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Lovescenes
The air between them was electric!
Shannon took her brand new soap opera role seriously and was really upset that things just weren't clicking. Which may be why she deliberately insulted musician Cade Morgan when he interrupted a difficult rehearsal. What did he know about acting?
Next thing she knew she was being pulled into Cade's arms and her director was saying, "That's it-that's the chemistry we're looking for."
And Shannon was still reeling when Cade was signed as her new lead. For her the chemistry had been real!
Shannon took her brand new soap opera role seriously and was really upset that things just weren't clicking. Which may be why she deliberately insulted musician Cade Morgan when he interrupted a difficult rehearsal. What did he know about acting?
Next thing she knew she was being pulled into Cade's arms and her director was saying, "That's it-that's the chemistry we're looking for."
And Shannon was still reeling when Cade was signed as her new lead. For her the chemistry had been real!
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1988
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Sandra Marton
582 books542 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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May 23, 2017
Actor/actress story that felt like the clash of the egos rather than a romance. The heroine disliked the idea of a celebrity (the hero and one of her co-stars) getting a part when they weren't trained like she was. She kept that giant chip on her shoulder throughout the story - including when the hero got a big part in a movie at the end. The hero, at least during their initial meeting, seemed annoyed that the heroine didn't join in the general celebrity worship that he was used to.
Eventually the hero softened toward the heroine and I don't know why. I just didn't see the big attraction the hero would have toward the heroine. She was dismissive of him at every turn - even though he was a talented musician and was trying to better himself by taking acting classes. I just didn't feel the love.
There were long swathes of narration where I was bored. It felt that there were just as many pages devoted to the inner workings of the soap opera as there were to the romance. And the director really needs to get his act together and reign in the people watching on set and letting actors get away with changing the script on the fly. I've seen high school productions with more discipline and professionalism.
The discussions of Dynasty and Dallas were amusing, though.
Eventually the hero softened toward the heroine and I don't know why. I just didn't see the big attraction the hero would have toward the heroine. She was dismissive of him at every turn - even though he was a talented musician and was trying to better himself by taking acting classes. I just didn't feel the love.
There were long swathes of narration where I was bored. It felt that there were just as many pages devoted to the inner workings of the soap opera as there were to the romance. And the director really needs to get his act together and reign in the people watching on set and letting actors get away with changing the script on the fly. I've seen high school productions with more discipline and professionalism.
The discussions of Dynasty and Dallas were amusing, though.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 26, 2016
Re Lovescenes -- this a soap opera love story. The h is an actress working for parts in New York for years, she finally gets her big break on the longest running daytime soap opera with huge ratings. She gets one of those evil scheming woman that are great to love to hate parts like Susan Lucci. The H is a musician with the star power of Sting - not only does he have a huge rock band, but he does classical and all sorts of variations and is huge in the music world. He wants to be an actor, so he gets himself a job on the h's soap - his name alone is enough to get him a part, even if he can't act.
The h is in rehearsal for a big bedroom scene when the director tells her it isn't working with the actor she is playing against. The h is really worried that this is her big break and she is messing it up. Then the H comes in and everything is disrupted. The h makes the comment that he is only a guitar player and the H doesn't like that, so they have a verbal scrimmage that ends with the H kissing the h and her walking off. The soap director likes that a lot, so the H is hired for the male counterpart to the h. The h is very leery about this, if the H can't act and her character is tied to his story line or he leaves the show - that will be the end of her part and she will be back where she started.
Then the H shows up at her elite drama class and more bickering occurs, with the h looking a bit foolish - ( I felt really bad for her, she has spent years studying and working her heart out to get roles and the H pretty much has everything handed to him on platter. The drama school admission took her two years to get into and the H just calls up and shows up the next day.)
The H and h finally hash things out when the h realizes that the H really can act but he has no technique and is very insecure about making a fool out of himself. The H pretty much attaches himself to her like a leech and absorbs all she knows about theatre and acting. His performance, with the h as his coach, vastly improves and he starts getting all kinds of offers. He also romances the h and eventually they become lovers in real life too. The h knows it is stupid but he seems so sincere when he tells her he loves her that she melts.
Her own agent wants the h to capitalize on the relationship and get some publicity for herself, but the h refuses to publicize her private relationship. Then the H gets called to LA about a movie part and he tells the h he will be back in a few days. The movie won't be filmed for a while. The h is happy being in love and going to auditions, but when she gets to work for the soap, she finds out the H isn't coming back. He is set to start filming in a week with a big blockbuster part in an action movie and so he and the h are being killed off on the soap. She is out of a job again. The h finally realizes that he has been using her all along and when the heat goes out in her apartment, she goes to stay with her agent for a few days while it is fixed.
The h is back on set filming her last scenes save the last one with the H before they die, when the H shows up. He says he got the big part at the last minute when the guy who was supposed to play it broke his leg and the director offered it to him. The H says he tried to call her but she wasn't home and that he only had a temporary contract with the show anyways. The h says okay, and the H says he loves her and wants to marry her in Tahiti where the film is being done and there is a bit role for her. The h says yes and that is the HEA.
This one was just sorta there, and I can't exactly buy the H's love or the HEA. It seemed like she was getting a consolation prize of a trip to Tahiti as the H's girlfriend with a bit movie role to shut her up. I wasn't buying the marriage deal, cause I think the H would probably string her along until he felt more confident in her acting. I had visions of the h winding up alone again in Kansas, but hopefully she will go to London and get a big role on the East End instead. SM just failed to sell the H's love in a believable ending.
The first part is good, tho I felt for the h and her embarrassment, but the rest of the story was lackluster and this one is on the read it if there isn't anything else but Shattered Dreams in the house list. Then again, Shattered Dreams is a wild ride but at least it is a more exciting voyage in HPlandia.
The h is in rehearsal for a big bedroom scene when the director tells her it isn't working with the actor she is playing against. The h is really worried that this is her big break and she is messing it up. Then the H comes in and everything is disrupted. The h makes the comment that he is only a guitar player and the H doesn't like that, so they have a verbal scrimmage that ends with the H kissing the h and her walking off. The soap director likes that a lot, so the H is hired for the male counterpart to the h. The h is very leery about this, if the H can't act and her character is tied to his story line or he leaves the show - that will be the end of her part and she will be back where she started.
Then the H shows up at her elite drama class and more bickering occurs, with the h looking a bit foolish - ( I felt really bad for her, she has spent years studying and working her heart out to get roles and the H pretty much has everything handed to him on platter. The drama school admission took her two years to get into and the H just calls up and shows up the next day.)
The H and h finally hash things out when the h realizes that the H really can act but he has no technique and is very insecure about making a fool out of himself. The H pretty much attaches himself to her like a leech and absorbs all she knows about theatre and acting. His performance, with the h as his coach, vastly improves and he starts getting all kinds of offers. He also romances the h and eventually they become lovers in real life too. The h knows it is stupid but he seems so sincere when he tells her he loves her that she melts.
Her own agent wants the h to capitalize on the relationship and get some publicity for herself, but the h refuses to publicize her private relationship. Then the H gets called to LA about a movie part and he tells the h he will be back in a few days. The movie won't be filmed for a while. The h is happy being in love and going to auditions, but when she gets to work for the soap, she finds out the H isn't coming back. He is set to start filming in a week with a big blockbuster part in an action movie and so he and the h are being killed off on the soap. She is out of a job again. The h finally realizes that he has been using her all along and when the heat goes out in her apartment, she goes to stay with her agent for a few days while it is fixed.
The h is back on set filming her last scenes save the last one with the H before they die, when the H shows up. He says he got the big part at the last minute when the guy who was supposed to play it broke his leg and the director offered it to him. The H says he tried to call her but she wasn't home and that he only had a temporary contract with the show anyways. The h says okay, and the H says he loves her and wants to marry her in Tahiti where the film is being done and there is a bit role for her. The h says yes and that is the HEA.
This one was just sorta there, and I can't exactly buy the H's love or the HEA. It seemed like she was getting a consolation prize of a trip to Tahiti as the H's girlfriend with a bit movie role to shut her up. I wasn't buying the marriage deal, cause I think the H would probably string her along until he felt more confident in her acting. I had visions of the h winding up alone again in Kansas, but hopefully she will go to London and get a big role on the East End instead. SM just failed to sell the H's love in a believable ending.
The first part is good, tho I felt for the h and her embarrassment, but the rest of the story was lackluster and this one is on the read it if there isn't anything else but Shattered Dreams in the house list. Then again, Shattered Dreams is a wild ride but at least it is a more exciting voyage in HPlandia.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 25, 2012
Just a so-so read for me. It started out too slow for me. The ending scene was sweet but didn't make me want to rate this any higher than two stars. Plus, the heroine annoyed me.
Oh, I did like the hero. He wasn't your typical HP jerk hero. He was kind of sweet and even
Oh, I did like the hero. He wasn't your typical HP jerk hero. He was kind of sweet and even
September 1, 2018
A timeless seduction...
I was blown away by this story... the romance... the writing. I always enjoy a good drama, but I swear this book was written for me! (Not literally. I would have been 7 years old when it was released. Hah!) The hero rode a black Harley and I've been eyeing one for myself lately. The passion, to me, was truly electric.
I couldn't put this book down. It was the perfect little romance. The editing was shockingly lacking--there were quite a few errors with punctuation and mispellings--but the romance had gripped me so tightly that it didn't take me away from the story.
My mom passed this book on to me. It has a Mac's Milk sticker that reads $2.50 on the cover. I read the back and it sounded interesting. I’m so glad I didn't let the cover deter me! I thought this was a great book and judging by the other reviews, it really goes to show how different one reader is to the next!
I was blown away by this story... the romance... the writing. I always enjoy a good drama, but I swear this book was written for me! (Not literally. I would have been 7 years old when it was released. Hah!) The hero rode a black Harley and I've been eyeing one for myself lately. The passion, to me, was truly electric.
I couldn't put this book down. It was the perfect little romance. The editing was shockingly lacking--there were quite a few errors with punctuation and mispellings--but the romance had gripped me so tightly that it didn't take me away from the story.
My mom passed this book on to me. It has a Mac's Milk sticker that reads $2.50 on the cover. I read the back and it sounded interesting. I’m so glad I didn't let the cover deter me! I thought this was a great book and judging by the other reviews, it really goes to show how different one reader is to the next!
October 8, 2020
This book exemplifies the idea that old school romance authors did their research, goshdarnit - our heroine is a soap opera actress who sticks to a strict diet, argues with her agent, knows she's going to get killed off and hates it, sneers at stars who swan into acting roles despite having no acting background, regularly attends acting classes, thinks about her laundry while filming sex scenes and worries about having to go back to waitressing. That part of it is pleasant. The actual romance is pretty meh - he's an overbearing music star (all types of music!) who takes a soap opera role, and he and the heroine have such chemistry that their characters are immediately cast in a romance, while the two of them slowly fall in love while roaming New York. There's a drawn-out and very stupid misunderstanding (I guess I'm glad the days of answering machines are over?) and then they get married, the end. Meh.
May 26, 2023
Talk about crummy! It started off stupid, with a "love scene" that was obviously phony, though I imagine the author thought she was fooling her readers at first, guess she doesn't think much of their brains.
Then, we're introduced to the snarky h with a bad attitude problem, then the smug, annoying H. He's a star musician, she's an aspiring actress, and their supposed hot chemistry is more like a lukewarm cup of milk.
The soap opera they were in should have been called "The Bland and the Boring".
So is this book; DNF!!
Then, we're introduced to the snarky h with a bad attitude problem, then the smug, annoying H. He's a star musician, she's an aspiring actress, and their supposed hot chemistry is more like a lukewarm cup of milk.
The soap opera they were in should have been called "The Bland and the Boring".
So is this book; DNF!!
January 17, 2023
Simple plot twists, great chemistry between H and h but the ending could have been handled better.
May 9, 2020
From the back: The air between them was electric! Shannon Padgett took her brand new soap opera role seriously and was really upset that things just weren't clicking.Which may be why she deliberately insulted musician Cade Morgan when he interrupted a difficult rehearsal. What did he know about acting? Next thing she knew she was being pulled into Cade's arms and her director was saying,"That's it-that's the chemistry we're looking for." And Shannon was still reeling when Cade was signed as her new lead. For her the chemistry had been real! Will he be there for the duration in this soap or is he just a fleeting as his seduction of her was as the camera rolls?
August 27, 2012
i really interested in the first half of the books, but the story not quite rise up,
the hero interested for the heroine from the beginning and the heroine not admit her feeling for the hero, the conflict is occur when the hero walk out from the show and take a better movie and better career, i not like when the author not make the heroine successful too in her career, so much dependent with the hero, and will be following the hero wherever he go.
the hero interested for the heroine from the beginning and the heroine not admit her feeling for the hero, the conflict is occur when the hero walk out from the show and take a better movie and better career, i not like when the author not make the heroine successful too in her career, so much dependent with the hero, and will be following the hero wherever he go.
July 28, 2012
I found the book utterly boring. Even when there was passion, I wasn't feeling it. This is definitely not the type of book I'd read again.
November 2, 2012
It was okay, could have done with a good editing though
December 10, 2012
good book
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April 9, 2018The air between them was electric!
Shannon took her brand new soap opera role seriously and was really upset that things just weren't clicking. Which may be why she deliberately insulted musician Cade Morgan when he interrupted a difficult rehearsal. What did he know about acting?
Next thing she knew she was being pulled into Cade's arms and her director was saying, "That's it-that's the chemistry we're looking for."
And Shannon was still reeling when Cade was signed as her new lead. For her the chemistry had been real!
Shannon took her brand new soap opera role seriously and was really upset that things just weren't clicking. Which may be why she deliberately insulted musician Cade Morgan when he interrupted a difficult rehearsal. What did he know about acting?
Next thing she knew she was being pulled into Cade's arms and her director was saying, "That's it-that's the chemistry we're looking for."
And Shannon was still reeling when Cade was signed as her new lead. For her the chemistry had been real!
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