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Fourplay: A Novel
Jane Moore
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Jo Miles has a nice London home, a lawyer husband, two lovely children, and a thriving part-time career as an interior decorator. In the world of contemporary women's fiction, she's clearly due for some kind of disaster. In Fourplay, disaster comes as divorce. Jo's husband leaves her for a creature Jo comes to refer to as "the Cliché," a 23-year-old blond secretary. After hubby's departure, Fourplay becomes an extended bout of frog-kissing as Jo, clearly much too saucy and adorable for a lifetime of singleness, entertains four different suitors. Sean is an irresistible cameraman, about whose sexual proclivities we hear far too much; Martin is a millionaire record exec; Conor is a steadfast old friend; and Jeff, her ex, of course comes crawling back. Throughout, Jo is supported and nurtured by her chubby, hilarious, less adorable best friend Rosie. On the whole, the book is ridden with clichés, but here's the funny thing: those very stereotypes make Fourplay a pleasant--even a compulsive--read. We know all will be right for Jo; we know Rosie will never let her down, yet never be prettier than her, either; we know true love will descend on all like a wet, inevitable London fog. Jane Moore's writing is just funny enough, just edgy enough, and just true enough to make us revel in these clichés rather than resist them. --Claire Dederer
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At age thirty-three, Josephine Miles is forced to come up with a brand-new life when her husband leaves her for "the cliche"--his very young, very pretty secretary. Suddenly she's single and back in the dating game with the added complication of children in tow. But Jo's no wallflower, and she soon finds herself with not one but four eligible bachelors vying for her time and affections. Add her two kids and her now booming interior design business to the mix, and she winds up with a nightmarish schedule but a dreamy love life.
So who are the contestants? There's Sean, the sexy foreign affairs correspondent who sweeps Jo off her feet and proves to be masterful in bed; Martin, the music industry mogul who offers luxury, stability, and a glamorous lifestyle; and Conor, Jo's trusted confidant, who knows just what to say to make her smile (why hadn't she noticed his irresistible smile until now?). Then there's Jeff, her ex-husband: she wouldn't consider hooking up with him again, would she? It could happen--especially when Jeff's romance with the sweet young thing sours and he launches a full-scale campaign to win Jo back.
Sophisticated, spirited, and as compulsive as a box of bonbons, Fourplay offers a new take on the single-girl life perfect for the thirty-something audience. Fourplay--what a position to be in...
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At age thirty-three, Josephine Miles is forced to come up with a brand-new life when her husband leaves her for "the cliche" -- his very young, very pretty secretary. Suddenly she's single and back in the dating game with the added complication of children in tow. But Jo's no wallflower, and she soon finds herself with not one but four eligible bachelors vying for her time and affections. Add her two kids and her now booming interior design business to the mix, and she winds up with a nightmarish schedule but a dreamy love life.
So who are the contestants? There's Sean, the sexy foreign affairs correspondent who sweeps Jo off her feet and proves to be masterful in bed; Martin, the music industry mogul who offers luxury, stability, and a glamorous lifestyle; and Conor, Jo's trusted confidant, who knows just what to say to make her smile (why hadn't she noticed his irresistible smile until now?). Then there's Jeff, her ex-husband: she wouldn't consider hooking up with him again, would she? It could happen -- especially when Jeff's romance with the sweet young thing sours and he launches a full-scale campaign to win Jo back.
Sophisticated, spirited, and as compulsive as a box of bonbons, Fourplay offers a new take on the single-girl life perfect for the thirty-something audience. Fourplay -- what a position to be in....
"Hilarious cynicism about relationships that will appeal to anyone who's ever lost in love. As therapeutic for heartbreak as a voodoo doll!"
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great chick-lit.......2007-02-03
lately I have been reading a lot of bummer chick-lit but this one was a winner!! It was a clever plot and easy to follow. Definitly a great book if you just want something fun on an airplane or over vacation!
A light read, but full of cliches.......2005-08-21
These books about women finding love are some of my favorites because they are easy entertainment, but I grew bored with it by the end. There wasn't much depth to the characters such as with Rosie, Jo's best friend. She was the stereotypical plain, chubby sidekick with low self-esteem. The men that are vying for Jo's affection weren't that great either. Martin seemed dry and humorless and I was left wondering why Jo would even consider him. Sean seemed to have the most personality out of all four men except for his "flaw." Jeff was infuriating and Conor seemed too perfect to be true. I think there could have been more development between Jo and the men, especially Conor. The characters and their dialogue seemed too perfect too; everyone was so..."nice." I didn't expect too much from this book, but I've read better "chick-lit" and this one was disappointing.
America or London?.......2005-08-05
I really enjoyed this book, but the one thing that drove me out of my mind was the currency in the book was dollars. In one particularly infuriating sentence, Jo's son, Thomas, says, "Mummy, the machine swallowed my last quarter." Now, the use of the word 'Mummy' tells me the book is set in England, the use of the word 'quarter' suggests to me that the local currency is US dollars. I found that 'mix' to be insulting, quite honestly. The change in currency is unnecessary.
great book.......2005-07-18
I found this book very entertaining to read. I have grown fond of all the red dress ink books.
Almost too addictive.......2005-06-18
I started this book out of curiosity. It belonged to my mother and has been sitting on the bookshelf for over a year. With little else to do but study, I started Fourplay to relieve the boredom.
By the third page I was hooked. With her rollercoaster of emotions and events, Jo Miles provided me with the ultimate distraction from revision.
I strongly reccommend this book to anyone who has ever been remotely interested in what makes relationships work. But make sure you have enough free time when you start it, or the other things will get ignored.
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Her innocence destroyed, young widow Tally Bernard swore that she would never trust a man again. But when her brother disappears, she has little choice but to make a pact with the devil.
Though he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life on a ranch of his own, Simeon Kavanaugh can't escape the legacy of his werewolf father. The animal instincts that keep him from being fully human also make him a brilliant tracker, forced to survive on the desperation of people in need.
The attraction between these two wounded souls is immediate, primal -- and dangerous. And if Simeon has any hope of saving Tally, he must do what he has always resisted and merge both man and beast within him. But if she cannot accept what he becomes, his choice may cost Simeon the only thing worth having -- Tally's love . . .
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My Werewolf is Pastede on, Yay!.......2006-09-18
Krinard does a good job of writing a formulaic western. It runs a bit too long, has way too much fluff in it's 376 page plot arc and the romance is underdeveloped, but it's not the worst I've read.
The hero's lycan nature doesn't come out until well into the book, and causes all sorts of plot weakness. It's almost as if Krinard wrote the above mentioned formulaic western, and then was told it would sell better as a paranormal and went back to add in the hero being a werewolf.
This is the first Krinard I've read, so it could just be her style, but as I said before, it creates problems for her plot. One, right off the bat. If his father's family were truly werewolves, they would have been able to smell that he was one of them. And yet they beat him close to death and turn him out. At the very least they would have told him to come back when he could prove it. I just wasn't buying that bit.
Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, everyone in the story, takes it in complete stride when the hero reveals himself as a wolf. They shrug it off as no big deal. I doubt that 1800s Americans would behave that way.
She also takes liberties with werewolf cannon, having her hero be adept at cattle ranching. Prey animals aren't usually calm around predators.
Aside from the werewolf problems, I didn't appreciate the heroine's past. I don't mind a heroine who isn't a virgin, but in this novel Krinard takes it a bit far.
This story was hard for me to push through and I probably won't try another Krinard story.
One of her better books.......2005-06-14
While I like Susan Krinard, I'm not one of her most devoted fans. I always find her stories lacking something. However, I think this entry in the series is one of her better ones. While the question of how Tomas never realized that Sim was a werewolf is never answered, Sim is a strong hero, having evolved in Tomas' book from a little more than a bitter bully. Tally is just as flawed in the world's eyes, and their romance is a clarion call for all imperfect people. The secondary romance and all the twists and turns add to the story's interest and complexity. Some things are too clear-cut -- even society's dismissal of Tally -- and some are smoothed over -- like Tally's response to the truth of her brother's betrayal. Such things drop the book under a five-star rating. Nevertheless, the story and the characters keep the reader's attention. This is a good one to read.
Great - As Usual.......2005-05-13
I expect nothing but greatness from Susan Krinard and her werewolf series and that is what I always receive. Her main characters are alive, believable, sensitive, strong and made for each other. Their trials and tribulations, secrets and revelations are drawn out through the story adding excitement tension and anticipation. I never once questioned any part of the plot and always felt compassion for the Sim and Tally. I was also never disappointed in the twists and turns, because these two had to forgive themselves before they could accept love. I couldn't wait for the ending and hated to finish the story and that's what makes Ms. Krinard's novels so great and as usual I was not disappointed.
superb action-packed paranormal historical romance .......2005-04-27
In 1881 Cochise County, Arizona Territory widow Tally "Tal" Bernard enters Tombstone dressed like a boy in search of her missing brother, Andre; He left their ranch to purchase livestock, but should have returned a few days ago. She learns that her sibling gambled away their money and fled into the wilderness. Simeon "Sim" Kavanaugh offers to help the lad find her brother for a small fee; reluctantly Tal accepts.
Sim knows from the start that his employer is a female in disguise, but says nothing to her. Instead he struggles with restraining his attraction to Tal as he believes a mortal could never accept his half-breed heritage. Still when danger confronts Tal who he knows is his soulmate, Sim must free the beast to save her, but expects to pay the price once she learns his secret and rejects his werewolf side.
TO TAME A WOLF is a superb action-packed paranormal historical romance that never slows down once the "male" Tal enters Tombstone until the finale when Sim risks his life and his love by getting with his werewolf side to attempt to keep her safe. The lead couple comes across as genuine, which enables the audience to believe in the supernatural in a western setting. Susan Krinard's fans will howl (full moon or not) with her latest wolf romance.
Harriet Klausner
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Billy & His Friends Tame A Wild Wolf (Billy & His Friends)
Kevin Donovan
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Billy and His Friends Tame the Wild Wolf
Kevin Donovan
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They are those who walk in the darkness to protect those who live in the light. They keep the demons from our closets and the monsters from under our bed. Jodhi is just an average girl until one day she is attacked by a werewolf. Three strange men, calling themselves Shadow Walkers, come to her rescue, and she finds herself sucked into a dark, hidden world of witches, creatures and demons. With her new friends, she finds she must stop Sanse, an ex-Shadow Walker, and her witch, Arlene, from releasing Bian, a powerful demon imprisoned on another plane of existence. On her journey she comes to love Menw, the grumpy but caring mage; Camlaidh, the gentle, quiet telepath; Lana, the serious researcher; Alnthea, the offbeat vampire; and all of those she meets along the way. But is their strength enough to destroy the demon and his half-human child?
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2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals. The Gold Coast is the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.
Customer Reviews:
Not Free SF Reade.......2007-09-04
A decaying California? Basically, Robinson's weakest work, this lot. Not something I am interested in, in general. Three Californias is perhaps two and a half Californias too many, in this case. This is perhaps close to mundane. Orange County is not a nice place to start with, not too suprising it will be less nice in the future. Prefer others to this, particularly his newer books.
Fascinating and frustrating at the same time.......2007-04-16
I'm making my way through all of KSR's novels (I have three or four left to go), and with a little reluctance place The Gold Coast squarely in the middle of his body of work in terms of achievement. I say this reluctantly because, as a man about Jim's age living in Southern California, I was prepared to love this novel as much as I love any other by Robinson. It is of course fascinating--the future setting is scrupulously plausible and the theoretical/political/philosophical issues Robinson brings up are all dealt with maturely and satisfyingly--but on a sentence-for-sentence basis I think this is some of KSR's weakest prose. He's best when he's waxing philosophical with a small cast of characters(especially in the earlier books like Remaking History and Icehenge) or world-creating on the scale of the Mars Books or The Years of Rice and Salt. The Gold Coast, on the other hand, is too short to realize fully the large number of characters while at the same time dwelling on Jim and his friends' antics which reveal less about them or their Orange County than one would expect to learn. The thoughts in this book that relate to Southern California--its ambivalence to its own history, its end-of-the-world location and worldview--are for me what make the book worth reading, but after finishing it I still felt like the characters were only beginning to get interesting.
Prescient vision of a militarized society.......2005-12-30
Southern California sex, designer drugs, malls, and corruption are all here, but the eerie part of KSR's dystopian vision goes beyond materialism. In this novel, the US is engaged in several simultaneous small wars around the globe and gags the media to keep images of American casualties from the public eye.
The military-industrial complex is unassailable, openly controlling the US economy, which has become completely dependent on warfare. Nevertheless, some rebels plan a guerrilla strike against a warbucks company. The climax of their sabotage effort involves a skillful plot twist that reinforces the author's critique of corporate greed.
The technological gadgetry (e.g., cars driven by computer, which keeps accidents low in light of all the recreational drugs) hardly qualifies this as science fiction, but the book is after all a vision of the future. The protagonist's scattered, other-directed quest for meaning, embedded in a culture that is almost as purposeless as Huxley's Brave New World, complements the strong notes of hope that the author sings in the other two novels of this series.
The passages about Orange County history are not distracting, but they foreshadow the poorly executed "author's diary" that KSR indulges in throughout the third novel of the series. Also, sad to say, the personality named Tom is virtually insignificant in this book, languishing in an old age home and doing little more than recount "dreams" that are actually references to the eponymous characters in the first and third novels.
More Morality Tale than Imaginative Fiction.......2005-05-14
Part of Robinson's "Three Californias" triptych, this book is set in a future Orange County where economic development has continued unabated, supplanting the region's natural beauty with a vast suburban sprawl. Military installations, enormous malls, and a mechanized transportation system are now the dominant landmarks in areas once dedicated to orange groves. Against this gray backdrop, we get the story of would-be writer Jim McPherson, a smart and sensitive young man who has given in to the ennui of his age. He holds jobs that he has no enthusiasm for. He has relationships that have little meaning to him. He spends much of his time in the company of his social group: a bunch of recreational drug users dedicated to living the good life, and many of whom have more focus in their lives than he does. With so little direction in his life, is it any wonder Jim finds himself drawn into a terrorist campaign against the military-industrial establishment that his well-meaning father works for?
There's not much science fiction here, aside from an overall upgrade in the level of gadgetry, and while 80's societal trends are neatly extrapolated, there aren't any radically new ideas that grab one's attention. But if you can identify at all with Jim's stultifying malaise (something many people have been through at one time or another) this novel provides an interesting look at the effect the military-industrial complex has on modern American life. If you can't, this book will probably leave you cold.
One gets the impression that Robinson is unloading a lot of personal baggage in this book, leading this reviewer to question his artistic distance from the material. It's easy for a writer to put too much of himself on the page, not realizing that his readers won't "get it" in the same way that he does. Some sections seem to border on autobiography while others (are those historical entries Jim's or Robinson's?) read like a history textbook. Ultimately the book stands as a cautionary tale about industrial "progress" and its impact on our humanity. Jim barely escapes the destructive force of his own alienation, but others will not be so fortunate, with results that could be catastrophic for us all. But although this isn't an especially happy story, it's not entirely without hope either. Like Jim, we can renounce violence and re-establish our connection to the natural world, and hopefully undo some of the damage that's been done, building a better future for all.
I don't think so........2004-01-03
I found this book to be unremarkable at best. After reading the outstanding Mars trilogy, this was a big disappointment. I suppose a staunch KSR fan might find it interesting, but I fail to see how.
I forced myself to finish it thinking something must happen to justify the books existance, but I never found it.
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Defeating Life's Struggles Through Worship. Let Him Win It for You. ...Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.-Joshua 1:9 AMP. Discover how to... Tap into the power and presence of God through worship. -Turn your struggles over to Him for victory. -Confront and conquer fear and anxiety. -Release God's power to change your life.There are many things in the world that threaten us. But often our biggest enemy is not "out there"-it's "in here." In our hearts. In our minds. And we're in its grip of fear, struggling to get free but never completely winning. To live in fear and anxiety is to live in constant torment, far removed from the victorious life that God wants to give you. How can you stop the patterns of destructive thinking? How can you break the strongholds of fear? You give your battles to the Lord. Let Him fight them for you. In this revolutionary new book, best-selling author and sought-after speaker Joyce Meyer shows you how to break through and trust God to do for you what you can never do for yourself-overcome your battles and live in lasting freedom and victory. With God there are no hopeless cases, and no situation is beyond His ability to deliver and redeem. Let Him strengthen and empower you to live in complete joy and peace, no matter what you're facing. The Battle Belongs to the Lord. And He always wins it for you.
Customer Reviews:
The Battle Belongs to the Lord: Overcoming Life's Struggles.......2007-08-27
This has to be one of my favorite books by Joyce Meyer. It gives you practical strategies to overcome life's every day struggles by handing them over to the Lord. This book has so many realistic tools that can be used to live a life of victory through the Lord. I have to admit that when I read the Bible I sometimes have difficulty getting the true message or meaning that is being conveyed. Joyce has a remarkable ability to translate verses for people just like me, as well as give practical methods of putting these passages to use in every day life.
READ THIS BOOK AND START YOUR LIFE OF VICTORY.
Keep the devil under your feet!!.......2005-09-25
This book is a great resource in your walk with the Lord. Too many times we try to take care of the battles ourselves and when we do we will always lose. The only way to win the battle is to let the Lord fight it for you and have complete trust in him. This book helps you give your battles to the Lord by reminding you that the battle is not yours to fight anyway and that God will ultimately win the battle. This is a great book to read if you are having problems giving your battles to the Lord.
The Battle Belongs to the Lord.......2004-02-11
My attention was gripped from the very first sentence and held "captive" throughout the entire book. It was well written and spoke to issues we all deal with in our desire to grow and mature in our relationship with God. This is the first book of Joyce Meyer's that I've read and I have been greatly blessed by it. I highly recommend this book for anyone who struggles with fear and defeat in their lives.
Biblical truths for the problems we face daily........2004-01-12
I was blessed to have had the opportunity to read and experience this book. It is broken down into small chapters that allow you to quickly utilize the precepts learned over a short period of time. Mrs. Meyers brings to life many characters from the Bible, that are sometimes overlooked, to put a fresh perspective on the trials that they faced and how they relate to our lives in a modern world. An excellent book on which to base a weekly group bible study.
Compassionate and Well Told.......2003-04-08
Pastor Joyce Meyer uses scripture in context, along with stories and personnal examples from her own life, to show that "letting go and letting God" is good medicine. Mrs. Meyer, shows a great deal of compassion for the reader. This was something of a surprise to me considering the hard driving, fundamentalist personna she projects on TV. I recommend this book for anyone who feels life is a constant struggle. Instead of "going to the phone" to complain to our friends about life's injustices, Pastor Meyer recommends we "go to the throne" through worship, praise, prayer and abiding faith.
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