Not Another Bad Date

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I really enjoyed this book. It was very easy to follow and easy to fall in love with the characters. Adele comes back to her old childhood neighborhood because of her sister who sort of has a family emergency. She dreads returning because she is afraid to bump into her first love Zac. Zac and Adele met in college and it was a connection immediately. They kicked it off and Adele found herself in love in less than a month. Zac was her first everything. Unfortunately things did not work out between them and Adele moved on and started her life in another state. Of course when she gets back to her hometown fate has other plans for her. Zac is some how thrown back into her life and Zac is willing and ready to finish what they started years ago. This was a very funny and exciting story. I loved the relationship between Zac and Adele. Zac was just Mr. Steamy to me and I wish was Adele a couple of times while reading this book LOL. Hot and Sexy football player, who wouldn't want to be her? LOL This is the third book by Rachel Gibson I have read and I have to say I really like her writing. This was a very good read and I recommend it. ( )

An okay read. Not much really happens. I kept waiting for the story to "start", but apart from a tiny bit of conflict near the final third of the book, there really was no "story" to the story.

Adele Harris had her heart broken by Zach Zemaitis when they were in college and he dumped her to marry her rival, Devon. When Adele returns to her home town to lend a hand to her sister, who is laid up with a problematic pregnancy, she tries to resist the feelings she has for Zach that never managed to go away entirely. For his part, Zach remembers Adele as a sexy, nice fling he had in college, a woman he wouldn't mind getting to know again in the most physical sense but not for anything long term or serious. For a while Adele manages to resist her attraction, but predictably they end up together. But Adele doesn't put much effort into resisting Zach, and it isn't until the very end - as in last couple of pages - that Zach's feelings seem to take a turn. There was almost no conflict in this book, nothing but a last-minute bit of jerkiness on Zach's part to keep them from being together.

Too, I didn't care much for the paranormal twist that Gibson inserted, in which Zach's deceased wife, Devon, is tasked with making good on all the problems she caused while alive or suffer eternity as a Walmart employee. Devon was never likable - her efforts to "fix" her mistakes were actually just as mean and nasty as her real life actions towards Zach and Adele. This aspect was wholly unnecessary an added nothing to the story.

I liked Gibson's "Simply Irresistible" much better - it was much funnier with more likable characters. Although, after reading two of Gibson's titles, I'm beginning to think her heroes are not necessarily the nicest guys. ( )

Cute fast read. Same old. Nothing special. Girly read. ( )

I greatly enjoy Rachel Gibson's books, but this is not one of her better works. It was an entertaining, funny, sexy story, and I had a lot of fun reading it. However ... the leading male, Zach Zemaitis, never came together for me. I just didn't get why Adele fell in love with him. Sure, I get that he had great looks and a superstar quality about him. But the chemistry between him and Adele wasn't believable or self-sustaining. It took the author telling us there were feelings between these two for the notion to even come across. What's more, Zach's behavior towards Adele was unlikable. For much of the book, he's an overbearing a-hole who dismisses the heartbreak he's caused in the past and offense he creates in the present. So, at the very least, there should have been some groveling or major courting before Adele so much as looked at him twice after some of the things he said.

Having said all that, I did like the book, and I'm glad I read it. I just wish for some editorial fine-tuning that would make Zach more likable. ( )