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Here Comes Trouble (2010)

by Donna Kauffman(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0758231334 (ISBN13: 9780758231338)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Brava

review 1: I was disappointed. The book had too many long drawn out boring conversations and ponderings. It needed more things happening.Story Brief:Kirby ran a ski resort in Colorado with her boyfriend for ten years. After she saw him with another woman, she left him, borrowed money, bought an inn in Vermont, and rehabbed it. This is a ski resort area. It’s her first season to be open. There is no snow. She may lose the inn if she doesn’t get enough guests to pay her bills.Brett is poker genius celebrity who made millions. He wants to leave the business. Someone has been causing property damage to friends of his in Las Vegas. So he puts most of his things into storage and takes off on a motorcycle to decide what to do with his life. He sees Kirby’s inn in Vermont an... mored is drawn to the architecture and look of the place. He is her first guest. They start falling for each other. After Brett learns she needs guests, he offers to hold a charity poker tournament at a nearby resort which will bring in a lot of guests for the area.Reviewer’s Opinion:This book has too many long, drawn out conversations about goals, needs, desires, fears, past relationships, etc. There were also too many long, drawn out ponderings in the mind about these types of things. There was one seven-page-long conversation that was just about Brett trying to convince Kirby to tell him what was wrong. I kept wanting things to happen. Not enough happened. What little did happen was interesting. It could be a good short story if the author got rid of all the filler.There was a bad guy doing property damage to Brett’s friends. By the end of the book, it wasn’t clear to me who was doing that and what happened to the bad guy. Brett suspected a certain person, but it was not wrapped up. There was no confession or evidence or prosecution or jail. That part of the story was not finished.Data:Story length: 307 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious words. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 7, most were about two pages long. Setting: current day Pennydash, Vermont. Copyright: 2010. Genre: contemporary romance.
review 2: I always enjoy Donna Kauffman's books, but this was not my favorite. I enjoyed the characters, like always, and appreciated that they were complex and realistic. They had issues and baggage, but they didn't deal with them in the typical romance novel fashion. No "he's to sexy to be interested in me" and no "I will push her away so I don't get rejected." They (gasp!) talked to each other about their relationship.Only problem was that they talked to each other too much. Too much back story and explanation was told through dialogue, which lead to pages and pages of back-and-forth. I found myself wishing there was more action that would help them learn about each other, not just talking about themselves. less

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