Lynn Spencer - All About Romance

Since Goodreads keeps putting this book on my recommendations list, I figure I'll go on and post my review since, as it turns out, I did like this one! I gave it a B+, so we'll call it 4.5 stars. Here's what I had to say about the book at AAR:Broken record time: Harlequin Presents are my guilty little romance reading pleasures. The independent woman in me feels a twinge of guilt over my fondness for alpha men rescuing damsels in distress and whisking them away to a glamourous life, and The Man She Loves to Hate is probably the best HP I've read in quite a while. Since it's from the HP Extra line, the characters seem a bit more modern and the alpha male/less dominant female dynamic definitely gets played with a bit, and in this author's hands, it really does work.Back in her hometown in New Zealand, Jolie Tanner has a heck of terrible legacy to contend with. Her mother had a long-running affair with the local business tycoon, who has recently died. The affair came to light when Jolie was a child, and the ensuing scandal caused her to lose friends and face the mockery of townspeople for years to come. Jolie now makes her living as an artist in Christchurch, but when she comes home to see her mother, she also struggles with a lot of her old demons, and at the beginning of the book, she spends a fair amount of time trapped with one of them.This is a partial review, and you can find the complete text here: http://likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=8579