Decent Exposure (Little Black Dress)

by Phillipa Ashley | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0755334612 Global Overview for this book
Registered by katie1980 of Basingstoke, Hampshire United Kingdom on 9/6/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by katie1980 from Basingstoke, Hampshire United Kingdom on Friday, September 6, 2013
From the back of the book:
"When a nice girl asks twelve men to get naked, is it decent exposure or indecent exploitation?
Emma Tremayne has left her high-powered PR job and moved to the Lake District. She was expecting to find some much-needed peace and quiet, not to end up cavorting on a hillside with a naked guy...
Emma thinks she's being community-minded when she agrees to help the local mountain rescue team put together a 'tasteful' nude calendar in order to fundraise for their new headquarters. Unfortunately, quite a lot of the community seems to mind what she's up to. Including the extremely handsome Mr July, Will, who appears to have got completely the wrong impression about Emma's intentions. So how does she convince him that he's more than just Flavour of the Month...?
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The blurb gives no indication of the story of this book! It is misleading and basically wrong. But still, I didn't buy this book on the strength of the blurb as it came as part of a four-book boxed set of "Little Black Dress" books. Even still, I have to say I didn't really enjoy this book. It was too full of "sexy" scenes, and I use this word in its literal sense as in "scenes full of sex", not really in an attractive way. I liked how he book easily flipped between Will and Emma's points of view and this was one thing that did work well. And I liked how the reader learned about the history of the characters as they learned about each other. But other than that I didn't really like the story, as it was too convoluted and yet too simplistic at the same time. I can't really explain why I didn't like it, but it wasn't my cup of tea. Maybe it was that it seemed heavy-handed on the sex-scenes front, or maybe it was more complicated than that, but it was a cross between a mills and boon and a chick lit book, dressed up in the cover of a teenage romance! I hope whoever picks this up enjoys it more than I did, anyway. (One bonus: it was a pretty quick read even with 277 pages.)

Journal Entry 2 by katie1980 at BCUK Unconvention 2013 in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, September 6, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (9/27/2013 UTC) at BCUK Unconvention 2013 in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

To be taken to the UnConvention this year and released. I hope it finds an appreciative reader! Happy travels, little book.

Journal Entry 3 by katie1980 at BCUK Unconvention 2013 in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, September 7, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (9/27/2013 UTC) at BCUK Unconvention 2013 in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Being released at the BCUK UnConvention later this month. I have very little time to read these days, so I am being ruthless and clearing lots of books from my shelves and boxes in order to give them a chance to be read, and to give us a little breathing space at home and in life!
I hope that this book finds an appreciative reader.
Happy travels, little book!

Journal Entry 4 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, September 29, 2013
I have never heard of the bookcrossing before but it sounds like a great idea.

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