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A Week from Sunday
Adrianna Moore has just had a double the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A WEEK FROM SUNDAY. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost cargo. They reach a she will live in his home, tutor his bedridden younger brother and play piano in Quinn's tavern to pay off her debt. Drawn to the rugged Quinn, challenged by the interaction with the tavern patrons, she also must deal with an intractable foe--Quinn's housekeeper who is scheming to become his wife. And all the while, the spurned lawyer is following Adrianna's trail, determined to find her and force her to marry him.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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Dorothy Garlock
87 books379 followersDorothy Garlock was a best-selling American author of over 60 historical romance novels, most of them set in the American West. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print, in 18 languages. Her books have been on the New York Times best seller list seven times. She was named one of the 10 most popular writers of women's fiction four years in a row, from 1985-1988. In 1997, she was awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. Garlock is also a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame.
Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career. She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa. Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries.
Pen names include:
Johanna Phillips
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Glenn
Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career. She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa. Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries.
Pen names include:
Johanna Phillips
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Glenn
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June 15, 2017
Most of the book was good and kept my interest, but I did not like heroine stupidity and wimpiness.
If you knew someone planned to kill you and lived in the same house with you and prepared the food you ate, would you continue living there, sleeping there, and eating their food? Annie does and she does not say a word to Quinn about it. Instead she tells herself something about an old saying “keep your enemies close.” Ick. Lola the housekeeper-cook is trying to kill Annie.
There are two major danger events toward the end. In these Annie came across wimpy and weak. In one of them luck saved the day. I had trouble rooting for her.
But other things were nicely done. I liked the characters and plot.
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Narrative mode: 3rd person. Story length: 372 pages. Swearing language: strong but not often used. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: one plus one referred to. Setting: 1935 Louisiana. Copyright: 2007. Genre: American historical romance.
If you knew someone planned to kill you and lived in the same house with you and prepared the food you ate, would you continue living there, sleeping there, and eating their food? Annie does and she does not say a word to Quinn about it. Instead she tells herself something about an old saying “keep your enemies close.” Ick. Lola the housekeeper-cook is trying to kill Annie.
There are two major danger events toward the end. In these Annie came across wimpy and weak. In one of them luck saved the day. I had trouble rooting for her.
But other things were nicely done. I liked the characters and plot.
DATA:
Narrative mode: 3rd person. Story length: 372 pages. Swearing language: strong but not often used. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: one plus one referred to. Setting: 1935 Louisiana. Copyright: 2007. Genre: American historical romance.
December 15, 2019
It was okay. The description on the back of the book gave me high expectations that weren't nearly met. It took place in 1930s Louisiana so there should have been atmosphere in spades, but there was none to be found. The story was formulaic and the characters lacked depth; a quick unmemorable read.
Not a clean romance
Not a clean romance
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March 29, 2025DNF at page 69.
Okay, so let's talk about why this book was an absolute trainwreck. Because hoo boy, it sure is.
First, the head hopping. It's old-school crafting, generally no longer accepted. And once you spend time without head hopping, you see why it's fallen out of favor. It's annoying. It's also bad craft: If you can't show what a character is thinking without revealing their thoughts, you're not doing it right. Push yourself. Don't phone it in.
There were other elements in here of bad writing, too, but my favorite was "Her head spun around." Oh? Like in The Exorcist?
Let's talk about the characters around Adrianna. Are any of them decent human beings? From the second Robert Pope appears on the page (and that's an interesting surname... are you trying to use that to hide how absolutely repugnant he is?), it's clear who he is. He's a one-dimensional bad guy, full of all the controlling, abusive mindsets of various sects of society. This is dangerous shit, normalizing this attitude.
On page 8, Adrianna says to him, "You're hurting me" and he... doesn't let go. In fact, a few exchanges later, he's saying, "I will never let you go!"
Umm, dude? Yeah, you're supposed to be creepy, but when we have men who are trying to be rich and entitled acting this way, it sets a really bad precedent. I've had authors defend abusive rich men because "this is how they are." NO.
So Robert Pope needs more dimension, and I'm not talking about his sexual deviance and kinks, either. This dude's flirting on the edge of rape, having helped himself in the past to Adrianna's dresser and certain contents.
So let's go meet our hero, Quinn. Who's unrefined, brash, loud, has zero respect for Adrianna as evidenced by his refusal to call her by her proper name, who puts her to work as basically an indentured servant, who screams about the damages to his car and his lost alcohol... this is a hero?
But of course he is! After all, he's kind to his maybe crippled younger brother... the same younger brother he doesn't have time to help through a rehab process.
Uh-huh. That's a hero right there.
What do I expect? He's a lumberjack, after all?
Get over yourself. Lumberjacks are humans too and working class humans aren't always brash, loud, uncouth, and stupid.
Are the women any better? The doctor is, but we see so little of her, she's barely worth mentioning. She is one word of praise that I can give this book, however. A woman doctor who's earned her community's trust, even if she had to hide behind a man to get there -- which was probably how it had to be back then. Biases against women and all (and books like this to reinforce them).
And then there's Lola, the housekeeper who wants Quinn, who can't clean a damn thing to save her life, who doesn't care about the injured little brother, who can't show a sliver of kindness to our heroine... Again, completely unlikeable, cartoonish, and one-dimensional.
Now, maybe these people would change during the course of the book, but I'm not here for the redemption arc of all these people surrounding a young woman who is set up in this early going to be a Mary Sue (does she turn into one? I'm half tempted to skip ahead to her first piano-playing session at the saloon to see. I just tried and... nope. Can't make myself read it.)
Yeah, a definite train wreck. But I have one final question: If this book is set in Lousiana, where are the Black people? Why has this book been whitewashed? (and does that change as the book unfolds? Somehow, I suspect not.)
THAT, in and of itself, is revealing, and not in a good way.
Okay, so let's talk about why this book was an absolute trainwreck. Because hoo boy, it sure is.
First, the head hopping. It's old-school crafting, generally no longer accepted. And once you spend time without head hopping, you see why it's fallen out of favor. It's annoying. It's also bad craft: If you can't show what a character is thinking without revealing their thoughts, you're not doing it right. Push yourself. Don't phone it in.
There were other elements in here of bad writing, too, but my favorite was "Her head spun around." Oh? Like in The Exorcist?
Let's talk about the characters around Adrianna. Are any of them decent human beings? From the second Robert Pope appears on the page (and that's an interesting surname... are you trying to use that to hide how absolutely repugnant he is?), it's clear who he is. He's a one-dimensional bad guy, full of all the controlling, abusive mindsets of various sects of society. This is dangerous shit, normalizing this attitude.
On page 8, Adrianna says to him, "You're hurting me" and he... doesn't let go. In fact, a few exchanges later, he's saying, "I will never let you go!"
Umm, dude? Yeah, you're supposed to be creepy, but when we have men who are trying to be rich and entitled acting this way, it sets a really bad precedent. I've had authors defend abusive rich men because "this is how they are." NO.
So Robert Pope needs more dimension, and I'm not talking about his sexual deviance and kinks, either. This dude's flirting on the edge of rape, having helped himself in the past to Adrianna's dresser and certain contents.
So let's go meet our hero, Quinn. Who's unrefined, brash, loud, has zero respect for Adrianna as evidenced by his refusal to call her by her proper name, who puts her to work as basically an indentured servant, who screams about the damages to his car and his lost alcohol... this is a hero?
But of course he is! After all, he's kind to his maybe crippled younger brother... the same younger brother he doesn't have time to help through a rehab process.
Uh-huh. That's a hero right there.
What do I expect? He's a lumberjack, after all?
Get over yourself. Lumberjacks are humans too and working class humans aren't always brash, loud, uncouth, and stupid.
Are the women any better? The doctor is, but we see so little of her, she's barely worth mentioning. She is one word of praise that I can give this book, however. A woman doctor who's earned her community's trust, even if she had to hide behind a man to get there -- which was probably how it had to be back then. Biases against women and all (and books like this to reinforce them).
And then there's Lola, the housekeeper who wants Quinn, who can't clean a damn thing to save her life, who doesn't care about the injured little brother, who can't show a sliver of kindness to our heroine... Again, completely unlikeable, cartoonish, and one-dimensional.
Now, maybe these people would change during the course of the book, but I'm not here for the redemption arc of all these people surrounding a young woman who is set up in this early going to be a Mary Sue (does she turn into one? I'm half tempted to skip ahead to her first piano-playing session at the saloon to see. I just tried and... nope. Can't make myself read it.)
Yeah, a definite train wreck. But I have one final question: If this book is set in Lousiana, where are the Black people? Why has this book been whitewashed? (and does that change as the book unfolds? Somehow, I suspect not.)
THAT, in and of itself, is revealing, and not in a good way.
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July 24, 2010I could not stand the lady in this book. What a pansie! I thought the scenerio was rediculous. And the main guy had a trash mouth and no respect for a woman. The main lady was hurt, and he stands over her yelling, and decides she can fix things by working in his bar. What?! Who would want to like a man like that?
June 13, 2019
3.5 out of 5 stars
December 19, 2022
Meh. Lame. No humor, no wit. After reading this book, as Gabe said, “my head aches, c’est la vérité!” The author really needs to mix up Gabe’s vocab a bit. He did NOT sound Cajun to me — “mon ami” — and the repetition of the same faux phrases began to grind.
What a hapless idiot is Adrianna, to disregard what her own eyes told her — about the attic — and to stay in that house one moment longer with the intensely evil Lola.
As for Quinn, he’s blind and deaf with respect to Lola. Even blindfolded, by simple touch he should have “seen” how filthy that place was, and how much Jesse and Cowboy distrusted Lola. I see a weak hero here. Also, he didn’t listen to or believe Annie’s admittedly halfhearted attempt to tell him what happened.
Sadly, the more interesting characters were the villains: Lola and Reuben and Richard
Set in Louisiana at the time Babe Ruth died, in 1948. His death is mentioned — pretty much the only reference to anything historical. The recent war might never have happened.
What a hapless idiot is Adrianna, to disregard what her own eyes told her — about the attic — and to stay in that house one moment longer with the intensely evil Lola.
As for Quinn, he’s blind and deaf with respect to Lola. Even blindfolded, by simple touch he should have “seen” how filthy that place was, and how much Jesse and Cowboy distrusted Lola. I see a weak hero here. Also, he didn’t listen to or believe Annie’s admittedly halfhearted attempt to tell him what happened.
Sadly, the more interesting characters were the villains: Lola and Reuben and Richard
Set in Louisiana at the time Babe Ruth died, in 1948. His death is mentioned — pretty much the only reference to anything historical. The recent war might never have happened.
December 20, 2021
I found this book interesting in that it took place in a small logging town. There were so many things that I didn’t like about this author’s writing….the brawls and the cruel people and the way they treated a stranger that was a good person. I have another book by her and am reluctant to read it.
November 6, 2021
I listened to the audio book, got 1/2 way through and could not take anymore of this story. First of all, the narrator sounded as if she was reading a cartoon. One of the characters sounded like “Yosemite Sam” with the voice she gave him. Secondly, the story was so contradictory. Sounded like it could be a good story but had too much trash talk and was a bit ridiculous. I couldn’t waste another minute finding out what happened. I gave up.
August 13, 2022
This was a tough book to power through. If you like older romance novels, you'll probably love this one. I'm not sure why it was labeled "erotic literature" on the app I read it from. There was dismally minimal spice. The characters were very one dimensional. It's not the worst book I've ever read, but I will not be recommending it to anyone.
June 30, 2009
Set in the 1930's, a girl tries to run away from her would-be guardian and finds a man who takes her breath away...blah, blah, blah. An easy read, the librarian suggested it.
July 25, 2020
This book doesn't have a lot of depth but it was a quick read and provided a good escape from thinking about the pandemic.
November 27, 2009
Really enjoyed this!
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August 24, 2024Adrianna Moore has just had a double the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A WEEK FROM SUNDAY. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost cargo. They reach a she will live in his home, tutor his bedridden younger brother and play piano in Quinn's tavern to pay off her debt. Drawn to the rugged Quinn, challenged by the interaction with the tavern patrons, she also must deal with an intractable foe--Quinn's housekeeper who is scheming to become his wife. And all the while, the spurned lawyer is following Adrianna's trail, determined to find her and force her to marry him
March 10, 2024
An easy read with a flowing style of writing. However, the author uses the writer’s device of manipulating information to create the drama towards the end of the book. This is fiction, but fiction must be believable. There are four pieces of information that are concealed by one character, till the final part of the book. There were obvious opportunities for the character to reveal the pieces of information during the original conversations. Each time the character left out a snippet of information, I knew how the book would pan out, so I just skimmed through the final dramatic scenes. There were no surprises, except for two of the most unlikeliest characters who turned out to be heroes in a society where brute force ruled.
November 24, 2017
This was an enjoyable book.
Adrianna is a woman who is still reeling over her father's death when his business associate, Richard, tells her that she is going to marry him. So, she decides to take matters into her own hands and flees her home and heads towards her aunt's house in Mississippi. She ends up getting into an accident in the town of Lee's Point and meets Quinn. Quinn takes her in to help his brother, Jesse, and to play piano at his bar.
Add in a crazy maid, Lola, and Gabe, a fellow bartender and you have a very interesting story.
Adrianna is a woman who is still reeling over her father's death when his business associate, Richard, tells her that she is going to marry him. So, she decides to take matters into her own hands and flees her home and heads towards her aunt's house in Mississippi. She ends up getting into an accident in the town of Lee's Point and meets Quinn. Quinn takes her in to help his brother, Jesse, and to play piano at his bar.
Add in a crazy maid, Lola, and Gabe, a fellow bartender and you have a very interesting story.
September 22, 2019
Adrianna has just lost her father when her fathers creepy lawyer informs her that she must marry him to keep her home and fortune. She runs away to see her aunt and is in an accident along the way forced to make retribution for the damage to the other guy’s truck and possessions. She stays with him helping to care for his wheelchair bound teenage brother and playing the piano in his bar. 2 evils haunt her. The violently jealous housekeeper and Richard searching for her.
May 11, 2024
Story takes place long ago. Young woman’s wealthy father just passed away. Creepy lawyer reveals the father left everything to him and wanted the daughter to marry him. She runs away. Has a car accident in a little town where everyone knows everyone. She must work off the damages she’s done to the person she hits. Trouble ensues.
Just okay. Did not care for the voices of the males in the audiobook at all. Distracted from the story.
Just okay. Did not care for the voices of the males in the audiobook at all. Distracted from the story.
December 28, 2017
Dorothy Garlock has a talent for weaving her characters into your heart and soul. A Week From Sunday not only will keep you on the edge of your seat, but it will draw you into such a beautiful love story that will leave you believing that true evil will never triumph good. Beautifully written and beautifully delivered.
February 27, 2020
What I realized while reading this novel is that even in the midst of uncertainties and challenges you can still get the better things you deserve when you know what you want and don't want.
Adrianna Moore irrespective of her upbringing showed character and strength in the midst of challenges. She's wealthy but not spoilt
Adrianna Moore irrespective of her upbringing showed character and strength in the midst of challenges. She's wealthy but not spoilt
May 29, 2023
I don’t want to be too hard on this book, as the story is not a bad one, and it is told relatively well, but it is predictable all the way through.
The characters are ok while reading the book, but then when finished, it is easy to forget their names. The book is a bit of a love story with a little mystery mixed in, but not one I would read again.
The characters are ok while reading the book, but then when finished, it is easy to forget their names. The book is a bit of a love story with a little mystery mixed in, but not one I would read again.
March 24, 2017
A week from Sunday is a great escape into 1935 Leespoint, LA. Adrianna Moore and Quinn Baxter come to an understanding that will help them both out of their difficult situations. The story was good from beginning to end. The action and characters were believable and overall it was a quick escape. A good fun read!
June 17, 2021
I liked the story line and the setting. There were surprises and the characters were people I would enjoy meeting again if it was a series. I just prefer more PG type reading. This had some mature language and scenes at times.
July 31, 2021
Dorothy Garlock is one of my favorite authors. I love her character and their development throughout her stories. The romances are steamy and leave you speechless.
A Week from Sunday follows a young girl and her journey after the death of her father in the 1930’s.
A Week from Sunday follows a young girl and her journey after the death of her father in the 1930’s.
May 16, 2022
So many things wrong with this book. I listened to the audiobook, which made it so much worse. If you like pathetic, ridiculous females, this may be the book for you. Even for a woman in the 1930's, I cringed constantly.
January 12, 2023
I don't even know where to start with this one because the writing is so terrible. One dimensional characters in a cliche story loaded with continuity errors. And good grief, the egregious, repetitive French phrases were stupide.
August 5, 2024
DNF. If you’re going to write a book set in Louisiana, at least do some very minimal research. Cajuns did not settle near Shreveport. 😑 Attempted the audiobook, but could not get past the narrator singing during the tavern scene. Trust me, it was hard enough to get that far. This book has issues.
May 14, 2017
Book on tape - simple book - easy listening for a taped book.
January 14, 2018
i liked this one.
Even thought the premise is pretty standard & cliche for historical romances I was invested in the story.
I liked the characters.
It was a sweet story.
Even thought the premise is pretty standard & cliche for historical romances I was invested in the story.
I liked the characters.
It was a sweet story.
May 11, 2018
DNF. Very poor writing
December 8, 2020
Pretty good - mystery romance
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