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    Romeo, Romeo

    By Robin Kaye

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    "A sparkling new voice! If you love witty dialogue, great characters and a lot of fun in your books, this is the writer for you!"

    - Maureen Child, USA Today bestselling author

    Rosalie Ronaldi doesn't have a domestic bone in her body ...

    All she cares about is her career, so she survives on take-out and dirty martinis, keeps her shoes under the dining room table, her bras on the shower curtain rod, and her clothes on the couch ...

    Nick Romeo is every woman's fantasy - tall, dark, handsome, rich, really good in bed, AND he loves to cook and clean ...

    He says he wants an independent woman, but when he meets Rosalie, all he wants to do is take care of her. Before too long, he's cleaned up her apartment, stocked her refrigerator, and adopted her dog ...

    So what's the problem? Just a little matter of mistaken identity, corporate theft, a hidden past in juvenile detention and one big nosy Italian family too close for comfort ...

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    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2008
    ISBN9781402225376
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    Romeo, Romeo
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    Robin Kaye

    Robin Kaye is a professional writer and winner of the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award for her first novel, Romeo, Romeo. Her romantic comedies feature sexy, nurturing heroes and feisty, independent heroines. She lives with her husband and three children in Mt. Airy, Maryland.

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    Reviews for Romeo, Romeo

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    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not sure what those negative reviewers were expecting. This is a fun sexy book about two people who didn't think love and forever was for them. Nick and Rosalie have a no strings no commitment deal but that just doesn't work out for them. Recommended read.
    • 5/5
      I picked up Romeo,Romeo at B&N because on shelves overflowing with vampire & shapeshifter romances...the cover caught my eye. It was pretty, fresh, different....something I needed because I needed a break from the vampire romances(don't get me wrong I have some favorite vampire series). I stayed up late to finish Romeo,Romeo. I looked up Robin Kaye and found there were 2 more books out and bought them the next day. Robin's books have ladies that are not weak and simpering and tough guys that aren't scared to do the "girl" chores around the house and show their sensitive sides. I will impatiently be waiting for her future books.
    • 3/5
      Light, quick read. Contemporary, New York setting. The usual romance novel components but rather well put together. No surprises but a pleasant interlude.So aren't we all looking for a man with great abs who cooks, cleans, And has a fortune?
    • 5/5
      I got this book free on my Kindle & loved it. Great contemporary romance. Two people meet and both agree to a no strings attached relationship. Secrets are kept but feelings are formed. Of course, when all is revealed at the end, things shake up quite a bit. Good, fun romance story...definitely worth reading.
    • 4/5
      Rosalie has just escaped from the family dinner where her Italian mama has been haranguing her to get married and have babies when she has a flat tire. She also has no spare. Furiously cursing her luck and her brother (who was supposed to have gotten her a spare), she is kicking the car when a wrecker pulls over to help her. Nick is gorgeous and charming and despite herself, Rosalie finds her hormones at attention. They spar all the way to her house and somehow end up with a date scheduled. What Nick doesn't tell Rosalie though, is that he is really Dominick Romeo, wealthy car dealer, not just Nick the mechanic. And after their first date, it seems impossible to tell her who he really is. Not only is it refreshing to him to be wanted for himself rather than his money, but as a kid he was friends with Rosalie's older brother and the two of them were arrested together. The good news is that both Rosalie and Nick are completely against marriage, for different reasons, and they agree to keep their relationship monogamous but not serious. When it is no longer fun for one or the other, they will walk away with no hurt feelings. Of course, neither of them realize that real true love is creeping up on them. And it is complicated by Nick's subterfuge about who he is (although Rosalie knows) as well as by the fact that he is the person who had been dropping rumors about the uncertain financial position of the dealership Roaslie has just been retained to turn around and make successful again (Rosalie doesn't know this bombshell).This contemporary romance has some pretty steamy sex scenes in it. It also has some pretty entertaining scenes in the bosom of Roaslie's nutjob family. The secondary characters really help to move the plot along and inject some levity into the story. Rosalie's reason for not wanting love and marriage is understandable but Nick's is rather sillier, highlighting a blind spot in his character that wasn't necessary. Watching Nick be stymied by a woman who is everything he purports to want (independent, casual, natural, and uninterested in anything more emotionally binding than sex) is pretty entertaining. Their chemistry is believable and with the exception of one stereotypical and unneccessary plot twist at the end, the storyline cooks along of its own accord. This is a fun romp of a romance and fans of contemporaries will thoroughly enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      Rosalie doesn't believe in happy marriages, Nick is the product of a long line of men who have run out on their families. They both have a history of dumping anyone who gets serious. So when her car breaks down and he rescues her, they both make it plain that they're only in it for the fun and games. But they soon have trouble sticking to their self-imposed rules of dating. Add in her crazy Italian family, his bad history with her brother, her job, his job, and one very large dog, and things quickly get complicated.A fun contemporary romance.
    • 4/5
      "Romeo, Romeo" is a fun feel-good romance about two people who aren't looking for love. He's the man of every woman's dream--rich, handsome, sexy, and a caretaker. She's successful, hardworking, and for a change, uninterested in anything more than sex. Reading about Nick's 'fall' was almost as good as chocolate and entertaining to boot! Author Robin Kaye is either a man in disguise or had one on hand for research since she 'pegged' all the ridiculous things men do and say to avoid thinking about their feelings. And Nick's mental gymnastics and secrets while digging himself deeper into the relationship were almost another character on their own. Humor, hot sex, and a happy ending. How can you pass that up?
    • 4/5
      This was a cute, nice read. Keep in mind I think any thing I read after my last one was going to pale in comparison so I'm going to do my darndest to be objective. This was the story of two people, Nick and Lee who had both determined they were never going to get married or get serious about anyone but despite their best efforts, end up falling for each other. I quite liked Nick. When Rosalie came down with a serious bout of pneumonia, he kind of came and took over, taking care of her, cleaning her apartment, taking care of Dave the dog. You have to LOVE a hero who gets all excited about vacumming! And he's adorable when he's taking care of Lee. I could kind of see his commitment phobia. He's a rich guy who has dated the wrong kind of women. He's out of his element when he meets Rosalie.Rosalie on the other hand, was a bit of a prickly heroine. She kind of ran hot and cold with Nick and me - I couldn't see why *g*.They did both keep important information from each other a bit too long though.And sad to say - the author commited a huge faux paux for me which sadly knocked the grade down. In describing Nick she did the dreaded "comparing him to a well-known actor" thing. In this case, I Do Not Like the actor she used and I spent much of the time trying to rid my brain of that comparison.I also found some of the secondary characters a bit dislikeable. Gina - Rosalies assistant was way too intrusive and Rosalie's mother got on my nerves way bad.But if you like contemporaries and are looking for a pretty good one, then I recommend you give this one a try.
    • 4/5
      Robin Kaye knows how to weave a suspense plot with a romantic plot.

      I particularly liked how the characters evolved inspite of themselves.

      This is a good read. If you need any endorsements, read Tera's review. She is much better book reviewer than I am. I wish she'd review my book, LEGS.

      A great read for fans of romance, suspense, and women's fiction.

    • 1/5
      If for no other reason, this book earned its low rating for the endless ‘Barbie doll’ insults the bitchy heroine threw at other women on practically EVERY SINGLE PAGE. The book featured my most hated romance theme: • Only plain women who don’t give a damn about their appearance are worthwhile human beings. • Even though the moral of the story is supposed to be ‘it’s what’s on the inside that counts’, it turns out it’s the heroine’s personality – not her appearance – that needs work. • The heroine’s unconventional appearance gives her permission to be a complete bitch to any other women who happen to stroll through her life. • Despite the woman being Ms Average in looks and Ms Way Below Average in personality, the hero is Rich, Gorgeous, Successful, Caring (to the point of being a stalker) and never, ever lusts after women who are in any way equal to him. Romeo, Romeo had a very definite chick lit feel to it, and I’m certainly not a chick lit fan. The genre almost always features a self-absorbed woman who is so insecure about her appearance she spends the whole book thinking nasty thoughts about all the other women she encounters. But then! The sexiest, most unrealistically romantic man in the world turns up on the scene, renounces the nicer, more appealing women who throw themselves at him, and sweeps the undeserving heroine off her feet because all her irritating personality traits are exactly what he’s looking for in a wife. I suppose I can see why others loved this so much. The not so remarkable woman gets the younger, better-looking version of Donald Trump. Even though she’s not small, the hero carries her everywhere – a fantasy of hers and one she never thought she’d find a man to give her. A few days after they’ve met she becomes sick with pneumonia and the hero immediately moves in with her and cooks gourmet meals and cleans and shops and walks her dog and thinks she’s beautiful and perfect even when she’s coughing and spluttering and dirty and practically dead. For her part, Rosalie gave nothing to her Prince Charming. Nothing. The best she could do was be extremely ungrateful for his presence. But apparently that just added to her perfection. Ugh. It’s quite the over the top fantasy. I found it nauseating. But even if you love those, “I’m a better person because I’m a REAL WOMAN” stories, there’re plenty of other reasons I did not like this book. Now, I read this over a weekend where I wasn’t feeling so good, and didn’t want to concentrate on anything more serious. It was free, and I figured seeing as how the Rosalie was sick in the book, maybe I’d find a kindred spirit. I was willing to go with the extreme Cinderellaish quality of the story. I wanted to be entertained with an implausible relationship and a ridiculously unrealistic hero. My problem was that I came to despise Rosalie from – oh – about page two, and so for me the story imploded from there. Didn’t help one bit that the Prince Charming turned out to be something of a dud. There’s nothing worse than being furious at the book that you’re trying to cheer yourself up with when you’re sick! To top it all off, we had one of my pet peeves front and centre: the hero who lies about his identity for most of the book. Now I love twists and turns in a story – I even love it when the main pair don’t trust each other (adds lots of nice angst!) – but the deliberate deception is not heroic behaviour, and put a major dent in the man’s ‘too good to be true’ persona. I honestly would have preferred him to just be too good to be true than come with a side order of lying moron. But then he kind of redeemed himself by being PERFECT in every other way. After Nick spends a week shopping, cleaning, cooking and caretaking when Rosalie is sick, she takes off on a business trip and Nick stays behind to babysit her dog. He’s annoyed she hasn’t called after arriving at her destination (really, when a guy has gone to that much effort for you, one phone call surely isn’t out of the question), and when she does call it’s to speak to the dog over the answering machine. Then she says something to Nick along the lines of, “Why would you think I was calling for you?” (Now, this was probably supposed to be amusing, but it was the way the woman approached the entire relationship. Nick was a servant she had sex with, and she got to tell him on a daily basis how unimportant he was to her.) There’s not a single reason in the world why Nick would have wanted to be with Rosalie. She had no redeeming features, and I could not for a second buy Nick’s near-obsession with her. As with most chick lit I’ve read, this one comes with extended families full of meddling ‘ethnics’. I’m from a family of ‘ethnics’ myself, but I find more humour in a ‘less is more’ approach than the incredible, manic overkill with which the woman’s Italian family were written. Not only does this relationship evolve almost to the point of marriage without Rosalie even knowing Nick’s full name, but it also evolves with Nick knowing he is Rosalie’s silent enemy when it comes to her job. The success or failure of her career is in his hands, and he’s not on her side. Yet somehow Nick thinks if he just doesn’t tell her, things will work out fine. Then when she gets upset, instead of waiting around to find out what’s going on, he dumps her, packs up his stuff and moves out. I simply cannot comprehend how a woman could be so stupid that she could live with a man for three months and not once even ask his last name! For all the time she devoted to insulting the intelligence of any woman more attractive than her, Rosalie was by far the least intelligent person I’ve read about in a long time. It was supremely difficult to feel sorry for her when she really did bring it all on herself. Nick was an idiot too. Note to authors: just because you have blonde hair doesn’t mean you have fake breasts, just as not all brunettes are naturally well-endowed because they have dark hair!! An entire marching band of beautiful blondes trotted across the page in an indulgent display of female wish fulfilment to prove that the oh-so-special heroine with the messy apartment, ugly car and insecurities about her weight was oh-so much better in the hero’s eyes. I lost count of how many times a ‘thin blonde woman with fake boobs’ walked onto the scene. Even the doctor at the hospital was described that way. I can’t stand women who have to insult everyone else just to feel good about themselves, and that was the heroine in a nutshell. She was there calling other women bitches, but the only woman in the story the insult could have been directed at was Rosalie. I wanted her to get over herself! She defined people based on their looks far more than every other character in the story put together. There was a suspense angle that was introduced right at the end, and it was so out of place in this story I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Maybe it’s a chick lit thing, but the amount of page time given to Rosalie’s pet dog was really boring. I don’t mind having the dog in the book, but not only did it have a human name – Dave – but it received as much page time as the main pair! Then, if the dog wasn’t enough, Rosalie’s neighbours were a pair of painfully stereotypical gay men. On a side note, I CANNOT believe people in the States (including the heroine of this book) love that pointy-faced Australian chef ‘Curtis’. His awful supermarket ads in Australia drive me insane. What are you guys thinking?! You’ve got much better men in your own backyard! Romeo, Romeo reminded me very strongly of one of those romantic comedy movies I run away from; annoying characters, too good to be true situations, and a whole lot of stereotypical ‘pretty bitches’ passing through just to show how wonderful the ‘non-pretty’ heroine is. The plot went from strange to implausible, and nothing anybody did came across as remotely realistic. There’s a reason I never watch those things, and it’s the same reason I did not enjoy this book.
    • 5/5
      Dominick Romeo is Brooklyn’s version of Donald Trump without the comb over and oh yeah… he’s hot and rich! Nick owns numerous car dealerships throughout Brooklyn which is how he came to be driving a wrecker home, in coveralls over his business suit, when he came upon Rosalie Ronaldi on the side of the road with a flat tire and no spare. Being the nice guy that he is, Nick offers Rosalie a ride home promising to have her car fixed by the next day. Nick doesn’t exactly lie to Rosalie about his identity but she has no idea that she’s riding with a self-made millionaire and agrees to a dinner date the next night. Nick’s relieved that Rosalie has no idea who he is because now he knows that Rosalie won’t be after him for his money like so many of the revolving girlfriends he’s had in the past. Rosalie is a turnaround expert who temporarily takes over as the CFO of failing businesses to bring them back to life. Rosalie’s new project is the one dealership that Nick has always coveted but could never buy out. Now Nick knows that he has to come clean about who he really is before Rosalie finds out the truth. Somehow he just can’t bring himself to do it because he knows it’ll bring an end to their relationship and somehow Rosalie has made it past his “tough guy who runs from marriage” exterior and into his heart.The resulting story is a heart-warming tale told with a lot of hot sex and sarcastic humor. I laughed at the tables being turned on Nick when Rosalie kicks him out of her bed and sends him packing because one of her rules is to never let a guy spend the night. Kaye’s writing is a refreshing change from the typical contemporary romance. I could see all the characters as real people showing real feelings with an ending that is truly believable unlike many stories where the characters don’t fit the happily ever after ending that’s par for the course in contemporary writing. I highly recommend this read to all romance lovers.