Oh yeah! We've got some winners this year.
If this doesn't scream classic trashy romance novel, then I don't know what does! The Playboy Takes A Wife...awesome. The blurb on the back says "From Billionaire Bachelor...to Dedicated Daddy?" Ooh, note the question mark! Intriguing.
Ah yes. The historical trashy romance novel! "A woman alone, yet determined to fulfill her dying father's golden dream, Kerry Gallivan heeded to siren call of pioneering and set out on 'the sea of grass'. But how was she to know that while she sailed her prarie schooner, Jed Hunter would become captain of her fate?" I love it when an author uses mixed metaphors! It gives you hope that the qulaity of writing inside the novel will be simply spectacular.
Oh my. So many things to say! The title- what does that even mean? And the teaser on the front: "A shocking secret..." I think the shocking secret it that the scary kid on the cover is really a serial killer, and the two people on the front are her latest victims.
You know, the summary on the back of this one was too good not to share in its entirity. Take a look for yourself, peeps.
"Gypsy Clothing"? "Feline Fan club"? And the fact that the whole plot of the book seems to resolve around "lucrative lavender fields"?? I'm speechless.
And finally...
Judging by this cover art, I was sure this book had been published in the early 80's, at the "heighth" of the BIG HAIR trend (hee! Puns!). But no. This book was published in 1992.
It looks like we have some good (and I use that word pejoratively) choices this year, folks. So help me decide which of these enduring pieces of literature for the full-on review-with-snarky-observations. I'll keep the poll up for the next few days, and then I'll annouce the winner after I combine the votes from both here and my LJ.
May the "best" book win!
8 comments:
Has it been a year already?
That was hilarious. I understand why they were 25 cents, yet I'm intrigued. ;)
I could listen to a play by play of each book. Your witty comments will make my day.
I wasn't expecting another post so soon! Oh, for the days when all I had to do was sit around reading novels.
I love these posts! Good thing summer's back!
Are we allowed to vote more than once?
This looks like fun! Can I play? I vote unequivocally for the lovely, purple bag of metaphorical madness in Jeb Hunter's Bride. It makes me want to grip the rudder of my own fate firmly in my hands and sail o'er the amber waves of grain to my very own Sea of Love. *sigh*
Oh, where to begin! This brings a whole new meaning to 'grab bag' for sure! I mean it just doesn't get any better then that. I'm going tomorrow, first light! Wild Abandon just looks and sounds absolutely too good to be true! You know if the author is going to write a book saying that the girl was "no man magnet" maybe they should have put someone less attractive on the cover. Just a thought. Maybe some one like, I don't know, Susan Boyle? Now there's a romance novel in the making! And as far as the haunted summer of big hair... that book definitely took place out west if it was in the 90's everything out there is a bit behind the times. Jared Hess wasn't kidding when he wrote Napoleon Dynomite.
Beckie- Yep, it's already been a year! Hard to believe, I know. ;)
Mom- I don't sit around all day reading novels. I also read the internet and watch TV. Occasionally I eat and go the bathroom.
Shauna- Feek free to vote as many times as you want to. In fact, I even welcome passionate arguments as to why I should review one book over another. :P
Gracie!!- I swear, your writing sounds just like Ivy's, which is a very good thing. I think your purple prose is magnificent! LOL
Emily- Well, you know the girls in the kind of books never think they are all that attractive until the right man comes along and awakens their inner desires and helps them find their beatuy within! ;)
"The haunted summer of big hair"- now that is a FANTASTIC title for a book! LOL
"lucrative lavender fields be damned..." BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA looks like a book burning shall be in order. LOL
Ooh. I like the last name of the author of The Fifth Profession.
I can't wait until you give us the R&R on this year's pick.
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