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Summary: I loved this book! It's a keeper!
Review: I had such fun reading this book. I love reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips and it was great to see an early effort and a historical to boot. I don't usually read books set around the Civil War, but her name on a book would make me want to read any time period.
Kit and Baron are exciting, fun, and truly classic Phillips' characters. Reading this, I could see the birth process for all the other later books I love so much.
It's a keeper. And a treasure.
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Summary: Same Old Stuff, Truly Unbelievable
Review: I have read most of Ms. Phillips and there's nothing good I really can say about this one. I know it was written in the 1980s and then rewritten for 2001 distribution. One gets really tired of the supposed heroine who hates the hero and they fight, quarrel, etc. then at the end she realizes she has been wrong and goes after her husband. Please, give me a break. We've had enough of this type of writing. Lets try something new and exciting.
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Summary: Not good
Review: I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips' newer work. The "football" series are among my favorite books ever. I read very quickly and my authors can never keep up, so I re-read books over and over. That said, I threw this book away after the first time I read it.The characters are completely unsympathetic, and the plot line is contrived and ridiculous. I didn't care what happened and in fact was kind of rooting for the heroine to end up alone - not what you want to have in a romance novel. Read almost ANYTHING else by SEP and you'll get an enjoyable story and engaging characters. Skip this one.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and was very excited to pick up her newest. Except that it's not new. "Just Imagine" is a reworking of an earlier novel, set in the South after the Civil War. In her preface, she explains that she had fun working again with an un-PC setting, but sorry, even with black characters with brains and ambition, I can't get around the fact that I'm supposed to cheer for a main character who owned slaves and who would have gone on owning slaves had not war intervened. The heroine, although "plucky," is a spoiled brat and and a little too much like Scarlett O'Hara for me to bond with her. Especially after reading her contemporary romances, I remained unmoved by the heroine, the situation, and the love affair. My suggestion? Buy the book used or take out of your library.
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Summary: This was a fantastic book!!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I love all of SEP's books, and I hope her other out of print books are reprinted. THis was a very good Southern romance showing the South's POV through Kit, but Kit's POV changes even if her love of her home as not.
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Summary: Did Susan Elizabeth Phillips really write this?
Review: I was completely dumbstruck by this book, "Just Imagine". This was definitely not one of Phillips' better books. So if you are a first time reader of her, please try her other books. Where this one lacked laugher and imagination, her other books will inspire and promote you to reread it just to make sure the good parts were not missed the first time through them.
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Summary: Not As Good As Others
Review: I was really excited that Susan Elizabeth Phillips had come out with another book. Her contemporary novels are amazing. Just Imagine reminded me a lot of a Karen Robards historical. I was a little disappointed in this book because it seemed to follow a typical format. Young girl, dead parents, unlikeable guardian but handsome. Guardian and girl fall in love. Something just seemed to be lacking. I would definitely recommend this author, but maybe just not this book.
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Summary: Super rewrite of Phillips' 1984 Risen Glory!
Review: In case you don't have ($) to buy a rare, tattered copy of Phillips' first book from 1984, RISEN GLORY, you're in luck--Kit and Baron are back in this excellent rewrite, and they're better than ever! The Civil War is over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. She's come to New York City disguised as a boy to get revenge. Baron Cain stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. Unfortunately for Kit, Baron isn't just her bitter enemy, he's been appointed her guardian. Kit is an extremely strong heroine, but Baron is more than a match for her. If you love historicals where the heroine is disguised as a boy (I do!), and the hero and heroine are each other's natural antagonists, where the action never stops, the story is fast-paced, and the sexual tension burns, you will really enjoy this book--it has it all!
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Summary: different...but I like it!
Review: It is different from her other books but it is still refreshing. You notice how all the other SEP's heroines proclaim their undying love at the middle of the book(except for honey moon) and the hero most of the time denies or even leave them, and sometimes it gets annoying coz u it's always the girl who do the job or it's kinda predictable, but dont get me wrong, i love them all, anyway, Just Imagine, being her first book, does not follow the pattern. Here, both main characters are denying their feelings toward each other... they keep trying to escape it: Kit using Risen Glory as the barrier, and Baron's memories of his childhood kept him from acknowledging his true feelings for KIt. Never until the end did the question of love was mentioned. This is one of the one-night-stand books where u can't let it go, coz u want to see when they will get along at last. And that's the main difference from this book and all the other phillips' books--the intimacy and affection just started at the last 5 pages of the book, which is fine by me, coz the ending is surely satisfying. Of course, just like a good philipp's novel, this is a story about family, love, God, and friendship.
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Summary: different...but I like it!
Review: It is different from her other books but it is still refreshing. You notice how all the other SEP's heroines proclaim their undying love at the middle of the book(except for honey moon) and the hero most of the time denies or even leave them, and sometimes it gets annoying coz u it's always the girl who do the job or it's kinda predictable, but dont get me wrong, i love them all, anyway, Just Imagine, being her first book, does not follow the pattern. Here, both main characters are denying their feelings toward each other... they keep trying to escape it: Kit using Risen Glory as the barrier, and Baron's memories of his childhood kept him from acknowledging his true feelings for KIt. Never until the end did the question of love was mentioned. This is one of the one-night-stand books where u can't let it go, coz u want to see when they will get along at last. And that's the main difference from this book and all the other phillips' books--the intimacy and affection just started at the last 5 pages of the book, which is fine by me, coz the ending is surely satisfying. Of course, just like a good philipp's novel, this is a story about family, love, God, and friendship.
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