Cecelia Burns finally has the life she's always wanted. She's a cardiologist in a thriving practice. She's engaged to a stable and reliable man. And she's completely abandoned her gypsy past of small-time cons and psychic powers. But at her engagement party, Cecelia's little sister bursts in and tips her perfectly organized world upside down.Amy has one psychic power--the ability to read the name of a person's one true love. Even though Amy swore she'd never tell Cecelia her named, she reveals its Finn Franklin Concord. And that certainly isn't Cecelia's fiancee's name. But even worse, Amy swears Finn's name is fading which means he's dying. Cecelia couldn't care less about finding her true love, but she doesn't want a dead man on her conscience. So she sends a letter to every single Finn Concord...then runs into most gorgeous man she's ever seen. Finn Concord has his own problems. His daughter Maya has insisted they come to Baltimore so she can meet her adopt-a-grandmother and he just doesn't have the heart to say no. But when a beautiful cardiologist tells him to go to a doctor now, he's intrigued...and a bit smitten. As worlds collide and people are crossed and double-crossed, love blossoms and passion burns between Finn and Cecelia. But is this Finn her one true love?
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MAKE ME A MATCH is Diana Holquist's first novel. She lives in upstate New York with her family
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Cecelia Burns' life is just the way she always dreamed it would be. She's got a great job, a great apartment and she's marrying the most stable, upstanding guy that she could dream of. Everything is going perfectly until her psychic sister crashes her engagement party and claims that she's marrying the wrong guy and that the right guy, her one true love, is dying.
Finn Concord doesn't believe in True Love but he is smitten with Cecelia Burns even if she does seem to think he's dying. But with his lonely daughter, her rent-a-granny, psychics and enough other Finn Concords to make your mind boggle - winning Cecelia's heart is going to take quite a lot of work.
It took me a while to get into this book and I suppose that should have been some indication of the story as a whole. It wasn't hard to finish but I felt little to no emotional connection with the stories or the characters.
I wanted to like Cecelia but she was a little uptight and mean, especially to her sister. I know she was supposed to be like that and loosen up as the novel progressed but she was just very hard to like at times. I also didn't think her reactions rang true and I wondered if Finn would be better off without her. Finn was a little more likeable as a rugged construction worker but I felt he wasn't strong enough to handle Cecelia and he was obviously so hung up on his first wife that I didn't think he was ready to move on.
The psychic stuff and the storyline overall was fine and handled well it was just that everything was too convenient and too bizarre to make it believable, even with the magic.
I finished this book and was rooting for the characters but in the end it just didn't do much for me. A good read if it's on your bookshelf but nothing I would run out and recommend. 3 stars.
This book is followed by Jasmine's story in Sexiest Man Alive and Amy's story in Hungry for More.
Finn Concord doesn't believe in True Love but he is smitten with Cecelia Burns even if she does seem to think he's dying. But with his lonely daughter, her rent-a-granny, psychics and enough other Finn Concords to make your mind boggle - winning Cecelia's heart is going to take quite a lot of work.
It took me a while to get into this book and I suppose that should have been some indication of the story as a whole. It wasn't hard to finish but I felt little to no emotional connection with the stories or the characters.
I wanted to like Cecelia but she was a little uptight and mean, especially to her sister. I know she was supposed to be like that and loosen up as the novel progressed but she was just very hard to like at times. I also didn't think her reactions rang true and I wondered if Finn would be better off without her. Finn was a little more likeable as a rugged construction worker but I felt he wasn't strong enough to handle Cecelia and he was obviously so hung up on his first wife that I didn't think he was ready to move on.
The psychic stuff and the storyline overall was fine and handled well it was just that everything was too convenient and too bizarre to make it believable, even with the magic.
I finished this book and was rooting for the characters but in the end it just didn't do much for me. A good read if it's on your bookshelf but nothing I would run out and recommend. 3 stars.
This book is followed by Jasmine's story in Sexiest Man Alive and Amy's story in Hungry for More.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
New Author, Great Find
31 Aug 2006
By Reader in NY
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"Make Me a Match" is funny, romantic, interesting--a great read. This new author is definitely on my keeper shelf. I'm looking forward to her next book. One of the great things about this book is the dialogue. The characters are real people with real thoughts--they're sweet, loving, smart, and funny. "Make Me a Match" is a great find for any romance lover.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertainment with some ah has
4 Sep 2006
By thewordlover
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Make Me A Match is certainly fun to read and entertaining. I love the idea of knowing your one true love and how that might turn out. Ms. Holquist is a remarkably accomplished writer for this to be her first novel. As another reviewer commented, what I liked best were all the interesting "ah-has" about gypsies, about life, about love and the tangled relationships we often have to unravel or reweave while still draming of true connection, affection and devotion.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A book that has it all!
31 Aug 2006
By Syd Lee Rip
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I totally enjoyed this book!
It was funny, and moved along briskly, with a page turning and surprising plot. And educational - insight into gypsy psychology, as well as that of various ordinary people. The book taps into the universal fantasy that there is one person, in all the world, who is your soul mate, your one true love. And he may be dying. But he doesn't know who the heck you are, and you have to find him fast, and save him, and not scare him away becuase you might appear to be a psycho.
The romantic scenes were original, to say the least. Slowly building and culminating with a tryst in the cosy dwarf house of a mineature golf course - I would bet the farm that's never been written before. A satisfying read - I would recommend it.
It was funny, and moved along briskly, with a page turning and surprising plot. And educational - insight into gypsy psychology, as well as that of various ordinary people. The book taps into the universal fantasy that there is one person, in all the world, who is your soul mate, your one true love. And he may be dying. But he doesn't know who the heck you are, and you have to find him fast, and save him, and not scare him away becuase you might appear to be a psycho.
The romantic scenes were original, to say the least. Slowly building and culminating with a tryst in the cosy dwarf house of a mineature golf course - I would bet the farm that's never been written before. A satisfying read - I would recommend it.
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