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| Title | : | Maybe This Time |
| Author | : | Jennifer Crusie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2010 by St. Martin's Press (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fantasy. Paranormal. Fiction. Contemporary Romance. Contemporary. Mystery |
Jennifer Crusie
Hardcover | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 3.73 | 12651 Users | 1574 Reviews
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Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything.When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What's worse, Andie's fiancé thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie's dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that's not the only haunting.
What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when she thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them.
If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she's pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mind....
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| Original Title: | Maybe This Time |
| ISBN: | 0312303785 (ISBN13: 9780312303785) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Andromeda "Andie" Miller, North Archer, Will Spenser, Alice Archer, Carter Archer, Sullivan "Southie" Archer |
| Setting: | Columbus, Ohio(United States) New Essex, Ohio(United States) Ohio(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 12651 Users | 1574 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Maybe This Time
4 starsPOV: 3rd person: Andie, NorthSensuality: WarmMystery/Suspense: AverageAndie Miller is finally moving on with her life. Ten years after her divorce from North Archer she is in a content, adult relationship with Will Spenser and she plans on accepting his marriage proposal. First she has to return the ten years of alimony checks from North. Seeing him again still makes her heart flutter, but she's over him. When he asks for her help taking care of his wards--children he "inherited" when hisVery different from what I'm used to reading by JC. I glad she traveled out of her element to write this very enjoyable book. it still has her dosage of quirkiness and fantastic humor with a side of the supernatural :)
In January 2006 I was introduced to Jennifer Crusie by a friend who lent me Bet Me. I read it in 1 sitting and have read it numerous times since. I have pretty much read everything by Jennifer Crusie with Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation at the top of my favourites. I have been disappointed in the last 2.5 books by her that Ive read and didnt have very high expectations going into this book. Maybe This Time has joined Bet Me and WTT as my Crusie favourites.This is what I call classic Crusie,
Trigger warning for discussion of rape.Romance. Andie Miller's ex-husband is desperate; his two young wards refuse to leave their giant English manor, and all the nannies he's sent to take care of them keep leaving, or dying. Andie agrees to look after the kids for a month, packs up her car, says goodbye to her almost fiancé, and moves to southern Ohio.This has a lot in common with The Turn of the Screw: creepy house (complete with creepy pond), creepy orphans, creepy nannies. Except this makes
Wow, what a surprise this book was. I thought it would be a regular romance, but nope ... it was so much more than that. This book had ghosts, amazing kids, and a nanny. With all of that, there was a romance and not in the traditional sense. The people in love were apart for most of the story but the thoughts were there. How she was able to create such a romance with two people that are barely together is a gift. She did a great job with it and it was believable. I fell in love with the kids in
**Audiobook Review**First of all, let me just put this out there: This is not the book I thought I was going to hear. I thought I was in for a run-of-the-mill romance with a little prepared family ending (since there were kids involved). I did not expect... well, let's just say there were ghosts. Mean ones.There was also a tarot card-reading mother, a story-hungry journalist, a parapsychologist with an affinity for tweed and couches, and - since there are ghosts - of course, a medium. Throw in a
The story of a divorced couple getting a second chance, with a far stronger supernatural element than I was expecting.Andie wants to cut all ties with her ex husband North before she accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal, and visits his office to return his alimony checks and ask him to stop sending them. Instead, she somehow ends up agreeing to help him with his two new wards for a month.She ends up in a creepy castle of a house, caring for two very hurt, very wary children that (view
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