Simply Irresistible audiobook

3.75 Stars If you’ve read and liked Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books, particularly her hockey romance series then this series is most likely going to appeal to you. If books had twin siblings this would be it. The same style, the same kind of characters and the same issues really.. Just like SEP’s books, this was entertaining. The writing was witty and catchy and the characters were very.. old school?! There is plenty of “in your face sexism” and the male characters are really hard to like because their values don’t really make them the poster boys for gender equality if anything their contributions would be detrimental. Specifically speaking, I liked Georgie, the female MC. She was so lost, so sad, so lonely and I think the author did a great job at painting her pain all the while making her personality bubbly, strong and charming. The scene where she was at the airport and she was having a sort of out of body experience while reality came crashing down on her .. it made me really sad for her, I mean really. We often read about loneliness in books but there was such a visceral thing about the desperation of hitting rock bottom, finding hope (however silly and unrealistic it was) and then going back to zero.. She made a controversial decision later on which was arguably selfish but I understood where she came from. Hiding a child’s paternity is not something I like to read about because I find it morally reprehensible unless there is a serious reason for it, but as I said, I understood her and to be honest John, the male MC wasn’t really the poster boy for great decisions and morality.Hmm, what else can I add? The male MC was okay, I suppose. I mean, he was a typical jock with a tragic event in his past who has just recovered from a chronic case of bad decision making. Sober and no longer marrying strippers whose name he can’t remember, he wants to become father of the year and is excited at the prospect of having a child so I liked that aspect of his personality.What really ruined my enjoyment was the secondary story which didn’t take much space in the book but did a lot of damage. The story is about Mae, Georgie’s best friend and business partner. She was a pixie with an attitude who caught the eye of another hockey player who pursued her relentlessly, like she was so precious and unique.. I started off impartial when it came to her character but when she started saying that she couldn’t tell Georgie that she pretty much only slept with married men (because it was, easy, no strings attached sex) due to the fact that her friend was a quote “prude”, I felt like throwing up. Apparently if you disapprove of women who sleep exclusively with married men because it’s just easy sex, then you’re a prude.. Then there comes a point in Mae’s story where she rejects Hugh over and over after he practically begs her to go out with him and she rationalises it by saying that she may be sleeping with married men but even she has standards. Say what?!? Apparently she had a no jocks standard. I mean, yeah I get it, if he’s single, handsome, interested and successful, he’s a no -go but add a wife to the mix and the boy is golden right?! Wtf did I just read?! Anyway, that was just me ranting at the ridiculousness of it all. But like I said, the main story was entertaining and I seriously enjoyed it.

Me ha gustado mucho, es el primer libro que leo de Rachel Gibson y ha sido un muy primer encuentro, es una historia divertido, que te engancha desde la primera página, no pude parar de leer hasta que lo terminéTiene un estilo muy parecido a los libros de SEP, por ejemplo el tipo de protagonistas femeninas de fama dudosa pero cuando las vas conociendo son muy adorables y son de esas chicas que hacen cosas buenas que parecen malas y con hombre un poco machistas, no sé si esto se deba a que están escritos en los 90´s.La única pega que le pongo a este libro son algunas actitudes del protagonista que parecía que todo lo que hacía estaba bien y nunca se disculpaba, de ahí en fuera lo disfruté mucho.

Loved this one! New author, new series, yay! It was a little dated, but then again, so am I.

It's hard to believe that this is Gibson's first book. It's outstanding, with strong characters, memorable plot, and excellent pacing. And a rich tapestry of background characters, as well.If there's anything amateur about it, it was in starting the story with Georgeanne being diagnosed with a "brain disorder" at a young age (we later learn this is dyslexia). The damage of being labelled as stupid so young has its inevitable effect, but we didn't really need to be there at the diagnosis or hear what the evaluating doctor said to get the impact Gibson needed, I don't think. The narrative picks up years later with Georgeanne running from her wedding to a much older man. By this time, she is a professionally charming (in the sense of having graduated from charm schools provided by her Grandmother) and when John first meets her she's desperate and trained to think of men as the way to security. This is exactly as disastrous as you'd think, not helped by John being more than a little callous. This opening could have been off-putting, but there's enough of a glimpse into the people they'll become to keep you interested and I enjoyed their interactions. Her desperation and his need for intimacy interacted poorly, even as it was something they both needed at the time.Where Gibson really shines in this story is investing Georgeanne with all the charm her background indicates. She has that Southern charm with a gift for gab that could have been off-putting or distracting if not handled right. I really liked how expressive she was and how that contrasted with John's rather taciturn nature. And I liked how his initial annoyance when they first met mellows into an appreciation for her conversational skill when the re-meet later on. Equally engaging is Georgeanne's daughter, Lexie. Six year-olds are tough to get right and I thought Gibson did a great job making her demanding and engaging and willful and easily distracted without being merely a convenient driver of plot. Best of all was how her interactions with John humanized him and let him reevaluate his priorities in ways he needed to digest. And I find few things as engaging as a big, tough manly man sitting down and playing Barbies just because it's what his daughter wants to do. It's his interactions with Lexie that let me see Georgeanne's attraction for him in more than just physical desire and her old need to put herself under the protection of someone strong.I can't quite bring myself to round up to five stars if only because I so often found Georgeanne's actions a bit hard to predict. She falls in love with John awful fast in both the past and present and is a bit too willing to let sex be the answer when their relationship needed emotional engagement. She's so assured in every other aspect of her life by the time they re-engage that it felt out of place having her communication fail in such an important aspect of her life. Everything else holds together so well that this contrast felt a bit like it was a genre/author expectation in order to draw the conflict out longer.A note about Steamy: This had two explicit sex scenes and lands in the middle of my steam tolerance. There are other flirty bits, but another thing Gibson does well is depict the difficulty of working around a toddler when you want some time/space alone.

En realidad un 4'5, es difícil que un libro sea perfecto, y aunque tenga sus costillas, en general es un libro que he disfrutado y me ha encantado desde la primera página.Es el primer libro que leo de Rachel Gibson y he quedado muy satisfecha. Es un libro rápido de leer que engancha en seguida, una historia original con unos protagonistas muy humanos, él es un hombre solitario y con miedo a amar, y ella es una chica deseosa de amar y ser correspondida. Todo ello aderezado con la dulzura y estridencia de su hija Lexie, que ha servido de unión entre los protagonistas.Son una fan y fiel admiradora de SEP y sus "Chicago Stars", pero sin duda, el equipo de hockey de los Chinooks son la competencia perfecta, por lo menos en éste primer número. Me he quedado con ganas de más.

Georgeanne Howard is about to marry one of the richest men in the US. Except he is old enough to be her grandfather. Bolting from the church, she catches a ride from the extremely sexy John Kowalsky. John is a star hockey player for the team owned by Georgie's disappointed husband to was going to be. With no family and no-where to go, she figures she can hide out at John's for a couple of days. But personal chemistry gets in the way. Since John doesn't want to risk his career and is battling his own personal demons, things don't work out after the first night and they part ways. Seven years later they meet again. John is shocked to find Georgie in town. He's really shocked to meet his daughter. Is there an HEA? Can they get over the personal hurdles they both keep throwing in front of themselves? OK, so the couple spend most of the book fighting. If I were John, I'd be a heck of a lot more pissed than he was. How can a woman not tell the father about his child? Especially when he's financially sound, easy to find, and available. I spent half the book disliking Georgie for that reason alone. I spent the other half thinking John were an ass. Even with that, I still liked the book and the story. No mystery. No who is she going to end up with? But the characters were engaging enough that it was still a good read.

Georgeanne Howard has no money, no friends to call, and only the clothes on her back. She hitches a ride with professional hockey player John Kowalsky who is surprised to find out he has picked up his boss's runaway bride. After spending a memorable night together, Georgie and John meet again seven years later. This time John discovers that Georgie has been keeping a secret from him...a daughter she never told him about.This is the first book in Rachel Gibson's Chinooks Hockey Team series. I had a problem with both John and Georgeanne in this story. I wanted to like them, but neither are particularly likeable. They do have a lot of chemistry though, which makes the romance a little more believable. My favorite character was six year old Lexie. The scenes of her and John getting to know each other are priceless. Overall, the book is just OK. Thankfully the series gets better. My rating: 3.5 Stars.