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Love Overboard
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you t...more
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you t...more
Mass Market Paperback, 244 pages
Published
January 25th 2005
by Harper
(first published January 1st 1989)
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This was a re-print of a book originally released in 1992 in the Loveswept series. I occasionally like to read these "snack" stories because they are quick and entertaining without being verbose. This one hit my shelf because I just fell in love with Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.
There's no doubt in reading it that it predates Plum. The humor is there in the strong, funny lead female character that shows she's human with some average insecurities. The male character, while charming, i...more
There's no doubt in reading it that it predates Plum. The humor is there in the strong, funny lead female character that shows she's human with some average insecurities. The male character, while charming, i...more
Before Janet Evanovich wrote the first of her Stephanie Plumb series, ‘One for the Money’, she wrote twelve romance novels which she maintains “…went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales…“ Nine of them have now been re-released after she did some minor editing; LOVE OVERBOARD is the second of these.
Ivan Rasmussen has a schooner that he charters for short cruises during the summer months. His usual cook, Lucy, has suddenly decided to get married,...more
Ivan Rasmussen has a schooner that he charters for short cruises during the summer months. His usual cook, Lucy, has suddenly decided to get married,...more
hmmm. Lots of similiarities to Love In A Nutshell by Janet Evanovich which I just also reviewed! Main woman character leaving big city, encounters someone who-surprise-was once owner or mortgage holder on the old place they have bought which they want to make into a bed and breakfast, a repairman totally ruins things instead of fixing them properly. Same formula, but written with humor so you want to read them. And you know how it will end!
Lucy has just left her big-city life behind and purchase...more
Lucy has just left her big-city life behind and purchase...more
Stephanie... a recovering policewoman - who specialized in working with teens... and the shore.... she buys an old house, who has a ghost, and is falling apart, with plans to make it a bed and breakfast. Unexpectedly she spends a week on an old sailing ship that takes passengers cruising for a week... as the cook - and she doesn't cook.. The captain, Ivan, is good looking, seller of her home, with pirate blood.
They are attracted to one another (of course). She makes it through the week, and by...more
They are attracted to one another (of course). She makes it through the week, and by...more
This is not my first Janet Evanovich book, but it IS the first one I've listened to on audio book. I definitely liked the story and I loved the characters in it. I think listening to it on audio book added more dimensions to the characters and I had more insight into their personalities.
I really liked the relationship between Steph and Ivan. They were funny together, and matched up very well. I also really enjoyed the storyline with the ghost of Tess, and the mysterious dead body that kept appea...more
I really liked the relationship between Steph and Ivan. They were funny together, and matched up very well. I also really enjoyed the storyline with the ghost of Tess, and the mysterious dead body that kept appea...more
I am still so envious of all the talented authors like Janet Evanovich that can sit down and write fiction! How do they do it? As you are reading you are literally carried on wonderful exciting and mysterious journeys, be it in a kitchen, on a ship or having your vehicle destroyed on a regular basis. If the character is pastry chef you become a pastry chef. If the character is a bounty hunter you mysteriously become a bounty hunter. If the character is an ex-cop, you automatically become an ex-c...more
Running too short on money to afford repairs on her newly acquired home, Stephanie Lowe’s cousin Lucy gave her an alternative, cooking on the pirate ship ‘Savage’ for a new toilet. Watching his new cook roll down the hill caught his attention, Ivan Rasmussen just didn’t know how much attention he would have to give this addition to his crew till his favorite ghost, Tess Rasmussen started showing her presence nearly everywhere they went.
This book is a funny, cute, wonderful, light hearted, quick...more
This book is a funny, cute, wonderful, light hearted, quick...more
This was my second of Janet Evanovich's screwball comedy romances, and it was just as much fun as the first one (Back to the Bedroom). This one mixes instant-and-serious-attraction dynamics with very good reasons for not jumping into bed, a vintage sailing ship, a historic house, and a hilarious cast of secondary characters.
Ivan, the ship's captain, and Stephanie, the last-minute substitute cook, are both complex and interesting, and their interactions are fun and flirty and crazy and smack of i...more
Ivan, the ship's captain, and Stephanie, the last-minute substitute cook, are both complex and interesting, and their interactions are fun and flirty and crazy and smack of i...more
Oct 14, 2012
Jintana
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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นางเอกต้องมาทำงานเป็นกุ๊กจำเป็นในเรือของพระเอกแทนเพื่อนทั้ง ๆ ที่ทำอาหารไม่เป็นเพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนกับการซ่อมห้องน้ำในบ้านที่เธอเพิ่งซื้อและย้ายเข้ามาอยู่
พระเอกเป็นลูกหลานของโจรสลัดที่รับมรดกเป็นเรือจากปู่ เขายังโสดและมีเสน่ห์อย่างเหลือร้ายสไตล์โจรสลัด
นางเอกไม่รู้เลยว่าบ้านโบราณที่เธอซื้อเป็นของมรดกตกทอดจากบรรพบุรุษของพระเอก เธอแค่ต้องการหนีจากชีวิตที่ต้องเสี่ยงตายเป็นสายสืบเกี่ยวกับยาเสพติดตลอดสิบปีเธอหวังว่าจะเปลี่ยนบ้านหลังนี้ให้เป็นโรงเตี๊ยม แต่เธอก็ต้องเจอปัญหาสารพัดสารพันเพราะบ้านที่ดูเหมือนจะ...more
พระเอกเป็นลูกหลานของโจรสลัดที่รับมรดกเป็นเรือจากปู่ เขายังโสดและมีเสน่ห์อย่างเหลือร้ายสไตล์โจรสลัด
นางเอกไม่รู้เลยว่าบ้านโบราณที่เธอซื้อเป็นของมรดกตกทอดจากบรรพบุรุษของพระเอก เธอแค่ต้องการหนีจากชีวิตที่ต้องเสี่ยงตายเป็นสายสืบเกี่ยวกับยาเสพติดตลอดสิบปีเธอหวังว่าจะเปลี่ยนบ้านหลังนี้ให้เป็นโรงเตี๊ยม แต่เธอก็ต้องเจอปัญหาสารพัดสารพันเพราะบ้านที่ดูเหมือนจะ...more
I listened to this book just to check out the author after being referred by a friend. I thought it was extremely juvenille with lack of any conflict what so ever. Most romance novels have an ounce of maybe he or she doesn't feel the same about me as I do them, but not this one. The author chose to, instead have the couple enamoured at first sight and bore me half to death with the rest. Even when you thouht it might be going somewhere it fizzled out. I like my romance steamier. I like my suspe...more
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28-year-old virgin („no sex before marriage“) Stephanie wants to start a new life and buys an old house at the coast of main in a tourist town, which she wants to turn into a bed & breakfast, it is in a bad state and to get the fiancé of her friend to do some repairs she takes over her job as a cook on a small tourist boat. Here she meets Ivan, the descnendent of a famous pirate, the captain of the ship and former owner of her new house.
I have a massive problem with the writing style of Ms....more
I have a massive problem with the writing style of Ms....more
Another of Evanovich’s early romance novel writing efforts, this one was either a very early work, or one of the later ones where she began to chafe at the confines of romance writing. The romance in this novel seems a bit by-the-book and doesn’t blend well with the characters and action. The book just isn’t smooth.
It begins with pirate descendant Ivan Rasmussen standing on the deck of his schooner when he sees Stephanie Lowe go tumbling down a hill. She’s on her way to his boat to work as ship’...more
It begins with pirate descendant Ivan Rasmussen standing on the deck of his schooner when he sees Stephanie Lowe go tumbling down a hill. She’s on her way to his boat to work as ship’...more
This early Janet Evanovich romance has all of her trademark humor, a sexy love interest, and a protagonist named Stephanie (Lowe, not Plum). What makes this book special is all the extras not normally observed in Jersey neighborhoods of the Plum novels. To start with, the book is set in a small seaside town in Maine. Just the kind of place you want to visit, envisioning yourself at a dozy bed and breakfast. More on that in a moment. Next, the handsome love interest is the captain of a hundred ye...more
Nov 03, 2007
Sabrina
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
whoever read forever by judy blume
Shelves:
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This book is about how this girl is in desperate need of money to open her business. She ends up working as a cook for a very rich sailor. They fell in love on the ship, but they couldn’t get along that well. So, when she went back to her house, she found out that they sailor was her landlord. He wanted to move into the house and would promise to help her fix and technical difficulties the house was under. She needed the rent money and the technician, so she offered him a room. At the end of the...more
Romance is not usually a genre that I read, but since it was by Janet Evanovich (and on sale for $3.50), I purchased it and read it. It was a sweet love story with a little mystery thrown in. Mysteries are my favorite genre, so I enjoyed that aspect of this book. I saw some similarities between the main character in this book and Stephanie Plum. Both are named Stephanie, and they used some similar verbiage. That being said, there wasn't much more in common between the characters. All-in-all a go...more
This is one of her really old romances that they dug up in the wake of the Stephanie Plum books and the character (like many of her other female characters in the romances) is sort of a proto-Plum. However the idea of an ex-cop who's a disaster-prone 29 year old virgin just doesn't wash. Add in a haunted house, a love interest with pirate ancestry, and the fact that all the characters talk like the 50's ("geez louise", "holy cow", "crimeny") and it was too much for me. I quit half way through.
Stephanie Lowe is running short on money and can't afford repairs on her new home. Her cousin Lucy gives her an alternative, cooking on the pirate ship Savage for Ivan Rasmussen in her place. Ivan Rasmussen is attracted to Stephanie the first minute he sees her, rolling down the hill. It seems that even Ivan's distant dead relative and ghost, Tess, has an interest too - showing her presence everywhere they go.
This book was cute, funny, lighthearted and a very quick read. It was originally publi...more
This book was cute, funny, lighthearted and a very quick read. It was originally publi...more
You know how, when someone becomes well-known, they'll dig up anything with that person's name attached so they can sell it? Yeah, that's what happened here in my opinion.
I always give recommendations on books.
1 star = Don't bother
2 stars = read if desperate
3 stars = read if you enjoy reading
4 stars = definitely read it
5 stars = keep it to read again and again
So, don't bother unless you'll forgive this author anything.
I always give recommendations on books.
1 star = Don't bother
2 stars = read if desperate
3 stars = read if you enjoy reading
4 stars = definitely read it
5 stars = keep it to read again and again
So, don't bother unless you'll forgive this author anything.
I love Janet Evanovich fiction for just what it is - easy, light, and carefree. A little mystery, a little love and attraction, and boom, you have a lovely visit with Janet's characters. I am a fan of the Stephanie Plum series, so this was a little diversion, meeting up with characters I'd not met before, but it didn't take long to grow fond and start rooting for the home team.
I won't go into the plot and character studies, as i am sure others have done that. I will say this book follows JE's s...more
I won't go into the plot and character studies, as i am sure others have done that. I will say this book follows JE's s...more
Knowing that this is a pre-Plum Evanovich, I started reading with very low expectations. And it was just okay. It had some funny lines, the plot idea was good; it just wasn't anything to write home about. I bought it at Goodwill for a buck and it was a good way to spend two hours. If your goal is to read everything Evanovich has ever written, this is a fast paced fun read that only makes you think too hard once or twice.
out of all the janet evanovich i've read (and i've read a lot!) this is my least favorite. the main characters kept reminding me of stephanie plumb (same first name, from the same town, a former police officer) and ivan reminded me of joe morelli. that was my main issue with the book.
but even my least favorite evanovich is better than most other books out there :)
but even my least favorite evanovich is better than most other books out there :)
I have to say I love Janet Evanovich books. Yes, they are predictable but.... sometimes predictable is good. I love to laugh when I am reading and I like it when a character has a crazy and charming personality. So, I highly recommend any of Janet Ivanovich books. I promise you, you will smile while you read it and that is predictably wonderful.
2.5 stars ..So far my least favorite Evanovich book. Didnt like that the main character's name was stephanie and that she was a 29 year old hot virgin who ends up giving it up after knowing some guy a few days. It was an easy light read and mildly entertaining. I finished it in a few days, but definitely not Evanovich's best work.
I may have read this once a long time ago, but I couldn't tell if it was familiar for that reason or because there are similarities with her new book about Diesel called Wicked Appetite. This was a cute, fun read with great quirky characters but it was a short book and not as much character development as you get in her other books.
Fast paced and funny, like Janet's other works, but leaves much to be desired. Clearly, this is one of her older novels but it was still classic Janet. My only complaint is that its almost identical to "Full Bloom" ( a bed and breakfast, crazy tenants, ghosts, etc...) only a tad shorter. All in all, its a funny quick read.
Every now and then, I need some lighthearted, fun reading, and I can always count on Janet Evanovich for that. I liked the romance, screwball comedy and little bit of goofy mystery!
I can't compare these books to heavier 4 star reads, but I read them to take a break from the heavier stuff, and this one didn't disappoint.
I can't compare these books to heavier 4 star reads, but I read them to take a break from the heavier stuff, and this one didn't disappoint.
Just what I need right now....a little humor and romance! Evanovich creates such feisty, loving, klutzy characters that are so easy to identify with. I do think the 'instant connection' thing can be overdone in these fun little romances, but I guess that's par for the course. As usual, enjoyable, light reading.
Cute story! A love story with a burned out ex-op, a rugged sea captain, a haunted B & B, nosy and meddling townspeople....who could ask for more? Written by Evanovich? Even better because she knows how to tell a story and how to make her characters lovable, funny, and when necessary, serious!
I need something light to read after that last book...and I can always count on Janet!
I really liked this book, it had the humor and relationship foibles that I grew to love in the Stephanie Plum novels. I laughed that her name is Stephanie and Janet also included a Pineapple Upside-Down Cake...lol
I really liked this book, it had the humor and relationship foibles that I grew to love in the Stephanie Plum novels. I laughed that her name is Stephanie and Janet also included a Pineapple Upside-Down Cake...lol
Not bad. I'm kind of sick of all her romance novels ending in marriage, which is slutty of me.. but they all get engaged! It's all whore-ish men who meet these women in odd situations and suddenly change their skank ways to be with just her. Strange. This one was mystery too, but they pretty much all are. Better than Rocky Road I think.
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Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and graphic novels, Wicked Appetite (the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series,) and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
Also published books under the name Steffie Hall.
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Also published books under the name Steffie Hall.
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