Not Another Bad Date (Avon Romance)
Avon - Avon
Release date: 2008-05-27
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Rachel Gibson
American Light Romantic Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Romance - Contemporary
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Not Another Bad Date (Avon Romance)
Date undefinedI really liked this one. I think it was the best of the four author stories that Gibson has written. It is like everything conspires against her but she remains somewhat sane. I mean how sane would you feel if you thought you were cursed?
I really liked how the past abd present flowed so I did not get a headache trying to figure what was going on.
That is one thing I love about Gibson is her ability to make characters that seem so normal, that you either want them to suceed or fail, but you want to know how it ends.
Not Another Bad Date (Avon Romance)
Date undefinedI think the story should have started with Adele and Zach getting married. We have: Hunky Jock/Hero football guy who seems to be only marginally in love with Adele (but certainly in lust). Adele is pregnant with twins and is moving into the home her arch nemisis to raise the twins and his teenage daughter who is bratty & spolied. All of this in the home which is a shrine to his dead wife. Can anyone truly imagine this? I think in the rush the write the book she missed the real love story here. As I reached the end of the book my one thought was: is the moral of this story that rich, beautiful girls who tortured you in school and made life a living hell REALLY do have power over you?
Not Another Bad Date (Avon Romance)
Date undefinedWarning - contains spoilers!
Rachel Gibson, one of my all-time favourites produced another hit (a big one).
Not another bad date is all about Adele Harris and her first love Zach Zemantis.
But it's starting and ending with another person - Devon, dead wife of Zach who got pregnant on purpose to get married to Zach (she is an absolute b.... , ehm a not so nice woman) anf of course it worked. Zach did the "right" thing, broke up with Adele and married Devon. I hate it when this happens because IMO marrying without love because someone gets pregnant is a recipe for disaster. But hey, that's only my opinion.
So back to the beginning of the book, Devon just died and God wants her to redo the wrong she did to Adele. But being a - you know what I mean - she is all about making more trouble for Adele.
A few years forward and Adele still has a lot of bad luck with men (thanks to Devon) and she is now back in her old hometown on a visit to help out her pregnant sister. Zach is living there too with his daughter and the two former lovers meet again and immediately realize that there is still a lot of attraction left beetween them. So what every romance reader craves happens and the two of them get back together. All is ok until Adele ends up pregnant (still Devon the b.) by Zach and let's just say he is not handling the situation like a good guy.
Adele, being my kind of girl, doesn't think about marrying because she got pregnant, so Zach is in a new situation and has to decide if there is more to his relationship with Adele and she has to decide if Zack is man enough to be her partner in life.
Although I don't really believe in god and I hate the whole "marrying without love thing" I loved - really loved - this book. It was a great read and I already reread it two times. Adele is a inspiring character, a real woman with flaws and one of my favourite heroines. And Zach is in the end a hit too who deserves a better marriage like the one he had with Devon.
And the idea with bringing the dead Devon into the book is really working and giving the book an unique character.
Even though the book is part of a series you can read it without knowing the other three books, although of course you should read them because they are great.
So grab a copy and start reading - this book is a must-read for romance fans.
Enjoy.
S.M.
