The Kind of Book that Puts a Smile on Your Face

Janet compares romance novels to birthday cake, and hers are just that - something simple and sweet that just makes you feel good. Back to the Bedroom is my favorite so far. You can see Janet's humor working up to be what her Stephanie Plum's books are: the accidents, the silliness, and even her first draft of Grandma Mazur are there. Read it - there's no way you won't like it. And I don't even like romance novels - just decided to give hers a try since she can't seem to write her Plum books fast enough!

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Good

Fun to read with loveable characters. Simple and charmingo

Light read

A fast read, it was a cute story with likable characters, esp. Elsie and had delightful humor throughout. I would recommend.

Funny, typical Janet Evanovich, quirky characters

This was a funny book, with believable characters, ridiculous plot, but fun. There is her predecessor to Grandma Mazur and parts of this book made me laugh out loud (not good when you're sitting in a hospital waiting room). The characters are not as well defined as her later novels, but her sense of humor and writing style are certainly there.

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Romance stories have never really grabbed my attention when it comes to reading books. Janet Evanovich's Back to the Bedroom, however, was one book that was an exception. I give this book a total of four stars basically because it was a good read. This book allowed me to relate to the characters in a way that kept me turning the pages and reading more. Evanovich's characters, David and Kate, face their inner conflict on a daily basis throughout the story. They are young and in love, battling with their deepest emotions and desires of love and lust for one another. They are neighbors who cannot go a day without seeing or thinking about each other. Kate, a striving musician who is always on the move, is troubled by these feelings of love because she feels David is not motivated in life. She is afraid to let herself fall for a man who sits around the house all day. When confined to a cast things seem to go downhill for Kate as she puts her music career on hold and comes to the shocking realization that her and Dave are going to be together.The theme is based on the idea that when given a chance, love can flourish. Kate never wanted to cope with the fact that she was afraid of loving Dave because of her previous marriage with another man. She was always comparing Dave to her ex-husband and she failed to see Dave for who he really is. Basically the theme of this story is aimed at a younger audience. I highly recommend this book if romance novels are your cup of tea. It encompasses all the aspects of a cliche love story sappy but good.

for the hopeless romantics

Back To The Bedroom by Janet Evanovich is a great romance novel. Thorough the characters of Kate Finn and David Dodd, it gives the theme of always following your heart no matter what your mind is telling you. Kate Finn is a busy cellist who doesn¿t believe in love, due to a previous failed marriage. She is a dynamic round character who automatically gains your interest right in the beginning of the story. David Dodd is her laid back handsome neighbor who tries hard to get attention from the uninterested, hard to get Kate. He is a cartoonist who loves to sit home and play with, as Kate likes to call them, ¿toys¿. David is a hopeless romantic who the reader¿s automatically fall in love with his laid back self-confident personality. Janet Evanovich created great characters we get to know them early in the story which makes it more interesting and fun to read, we know their personality and what they are thinking, we get to know them so well that we even start to guess how they will react to situations that arise in the always changing always surprising story. A major conflict is that David and Kate are two completely different people she feels that he isn¿t hard working enough for her and he feels that she is always stressing out too much. The tone they use with each other is very humorous it¿s loving but yet has a sarcastic tone to it that makes it fun to read. Not only is the book a romance novel it is also packed with action, comedy and a little bit of mystery. They wasn¿t very much figurative language in the book, but there was a lot of verbal irony. In one part of the book David Dodd says he would rather ¿eat slugs¿ than do photography work. It is sarcastic and entertaining. The theme of the book is very ironic considering the personality of the main character. The book is a romance novel and the main character is anything but into romance. At one point in the story she even says she would ¿ rather get boiled in oil¿ than get married. I absolutely recommend this book to all the hopeless romantic women. It is a great book that makes you feel good.

I love this book.

I read Back to the Bedroom. I really liked this book, because I like books about romance. This book is about following your heart. The author made the main character, Kate Finn a stubborn person to create conflict in the book. Kate had a piece of the airplane fall into her house, and that is how she met David, her neighbor. He helped her repair the damage, and started hanging out, and eventually fell in love. Kate had an ex husband, and told herself that she¿d never get married. She knew she was in love with David, but she was being stubborn. Anatole, her ex husband, is the minor character in the book. He¿s not in the book much, but he had a big impact in it. Anatole is the reason Kate doesn¿t want to get married again, even though she knows she is in love with David. Anatole is pretty much the reason of conflict in this book. I liked this book because of the applicable irony that ends it. It really makes you want to read the book at one time because you want to know what is going to happen.

life is too short, live it to the fullest

The major theme in ¿Back To The Bedroom¿ is you shouldn¿t let life past you by, by being so predictable and boring just let life itself and those who are granted in it guide you. The theme is important in this book because this is the major challenge the character, Kate face throughout the story. Her conflict was to easily judge others that she felt didn¿t fit and those who distract her day to day plan. David, another significant character, probably the most important one, was Kate¿s major distracter. David was significant because he was the one to in an indirect way slowly teach Kate the idea that life shouldn¿t be lived in her set time and place way. ¿Want to get married?¿ both characters but mainly David, throughout the book, said this quote. It¿s a major question that lingers in-between them because of the great love they share. Neither wants to jump the gun right away but it comes up so much that it leaves a ponder in the readers mind that hopefully they would pursue this idea later. This is the most memorable figurative language stated in the book because it is quoted very often, especially in round about ways. It was first used as a joke but then became maybe quite serious. These words were never forgotten. The quote ¿I find that hard to believe¿ said by Kate is the most significant and adds value because it represents how she feels towards David at many times. Most of the time she doesn¿t believe him because he is a man that is too good to be true and therefore is considered as a distraction. Some applicable irony was expressed verbally. The quote ¿Want to get married?¿ comes up again in this example. Kate asks David in a form of the question as do you ever want to get married and replies yes I except. This is verbal irony because she was asking him something meaning one thing and he answered or replied meaning the total opposite to get a reaction out of her. It worked and he got the reaction he was looking for. I think the author uses this verbal irony to show how significant this quote is and how much these words actually mean in-between the two of these characters. It is used a lot shared between the both of them so I think it¿s the strongest and the most significant words sent from one character to the next.

a romatic story

The theme of this book is assuming someone is not good enough for a person and not being good enough is stopping him or her from doing what they really want which the right thing to do all along. The main characters are Kate, Dave, and Elise. Kate is dynamic character. In the beginning of the story she just got out of a marriage which was a mistake in her eyes and is afraid of marriage and doesn¿t believe that she can see herself getting marred anytime soon or at all. Kate is doing the usual like she does every night over and over but then she heres a big bang. She goes to see what it was and believe it or not it was a piece of a airplane that went through her roof. She couldn¿t believe it so with all the compassion her neighbor Dave came to see if everything was ok. Dave is a flat character. He never changes and through out the story knows exactly what he wants which is Kate. After all the mess Elise which is a middle age widow comes to live with Kate so that she can help her with the rebuilding of her roof and some of her bedroom. Elise and Anatole are the significant characters they both help Kate realize what her true feeling her for Dave. If it weren¿t these characters they ending wouldn¿t be the ending that is now. One of the major conflicts is the airplane crash in the beginning of the story if that didn¿t happened then Dave would of never came to Kate¿s house to see if she was ok and they would of never fell in love. Memorable figurative language is all through out the book Dave always tells Kate that they are going to marry each which he meant but she thought he was joking around when at the end she tells him that they are going to get married and they both mean it. Applicable irony ¿ She didn¿t want to tell him about her feelings. She¿d rather he think it was over the kitten.¿ ¿Every time I said I drew cartoons you¿d rolled your eyes and say yes¿ ¿Kate felt her stomach lurch. He was right.¿ ¿ I feel like a complete mean head.¿ ¿ Kate al2ways told herself that he want good enough for her but he really was¿

Was it love at first sight?

In the book Back to the Bedroom, the major theme is to not judge someone before getting to know them, something good might happen. Katherine Finn (Kate) is a protagonist who is scared about love. She had just gotten out of a relationship and had too much to do in her busy life. She plays the cello everyday and goes to work. The author Janet Evanovich shows to never judge a book by its cover as Kate did with her next-door neighbor, David Dodd (Dave). Dave is a static, protagonist just like Kate. But that was just one thing they had in common, which wasn¿t a good thing in a relationship. Dave is a significant character who tries to change Kate and make her fall in love with him. Kate and Dave come form two different worlds. Kate is a workaholic while Dave is a homebody causing a conflict. While meeting each other Kate had notice that Dave wasn¿t like every other man that she has had in her life. Dave was someone who liked to play with children toys all day and drive around in his Ferrari. Not much of a grown man if you asked Kate. She was used to someone that went to work like her and always had a schedule to go by. Evanovich had made these two so different to show that just because you are maybe a higher class of intelligence, it doesn¿t mean that you are to good for the people under you. More times you are better off like that so you don¿t get and attitude as proved in Back to the Bedroom. Someone one can be so much in love with you that you will do anything for him or her. As Evanovich described in Dave¿s personality that he wont stop until he gets what he wants. ¿I want to watch you for a while. Your so beautiful when you make music,¿ Dave shows that he wont give up he knows she¿s the one but he has to finds a way to prove it. Evanovich also shows verbal irony in this romance novel. ¿With all my heart I can¿t think of anything I¿d rather do than go to your concert.¿ By readying this book you can tell that Dave isn¿t quit into the whole music thing but he tells her that just so she will be impressed and maybe she might just show some love back. The two major symbols in this book are love and marriage. Dave kept asking her to marry him. But that meant being together forever until death do us part. She wasn¿t sure in her life and didn¿t know what she wanted to do. Janet Evanovich proves that love and marriage may come in all different kinds of ways for the good and the bad even if you aren¿t ready for it. If you love romance books you will love Back to the Bedroom. As you get to know Dave and Kate to see if their unusual relationship works out to be how Dave wants it.

Don't Deny your emotions

The Theme of Back to the Bedroom is don¿t deny your true feelings, don¿t listen to other people¿s opinions but your own, and follow your heart. The theme is very important throughout the book because the major character, Kate, has to battle other people¿s opinions, like her parents, and most importantly, her own. Kate Finn is a very predictable woman. She¿s hard working and marches to beat of her own drum. She¿s not very open to change. She¿s comfortable in the environment that surrounds her. Her most prized possession is her cello. Nothing comes in between the two. Her next-door neighbor, David Dodd is the total opposite. He¿s very laid back and is into comic books. It just so happens that he won the lottery and is blessed with cash. With all this money around him, he finds no need to work. One major conflict between the two is that they are complete opposites. He¿s finds himself falling ever so deeply in love with Kate and Kate is hesitant to love him back. She wants the man of her dreams to be working, clean and as predictable as her. As much as she doesn¿t want to love him, she ends up giving into him. Throughout the book, David asks Kate, ¿Want to get married?¿ Kate has already been married and it was a bust. She doesn¿t want that to happen. Just the thought of marrying again stirs up so many emotions. He jokes about it all through out the book but when he sees the battle that Kate goes through, he wants to help as best as he can. He tells her to let go of her predictable life and to settle down with him. She¿s afraid to let go, if she lets go, she¿ll change everything about herself. He tells her, people don¿t change when there married. By doing this he opens her eyes to the wonderful things he has to offer. He may not be the clean cut guy but he can do his best to make sure she¿s happy.

Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich

The book Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich is a romance story. One of the many themes in this story is about a life threatening accident that started up a happy relationship. The two lovebirds David and Kathy live two totally life styles, but still love manages to take advantage of their life and make them both happy with one another. In the story Katherine thinks that a helicopter is spying her on. But the helicopter is not really watching them it is watching her next-door neighbor. The truth is that their neighbor¿s are some drug dealers and they have a drug lab inside of their home. Somehow the neighbor¿s house blows up and they take Kathy hostage. But if I tell you anymore then it might ruin the ending for you so you¿ll just have to go out and buy it if you want to read it. Janet Evanovich has written many best sellers and Back to the Bedroom is one of them. She writes mostly romance stories. This book has a very good sense of humor and is also very enjoyable for a lot of readers. One of the characters his name is David, he is a very sarcastic and has a lot of energy.

Okay but not Plum

This book had some good humor and at times I wish I would have read it instead because I wasn't enthused with C.J. Critt's reading prefer Lorelei King's reading. It was okay but prefer Stephanie Plum series.

I love Evanovich!

This is one of Janet's best books. Good, fun story and great characters and good storyline. Highly recommend.

A GOOD ROMANCE ENGAGINGLY READ

Voice performer C. J. Critt has turned in some sterling readings (favorites include 'All That Remains,' a Kay Scarpetta mystery and, of course, Evanovich's own 'Four To Score.' ) She's an able actress who easily summons romance, enthusiasm, drama or suspense with the sound of her well trained voice. She adds to her credits with this delivery of 'Back To The Bedroom.' For those who may not know, before the 'Plum' days Janet Evanovich wrote a few romance stories. (Yes, friends, there was life before Stephanie Plum and the zany folk in her retinue). 'Back to The Bedroom' is one such story - a little light, a bit funny, and another side to the prolific Evanovich. Katherine Finn is a dedicated musician, and David Dodd is a handsome hunk. Of course, the twain will meet. It was inevitable since they're neighbors - close neighbors. At first it seems the only thing they have in common is the wall that separates them, but we knew romance wasn't far behind. Then, as in all good romance stories there are disagreements until it's kiss and get together again time. (Remember the old William Powell/Myrna Loy movies?) - Gail Cooke