Honeymoon House (Harlequin Silhouette Desire, No 1091)

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Summary: Competing architects fall in lust!
Review: Never, ever, confuse this overwrought, oversexed, sophmoric effort with Grace Livingston Hill's book of the same title! Architects Danielle Ford and Paul Richards fall into instant lust each time they encounter one another. Naturally, they are rivals for the same building contract, so this causes severe professional as well as personal problems. The sexual encounters are similar to those prevalent in pornography meant for male readers; they don't make a whole lot of sense, they just happen. Over and over and over again! They become tedious, they don't do much to advance the already rather rudimentary plot, and they are neither erotic nor titillating (didn't mean to pun.... ) The author's names for body parts ("hard knobs", "flaming nipples", "mountainous flesh") tend to make one gag rather than arouse. How do books like this get published...? (Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't doesn't allow for NO STARS!)

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Summary: Quite possibly one of the worst romances ever written
Review: This reader refuses to believe that ANYONE would want to read about a "heroine" who goes to her job as a professional architect and does not wear any underwear because it is "a hot day". Ugh. Cardboard, idiotic characters, lame plotting, and laugh-out-loud ridiculous descriptions ("flaming nipples"?) make this a book to avoid at all costs. No wonder people laugh at romance novels. This kind of stuff gives the genre a bad name.