Comments on: Lisa Kleypas Week – Guest Dare: Sugar Daddy

By: zewBrizYS

zewBrizYS — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:02:24 +0000

By: Katie Reus

Katie Reus — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:48:00 +0000

I’ve been holding on to this one, but since you’re a self-professed ‘non-contemporary reader’ (not sure how to word that, lol) and loved it, I’ll bump this up on my list!

By: naida

naida — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:39:00 +0000

great review, this sounds like a good one
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By: Ciara

Ciara — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:27:00 +0000

Loved the book. I read it cover to cover. And LOVED the baby epilogue, but then I’m predictable like that. It isn’t a romance novel, but a woman’s fiction with romantic elements and (thank the lord) a HEA. The back blurb is completely misleading. Completely not what I was expecting. Completely loved it.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:48:00 +0000

Since I’m doing totally awesome at rocking the boat tonight, I thought I’d just throw in my comment that I didn’t care for Sugar Daddy at all and haven’t even bothered with Blue-Eyed Devil. Ha! I am a rebel!!!

(I did think this perhaps fell a bit more into “women’s fiction” than romance.)

(And I’m really looking forward to someone tackling His Dark Materials!)

By: Taja

Taja — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:37:00 +0000

RfP, I didn’t mean to single your comment (or Thea’s) out and I didn’t feel misunderstood, but I wanted to clarify my “women’s fiction” statement in general and your comment helped me there.

Now if I accomplished that is a different thing.

By: orannia

orannia — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Great review CJ (and can I say well done for taking on a book outside your comfort zone You’re braver than I am *grin*

I loved Sugar Daddy but I have to be honest, I spent most of the book picturing (and even hoping) for Liberty to get together with a particular character. I still enjoyed the ending (very much so) but…I wanted that interlude. Maybe it was just me?

orannia

PS Oh, and I loved His Dark Materials! Enjoy katiebabs!

By: RfP

RfP — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Taja, I know what you mean about placing the genre borders somewhere out of necessity. I agree that the role of the heroine, and her stage of life, are central to a number of these related genres. One of the ways I sometimes differentiate chick lit from romance is the very sharp focus on the heroine’s coming-of-age story of a first challenging job, first bad breakup, etc.

I apologize for going slightly off-topic but I thought I should respond

I think it’s on-topic to help new readers figure out what makes a contemporary romance

By: Taja

Taja — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Carolyn Jean, great review! A really good choice, ahm, dare for your first contemporary.

I think Thea expressed what I meant with my comparison to women’s fiction better than I did: “less romance driven, and more about Liberty and her struggles as a young woman, with her family and little sister”. But I went with romance as genre label in my comment even though I had that impression and it just says “novel” on the book spine (pb edition). The thought to call it women’s fiction in my comment never crossed my mind.

As for my definition of a straight romance as a story “where IMO the focus is firmly on the romance and the couple’s relationship” which RfP quoted, umh, yes, that’s what I would say for a short definition in comparison to other genres. But I don’t mean that to say that the heroine’s journey is not an important part of romance novels and I didn’t intend it as my “definite” definition of romance when I wrote it. That would be better of in a separate post, and I would probably end up with nothing at all because I don’t think there are clearly marked “borders” between genres and you can find novels that one way or another transcend agreed upon (by whom?) borders.

Anyway, like most of the other readers, I liked Sugar Daddy a lot and I’m glad I read it. Now I “just” have to wait for Blue Eyed Devil to get published in pb.

(I apologize for going slightly off-topic but I thought I should respond).

By: Kristie (J)

Kristie (J) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:14:00 +0000

It took me a bit longer to get around to reading this book – mainly because it wasn’t what I had come to expect from Lisa Kleypas. But once I did, I was totally and completely sold on her ability to write a really wonderful ‘woman’s fiction’ book written in the first person. I didn’t used to read first person books but the walls were weakening. But when I read Sugar Daddy, I loved it so much, the walls came tumblin’ down, crumblin’, crumblin’ down.