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Cooper's Corner #7
For the Love of Mike!
The fur flies when Michael Flynn, a divorced dentist staying at the Twin Oaks B and B with his two daughters and St. Bernard dog, encounters fellow guest, spunky single mom Colleen O'Connor and her two precocious boys, as well as their clever Siamese cat - all of whom steal his heart. Original.
- GenresRomance
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2003
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December 23, 2021
This is my third visit to Cooper's Corner. It is hard to believe there are 21 books by multiple authors that wrote about romance within this fictional community in the early 2000s.
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Mike is a divorced dentist with two daughters and one big dog. He winds up in CC for a family get-away minus his former wife and her latest boyfriend. He wants to spend some quality time with his daughters. He is not thinking about women, dating, love or serious relationships.
When he meets divorcee Colleen O'Conner, her two sons and one dangerous cat at the door of the local inn, their introduction is not pleasant. When they meet again, Colleen and Mike are at daggers drawn.
This is a cutesy story of almost-insta-love (on Mike's side), supposed caution on the part of Colleen (yeah, right!), a crazy reason for having sex within days of meeting each other and some minor adventures with other residents of the inn. It was easy to breeze through this romance.
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Mike is a divorced dentist with two daughters and one big dog. He winds up in CC for a family get-away minus his former wife and her latest boyfriend. He wants to spend some quality time with his daughters. He is not thinking about women, dating, love or serious relationships.
When he meets divorcee Colleen O'Conner, her two sons and one dangerous cat at the door of the local inn, their introduction is not pleasant. When they meet again, Colleen and Mike are at daggers drawn.
This is a cutesy story of almost-insta-love (on Mike's side), supposed caution on the part of Colleen (yeah, right!), a crazy reason for having sex within days of meeting each other and some minor adventures with other residents of the inn. It was easy to breeze through this romance.
August 12, 2019
Colleen O'Connor won an all expense paid vacation at the Twin Oaks B&B from her supermarket job in New Bedford, MA. Twin Oaks is in Coopers Corner in the Berkshire. She goes out spring break with her two boys. Boston dentist Michael Flynn has unexpectedly gotten spring break with his two daughters and also decides to take them to Twin Oaks. The sparks fly when both his dog and her cat have the nickname Chewie/Chuie and his St. Bernard flattens Colleen. Then he hits her open car door. The attraction is great, the 4 kids are all for the match, but Colleen is stupidly independent and fights the attraction. Thanks to the St. Patrick's day dance/party, they finally get together. Colleen is almost TSTL sometimes but eventually comes around. Massachusetts doesn't usually do spring break in March, so author doesn't know her facts, but it's a reasonable story.
March 9, 2018
Sometimes I just want to read something that is quick and easy, an entertaining story that I can enjoy without having to think too much or be reminded of the grim reality of life in 2018 in my small world or in the great world. Rereading categories by writers like Muriel Jensen satisfies that need nicely.
April 25, 2016
Mike (and his two little girls) and Colleen (and her two little boys) take separate vacations in Coopers Corner, meet, and fall in love. The end.
Sigh. I had such high hopes for this book. I loved Muriel Jensen's Men of Maple Hill series, and Coopers Corner is superficially so similar that I thought Jensen's book would be a delightful addition to this multi-author series. Yet I can't seem to warm to Coopers Corner at all. While Maple Hill gave me the warm-and-fuzzies, Coopers Corner leaves me cold.
The children in this book were a delight - Jensen does her kiddie characters so well - but Colleen seemed unnecessarily argumentative to me, and I really disliked the focus on gender norms. It seemed like every other page had a character saying "boys should do x" or "y is a girl thing" or "that's not very ladylike / gentlemanly". I know that romance novels often focus on the apparent differences between men and women, but this one really smacked you round the head with the idea that girls need a woman around to do girl stuff and boys need a man to do guy stuff, and that grated on me.
I think I'm going to have to call it a day with this series. I've got a couple more books in it to read, but I won't be buying any more after that. Time for me to stop flogging a dead horse and find something that will suit me a bit better. 2.5 - 3 stars.
Sigh. I had such high hopes for this book. I loved Muriel Jensen's Men of Maple Hill series, and Coopers Corner is superficially so similar that I thought Jensen's book would be a delightful addition to this multi-author series. Yet I can't seem to warm to Coopers Corner at all. While Maple Hill gave me the warm-and-fuzzies, Coopers Corner leaves me cold.
The children in this book were a delight - Jensen does her kiddie characters so well - but Colleen seemed unnecessarily argumentative to me, and I really disliked the focus on gender norms. It seemed like every other page had a character saying "boys should do x" or "y is a girl thing" or "that's not very ladylike / gentlemanly". I know that romance novels often focus on the apparent differences between men and women, but this one really smacked you round the head with the idea that girls need a woman around to do girl stuff and boys need a man to do guy stuff, and that grated on me.
I think I'm going to have to call it a day with this series. I've got a couple more books in it to read, but I won't be buying any more after that. Time for me to stop flogging a dead horse and find something that will suit me a bit better. 2.5 - 3 stars.
September 20, 2013
I liked this book alot. The Town of Cooper's Corner seems to be a nice & friendly place to live and the Twin Oakes B & B sounds wonderful. Mike & Colleen's story was very funny. I found myself laughing out loud quite a bit thru the whole book. I will have to visit this town again in other books.
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