Comments on: REVIEW: Man of the Year by Lisa Ruff

By: Bev Stephans

Bev Stephans — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:34:15 +0000

I think Lisa Ruff was definitely a class-act in thanking you for the review. I’m just sorry that I didn’t care much for the book. To be fair, I did finish it. I too, liked Samantha doing her job. What I didn’t like, was the interaction between Samantha and Jarrett. I’m not going to grade this as I’m not sure that I could be totally objective.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:41:11 +0000

Indeed Deb. After reading the train wreck that’s currently going on with one author and having seen how other authors have responded to reviews that didn’t get an A grade, it’s refreshing.

By: Deb Kinnard

Deb Kinnard — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:18:40 +0000

Lisa appears from her reply to be a class act, which will in itself make me give her second book a try. Too often we’ve seen less classy replies to reviews that aren’t A+, from other authors.

I’ve had B- reviews and it’s hard to know, sometimes, what to shake off & what to take away, to improve your next project.

Kudos for your ‘tude, Ms. Ruff.

By: Lisa Ruff

Lisa Ruff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:30:51 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to review Man of the Year. I appreciate the comments and feedback; they are helpful for a new writer like myself. My next book, Baby on Board, comes out in January. I hope you will review it as well.
Best Regards,
Lisa Ruff

By: Bev Stephans

Bev Stephans — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:06:47 +0000

Jayne, I’ll let you know the grade when I finish it…..if I finish it!

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:23:53 +0000

Bev, I guess, one way or the other, this isn’t going to get a C grade from you. ;)

By: Bev Stephans

Bev Stephans — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:09:16 +0000

I’m in the middle of reading this and can’t decide whether or not to throw it across the room or continue reading. I don’t like Jarrett. He’s a jerk of the first order!

Players and management don’t get together before Spring Training. They get together at Spring Training. All drills, contracts, medical evaluations take place at Spring Training. This was a big fat error on the author’s part.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:32:54 +0000

MMM. I got this at one of the RWA book signings (Harlequin, I assume). I picked it up because some authors felt bad that they got skipped over in favor of the more well known in the room. It was free, and one night months from now I’ll be desperate, but this review has not moved it to the top of the TBR pile.

By: Patty L.

Patty L. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:33:43 +0000

I liked this story. I thought the heat between them kept the story movign forward and I found Samantha to be an intelligent herione (which is in short supply lately). IMHO I am a sucker for sport related books and I found myself wrapped up in this story.

I will definetly keep Ms. Ruff on my authors to watch list.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:34:49 +0000

Deb I can see your POV. And situations like this are ones that can go either way for me. He did push the first date but after that, he acted pretty well. If he’d kept doing the same kind of thing, I’d have really disliked him. What I found is what I mentioned paragraph 5. After the initial date, it was the same scene replayed for the rest of the book and that got old.

Plus the “risking his arm” stuff. But Samantha redeemed a lot with her mature attitude, work ethic and management skills. Too often in a romance novel, we’re told that a woman is a great manager/boss/employee but when something actually happens, she falls to pieces. True Jarrett had to pull few strings to get the owner to back away from his threatened firing but overall, she handles herself well.