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Flirting with Disaster (The Charleston Trilogy #2)
There's a fine line between desire and disaster. At least, that's what improper Southern belle Maggie Forsythe thinks when unceremoniously dumped by a fiance even her mother approved of. Maggie has never cared what anyone thinks, so why is she hiding away from her South Carolina Lowcountry home?
Then an intervention by friends shows her she has options. Lots of them And on...more
ebook, 400 pages
Published
August 1st 2011
by Mira Books
(first published December 1st 2005)
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Good premise, lukewarm romance, bad follow-through. As much as any other hopeless romantic, I enjoy the typical romantic plot – couple’s obvious attraction, reluctance to get along, outside difficulties preventing easy relationship, pending happy ending. However, if I have too much confusion to trip me up, I can’t enjoy the rocky ride that builds up to the romance.
It felt like I was going in so many circles that I felt dizzy from the same conversations about Maggie and Josh worrying about whethe...more
It felt like I was going in so many circles that I felt dizzy from the same conversations about Maggie and Josh worrying about whethe...more
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Overall, I enjoyed reading this book. It is a sweet little contemporary romance, but it just moved too slow for me. It took me 4 days to read this book and you all know, that is just NOT the way that I read and I can't even pinpoint why. I enjoyed the story line. I liked the characters. It just moved at a snail's pace and would not keep my attention for more than an hour or so at a time. I would guess a lot of it was an issue with the predictability of the story. There was absolutely n...more
Overall, I enjoyed reading this book. It is a sweet little contemporary romance, but it just moved too slow for me. It took me 4 days to read this book and you all know, that is just NOT the way that I read and I can't even pinpoint why. I enjoyed the story line. I liked the characters. It just moved at a snail's pace and would not keep my attention for more than an hour or so at a time. I would guess a lot of it was an issue with the predictability of the story. There was absolutely n...more
Sep 01, 2011
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2 of 5 stars
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Good premise, lukewarm romance, bad follow-through. As much as any other hopeless romantic, I enjoy the typical romantic plot – couple’s obvious attraction, reluctance to get along, outside difficulties preventing easy relationship, pending happy ending. However, if I have too much confusion to trip me up, I can’t enjoy the rocky ride that builds up to the romance.
It felt like I was going in so many circles that I felt dizzy from the same conversations about Maggie and Josh worrying about whethe...more
It felt like I was going in so many circles that I felt dizzy from the same conversations about Maggie and Josh worrying about whethe...more
This book is all blah blah blah and absolutely no sexy funtimes. Before there's even the slightest glimmer of heat, absolutely everyone in the whole town has to sound off about how much the H/h should get together. Everyone!!! His mother has to give her opinion. Her best friend. Her best friend's husband. Some lady who is completely unrelated to either of them. And they all have to tell the H first, and *then,* in a separate scene tell the h. All of them going in one big circle. And where's the...more
Love Ms.Woods stories.They are sweet.Good characterization as always.I had fun reading this series.
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Note to Self: Magnolia "Maggie" Forsythe(32yo,pal,socialite,gallery owner,ex)+Josh Parker (34yo, pal1,project foreman restoration & builder),Dinah D.(pal)+Cordell B.(boss restoration,pal1),Warren Blake(35yo,ex fiance,psychiatrist),Amanda O'Leary(widow)& Larry(her 8yo),Jimmy(her 6yo),...more
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Note to Self: Magnolia "Maggie" Forsythe(32yo,pal,socialite,gallery owner,ex)+Josh Parker (34yo, pal1,project foreman restoration & builder),Dinah D.(pal)+Cordell B.(boss restoration,pal1),Warren Blake(35yo,ex fiance,psychiatrist),Amanda O'Leary(widow)& Larry(her 8yo),Jimmy(her 6yo),...more
I bought this book In Seattle WA to read on the train ride home from the cruise to Alaska that Mom and I took. It was very good. My first time reading this author but it will not be the last. Set in Charleston it has a lot of southern charm and southern traditions. Rich girl and poor boy, well not so poor boy, just a very different background. they are both scared to death of falling in love. Lots of sizzle when they get together. I appreciated that the author kept the bedroom scenes to a minimu...more
I liked this one better than the last, but I wanted to shake both Josh and Maggie and tell them to get over themselves. Their romance was sort of boring. I found myself more interested in the building of Amanda's house and what was happening to Maggie's shop assistant. I thought that Josh's mother was a hoot, such a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the stick in the muds.
I loved josh and Nadine's relationship. She was really trying to make up for past mistakes and for not being the mother he really needed, but she did the best she could and I admire her optimism. My favorite romance was definitely George and Nadine. I want to know what happened with them. Also if anything happened with warren and Ellie! Overall one of my fave romance!
I got a kick out of this cute story about a specialty-store owner with a snooty mother and a carpenter with a Vegas-broad mom. She's not the snob her mother is, and he's not the classless act his mom is, but these two from the opposite side of the tracks have trouble meeting in the middle when there's a train comin'.
This isn't a Christian romance, but it's also not the soft porn of mainstream romance. Language is limited to the mildest of the naughty words, and sex scenes are tame compared to o...more
This isn't a Christian romance, but it's also not the soft porn of mainstream romance. Language is limited to the mildest of the naughty words, and sex scenes are tame compared to o...more
Jan 02, 2011
H2
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
beach-reads,
comtemporary-romance
Magnolia Forsythe, a Charleston debutante is fixed up with a general contractor, Josh Parker. She is an artist and gallery owner, and he is a working guy. Plot is thickened by the addition of a former fiance that dumped her and an employee's stalker that tries to disrupt her gallery.
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The characters in this book were interesting and provided the realer an accurate picture of small town life. I especially liked Nadine and Josh, a mother and son.
I love Sherryl Woods. I cannot wait to get started. This was a good book, but it was so obvious they would get together. I am looking forward to the last installment of the trilogy.
i enjoyed ready all the Charleston Trilogy books. I loved the characters and the situations they encountered. I'll definitely read more books by this author.
I really enjoyed all the characters in this story. This is my first Sherryl Woods novel and if this is her typical style I am already a fan.
Loved this book as well! This is a really fun romance series. There is sex in this book, not majorly descriptive, but there.
Another cute read, not much of a plot but it was fun to listen to on Audio. It's read well and the story is fun. Small town plot...etc...
Sometimes they grab you, sometimes they don't. This was one of the times a book didn't grab me.
Oh well, on to the next...
Oh well, on to the next...
This trilogy is just my speed and this story in particular is the stuff of happily ever after.
I didn't realize this was the second book in a trilogy. I'll have to go back and find book 1.
Not a book I'd recommend making a trip to the library or spending money
I really like this book but the author used the word "indignation" every other page or paragraph soooo annoying. Happy ending totally predictable to me it just sort of ended which was disappointing everything was so dragged out in the book then it was just ok the end.
this was pretty good. Decent plot and not wholly predictable.
May 30, 2012
Gail
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
contemporary-romance,
library-book
Maggie, the art gallery owner, and Josh, the historical restorer.
A typical romance story with a happy ending.
More like a 2.5 but still a pleasant afternoon read
Just as good as the first one, if not better!
Another delight summer read by Sherryl Woods.
A quick read....always enjoy Sherryl Woods' books.
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With two other careers to her credit before becoming a novelist and four states in which she's lived for extended periods of time, Sherryl Woods has collected friends and memories, along with way too much unnecessary junk.
"The friends are the only things I've brought with me through the years that really matter," she says. "I could probably live without one more chintz teacup, another tin-litho sa...more
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"The friends are the only things I've brought with me through the years that really matter," she says. "I could probably live without one more chintz teacup, another tin-litho sa...more
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