What Are Friends For?

Centerfolds #2

by Naomi Horton

MR. MARRIAGE-PHOBIC

Name: Connor Devlin
Turn-ons: Independent, sexy women
Turn-offs: Any female looking for a ring on her third finger, left hand!
Favorite Romantic Interlude: Doesn't involve a single thought about commitment

All of a sudden I can't keep my mind--or my hands!--off Andie Spencer. Sure, she's one beautiful woman, but I've known her for years, and people who are "just friends" shouldn't act this way. But let me tell you, when I look at her, friendship is the last thing on my mind! Why, it's enough to make me forget my vow to dump any woman who even makes me think about marriage....

CENTERFOLDS: They're sexy, they're determined, they're trouble with a capital T!

Genres: Harlequin, Romance, Friends To Lovers, Harlequin Desire

185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

Reviews

[Selin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adı Nikah Korkusuydu hatta tanıtımda bile MR.MARRIAGE-PHOBIC diye bir giriş yapılmış ama bence alakası yoktu. Conn un daha çok arkadaşını kaybetmek istememesi vardı. Yani zaten kadın hep yanında yatak odasında o olmasa bile boş kalmıyor adam ne diye bozsun ki zaten zevkini,diye bir düşünce oluştu zihnimde yani ama pek romantik havaları yoktu kitapta. Birde sürekli muç muç dudaktan öpüşmeler vardı sanırım asla arkadaşça öpüşmek mantığını kavrayamayacak beynim o kısımlar çok komik geldi bana açıkcası. Bir de iki tarafta aşıktı gibi birşey vardı da yoktu. Yazar birçok yerde kendiyle çelişmiş. Güzel bir konuydu esasında ancak yazar pek dolduramamış bence. Ancak bir beyaz dizi olarak çok da yetersiz değildi. HQ olarak 3-4 yıldız rahat koparır benden...

[Elgyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nudný paskvil. Nesympatičtí hrdinové, žádný příběh.


s. 15 v půl čtvrté ráno
Tedy v půl páté ráno (s. 5)

s. 114 jake


uvozovky - s. 124
čárka - s. 30

[Andrea Guy · Rating 4 out of 5]

moodylady

I really enjoyed this one and not just because the heroine and I share a same first name. Plus the story was just downright cute for a Desire. Two lifelong friends that are really in love but one of them is too blind to see it. That, of course would be the hero, Connor Devlin, who is newly divorced and swearing off marriage.

The only problem he has is that he doesn't want his friend, Andie to get married or involved with anyone and he's not too sure that he wants to try marriage again.

There is so much sexual tension between the Andie and Connor that one of them should have exploded before they got around to doing the nasty. Jealousy was running rampant on both sides and it almost made you wonder if they would survive that before they finally made it into bed.

Thankfully they got over all that, but that's where the story loses something. The end was just a wee bit to unbelievable. Connor says that he's going to marry Olivia, That sends Andie into a fit and she runs off to her lover/fiancee Alaine to marry him.

Not to worry, there is a happy ending here. Connor flies to Quebec City to declare his love at last for Andie and stop the wedding. Romantic yes, but I had a hard time believing that Alaine would give up the woman he loves so easily. But hey, the two lovebirds got their happy ending and it didn't detract too much from an otherwise, fun, funny and steamy story.

[Tpring · Rating 2 out of 5]

Friends to lovers stories are often a bit problematic. Most of the times there is one party (in this case Andie) who has been helplessly in love with the other one for ages. The second protagonist remains totally oblivious to the fact that maybe the person he enjoys spending time with, can be himself with, suddenly finds totally attractive, wants to kiss and gets jealous about should be more than a friend. That goes on for ages and is frustrating and repetitive. This is one of these.

Slight spoilers ahead.

Furthermore the otherwise nice and capable heroine is in a relationship with a great man who wants to marry her even though they never had sex (why?). After she finally sleeps with the hero, he rejects her (his causes are murky and in dire need of more explanation than they receive) and she runs off to the unloved boyfriend whose proposal she has never really taken seriously before to plan a wedding in four days. That's morally questionable as well as plain dumb.

It's not a bad story, kind of sweet, the sex comes very late and is not explicit at all (more poetic? allusion than hotness). Which ties in with its moral: love is a warm blanket and not sizzling emotions and desire. That choice somehow didn't sit right with me and shaved one star right off.

[Dewi Read · Rating 2 out of 5]

iih beneran sebel kuadrat dgn Heronya..kalo Heroine nya ngk keren bakalan bintang satu nih buku