[.ca] Blushing Pink (ISBN 0451410904)

excellent!!!:
i loved every page of this book! the story was so uplifting and passionate. i found this book very well-written, better than most other novels i've read lately. the author has a really funny unique way of describing things. and both love stories are so beautiful and passionate!!

One for the A-List Keeper Shelf:
Funny, sexy, original with warm engaging characters, 'Blushing Pink' by Jill Winters is now at the top of my A-List Keeper Shelf. Even if you don't normally go for romance, you will love this book!

It deserves zero stars......:
It's really like an accident you don't want to see but can't seem to stop looking. This is a book I didn't want to keep reading but couldn't stop...... Ugh. Flat cardboard characters. Spineless heroine. WHY oh WHY doesn't she stand up to her manipulative, shallow mother & the dictatorial professor? And how can she be in a PhD program when she's this dense? The image obsessed mother. The father who spouts quotations. The abusive boss from hell. Cliche after cliche..... You can see the plot hiccups (I can't really call them twists) coming a mile away. The plot is propelled by simple misunderstandings and overheard conversations. In other words, there is no real plot. There are so many wonderful romantic women's fiction books out there. This isn't one of them.

Fantastic!:
"Blushing Pink" is a fantastic novel. It has believable characters that you actually care about, a great romance and it's written in a friendly style. I got sucked into this book during the first chapter and couldn't put it down until the end (ok, it took two or three sittings, but I didn't WANT to put it down until the end). After I finished this book, it felt as though a good friend had told me the story of Reese and Brian. Jill Winters is a wonderful writer and I will be picking up everything she writes. Do yourself a favor and do the same!

After so many books, finally a winner!:
Ms Winters scores high marks with this wonderful and funny novel. Reese Brock is working on her PhD. She has a fellowship in a university in NY. She's dating a nerd that knows about basic human interaction as Britney Spears knows about singing (not much). In exchange for free room and tuition she must work as a Professor's Assistant to one of the most hated, conceited and not original, professors in her university. She's trying really hard to get her disertation going, but try as she might, she can't even think about it, much less write it. Now, to spice up her life, her baby sister is getting married. And Reese, with her older sister, Angela, is the maid of honor. Reese's mom, means well, but she thinks Reese is close to wonder woman, hence she delegates everything on Reese. And Reese is always too sweet to say no. She is very kind and gentle soul, but she is not stupid at all. What Reese did not expect was to have Brian Dorean back in her life so soon, or that he would cause such a heated reaction just by being in the same room as Reese. You see, Reese and Brian had met 2 years ago at a party that Amy (Reese's baby sister) invited Reese to go. A little peck for New Year's congratulation became a heated, rip-out-your-clothe kiss. But the kiss was left at that, and they both assumed neither wanted to proceed based only on that kiss. But the minute they are thrown at each other, or rather sitted next to each other, in a dinner, Reese and Brian begin to wonder if that kiss had only been a moment thing, or something else, because at the moment, they seemed to be having very passionate thoughts. Then, turns out, Brian lunches everyday in the same place Reese works (a bookstore), and suddenly they begin to get to know each other. And the best part is that they really like what they see. Of course things can not be too easy for our heros. So we are introduced to Veronica, Brian's ex-fiancee, who wants to reconecile. Brian's family, and especially his sister, who is going through a rough time. And of course Kenneth, Reese's nerdy love interest, who all of a sudden decides to pursue Reese a bit harder, just when Reese was wondering how to dump him without hurting him. And as a plus there's also a short second story in Angela and her hubby, which I found beautiful. I really loved this book, first because the characters are very well developed, all of them. Second because the heroine is not anorexically thin, but well endowed. And third because I trully felt that the progression, in terms of Reese and Brian's relationship, evolved natually. It did not feel forced. it felt natural, like it was meant to happen right at that point, not sooner, not later. Reese was a strong women and Brian only brings that out on her. Her changes are very subtle, yet we as readers can see them and we can only applaud her for coming to terms with her life and who she really is and wants to be. There are other romance books in which the love scenes occur in pages 250 and up, and the realization of love, only from one of teh characters, comes by pages 100 and up. This doesnt occur here. I think Jill Winters found her own formula, her own voice and she is not afraid to use it! I highly reccomed this book to anyone. Now I'm in search for Plum Girl (her 1st novel) which I havent read yet. But be sure, from now on, if it says Jill Winters in it, I'm buying it!