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Summary: barrels of laughs
Review: Cynthia, "The Shark" meets P.T. "The Prince of Toad." A very handsome toad, mind you. Together they are combustible and hilarious. Sandra Hill has a way with words. Where did she get such talent? I say, more! More! If you are looking for a book that does not require you to think and analyze, then this is the book for you. Just sit back, relax and prepare to laugh you head off. And oh, make sure you have an apron handy....
Rating:
Summary: barrels of laughs
Review: Cynthia, "The Shark" meets P.T. "The Prince of Toad." A very handsome toad, mind you. Together they are combustible and hilarious. Sandra Hill has a way with words. Where did she get such talent? I say, more! More! If you are looking for a book that does not require you to think and analyze, then this is the book for you. Just sit back, relax and prepare to laugh you head off. And oh, make sure you have an apron handy....
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Summary: In a word..... BAD
Review: I know you take a chance buying online without actually seeing the book, but generally I've had good luck. But here's my exception. If you're one of those folks who like Robin Williams or Jim Carrey on a manic roll, go ahead and order Sandra Hill, if you're not, then don't waste your money. Stick to Susan Anderson, Dara Joy, early Kathleen Woodiwiss, Linda Howard and the incomparable Judith McNaught.
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Summary: Space Aliens are trying to Impersonate Sandra Hill!
Review: I love Sandra Hill. Until this book the lowest I'd ever give one of her books (Reluctant Viking) was a C. The only explanation I can find for...this.. is that space aliens have been reading Sandra's books too and have decided to write one using her style.
One of my favorite things about Hill is her over-the-top humor, but in Love Me Tender she goes waaaaay overboard. This fractured fairy-tale features a very unlikeable leading couple who are brought together by bumbling step-sisters and a rhinestone jumpsuit wearing Elvis-wannabe fairy godfather named Elmer Prelsey ( who is conspiring with God and Cynthia's dead granny no less) who kidnaps them and locks them in the same room in a castle. Sound crazy enough? Were only getting started.
The reason for this is Prince Petrico de la Ferrama is about to launch a new shoe style that will make him millions, but Cynthia Sullivan, a Wall Street Broker whose as cuddly as a porcuppine, wants to put him out of business because her pair of blue suede shoes (from his company)..... gave her a CORN! This in turn caused her to lose her job so she can't make the payment on her two million dollar status symbol apartment. She may be a shark, but Prince P.T.'s hormones go into overdrive like any Sandra Hill hero, but unlike any other Hill hero he's more greasey than sexy. He reminded me of a used car salesman.
Crazy! Bonkers! Insane! That's how I'd describe this story. Sandra couldn't have written this story. It was a circus, but it wasn't a funny or even interesting one in the least.
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Summary: Not a good example of Sandra Hill
Review: I own other Sandra Hill novels, including Frankly My Dear and The Last Viking. I thoroughly enjoyed both so I assumed that Love Me Tender would be a keeper as well. Boy was I wrong! The plot is beyond lame, the male lead is oily and weak. Come to think of it, the female lead is pathetic too. The sex scenes are trashy and boring, not steamy and engaging. Sandra Hill is normally great but this is the worst display of her talent.
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Summary: Terrific!
Review: I've read all of Sandra Hill's historicals and time travels, but this is the first contemporary story of hers I've read. Fantastic! She can do it all. I laughed so hard I got a stomach ache.
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Summary: Not her best
Review: In some ways, this book was the Hill I know and love - humorous dialogue, sexy hero, sharp-tongued heroine. But in one very important way it was not Hill at all - the plot was too unbelievable. Okay, okay, it's supposed to be a fairy tale. I could have bought that if she'd left it at that, but she went from unbelievable to ludicrous with some of the sideshow characters she threw in. (Elmer Prestley as a fairy godfather?) Yikes, Sandra, what were you thinking! Sandra Hill is a hilarious writer. If you've never read her before, skip this one and start with another. Try "The Love Potion" for a contemporary, "The Last Viking" for a time travel, or "The Tarnished Lady" for a historical.
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Summary: the most unlikable heroine i've ever read
Review: loved _The Last Viking_ and thought i'd try another of hers. i only made it 100pages in and couldn't take the petty self serving crass cheating loudmouth anymore. Ms. Hill- strong women don't have to be such jerks!
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Summary: A New Twist on 'Cinderella'...Elvis the Godfather style...
Review: Ok, this is a stretch, even for me... As the reader you have to really make believe and just 'go with the flow' to enjoy this tale. Since Mrs. Hill is by far my favorite author out there, I did just that and loved the story she was telling, via Elvis the Godfather style. A new take on the 'Happily Ever After', 'Cinderella' tale, I found it charming and hysterical, all Sandra Hill trademarks. When you take a 'shark' stockbroker named Cynthia and a 'Prince' named P.T who runs one of the most upscale shoe companies in Manhattan, throw them together via lawsuit, you get funny funny funny!!! ~There was once a prince in a magic kingdom who was loved by all and along came a beautiful woman, you might say she somewhat resembled Cinderella. The Kingdom was Manhattan and the prince was a toad, well, at least that's was Cynthia 'the shark' Sullivan is saying as she pickets outside his company's main office in New York!
She has developed a corn from the toad's 'magical' and very expensive shoes and in turn has broken three toes trying to work in them on the stock exchange floor! Now she has lost her lucrative job and her mortgage to the posh apartment is up in the air! She wants the 'Prince of Toads' in a stranglehold! The very handsome prince wants to settle this little 'inconvience' before his company hits the stocks! Prince Perico Tomas de la Ferrama has been having a bad day and seeing the 'corn princess' is not making it any better. Why now when they were about to hit the stock exchange? He and his three partners had been working night and day trying to make a small wholesale shoe company what it was today, 5 years later it was selling on 5th Ave!
Just when he thought things could get no worse, his stepsisters kidnap the corn princess and take her off to his crumbling heap of a castle in the...Catskills? Along with his sister's boyfriend, Elmer Presley who claims to be his fairy godfather and a pack of smelly hounds. Why him? Now he must drive up there in his orange pickup truck and rescue the woman before his wicked stepsisters do something really dumb and he loses his company and his mind! Cynthia and P.T soon find out that his wily sisters have no intention of letting her go unless they agree to a plot that will guarantee the company not getting sued. That is where Elmer comes in and the entire goofball side characters wreck havoc!
Now the problem is not if they will survive being held captive in a castle in New York, but can they stop falling in love? P.T's secret could ruin any happiness they might have, but the 'midnight ball' will reveal the real 'pumpkin coach' and the real 'tiara'...that is if the mafia doesn't get to them first... Really heartwarming and different! I loved it! Like I said, you have to keep an open mind and believe. ...fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you....... ...
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Summary: A New Twist on 'Cinderella'...Elvis the Godfather style...
Review: Ok, this is a stretch, even for me... As the reader you have to really make believe and just 'go with the flow' to enjoy this tale. Since Mrs. Hill is by far my favorite author out there, I did just that and loved the story she was telling, via Elvis the Godfather style. A new take on the 'Happily Ever After', 'Cinderella' tale, I found it charming and hysterical, all Sandra Hill trademarks. When you take a 'shark' stockbroker named Cynthia and a 'Prince' named P.T who runs one of the most upscale shoe companies in Manhattan, throw them together via lawsuit, you get funny funny funny!!! ~There was once a prince in a magic kingdom who was loved by all and along came a beautiful woman, you might say she somewhat resembled Cinderella. The Kingdom was Manhattan and the prince was a toad, well, at least that's was Cynthia 'the shark' Sullivan is saying as she pickets outside his company's main office in New York!
She has developed a corn from the toad's 'magical' and very expensive shoes and in turn has broken three toes trying to work in them on the stock exchange floor! Now she has lost her lucrative job and her mortgage to the posh apartment is up in the air! She wants the 'Prince of Toads' in a stranglehold! The very handsome prince wants to settle this little 'inconvience' before his company hits the stocks! Prince Perico Tomas de la Ferrama has been having a bad day and seeing the 'corn princess' is not making it any better. Why now when they were about to hit the stock exchange? He and his three partners had been working night and day trying to make a small wholesale shoe company what it was today, 5 years later it was selling on 5th Ave!
Just when he thought things could get no worse, his stepsisters kidnap the corn princess and take her off to his crumbling heap of a castle in the...Catskills? Along with his sister's boyfriend, Elmer Presley who claims to be his fairy godfather and a pack of smelly hounds. Why him? Now he must drive up there in his orange pickup truck and rescue the woman before his wicked stepsisters do something really dumb and he loses his company and his mind! Cynthia and P.T soon find out that his wily sisters have no intention of letting her go unless they agree to a plot that will guarantee the company not getting sued. That is where Elmer comes in and the entire goofball side characters wreck havoc!
Now the problem is not if they will survive being held captive in a castle in New York, but can they stop falling in love? P.T's secret could ruin any happiness they might have, but the 'midnight ball' will reveal the real 'pumpkin coach' and the real 'tiara'...that is if the mafia doesn't get to them first... Really heartwarming and different! I loved it! Like I said, you have to keep an open mind and believe. ...fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you....... ...
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