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Sending Rupert Home
Leanne Kendrick is relatively content with her quiet life as a college librarian, until the charming and irrepressible English professor Rupert Arbery asks her and photography instructor Noah Jaynes for their help on a special project. The problem is that Rupert is actually the late Professor Arbery, and the project is for them to help him cross from his post-death limbo to wherever he's meant to go. To make it more challenging, Leanne and Noah must work together to help Rupert, which presents yet another what is she supposed to do about her "once burned, twice shy" heart, as she falls for Noah Jaynes?
- GenresParanormalRomance
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2010
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March 9, 2012
Rating: 3.875* of five
The Book Report: Librarian Leanne Kendrick is damaged goods, and doesn't she know it. The spectacular flame-out that ended her engagement when she was 25 has left her naturally private nature so badly scarred and her basically timid and fearful response to life so validated and reinforced that she .no longer even notices men noticing her. Including the man she's noticing in a big, scary way: sexy photographer and professor Noah Jaynes, a lean, dark, handsome man who has a mysterious inability, inexplicable in a photographer, to use a microfilm reader without help.
Uh-huh.
Standard romantic comedy fare, right? The twist in this case is Professor Rupert Arbery, a Peter Pannish, English, English professor specializing in teaching the Romantics. Tousled blond locks, blue eyes, English accent...gawd, I think I'm falling in love with him!...flirts every blessed day with oblivious Leanne, who cheerfully shoots him down every time. Until she's fixing Noah's inexplicable ineptitude with Diablo the microfilm reader one day and Rupert comes up to them to ask them both for a favor.
Except he's dead. And he's never needed a favor from them before. What gives?
And now the engaging plot engages and the cast begins a rollicking quest, directed by the (frequently inopportune) appearances of ghostly Rupert, as Noah and Leanne do his mysterious bidding in an effort to free his soul to move into whatever afterlife awaits him. Along the way, everyone, Rupert's ghostly self included, is required to confront and quell the ghosties and ghoulies that inhabit every living (or not) soul on the planet, learn the meaning of trust, and offer up a selfless gift to earn a reward of astounding value...requited love with a side of brain-meltingly good sex.
Does that sound good, or what?
My Review: Your basic rom-com with a side of ghosts, written very nicely, with appealing characters, nicely drawn minor characters, and amusing to laugh-out-loud situations. I even didn't wince at reading straight-people sex scenes, though I confess my attention wandered from time to time as they were, well, ummm, disporting themselves. Having pushed off from the dock of hetero-boredom years ago, I tend not to want to read about it, watch it on TV, and it's one of the main reasons I go to very few movies. Looking at or thinking about nekkid girls isn't fun for me, it's work, and so when I say that I didn't mind reading these scenes in this book, take on board the full implications of that. The author did a very good job with them. Still sexy, not sickly.
Well, but most of y'all are statistically likely to be straight (poor lambs), so it won't be much of an issue for you anyway.
I was extremely pleasantly surprised at the infrequency of wrong-wording (discrete for discreet, eg) and the infrequency of typos (under a dozen in the whole book). I was very happy to suspend disbelief in the rules of ghostly apparitions, and even skated right over some logical lapses that later proved to be part of a larger plot driver. I was so lulled by author Fabre's evident command of her cast and her plot and so relaxed in her pleasing narrative voice that I simply didn't want to carp or cavil.
And sometimes, friends, that's worth more than life-changing awe-inspiring jaw-dropping ASTOUNDINGAMAZINGFANTASTIC pyrotechnics. Glass of Australian shiraz with your feet up instead of martinis with Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin. Both are lovely, one can't substitute for the other. Top up your wine for you, love?
The Book Report: Librarian Leanne Kendrick is damaged goods, and doesn't she know it. The spectacular flame-out that ended her engagement when she was 25 has left her naturally private nature so badly scarred and her basically timid and fearful response to life so validated and reinforced that she .no longer even notices men noticing her. Including the man she's noticing in a big, scary way: sexy photographer and professor Noah Jaynes, a lean, dark, handsome man who has a mysterious inability, inexplicable in a photographer, to use a microfilm reader without help.
Uh-huh.
Standard romantic comedy fare, right? The twist in this case is Professor Rupert Arbery, a Peter Pannish, English, English professor specializing in teaching the Romantics. Tousled blond locks, blue eyes, English accent...gawd, I think I'm falling in love with him!...flirts every blessed day with oblivious Leanne, who cheerfully shoots him down every time. Until she's fixing Noah's inexplicable ineptitude with Diablo the microfilm reader one day and Rupert comes up to them to ask them both for a favor.
Except he's dead. And he's never needed a favor from them before. What gives?
And now the engaging plot engages and the cast begins a rollicking quest, directed by the (frequently inopportune) appearances of ghostly Rupert, as Noah and Leanne do his mysterious bidding in an effort to free his soul to move into whatever afterlife awaits him. Along the way, everyone, Rupert's ghostly self included, is required to confront and quell the ghosties and ghoulies that inhabit every living (or not) soul on the planet, learn the meaning of trust, and offer up a selfless gift to earn a reward of astounding value...requited love with a side of brain-meltingly good sex.
Does that sound good, or what?
My Review: Your basic rom-com with a side of ghosts, written very nicely, with appealing characters, nicely drawn minor characters, and amusing to laugh-out-loud situations. I even didn't wince at reading straight-people sex scenes, though I confess my attention wandered from time to time as they were, well, ummm, disporting themselves. Having pushed off from the dock of hetero-boredom years ago, I tend not to want to read about it, watch it on TV, and it's one of the main reasons I go to very few movies. Looking at or thinking about nekkid girls isn't fun for me, it's work, and so when I say that I didn't mind reading these scenes in this book, take on board the full implications of that. The author did a very good job with them. Still sexy, not sickly.
Well, but most of y'all are statistically likely to be straight (poor lambs), so it won't be much of an issue for you anyway.
I was extremely pleasantly surprised at the infrequency of wrong-wording (discrete for discreet, eg) and the infrequency of typos (under a dozen in the whole book). I was very happy to suspend disbelief in the rules of ghostly apparitions, and even skated right over some logical lapses that later proved to be part of a larger plot driver. I was so lulled by author Fabre's evident command of her cast and her plot and so relaxed in her pleasing narrative voice that I simply didn't want to carp or cavil.
And sometimes, friends, that's worth more than life-changing awe-inspiring jaw-dropping ASTOUNDINGAMAZINGFANTASTIC pyrotechnics. Glass of Australian shiraz with your feet up instead of martinis with Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin. Both are lovely, one can't substitute for the other. Top up your wine for you, love?
January 9, 2018
I enjoyed this book. I'm not a reviewer who gives you a summary of a book, for that you can, well... just read the summary. But I am a reviewer who tells you whether or not a book is worth a read and this one is.
The characters are lovely, both main and sub. You tend to fall into their world, you want to see more, you don't get annoyed by them, well at least I didn't.
Leanne was a great main character. She felt real and relatable. There wasn't a pretentiousness about her or an awkwardness in the writing of her. I found her to be funny at times and sweet and vulnerable at others. The only thing I would've changed was the backstory with her ex-fiancee. I thought that it was a bit over the top what transpired between them just so that we can sympathize more with Leanne, in my opinion it wasn't needed. Leanne was likable already.
Noah was a great partner for her, and though the backstory with his ex-wife was again, a bit much, at least it was more understated and something that I can see happening which I just couldn't with Leanne's ex.
Rupert was a breath of fresh air. I found him to be funny and intriguing and his "being" was felt through the pages. I adored him. And while I loved him, I find that how much he was in the story was just right. It made me like him more and look forward to when he was around, but I don't necessarily believe that I would've wanted him in my face the entire book.
All in all, I would recommend this book and I would even pick up some more works by this author. She's gained a fan.
The characters are lovely, both main and sub. You tend to fall into their world, you want to see more, you don't get annoyed by them, well at least I didn't.
Leanne was a great main character. She felt real and relatable. There wasn't a pretentiousness about her or an awkwardness in the writing of her. I found her to be funny at times and sweet and vulnerable at others. The only thing I would've changed was the backstory with her ex-fiancee. I thought that it was a bit over the top what transpired between them just so that we can sympathize more with Leanne, in my opinion it wasn't needed. Leanne was likable already.
Noah was a great partner for her, and though the backstory with his ex-wife was again, a bit much, at least it was more understated and something that I can see happening which I just couldn't with Leanne's ex.
Rupert was a breath of fresh air. I found him to be funny and intriguing and his "being" was felt through the pages. I adored him. And while I loved him, I find that how much he was in the story was just right. It made me like him more and look forward to when he was around, but I don't necessarily believe that I would've wanted him in my face the entire book.
All in all, I would recommend this book and I would even pick up some more works by this author. She's gained a fan.
October 29, 2019
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May 27, 2011
I received a copy of Sending Rupert Home by Tracy Fabre through a gather chat .
I really loved this book , first everyone Knows I love a good ghost story and this one did not disappoint , it was funny and romantic as 2 people barely acquainted, find themselves haunted by the dashing professor Rupert Arbery.
Just what Happened to Rupert ? He was so charming and full of life ,loved by many many women, how could this have happen ? why did his car go off the cliff ? And just why was he talking to Leanne and Noah in the library when he was already dead . questions, question and hilarious answers .
This is a lighthearted mystery, where the deceased needs to find out what he needs to do before moving on to the great beyond and choosing Leanne and Noah to help him do it . Problem is, Rupert's memory is not so good anymore, him being dead and all ,so he can't really help Leann and Noah solve the mystery of his death and just why he's hanging around .Apparently he is only allowed to remember so much from his earthly existence and is not to much help at all .
so Leanne and Noah try there best to discover these things and also discover that they are becoming romantically involved . The problem with that is, they both have romantic tragedies in their past and having a annoying ghost pop in unexpectedly is not helping them work through it .
One of the big reasons I loved this story was because of the humour and believable characters .Between Rupert's whit and Leann and Noah's annoyance with him its just so much fun to read . Many times ghost stories are sad and heaven know the reason I stopped watching ghost whisperer was because I just could not stand anymore of her weeping .
Sending Rupert Home offers the reader a good time, a well planed mystery, and loads of laughs . In my opinion an, very refreshing change .
Thank you for reading my review :)
I really loved this book , first everyone Knows I love a good ghost story and this one did not disappoint , it was funny and romantic as 2 people barely acquainted, find themselves haunted by the dashing professor Rupert Arbery.
Just what Happened to Rupert ? He was so charming and full of life ,loved by many many women, how could this have happen ? why did his car go off the cliff ? And just why was he talking to Leanne and Noah in the library when he was already dead . questions, question and hilarious answers .
This is a lighthearted mystery, where the deceased needs to find out what he needs to do before moving on to the great beyond and choosing Leanne and Noah to help him do it . Problem is, Rupert's memory is not so good anymore, him being dead and all ,so he can't really help Leann and Noah solve the mystery of his death and just why he's hanging around .Apparently he is only allowed to remember so much from his earthly existence and is not to much help at all .
so Leanne and Noah try there best to discover these things and also discover that they are becoming romantically involved . The problem with that is, they both have romantic tragedies in their past and having a annoying ghost pop in unexpectedly is not helping them work through it .
One of the big reasons I loved this story was because of the humour and believable characters .Between Rupert's whit and Leann and Noah's annoyance with him its just so much fun to read . Many times ghost stories are sad and heaven know the reason I stopped watching ghost whisperer was because I just could not stand anymore of her weeping .
Sending Rupert Home offers the reader a good time, a well planed mystery, and loads of laughs . In my opinion an, very refreshing change .
Thank you for reading my review :)
March 27, 2015
The book is well written. The plot is interesting.
I did not like Leanne, the heroine, very much at all. Noah, the hero, if you don't count Rupert was a nice man.
Rupert is dead and he comes back to ask Leanne and Noah to help him with a quest he has to complete before he can move forward to Home.
The story is well defined and kept me reading. I did figure out what Rupert's quest was and it made me like him all the more.
Leanne was a really unkind person. She had a Terrible experience, and I understand that. But, to continue to punish the rest of the world for 10 years because of one bad guy, just seemed to me to be overkill. She has a family and friends who like her and treat her well and she never seems to notice that at all.
Tracy Fabre is a new to me author, and I will try to find other things she has written.
I did not like Leanne, the heroine, very much at all. Noah, the hero, if you don't count Rupert was a nice man.
Rupert is dead and he comes back to ask Leanne and Noah to help him with a quest he has to complete before he can move forward to Home.
The story is well defined and kept me reading. I did figure out what Rupert's quest was and it made me like him all the more.
Leanne was a really unkind person. She had a Terrible experience, and I understand that. But, to continue to punish the rest of the world for 10 years because of one bad guy, just seemed to me to be overkill. She has a family and friends who like her and treat her well and she never seems to notice that at all.
Tracy Fabre is a new to me author, and I will try to find other things she has written.
June 26, 2014
You had better keep an eye on this great author her books are a sure fire pleaser. I couldn't put the book down - actually read it in two sittings. Her rich characters come to life with such natural dialogue and likeability. You are reeled right into their lives and don't want the book to end. There is just the right amount of tension between characters to keep the story moving quickly, but NOT too quickly. I loved her first book and she continues to keep fulfilling - each book seems better and better.
I will continue to watch for more from this author! I felt drawn into the book and wanted to help Rupert find his way home. Each new chapter brought unexpected excitement.
Thanks Tracy Fabre! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us next.
I will continue to watch for more from this author! I felt drawn into the book and wanted to help Rupert find his way home. Each new chapter brought unexpected excitement.
Thanks Tracy Fabre! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us next.
March 3, 2012
What a fun read! This book was well-edited, with an original plot. There is plenty of humor, yet you feel the pain of the people damaged by life. I will look for more books by this author. Recommended.
August 14, 2010
What a fun book about relationships....and about a ghost!!!
August 14, 2011
Sending Rupert Home is a lovely romance with an irritating, interfering poltergeist. This is another of Tracy Fabre’s novels that I couldn’t put down and I highly recommend it. Thank you Tracy.
April 18, 2012
This was an excellent book. It was funny. There was cheesey romance. Poor Rupert is stuck until Noah and Leanne finish following his clues...to what? He's not allowed to know.
July 6, 2012
what a wonderful book! i got it for free but man, what a good read! very awesome. will be looking for more from this author!
March 13, 2012
sweet story with well told. There were funny moments and a few tearful ones.
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