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Cutting Loose | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Andersen
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 30155
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0373773048
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780373773046
ASIN: 0373773048
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her coolBut the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up—she won't tolerate them in someone hired to work on the house she and her two best friends have just inherited. Dev could renovate the mansion in his sleep. But ever since the prissy owner spotted him jet-lagged, exhausted and hit hard by a couple of welcome-home drinks, she's been on his case. Yet there's something about her. Jane hides behind conservative clothes and a frosty manner, but her seductive blue eyes and leopard-print heels hint at a woman just dying to cut loose!
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 "He's taking Legs for a ride" July 28, 2008
Tracy Vest (Northern California)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Jane is a little narrow minded. Raised by self-indulgent actor parents who spent more time drinking, arguing, then making up, she has had enough with amateur theatrics. Her only solace growing up was the escape to wealthy matriarch Agnes Wolcott's mansion for tea parties. Agnes wills her entire estate to Jane and her friends Ava and Poppy. Discovering that the mansion is crumbling, they hire the Kavanaugh brothers to restore the mansion to its former glory. And it's lust at first sight for Jane when she lays eyes on Devlin Kavanaugh, the brother who escaped to Europe and yet traded in his sea legs for a hammer when the family needs him most. But stuffy Jane assumes so many things about him that aren't true, and he enjoys making her squirm. When she propositions him for a no strings affair, Dev jumps at her offer. But soon the two are spending more and more time together and not having strings is suddenly not such a great proposition after all, as she falls hard for Dev and his extended family and he wonders if he couldn't stay on land after all.
As Jane indulges in her affair and readies Agnes' beloved collections for a museum exhibition, items from the mansion start to disappear. What Jane doesn't realize is that she has a saboteur at work - Gordon will do anything to get his hands on the collection to fund his many gambling debts - but just how far will he go to get ahead?
Andersen's first entry into the new series of novels featuring Jane and pals is a fun and romantic story. The constant bantering between Jane and Dev and Dev and his family is engaging and believable. The start of the story was a little slow, but once it reached its momentum, it really picked up. I liked it but had the same old gripe - lack of attention to editing and detail. At one point, brother Bren is described as having three sons - 25 pages later they suddenly turn into daughters. But overall, it was a fun and charming start to a hopefully knock out trio of novels.
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences...-James Fredericks August 3, 2008
Cherise Everhard (Michigan, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Three very different young girls, Poppy, Jane and Ava, are from various backgrounds and forged an unbreakable bond in their private school. The three of them became great friends and cementing that bond was an eccentric and wonderful lady, Agnes Wolcott. Agnes hosted teas and treated the young girls like equals. She encouraged their dreams and was a positive force throughout their lives.
Now the women are adults and still the best of friends. Agnes has passed away leaving her estate in their hands with specific instructions on what to do with what. In the process of repairing the worn down old Wolcott mansion, Jane is cataloging some of Agnes' things that are slated to be donated to the museum that Jane works for.
Dev Kavanagh has spent the past years away from his large Irish Catholic family, sailing boats and seeing the world. He comes home to help his family in the construction on the Wolcott mansion, intending to leave again, ASAP. But the future gets jumbled up when he butts heads and eventually other parts *wink* with the intriguing Jane.
Throughout the book the story tended to ebb and flow for me. At times the pace was fast then it would slow down a bit, and then pick back up. But for the most part I really enjoyed it. Susan Andersen is an automatic buy for me. I eagerly await each new book as I am almost always thrilled with the results; such was the case with this one.
Jane and Dev's relationship was fun; the sex was sizzling and the banter between the two, hilarious. Jane's friends are fantastic and as this is the first in the series, I am looking forward to reading more about them in the future two books, the next one being Bending The Rules.
Cherise Everhard, August 2008
 Dull and Cartoonish August 11, 2008
BrooklynGirl (Brooklyn, NY)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If ever I have wanted a book to end and put me out of my misery, this one was IT. I normally love Ms. Andersen's work and for years she has been on a my automatic buy list but she must have been half asleep when she wrote this. Mike and Dorie Show! Heck this was the dull and somewhat cartoonish Jane and Dev show.
I did not care for Jane who did not demonstrate any depth and I never once felt like wanting to root for her to overcome her issues and find love with Devlin. As for Dev, I wanted to like him but in many ways felt his character was not fleshed out. In the end he was just an ok sort of guy, not a true hero in the sense that I think this genre attempts to establish their main male characters.
As for the plot... Ms. Andersen normally shows a very deft hand in building her characters, storylines, secondary characters etc. and bringing them to a great crescendo by combining interesting characters, hot romance and pretty thrilling villans and intent. The whole jealous co-worker thing would have worked (I felt) if they had been in a different business environment (say legal, environmental, even the marine industry that Dev was oriented with) but the obsession with the dress and the old house and the TSTL idea that such a supposed important exhibit was being catalogued in an old home IN THE MIDST OF CONSTRUCTION NO LESS, was silly, far-fetched and boring. And what low level curator could not AT LEAST call on the resources of a large museum to a better degree to get the job done. Sheesh! Finally the ending for me was tied up in a fashion to suggest that even the author was sick of writing it.
I do not have hope that the rest of series and its focus on the hippy-dippy Poppy and the Marilyn Monroe like Ava will be much better. I hope Ms. Andersen scraps the rest and just starts thinking of ways to do Detective DeSanges justice.
More like 3 1/2 stars!! August 7, 2008
Ann (California)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like this book since we had to wait so long for Ms. Andersen to put out something new, but for me, the book fell a little short of great. I will say that once the characters started interacting a little more together, the story got interesting, but before that, the first 80 or so pages could have been condensed to about a chapter.
I was waiting for the fiery passion Ms. Andersen's other characters had exhibited in her other books like in Getting Lucky and Hot and Bothered, but besides a few teaser scenes Cutting Loose leaves you bound in doubt that Jane and Dev even want to be together. Just when things started getting good, it was the end of the book.
I found myself liking Ava and Poppy so much more than Jane because I think they were fleshed out better. Almost every character in the book is just mentioned and you really don't get a sense of them as people. I hope Poppy's story will include Detective Sheik because they seem to sizzle!
BORING! August 7, 2008
D. J. Taggart (New York)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was shocked to see the great reviews. I found this book to be boring, ridiculous and the characters dull.
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