Suddenly You

For a moment I was excited there was a new Lisa Kleypas book, but the description quickly told me the publishers are pulling the wool over us on this one. This book was originally sold as Suddenly You, which is one of my favorite Kleypas book.

"Irresistible" is the Spanish translation of the original "Suddenly You"... I am giving the five stars for the original that honors the English language and not for the translation: it prouves again the old truth "traductore, traitore".

When this book came out as "Suddenly You" it was great. Why it needed to come out again under a differant title is confusing. It is not that old of a book?!

I had a lot of fun reading this book. Amanda is not your typical spinster. She is a writer and a woman comfortable being a spinster, such so that she hires a male prostitue for her thirtieth birthday. As it turns out, the man that comes to see her is not who she thought it would be, but Jack Devlin, a business tycoon who is interested in publishing one of her stories.The book is fast-paced and the story is telled in Ms. Kleypas's usual way: full of hotter-than-hot scenes that will keep you warm at night. If you want a story that has hot scenes as well as love, then this is the book to get.The back cover's blurb reads: "She was unmarried, untouched and almost thirty, but novelist Amanda Briars wasn't about to greet her next birthday without making love to a man. When he appeared at her door, she believed he was her gift to herself, hired for one night of passion. Unfogettably handsome, irresistibly virile, he tempted her in ways she never thought possible...but something stopped him from completely fulfilling her dream. Jack Devlin's determination to possess Amanda became greater when she discovered his true identity. But gently bred Amanda craved respectability more than she admitted, while Jack, the cast-off son of a nobleman and London's most notorious businessman, refused to live by society's rules. Yet when fate conspired for them to marry, their worlds collided with a passionate force neither had expected...but both soon craved."S.

I'm so happy I took a break from reading Nora Roberts' works long enough to try new authors. This is my first Lisa Kleypas book, which transported me to a romantic, meticulously detailed world enlivened by an electrifying plot. It starts with the most memorable scene I've read in a long while: Amanda opens her door to Jack, whom she mistakes for the male prostitute she has sent for on the night of her 30th birthday. In a woman's perspective, it's difficult to make a love scene between two complete strangers believable--despite an undeniable physical attraction between them--but Ms. Kleypas pulls it off. Aptly dubbed "The Most Sensual Romance of the Year", Suddenly You sustains the momentum of the initial pages with touching, dissolve-in-a-puddle-of-hormones-as-you-read love scenes. Of course the connection between Amanda and Jack is more than just sexual; their story would make you alternately laugh out loud and cry, so real are their personalities although they are essentially archetypal characters. Jack is a wounded, needy hero whose efforts to claim Amanda are chronicled in touching scenes--from something as subtle and evocative as Jack refastening Amanda's dancing shoe on her foot (weeks after she refused to see him again for fear of society's reprisal), to a wild incident in which he simply carries her off and passionately demonstrates why they belonged together. (For one intense moment in bed, he demands "Who do you belong to?", to which she could only answer breathlessly, "You. You, Jack.") Suddenly You goes beyond many romance books whose culmination is that exchange of elusive "I love you's". Just when I thought Amanda and Jack were cruising along that requisite happy ending, destiny intervenes to reveal yet another facet of their relationship. It's full of vicissitudes that would twist your heart and keep you absorbed, until you just cannot do anything else but finish it... by which time you'll want to start re-reading it.