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And welcome. My name is Cyn and each week on a little something called Book Club Thursday (BCT) myself and best friend Ann from Romancing the Readers blog about book related goodness or not so much LOL. You can learn more about us/BCT by clicking here.
This week we have our:
Simple: we read and review a book that meets a "challenge" off one of our lists.
I picked from this list:
I picked from this list:
TRICKY
Read a book published before 2010
Read a book with a wedding
Working Girls
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book that includes nature on the cover
Read a book with a cover that you really don’t like (ugly)
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a book that takes place in Winter
Read a book with a food item on the cover
Read a book that includes a Holiday
Read a book that includes a Holiday
Read a book set in/around New Orleans
Read a book with a “Food” word in the title
Read a book with a seasonal word in the title
Orange previously done
Red today's challenge
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe from New York Times bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz, is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and featuring one snooty Miss Darcy.
Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones―one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family.
Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. Luke is 32-years-old and has never left home. He’s a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way?
I really wanted to like to this book more than I did.
The idea/concept of it was great and most of the characters are great too - except Darcy. I could never quite like her for so many reasons.
The romance falls pretty flat- but that isn't the main reason for the book per se. There was nothing special, nor was there anything wrong with writing. I found it to be solid and enjoyable but only in an average manner.
It does read like/would probably make a wonderful made for TV type movie. I know that sounds opposite to some of my above comments,. but the book really does have that ebb and flow to it. Again, overall not a bad novel but just lacking in some areas if you are looking for a solid/strict romance.
The idea/concept of it was great and most of the characters are great too - except Darcy. I could never quite like her for so many reasons.
The romance falls pretty flat- but that isn't the main reason for the book per se. There was nothing special, nor was there anything wrong with writing. I found it to be solid and enjoyable but only in an average manner.
It does read like/would probably make a wonderful made for TV type movie. I know that sounds opposite to some of my above comments,. but the book really does have that ebb and flow to it. Again, overall not a bad novel but just lacking in some areas if you are looking for a solid/strict romance.
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