Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin StartAlmost Perfect by Susan Mallery
Almost Perfect
Publisher: HQN Books (June 29, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0373774907
ISBN-13: 978-0373774906
Genre: Women’s Fiction
“LIZ SUTTON HAD ALWAYS KNOWN the past would come back and bite her in the butt—she just hadn’t known it was going to happen today.” (Almost Perfect, Susan Mallery)
Liz left Fool’s Gold, California long ago and never planned to return. That all changes with one e-mail. As a New York Times Bestselling suspense author, Liz gets crazy fan letters all the time. But this one is different. When a niece she didn’t know she had writes and asks for her help, Liz drops everything and heads out even though it means returning to the one place that never accepted her.
Ethan Hendrix was born into one of the town’s founding families and because of this; he was raised to believe that he had to act accordingly. Dating the daughter of the woman with the worst reputation in town wasn’t allowed, even though he couldn’t stay away from her. When his friends confront him about his secret relationship, he denies it and ends up losing more than the girl he professed in private to love. Twelve years later, she’s back and so is the eleven year old son he never knew he had. After having lost a wife and child during childbirth, Ethan is bound and determined he isn’t going to lose his son again. Thus ensues a series of misguided attempts to do the right thing. Will his lack of tact and understanding leave him more alone than ever?
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Fool’s Gold, California is definitely a place I want to visit. I first experienced this fictitious town way before hearing about the books. I don’t know how I got the link but as soon as I looked at this really cool web site featuring Fool’s Gold, I immediately added all four books to my Amazon wish list. Check out the town for yourself at the following link. http://www.foolsgoldca.com/
Almost Perfect is the second book in the series and features one of the characters Susan Mallery introduced in Chasing Perfect. Although I didn’t always like Ethan, I could understand some of the reasons behind why he did what he did. I loved Liz and the strength she projected to the world. Not many women would blindly dive into the responsibilities of adding her 14 and 11 year old nieces to her family without freaking out. The way she handles Ethan and his overbearing tactics to see their son made me admire her, but the way she handles the biddy bodies around town made me want to nominate her for sainthood.
There are some mixed reviews on this book because of some of the things the hero does. I personally felt the author did an amazing job of giving her readers a true-to-life character that was not perfect; and honestly, he reacted to some of Liz’s decisions in the same type of manner that most real-life guys would have done given this same situation.
In the end, Ethan and the town redeem themselves and Ms. Mallery left me wanting to know more about the citizens of Fool’s Gold.
Tags: Almost Perfect, HQN Books, Susan Mallery, Tami Brothers
About the author
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Tami Brothers | http://www.tamibrothers.com I’ve always wanted to live a fun, sexy and exciting life. But when my clumsiness left me with an aversion to high heels, my fear of wardrobe malfunctions cut out those plunging necklines, and my skydiving instructor politely suggested I take up golf; I decided the only way to keep from breaking my neck would be to write about such a life.
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August 28th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Thank you for the lovely review! I’m delighted that you enjoyed ALMOST PERFECT. Ethan did have a lot to learn.
I’m glad, too, that you’ve enjoyed the Fool’s Gold website. I’m having a lot of fun with it, adding between-the-books updates on the characters. Sort of like an ongoing epilog. You can even see pictures of Josh & Charity’s wedding on the News page!
FINDING PERFECT will be out on August 31!
August 28th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Hi Susan! (waving madly from my computer desk!!!)
This was a fun book and the series is awesome! I was just over there last week and saw that magazine article you did on Josh and Charity’s wedding shoot. That is very cool. I LOVE your marketing.
Thanks a ton for commenting today and THANK YOU for writing such a fun series. I really connected with these characters.
Tami
August 28th, 2010 at 10:48 am
“Almost Perfect” sounds like a really interesting read with some depth. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks, Tami. And thanks to Susan Mallery for visiting us. Please stop by again.
August 28th, 2010 at 10:50 am
I’m pretty much a Romantic Suspense reader.
BUT I just finished this book and LOVED it. I’ve just picked up the previous one in the series and will be buying the next one as soon as it hits the shelves.
Great read.
August 28th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Thanks for the review. And thanks Susan for coming to our site. I will definitely get this book and can’t wait to visit the Fool’s Gold site.
Marilyn Baron
August 29th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Great review. I can’t wait to check it out…it founds really great.
Susan, thanks for dropping by.
Sandy
August 29th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Great Review. Don’t know where my first comment went . . . That was very nice of S. Mallery to comment on your review.