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Fool for Love
Florida career woman Kelly Robbins is stunned when her old high-school love calls her out of the blue. Now she must face her past fears as she gives in to passionate desire. Original.
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256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
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October 4, 2024
Fool For Love
After their high school graduation, Kelly and Ashton make love for the first time and it is AMAZING! Ashton promises he’ll call the next day. Kelly is supposed to be moving to For Lauderdale with her family but she plans on telling her father she wants to go to college there (in her home state). After waiting and not getting a call, Kelly calls Ashton. Only to find out from his father he’s accepted a job somewhere else, is gone, and won’t be coming back.
10 years later, Kelly receives a message on her phone from Ashton saying that her best friend Karen got chosen to do a musical and will tour Canada. He’s throwing her a surprise party and he wants her to come help out. Kelly off course has conflicting emotions. She’s nervous (to see Ashton again), she’s angry, (because of the nerve of him to call her after all this time and expect her to jump) and she feels vengeance (hopefully he’ll see what he’s missed and she’ll get a chance to reject him like he did her). Last of all she’s excited (she still remembers their passion-that she hasn’t found in anyone else). Not even the man that’s asked her to marry him, Glenn. Yet she decides to go for her best friend’s sake.
When they first see each other they both feel old time sparks. Kelly is now thick. He can’t get over her curves. He now had a goatee and short dreads. On the way there they get reacquainted. Kelly is now a fourth-grade teacher. Ashton is now a musician that does mainly slow songs. Kelly soon finds out that he and Karen stay in the same building. Kelly assumes that they’re lovers, but finds out this isn’t true when Karen isn’t home and Ashton doesn’t have a key. Ashton tells her she’ll have to stay at his apartment. Kelly tries to talk her way into getting a hotel, but he won’t let her. In his place, he offers her his room and sees how uncomfortable she is with the arrangement. He then brings up the time they did it and tries to apologize, but Kelly says she’s over him. She says she’s only there for Karen and to help plan the party. She thinks its best they just limit their conversations to *that*.
Later in bed, Aston thinks of the reason he left her (because his mother walked out on him and his Dad a couple of times. (The last time she never came back). From this he vowed not to get that close to anybody. The next morning Karen and Kelly have a happy reunion. While hanging out playing cards, Kelly notices there’s a little playful flirtation going on between Ashton and Karen and she’s jealous. But later Karen says Ashton isn’t her type. Karen asks if Kelly is seeing anyone and she tells her about Glenn. Karen thinks Glenn sounds boring, but Kelly says she’s had enough excitement. Glenn is steady. Karen is still rooting for Kelly and Ashton.
Ashton comes to pick up Kelly to plan the party but instead they work out there situation. Kelly says they should leave it in the past. Then Aston goes in for a kiss. Kelly pushes him away and he tries to apologize, but Kelly says there’s nothing he can do. Ashton and Kelly go out to tour the city and women throw themselves at him. Kelly calls him out about it and to people around them they look like a couple. Ashton holds Kelly hostage and makes her dinner with him, but they actually get some plans for the party done. He says it’ll be a restaurant he works at and he needs her to call all Karen’s friends. Back at Karen’s, Kelly tries to avoid Ashton’s advances further but he ends up kissing her again.
Kelly tells him it can’t happen again because she’s engaged. This throws Ashton for six. At first, he thinks she’s just making him up. Then he sees she’s serious and asks does she love him and is she in love with him. Kelly says yes she loves him. D doesn’t say she’s in love. Ashton tells her about his mom leaving and starts to tell her something else and shuts down. Then Karen comes home tired and the conversation ends. Later, Kelly considers calling Glenn and ends up comparing him to Ashton. Ashton thinks he doesn’t care if Kelly has a boyfriend. He’ll still try to take her. He needs to see if they hook up one more time that it’s still there. Kelly thinks the same thing.
Kelly goes to check out the restaurant Ashton works at and another employee (Tony) makes his attraction to her known. Ashton tells the guy they’ve been seeing each other, but Kelly tells him they haven’t. Ashton pulls Kelly outside and demands that she stay away from Tony. Aston and Kelly come very close to making love, but Ashton doesn’t have a condom. Then she comes to her senses. She’s not into casual, meaningless, sex, but he seems not to have a problem with it. She makes him leave the apartment.
She winds up at Ashton’s bar and Tony starts coming on strong asking her out and sending her drink after drink. Ashton intervenes and sends Kelly home steamed. The following day Ashton invites Kelly to his studio and plays a song he wrote inspired by her. He tells her his overall feelings about women (that the majority are users). This makes her want to prove him wrong. They end up making love, but then when its over and Kelly asks where they’re going, Ashton is non-chalant in his reply. Kelly upset leaves and tells him he doesn’t know how to handle love. Ashton thinks of the women in his life and his mother and wonders if that’s true.
Kelly goes back to the bar to have her date with. Tony takes Kelly to another restaurant, and things get a little uncomfortable as he holds her too close when they dance. Then she notices Aston. Kelly asks to go home, but Tony takes her to a park where a lot of lovers are making out. He tries to violate her, but Ashton shows up in time and gets him an ass whopping. He takes Kelly home and tells her to wash up and then they can talk. Aston apologizes to Kelly and tells her that it took him seeing through Tony that she’d been telling him no and he couldn’t to push up on her. So now he’s going to leave her alone. Kelly calls Glenn to give so perspective, but when she says she may stay another week he may as well have said whatever. At the party, Ashton asks Kelly to come home with him and they end up making love again. But again Aston can’t say he wants to commit to her. He says he needs to work on himself first to be who he deserves. Kelly tells him she’s leaving tomorrow and going back to Glenn. It looks like Ashton is about to let Kelly walk away again when he goes to Karen’s to tell her goodbye, but surprises her later at the airport with a proposal. And all ends well, Ashton moves to where Kelly is (Fort Lauderdale) and gets a job at one of the hottest spots there playing his music, and they get married. Glenn is fine with it because he was feeling pressured.
My Thoughts:
When I first read this, I loved the idea that if love is meant to find you it well again. How years can change you. I guess I’m not that romantic, idealistic, person I once was. I just did not care about Kelly’s curves or hearing about Ashton’s “powerful thighs” over and over. In other words the “gush” in this was over kill! On this read, I thought this was predictable. Even Stevie Wonder could see where this plot was leading. You saw it as *soon* as Ashton called that Kelly was gonna end right back in this man’s bed. And chapters in, she’s kissing him. She *did * in her defense *try* to put up a fight but I think we all know it wouldn’t last. Ashton really didn’t impress me. I thought he was cocky. Then blah blah blah your mother left you and your father. I’m sorry that’s NO excuse to take it out on these woman. Do you REALLY wonder why Camile broke your heart? Could it be.. what’s the word? KARMA! “What goes around comes around. What comes up most come down.” (quoting Alicia Keys). What’s sad to me most of all about this book was actually Glenn probally *would* have made the better choice. Sometimes as women we see the wrong things. I actually thought that Kelly *did* see how important it was to choice someone that was gonna be loyal over someone who was just *HOT*! At first I really didn’t see where Kelly loved Ashton. She really never even got a chance to know him, other than he was lazy enough to get her to do his papers, and he just ghosted her. I’m sorry that does not equal *love*. But sometimes we see what we want to see. All I saw in Ashton was him lusting over this woman that he’d ghosted that he found a “challenge”. It wasn’t until he got possessive and rescued her from Tony that I started to feel just an inkling that he cared about her in any way. But on the flip side, if you don’t feel it you just don’t. Don’t I know that? You *can* love someone with all your heart, but no matter how many times someone tells you this is the person you *should* have married if there’s no spark and the idea of being with them just leaves you feeling nothing, that’s just how it is. Even tho it ended on a happy note, I hope that passion for Kelly and Ashton will be ebough. Because as we all know passion has a way of fading and dying over time, which is why I really couldn’t get into Kelly and Ashton’s relationship. I guess I’ve just seen how things can be full of spark and fire and passion but then it just doesn’t last in the end.
Rating: 5
After their high school graduation, Kelly and Ashton make love for the first time and it is AMAZING! Ashton promises he’ll call the next day. Kelly is supposed to be moving to For Lauderdale with her family but she plans on telling her father she wants to go to college there (in her home state). After waiting and not getting a call, Kelly calls Ashton. Only to find out from his father he’s accepted a job somewhere else, is gone, and won’t be coming back.
10 years later, Kelly receives a message on her phone from Ashton saying that her best friend Karen got chosen to do a musical and will tour Canada. He’s throwing her a surprise party and he wants her to come help out. Kelly off course has conflicting emotions. She’s nervous (to see Ashton again), she’s angry, (because of the nerve of him to call her after all this time and expect her to jump) and she feels vengeance (hopefully he’ll see what he’s missed and she’ll get a chance to reject him like he did her). Last of all she’s excited (she still remembers their passion-that she hasn’t found in anyone else). Not even the man that’s asked her to marry him, Glenn. Yet she decides to go for her best friend’s sake.
When they first see each other they both feel old time sparks. Kelly is now thick. He can’t get over her curves. He now had a goatee and short dreads. On the way there they get reacquainted. Kelly is now a fourth-grade teacher. Ashton is now a musician that does mainly slow songs. Kelly soon finds out that he and Karen stay in the same building. Kelly assumes that they’re lovers, but finds out this isn’t true when Karen isn’t home and Ashton doesn’t have a key. Ashton tells her she’ll have to stay at his apartment. Kelly tries to talk her way into getting a hotel, but he won’t let her. In his place, he offers her his room and sees how uncomfortable she is with the arrangement. He then brings up the time they did it and tries to apologize, but Kelly says she’s over him. She says she’s only there for Karen and to help plan the party. She thinks its best they just limit their conversations to *that*.
Later in bed, Aston thinks of the reason he left her (because his mother walked out on him and his Dad a couple of times. (The last time she never came back). From this he vowed not to get that close to anybody. The next morning Karen and Kelly have a happy reunion. While hanging out playing cards, Kelly notices there’s a little playful flirtation going on between Ashton and Karen and she’s jealous. But later Karen says Ashton isn’t her type. Karen asks if Kelly is seeing anyone and she tells her about Glenn. Karen thinks Glenn sounds boring, but Kelly says she’s had enough excitement. Glenn is steady. Karen is still rooting for Kelly and Ashton.
Ashton comes to pick up Kelly to plan the party but instead they work out there situation. Kelly says they should leave it in the past. Then Aston goes in for a kiss. Kelly pushes him away and he tries to apologize, but Kelly says there’s nothing he can do. Ashton and Kelly go out to tour the city and women throw themselves at him. Kelly calls him out about it and to people around them they look like a couple. Ashton holds Kelly hostage and makes her dinner with him, but they actually get some plans for the party done. He says it’ll be a restaurant he works at and he needs her to call all Karen’s friends. Back at Karen’s, Kelly tries to avoid Ashton’s advances further but he ends up kissing her again.
Kelly tells him it can’t happen again because she’s engaged. This throws Ashton for six. At first, he thinks she’s just making him up. Then he sees she’s serious and asks does she love him and is she in love with him. Kelly says yes she loves him. D doesn’t say she’s in love. Ashton tells her about his mom leaving and starts to tell her something else and shuts down. Then Karen comes home tired and the conversation ends. Later, Kelly considers calling Glenn and ends up comparing him to Ashton. Ashton thinks he doesn’t care if Kelly has a boyfriend. He’ll still try to take her. He needs to see if they hook up one more time that it’s still there. Kelly thinks the same thing.
Kelly goes to check out the restaurant Ashton works at and another employee (Tony) makes his attraction to her known. Ashton tells the guy they’ve been seeing each other, but Kelly tells him they haven’t. Ashton pulls Kelly outside and demands that she stay away from Tony. Aston and Kelly come very close to making love, but Ashton doesn’t have a condom. Then she comes to her senses. She’s not into casual, meaningless, sex, but he seems not to have a problem with it. She makes him leave the apartment.
She winds up at Ashton’s bar and Tony starts coming on strong asking her out and sending her drink after drink. Ashton intervenes and sends Kelly home steamed. The following day Ashton invites Kelly to his studio and plays a song he wrote inspired by her. He tells her his overall feelings about women (that the majority are users). This makes her want to prove him wrong. They end up making love, but then when its over and Kelly asks where they’re going, Ashton is non-chalant in his reply. Kelly upset leaves and tells him he doesn’t know how to handle love. Ashton thinks of the women in his life and his mother and wonders if that’s true.
Kelly goes back to the bar to have her date with. Tony takes Kelly to another restaurant, and things get a little uncomfortable as he holds her too close when they dance. Then she notices Aston. Kelly asks to go home, but Tony takes her to a park where a lot of lovers are making out. He tries to violate her, but Ashton shows up in time and gets him an ass whopping. He takes Kelly home and tells her to wash up and then they can talk. Aston apologizes to Kelly and tells her that it took him seeing through Tony that she’d been telling him no and he couldn’t to push up on her. So now he’s going to leave her alone. Kelly calls Glenn to give so perspective, but when she says she may stay another week he may as well have said whatever. At the party, Ashton asks Kelly to come home with him and they end up making love again. But again Aston can’t say he wants to commit to her. He says he needs to work on himself first to be who he deserves. Kelly tells him she’s leaving tomorrow and going back to Glenn. It looks like Ashton is about to let Kelly walk away again when he goes to Karen’s to tell her goodbye, but surprises her later at the airport with a proposal. And all ends well, Ashton moves to where Kelly is (Fort Lauderdale) and gets a job at one of the hottest spots there playing his music, and they get married. Glenn is fine with it because he was feeling pressured.
My Thoughts:
When I first read this, I loved the idea that if love is meant to find you it well again. How years can change you. I guess I’m not that romantic, idealistic, person I once was. I just did not care about Kelly’s curves or hearing about Ashton’s “powerful thighs” over and over. In other words the “gush” in this was over kill! On this read, I thought this was predictable. Even Stevie Wonder could see where this plot was leading. You saw it as *soon* as Ashton called that Kelly was gonna end right back in this man’s bed. And chapters in, she’s kissing him. She *did * in her defense *try* to put up a fight but I think we all know it wouldn’t last. Ashton really didn’t impress me. I thought he was cocky. Then blah blah blah your mother left you and your father. I’m sorry that’s NO excuse to take it out on these woman. Do you REALLY wonder why Camile broke your heart? Could it be.. what’s the word? KARMA! “What goes around comes around. What comes up most come down.” (quoting Alicia Keys). What’s sad to me most of all about this book was actually Glenn probally *would* have made the better choice. Sometimes as women we see the wrong things. I actually thought that Kelly *did* see how important it was to choice someone that was gonna be loyal over someone who was just *HOT*! At first I really didn’t see where Kelly loved Ashton. She really never even got a chance to know him, other than he was lazy enough to get her to do his papers, and he just ghosted her. I’m sorry that does not equal *love*. But sometimes we see what we want to see. All I saw in Ashton was him lusting over this woman that he’d ghosted that he found a “challenge”. It wasn’t until he got possessive and rescued her from Tony that I started to feel just an inkling that he cared about her in any way. But on the flip side, if you don’t feel it you just don’t. Don’t I know that? You *can* love someone with all your heart, but no matter how many times someone tells you this is the person you *should* have married if there’s no spark and the idea of being with them just leaves you feeling nothing, that’s just how it is. Even tho it ended on a happy note, I hope that passion for Kelly and Ashton will be ebough. Because as we all know passion has a way of fading and dying over time, which is why I really couldn’t get into Kelly and Ashton’s relationship. I guess I’ve just seen how things can be full of spark and fire and passion but then it just doesn’t last in the end.
Rating: 5
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May 27, 2015
First book of the summer and I couldn't be more disappointed and disgusted. I really tired to like this book. the initial draw was how nice the art work looked on the cover but as I continued with the story--reading it aloud to my sister-- it was just embarrassing. How can someone be " devastatingly sexy"? honestly?
The story follows Kelly and how was she was ditched and dissed after spending a "passionate" night after a graduation party with Ashton Hunter, high school playboy with a heart *eyeroll*. Ten years later she still can't shake that night and how humiliated she felt when when he up and left. All the sudden she and gets a call from him to help plan a party in Toronto for her old grade school friend and it just goes downhill from there. Not only are the characters childish and incompetent, but the whole back and forth about that one night TEN YEARS AGO is just ridiculous!
They go from agruing to showing some maturity to just being lustful rabbits. I tired to make reading the book to my sister more fun by taking gulps of water everytime the word 'Sexy' was mentioned and that was alot. Now I wish it wasn't water we were drinking but actual shots. In the end it was just poor writing, a fairly predictable plot and just ridiculous. If anything I still like the cover art.
The story follows Kelly and how was she was ditched and dissed after spending a "passionate" night after a graduation party with Ashton Hunter, high school playboy with a heart *eyeroll*. Ten years later she still can't shake that night and how humiliated she felt when when he up and left. All the sudden she and gets a call from him to help plan a party in Toronto for her old grade school friend and it just goes downhill from there. Not only are the characters childish and incompetent, but the whole back and forth about that one night TEN YEARS AGO is just ridiculous!
They go from agruing to showing some maturity to just being lustful rabbits. I tired to make reading the book to my sister more fun by taking gulps of water everytime the word 'Sexy' was mentioned and that was alot. Now I wish it wasn't water we were drinking but actual shots. In the end it was just poor writing, a fairly predictable plot and just ridiculous. If anything I still like the cover art.
January 5, 2012
iM not really into Romance novel because they always end so happy. But iActually enjoyed this novel. Towards the end it became a little drawn out, but as a whole iLiked the bookd. Kayla Perrin will definitely be added to my list of authors to read.
Oh yeah, Ashton sounds so-0 sexy!
Oh yeah, Ashton sounds so-0 sexy!
February 1, 2009
I LOVED IT IT'S A GREAT BOOK
August 4, 2011
A very well told modern love story!
June 27, 2014
It was very well written but I felt something was missing
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