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Rescue Me
Tyler Logan reluctantly agrees to pose as the girlfriend of her in-the-closet gay BFF at his company's annual retreat. Stupid idea, but simple. She'd done it a dozen times before.
Kristin Walker, doesn't want to go on this trip, be the perfect hostess, or be the boss's wife anymore, but finds herself trapped in all three.
When an unexpected turn of events transforms their three days in paradise into a fight for survival, both women struggle against the odds and their own fears. However, the biggest challenge is their growing attraction toward each other and the question of who will rescue whom?
Kristin Walker, doesn't want to go on this trip, be the perfect hostess, or be the boss's wife anymore, but finds herself trapped in all three.
When an unexpected turn of events transforms their three days in paradise into a fight for survival, both women struggle against the odds and their own fears. However, the biggest challenge is their growing attraction toward each other and the question of who will rescue whom?
288 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2011
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Julie Cannon
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Julie Cannon is a native sun goddess born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a corporate stiff by day and dreamer by night. She has nine romance novels and five short stories published by Bold Strokes Books. A recent transplant to Houston, Julie and her partner Laura live on the lake with their two kids, two dogs and a cat.
Julie Cannon is a native sun goddess born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a corporate stiff by day and dreamer by night. She has nine romance novels and five short stories published by Bold Strokes Books. A recent transplant to Houston, Julie and her partner Laura live on the lake with their two kids, two dogs and a cat.
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June 7, 2013
I liked the premise of this book and bought it after reading a fairly solid review here on Goodreads.
Sadly the storyline and character development did not live up to my expectations.
I liked Tyler and her survival skills and angst filled past. I liked that she would accompany her bff on a work related trip to an island so Paul could keep his stereotypical a$$hole of a boss from finding out he was gay.
The love interest, Kristin, the boss's wife is another stereotype of the questioning hetero female who spends the book wringing her hands and wondering why oh why she is so attracted to Tyler who just happens to write a series of books she has read and reread featuring a kick ass heroine who may or may not be gay.
Sigh. There is so much sexual frustration in this book that the reader gets pretty frustrated as well. The book read like a 1980's Sandra Brown romance. All of the characters played their stereotypical roles and very little happened. They get stranded on a desert island, but we only get small details of their search for food. Finding a waterfall and a jacuzzi type hot spring was almost laughable. This was no episode of Survivor or Lost, more like Gilligan's Island.
What turned the book from a two star to a three star for me was some dialogue near the end of the book. As Tyler and Kristin hash out their feelings for one another their conversations and love scenes are a pleasure to read.
Too bad it took 60% of the book for me to care.
Sadly the storyline and character development did not live up to my expectations.
I liked Tyler and her survival skills and angst filled past. I liked that she would accompany her bff on a work related trip to an island so Paul could keep his stereotypical a$$hole of a boss from finding out he was gay.
The love interest, Kristin, the boss's wife is another stereotype of the questioning hetero female who spends the book wringing her hands and wondering why oh why she is so attracted to Tyler who just happens to write a series of books she has read and reread featuring a kick ass heroine who may or may not be gay.
Sigh. There is so much sexual frustration in this book that the reader gets pretty frustrated as well. The book read like a 1980's Sandra Brown romance. All of the characters played their stereotypical roles and very little happened. They get stranded on a desert island, but we only get small details of their search for food. Finding a waterfall and a jacuzzi type hot spring was almost laughable. This was no episode of Survivor or Lost, more like Gilligan's Island.
What turned the book from a two star to a three star for me was some dialogue near the end of the book. As Tyler and Kristin hash out their feelings for one another their conversations and love scenes are a pleasure to read.
Too bad it took 60% of the book for me to care.
May 23, 2012
ho hum -- straight girl falls for lesbian protagonist, had yearnings but never did anything before -- why is this trope still around?
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February 5, 2017This book didn't do it for me and I have no idea how to rate it, so I won't. Clearly I liked it enough to finish it, but there were some things that didn't work for me at all.
July 24, 2015
It's December in Colorado, and as I'm freezing my tailfeathers off, I wanted to read about a book set in a much warmer climate - something beachy and tropical, preferably. And this book seemed perfect for that - characters who are in a plane crash and land on some deserted island, where they have to survive and, meanwhile, fall for one another. Yes please!
As a summary of the book - Tyler is a successful writer and Paul's best friend. After a debilitating accident, Paul (who is also gay) was really the only one there for her, so they are exceptionally close - close enough that she often masquerades as his girlfriend at social events thrown by his homophobic boss. So Paul somehow manages to talk Tyler into accompanying him on a five-day island getaway with his coworkers and their wives. One of those wives is Kristin, Paul's boss' wife, who is desperately unhappy in her marriage. Steven, her husband, is controlling and cruel, and Kristin only wants a simple, happier existence. Kristin and Tyler find themselves attracted to one another in spite of everything against their relationship - Kristin's marriage, Paul's job being on the line if it's found out that he's gay, and Tyler's insecurities.
The best thing about this book is that it's short - only 218 pages, and counting the blank pages between chapters, the large font, and the fact that the story itself doesn't start until page 13, it's actually shorter than that. I found myself disliking the characters more and more as I read further along. In fact, most of the characters are actually caricatures of popular tropes, and none of them are done well.
Tyler was okay, but I found her convenient knowledge of survival skills ridiculous. Yes, she writes about a badass who survives all sorts of situations and circumstances, but just because you know, theoretically, how to do certain things does not mean that in practice you are able to accomplish these.
Kristin was a two-dimensional heterosexual woman in an unhappy marriage with a misogynistic, controlling jerk; she has great sex with the first woman she's attracted to and sees forever written in the stars (figuratively). Her husband has stolen her parents' successful company out from under them, so well in fact that her parents are seemingly unaware of this fact.
The rest of the company members (save for Paul, whom I liked most of all) and wives were annoyingly stupid. They refused to do anything to help in their survival - all they did was complain about how they didn't have enough food or they actually had to (gasp!) work by standing watch or gathering driftwood. Ugh.
It's not like surviving was all that hard for the group, anyway. It feels more like an off-grid camping trip than a struggle for survival. The survivors willing to work (Paul, Tyler, and someone else whose name I can't remember) were able to save most of the supplies from the plane, so they didn't really have to worry about food - they just had smaller rations. And fresh water was apparently never a concern - even though Tyler found a waterfall in the jungle, they mostly used it for swimming and bathing. Kristin even mentions that they had a good stock of juice (!), water, and other drinks. Seriously?
Most of the time is spent with Kristin ruminating on how unhappy she is in her marriage (and Steven is so stereotypically horrible - ugh) and Tyler thinking about her insecurities and past relationships and flaws - combined with their attraction to one another. Yawn. Even the characters compare the setting, more than once, to a Harlequin romance novel. And that's what it really did feel like to me - there was no real struggle to survive, and everything was solved handily.
The writing style kind of bugged me - the author had a tendency to switch perspectives in mid-chapter without warning, and sometimes I had a difficult time discerning who was "speaking" from paragraph to paragraph. That's one of my pet peeves, and it really pulled me out of the story - that and the horrible characters. Blah.
I really wouldn't recommend this book.
As a summary of the book - Tyler is a successful writer and Paul's best friend. After a debilitating accident, Paul (who is also gay) was really the only one there for her, so they are exceptionally close - close enough that she often masquerades as his girlfriend at social events thrown by his homophobic boss. So Paul somehow manages to talk Tyler into accompanying him on a five-day island getaway with his coworkers and their wives. One of those wives is Kristin, Paul's boss' wife, who is desperately unhappy in her marriage. Steven, her husband, is controlling and cruel, and Kristin only wants a simple, happier existence. Kristin and Tyler find themselves attracted to one another in spite of everything against their relationship - Kristin's marriage, Paul's job being on the line if it's found out that he's gay, and Tyler's insecurities.
The best thing about this book is that it's short - only 218 pages, and counting the blank pages between chapters, the large font, and the fact that the story itself doesn't start until page 13, it's actually shorter than that. I found myself disliking the characters more and more as I read further along. In fact, most of the characters are actually caricatures of popular tropes, and none of them are done well.
Tyler was okay, but I found her convenient knowledge of survival skills ridiculous. Yes, she writes about a badass who survives all sorts of situations and circumstances, but just because you know, theoretically, how to do certain things does not mean that in practice you are able to accomplish these.
Kristin was a two-dimensional heterosexual woman in an unhappy marriage with a misogynistic, controlling jerk; she has great sex with the first woman she's attracted to and sees forever written in the stars (figuratively). Her husband has stolen her parents' successful company out from under them, so well in fact that her parents are seemingly unaware of this fact.
The rest of the company members (save for Paul, whom I liked most of all) and wives were annoyingly stupid. They refused to do anything to help in their survival - all they did was complain about how they didn't have enough food or they actually had to (gasp!) work by standing watch or gathering driftwood. Ugh.
It's not like surviving was all that hard for the group, anyway. It feels more like an off-grid camping trip than a struggle for survival. The survivors willing to work (Paul, Tyler, and someone else whose name I can't remember) were able to save most of the supplies from the plane, so they didn't really have to worry about food - they just had smaller rations. And fresh water was apparently never a concern - even though Tyler found a waterfall in the jungle, they mostly used it for swimming and bathing. Kristin even mentions that they had a good stock of juice (!), water, and other drinks. Seriously?
Most of the time is spent with Kristin ruminating on how unhappy she is in her marriage (and Steven is so stereotypically horrible - ugh) and Tyler thinking about her insecurities and past relationships and flaws - combined with their attraction to one another. Yawn. Even the characters compare the setting, more than once, to a Harlequin romance novel. And that's what it really did feel like to me - there was no real struggle to survive, and everything was solved handily.
The writing style kind of bugged me - the author had a tendency to switch perspectives in mid-chapter without warning, and sometimes I had a difficult time discerning who was "speaking" from paragraph to paragraph. That's one of my pet peeves, and it really pulled me out of the story - that and the horrible characters. Blah.
I really wouldn't recommend this book.
April 16, 2018
3 Stars. This book was good, but not great. I enjoyed the two main characters, Kristen and Tyler's interactions, but I never really felt their character development. The book is about Tyler, who is faking playing her gay best friend's girlfriend to social work events, and Kristen, the boss, Steven's wife. The higher ups at the company all plan to go to a week vacation to a private island when their plane crashes and they have to survive on the island. Tyler and Kristen are attracted to each other, and being together 24/7 trying to survive does nothing but build their attraction more.
They both want to fight it, as Kristen thinks Tyler is straight, and Tyler doesn't want to fall for the boss' wife, even if the boss is an ass. As they continue to survive on the island, they continue to see that they are attracted to each other and it continues from there. One of my main complaints is this book seems to end sort of abruptly, in my opinion, and that threw me off. I enjoyed a lot of the book, but not enough to put it on my re-read list or to recommend this first. It was just okay.
They both want to fight it, as Kristen thinks Tyler is straight, and Tyler doesn't want to fall for the boss' wife, even if the boss is an ass. As they continue to survive on the island, they continue to see that they are attracted to each other and it continues from there. One of my main complaints is this book seems to end sort of abruptly, in my opinion, and that threw me off. I enjoyed a lot of the book, but not enough to put it on my re-read list or to recommend this first. It was just okay.
May 10, 2020
This is an easy and quick read with a couple of tired tropes - gay woman falls for straight woman and gay man uses bff gay woman to appear coupled to his company. Tyler is a writer of adventure stories featuring a kick ass heroine. Kristin is an emotionally abused wife of a corporate bully. A plane crash and time spent on a deserted island throw carefully crafted lives into turmoil. This turns out to be a gentle story with not much in the way of highs and lows.
September 7, 2018
Interesting storyline.
I liked a lot about this book, liked the main character and the Island crash was cool. I would have loved a wee epilogue, but otherwise another great book from one of my must read authors.
I liked a lot about this book, liked the main character and the Island crash was cool. I would have loved a wee epilogue, but otherwise another great book from one of my must read authors.
February 24, 2019
Para pasar el rato una tarde que estés super aburrida.
No se hace pesado, se lee rápido.
Debo decir que me he saltado alguna escena de sexo porque se enrolla tela y no aportan mucho.
Un poco instalove aunque te lo hagan ver como que no.
No lo recomiendo especialmente.
Sin más.
No se hace pesado, se lee rápido.
Debo decir que me he saltado alguna escena de sexo porque se enrolla tela y no aportan mucho.
Un poco instalove aunque te lo hagan ver como que no.
No lo recomiendo especialmente.
Sin más.
August 21, 2020
Very Beautiful
Definitely worth the read. Reminds me of why I first fell in love with Julie Cannon's writing. I just wish it was longer and we got a small glimpse of their life together. (SPOILER)
Definitely worth the read. Reminds me of why I first fell in love with Julie Cannon's writing. I just wish it was longer and we got a small glimpse of their life together. (SPOILER)
May 9, 2020
Absolutely Loved it! could read it over and over!
May 11, 2020
I hate weak women who suddenly come alive in the last 15 pages.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 4, 2024
Good book, though an epilogue would have been good. Excellent writer, good characters even though all ‘straights’ cartoon baddies. Recommended.
March 5, 2017
3.5 stars- entertaining without being one of Julie Cannon's best. I enjoyed the potential of the plot but found the characters a bit too predictable & the story lacking a bit of depth & credibilty...
July 30, 2012
Just kind of a meh story here. Supporting characters are merely caricatures. A much better crashed on a deserted island story is 1049 Club by Kim Pritekel.
December 27, 2012
This is a short story. Really light-hearted, easy to read but a little predictable. Worth a read as long as you are not expecting too much from it.
July 7, 2013
I couldn't put this book down as soon as I started reading it. The characters came off the page and were very well done, as was the writing.
August 29, 2014
Keeps you interested to the last word
couldn't wait to see what happen very good book! wanted to kick Stevens asks throughout the whole book. everyone needs a Paul!
couldn't wait to see what happen very good book! wanted to kick Stevens asks throughout the whole book. everyone needs a Paul!
October 26, 2015
2012 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)
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