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Tempted Again (2012)

by Cathie Linz(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0425244547 (ISBN13: 9780425244548)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley

series

West Investigations

review 1: In the spirits of light-hearted contemporary romances with a sense of humor, you'll enjoy Tempted Again. Marissa Bennett is broke, unemployed and divorced, when she returns home to Hopeful, Ohio. As for starting over, she's gotten a bumpy start. We come across her family--her mother having menopause, her father's obsession with Egypt and her baby sister Jess, who's a bit of a drama queen. To make matters worse, she runs into Connor Doyle, her former flame who burned her, a decade ago. We see things from Connor's and Marissa's POV, when they rub each other the wrong way, and fall in love when sparks fly, while they kept their secrets in the past. There's some humorous bits here that'll make you smile and laugh, like with her demon car. They took a chance on each other and r... moreolled the dice to doubled their odds. This one you'll root for them and fall in love with too.
review 2: Marissa is recently divorced and has moved back to her hometown to start fresh. She immediately runs into an old love, no the town sheriff. Connor has always avoided love but there is something about Marissa that just can't shake.Sounds pretty good, right? It could have been, there is too much other stuff thrown that doesn't help the story at all.Too many library references: telling what ALA has to say about reluctant readers is about as boring as watching paint dry. I am a librarian and even I don't want read about that unless I am working. I definitely don't want it in a romance novel.Marissa's unresolved Daddy issues: a big chunk of the beginning of the story was spent with Marissa obsessing over why her dad doesn't pay enough attention to her. But there is no resolution on this front. She doesn't make any growth or at least open her eyes enough to that her father is pretty much that way with everyone. He was almost a caricature, the ultimate stereotype of an absentminded professor. Too many "zany" secondary characters: it seemed like all of the secondary characters were too nuts. I guess they were there to be comic relief, but they mainly just came off as annoying. The obsession that everyone in the town had for putting the two characters together really irritated me. I think the author was trying to hit that classic small town stereotype that everyone is always in everyone else's business, but she made these people into obsessive stalkers. That is not at all what small towns are like. And I can see why Connor wanted his family gone- they annoyed the scrap out of me too!Too many pages wasted saying the same things over and over again: whether it was in dialogue or in Marissa's inner thoughts, I got tired of her rehashing of everything. I skipped whole pages because I had already read three times before in the book. I also thought there were too many references to music and shows that will be completely irrelevant in five years time.Overall, not the best thing I have ever read and I regret actually paying for it.For really entertaining romance novels, Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the much better choice. less

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