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The Wedding Belles #2
Peachy's Proposal
Peachy's Proposal by Carole Buck released on Nov 24, 1995 is available now for purchase.
- GenresRomance
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1995
About the author
Carole Buck
59 books6 followersCarole Buckland obtained a BA in Political Science at University of Connecticut. She worked as reporter, writer by CNN, and "Larry King Live" producer. She wrote romance novels under the penname Carole Buck.
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May 4, 2017
Leído el 04/09/2011
02 CAMPANILLAS DE BODA
UN FAVOR ENTRE AMIGOS
Pamela "Peachy" Keene estaba decidida a perder su virginidad, y sólo conocía a un hombre para ese trabajo. Luc Devereaux era soltero y extremadamente sexy; seguro que aceptaría su proposición. Después de todo, sólo sería una vez.
Pero Luc no quería ayudara Peachy. Se sentía atraído por ella, pero sabía que ella se arrepentiría de no esperar a hacerlo con un hombre al que amase. Y para hacer que Peachy cambiase de opinión, Luc fingió aceptar su plan. Y ése fue su primer error.
02 CAMPANILLAS DE BODA
UN FAVOR ENTRE AMIGOS
Pamela "Peachy" Keene estaba decidida a perder su virginidad, y sólo conocía a un hombre para ese trabajo. Luc Devereaux era soltero y extremadamente sexy; seguro que aceptaría su proposición. Después de todo, sólo sería una vez.
Pero Luc no quería ayudara Peachy. Se sentía atraído por ella, pero sabía que ella se arrepentiría de no esperar a hacerlo con un hombre al que amase. Y para hacer que Peachy cambiase de opinión, Luc fingió aceptar su plan. Y ése fue su primer error.
August 29, 2014
Last summer I picked up a sackful of romance novels from a library in small town Minnesota. I'm slowly making my way through it - I'm so addicted to my ebook reader that I rarely touch paper.
Even though this book is nearly 20 years old, it didn’t feel that data. It’s hard to believe it was a category book from the 90’s but some of those books are written in a timeless manner.
After a near death experience, our heroine decides she doesn’t want to die a virgin so she propositions her downstairs neighbor to do the deed, no strings attached. He immediately rejects the proposition in horror. When realizes she’s serious, he accepts hoping that he can stall her untill she comes to her senses. He wines and dines her and she’s hoping it will happen, but every time they come close to doing the deed something interferes. He’s her landlord and the building is populated with an eccentric group of characters. They all adore Peachy and are very concerned about her getting involved with Luc .
Eventually Peachy and Luc do the deed, but it’s as much to Luc’s benefit as Peachy’s. He finally learns what family and love can look like.
The book was fun with entertaining supporting characters. My biggest complain is that the actual falling in love part was given short shrift - it felt like it was dropped in as an afterthought.
I’m very happy I found this little book in that paper bag!
4/5 on romance scale.
Even though this book is nearly 20 years old, it didn’t feel that data. It’s hard to believe it was a category book from the 90’s but some of those books are written in a timeless manner.
After a near death experience, our heroine decides she doesn’t want to die a virgin so she propositions her downstairs neighbor to do the deed, no strings attached. He immediately rejects the proposition in horror. When realizes she’s serious, he accepts hoping that he can stall her untill she comes to her senses. He wines and dines her and she’s hoping it will happen, but every time they come close to doing the deed something interferes. He’s her landlord and the building is populated with an eccentric group of characters. They all adore Peachy and are very concerned about her getting involved with Luc .
Eventually Peachy and Luc do the deed, but it’s as much to Luc’s benefit as Peachy’s. He finally learns what family and love can look like.
The book was fun with entertaining supporting characters. My biggest complain is that the actual falling in love part was given short shrift - it felt like it was dropped in as an afterthought.
I’m very happy I found this little book in that paper bag!
4/5 on romance scale.
June 5, 2020
PEACHY'S PROPOSAL by Carole Buck was Silhouette Desire #976 (Jan. 1996) and the 2nd novel in the author's Wedding Belles series. It's a romantic comedy (you can tell by the cover, since the couple is shown laughing) about an artsy young woman named "Peachy" Keene living in New Orleans who (after a scary incident aboard a plane) is afraid of dying a virgin at age 23. She enlists the help of her landlord (bestselling novelist Luc Devereaux) to deflower her, based on the understanding that there will be no romantic involvement between them -- just the sex act with no strings attached. Luc goes along with the plan out of fear that someone less honorable than himself will take advantage of her if he refuses, but their attempts to do the deed continue to be interrupted by one thing or another. This prolonging of the act helps to build the sexual tension and make it more difficult for them to keep from falling in love with each other.
This is a 1990s "modern" romance, with a heroine pursuing sex without love (or so she thinks) and interesting neighbors for supporting characters, such as a former NFL player turned drag queen. Other examples of a modern sensibility are an allusion to masturbation (page 67) and Luc's use of a condom. Carole Buck was a good writer, who apparently (according to FictionDB) hasn't had a book published since 1999. The story is only 186 pages long, but the text is small and the prose sometimes seems a bit overwritten for so slight a plot. That detailed style of writing works well during the eventual sex scene, however. Occasionally this felt like a 4-star book for me, but I'm going to rate it 3.5 stars overall. I enjoyed the book a lot more than I thought I would, since I only picked it up on a whim.
This is a 1990s "modern" romance, with a heroine pursuing sex without love (or so she thinks) and interesting neighbors for supporting characters, such as a former NFL player turned drag queen. Other examples of a modern sensibility are an allusion to masturbation (page 67) and Luc's use of a condom. Carole Buck was a good writer, who apparently (according to FictionDB) hasn't had a book published since 1999. The story is only 186 pages long, but the text is small and the prose sometimes seems a bit overwritten for so slight a plot. That detailed style of writing works well during the eventual sex scene, however. Occasionally this felt like a 4-star book for me, but I'm going to rate it 3.5 stars overall. I enjoyed the book a lot more than I thought I would, since I only picked it up on a whim.
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