Kiss and Tell
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Kiss and Tell (Sunrise Key Trilogy, #1)
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3.57 of 5 stars
From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann comes a funny, feisty, romantic tale about childhood rivals who discover the myster... read full description

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Feb 25, 2009
Miss Kim rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this sweet quick read romance. The heroine, Leila, grew up on a small Florida Key. She hated the small town life of every one knows everyone’s business. After college she moved to NYC and became an accountant in the city. She’s engaged to a wealthy, yet cold man. She’s trying to tell herself it is ok to marry him even though she doesn’t love him. She wants to get married and have children desperately. Every six months or so, so returns home to the island to visit her brother. Her f More...
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Feb 04, 2011
Buggy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Kiss and Tell is a straightforward, very sweet, quickie romance that I ended up enjoying way more then I thought I would. Written in 96 you can tell it’s one of Brockmann’s early romances although her style still shines through with wonderfully written, fully developed characters. I love how she gives her heroes individual little traits (like his hair always being in his eyes and the heroine wanting to push it back)

There is humour throughout this one with some particularly amusing d More...
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Aug 15, 2009
Dina rated it: 3 of 5 stars
This was a quick, nice and sweet read, but Marshall and Leila drove me crazy sometimes. They were both likable, but I felt like shaking some sense into them a couple of times.

Marshall was a typical beta hero: kind, responsible, decent, and nice all around. I enjoy a beta hero now and then, but I thought Marshall's gentleness went a little too far when he just stepped aside and let Leila go around town kissing hunk bachelors in search of her "ninja in shining armor", the mys More...
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Aug 13, 2009
Corrine rated it: 4 of 5 stars
A cute fast read, although compared to the 500+-page Troubleshooters books, it's like a Brockmann hors d'oeuvre.

Dr. Marsh Devlin has been in love with his best friend's sister as long as he can remember. But to Leila Hunt, Marsh's cool, composed Englishman manner has always rankled her. They can never be in each other's company for more than a few minutes without arguing. And when Leila comes home for a two-week vacation to Sunrise Key, FL, nothing has changed. Until one New Year's More...
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Dec 12, 2011
Adam rated it: 1 of 5 stars
Post Listen Review: Well, I was right, it sucked. This was an utterly predictable book with completely unsurprising characters and situations and they add up to your basic romance formula. But I will say this, if you are the town doctor and you are covering for the veterinarian and the woman you are all in love with is in the barn with you, you should be more irritated that she is not helping you get into scrubs than this guy was. Instead she was complimenting his physique over and over. A More...
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Nov 17, 2010
Melinda rated it: 3 of 5 stars
This is a fairly quick listen, and the narrator, Susan Boyce, is good, if you don't mind her not-exactly-English-accent she gives the British hero. I'd already read the second in the series, because it was released earlier. It's sort of early-Brockmann, and is a little different from her later series like Troubleshooters both in tone and plot. The whole fiance thing got on my nerves, and there's a scene where I thought the heroine was going to be the death of the dang horse while she threw a his More...
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Dec 31, 2009
Kath rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Cute story. A little cliche with the "Who was that masked man", but it was still cute. Very light reading, but if you are looking for something quick and kind of sweet, this is a decent choice. Marsh and Leila are likeable characters from a small town. Leila's returned from NYC for vacation and Marsh is staying at her brother Simon's house since his house has just burned down. Of course, Leila begins to learn that Marsh isn't the person she thought he was, which is a good thing. More...
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Dec 08, 2008
Shae rated it: 3 of 5 stars
The book was really funny and adorable, but I felt it was missing one giant thing. The whole reason the two of them didn't hook up before was because they fought constantly. So once they decide they like each other they just stop fighting altogether? Apparently so. Once they realized they were in love there was no fighting at all. Also, I find it very strange that this lady is going to give up her entire life and career, I hate not having all of the details and random tidbits that make books bel More...
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Nov 19, 2011
Jennifer rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Short Harlequin-style one-offs such as Kiss and Tell always work better when the characters come complete with oodles of off-stage backstory. After all, if we're going to believe that Marshall and Leila fall madly in love and cement a lasting relationship in 277 wide-leaded pages, they'd better have already done most of the heavy-lifting before page one. Brockmann delivers the best of shorts here, with established chemistry and straight-forward plotting that takes advantage of the brevity of th More...
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May 01, 2011
Lockenest rated it: 2 of 5 stars
I never got around to reading this Suzanne Brockmann book when it was first published in 1996 as a Loveswept category romance. I did finally take the opportunity to read Kiss and Tell (Book 1 in the Sunrise Key Trilogy) and thought it only okay.

The books heroine, Leila Hunt who is an accountant from New York, comes home to Sunrise Key for a much needed vacation to visit her brother. Marshall Devlin, the hero in the book, is a doctor and also happens to be Lelia's brother's best f More...
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Aug 01, 2010
Renee rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This light, contemporary romance hit the spot. A few of the references were a little dated (it's a re-issue), but the story itself held up really well.
I loved Marsh, who's been love with his best friend's younger sister for most of his life. He was reserved, yet the reader knows just how much he loves Layla.
Her struggle with getting back into the rhythm of small town life (and it's rumor mill) while visiting her brother created the tension.
I also loved the trope of the mysterious More...
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Aug 30, 2010
Sara rated it: 4 of 5 stars
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Jan 15, 2009
Linda rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Leila Hunt had grown up on the isolated island where her brother still lived. She couldn't wait to leave the island and the small town and gossipy neighbors for the Big City. When Leila returns to the island for a vacation, her fiance declines to come with her and she runs into Dr. Marsh Devlin, her brother's best friend and her tormentor all during childhood.

I love Suzanne Brockman's Navy Seal novels, but this is one she wrote before that series. It's lightly entertaining, but di More...
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Apr 08, 2011
Darcy rated it: 2 of 5 stars
This was a cute older romance that was sweet. I liked the small town atmosphere of the island where the story takes place. Marsh always has been in love with Lelia and finally does something about it. I felt sorry for Marsh that Lelia didn't even consider him and usually blew him off. It is only as she saw a different side of him that changes her mind.

I don't know that I could have read this book, but listening to it while putzing around the house was a good way to take my mind o More...
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Nov 12, 2008
Cherise rated it: 2 of 5 stars
This is the first book in the Sunrise Key Trilogy

On a vacation back home Leila Hunt is staying at her brother’s house and attending his New Years Eve masquerade/costume party when she engages in a knee weakening kiss with a stranger in a Ninja costume at midnight. The stranger slips away and disappears for the rest of the party but Leila can’t get him or the kiss off her mind. Determined to find her mysterious man, she hires a PI to locate him; all the while dealing with her ongoin More...
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Jun 14, 2010
Lori rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book. This is the kind of book that you put ur feet up relax and let the story flow over you.Its not an exciting,anxious page turner.Its the kind of book you read when you just wanna relax and get lost in a cute story.I read it often when i'm laying in the sun or the bath or its a boring lazy day,i kick back on the couch and pour me a glass of tea and i just let suzanne carry me along.
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Jul 12, 2010
Maria rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Lame, but it made me want to read other Brockmann favorites like Heartthrob and Everyday, Average Jones.
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Mar 02, 2009
CJ - You Carry On As If I Don't Love You rated it: 3 of 5 stars
It did the trick of both bringing a smile to my face and making root for the relationship. At times the characters seemed a little flat and there wasn't enough character history for the story to require me to pay a lot of attention to which is perfect if you're looking to finish a book in three hours.

A distraction and a cute book.
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Aug 28, 2010
Sarah.W rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Bought this for a quarter at the book sale, read it in less then 2 hrs while I relaxed from the mele that working at the booksale is. It was fun, and light, and very different from the other Brockmann I've read. I liked it for what it is, and thought it stood the test of time better then some from 1985.
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Jan 29, 2011
Barbara rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I went into this absolutely positive that it couldn't merit more than 2 stars. Wrong again.

It was funny; it was utterly touching at points; the romance--once the misunderstandings were resolved--was sweet as well as nicely steamy. And the moral and ethical message can not be improved.
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Aug 30, 2011
Becky rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Ugh. Very eye-roll worthy. Marsh was waaaay too wussy, and Leila was to clueless to be believed. And, I'm sorry, no guys have touchy-feely discussions like Simon and Marsh did. Not once, let alone often. Ugh. I need to stop reading the really early works of authors whose later works I love....
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Feb 14, 2011
Joy rated it: 3 of 5 stars
All I have to say is that more romances should involve a hunt for a ninja. Okay, that said, this featured two generally likable leads, though was pretty darn low on conflict. Not bad as fluff, but nothing that I'm likely to ever re-read.
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Jan 26, 2010
Wendy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This is the first in the Sunrise Key series, though I read it second. I liked the characters very much and I always keep SB's books to read again, this is no exception. A romanic tale that will keep you entertained from front to back. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.
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Mar 01, 2010
Iris rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Very romance. Complete Cinderella story, but I enjoyed the modern version of it. I had the MP3 version of it and it wasn't too long to enjoy at the gym. Fun, and not overly descriptive.
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Jan 12, 2009
Bunny rated it: 4 of 5 stars
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Aug 05, 2011
C. Teresina rated it: 3 of 5 stars
1 of 3 related books set in a fictional Flordia town. A light romance story that explores the idea of soulmates when two friends from childhood reconnect.
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Feb 17, 2009
Sherrill rated it: 5 of 5 stars
A three hour read and just what I needed to end the day on a good note. How could I resist an Englishman as a main character...I couldn't.

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Oct 13, 2011
Maggie rated it: 3 of 5 stars
On Audio. 3.5 * I really liked this book, the story was cute, the characters were fun, it was great on audio.
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Oct 26, 2011
Sandy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
So cute. I love a romance with such great characters. And what a ninja. Marsh could be my ninja anytime.
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Jul 26, 2009
Jana (That Artsy Reader Girl) rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I loved everything about this book... the setting, characters, plot, etc. I wish this kind of story would happen to me. I find the whole mysterious, masqueraded man kissing the lovely lady at midnight at a New Year's Eve party and then vanishing, leaving her to find him extremely sexy and entertaining.
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