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Cupid Calling
Couples, at the mercy of Cupid's arrows, find love and romance in the strangest places, in this collection of enchanting stories that includes Karen King's "The Bachelor and the Bluestocking," in which Devin Nash unleashes an ardent campaign of valentines and to win the woman he loves, as well as "Only Mine" by Stacy Brown and Patricia Waddell's "Love Letters." Original.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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February 12, 2020
Great Book first time Reading Stacy Brown, she wrote a great story, The 2nd story was good as well did not really like the 3rd story . But great fun Valentine book to read.
December 10, 2008
This anthology contains 3 novellas. The first (Be Mine by Stacy Brown) is okay (a 3), the second (The Bachelor and the Bluestocking, by Karen L. King) is excellent (a 4) and the final (Love Letters by Patrica Waddell) is poor (a 2).
The premise of the anthology is romances that happen on Valentine's day, and two of the stories (Bachelor and Letters) feature handmade Valentine's cards.
As in all very short romance novels, the action in the stories is rather rushed and because of that unbelievable.
In "Be Mine", the characters take an instant dislike to each other, but the girl's parents scheme to have her compromised at a Valentine Day ball to force the Duke to marry her.
In "The Bachelor and the Bluestocking" the characters are guardian and ward to each other. The guardian decides marrying the girl would be easier than hiring an endless string of chaperones. Although they have romantic feelings for each other, each character believes the other one is acting out of duty, which leads to more plot than usual for a novella, including some humorous mistaken identity scenarios revolving around the girl's secret business creating and selling hand-crafted Valentine's cards.
The final story has a decent plot--a spicy Valentine's card is mistakenly delivered to the wrong man--but it suffers from poor writing and an overabundance of telling rather than showing.
The premise of the anthology is romances that happen on Valentine's day, and two of the stories (Bachelor and Letters) feature handmade Valentine's cards.
As in all very short romance novels, the action in the stories is rather rushed and because of that unbelievable.
In "Be Mine", the characters take an instant dislike to each other, but the girl's parents scheme to have her compromised at a Valentine Day ball to force the Duke to marry her.
In "The Bachelor and the Bluestocking" the characters are guardian and ward to each other. The guardian decides marrying the girl would be easier than hiring an endless string of chaperones. Although they have romantic feelings for each other, each character believes the other one is acting out of duty, which leads to more plot than usual for a novella, including some humorous mistaken identity scenarios revolving around the girl's secret business creating and selling hand-crafted Valentine's cards.
The final story has a decent plot--a spicy Valentine's card is mistakenly delivered to the wrong man--but it suffers from poor writing and an overabundance of telling rather than showing.
March 29, 2016
Not really interesting. It was hard for me to finish. The third story was the most interesting.
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