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Cajun Melodies #3
Jessica's Song
It was his world
The Louisiana bayous and marshes were home to Armand LeBlanc. The handsome fisherman could read the tides, the stars and the skies .... And he had his music--the rollicking music shaped by generations of Cajun folklore.
But Armand couldn't read books and newspapers, much to Professor Jessica Owen's sorrow. There was so much he was missing in life, and she wanted to teach him everything. Yet it was Armand who taught her about love ....
Jessica felt at peace in the warm, cloistered world of the Cajun people--Armand was both lover and guide. But was it enough for a lifetime of happiness?
The Louisiana bayous and marshes were home to Armand LeBlanc. The handsome fisherman could read the tides, the stars and the skies .... And he had his music--the rollicking music shaped by generations of Cajun folklore.
But Armand couldn't read books and newspapers, much to Professor Jessica Owen's sorrow. There was so much he was missing in life, and she wanted to teach him everything. Yet it was Armand who taught her about love ....
Jessica felt at peace in the warm, cloistered world of the Cajun people--Armand was both lover and guide. But was it enough for a lifetime of happiness?
298 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1990
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June 17, 2024
City girl meets country boy in this ho-hum romance set in the Louisiana bayou.
The heroine is a scientist who has moved from New York to the Gulf to research and teach about the local flora and fauna. The hero is a proud Cajun who makes his living shrimping and plays in a zydeco band with his ex-girlfriend.
He meets the heroine when she charters his boat to take students on a field trip to the marshes. Hero falls in love instantly with his little mud hen (she returns to the boat covered head to foot in mud and he gleefully hoses her off).
Jessica's song is the song he sings to her while performing on stage, about falling in love with a little blond. The heroine is fiercely attracted but she resists him because she is ashamed of his poor, illiterate background, and especially weary about what her patrician mother would think of him. For most of the story, she tries to convince herself she would be better off in a marriage of convenience to her long time childhood sweetheart, a Wall Street stockbroker who expects her to move back to Manhattan.
The hero never loses his optimism and self-confidence that she will eventually give in to him. He waits patiently for her to make up her mind, trying in the meantime to help her along with convincing kisses and making efforts to learn how to read and write so he can make his sweet little professor proud.
The hero was a real sweetie, a beta hero who was nice, handsome, and also very sexy. I think he was too good for the frosty, judgmental heroine. And I found him a lot more intelligent and reliable than the booksmart heroine who, for all her academic degrees, has lived such a sheltered, insulated life.
I understood heroine's struggle somewhat but I still did not like her much. Too wishy-washy for me. And I really hated her when she kept trying to correct his charming Cajun accent instead of embracing him for who he is.
The author solves the conflict with the old trope of a life and death situation which magically opens the heroine's eyes to the importance of love above all. I feel sad for the hero that he will spend the rest of his life being judged and condescended to by his wife and in-laws but at least, they will live in his home turf and he will continue doing the things he loves on his beloved shrimping boat and Cajun Fais-do-dos, so there is that.
Read it for the great hero and beautifully rendered setting of a sultry Louisiana bayou.
The heroine is a scientist who has moved from New York to the Gulf to research and teach about the local flora and fauna. The hero is a proud Cajun who makes his living shrimping and plays in a zydeco band with his ex-girlfriend.
He meets the heroine when she charters his boat to take students on a field trip to the marshes. Hero falls in love instantly with his little mud hen (she returns to the boat covered head to foot in mud and he gleefully hoses her off).
Jessica's song is the song he sings to her while performing on stage, about falling in love with a little blond. The heroine is fiercely attracted but she resists him because she is ashamed of his poor, illiterate background, and especially weary about what her patrician mother would think of him. For most of the story, she tries to convince herself she would be better off in a marriage of convenience to her long time childhood sweetheart, a Wall Street stockbroker who expects her to move back to Manhattan.
The hero never loses his optimism and self-confidence that she will eventually give in to him. He waits patiently for her to make up her mind, trying in the meantime to help her along with convincing kisses and making efforts to learn how to read and write so he can make his sweet little professor proud.
The hero was a real sweetie, a beta hero who was nice, handsome, and also very sexy. I think he was too good for the frosty, judgmental heroine. And I found him a lot more intelligent and reliable than the booksmart heroine who, for all her academic degrees, has lived such a sheltered, insulated life.
I understood heroine's struggle somewhat but I still did not like her much. Too wishy-washy for me. And I really hated her when she kept trying to correct his charming Cajun accent instead of embracing him for who he is.
The author solves the conflict with the old trope of a life and death situation which magically opens the heroine's eyes to the importance of love above all. I feel sad for the hero that he will spend the rest of his life being judged and condescended to by his wife and in-laws but at least, they will live in his home turf and he will continue doing the things he loves on his beloved shrimping boat and Cajun Fais-do-dos, so there is that.
Read it for the great hero and beautifully rendered setting of a sultry Louisiana bayou.
December 10, 2018
The h is so, so awful. This book is an absolute travesty of a romance. The poor H, who is only slightly better than a cartoon character, doesn't deserve this.
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