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Mounting Desire (Little Black Dress) [Paperback]

Nina Killham
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3 July 2006 Little Black Dress
As one of the nation’s favourite romantic novelists, Jack Carter knows romance only too well. But what he really wants now, after his traumatic divorce, is romance in his personal life. Recently he's realised that this can only mean one thing: true love waits.

Enter Molly Desire – fully paid-up sexaholic, she views lodging in Jack’s house as a necessary evil until she gets a place of her own. But surprisingly, the chaste Jack doesn’t seem to inspire her with lust – instead, with an ambition to write her own racy romances – and suddenly stiff competition starts to rock the roost...

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Little Black Dress (3 July 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0755332776
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755332779
  • Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 11.4 x 18.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 726,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Nina Killham's first novel is a devilish delight... sexy, hilarious, and not to be missed' (Washington Post )

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Nina Killham was born in Washington, D.C. and now lives in London with her husband and their two young children. Her first novel, HOW TO COOK A TART, received rave reviews.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Mounting Desire - romantic and novel 15 Nov 2009
By shf.yax
Format:Paperback
This is a clever, funny and sharp book, from the author of the wonderful 'How To Cook A Tart'. Nina Killham is very successful at getting into the mind of a (male) romantic novelist, with issues of his own. Jack Carter, the central character, is searching for the perfect woman while making a living writing steamy romantic page-turners in the classic style. Killham makes good use of the genre without mocking it, creating as she does a hilarious yarn with a cast of crisply-drawn characters. Recommended and some!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a romance, nor even good chick lit 22 Jun 2008
By MD
Format:Paperback
This book pretends to be a romance, and a satire, but it fails badly. The hero is a romance novelist who writes pretty bad romances, judging from all the quotes. The heroine sleeps with everyone indiscriminately. The hero is a "born-again" virgin, who behaves very arrogantly to all women ("they are all sluts", even if he doesn't say so directly). He never learns. He and she are together very few times in the book, and I don't see what would attract them to each other. Towards the end of the book, he ends up in bed with a prostitute (really!). It was definitely unromantic. The jokes weren't funny, either - I want to like my characters, even if I laugh at them, and both of them are pretty unlikable.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing 25 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback
I had read the synopsis of this in the back of another Little Black Dress book, and thought it looked entertaining. The book itself was rather diappointing, the hero seemed immature and arrogant while the heroine was just easy and very one dimensional.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good 31 July 2007
Format:Paperback
The main character is a guy who writes romances and is a born again virgin while the female lead is not particularly choosy in who she has sex with and winds up out of work through a sexual harassment suit (and subsequently gets pregnant). It was a confusing story to read and it jumped around and had several sub plots that didn't quite fit together that miraculously fixed themselves in the last 20 or so pages (funnily enough on Valentines Day). Overall I wouldn't recommend it - there are better books out there to read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not very impressed... 26 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
I am currently working my way through the little black dress books and though I have found some brilliant authors - Rachel Gibson, Phillipa Ashley, I have to say this book was one of my least favourites and was very difficult to get into. The story was rather confusing and kept jumping about all over the place. I found it difficult to believe that these 2 characters would end up together. All in all a rather disappointing read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Another good Little Black Dress read 5 Jun 2007
By Sian Louise VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
I am currently working my way through all of the Little Black Dress books lol and this one wasn't one of the best I read, but it was still good.

If you like simple non complicated reads that you can do in a few hours I definately reccommend this.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay could have been better. 17 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
I've had an obsession with "The Little black dress" books recently and am slowly working my way through as many as possible.
After reading the back of this book it sounded perfect,in fact just the kind I wanted to read.Two opposite people having to live together, a sexaholic female and a born again virgin male.
The male a sucessful traditional romance novelist having to take on a female persona the other a new and more so sucessful erotic romance writer.
It's predictable but not in a bad way but I felt more could have been made of the charcters themselves.There are defintly better books from this publisher so I suggest trying those first.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and smart! 6 Aug 2007
By Mar10e
Format:Paperback
I am a chick.
I read books.
Not all of them literature.
But since the term is 'chick lit', I'll just play along.
So, one of the chick lits I like best is this one.

It is just funny.
I love the characters, I love the story.
You know those romance novels? Where a beautiful innocent girl meets this hard to get, arrogant, tall, dark, handsome man? They meet, they fight, they have sex, they fight again because of some misunderstanding (another woman, another man), they make up, have sex again and get married?
I guess you do huh...
Well the main characters write these kind of novels, the guy is really serious about that and about love. The girl is very easy going and takes things lightly.
Their romance follows the same pattern as the novels they write.
(without the having sex part, they guy is having a problem with sex, but not the way you might think).
In the end, it all works out.
In between you will have had many LOL's, because of Jack and Molly, but also because of Jacks crazy mother, his obsesed sister, his smart niece, and some passive agressive born again virgins.

Just read it.
It's good, it's funny, it's smart.
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