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L'homme Le Plus Sexy (2012)

by Julie James(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

229003715X (ISBN13: 9782290037157)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

J'ai Lu

review 1: Light, humorous/sarcastic contemporary romance with PG sexual elements. Heroine is Taylor Donovan, a successful employment lawyer, funny lady, nobody's fool. Hero is Jason Andrews, A-list movie star, professional bachelor. Taylor is supposed to help Jason figure out how to seem more like a litigator for his new film project. Sparks fly, etc. Okay, this was my first successful Julie James foray (I've tried several times to read one about a lawyer and an FBI agent and I can't get past the second chapter, for unclear reasons I can't blame on the book, which seems fine), and overall I really enjoyed it. Things:*Taylor is great. All of the female characters are basically great! Isn't that amazing? Taylor seems like a real human female. Her friends seem like real human females. ... moreTheir friendship basically resembles how women are friends in real life. Taylor is SMART, Taylor is ambitious, Taylor is competent and confident. Taylor does not take shit off of people. Taylor trusts her instincts, particularly after blowing her instincts off in love previously did not work out. (I loved that Taylor trusts her instincts - so often in romance novels the heroine immediately overlooks the alarm bells going off when the enormous alpha male (...) looms over her and is like "Get in my creepy van, missy! I'm not telling you where we're going though.")*Jason is quite good. He is not AS great as Taylor - and part of that is that his character is a known mild cad. But part of it was that Jason isn't quite as fully-developed as Taylor, so his internal states seem more often manipulative (Jason wants what he wants, and doesn't really accept that maybe he can't always get it) and/or childish, and the arc of his character doesn't fully convince me that he has changed. *I actually enjoyed the background plot about Taylor's case going to trial. Normally I find "what the character is doing at work" plots silly at best or hugely irritating at worst, but this actually felt like how an ambitious associate's work life would go. I appreciated in general that Taylor had a career she was passionate about, and work she loved and was excellent at. *The Hollywood backdrop is pretty fun and semi-realistic. I liked that Taylor frequently is more weirded out by Jason's fame than basking in its reflection. I enjoyed the minor characters who populate the world. *I liked the way Taylor and Jason were together. It's surprisingly rare to read romance novels where the main characters make each other laugh and are clearly connecting mentally, in addition to finding each other megahot. This happened here, and I appreciated it. Julie James did a lot of showing-not-telling when Taylor and Jason were in the same scene - it was good stuff. *I liked that it was light and funny without being "wacky" or fluffy. Man, I really dislike wackiness and fluff in contemporary romances. But this was excellent at being a very cheerful read, no huge vats of angst and heartbreak lurking around the corner, without giving up a slight edge to the humor that pulled it back from the saccharine. A couple of things I did not like (possible spoilerish territory, although if you don't know that in romance novels, the ending is always happy and full of loooooove, I'm not sure a spoiler warning will help): *Taylor is the one to make a professional sacrifice so they can be together. I. Hate. This. Come on! Let the lady keep the job she's killed herself for, okay? Can we just acknowledge, circa 2014 as I write this, that many contemporary women have careers they are as passionate about as their male counterparts are? I found this very irksome, even as the book had them have an okay fight about it - Taylor does call out Jason's assumptions, but then does not act on her complaints to him, or try to find another solution. *Taylor's well-founded suspicion of Jason's motives and trustworthiness hinges on the dual facts that Jason is a noted tomcat with a crappy track record in terms of treating women decently, and the fact that her ex-fiance was a noted tomcat who claimed to have reformed and then betrayed her. So Taylor has some real reasons, LOGICAL reasons (as she points out) for being as suspicious as she is, but when love calls in the end, she just sort of... lets this go. They don't really talk about it, they don't negotiate, he doesn't really reassure her or even tell her why he's so sure he'll be happily monogamous from now on. It's more like they argue, he is grumpy and childish in that argument, she decides to trust him. Um...?????? But Taylor! You had such GREAT arguments for not trusting him! The about-face was rapid and unsatisfying for this reader. *I did not care for the final love-professing sequence. I am such a curmudgeon! But in addition to the public showboating, I really was still hung up on "But wait... she's just going to give up her job, and take this huge, very public, leap of faith on someone who hasn't really proven through his maturity and ability to negotiate that he deserves it? THIS IS IT? Did I miss chapters?" *The sex in this is pretty PG-rated. There isn't really any until after they've agreed to get married, which happens in the home stretch, and then it's indicated coyly in a way that I have a difficult time with. It isn't that this book would need explicit fancy sex sequences to work, it's that the characters have spent pretty much an entire novel with (very well-written!) sexual tension building and building and building between them, and then it sort of fades to a misty montage. And frankly, I found that sort of confusing. It just felt like a book that had been building to something more intense and less cutesy. Overall, four solid stars. I am even inspired to go back and try the unfinished FBI/lawyer one (again).
review 2: Great book. Couldn't stop reading it.There were no slow parts or filler parts, most times in books there are little bits that are boring or not relevant but not here. Loved the "strong" female lead. At no point did she seem weak or feebleminded. Loved that! Loved the fact that she flat out rejected the main character :) especially during their "mock" cross-examination. Lots of comedy but nothing over the top. Only annoying part was the second male lead but I believe that's what he was supposed to be.Very enjoyable book!! less

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mrspoge

Wrapped this book up with a Huge smile on my face! Really liked the main lead and that fact that she wasn't a simpering little push over. Taylor was strong and confident and she didn't take sh*t from anyone. She was a constant throughout the novel and that was quite refreshing. The lead male, Jason, was a hottie with a body and I loved seeing the relationship between the two of them build. I appreciate that this novel showcased how much of a bad*ss Taylor is in general. Overall, a fun, cute novel that I would recommend.

bai

I liked it, a lot, actually. And that surprised me. This is a very well-written novel about a lawyer who coaches a bit of a spoiled brat hollywood hunky type. The dynamic between the two is fun. I really love that she didn't just drop trou the instant he showed up in her life. She had other priorities that he was getting in the way of. That said--I thought his obsession with her to be a bit sudden. Overall though a great read for the celeb-romance sub genre.

BobCanada

Cute story. Think it could have been a little shorter. Seemed like things were drug out too long.

mzashkay

Great Book! Just like all the other Julie James books!

chicago

loved it

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