I have to confess that probably my biggest guilty pleasure romance is Sweet Liar by Deveraux. It has one of the more annoying heroines possible, hits just about every cliche that would drive me up the wall if it was reality, but I just love the makeover scene when she gets dragged kicking and screaming into Saks Fifth Avenue and comes out absolutely fabulous. If I were thinking objectively, I'd give it 1 1/2 to 2 stars (out of 5), but I keep it on my bookshelf and reread it occasionally.

The best Deveraux is A Knight in Shining Armor, a great time travel to Elizabethan England.

Sweet Liar is my favorite and I even tried writing a musical based on the Maxie part of the book.

BWAH!

I love the scene where the hero condescendingly tells the heroine that she can buy whatever she wants in Barnes and Noble for the nursing home, expecting her to pick up a few books and magazines. Instead, she ends up recruiting everyone in the store to help her drag just about the entire contents of the store up to the registers and smiles at his flabbergasted face smugly.

I love the whole damn book.

Every stupid line of it.

I need a new copy.

Hee! I was reading the entry for Sweet Liar at Amazon, and boy do the official reviewers have a hate-on for the book (Kirkus calls "super-dumb and super-tedious, and Publishers Weekly says its "highly improbable story line, overloaded with convoluted plots and subplots, will discourage even the most die-hard romance fan"). But, it has an overall customer rating of 4 1/2 stars!

I think Sweet Liar was the first romance I read. (I "borrowed" it from my older sister -- I was maybe 11 or so.)

If I were thinking objectively, I'd give it 1 1/2 to 2 stars (out of 5), but I keep it on my bookshelf and reread it occasionally.

Same here. (Actually, I'm nearly certain the copy I have on my bookshelf is my sister's copy, which I still haven't returned. I think that, after 15 years, I can claim it as mine.)

Saw Micah at Borders. It's a skinny little book to begin with, but when I saw the very generous linespacing that probably made it 20 pages longer, I thought the publisher should be ashamed to offer a short story as an entire book.

my fondness for Jason. It's kind of telling that the emotionally healthiest character in the series is a porn-star/stripper werewolf.

I am shallow: I like Jason better ever since someone suggested his character should be played by Ewan McGregor.

I thought the publisher should be ashamed to offer a short story as an entire book.

Hmmm, shame or profit, shame or profit. I choose...

I like Jason better ever since someone suggested his character should be played by Ewan McGregor.

I am equally shallow, since that may well have been me. And, seriously, if they could afford him wouldn't he be fabulous in the role? Plus, no worries about him willingly doing the nekkid scenes.

Well, then, Calli: thanks for the image. Mmmmmm. This could make up for all the ick that is Richard.