Natural Born
Charmer (Chicago Stars #7)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback & ebook
ISBN: 978-0060734589
My Review:
Why oh, why have I let my reading of every new book and her
old ones I missed slip lately. There was
a time I would read each new release, but then blogging took over. So when I was approached by Megan, the
publicist at Harper Collins, I had to jump at the chance to be part of this
amazing blog tour. I get to review two
of Susan’s previous titles (watch for Ain’t
She Sweet in two weeks) and then I get to read her new one, Heroes are my Weakness. Three SEP’s in one summer, heck yes!!
And her books are just like I remember them, full of great
characters, lots of humor and banter and a wonderful love story. Natural
Born Charmer did not disappoint.
What was even better, this was my book I enjoyed on the houseboat we
rented to celebrate my husband’s 40th birthday.
There was no better place to enjoy this book!
Is there a better place to relax with a book (note
the Atlantic Ocean is just on the other side of those dunes and Cape Lookout
was my other view, happiness!)
So Natural Born Charmer
starts off with a bang. A hot guy in a
hot car picking up a literally hot headless beaver on the side of the
road. I mean it seems absurd but I could
see it happening. Said beaver has quite
a bit of spunk, a jerk of an ex and no money so she embarks on a trip with hot
hunky football player to get where she needs to go, not knowing at the time
that where she needs to be is with said football-player.
Dean and Blue are amazing characters. Dean is a natural born charmer which is one
of the things that makes Blue hold off from him for awhile. Blue is a flighty but smart woman who has
grown up in several homes so she’s a little scared of commitment. Dean is not all in from the beginning of the
book either, he’s just intrigued by how different Blue is, but he is just as
afraid as her that they can’t make it work because of their differences and
because of his own issues in his life.
As they finally make it to Nashville where he is having a
house redone as a second home (his first is in Chicago where he’s a Chicago
Star football player). But he wants a
more permanent home and he loves the one in Nashville. He comes home to a surprise or two that make
the book interesting. I like how the book focuses on several other
characters. At times I almost felt Blue
and Dean’s romance was secondary, but it was okay, it really worked in the
framework of the book and once the storylines started coming together, I could
hardly put the book down. I was even
reading it on the boat ride home and I never do that, I usually just enjoy the
scenery, but it was that hard to put down.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips fails to disappoint as usual. You get romance, you get drama, you get
laughs. I’m pretty sure I laughed and
cried in this one. I loved every minute
even when I was about ready to kill the main characters becasue of their usual
stupidity at not facing love. But that
just added to the story as well. This is
number 7 in the Chicago Stars series, but reads great as a stand-alone. However it reminds me I want to go back and
fill in the books I have missed and with a lighter review schedule I should be
able to do that. Thank you Susan
Elizabeth Phillips for providing me with a wonderful beach read and I look
forward to continuing my summer of SEP soon!
My Rating: 5.0/5.0
Summary
It wasn't every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down
the side of a road, not even in Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard's
larger-than-life world. He slammed on the brakes of his brand-new Aston Martin
Vanquish and pulled over in front of her.
The beaver marched right past, her big, flat tail bouncing in
the gravel, and her small, sharp nose stuck up in the air. Way up. The beaver
looked highly pissed . . .
She was definitely a girl beaver because her beaver head was
missing, revealing sweaty, dark hair pulled into a scraggly ponytail. He'd been
praying for a little distraction from his own depressing company, so he threw
open the door and stepped out onto the shoulder of the Colorado road . . .
Funny, sexy, and touching, Natural Born Charmer is the unforgettable love story of a golden
boy who might be losing his luster and a spirited woman who's learned never to
depend on anyone but herself.
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Author Biography (from Goodreads)
The Huffington Post says the
books of Susan Elizabeth Phillips provide a “gateway drug to the whole
[romance] genre,” which she assumes is a good thing. Bookpage magazine
calls her “the crown jewel of romantic comedy writers,” which is
definitely a good thing. Since she wrote her first novel on a typewriter
in her kitchen, her books have been published in over 30 languages and
appear on bestseller lists all over the world.
In addition to being a
New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today bestseller, she is a
hiker, lazy gardener, horrible singer, passable cook, passionate reader,
wife, mother of two grown sons, and grandmother of two adorable little
ones.
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***I
received this book from the publicist at Harper Collins for an honest
review. I was not compensated in any other way except receiving the
book for free. ***
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