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Summary: Better and better...
Review: ...is what Elizabeth Bevarly keeps getting. Though it seemed a bit darker and more serious than her previous books, I found that same quirky sense of humor that brought us the scene where Leo Friday reads the romance novel. The whole thing seemed to me a surprisingly grown-up romance, with a sense of style and whimsy. This book confronts some sticky subjects, and handles them almost completely without bias. It deals well with the secondary characters, including the heroine's alter ego. Lastly, his reaction to the revelation was devoid of the usual temper tantrums so common to romance novels when one of the characters finds they've been lied to. It was a mature ending to a grown-up book.
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Summary: Is the scholar really a vamp -- or the vamp a scholar?
Review: All Dorsey MacGuinness wants is a bit of security - security for her mother the modern courtesan in the form of a nice nest egg, and security for herself in the form of a completed sociology dissertation. A book of advice to women in search of the man of their dreams seemed a good way to gain the former. But she had no clue that she'd end up fielding sociological questions disgusied as Lauren Grable-Monroe, the author of that oh-so-popular mantrapping guidebook. Still less did she suspect that the man of *her* dreams was about to trap her! This is another fun romp from Elizabeth Beverly - who just keeps getting better and better!
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Summary: Man, oh man...
Review: Does Elizabeth Bevarly know men, or what? I loved this witty, delicious romance. The author gets in the characters' heads so well, I could hear them talking in =my= head! Clever writing and engaging characters add up to one great book! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Enjoyable and Cute!
Review: Dorsey MacGuiness is beautiful, smart and witty. She leads a busy life. In the morning she is a very bored assistant teacher at Severn College. In the evening she is a bartender at Drake and in love with a sexy and incredible successful Adam Darien. In her spare time she is Lauren Grable-Monroe a scandalous writer, who wrote (with a great help from her mother) a guide book for all woman teaching how to find a rich husband! When the book turns out to be more popular than intended, Dorsey is trapped between her real self and the Delicious Lauren. How is she to get her life back without losing the man she loves? The book has a fully description of all characters which i find very useful. You get a clear colorful picture of every page How to trap a tycoon is a funny and romantic book. At some point you may find it surprising, sometimes predictable, and at some dreadful points you will feel as if you're watching a soap opera. But still I have to admit I couldn't put the book down! It's just perfect for summer :)
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Summary: Entertaining, Witty, and I Want More!
Review: Dorsey MacGuinness has a lot on her plate: she's a TA at Severn College pursuing a Sociology PhD, she's "Mack," a bartender at an exlusive men-only club named Drake's, and she's Lauren Grable-Monroe, America's newest favorite author who wrote "How to Trap A Tycoon." All she wants is to defend her sociological treatise on "stuffy old-boy men's clubs as microcosms for a male-dominated society" but her publisher's demands to make public appreances as Lauren Grable-Monroe, and her budding romantic relationship with Adam Darien -- a member of Drake's who hates "How to Trap a Tycoon" but doesn't realize he's dating the author! -- leave little room for, oh, SLEEP, let alone applying herself to her PhD. Elizabeth Bevarly's writing style is rare among Romance authors. It's conversational, intelligent, and flows. Her characters have well-crafted personalities and Dorsey is a gem. For light-hearted reading, a happy ending, and snappy prose, pick up "How to Trap a Tycoon."
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Summary: Entertaining, Witty, and I Want More!
Review: Dorsey MacGuinness has a lot on her plate: she's a TA at Severn College pursuing a Sociology PhD, she's "Mack," a bartender at an exlusive men-only club named Drake's, and she's Lauren Grable-Monroe, America's newest favorite author who wrote "How to Trap A Tycoon." All she wants is to defend her sociological treatise on "stuffy old-boy men's clubs as microcosms for a male-dominated society" but her publisher's demands to make public appreances as Lauren Grable-Monroe, and her budding romantic relationship with Adam Darien -- a member of Drake's who hates "How to Trap a Tycoon" but doesn't realize he's dating the author! -- leave little room for, oh, SLEEP, let alone applying herself to her PhD. Elizabeth Bevarly's writing style is rare among Romance authors. It's conversational, intelligent, and flows. Her characters have well-crafted personalities and Dorsey is a gem. For light-hearted reading, a happy ending, and snappy prose, pick up "How to Trap a Tycoon."
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Summary: Theoretical vs Practical
Review: Dorsey MacGuinness is a teaching assistant in a local college, where sociology is her background. Also in her background is being the daughter of a woman who prefers the role of mistress to wife. When Dorsey semi-seriously wrote a `how to' manual on catching a rich man, it was on the urging and inspiration of her mother. Dorsey hardly expected for it to become a best seller! Moonlighting as a bartender at a gentleman's club was a way for Dorsey to research her next, this time more academic project. Until Adam Darien, one of the well off businessmen at the club, took to complaining about a certain best selling book. And from there on, things just got more complicated as Dorsey and Adam became involved, while Dorsey tried to keep her author alter ego out of their relationship. Strong characters are what makes this book special. Dorsey, her unusual mother Carlotta and her friend Edie, and even Drake's owner Lindy are all very strong, unique and distinctive female characters. Lindy is positively scary, Carlotta very charming and engaging, and Edie's secondary story nearly overshadows Dorsey's (and from time to time does overshadow it). Adam and Lucas, the two main men of the piece, do not let the masculine side down either. There are no simple stereotypes here, and the strong and believable individuals and their agendas and interactions made this book something different, and special for me. There is a distinct feminist angle contained within the text in a very positive way, and I also enjoyed the `backlash' effect in the plotting - very possible I thought. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to all readers of romance.
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Summary: Theoretical vs Practical
Review: Dorsey MacGuinness is a teaching assistant in a local college, where sociology is her background. Also in her background is being the daughter of a woman who prefers the role of mistress to wife. When Dorsey semi-seriously wrote a 'how to' manual on catching a rich man, it was on the urging and inspiration of her mother. Dorsey hardly expected for it to become a best seller! Moonlighting as a bartender at a gentleman's club was a way for Dorsey to research her next, this time more academic project. Until Adam Darien, one of the well off businessmen at the club, took to complaining about a certain best selling book. And from there on, things just got more complicated as Dorsey and Adam became involved, while Dorsey tried to keep her author alter ego out of their relationship. Strong characters are what makes this book special. Dorsey, her unusual mother Carlotta and her friend Edie, and even Drake's owner Lindy are all very strong, unique and distinctive female characters. Lindy is positively scary, Carlotta very charming and engaging, and Edie's secondary story nearly overshadows Dorsey's (and from time to time does overshadow it). Adam and Lucas, the two main men of the piece, do not let the masculine side down either. There are no simple stereotypes here, and the strong and believable individuals and their agendas and interactions made this book something different, and special for me. There is a distinct feminist angle contained within the text in a very positive way, and I also enjoyed the 'backlash' effect in the plotting - very possible I thought. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to all readers of romance.
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Summary: Little bit of comedy, little bit of drama
Review: Elizabeth Bevarly packs a lot into her book, How to Trap a Tycoon. It starts out as a comedy but also has an element of melodrama in it. By day, Doresy MacGuiness is a soicology teaching assistant at a local college. She is also the author of a best selling guide on how to trap a tycoon that is the rave among women. Dorsey wrote the book under an assume name based on her mother's past experiences and to provide her mother with some retirement. After all, trapping millionaires doesn't come with social security benefits. By night she works as a bartender at an exclusive men's club compiling research on the difference between sexes. While tending bar, she meets Adam Darien, the publisher of an elitist men's magazine. Sparks fly between them. Adam has taken it personally that any woman would dare write a book on how to trap men into marriage. He feels he owes it to his readers to expose the author as the fraud he feels she must be. This starts a madcap adventure as the plot of this story takes off. One of the reasons I gave this book a four is the second story line, which involves one of Adam's writers for his magazine. Lucas decides to take matters into his own hands and conduct an experiment. In order to be successful, he needs the help of one of the bartenders who works with Dorsey. With the second story line, the book switches from comedy to melodrama which doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the book and frankly drags it down. This is a fun book, maybe predictably in many ways, yet still fun. I've read all three books by the author and will be waiting for number four. Ms. Bevarly delivers a story with style.
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Summary: An Ok Read.....
Review: I have read all of Bevarly's books and have come to find that the heros are cast in pretty much of the same mold (within the non series books). The heros are divorced, cynical and wary of the female species. So if you have read her last 2 books in the non series grouping, then you don't need to bother with this one.
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