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    Audiobook15 hours

    Fancy Pants

    Written by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Narrated by Anna Fields

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    For Francesca Day, it's not the end of her world, but close to it. She's London-bred, wealthy, and sophisticated, but fate leaves her flat broke and stranded on a back road in Texas. Now she's got to deal with reality without her rich girl props. How can she do it?

    The answer lies in gritty and handsome Dallas Beaudine. He stops his car to help Francesca whose life and car are both in need of a tune-up. Stopping could be the biggest mistake-or best time ever-for both of them. Hilarious and irresistible, FANCY PANTS is a story about overcoming obstacles and finding love in unexpected places.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 17, 2007
    ISBN9781415940594
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    Fancy Pants
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    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have been published in over thirty languages. Guided by the motto, “Life is better with happily-ever-afters,” she loves writing about love in all its forms. Among her accomplishments, Susan created the sports romance with her novel Fancy Pants. She is best known for her Chicago Stars and Wynette, Texas series, as well as multiple stand-alone books. Visit Susan’s website at www.susanelizabethphillips.com.

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    • 3/5
      Not as good as some of her other novels. Her characters were well developed but all they did was fight and it got old fast.
    • 4/5
      Rich snobby girl meets backwoods golfer in thisi enjoyable romance.
    • 3/5
      This was not exactly what I expected - more sprawling historically (it covers the 1930s to the 1980s) and not structured at all like your typical contemporary romance. I also didn't much care for most of the characters most of the time. I did like some of the humor though and the second half of the book got significantly better. Definitely not my favorite of Phillips' books though.
    • 3/5
      I'm surprised I trucked through this one. I absolutely loathed Francesca for the first 250 pages of the book--no joke. I really hate the "but she doesn't know any better" scenario and this is a classic case of that. Once Francie starts working at the radio station, this book is actually worthwhile. Before that point, I would give it two stars, tops. I kept reading because I usually love SEP and she did redeem the story, however I definitely didn't enjoy this one as much as some of the Chicago Stars series, which came later in her writing career.

      I also find it rather despicable that Francesca did not tell Dallie about Teddy until he was NINE YEARS OLD. What a jerk! Miss Sybil and Skeet were great side characters but I found Holly Grace and Dallie's relationship to be a bit bizarre.

      I got this book from the Boston Public Library (b/c it wasn't available on Kindle--as opposed to like 9 other SEPs I devoured in a two or three week period a few months ago) and it had all kinds of weird stains in it. I kept picturing women drinking (and spilling) whatever they were consuming all over it. For other people this might be a negative but to me it is a HUGE positive. I like thinking about who else has held, read, and enjoyed the book I am reading:-)
    • 4/5
      Oh, the drama. These characters have to reinvent themselves 2 or 3 times during the course of this story. And it is fun going with them through all of it. Of course, they are all drop-dead gorgeous and completely screwed up. A fun and absorbing read.
    • 2/5
      I don't think I've ever read a book with this many dislikable characters before. The heroine is the only one I managed to sympathize with, and she's a spoiled airhead most of the time. The hero is an obnoxious, violent jerk, and she has to go through hell to become a better person. Th biggest issues I have with the structure of the book. I'm kind of confused about what kind of novel it's supposed to be. For a straight up romance there are too many pages dedicated to secondary characters and their backstories. For a multi character story with a tangled mess of relationships it's too focused on one couple. Also, the prologue didn't need to be there.Didn't finish and won't be reading more from this author.
    • 5/5
      This is a great book and Ms. Fields is the perfect narrator.
    • 4/5
      I am not a huge fan of contemporary romances in general but there are two that have a home on my to keep/to reread shelves and one of them is Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss An Angel, so I decided to give this one a chance. I think Susan is going to have to be an exception to my rule of not enjoying contemporary romances because this was a great read! It made me laugh, I could feel the sizzle between Francesca and Dallie and even at one point it even brought tears to my eyes. I posted on Twitter that romances usually do not bring on tears unless it's from laughing so hard. This book is filled with unexpected twists and turns. You may think you know what is coming next but expect the unexpected as they say in Survivor.Frannie was so clueless that it was hard to imagine people who live like her although I suppose to could equate her life style in the beginning as very Paris Hilton like. Frannie is not deliberately cruel but she does not have even a glimmer of what life is for those who are not born with a silver spoon in their mouths and are told being beautiful is the most important thing in life. As can be expected she makes an amazing turnaround in the book but not really for the reasons you would expect like winning Dallie's love. Some of the choices she makes were a total shock for me but they made the story seem more real as things did not immediately turn up roses for Frannie.Dallie also isn't your typical hero. Yes, he's handsome and charming at times but he can also be a real ass and I mean a REAL big ass. So at first I was totally rooting for him and joined him in looking down at Frannie but seeing Frannie grow and Dallie stagnate quickly had me shifting alliances to sympathize with her.Holly Grace, Dallie's first love, was a surprising addition to the story and she added a little twist to the story that was also unexpected but I really enjoyed. She and Dallie's best friend, Skeet, were some of the best supporting characters I've read in a long time.Put all together this was a fun, romping romance that I highly suggest for the romantic at heart.
    • 3/5
      Wie immer haben Cover und Titel nichts mit dem Inhalt des Buche zu tun.Hier geht es um eine absolute Tussi, deren Leben nur aus Designermode und Oberflächlichkeiten besteht. Sie trifft einen gutaussehenden intelligenten Golfer, der charakterlich das genaue Gegenteil von ihr ist. Natürlich verlieben sie sich, dennoch bedarf es einiger Verwicklungen, bis sie tatsächlich zusammen kommen. Ein sehr amerikanischer Roman nach dem bewährten Strickmuster der Autorin.
    • 3/5
      Some parts I thought it was a 3 stars in others it was a 4... I wont fight with myself, I'm giving it a 3 1/2 stars
    • 4/5
      Really liked, though it was quite a bit lenghty. The characters' development was great and things were explained very thouroughly. The ending was cute, though a bit predictable.
    • 3/5
      I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips, but this was not my favorite. I realize that part of the point is Francesca's transition from, well, who she was at the beginning to who she is at the end, but, honestly, there was so much in between stuff that I didn't really like that it was hard to keep reading. Part of it was just some things that were dated, which, I realize, there's really nothing that can be done about that. But there were some attitudes that made me think -- 'wow, we've come a long way,' and, 'thank goodness we've come a long way,' and then, 'we've come such a long way that I really don't enjoy reading about this so I'm not going to.' As I've stated before, part of my rating system is how much I enjoyed reading a book. The un-put-down-able factor, so to speak. And this probably would have ranked a little higher since, despite what I said above, I actually did start to get into it. But then I hit chapter 12 and I started to look ahead to see what was coming up. (I have a thing about not stopping right before or after chapter 13 [don't ask] and needed to see if it was worth staying up another hour to get through chapters 12, 13, and 14, and it was then that I stumbled upon the nature of the relationship between Dallie and Holly Grace. And although it actually made my heart warm for Dallie in a way it hadn't up until that point, it was something that I just can't deal with in my HEAs. And then I looked a little further and saw how the relationship progresses between Dallie and Francesca, and although the end was what I wanted, it sure took a long and painful time to get there. Too long and painful for me to want to keep going what with everything in between.So I lightly skimmed the rest and I'll look forward to seeing them in the later books of the series, but I probably won't come back to it to read it in detail. With that said, I have to comment that I really enjoyed the Dallie/Skeet scenes. That almost made me keep going just by itself.
    • 4/5
      Brilliant! how the main character evolved through out the years!