Comments on: REVIEW: Accidentally Yours by Susan Mallery

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:42:26 +0000

Was Kerri a hairdresser?

By: CeCe/Arizona

CeCe/Arizona — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:17:09 +0000

I absolutely detested this book, from the start when Kerri blackmails Nathan for 15 million dollars! You lie and tell the world, and you’re a hero? And his sister says she is glad his son died so he’d feel pain? This was a totally serious, disgusting book I wanted to throw away. The romance was so secondary, and he was stupid for wanting her. And the miracle cure? Come on, how cliche even for romances of 20 years ago. I’ll think before buying another of her books.

By: Susan/DC

Susan/DC — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:47:31 +0000

People sometimes say they don’t like historicals because of the wallpaper history/inaccuracies, but I find inaccuracies more offputting in contemporaries precisely because I recognize them more easily. Right after college I worked in the biology department of a major university, and the medical premise of this book as described in your review would have me tossing the book against the wall sooner than you could say “peer-review”. The whole “it’s only a romance” doesn’t wash either, because someone who’d lie, cheat, and steal without a qualm (she) or who is played for an idiot (he) just doesn’t strike me as romantic H/H material. But then, that’s just me.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:37:57 +0000

I have not enjoyed the last few books this author has released. She used to be an auto buy for me…

By: Tumperkin

Tumperkin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:25:22 +0000

Jane – I think you’ve pointed up something quite important about plausability for me.

I think I’m pretty tolerant about implausible events (you know, the beggar heroine turns out to be the lost daughter of a duke) but very intolerant over implausible setting/ background facts such as you’ve described. And worst of all is implausible characters (such as this eejit who has somehow become a self-made billionaire)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:33:08 +0000

I usually like Susan Mallery, but I don’t think I’ll be reading this one. Even just the description doesn’t make it sound like it has appealing characters.

And yes, I do like my premises to be at least somewhat based in reality if it’s billed as a contemporary romance.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:11:40 +0000

A friend of mine works for a company that conducts clinical trials for drug companies and I bet he’d fall off his chair if he even read this description.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:56:33 +0000

I suppose that they call it a miracle, but the way that the disease is “cured” is through medical intervention via the ONE scientist’s studies. I really can’t get over the one scientist thing. The fact that there are no medical trials, no FDA approval. It’s not like the scientist is even using something “off label.”

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:54:39 +0000

Is this kind of a “Lorenzo’s Oil” type of cure or actual drugs that the investigator is working on? If the first, maybe I could buy that part of the story but if the second, no way.

By: cecilia

cecilia — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:02:23 +0000

Great review – you’re a hardy one to endure what sounds like a really annoying book. One question just popped into my mind, though. Well, first a thought popped into my mind, which is I’m surprised no one has played the “it’s only a romance, not a medical journal article, chill” card. Then the question popped into my mind about whether this kind of inaccuracy is more or less annoying than inaccuracy in historicals. Or, would these factual discrepancies about R&D be more forgivable if the characters and everything else were engaging?

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:38:12 +0000

Of course not. And the doctor/scientist is the only one working on the cure AND he provides a cocktail of drugs to the mother that are not monitored in anyway.

By: CM

CM — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:25:56 +0000

Lemme guess–they didn’t have to worry about getting FDA approval for the cure, either.