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Jan 27, 2011

Dina rated it:

Fan-tas-tic! One of the best Kleypas' I've read. Why have I waited so long to read this book?

Spinster novelist Amanda Briars doesn't want to celebrate her 30th birthday as a virgin, so she decides to hire the services of Mrs. Gemma Bradshaw, a well-established madam (whom anyone who's read Worth Any Price should recognize), to find her a suitable man to take care of her, er, "problem". Unbeknownst to Amanda, Mrs. Bradshaw decides to play matchmaker and sends her publisher Jac More...

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Sep 29, 2008

Eastofoz rated it:

I don’t know if I should give this a 4 or a 4.5 because it’s got a mix of both. On the one side you’ve got that 4.5 read with a sexier than sexy alpha, Jack Devlin, who does some wickedly scorching sex scenes unlike anything I’ve ever seen in traditional historical romance (we’re talking glimpses of Emma Holly-like writing here!) but on the other side you’ve got a bit of slow start where you’re wondering when the ol’ party is ever going to get started! Maybe 4.5 stars is better because the cou More...

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Jul 31, 2010

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* rated it:

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What an absolute joy it was to read this book! Jack and Amanda are wonderful characters, in and of themselves, but bring them together and you have magic!

I love the way Lisa Kleypas defines and develops her characters, making them larger than life but at the same time keeping them grounded in reality. They may have fancy houses and more money than they can spend in one lifetime, but they always have to deal with the same things we mere mortals do – life. I find More...

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Sep 05, 2011

Punya H. rated it:

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Oct 06, 2008

Julie (Mom2lnb) rated it:

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I am a big fan of Lisa Kleypas's writing, and Suddenly You is yet another worthy effort from her but not my favorite of her books. I have come to respect Ms. Kleypas as a writer who creates intelligent prose and unique sub-plots in her work. While Suddenly You begins with a very unique premise for the hero and heroine's first meeting, I found much of the rest of the book to be standard soap opera plotting with a lot of repressed feelings and misundersta More...

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Jun 17, 2010

Mahyar rated it:

As an avid reader, I’m really fond of writers, publishers and etc. Therefore I fell in love with Amanda and Jack right away. Reading more, I fell even more in love with them, especially Jack. God, I love possessive heroes! Yum. Not for a second did he annoy or bore me. I’ve come to realize that Lisa Kleypas’ heroes are always great; I can't wait to meet more of her awesome characters. SPOILERS!!!

Amanda, on the other hand, annoyed the hell out of me when she’d decided to end the affa More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Bekah rated it:

4.5* of 5

Novelist and spinster Amanda Briars is about to turn 30 when she decides to provide herself with an unusual gift – a cicisbeo so that she can have at least one night of passion to remember in her old age.

“There were perhaps twenty thousand nights in a woman’s lifetime. For at least one of them, she did not want to be alone.”

With that determination she visits Gemma Bradshaw’s famous London brothel requesting a companion. However, the scoundrel who sh More...

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Nov 20, 2008

Crystal rated it:

I really LOVED the character of Jack Devlin. I love everything that he overcame in his youth, and I love the level of success he achieved despite his troubled youth. I didn't like Amanda as much, but most of the time I liked her character. There were a few things she did towards the end of the book that I REALLY disagreed with. Despite some character flaws on her part, I loved the love story between these two. Another sucess from Lisa Kleypas.

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Aug 06, 2008

AzuresHeart rated it:

I can't believe how quickly I read this. It was very engrossing, hero had some angst. Heroine was a strong character who was ready to be a spinster to live her life the way she wanted too... I love the whole beginning of the book and how they met. I am glad I pulled this out of the TBR pile!

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Mar 26, 2011

Sannn~~~ rated it:

Love this book a lot.. :)

Buku English LK ptama yg gw baca (stlh penasaran akut n dikomporin terus ama temen2 terutama si Himitsume) Ternyata fun jg baca lsg buku Englishnya gitu yah.. ;)
Bacanya agak terseret2 sih berhubung disambi nonton, tp cerita yg satu ini emang bagus (dan sbnrnya LK ga pernah jelek sih sejauh yg uda kubaca)
Jack Devlin tuh bener2 brondong yg ok *sukses+kaya+seksoy* banget.. Amanda juga karakternya kuat..
Cuma smpt sebel jg di tengah2 pas dua2nya ga ma More...

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Sep 19, 2011

Lelyana rated it:

Bagus...gak biasa ceritanya....

Lisa kali ini bikin cerita yg ringan..tapi asik banget.

Amanda, di usia 30 thn,masih perawan, datang ke madan Bradshaw (remember her?) untuk sewa jasa pelacur pria kelas atas, buat hadiah ulang tahun nya.
Datang lah seorang pria super duper keren di hari ultah nya dan Jack memberikan "servis" gratis sebagai hadiah ultah Amanda.
Siapa Jack?
Ternyata adalah John T.Devlin aka Jack Devlin, penerbit kelas kakap di London, yg me More...

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Feb 09, 2010

Holly rated it:

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Jan 15, 2010

Cheryl rated it:

HOT,HOT,HOT!!!!! I just had to get that out there, it was HOT!! What an amazing book this was!

OK, I guess I should be totally honest and say that this story was totally predictable. I mean really, I guessed what would happen by the first quarter of the book and I was right! It happened exactly how I thought it would, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. This is one of those cases where predictability turns out to be great!

Amanda Briars (I think this character was More...

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Nov 30, 2011

Lucie rated it:

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When I arrived in the United States, Lisa Kleypas is one of the first authors that I was advised to read as Nora Roberts, Iris Johansen and James Patterson. I did not particularly appeal to romance and did not really know the historical romances types either. I starded by reading "The Wallflower" series. I found the style of Lisa Kleypas trully entertaining and well written. Then I continued with the "Hathaways" series and with more contemporary of her writtin More...

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Sep 18, 2011

Nyra rated it:

Titulo Original: Suddenly You
Titulo en Español: Irresistible
Autor: Lisa Kleypas
Editorial: Vergara
Encuadernación: Tapa Blanda con Solapas.
ISBN: 84-666-1151-7
N° de Paginas: 270

Sinopsis:

“Estaba soltera, era virgen y le faltaba poco para cumplir los treinta, pero la novelista Amanda Briars no estaba dispuesta a recibir su trigésimo cumpleaños sin haber hecho el amor con un hombre. Cuando Jack Devlin llamó a su More...

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Jan 13, 2011

Kajol rated it:

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!

One of the best books by Lisa Kleypas, Suddenly You is a fantastic novel that I absolutely adored.

Novelist Amanda Briars is about to hit her thirtieth birthday- unmarried, untouched and a spinster on top of that. A passionate woman, Amanda Briars contacts a brothel owner, Mrs.Bradshaw, to give herself a birthday present as a night of unbound passion. But the notorious matchmaking Mrs.Bradshaw leads not a prostitute but an unsuspecting Jack Devlin, the famous More...

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Jun 07, 2010

Angie rated it:

I don't know what this says about me, but I found the set up of this story to be fun (thirty-year-old woman living in the early nineteenth century hires a male prostitute as her birthday present to herself, figuring she's reached spinster-hood anyway but still wanting to see what all the fuss is about); however, this book is a basic, formulaic cheap romance with sub par characters, including a virginal heroine who will not quit denying her own beauty (which gets annoying) and an "experience More...

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May 14, 2009

Christina rated it:

Amanda Briars is a nearly thirty year old author and spinster. She has a successful writing career but wonders about what she might be missing. She decides to hire someone to take her virginity. Jack Devlin is a businessman who lands on the right doorstep at the right time and finds himself enchanted with the intelligent woman who thinks he is there to deflower her.

I really enjoyed 95% of this book. I liked both Jack and Amanda. Their love affair is steamy and fun to read. She is te More...

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Jan 03, 2012

Tai the Lioness rated it:

Suddenly You: 5 star read that left an imprint on my heart for many books to come ...sighs :)

This book was wondrous. When I finished this book last night, I promised myself that I was going to write this extensive gushing thorough review. However, I think I shall just do a short but comprehensive list of why this book is everything.

1.Hero:Jack

This guy was bone shaking hot. I loved his bawdy tenacious view of life. He is a working man, and it More...

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Dec 18, 2011

Willow rated it:

I just couldn't get into this story the way I have with all the other Kleypas books I have read. My usual reaction to her witting ranges from "Gee, this is really good/fun/interesting" (4 stars) to "I love this book!" (the basis for a 5 star rating from me). While Kleypas did a good job of developing the characters Jack (illegitimate, driven, rakish, wildly successful publisher) and Amanda (30 year old, fiercely independent but lonely writer), there was too little actual sh More...

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Aug 12, 2011

Kathie (katmom) rated it:

For those of us who LOVE to read...and who write...this was a charming book.

Amanda is going to celebrate her 30th birthday. She is SO far on the shelf that she decides to take matters into her own hands. She's a published author and although she's written about passion, she's never experienced it herself.

She goes to the classiest brothel in London and speaks with Gemma Bradshaw. Ms. Bradshaw has been in several other books by Lisa Kleypas...she's a courtesan with a h More...

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Feb 12, 2011

Milena rated it:

The beginning of Suddenly You seemed promising, with a thirty-year-old spinster deciding to celebrate the occasion by -- paying for sex. What she gets, of course, is not a gigolo, but the hero, sent there because the golden-hearted Madame knew instinctively the two would be a perfect match. The hero has a mysterious and tortured past of his own, which makes him -- allegedly, of course -- unsuitable for any kind of a lasting relationship, and the heroine, who wants to keep her reputation intact, More...

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Jan 17, 2011

Jess rated it:

Wow. Loved this one! I give it 4.5 stars. This book featured Jack Devlin (a man that owns a publishing company) and Amanda Briars (a popular author) and it all begins with the two characters meeting in a rather unusual circumstance. Amanda is 30 years old and is considered to be "on the shelf" at her advanced age. She has decided that she no longer wants to be a virgin at her advanced age so she approaches a reputable brothel and requests for a male prostitute to be sent to her house o More...

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Jul 02, 2010

Harmonybites rated it:

This novel has a readable style compared to most romance novels, but what makes it stand out are the plot and characterizations which are about as far away from the conventional historical romance as you can get--in good ways. The heroine, Amanda Briars, is a women of independent means in Victorian England who makes her living as a novelist. She arranges for a male prostitute to come to her on her 30th birthday because she's tired of being a spinster virgin. Except what the madame sends is a man More...

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Mar 28, 2011

Sienny rated it:

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Nov 24, 2011

MichelleKCanada rated it:

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Suddenly You opens with one of the best paragraphs I have read in a long time. (here) The good and gentle Miss Amanda Briars was sitting with the scandalous Madam, Gemma Bradshaw* trying to determine what sort of man she wishes to purchase for her 30th birthday...to loose her virginity to. And there you have it. That is how Suddenly You grabbed me and didn't let go until "The End".
*One quick mention about th More...

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Jun 08, 2011

Holjo rated it:

This is not my favorite Lisa Kleypas novel and these are not my favorite LK characters. However, this book has one of my all-time favorite scenes in a romance novel. Without giving too much away, there is a scene at the beginning of this book in which the heroine (Amanda) decides to hire herself a male prostitute for her 30th bday because she doesn't want to be a virgin forever and she is already well "on the shelf" as a spinster. When a visitor arrives the night of her bday, she invit More...

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Feb 18, 2011

Videlia rated it:

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May 19, 2010

Crista rated it:

It's no secret that I am a Lisa Kleypas "groupie"! She really is one of romances best authors. Her hero's are men that exist only in your dreams and her plots are often rich with originality, and her love scenes...let's just say that until you've read a Kleypas love scene....you are missing something big!

Jack Devlin is another one of Kleypas's dream man heroes. He is a self-made man, had overcome much adversity and mistreatment, and now has set his sights on our heroine Am More...

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Feb 25, 2011

Manuela rated it:

Una mezza delusione. Nonostante sia l'eroina femminile, che il protagonista maschile siano sulla falsa riga degli altri eroi creati dalla Kleypas nei suoi romance storici, questo romanzo l'ho trovato un po' più leggerino e meno approfondito rispetto agli altri.
Le premesse per una storia interessante c'erano tutte, ma poi lo svolgimento non mi ha soddisfatta del tutto, mi ha lasciato un po' con la sensazione di qualcosa di incompiuto e non sviluppato in maniera completa.
Pur avendo l More...

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