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Having read several of LK historical books, I know what a great storyteller Ms. Kleypas can be. Her characters are (for the most part) well developed, with stories that flow and dialogue that is witty and interesting. But reading this book, I couldn't even believe it was the same writer.
No character development what so ever in this one. Reading about Jack was like biting into an air puff. He was one-dimensional and kindda creepy in the way he manipulated Ella. We are told he has slept with soooo many women that, frankly, he is a walking STD. I would not tap that (and without protection Ella!) no matter how hot or rich he is. Ella was surprisingly real in her struggle to overcome her mother issues (as many of us are) but she was unlikeable, annoying, and hypocritical; a modern woman who misunderstands what being "independent" really means, she says one thing and does another. But maybe my biggest issue was that there was no ROMANCE! Yes, there's a lot of sex here but I didn't care that he could give her an orgasm 20 different ways. It seemed disconnected and too casual. The first person narrative drove me insane as did the amount of secondary characters from the two previous books in the series that I did not give a hoot about.
If there was a way to bring the romance of your historicals to a relationship in modern times... That's the only way I would read another of LK's contemporary stories.


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Smooth Talking Stranger Lisa Kleypas 9780312351663 Books Reviews

What a wonderful series. I've only read the second and third book. I still need to go back to the first but I know it will be great. I can't wait to read this author's other contemporary series. I only read one of her historical romances which was good but I like her contemporary one's better. However I have a new outlook and I will read her historical ones as well. I really like how she dealt into the emotions of each character and really made it a great story and had the characters grow period
4.5 stars

“I had always gone in the other direction, toward men like Dane who made you kill your own spiders and carry your own suitcase.That was exactly what I wanted. And yet someone like Jack Travis, unimpeachably male, so damn sure of himself, held a secret, nearly fetishistic allure to me.“

Jesus, GOD, YES! Lisa Kleypas, you just get me. You marry suitcase guy and secretly hope he will carry heavy things for you anyway, not because you can’t, but because you are lazy. You read romance novels for fetishistic allure guy.

Ella Varner is the product of a repeatedly broken home and, far worse, of a narcissistic and manipulative mother. Through time and counseling she has built a healthy life for herself. The same cannot be said for her mother or younger sister. When Ella’s sister leaves her one-week-old baby with their mother, Ella is summoned from Austin to Houston to help sort out the mess. Ella drops everything, including her long-term, vegan, environmental activist live-in boyfriend, to go and help out. This turns into a three-month sojourn while Ella’s sister receives psychological counselling.

But enough about the maguffin and on to the main event of any Lisa Kleypas romance Jack Travis is Ella’s first candidate for the child’s father despite his protestations that he a. “always holsters his gun” and b. did not have sex with Ella’s sister. He is quickly dismissed as a possibility, but sticks around anyway because of his interest in Ella. Jack is a self-made man and the son of a billionaire. He’s tall, dark, handsome, friendly, helpful, possessive in a secretly attractive way, smart, sexy, supportive, wry, a good listener, seductive, mature, chivalrous, manly, mellifluous-voiced, physically fit, generous, emotionally available, funny, polite, mad for Ella, and willing to take on a newborn. I’ve never said this about a romance novel hero before, but this guy is too good to be true. Jack is too perfect. He’s certainly a very comforting fantasy. Who wouldn’t want Captain Perfect to show up in your life while you are in a crisis, worship the ground you walk on, and provide the moral support you need? It would have been fine if the final timeline had worked differently, or if the do-gooder boyfriend was not painted as an unsympathetic jerk, or if I could believe for one second that someone unexpectedly and without any experience taking care of a newborn baby could have the time or inclination to fall in love with anything other than the notion of a full night’s sleep.

Smooth Talking Stranger features the trademark Lisa Kleypas smolder. Her heroine is independent, self-sufficient, and kind. One certainly can’t fault Ella for falling for Jack. The teensy problem is that the point of a romance novel is not that there is a perfect man, it’s that two people find something more in each other or fit together in a way unique to their personalities.
I am a huge fan of Lisa Kleypas' Travis Family. Smooth Talking Stranger is Jack's story. He is the one who followed his own path not his father's and started his own construction company. In this process he has become a well respected business man who is now a billionaire. He has also developed quite a reputation as quite the ladies' man.

Ella Varner is left holding her sister Tara's newborn son when Tara checks into a rehabilitation facility. Ella is out to find out who the father is of Luke. Tara mentioned she had gone out with Jack Travis so Ella started with him and asked him to take a paternity test.

Ella and Tara had a tumultuous childhood. Their mother had an ego the size of Texas with a rotating supply of men. She was not above making a pass at one of her daughters boyfriends, Their father left when they were very young. Needless to say both girls had trust and abandonment issues. They depended on each other and no one else.

When Ella met Jack she was in a four year relationship with Dane. Dane did not believe in marriage and definitely did not want children. When Ella confronted Dane about bringing the baby home he was adamant that that would not work. She would have to find another solution. When Ella met Jack everything changed.

I can't tell you anymore. You must read this book. At times it is quite emotional but that will just keep you turning those pages until you reach the end.
Having read several of LK historical books, I know what a great storyteller Ms. Kleypas can be. Her characters are (for the most part) well developed, with stories that flow and dialogue that is witty and interesting. But reading this book, I couldn't even believe it was the same writer.
No character development what so ever in this one. Reading about Jack was like biting into an air puff. He was one-dimensional and kindda creepy in the way he manipulated Ella. We are told he has slept with soooo many women that, frankly, he is a walking STD. I would not tap that (and without protection Ella!) no matter how hot or rich he is. Ella was surprisingly real in her struggle to overcome her mother issues (as many of us are) but she was unlikeable, annoying, and hypocritical; a modern woman who misunderstands what being "independent" really means, she says one thing and does another. But maybe my biggest issue was that there was no ROMANCE! Yes, there's a lot of sex here but I didn't care that he could give her an orgasm 20 different ways. It seemed disconnected and too casual. The first person narrative drove me insane as did the amount of secondary characters from the two previous books in the series that I did not give a hoot about.
If there was a way to bring the romance of your historicals to a relationship in modern times... That's the only way I would read another of LK's contemporary stories.