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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061178047
ISBN: 0061178047
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Studio: Avon

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Summary: best of the four
Comment: I really liked this one. I think it was the best of the four author stories that Gibson has written. It is like everything conspires against her but she remains somewhat sane. I mean how sane would you feel if you thought you were cursed?
I really liked how the past abd present flowed so I did not get a headache trying to figure what was going on.
That is one thing I love about Gibson is her ability to make characters that seem so normal, that you either want them to suceed or fail, but you want to know how it ends.

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Summary: Not Another Bad Book
Comment: I think the story should have started with Adele and Zach getting married. We have: Hunky Jock/Hero football guy who seems to be only marginally in love with Adele (but certainly in lust). Adele is pregnant with twins and is moving into the home her arch nemisis to raise the twins and his teenage daughter who is bratty & spolied. All of this in the home which is a shrine to his dead wife. Can anyone truly imagine this? I think in the rush the write the book she missed the real love story here. As I reached the end of the book my one thought was: is the moral of this story that rich, beautiful girls who tortured you in school and made life a living hell REALLY do have power over you?

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Summary: Just perfect
Comment: Warning - contains spoilers!
Rachel Gibson, one of my all-time favourites produced another hit (a big one).
Not another bad date is all about Adele Harris and her first love Zach Zemantis.
But it's starting and ending with another person - Devon, dead wife of Zach who got pregnant on purpose to get married to Zach (she is an absolute b.... , ehm a not so nice woman) anf of course it worked. Zach did the "right" thing, broke up with Adele and married Devon. I hate it when this happens because IMO marrying without love because someone gets pregnant is a recipe for disaster. But hey, that's only my opinion.
So back to the beginning of the book, Devon just died and God wants her to redo the wrong she did to Adele. But being a - you know what I mean - she is all about making more trouble for Adele.
A few years forward and Adele still has a lot of bad luck with men (thanks to Devon) and she is now back in her old hometown on a visit to help out her pregnant sister. Zach is living there too with his daughter and the two former lovers meet again and immediately realize that there is still a lot of attraction left beetween them. So what every romance reader craves happens and the two of them get back together. All is ok until Adele ends up pregnant (still Devon the b.) by Zach and let's just say he is not handling the situation like a good guy.
Adele, being my kind of girl, doesn't think about marrying because she got pregnant, so Zach is in a new situation and has to decide if there is more to his relationship with Adele and she has to decide if Zack is man enough to be her partner in life.
Although I don't really believe in god and I hate the whole "marrying without love thing" I loved - really loved - this book. It was a great read and I already reread it two times. Adele is a inspiring character, a real woman with flaws and one of my favourite heroines. And Zach is in the end a hit too who deserves a better marriage like the one he had with Devon.
And the idea with bringing the dead Devon into the book is really working and giving the book an unique character.
Even though the book is part of a series you can read it without knowing the other three books, although of course you should read them because they are great.
So grab a copy and start reading - this book is a must-read for romance fans.
Enjoy.
S.M.

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Summary: Not another formulaic and uninspired effort by Gibson...
Comment: If Adele Harris has to endure another bad date she will scream. What is wrong with the men she dates? They suddenly go stupid, crazy or just plain crude. That probably explains why the sci-fi fantasy novelist is still single at thirty-five while all of her fellow authors friends have met gorgeous men and gotten married. Her luck might just change when she travels to Texas to look after her very pregnant sister after her husband dumps her for a younger model. Zach Zemaitis, former pro-football hero turned high school football coach, now lives in town, having to raise his teenage daughter after his wife dies. Zach had broken Adele's heart while in college. Sparks fly between them when they meet again. But why can't they get it right? They have no idea that Zach's late wife is doing whatever possible to keep Zach and her childhood nemesis apart. She might also be the one responsible for Adele's lousy dates during the past three years...

Rachel Gibson has delivered yet another cutesy contemporary romance with Not Another Bad Date. Too bad that this novel, like Not in the Mood for Love, is so formulaic and predictable it feels as though the characters and storyline had been sketched out. Romance isn't passionate these days. It appears that most authors, especially bestselling ones, are churning out uninspired stories to meet a deadline. The stories are uninspired, the protagonists lack depth, and the authors don't even put any sort of passion or enthusiasm into their writing. Gibson has fallen into this category. Sex, Lies and Online Dating was the last novel of hers that I enjoyed. If this is the direction her writing has taken, then I won't bother reading her stuff anymore. I recommend this if you're a big fan of Gibson and don't mind stilted, predictable writing. If so, enjoy.

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Summary: A Born Entertainer....
Comment: Rachel Gibson was born to entertain. I have read nearly all of her books and with perhaps one exception, I don't think I've ever put any of them aside with disappointment, doomed to collect dust, undisturbed for all literary eternity. Let's not exaggerate here folks...'Not Another Bad Date' like all contemporary romance novels is NOT literary rocket science. It is what is is..a fun, feel good, lol beach, bed or bathtime read. It creates a little tug of nostalgia in wondering what it would be like to revisit our youth and the one we might have loved and lost. To recapture the magic in present day. Unfortunately, for those of us who aren't 'storybook' bombshells like Adele, the outcome might not be so happily ever after, but it's still fun to dream. Especially to delight in imagining our arch nemesis taken out by a garbage truck and doomed to the bargain bins of Walmart for all eternity. LOL Gibson rarely disappoints with her plotlines and characters. There's never a "carbon copy" passed along from book to book. There's never a stale moment. Her characters are always funky and fun. Just what readers expect for their hard earned money.

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What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town?

Adele Harris can't even begin to answer that question. She's had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he's lost his mind—and his manners? Adele thought life couldn't get any more confusing . . . until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Zach Zemaitis . . . the one who got away.

Texans love God, family, and football, though not always in that order

Zach, a former pro star, knows all about football. As for the other two, well, he's doing his best. But when Adele comes charging back into his life—still all lush curves and beautiful, big blue eyes—he wonders if his best is good enough. After all, he did her wrong. Can a woman with her track record ever really believe that he's serious this time . . . or is he destined to be another bad date?