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Molly Cooper's Dream Date (2011)

by Barbara Hannay(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0373177089 (ISBN13: 9780373177080)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

series

The Fun Factor

review 1: *SWOOOOON!*Okay, so just like Molly has a thing for all things English? I have a thing for books where people fall in love via correspondence. And when I found this book, I *HAD* to have it. I paid more for it than I ever do for books. THREE AND A HALF DOLLARS. Jump back.The premise is much like our favorite movie, 'The Holiday'. A whimsical, romantic woman living on a tropical island swaps houses with a burnt-out investment businessman so that she can spend time in London, the city of her dreams, and he can get away from the rat-race and breathe for a while. Thru e-mails, diary entries, and journal exerpts, we get inside the characters' minds. In keeping each other abreast of things in their respective places, Patrick begins to fall for Molly, loving her infectious e... morexcitement about the sights and adventures involving beautiful and historic Britain. He's enchanted with her love of life and quest to find a true British gentleman to take her on a night of culture and refinement.I have to admit something: I didn't care for the Australia bit. So I made my Molly Jamaican, and he went to her island in the Carribean - NOT to some outback place. I liked Molly Jamaican, better - it fit with her thick, crazy hair and sarongs, it fit with her jumbly accent and off-the-wall friends. I took liberties while reading it, and it made it all the better, for me.BUT...! I fell in love with Molly, too. And when Patrick showed up on her doorstep, introducing himself as a colleague of Patrick's so that he could meet her and treat her to her evening of culture and refinement - inserting himself as the true British gentleman? Hoooo...! Naturally, things get complicated, but it was done in a way that didn't make me roll my eyes - I was hooked, all the way thru.GOOD book. That's all I'm saying. GOOOOOOOD book!!!!
review 2: The second book that came in my fantastic package from Mills and Boon was Molly Cooper’s Dream Date by Barbara Hannay. Molly Cooper is living in Australia but desperate to visit London. She loves everything about London- especially the men. Molly knows she is destined to at least have one date with the perfect London gentleman. When she finds a house-swapping opportunity with Patrick Knight, a city banker that is desperate to escape and finally write a novel, it seems it was meant to be. Molly charters off to London and sets up house in Patrick’s fancy digs, while Patrick can finally get away from his job and just enjoy life and writing while staying in Molly’s cozy cottage. But while Molly seems to be having the time of her life, something feels off to Patrick. He suspects it might have to do with all the emails Molly keeps sending him. It sounds strangely like this could be the dream girl for him….I loved Molly Cooper’s Dream Date! It was a fun read, and pretty quick to get through, and I really indentified with both Molly and Patrick. It was interesting to read their thoughts on each other’s lives and homes, and to sense over time that they should be together. Molly’s character was full of life and ready to take on any new challenges, and Patrick was a bit brooding in the beginning but quickly opened up to his new life in Australia. I also enjoyed that it was Patrick that first fell for Molly and not the other way around. I don’t think I would have enjoyed this book as much if it was the typical girl trying to snag the guy plot. This novel was so quick to get through because a lot of the writing was emails between Molly and Patrick, or excerpts from Molly’s diary. Sometimes when authors go that route it makes the story lack a strong bond to the characters, but Hannay did an excellent job at making sure that didn’t happen. I felt the emails heightened the story instead of hindering it, and I was desperate to get to the end to find out if Molly and Patrick would get together. A definite recommendation from me! less

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