Welcome to Temptation
by Jennifer Crusie
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Author: Jennifer CrusieEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-15
ISBN: 0312974256
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Book Review: And What a Warm Welcome It Is
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book I ever read by Jenny Crusie. I am SO GLAD that I picked it up! I've read everything of hers that I could get my hands on, and am looking forward to "You Again," "Charlotte," "Dogs & Goddesses;" "Always Kiss Me Goodnight;" and "Wilde Ride."
Phin Tucker, his daughter Dillie, and Liz his mother. Sophie Dempsey, Amy her sister, and Davy her (hot, hot, hot - though not to Sophie - See "Faking It" for Davy's story) brother. Add Wes Mazur, the Chief of Police, Clea Whipple Black (the stupidest woman to ever grace a page...well, she's actually very intelligent, just an idiot for giving up Davy...) the actress-porn star-wife-of-a-television-reporter, her soon-to-be ex-husband Zane Black, Rachel Garvey, Leo Kingsley, and a cast of others, and you have Temptation, Ohio (alas, not a real location...but certainly fun to visit in the Crusie-verse).
Sophie and Amy are asked by Clea (their brother Davy's ex-girlfriend) to film her audition tape, so she can get back into acting (if one flop and a porn movie equal an acting career); because she knows them, and because they own a Wedding Film operation. Sophie pretty much raised Davy and Amy after their mom died. Their dad was a con-man's con-man, and not the most wonderful parent available. The Dempsey kids have some baggage, but Davy and Amy were spared a lot because Sophie protected them. In turn, they protected her.
Phin is the Mayor of Temptation...like his Daddy, Granddaddy, and Great Granddaddy before him. He doesn't want to be Mayor anymore. He just wants to run his book store, and enjoy life. Phin is Sophie's "worst nightmare." The town-boy to end all town-boys. Blond, blue-eyed, hot, sexy, handsome...pain. Sophie is the "devil's-candy" to Phin. Hot, sexy, sweet, tightly-wound, beautiful...pain, and then some.
So, of course, Sophie and Phin fall directly in lust, and end up in love. If the latter didn't happen, this wouldn't be a love-story, now would it?
The various twists and turns of the plot are great. As with the majority of Ms. Crusie's works, this is a wonderful book; well worth the effort to locate, the money purchase, and the time it takes to read. I have read this many, many times, and will read it many, many more. I highly recommend it.
Summary of Welcome to Temptation
Turn left at small town secrets...
Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous.
Yield to oncoming desire...
All Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home. All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie's video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them down.
Welcome to temptation...
As event spiral out of control, Sophie and Phin find themselves caught in a web of gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, and really excellent sex. All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble...and in love.
Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous.
Yield to oncoming desire...
All Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home. All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie's video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them down.
Welcome to temptation...
As event spiral out of control, Sophie and Phin find themselves caught in a web of gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, and really excellent sex. All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble...and in love.
Prepare to be absolutely charmed by Jennifer Crusie's riotous tale of two slightly twisted sisters and a town chock full of hunks, coots, and petty politics in Welcome to Temptation.
Sophie and Amy Dempsey are just two wedding filmers trying to hop to the next level of their careers when they agree to produce a documentary of aging film star Clea Whipple's return to her hometown of Temptation, Ohio. And when the local mayor, Phin Tucker, and the police chief, Wes Mazur, proffer themselves as willing subjects for quick flings, Sophie and Amy aren't the type to object. But things are never easy in rural Ohio, and what starts off as an esoteric art film project soon evolves into potential porn--and that's just the relationships, let alone the documentary. Clea's husband Zane turns belly-up, the race for mayor turns dirty, and Sophie and Phin turn on the heat full steam.
With hot sex, clever characters, and Crusie's trademark wit, Welcome to Temptation will keep your eyes glued to the page and your stomach aching with laughter. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
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