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A Place Called Home (2011)

by Jo Goodman(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0821774182 (ISBN13: 9780821774182)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Zebra

review 1: a nice enough modern-day love story, but there were too many niggling annoyances for me to like it much:-the author exposed the holes in her understanding of feminism a few too many times for comfort (especially with the stereotyping of the children, their tastes, and their activities; and in the end the high-powered executive heroine is the one who goes to half-time work to better manage her growing family. boo.)-she wrote poorly about fashion, and so instead of embellishing her characters (our heroine an elegant, label-conscious clothes horse, our hero a rough-and-tumble sort of alpha guy with a dad-jeans chaser) she dated them badly.-the huge plot crisis was somewhat unbelievably written: the hero exposes a cruelty we've never seen in him anywhere before, and the heroin... moree responds with a downtrodden apathy and almost masochism i found very hard to believe.just stuff like that -- too many nose-wrinkling moments for me to relax into the story. also, i find that i like jo goodman's dialogue more in the mouths of regency figures; for some reason in them it sounds modern and edgy, whereas in truly contemporary figures it sounds stilted and silly. so, there you go, readers. a fairly inoffensive read, but without much shine either.
review 2: With great hesitation I am writing this review. The main characters have moments of unlike-ability but you soon understand their reasons for it. I believe that, at this time, this is Ms. Goodman's only contemporary romance. Written with some darker content it might be hard for some people to enjoy.With the deaths of their married friends, Mitch Baker and Thea Wyndham are given joint custody of the couple's three children. Thea declines and, naturally, Mitch is upset. He has always had a thing for her and can't understand why she is behaving this way. On the other hand, he has a good support system and has always enjoyed being around the children so his decision is somewhat easier to make.At the beginning of this story, each is romantically involved with another person. Long story short and trying not to give away spoilers, this couple's relationship grows slowly. If you have read any of my other reviews regarding this author there is no insta-sex but when it finally happens it borders on erotic.My guess is that those 30 and older would appreciate this romance most. If you have children you will understand better why the main characters have their moments. There is no big misunderstanding but each has a few times where you'd like to say, "Really? You want to leave it like that?" and knock their heads.I am giving it four stars because of the realism of the subject line. Too often the hero and heroine meet, they have sex, there is the hated 'Big Misunderstanding', yada-yada-yada, they realize they love each other and we have the HEA. You WON'T find that here. If, after reading this story and you enjoyed it, you may want to look for contemporary romances by Theresa Weir. Her main characters also have depth, are not perfect, there are moments of angst and the hero and heroine have to work for a HEA. In other words, the stories have meat and it is something I like. less

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