Book fifty-seven: Say No To Joe?

Say No To Joe? (2003)
Lori Foster

Rating: 1/5

I’m glad this wasn’t the first Lori Foster book I read – I probably wouldn’t have bothered with the others.

Joe Winston has a routine with women: he exists; they swoon; roll credits. With his smouldering looks, macho style, and irrepressible charm, Joe can have any woman – except the one he really wants.

Secretly, Luna Clark must lust after Joe, but she’s made it clear that she’s too smart to fall for him. He can just keep holding his breath, thank you very much. But now, Luna’s inherited two kids who need more that she alone can give in a small town that seems hell-bent on driving them away.

She needs someone to help out… someone who can’t be intimidated… someone just like Joe. Becoming an instant family wasn’t exactly what Joe had in mind, but hey, it’s a start, and you can’t blame a guy for trying every angle.

After all, where there’s a Joe, there’s a way… straight into a woman’s heart.

The main thing I didn’t like about this was the two foster children – they didn’t act or sound like real kids, and they seemed to adjust and reform a little too quickly for two children whose mother had died and then been passed from one relative to another til there was no one but a distant cousin left.

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Finished: 4/6