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Pure and Simple
Pure And Simple by Peggy Nicholson released on Dec 25, 1992 is available now for purchase.
- GenresHarlequin Romance
271 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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June 11, 2024
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November 15, 2015
The town of West Dartmouth is desperate need of a new high school and according to the owner of the local health food store Kelly Bouchard the school system needs to revamp its cafeteria food from the greasy fat-filled food it is now. David Whittaker, the head of the committee pushing the new school and local architect believes that Kelly's crusade for healthy food is being used by the opposition to distract from the real crisis, making her downright dangerous. As both continue their campaigns the two begin to have feelings for each other. Shadowed by the looming political battle and the troubled past of their love lives neither are too willing to open up their hearts again.
"Pure and Simple" by Peggy Nicholson was released in February of 1993, 19 years ago making this book about the same age as me. A lot has changed for Harlequin in those 19 years, Harlequin adding new titles and getting racier. "Pure and Simple" has no sex scenes and no swearing and the only difference between it and a Love Inspired title from today is the lack of Christian themes. As the third in my crusade of reading and reviewing Harlequin novels I think its a good choice and is a good show of how much the basic 'Harlequin' title has changed.
The conflict in this book revolves mostly around the school system both in the need for a new and better funded high school and in the changes Kelly wants to make to the menus. Something shown throughout is that the wealthier people in West Dartmouth as the high schools started to fall into disrepair started sending their children to private schools which equaled a loss of investment to the public schools in the area. As far as these people are concerned building a new high school just means higher property taxes, something they want to avoid. This perspective while self-serving is very common today, putting money over the future of children that they don't know or don't have.
The secondary, more personal conflict of the story is that both of our protagonists are projecting the negative qualities of their last SO on to each other which leads to a lot of misreading of intentions, something that keeps them skittish of each other up until the end. I do like that the entire book is told from Kelly's perspective, leaving the motives of the other characters up to her (and the reader's) interpretation. While from precedent we can guess that David's intentions are pure its technically up in the air until the end.
While it is subject to the usual cliches of the genre and publisher "Pure and Simple" is still readable nearly two decades after it was published, not an easy feat let me tell you. That is a positive quality to Harlequin books, that no matter when their written they have a very timeless feeling to them unless they're trying to evoke a specific time period. Yet again no portrayal positive of negative of minority groups but it does pass the Bechedel test, only barely but still that surprised me.
I would recommend "Pure and Simple" to any fan of the romance genre, particularly those who like clean romances without the Christian overtones.
"Pure and Simple" by Peggy Nicholson gets 4 Hearts out of 5 <3<3<3<3
"Pure and Simple" by Peggy Nicholson was released in February of 1993, 19 years ago making this book about the same age as me. A lot has changed for Harlequin in those 19 years, Harlequin adding new titles and getting racier. "Pure and Simple" has no sex scenes and no swearing and the only difference between it and a Love Inspired title from today is the lack of Christian themes. As the third in my crusade of reading and reviewing Harlequin novels I think its a good choice and is a good show of how much the basic 'Harlequin' title has changed.
The conflict in this book revolves mostly around the school system both in the need for a new and better funded high school and in the changes Kelly wants to make to the menus. Something shown throughout is that the wealthier people in West Dartmouth as the high schools started to fall into disrepair started sending their children to private schools which equaled a loss of investment to the public schools in the area. As far as these people are concerned building a new high school just means higher property taxes, something they want to avoid. This perspective while self-serving is very common today, putting money over the future of children that they don't know or don't have.
The secondary, more personal conflict of the story is that both of our protagonists are projecting the negative qualities of their last SO on to each other which leads to a lot of misreading of intentions, something that keeps them skittish of each other up until the end. I do like that the entire book is told from Kelly's perspective, leaving the motives of the other characters up to her (and the reader's) interpretation. While from precedent we can guess that David's intentions are pure its technically up in the air until the end.
While it is subject to the usual cliches of the genre and publisher "Pure and Simple" is still readable nearly two decades after it was published, not an easy feat let me tell you. That is a positive quality to Harlequin books, that no matter when their written they have a very timeless feeling to them unless they're trying to evoke a specific time period. Yet again no portrayal positive of negative of minority groups but it does pass the Bechedel test, only barely but still that surprised me.
I would recommend "Pure and Simple" to any fan of the romance genre, particularly those who like clean romances without the Christian overtones.
"Pure and Simple" by Peggy Nicholson gets 4 Hearts out of 5 <3<3<3<3
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