Comments on: Review: Having Justin’s Baby by Pamela Bauer

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:40:30 +0000

In this one, hero (Justin) should absolutely not have touched the heroine – she was extremely drunk, and a virgin. He just goes ahead and does what he wants without thinking.

I wanted to shake Paige. She was really nasty to Justin through most of the book, and Justin was to spineless to be honest or upfront with her.

By: Lynne Connolly

Lynne Connolly — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:07 +0000

I don’t mind the failed condom ones, but the no protection ones – they have to make it work for me. Like they’re drunk, or stupid. Oh wait – then I wouldn’t want to read it, either.
I do like to sit down with a cup of frothy coffee and a Modern/Presents, though (Modern in the UK, Presents in the US, same line, I learned recently).
If you come across one by India Grey, I really enjoyed that one.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:37:33 +0000

::sticks her tongue out at Sybil::

“I’m not a marketing geek, but I play one on TV.”

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:22:18 +0000

TracyS, you’ve just described half of my reading preferences!

Don’t we all have those plot themes that make us roll our eyes, but yet we can’t stop reading them? LOL

By: TracyS

TracyS — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:40:33 +0000

Definitely hit or miss, but I simply cannot stop reading them. Don’t we all have those plot themes that make us roll our eyes, but yet we can’t stop reading them? LOL

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:35:53 +0000

But it must sell and it must be selling well or they would stop… yes mz my job is marketing

By: Devon

Devon — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:11:17 +0000

I read a Kate Hardy with an absolutely nonsensical title–I think it was “Mistress on Trial”–but the UK title was normal. She’s good, too. Poor thing.

I really think that the reason I am so drawn to these stories is that, to me, getting pregnant from a one night stand is about the least romantic thing going. So it’s always like, can they do it? Can they make me believe in the romance? Definitely hit or miss, but I simply cannot stop reading them.

I can’t decide which bothers me more, no birth control or failed condoms. I’ve had a whole spate of failed condom ones. I had to go on Planned Parenthood to check the actual stats ‘cuz I was getting concerned.

One night stands are bad news in romancelandia. If you have one, you will get pregnant for sure.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:00:42 +0000

Wendy – I guffawed over that last sentence in your comment.

I still don’t think they give us enough credit with these titles.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:57:30 +0000

Gwen: Because research has shown that “they” (retailers) have only so many seconds to hook a reader. Hey, I hate the title Having Justin’s Baby too – but when I see it I know what that book is about. It’s about a chick having Justin’s baby! And In Bed With Her Italian Boss? The hero is Italian, her boss, and they do the nasty. If I went for Italian heroes who like to sexually harass their female coworkers I’d be all over that….

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:54:57 +0000

I love HSR, but this is a book I would avoid like the plague. I just cannot do accidental pregnancy stories in contemporaries. Hey, I know birth control fails – but so often in these stories the characters don’t even THINK about using anything, which in this day and age just seems really TSTL to me.

My favorite though is when the hero is a notorious playboy and accidentally impregnates the heroine because they didn’t use birth control. Makes you wonder how many children he has floating around who don’t know who their Daddy is? And icky – how romantic is that?

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:33:12 +0000

I’m just gonna say it. I know it will make me some enemies, but I’ve just got to say it:

WTF is with these Harlequin titles??

Mills & Boone publishes what is frequently the same books and have perfectly respectable titles. Then the American arm of the company gets hold of something and totally pimps it out!

Case in point:

UK publication of Kate Hardy’s “Breakfast at Giovanni’s” became “In Bed with Her Italian Boss” when released in the US!!

WHAT??!! PUH-LEEZ!

It’s insulting to think that we have to have schlock titles like that to buy a bloody book! I won’t be caught dead reading a book named what they named it in the US, but I could do the UK title easily.