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Review: How to Score by Robin Wells

Posted July 15, 2009 by Casee in Reviews | 3 Comments

Casee‘s review of How to Score by Robin Wells.

HER LIFE COACH

Museum curator Sammi Matthews isn’t just in a dating slump, she’s putting men on the injured list. After giving one date a black eye and cracking another’s rib, Sammi decides she needs professional help. Enter life coach Luke Jones, who advises Sammi on how to overcome her klutziness. And their phone sessions work! Sammi soon meets a sexy FBI agent who seems to know just what she needs.

IS CHANGING HER LIFE

When his brother Luke goes into federal protection, FBI Special Agent Chase Jones agrees to cover for him. Then Sammi’s hot voice sizzles down the line, and the usual “phone only” rule is out. With “Luke” coaching her by day, and Chase dating her by night, Sammi’s confidence soars, along with her appeal. Chase falls hard, but how will Sammi feel if and when he comes clean? Chase would rather she break all his bones than risk breaking her heart.

IN WAYS SHE’S NEVER IMAGINED!

FBI Agent Chase Jones agrees to take over his brother Luke’s clients while he is in witness protection. He would rather do anything that pretend to be a life coach, but since he’s the reason Luke is in the mess he’s in, Chase can’t refuse. Talking to Luke’s first few clients, he wonders how Luke stands it. All he hears is people whining about their lives and what they can’t do. As a go-getter, these people Luke talks to boggles his mind. Following Luke’s notes, he’s sure he’ll be fine. Then Sammi Matthews calls and changes everything.

Sammi is a big believer in fate. With the help of a life coach, she hopes to get back some of the self-confidence she lost when she walked in on her boyfriend in bed w/ another woman. She knows her ex is a scum sucking toad, but she can’t help but hear his voice tell her how inadequate she is. Taking a new job in a new city, renting a house that she loves, Sammi is determined to turn it around. With Luke’s help, she’s sure she can do that.

After Chase first talks to Sammi, he can’t resist seeing what she looks like. Having no intention of approaching her, he’s horrified when her dog basically attacks him. He’s no more horrified than Sammi, who can’t believe her luck. Ever since she left the toad, she’s been injuring men left and right. Now her dog is pulling down a stranger’s running shorts and eating his leather wallet.

As I was reading this part, I was cracking up. Just imagining this actually happening is beyond funny. Especially when the cop finds them.

Now that Chase has met Sammi, he finds it hard to stay away. He decides that he will help her get over her self-confidence issues. As Luke, he instructs her to go out with Chase (himself – very confusing) three times. If she makes it through three dates without injuring him, her confidence will be restored and Chase will be able to get out of her life.

Obviously you can see this train wreck coming from page one. Chase falls for Sammi even though she’s everything that he didn’t think he wanted. That’s one thing that I didn’t like about the book. Chase was obviously obsessive compulsive. Stemming from childhood when he had nothing but chaos, it makes sense. He just took it too far. Like his criteria for the woman he’s going to marry. He calls it operation SCABHOG. Smart, competent, active, beautiful, honest, organized, and goal-oriented. Now Sammi is almost everything he wants, except she brings chaos wherever she goes.

Some of the funniest parts of the book were when Sammi was talking to “Luke” on the phone about Chase. She would tell him about how it drives her crazy how Chase is with his lists and his organization. She thinks that nothing in life can be that controlled.

Eventually the secret comes out and Chase has major damage control to do. I really liked Sammi. She was a great heroine. I can’t even think about one thing that I didn’t like about her. And it’s not that she was perfect, b/c she was far from that. In the end, she and Chase were perfect for each other.

4 out of 5.

This book is available from Forever. You can buy it here or here in e-format.


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Review: Between the Sheets by Robin Wells

Posted April 9, 2008 by Rowena in Reviews | 6 Comments

Review: Between the Sheets by Robin WellsReviewer: Rowena
Between the Sheets by Robin Wells
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: February 1st 2008
Genres: Fiction
Pages: 400
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three-stars

The Most Notorious Woman in America There are probably worse things than having the entire country think that you're the girl whose "services" gave the president-elect a fatal heart attack in the sack-but at the moment, Emma Jamison can't think of any. A terrible mistake has made her the face of a national scandal, leaving her with no choice but to retreat to her grandmother's small town for a fresh start. The Straight-Arrow D.A. Max Duval is running for office in Chartreuse, Louisiana, and he can't afford a scandal. But Emma, with her disarming smile and razor-sharp wit, is impossible to ignore-especially since his grandfather and her grandmother are starting a romantic romp of their own, and a Geraldo wannabe is chronicling everyone's every move for the tabloids. Is Emma really as innocent as she claims? Can Max follow his heart and still win the election? Sometimes the only way to sort out the dirty laundry is to dive in... Between the sheets "A delightful mix of humor and love-romantic comedy at its best!" -Sandra Hill, author of Pearl Jinx "Fun and funny, [and] filled with Southern charm and characters you'll root for!" -Christie Ridgway, USA Today bestselling author
Word Count: 100,000 words.

This was my first Robin Wells book but it won’t be my last. I really enjoyed this book. I don’t know what my expectations of the book was since I’m a big fat scaredy cat when it comes to trying out new authors. But I liked this book.

It was good.

The book is about Emma Jamison and her journey through national public humiliation when she’s mistaken for a call girl that killed the president elect, he died in bed doing you know what. The media saw her and pegged her as the call girl and nothing she says does any good since everyone believes her guilty and that’s that. What was messed up is the Secret Service didn’t try to help her out at all, they just let her take the fall and ruined her life. She had to pack up and move to Chartreuse, Louisiana where her grandmother lives in one of those old folks homes. She moved there to hide but it’s hard to hide when everyone in the nation knows who you are and what you “did”.

Gosh, I felt bad for Emma throughout this whole book, especially because she didn’t do it and yet nothing she said or did made one lick of difference since nobody believed her. For her to have to give up her life because of things she didn’t even do made my heart go out to this girl. Emma tried to move on with her life but no matter where she went, everyone just made it so hard for her.

Which is why I loved Max, a whole frickin’ lot.

At first, he thought she was guilty of it but didn’t care because he just plain ol’ liked her. And no matter how many obstacles are thrown in their way, his campaign being in jeopardy, that stupid journalist and just everything, I liked how he still liked her. Max was a hottie and I sooo would have voted for him, if I lived there. He was the Prince Charming that Emma needed and I loved how they were thrown together. It was too cute!

The secondary story between Max’s grandfather and Emma’s grandmother was cute, even though Emma’s grandma got on my nerves sometimes with her “slang”. I mean, she was cute, don’t get me wrong but there were times she’d say something and I’d be rollin’ my eyes down the street.

But aside from that, I really enjoyed this book. It’s one of those fun stories that is enjoyable and just plain ol’ cute.

Update!!! (Ed Note: Ween accidentally posted this today, instead of scheduling it for tomorrow. She wanted a bit more time to work on it before she posted it. See her response to the comments below. – Holly)

See, I forgot that I scheduled that post, it wasn’t supposed to go up yet…dangit. Because I don’t know how to explain how I feel about the book. I enjoyed it, I really liked Max and I felt really bad for Emma but it’s one of those books that even though I liked the book and thought it was really good, I’m not excited about it, I’m not jumping up and down to tell you guys about and I know that I’ll never reread this book again. I don’t know how to explain that. I meant to give it a C but I don’t know why because I liked it, I really did…It was missing something and I don’t even know why.

Should you read it? You sure should. It was good, just missing something. I just can’t tell you what.

3 out of 5

three-stars


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