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About the Author
Susan Mallery is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction novels with heart and humor. Her funny and sexy family stories have been named to Booklist's Top 10 Romance Novels lists of 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Mallery's gift for writing humor and tenderness make all her books true gems. -Romantic Times
Romance novels don’t get much better than Mallery's expert blend of emotional nuance, humor and superb storytelling. -Booklist
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a Traditional Romance,
By Dianne E. Socci-Tetro "Books & Chat" (New England, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Already Home (Paperback)
Susan Mallery - Already HomeAfter breaking up with her chef husband who was a philanderer, Jenna (who is also a chef) needs to get a life of her own. She seems to find one when she buys a store and starts to convert it to a cookware store. With the help of newly hired store manager, Violet, who is a bit of an unusual character with an interesting back round, Jenna starts to make a 'go' at her store. Now Jenna has always know she was adopted and never cared to know who her birth parents were'but fate has a way of demanding that you change your mind about how things should be. In addition, she finds this out the hard way when her 'aging hippie' parents show up out of the blue. This was a complex story, but not a romance as we have come to love from Ms Mallery. Instead of a romance, this was more of a story about how an adult child of adoption handles her birth parents coming to find her. In addition, the sub-story from Violet is one that some sensitive people may find difficult to read. Unfortunately, the things that should have been a surprise to the reader were so obvious throughout the story, that I never felt the strong emotion that I'm sure Ms Mallery was trying to evoke.
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4.1 out of 5 stars (48 customer reviews) 21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great story from Susan Mallery,
By sebe "sebe336" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Already Home (Paperback)
Newly divorced sous-chef , Jenna Stevens, moves home to Georgetown, Texas where her adopted parents, Beth and Marshal still live. She opens a store named Grate Expectations. She hires streetwise and business savvy, Violet to help her run the store. After the first week Jenna realizes the store is in jeopardy of being a failure. With the help of Violet they brainstorm and come up with new ideas. She reopens and the store becomes an instant success.One day a man and woman show up at Jenna's store and announce that they are her birth parents, Serenity and Tom. Serenity is a free spirit and totally different from her adoptive mother Beth. Jenna learns that it is alright to have two mothers. I love the way Susan Mallery tells this story. She makes you think about life's twists and turns. Even though things change, the love of family and friends is most important in your life. 45 of 52 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
not what I expected,
By bjsmith "bjsmith" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Already Home (Paperback)
You know how you find a new author and love their books and then after that you can't wait to buy their new ones? I wish that I had waited. I have become used to SM's books for their complex characters and all their warts. Does this book have that? Yes. But there was no romance, none, none, none. Yes, I read the synopsis of the book from her web site but I still expected the complex man/woman relationship to be part of this book and I just didn't see much of that at all. I have become used to that in SM's books and for that I was disappointed. I found myself skipping ahead and turning the pages, I was bored. I don't need to read page after page after page of conversation between two people to get the gist of what the conversation was about. To me, it was wasted space. I only finished the book because I thought it might get better, it didn't. Seriously, when she introduced Ellington I knew then what was going to happen to Serenity. I read books to escape. At times, this book was depressing. Maybe it's because personally I lost my mom a year ago, I don't know. I felt the same about the Cliff character. For Violet to have come from the streets, bells should have been going off right and left.Don't get me wrong here, I don't have to read books that are filled with gratitious sex throughout. I do like to read about characters and their development, I just don't like to read books that are full of it with no romance at all. I missed the man/woman relationship in this book. In the future I will wait and read some reviews before I jump at buying another Mallery book (sigh). I hope this is not a sign. Too many of my "have to read" authors are disappointing me lately. 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Quite a Romance,
By Dianne E. Socci-Tetro "Books & Chat" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Already Home (Paperback)
Susan Mallery - Already HomeAfter breaking up with her chef husband who was a philanderer, Jenna (who is also a chef) needs to get a life of her own. She seems to find one when she buys a store and starts to convert it to a cookware store. With the help of newly hired store manager, Violet, who is a bit of an unusual character with an interesting back round, Jenna starts to make a `go' at her store. Now Jenna has always know she was adopted and never cared to know who her birth parents were...but fate has a way of demanding that you change your mind about how things should be. And she finds this out the hard way when her `aging hippie' parents show up out of the blue. This was a complex story, but not a romance as we have come to love from Ms Mallery. Instead of a romance, this was more of a story about how an adult child of adoption handles her birth parents coming to find her. In addition, the sub-story from Violet is one that some sensitive people may find difficult to read. Unfortunately, the things that should have been a surprise to the reader were so obvious throughout the story, that I never felt the strong emotion that I'm sure Ms Mallery was trying to evoke. |
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