Kyoto Connection

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Summary: Kyoto Connection
Review: Be ready to take a romantic adventure. The writer of this book has a way of making you feel you are right there with Kenji and Page. If you love romance you are gonna love this book.

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Summary: Exciting New Author
Review: I loved Kyoto Connection. I couldn't wait to get home from work to see what would happen next to Page and Kenji. Kemp has just the right blend of romance and intrigue in her writing. The author has done her homework.She has wonderful explanations of Japanese customs and vocabulary in her book.I can't wait to read her next book, Kiss of the Geisha.

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Summary: Fast paced story filled with romance, love, sex - and more
Review: Page Queenan was an American woman living and working in Kyoto, Japan. Page had fallen in love with not only the country and its customs but also with one of its citizens - in the form of the handsome and sexy Kenji Tanaka whom she had met in the sento (the communal co-ed bathing house). She had been relaxing in the hot steamy water when she heard a male voice asking could he join her. She looked up to see the naked vision of the most handsome man she had ever seen. How could she deny him access to the sento? After all it was communal and it was co-ed.

Deborah Kemp writes a fast paced story filled with not only romance, love and sex but also with intrigue, kidnapping and attempted murder. I was fascinated with Ms. Kemp's knowledge of Japan, its language and its customs. I recommend this book not only for the romance reader but also for the mystery lover and for people who love to read about foreign countries. After having lived in Japan myself, I can verify that it is a very authentic account of Japan and its people.

Kristie Leigh Maguire, author of Emails from the Edge: The Life of an Expatriate Wife, The Marcie Trilogy (Desert Triangle, Cabin Fever, Ring of Fire), contributor to Calliope's Mousepad: Women Writers Online ...

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Summary: Awful!
Review: This book is absolutely terrible -- so bad it must be self-published. I don't like to be unkind but I wasted the money on this book, hoping for a nice Japanese/American romance, and found it totally unreadable. Basic grammar and structure are ignored, and the whole thing is embarrassing. If Ms. Kemp wants to be a published author she really needs to learn how to write.
Sorry, but it's so bad it's a rip-off.

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Summary: I love this couple!
Review: This is a wonderful story about Page and Kenji and how they had to overcome the many obstacles thrown their way challenging their love for each other. They had to learn how to work out cultural differences, avert a dangerous kidnapping and at the same time try to gain approval from Kenji's parents of their relationship. You can see how their love grows as they succeed in meeting each of these challenges.

It's very evident that Ms. Kemp has a great love of Japan and is extremely knowledgable of the Japanese custom and culture. She has a wonderful way of describing Kyoto, the different holidays and its traditions and it certainly made this reader feel like "I was right there". I do look forward to more of Page and Kenji's future adventures.

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Summary: Suburban fantasy
Review: This is the kind of writing that is viewed as exciting and profound only by women who live in the suburbs and view the world through that isolated lens. That said, I haven't read the book, but the excerpt was not good. It seems a typical pulpy romance novel so I suppose if you like that kind of stuff...