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Golden Perfection: This is a re-telling of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED!!!

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Samhain's Veil: This story revolves around my favorite holiday, Halloween/Samhain. Out with the old and in with the new. A time to rekindle year ends protection spells and save the world from being over run by those that walk on the dark side. Halfway complete and in the research stage.

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Review - Susan Donovan's He Love's Lucy

He Loves Lucy
by Susan Donovan
Chic Lit
ISBN 031992335
Pages: 338
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperback/Romance
http://www.susandonovan.com/

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Book Blurb (from actual book): Marketing exec Lucy Cunningham is thrilled when her firm lands the Palm Club account. The campaign concept for Miami’s hottest fitness club was Lucy’s idea: Take one fitness-challenged woman, put her in front of TV cameras and into the hands of the club’s top personal trainer, Theo Redmond. And there’s a big cash reward for each pound shed. It seemed like a good idea—until Lucy gets to be the guinea pig. When a junk food addict with a heart of gold, meets a fitness buff with buns of steel, they find the perfect recipe to fall in love.

My Review and Thoughts:
I am not really a chic lit reader, but I seem to have a knack for picking some really cute ones for my mommy-and-me reading group.

The book description is very accurate as to what the book was about. This was my first book by Susan Donovan, though with her style, I think I may look into a few others.

I started this book not liking Theo AT ALL. I have always been of the mind though that if a book causes you to feel you like it, otherwise it would elicit NO response what so ever not to mention you wouldn’t want to even read it. Theo came off to me as a materialistic pig. He was all about looks and the outside package. I still don’t get the warm and fuzzies about him by the end of the book, but I liked him a little better. He seemed to be good for Lucy and she accepted him. To each their own I guess.

As a voluptuous woman myself—wink wink—I could relate to a lot of Lucy’s challenges and a lot of them were so not me. I like her determination and how she grows as the book progresses. You literally SEE her grow from really insecure and questioning everything she does to someone a lot more sure of herself and knowing what exactly it is she wants. I think she was a little bit of a dunce when it came to her pig of a boss, but that may just be my opinion as a reader looking too much into things.

Over all, I liked the book and though it was not a keeper, I would recommend it as a cute fast read. It was well paced. Every page moved you along with either Theo or Lucy. Not too much stalling at all. All that said…

Happy Reading…
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