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Venus In Blue Jeans (2009)

by Meg Benjamin(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing

series

Konigsburg

review 1: I won a copy of Venus in Blue Jeans and loved it. The story is fun, romantic and sexy with a bit of a mystery and action. It's set in the small town of Konigsburg, Texas, with it's eclectic and quirky citizens. Cal is the new vet in town and once he sets eyes on Docia, the owner of the bookstore in town, he's smitten. It's a fun read with characters that made me smile. I'm looking forward to reading the other stories.
review 2: I'd heard excellent things about this series and I actually bought this book a while ago. With the St. Patrick's Day sales, I picked up the next 4 books in the series too so I thought I'd better read the first one. Docia Kent is a nearly 6 foot tall, curvy and beautiful woman who runs a bookstore in Konigsburg Texas. She is fairly new... more to the small town and hasn't been well accepted by the locals, in large part due to the efforts of mean spirited (and one dimensional) Margaret Hastings. Cal Toleffson is the new vet in town and he's a big, broad man who falls instanly in lust and very quickly in love with Docia. Between Margaret's efforts to run Docia out of town and bag Cal for herself (even if he is a vegetarian) and some strange goings on involving a mysterious package which puts Docia's store and Docia in danger, the pair develop a relationship. Docia has some baggage in that she comes from a wealthy family and was previously engaged to a scum sucking bottom dweller who was mostly after her family's money. The "suspense" part of the book was the weakest, but I read it more as a straight contemporary and it worked very well for me that way. The banter between "Wonder" (Stephen the Wonder Dentist) and Beidermeier and Ingstrom and Cal was particularly funny and I enjoyed the author's amusing turns of phrase: Horace grabbed his hand, pumping his arm as if his armpit might produce oil.I also loved Cal's inner dialogue - that made me laugh out loud a couple of times. Also, Senor Pepe was adorable. However, the book did suffer from an overuse (particularly in that any use is too much) of "the essence of woman", "the essence of Cal" and "the essence of Docia". Regardless, I enjoyed the easy writing style and humour and I'm on to book 2 now.Favourite Quote: Warmth pooled in her belly, and spiraled through her body. Her breasts, her abdomen, her knees. Her knees? She'd never really had an orgasm in her knees before. less

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