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Love Me Once, Love Me Twice (2000)

by Sandy Sullivan(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

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Montana Cowboys

review 1: Beware this has hella spoilers. In fact, if you want the 2 minute run down of the book you can read this and not bother wasting your time or money on this. although I think it may be free so...So Natalie is heading home - to grandmothers house - and is intercepted by the high school hunk that never gave her the time of day. He's hot for her, she's hot for him, though she's insecure and stupid about it at first. Said hunk asks her out and then tells his best friend about it and how hot she is now. And what does this best friend, pillar of the community, man who's like a brother to him do? He shows up to her house to get a date with her too. Nice! Great friend this gem is. Throughout it all Nat - oh yes the men who supposedly didn't know her in high school called her by a ... morenick name that they said they called her in high school. Confused? Wait, you'll be more confused soon. Anyways, Nat feels strongly about Cade ( hunk#1) but though she doesn't feel as much heat for Kale (hate that fucking name) she still wants to screw him. So she dates him, tries to seduce him and he turns her down because he supposedly doesn't sleep with women who he hasn't connected with or spent a couple of months dating. This left me scratching my head because he had previously confessed that he had no less than 10 casual sexual encounters with women he shared with Cade. Doesn't really add up...more confusion.In the meantime, she has sex with Cade a few times. It's kind of blah and vanilla as sex goes but whatever it blew her mind. She decided to date them both but Cade is crazy jealous of the thought of her sleeping with his best friend and then he gets pissed because she won't have sex with him while she makes up her mind and he does a stupid, jealous, immature man thing and she of course overreacts and throws a baby tantrum like the 13 year old... I mean 30 yo woman she is. While all of this is going on they are having awkward as heck discussions about relationships and sharing her when she's only gone on one date with each of them, each of these dates ends in "we need to talk" relationship BS. It's completely ridiculous to have these conversations at this point - she hadn't even gone on an actual date with the best friend yet. It was just weird and totally inorganic. There was no chemistry, no heat, no progression of the relationships or character development. Shit just happens.Then we progress to the point where Cade who has been pissed off and totally opposed to her dating them both because he "hates the idea" of her having sex with his best friend...his words not mine. Yet the second she says she wants a menage with them both he's all, "it's so hot to watch you kiss him and stroke his cock". Huh? More confusion. Then for the mother load of all confusing things. Nat discovers that her mother was in love with Cade's dad in high school but she dated another man to make him confess his love for her but it back fired when she ended up pregnant with Nat and had to marry the man she was using. So supposedly they broke up because of her pregnancy and because he was going away to college and that's why he was pushing her away. Yet, Cade and Natalie are the same age, in fact at some point I think it was mentioned that Cade was older than her. Which means his dad was cheating on her? or he knocked up his mom at the same time Nat's mom got knocked up? Who the hell knows? It's a clusterfuck.All this happens in a week. Which ends with Nat and Cade professing their love and him proposing. In a week! The morning after she screws him and his best friend. God this was so painfully awkward. Add in the terrible dialogue and the grammar and spelling mistakes and you have a book I wouldn't recommend to anyone that left supremely confused and unsatisfied. The only redeeming thing about this book is that grandma is a horny, loud mouth. Sorry for the long rant and the full disclosure. I'm not prone to the TMI on my reviews but I felt I had to lay out the jumble that was this book, if for no other reason than to remind myself about it about it so I am never tempted to read anything else by this author.
review 2: It is not very often that I will run out and purchase the next book in a series immediately after reading the first one. I did with this book.The book was well written and just enough information to keep you involved in the story but not so much that you became board and start skim reading.I could relate to the characters and really enjoyed Nat and her grandma. I was very impressed with the angst that Ms. Sullivan communicated with each of her characters.I am already several pages into the second book of the series and I am equally impressed. Needless to say, Ms. Sullivan has been added to my list of favorite authors. This is a very small list indeed. Kudos Ms. Sullivan! less

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