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| Having The Frenchman's Baby (Harlequin Romance) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rebecca Winters
Publisher: Harlequin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1031134
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0373039042
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373039043
ASIN: 0373039042
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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 This romance will live with me! March 15, 2007
It's been a long time since I read a romance where a man's love was so strong and powerful, I wished I could step inside the pages with him. There are so many moving scenes that penetrated the very depth of my soul, and that doesn't happen very often. This book truly touched feelings I didn't know were inside me. I don't want to give away the plot, but you must read this one. It's unique.
Jeanne D'Arc
 If I could give it zero stars, I would January 9, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't even know where to begin to tell you how much of a waste of time this book is, so I guess I'll just start at the beginning.
Rachel Valentine is a wine buyer for her family's chain of restaurants called Bella Lucia located across Britain. She is on a trip to Thann, France on behalf of her grandfather and decides to visit the wineries in the area. When she tries the white wine from Chartier et Fils, she immediately decides that it's the best she's ever tasted and that she'll have to order a large quantity for the restaurants. She doesn't count on falling for the master vintner, Lucien Chartier, and becoming so swept away that she winds up losing her virginity to him. When she finds out from Luc's mother that he's been keeping secrets from her, she doesn't confront him about them. Of course not. Instead, she runs away like a 30-year-old child and foolishly assumes that what everyone else says is true.
Basically the big secret is that Luc's ex-wife is still in a coma on life support at a hospital nearby (that gives nothing away since you know as much when the story is told from Luc's point of view). Luc has been fighting his former wife's family to keep her alive on life support in the hopes that one day she'll wake up. Rachel, jumping to conclusions, takes this as evidence that he must still be madly in love with her and unable to let her go. Perish the thought that he just doesn't want to see someone he once loved die. Of course he's still obsessed with his ex-wife even as he's making love to you. Because that's what children would believe and Rachel is nothing but a child.
First of all, it's completely ridiculous to assume that in this day and age this women who has been dating for more than half her life would still be a virgin, but okay. I'll run with it. It's even more ridiculous to have her fall in love with the first man she gives it up to just because she likes the taste of his wine, but fine. I'll allow that one as well. What I won't allow is how these two are so completely in love after 180 pages when they barely had more than 30 pages of dialogue and know pretty much nothing about each others' interests, backgrounds, and family. It's too much to ask for me to suspend disbelief even if it is Harlequin. I remember back when Harlequin was good, cheap romance that would still have a good plot and a nice story to tell.
Wrong. Don't pick this one up. Save yourself the time, because I really wish I could somehow get mine back.
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