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Not Another Bad Date (Avon Romance)
written by Rachel Gibson
Studio : Avon
by Avon
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Publisher : Avon
Released : 2008-06-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780061178047
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 56 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $1.88
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What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town? Adele Harris can't even begin to answer that question. She's had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he's lost his mind—and his manners? Adele thought life couldn't get any more confusing . . . until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Zach Zemaitis . . . the one who got away. Texans love God, family, and football, though not always in that order Zach, a former pro star, knows all about football. As for the other two, well, he's doing his best. But when Adele comes charging back into his life—still all lush curves and beautiful, big blue eyes—he wonders if his best is good enough. After all, he did her wrong. Can a woman with her track record ever really believe that he's serious this time . . . or is he destined to be another bad date? |
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Just perfect |
Warning - contains spoilers!
Rachel Gibson, one of my all-time favourites produced another hit (a big one).
Not another bad date is all about Adele Harris and her first love Zach Zemantis.
But it's starting and ending with another person - Devon, dead wife of Zach who got pregnant on purpose to get married to Zach (she is an absolute b.... , ehm a not so nice woman) anf of course it worked. Zach did the "right" thing, broke up with Adele and married Devon. I hate it when this happens because IMO marrying without love because someone gets pregnant is a recipe for disaster. But hey, that's only my opinion.
So back to the beginning of the book, Devon just died and God wants her to redo the wrong she did to Adele. But being a - you know what I mean - she is all about making more trouble for Adele.
A few years forward and Adele still has a lot of bad luck with men (thanks to Devon) and she is now back in her old hometown on a visit to help out her pregnant sister. Zach is living there too with his daughter and the two former lovers meet again and immediately realize that there is still a lot of attraction left beetween them. So what every romance reader craves happens and the two of them get back together. All is ok until Adele ends up pregnant (still Devon the b.) by Zach and let's just say he is not handling the situation like a good guy.
Adele, being my kind of girl, doesn't think about marrying because she got pregnant, so Zach is in a new situation and has to decide if there is more to his relationship with Adele and she has to decide if Zack is man enough to be her partner in life.
Although I don't really believe in god and I hate the whole "marrying without love thing" I loved - really loved - this book. It was a great read and I already reread it two times. Adele is a inspiring character, a real woman with flaws and one of my favourite heroines. And Zach is in the end a hit too who deserves a better marriage like the one he had with Devon.
And the idea with bringing the dead Devon into the book is really working and giving the book an unique character.
Even though the book is part of a series you can read it without knowing the other three books, although of course you should read them because they are great.
So grab a copy and start reading - this book is a must-read for romance fans.
Enjoy.
S.M. |
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page 306 |
OK, for light while away the time reading, its hard to beat Rachel Gibson. Lots more men read her works than you might imagine. In fact at the lumber camp in Montana where I work (I'm a skidder) most of us guys are always talking about her latest book. Its almost a book review club of sorts though testosterone drenched men who love hearing words like "shaft" "mouth" "suptle" 'killer robots" would never admit that.
Having said that, and having praised the book - well I'm hardly a prude but . . . Why can't her characters practice safe sex?
On page 306, there is an unsafe sexual encounter and THEN they use a condom . . . bad timing (unintended I'm sure)
ciao // gurkha
not so much prudish as wise |
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Not another formulaic and uninspired effort by Gibson... |
If Adele Harris has to endure another bad date she will scream. What is wrong with the men she dates? They suddenly go stupid, crazy or just plain crude. That probably explains why the sci-fi fantasy novelist is still single at thirty-five while all of her fellow authors friends have met gorgeous men and gotten married. Her luck might just change when she travels to Texas to look after her very pregnant sister after her husband dumps her for a younger model. Zach Zemaitis, former pro-football hero turned high school football coach, now lives in town, having to raise his teenage daughter after his wife dies. Zach had broken Adele's heart while in college. Sparks fly between them when they meet again. But why can't they get it right? They have no idea that Zach's late wife is doing whatever possible to keep Zach and her childhood nemesis apart. She might also be the one responsible for Adele's lousy dates during the past three years...
Rachel Gibson has delivered yet another cutesy contemporary romance with Not Another Bad Date. Too bad that this novel, like Not in the Mood for Love, is so formulaic and predictable it feels as though the characters and storyline had been sketched out. Romance isn't passionate these days. It appears that most authors, especially bestselling ones, are churning out uninspired stories to meet a deadline. The stories are uninspired, the protagonists lack depth, and the authors don't even put any sort of passion or enthusiasm into their writing. Gibson has fallen into this category. Sex, Lies and Online Dating was the last novel of hers that I enjoyed. If this is the direction her writing has taken, then I won't bother reading her stuff anymore. I recommend this if you're a big fan of Gibson and don't mind stilted, predictable writing. If so, enjoy. |
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A Born Entertainer.... |
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Rachel Gibson was born to entertain. I have read nearly all of her books and with perhaps one exception, I don't think I've ever put any of them aside with disappointment, doomed to collect dust, undisturbed for all literary eternity. Let's not exaggerate here folks...'Not Another Bad Date' like all contemporary romance novels is NOT literary rocket science. It is what is is..a fun, feel good, lol beach, bed or bathtime read. It creates a little tug of nostalgia in wondering what it would be like to revisit our youth and the one we might have loved and lost. To recapture the magic in present day. Unfortunately, for those of us who aren't 'storybook' bombshells like Adele, the outcome might not be so happily ever after, but it's still fun to dream. Especially to delight in imagining our arch nemesis taken out by a garbage truck and doomed to the bargain bins of Walmart for all eternity. LOL Gibson rarely disappoints with her plotlines and characters. There's never a "carbon copy" passed along from book to book. There's never a stale moment. Her characters are always funky and fun. Just what readers expect for their hard earned money. |
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Fun Read |
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Have read all of Rachel Gibsons book, and would recommend them all. She makes you care about all of the characters, injects humor and just tells a good story. |
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