Wife for Hire
by Janet Evanovich
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Author: Janet EvanovichEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0060598883
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: Early Janet Evanovich - Wife for Hire, NJ Tomboy Finds Love in Skogen, VT
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Janet Evanovich's early madcap novels, pre-Stephanie Plumb, now reissued after being so long out of print. Of course, being one of her early works, it is not a mature a style and richly nuanced at her super popular (yes I AM a fan!) Stephanie Plumb novels. If you can read it with that in mind and want to get a fun romping glimpse into her early writing, you will love this book. However, if you're expecting it to be Stephanie Plumb Re Deux, you would be disappointed. Just wait for the next Stephanie Plumb or re-read one which you already have.
That said, our heroine is (yes!) a New Jersey Girl, Maggie Toone, who was a tomboy with a kooky independent streak in here having grown up in a brick-making town of Riverside. She is an English teacher who has recently inherited her Aunt Kitty's Madam of a Bordello's Diary. The action opens on her 27th birthday picnic and cake celebration where she has just left being a school teacher and announces her intentions to her mother and Aunt that she will take a year off and go write a book based on the diary.
To do that, she has answered and Advertisement (one of those fun tidbits which dates the writing of it that the ad wasn't placed online like at Craig's List, or could you imagine, Ebay? lol) for a Wife For Hire. Hence the name of the novel.
Our hero is Hank (dreamy masculine name, of course) Mallone is a former hockey player (well that grabbed my attention because being from NJ myself, I am, ergo a hockey fan!) now lately an organic farmer of apples.
I won't ruin the plot for you, but of course, there are mutual madcap escapades. A pre-Grandma Mazure character in the housekeeper Elsie. And you can see some similarities of personality and hair challenges of Stephanie Plumb in Maggie.
All in all, a delightful weekend read. I literally curled up on a weekend morning with cup after cup of hot tea in the winter to read this. To me that is an idyllic weekend - reading and hot tea.
Highly recommend for a cold weekend and some hot tea reading!
Summary of Wife for Hire
Hank Mallone knows he's in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue's reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look?
Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she's too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped. The deal is strictly business, both agree, until Hank turns out to be every fantasy she ever had.
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