Comments on: REVIEW: Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery

By: Christina T.

Christina T. — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:33:52 +0000

I really liked the series. I tend to agree that Nicoles anger was a bitmuch in book 3. I mean really she does not care for the husband at all and you would have thought Hawk would have calmed her down some?! \

Also it swould be nice for Raul to have his own story!! I would also read brittany’s.

By: limecello

limecello — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:05:43 +0000

I agree with Leeann about Raoul. I love me some Raoul. I’m also not quite sure what I think about this book – I liked it more than you did, Jane, but I think the thing (problem?) was that… well I expected a lot of it. I figured explaining away Jesse’s past/brattiness would be rather lackluster, and after the first chapter, knew Matt was going to suck as a human. Still, I loved the scene with him and Gabe at the aquarium. Maybe I brushed over/ignored too much – but I really liked the secondary characters, and that helped a lot.
I think the thing with Matt is that Jesse “broke” him, when she told him she was pregnant and left, while he thought she had slept with (Drew?) – still, that didn’t really convince me either. Ah well. [This is why when I first heard about the series I was rather "meh" - but I enjoyed the first two books a lot.]

By: Leeann Burke

Leeann Burke — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:16:07 +0000

I truly enjoyed this series. However what I had issues with was Nicole’s (middle sister) constant anger. It became a little too much by the third book (this one) and I truly started to not like her.

I have to confess I wanted to know more about Raoul in the third book since he became a part of the family in the second one. I sure hope he gets his own story soon.

By: AnimeJune

AnimeJune — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:16:04 +0000

I despised this book as well, but for different reasons.

I actually didn’t dwell too much on the geek-to-hero transformation – I was too busy being absolutely appalled at Matthew’s motivations and actions. He spends seventy percent of the novel not as a wounded former lover, but as a vindictive, malicious, callous, and manipulative monster. In any other decent book he would have been the villain who gets his faced bashed in and the tires on his fancy BMW slashed while Jesse and the real hero drove off into the sunset.

I actually related to Jesse fairly well. That’s what kept me with the Keyes trilogy, because even with Sweet Talk’s crazy-sister-bitching and Sweet Spot’s magical pregnancies, I could relate to all of the sisters and thought that their flaws and human elements were engagingly written.

Her vulnerability only made Matt’s behaviour towards her more abusive. I’ve never disliked a hero more. He slams the door in her face when she tells him she’s pregnant (after he calls her a whore), but spends most of the book in self-righteous anger that Jesse didn’t try harder to tell him, and blames her for his lack of relationship with his son. Gee, how romantic.

**Mild Spoilers Ahead, although, really, this book was so wretched I’m warning everyone I know off it** Elly, what happened to Jesse is that she was taken advantage of and caught in a position where there was really no evidence one way or the other, with only hearsay to go on, and because of her wildchild past she wasn’t believed. It makes more sense if you’ve read the previous books, where it showed there were a lot of other factors that resulted in her running off. Also, in the previous book (Sweet Spot), Matt actually told Jesse that he didn’t CARE if the child was his because he didn’t want anything to do with her, including a child.

But this book had really ugly connotations concerning Jesse’s responsibility to tell Matt about her child, even after he openly rejected both her and the child (stating he didn’t care if it was his or not).

By: Elly Soar

Elly Soar — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:54:21 +0000

See I can buy this sort of plot in an HP cuz I always picture them in a sort of alternate universe british commonwealth where there is no such thing as paternity tests or lawsuits or the morning after pill…but in a regular, modern contemporary, I get really really frustrated with this sort of plot. Why can’t these heroines stick up for themselves and assert the truth when somoene thinks they are cheating? Why can’t they file paternity suits? Or did she not know what they thought of her? And in that case, why on Earth did she accept the hero walking out on her when she was pregnant anyway? I’m all about fidelity but I would be more interested if the heroine actually had cheated on him in this book and realized her mistake…

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:44:35 +0000

Lol, I remember ads like that! My cousin was smaller and skinny and desperate to put on weight and muscle. It never worked… 11 years later and he’s still skinny. He’s just a lot taller now.

On to the book… I haven’t read it yet (and don’t really know if I want to), but I’m curious about the past indiscretion. How did she explain away some other guy’s hand on her boob? How did she explain it to her sister???