Reviews for A Lick and a Promise

The average rating for A Lick and a Promise based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-25 00:00:00 Robert Marino I had some real problems with this story, but also really liked some other parts, and at least the conclusion acknowledgse some of the problems. I really hated the way the heroine immediately decided to change the hero's clothes and haircut without his consent. It just felt really really wrong to me. I did keep reading though, and the heroine does realize the error of her ways at the end. TBH I wish that part of the storyline just wasn't in it at all. I wish he'd asked for help in the clothes and hair department. But I did enjoy the main couple's interactions after that. In particular, er, the sex scenes. So many romances have a lot of rough sex and not very much kissing, and I don't really enjoy that. But this one had a lot of kissing. I got this book from my library because I really enjoyed the author's Trading Men series. I didn't realize it was published more than 15 years but I began to suspect that as I read. It was published in 2005, and it shows. There's homophobia on the page in the form of things like a straight man "getting more comfortable" with a gay couple kissing in his presence, and being surprised by the fact that the gay couple's apartment was 'normal.' Also there's a passing mention of a "transvestite" in a store, which felt really dehumanizing to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-21 00:00:00 Chad Terrell I must be a masochist to keep picking up serial romance novels. This one was probably one of the worst one's I've read yet. Our heroine, Margot, is a food stylist who likes to take over people's lives in order to mold them into who she thinks they should be. When the hero, Daniel, moves into her building she sees an exciting new project. So she sets out to a) change almost everything about him and b) have sex with him. She accomplishes both missions. While this is happening there's some mild drama involving both of their jobs that was pretty dull. Then Margot has a melt down and blames herself for everything that's wrong with the world and the hero grovels for no freakin reason in order to get her back. So yeah, the heroine was annoying with the way she kind of plows through everyone's lives. I think the reader was supposed to find her charmingly eccentric but she just came off as pompous and annoying. Daniel was interesting in how he wanted to change his life, but I would have of liked to have seen him put up some resistance to Margot immediately trying to take over his personal life. If you're looking for a serial romance to pick up. I would avoid this one.