of Rocco to ER Hunk, Goran Visnjic, helped me to visualize Rocco. I would suggest reading this book with your husband/boyfriend & get male perspective on it also. After reading this book, I picked up another of Ms. Johnson's books, Force of Nature. I thought it was a great book also.
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Summary: One hot tamale
Review: In Minneapolis, web designer Chloe Chisholm feels it is time to delete her latest male companion especially after the blind date fizzled over her pink hair. Leaving the dud behind, Chloe takes the elevator accompanied by tall, dark and handsome Rocco Vinelli. He too is frustrated over the machination of Amy Thiebaud, the younger sister of a friend. Though they went out on an occasional date in the past and he has escorted her to events, he never considered them to be more than friends. That does not stop Amy from hosting a surprise engagement party that Rocco walked out on for he has no plans to marry the witch.Chloe and Rocco share the greatest sex weekend of their lives. As they begin to fall in love, she learns that he is engaged to Amy, which he denies. When Amy claims she is pregnant by him, Chloe drops him, but Rocco insists that if she is pregnant it cannot be his. This erotic contemporary romance shows Susan Johnson at her hottest, which means the lead couple generates enough thermos heat to keep the Northeast warm in winter. Readers will want the hunk for themselves even when he utters perfectly understandable profanity. Though Amy is too much of a twit, the audience will relish HOT PINK. Harriet Klausner
Rating: 
Summary: Cool Pink!
Review: It pains me to give a Susan Johnson book a one-star rating, but this book deserves it. Hot it ain't. Plot there isn't; in fact, the story is just peripatetic, wandering from point A to point B, with an antagonist who folds like a really band hand in a high stakes poker game. The story line is credible but not very interesting; one gets the idea that the hero and heroine finally get their act together when nothing else can be done with the story line. There's no real tension, no real sturm und drang, no real anything that makes a Susan Johnson novel spectacular. The characters aren't particularly interesting, and their romantic situation is rather trite. All it took to solve the big issue in the story was a little honesty. Quite frankly, sex scenes weren't enough to carry the story, and they should not be. If Blonde Heat was a fun summer read last year; Hot Pink isn't, this year. Blonde Heat was funny. Hot Pink isn't. More than that, the female protagonist of Blonde Heat pretty much kept herself to the same guy, and the one in Hot Pink was more free with her favors. That makes highly questionable the whole idea of true love at the end. Maybe she was compartmentalizing, who knows. All I know is this, reading this book at Borders was enough for me to know I will not be adding it to my collection of Susan Johnson novels. Come to think of it, I'm suspending my purchases of Susan Johnson novels until I see her put out good stories, like she used to. Thank God for soft chairs at Borders, until then.
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Summary: Too Hot!
Review: Just finished reading this novel. I am a great Susan Johnson fan and this was a new type of contemporary novel for Johnson. It was extremely hot! Extremely Steamy! And funny. It was a different change for Johnson and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rating: 
Summary: Not that great
Review: Ok, it has great sex scenes and all that. But the plot and story line are so stupid, its pretty much non existant. Odd, being that SJ is normally awesome. Skip this one.
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Summary: Blah.. thats all I can say....
Review: Okay, so I read reviews of the book and how it wasn't her usual flair of erotic and plot book. But I just couldn't listen... I got the book and THEY WERE RIGHT!!!!!!!!! There was like two sex scenes that were okay and thats putting it mildly. The plot completely stunk. If you like the author, then by all means, get the book and add it to your collection. However, if you want a good book with a good plot mixed with eroticism look at her earlier books. For example, Outlaw, Tempting, Sinful, Siezed by love, Pure Sin, Brazen, Wicked or Taboo. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: 1/2* Cool off
Review: Susan Johnson's sophomore take on chick literature turns out disappointingly cliche with a lack of emotional core in both of her protagonists, web-designer Chloe Chisolm and aspiring entrepreneur Rocco Vinelli. Johnson's trademark sensual scenes burn and smolder but do not quite attain the erotic virtuosity as in her historical novels like Sinful and Brazen. Chloe, along with her friends, ponder whether their happy ending exists when relationships go turbulent. The most devastating of all is when Chloe had a one-night stand with Rocco and discovers later that he is "engaged" to a malicious, wilful brat Amy whose father is the determining factor to his success in his nascent business operations. Clearly unfocused, Johnson adds in dramatic antics and a new lover boy to spice things up. Unfortunately, Hot Pink doesn't live up to its hype.
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Summary: Hot Pink
Review: terrible !!!!!!!!! this book was based on sex and more meaningless sex ... it had no story line , no romance just hot steamy sex .. the heroine just slept around , while the hero chased her like a dog in heat ... sorry but it was like reading porno ....
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Summary: NOT GOOD, NOT SEXY
Review: The way the back of the book read, I thought this would be an amusing, strong romantic comedy. NOT!!! By the end of the second chapter, Chloe and Rocco were in bed together (I did not see any chemistry between them, and the sex scenes were really boring and stale. If I am going to read about it, I want it to be stimulating and well written, these were basic slam bam scenes where they describe her parts with the "C" word. Not a big fan of that word. I kept reading, because I have really enjoyed Susan Johnson in the past and I knew that somewhere that I would like the characters. Never found that, and wish I hadn't wasted my money. They make no bones about the fact that Chloe likes sex, and she apparently can not go more than 2 days without it. She has sex w/another guy named Colin, (also no chemisty, just a drunk bar p/u of a cute guy) I didn't think the characters were good, I did not think this was well written. I read erotica, and this was not that!! If that is what you are looking for, get the Black Lace series. If you are looking for a romance, you will hate this. They guy ends up with the girl, but I didn't think much of him, and I thought she would be as faithful to him as an alley cat. If you read the book you will see why. If you don't read it, consider it time well spent!!
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Summary: Quick brainless read but a little too brainless for me
Review: While Susan Johnson is known for her steamy sex scenes, this one relies a little too heavily on them to keep the reader's interest. As an added negative, the scenes found in this book are a little less steamy and not as entertaining as her earlier novels. The plot also lacks the interesting historical ties that she added to her other novels. In fact, pink's plot is so cursory over details that you never really get a feel for the characters or understand their motives. The "fiancé" gives up a little too easily. The two protagonists fall in love for no apparent reason other than some gut attraction. While the main characters seem like they are in-depth enough to be side characters in other novels, the supporting characters read like cardboard cutouts. Weird, out-of-place, completely useless cardboard cutouts. Best of all, the main character feels like a lush that the author switches between a free, independent women and a self-help addict. Overall it's a decent read that should have been fleshed out a lot more. Not really worth it for the [money] paperback version but an ok read if they reprint it for [less].
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