Good Time Man

by Emilie Richards

paperback

216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 28, 1986

About the author

I'm the author of seventy-something novels, including romance, women's fiction and mystery. When We Were Sisters debuted in June 2016, a stand alone novel about two foster sisters traveling back into their past together. I loved writing it and love the cover my publisher chose.

I'm also excited about my recent series, Goddesses Anonymous, which started with One Mountain Away and was followed by Somewhere Between Luck and Trust. The third book in the series, A River Too Wide, came out in July 2014. The Color of Light debuted in August 2015. Will there be more? We'll see.

I'm also putting up my newly edited romance backlist and love re-reading and updating them a bit.

Last year my husband and I moved from Virginia, to Osprey, Florida, the state where both of us were raised, met, and married. In the summer we live in Chautauqua, New York. I'm a quilter, knitter, kayaker, and the mother of four children, whom I regard as my greatest creative endeavors. And now there are four wonderful grandchildren to spoil.

Visit me at my web site, emilierichards.com, and my blog, www.emilierichards.com/blog. You can also find me at Twitter and on my Facebook reader page.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 1 out of 5]

As the title suggests, the hero in this one is only out for a good time. A manwhore of epic proportions, even by HPlandia standards, he has no qualms about telling the heroine, his virginal, childhood friend, that he'd love to bang her but their situationship will have an expiry date on it because he is not interested in marriage, kids, or even a non-matrimonial ,long-term relationship. He does promise that when he is ready to move on, he will let her down gently with a minimum of hurt. What a Prince!

Predictably, the heroine ends up apologizing to him at the conclusion of the book for not loving the "real" him and making the unreasonable, unfathomable, bourgeois demand for a monogamous relationship. I am so glad she realized her standards are just too impossibly high and selfish and that she needed to bring them down in order to savour the delights of an extended one night stand with this "good time man." *eye roll*

There is also a B plot of family drama surrounding her adoptive parents and birth mother in which the hero plays quite the Judas role, for which AGAIN, the heroine is the one to apologize. Oh, dear...

[Ridley]

Rather watch paint dry. Not even fun or entertaining for the retro/camp factor. Just plain boring.

[PAINTED BOX]

Alex Granger - the same devil-may-care hunk who had lived unchallenged in Jessica Cassidy's daydreams - was still the same outrageously attractive man. But now he couldn't seem to decide if Jessica was still a pesky kid or a woman whom he desired.

Somewhere during the past four years Jessica had changed from a caterpillar into a butterfly.

But if she'd dreamed of Alex's kisses when she was sixteen, she hadn't dreamed they would destroy her will and rationality...or that she wasn't experienced to deal with his kind of loving - or his kind of leaving.