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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Theoretical vs Practical, 16 April 2003
Dorsey MacGuinness is a teaching assistant in a local college, where sociology is her background. Also in her background is being the daughter of a woman who prefers the role of mistress to wife. When Dorsey semi-seriously wrote a ‘how to’ manual on catching a rich man, it was on the urging and inspiration of her mother. Dorsey hardly expected for it to become a best seller!Moonlighting as a bartender at a gentleman’s club was a way for Dorsey to research her next, this time more academic project. Until Adam Darien, one of the well off businessmen at the club, took to complaining about a certain best selling book. And from there on, things just got more complicated as Dorsey and Adam became involved, while Dorsey tried to keep her author alter ego out of their relationship. Strong characters are what makes this book special. Dorsey, her unusual mother Carlotta and her friend Edie, and even Drake’s owner Lindy are all very strong, unique and distinctive female characters. Lindy is positively scary, Carlotta very charming and engaging, and Edie’s secondary story nearly overshadows Dorsey’s (and from time to time does overshadow it). Adam and Lucas, the two main men of the piece, do not let the masculine side down either. There are no simple stereotypes here, and the strong and believable individuals and their agendas and interactions made this book something different, and special for me. There is a distinct feminist angle contained within the text in a very positive way, and I also enjoyed the ‘backlash’ effect in the plotting – very possible I thought. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to all readers of romance.
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