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Lady Be Good (Wynette, Texas #2)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
Lady Emma Wells-Finch--the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls--has come to Texas with just two weeks to ruin her reputation, the only way she can save herself from losing everything she holds dear. And when a gorgeous man who can't afford another scandal meets this hardheaded woman who's determined to cause one, anything can happen, even...more
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published
February 1st 1999
by Avon
(first published 1999)
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"Now, this is where I draw the line! It’s bad enough everybody in town’s going to be thinkin’ I’m sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although—since she’s just about cornered the market on condoms—I don’t know how that could have happened. But I will not —you listen to me, Emma!—I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin’ a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?"
The good stuff:
1. The romance. It is thor...more
Lady Emma Wells-Finch is headmistress of St. Gert's School for Girls. Emma is desperate to create the perfect scandal that will convince the egotistical Duke of Beddington, the main benefactor of her school, that she is not appropriate marriage material. However, while she is trying her best to convince the Duke that she will not make a satisfactory Duchess, she cannot take things too far or he will sell St. Gerts out from under her.
Gorgeous Kenny Traveler - who needs to avoid scandal at all cos...more
Gorgeous Kenny Traveler - who needs to avoid scandal at all cos...more
Sep 28, 2011
Anzu The Great Destroyer
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
contemporary romance fans I guess...
My first thought on Kenny: is this guy for real?? I thought nah it can’t be! And then this happened:
[the woman is holding two kids in her arms]
This...more
[the woman is holding two kids in her arms]
He mentally redressed her in a tight top, short skirt, and a pair of stiletto heels, then added black fishnet stockings for good measure. He’d never paid for sex in his life, but he decided he’d be more than happy to throw a little extra cash her way if she ever decided she needed to earn something on the side to pay for her kids’ orthodontics work.
This...more
I don't think I enjoyed this as much on the first reading, probably because I had some trouble adjusting to Phillips' characters; they would drive me nuts in real life, with their crazy reasoning and ridiculous antics! But now that I'm used to her style, I can laugh and enjoy. This is a very silly (mostly) story about Lady Emma, an English school headmistress who's trying to lose her reputation just enough to drive off the horrible duke who wants to marry her, and Kenny Traveler, a golf pro who...more
kocak...kocak...kocak...
aiiih ga nyangka aku...pas mau mulai baca,awalnya aku agak2 setengah hati sih...soalnya sebelumnya baca Fancy Pants dan kurang sreg di hati,takutnya Lady Be Good bakal ngecewain juga...
tapi ternyata setelah dibaca,aku suka banget...banyak dialog kocak khas SEP dan Lady Emma ga se-annoying Francie trus Kenny juga ga se-nyebelin Dallie...mana ada Petie yang imut banget...duuh gemes banget,ngakak2 pas adegan dia pup-in si rese Hugh....hihihihi
trus secondary story antara Tori...more
aiiih ga nyangka aku...pas mau mulai baca,awalnya aku agak2 setengah hati sih...soalnya sebelumnya baca Fancy Pants dan kurang sreg di hati,takutnya Lady Be Good bakal ngecewain juga...
tapi ternyata setelah dibaca,aku suka banget...banyak dialog kocak khas SEP dan Lady Emma ga se-annoying Francie trus Kenny juga ga se-nyebelin Dallie...mana ada Petie yang imut banget...duuh gemes banget,ngakak2 pas adegan dia pup-in si rese Hugh....hihihihi
trus secondary story antara Tori...more
This one had it's ups and downs, but not a bad story overall. Lots of laugh out loud moments, but also lots of improbable ones too. That's what you pretty much get when reading an SEP though. Take it or leave it. I've come to accept it and can move on from the TSTL moments since the well written hero and heroine over-rides the ridiculous. Their interactions are always enjoyable and witty. Her books always have lots of secondary characters to contend with, but they are actually interesting enough...more
Mar 19, 2009
joy in wonderland
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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funny, hilarious... read!
well i did not go, all mushy and romantic with this book---it's has a complicated plot that i can say... but no matter how complicated it was i did not strike a heartbreak or anything teary for me, err what i am trying to say, for me it was a light read, make you laugh yet has a tinge of romance and good secondary character!
well i did not go, all mushy and romantic with this book---it's has a complicated plot that i can say... but no matter how complicated it was i did not strike a heartbreak or anything teary for me, err what i am trying to say, for me it was a light read, make you laugh yet has a tinge of romance and good secondary character!
To be honest I didn't begin the book with high expectations because when I tried to read Fancy Pants I kind of got bored with all the old tales and I haven't finished it yet but this book was a beautiful surprise just like all of the others I have read from Susan Elizabeth Phillips! I have to admit that I am a great fun although usually I only read books from this century and this goes a long way to show just how much I love them!
What made this book irresistible :
1) Kenny! I have read hundreds o...more
What made this book irresistible :
1) Kenny! I have read hundreds o...more
I read this book in 24 hours despite having multiple uni assignments due. If that's not a good reccommendadtion then I don't know what is. Fun characters and I think I especially liked it because it's back to the SEP style that I love rather than like Glitter Baby and Fancy Pants (the last 2 books of hers that I read and was not terribly impressed with to be honest as they were obviously written in a different style with a different approach). It's not her best book, and I think if she rewrote i...more
By Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Grade: B+
This is again a good book by Ms Phillips, but nowhere near her best. Unfortunately, Ms Phillips has stopped giving me the zing.
Lady Emma Wells-Finch, oh-so-proper headmistress of England’s St. Gertrude’s School for Girls, is a woman on a mission–she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: com...more
This is again a good book by Ms Phillips, but nowhere near her best. Unfortunately, Ms Phillips has stopped giving me the zing.
Lady Emma Wells-Finch, oh-so-proper headmistress of England’s St. Gertrude’s School for Girls, is a woman on a mission–she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: com...more
I love how I just finished books with male leads named Dallie and Panda (yes, PANDA!), and yet Kenny was the one I had the hardest time wrapping my brain around. I kept calling him Nicky. (Why? Who knows where thoughts come from. They just appear. -Lucas, Empire Records) I liked this one even more than Fancy Pants. There was great chemistry and dialogue between Emma and Nicky Kenny, and the requires-suspension-of-belief plotline actually worked in this zany story. I cracked up at the low-speed c...more
Lady Emma has a problem: An old duke who reminds her unnervingly of Henry the VIII is blackmailing her into marrying him. To try to convince him to call it off, she heads to Texas to do some research -- and ruin her reputation.
Kenneth has an entirely different problem: The pro golfer has been suspended thanks to a disreputable business manager and a reporter who has it out for him. To get reinstated, his reputation needs to be spotless.
The two are thrown together by a mutual friend who tells La...more
Kenneth has an entirely different problem: The pro golfer has been suspended thanks to a disreputable business manager and a reporter who has it out for him. To get reinstated, his reputation needs to be spotless.
The two are thrown together by a mutual friend who tells La...more
As the daughter of an impoverished Earl, Emma was born with the title of Lady but not the wealth. Orphaned young by her globe-trotting anthropologist parents, she has made St. Gerts, the boarding school that she attended and now heads, into the center of her professional and personal life.
Texan Kenny Traveler is, according to the media, a lazy spoiled rich-kid turned professional golfer. When he gets suspended from the PGA tour, he agrees to escort Lady E, a friend of the commissioner’s wife, ar...more
Texan Kenny Traveler is, according to the media, a lazy spoiled rich-kid turned professional golfer. When he gets suspended from the PGA tour, he agrees to escort Lady E, a friend of the commissioner’s wife, ar...more
Now, make sure to read this one after Fancy Pants. As long as you do that you'll be just fine. This is a ticket back to Wynette, Texas and it's golf-playing cowboys and the British ladies that tie them up in knots.
Twelve years after the story of Fancy Pants, you find Kenny Traveler, a pro-golfer from Wynette that was saved by Dallie Beaudine and who now is trying to get back on the tour after a scandalous incident, and he does this by doing a favor for Francesca Day Beaudine, which entails driv...more
Twelve years after the story of Fancy Pants, you find Kenny Traveler, a pro-golfer from Wynette that was saved by Dallie Beaudine and who now is trying to get back on the tour after a scandalous incident, and he does this by doing a favor for Francesca Day Beaudine, which entails driv...more
A good friend has a daughter who is a pediatrician in a major teaching hospital, a crazy-busy lifestyle that also involves two active young children. She tells me her daughter reads romance novels to relax. Hundreds of them, one after another. This made me feel better, because I like a romance novel, now and then, as snack reading. I'm pretty picky about who's writing those romances, however--and Susan Elizabeth Phillips is on my short list of romance authors whose writing, character and plots d...more
4.5 stars. I'm beginning to feel foolish for all these super high ratings I'm giving SEP books, but I can't seem to help myself. I fucking loved this book. Genuinely funny, romantic, adorable, with an awesome cast of characters. I loved how the relationship starts, with each of them -Lady Emma and Kenny, thinking the other is annoying. The scene with the tattoo had me cracking up. I loved Torie, and her relationship with Dexter was one of my favorite parts of the book. It was also awesome to see...more
I ran across this book at Costco of all places and thought a nice fluffy read was in order. I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips because she always injects humor into all of her stories.
This is the story of Lady Emma Wells-Finch - headmistress of Gert's - School of Girl in England. The school is owned by Hugh, who is basically blackmailing Emma into marriage which is the last thing she wants. So she travels to Texas for research on a paper she is writing and meets Kenny Traveler, the bad boy golf pro...more
This is the story of Lady Emma Wells-Finch - headmistress of Gert's - School of Girl in England. The school is owned by Hugh, who is basically blackmailing Emma into marriage which is the last thing she wants. So she travels to Texas for research on a paper she is writing and meets Kenny Traveler, the bad boy golf pro...more
Kenny Traveler is a professional golfer currently suspended from playing due to some unfortunate scandals. A lazy sloucher, he is generally regarded by everyone as a spoiled rich-boy screw-up who's only good at swinging a club.
At first, I thought I wasn't going to like him because he didn't seem to have an ounce of chivalry in him during the first couple of pages (and I'm a girl who adores chivalrous men). But by the time I reached a third of the book, I was rapidly changing my mind. Kenny Trav...more
At first, I thought I wasn't going to like him because he didn't seem to have an ounce of chivalry in him during the first couple of pages (and I'm a girl who adores chivalrous men). But by the time I reached a third of the book, I was rapidly changing my mind. Kenny Trav...more
Ajlsajfdlskjdflksjdflksjdlfjsldfjs *-*! OHPORBOBESPONJA♥ No puedo creer lo MUCHO que adoré este libro. Adorar es poco: LO AMÉ. Es tan... akldjlasjdl, me dejó sin palabras *-* KENNY ES UN AMOR♥ Me mató. Sin duda uno de mis protagonistas favoritos por parte de SEP :33 Y LUEGO, LA MANDONA Y LINDA DE LADY EMMA♥ Son TAN lindos juntos. PERO TAAAAAAAAN LINDOS JUNTOS!!! Y sus personajes secundarios son GENIALES. Simplemente me fascinaron. Amar este libro resulta poco en mi vocabulario de lo mucho que me...more
Jan 12, 2012
Susanne
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
best-heroes,
genre-contemporary-romance
I'm definitely reading more books by Susan Elizabeth Philips in the future. This book was going so well and I thought it was going straight on to my favorite shelf, but I knocked one star off in the end.
I totally crushed on Kenny Traveler who was an amazingly sexy hero and I adored sweet but bossy Lady Emma. They had a sparkling love story (and this was definitely not for kids!) and I thought they made an amazing couple. I totally loved the side story about Torie and Dex. I laughed out loud at...more
I totally crushed on Kenny Traveler who was an amazingly sexy hero and I adored sweet but bossy Lady Emma. They had a sparkling love story (and this was definitely not for kids!) and I thought they made an amazing couple. I totally loved the side story about Torie and Dex. I laughed out loud at...more
Hallelujah - SEP at her best again.
After a few Phillips books which didn't really rock my reading world, I was really happy to have enjoyed another SEP book to the fullest.
Gist is, Lady Emma Wells-Finch, Headmistress at St Gertrude's Girls School in the UK travels to the US to lose her reputation. Yes, indeed, to lose it! And Francie Fancy Pants has the perfect (or not?) guy to look after her: Golfer Kenny Traveler, who has to avoid any scandals at all costs! Perfect match - or not?
The dialogue...more
After a few Phillips books which didn't really rock my reading world, I was really happy to have enjoyed another SEP book to the fullest.
Gist is, Lady Emma Wells-Finch, Headmistress at St Gertrude's Girls School in the UK travels to the US to lose her reputation. Yes, indeed, to lose it! And Francie Fancy Pants has the perfect (or not?) guy to look after her: Golfer Kenny Traveler, who has to avoid any scandals at all costs! Perfect match - or not?
The dialogue...more
I got hooked on Susan Elizabeth Phillips' romance novels with the audiobook for Call Me Irresistible and am now making my way through the Wynette, Texas books. Similar to her book Fancy Pants, this book places a British lady, Lady Emma, with a golfer, bad boy Kenny Traveler. Lady Emma is set on ruining her good name, solely with the best intentions (read the book to find out what is really at stake for her). Kenny is currently suspended from the PGA Tour and wishes to keep a low profile.
The two...more
The two...more
Lady Emma, age 30 and the headmistress of St. Gert, fears she is becoming a dotty, dear thing. The only thing in her life is St. Gert and the students. Emma decides to take a trip to Texas to finish research on a paper about another English woman in the 1870's who also went to Texas. That is her story and she is sticking to it. Actually, she is on a mission to ruin her sterling reputation in order to prevent the odious Duke from wanting to marry her. All she needs is the right cowboy.
Enter Kenny...more
Enter Kenny...more
“Now, this is where I draw the line! It’s bad enough everybody in town’s going to be thinkin’ I’m sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although—since she’s just about cornered the market on condoms—I don’t know how that could have happened. But I will not—you listen to me, Emma!—I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin’ a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?”
oh my!!! I love SEP!!
As usual a good deliv...more
oh my!!! I love SEP!!
As usual a good deliv...more
Lady Be Good is loosely related to Fancy Pants, another book by the illustrious Susan Elizabeth Phillips, AKA SEP. Kenny Traveler is a professional golfer who has been suspended from playing in tournaments for bad behavior. He is determined to clean up his act and lay low for a while to get back in the good graces of the golf commissioner. He has been asked to chauffeur Lady Emma Wells-Finch around Texas as she does research for a paper. She is the head mistress of a private institution for youn...more
Lady Emma Wells-Finch is in need of an adventure. She has had a quiet life, although it started out tragic with the loss of her father in a terrible car accident, she has had a classically boring English life.
This is a contemporary (90's) romantic comedy.
Kenny Traveler gets strong armed into being the chauffeur/guide to Emma when she decides to come to Texas to continue her research about another Lady from her English school St. Giles where she is the Head Mistress. I find that at only thirty ye...more
This is a contemporary (90's) romantic comedy.
Kenny Traveler gets strong armed into being the chauffeur/guide to Emma when she decides to come to Texas to continue her research about another Lady from her English school St. Giles where she is the Head Mistress. I find that at only thirty ye...more
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Lady Emma is being blackmailed into marriage by the unpleasant Duke of Beddington
Kenny Traveler is a pro golf champion also based in Wynette Texas. He is in trouble with Dallas Beaudine and currently on suspension. Accordingly Francesca suggests that he takes responsibility for Emma whilst she is in town as a favour.
Sex, marriage and romance ensue.
There is also a secondary romance between Kenny's sister Torie and Dexter, which works well.
This was a good read but it did not have the same spark...more
Kenny Traveler is a pro golf champion also based in Wynette Texas. He is in trouble with Dallas Beaudine and currently on suspension. Accordingly Francesca suggests that he takes responsibility for Emma whilst she is in town as a favour.
Sex, marriage and romance ensue.
There is also a secondary romance between Kenny's sister Torie and Dexter, which works well.
This was a good read but it did not have the same spark...more
A la anterior de esta serie, este libro tiene lo que la otra le falta que fue mucho mas rápida en como se encuentran los protagonistas y las historias paralalelas eran pocas, ´por lo que fue mejor en eso...
Y como siempre el hombre tiene que mostrar el lado mas malo con lo que se refiere en la vida de él mismo, pues podría haber tenido todo en algo materia pero el amor es algo fundamental para que eso no sucediera, por lo que la aparición de Emma fue lo mas lindo que le podría haber pasado.
Este l...more
Y como siempre el hombre tiene que mostrar el lado mas malo con lo que se refiere en la vida de él mismo, pues podría haber tenido todo en algo materia pero el amor es algo fundamental para que eso no sucediera, por lo que la aparición de Emma fue lo mas lindo que le podría haber pasado.
Este l...more
Mar 28, 2011
Elisabeth Rodrigues
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone
Recommended to Elisabeth by:
SEP glom
Shelves:
2011,
contemporary-romance
Loved it (which seems to be how all my SEP reviews start). Adorable couple and standout hero and heroine on their own. You've got to love a hero who is described as so adorably lazy that he'll sweettalk whoever is selling him gummy bears in the hope that they'll remove the yellow ones - but if they don't - heck he'll just eat them. My interest in this was spiked after listening to Call Me Irresistible in order to see how Kenny and Emma and Dex and Torie had gotten together, and to see some backf...more
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The Huffington Post says the books of Susan Elizabeth Phillips provide a “gateway drug to the whole [romance] genre,” which she assumes is a good thing. Bookpage magazine calls her “the crown jewel of romantic comedy writers,” which is definitely a good thing. Since she wrote her first novel on a typewriter in her kitchen, her books have been published in over 30 languages...more
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The Huffington Post says the books of Susan Elizabeth Phillips provide a “gateway drug to the whole [romance] genre,” which she assumes is a good thing. Bookpage magazine calls her “the crown jewel of romantic comedy writers,” which is definitely a good thing. Since she wrote her first novel on a typewriter in her kitchen, her books have been published in over 30 languages...more
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“Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?”
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“Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ”
“Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment.
Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?”
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“Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment.
Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?”

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