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Cutting Loose | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Andersen
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 5890
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0373773048
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780373773046
ASIN: 0373773048
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Condition: p - spine creases and minor edge wear
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Product Description
Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her coolBut the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up—she won't tolerate them in someone hired to work on the house she and her two best friends have just inherited. Dev could renovate the mansion in his sleep. But ever since the prissy owner spotted him jet-lagged, exhausted and hit hard by a couple of welcome-home drinks, she's been on his case. Yet there's something about her. Jane hides behind conservative clothes and a frosty manner, but her seductive blue eyes and leopard-print heels hint at a woman just dying to cut loose!
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Not very good... August 21, 2008
I would not recommend this book. It was pretty boring and had way too many cheesy lines.
Not nearly as good as Ms. Andersen's other books August 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I gave this book 3 stars more on the merit of the author and her usual stuff, but I didn't think the book itself really deserved 3 whole stars. I absolutely love this author and everything else she's ever written, but this book fell short of the mark for me. It was very BORING and I was skimming thru it by the half way mark.
Jane is one of the most boring characters I've ever read and I could not relate to her at all. She was actually kind of irritating. And Devlin was just so-so as a leading man. He was also kind of boring though, too. I did find parts in the book that I could stop and read thru and be entertained by, but not many and it took me more than a couple of days to read this when normally I devour her books in a day. I kept finding more interesting things to do other than read Cutting loose. It's especially disappointing coming on the heels of her last novel Coming Undone, which was phenomenal and so very entertaining that I didn't want it to end.
I will hold out hope for the next 2 books in the series, b/c Poppy and Ava were more engaging in this book and it wasn't even their story! Hopefully this is a one time miss for Susan Andersen.
 Cut It Loose August 14, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book for approximately three chapters and then it just became too much.
The premise was good, three childhood friends inherit a house from a wealthy woman they befriended. Obviously each woman is going to have their own book and their love interest will be introduced via the house. But I digress.
This is the story of Jane and Devlin "Dev". These two characters could not have less chemistry. Jane is afraid of love because her parents are nutty and Dev comes from a large Irish Catholic family. I never understood why they were so hot for each other. Their first intimate encounter occurs when Jane says,"Lets have no strings sex". Thus begins the love making. That is not romantic nor sexy.
I did not enjoy this book despite the fact that I read the whole thing. Too much time was spent on the relationship between the three friends and the house they inherited and not enough on the relationship between Dev and Jane.
I was also annoyed that all of the Kavenaughs used nicknames. Devlin was Dev, his sister Hannah was Han (I would like to add I have had several friends named Hannah and I've never heard anyone refer to them as Han.) and so on.
This book also becomes a mystery over half way through were objects are being taken from the mansion and suddenly the reader is treated to the inner thoughts of the thief. This added nothing and was slightly confusing at first. That being said, the thoughts of the thief were at least interesting though unnecessary.
I am interested in reading Poppy's story. (I'm sure she's going to be hooking up with the detective investigating the theft) But we'll see if I buy it when the time comes.
Dull and Cartoonish August 11, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
If ever I have wanted a book to end and put me out of my misery, this one was IT. I normally love Ms. Andersen's work and for years she has been on a my automatic buy list but she must have been half asleep when she wrote this. Mike and Dorie Show! Heck this was the dull and somewhat cartoonish Jane and Dev show.
I did not care for Jane who did not demonstrate any depth and I never once felt like wanting to root for her to overcome her issues and find love with Devlin. As for Dev, I wanted to like him but in many ways felt his character was not fleshed out. In the end he was just an ok sort of guy, not a true hero in the sense that I think this genre attempts to establish their main male characters.
As for the plot... Ms. Andersen normally shows a very deft hand in building her characters, storylines, secondary characters etc. and bringing them to a great crescendo by combining interesting characters, hot romance and pretty thrilling villans and intent. The whole jealous co-worker thing would have worked (I felt) if they had been in a different business environment (say legal, environmental, even the marine industry that Dev was oriented with) but the obsession with the dress and the old house and the TSTL idea that such a supposed important exhibit was being catalogued in an old home IN THE MIDST OF CONSTRUCTION NO LESS, was silly, far-fetched and boring. And what low level curator could not AT LEAST call on the resources of a large museum to a better degree to get the job done. Sheesh! Finally the ending for me was tied up in a fashion to suggest that even the author was sick of writing it.
I do not have hope that the rest of series and its focus on the hippy-dippy Poppy and the Marilyn Monroe like Ava will be much better. I hope Ms. Andersen scraps the rest and just starts thinking of ways to do Detective DeSanges justice.
 More like 3 1/2 stars!! August 7, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this book since we had to wait so long for Ms. Andersen to put out something new, but for me, the book fell a little short of great. I will say that once the characters started interacting a little more together, the story got interesting, but before that, the first 80 or so pages could have been condensed to about a chapter.
I was waiting for the fiery passion Ms. Andersen's other characters had exhibited in her other books like in Getting Lucky and Hot and Bothered, but besides a few teaser scenes Cutting Loose leaves you bound in doubt that Jane and Dev even want to be together. Just when things started getting good, it was the end of the book.
I found myself liking Ava and Poppy so much more than Jane because I think they were fleshed out better. Almost every character in the book is just mentioned and you really don't get a sense of them as people. I hope Poppy's story will include Detective Sheik because they seem to sizzle!
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