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Sweet Spot (Bakery Sisters) | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 27257
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0373773145
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373773145
ASIN: 0373773145
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
"Responsibility" should be Nicole Keyes's middle name. After all, not many people would sacrifice their lives to run the family bakery and raise a younger sibling. But with Nicole's twin sister now blissfully married and her younger sis turning out more femme fatale than girl-next-door, super reliable Nicole is getting sick of putting everyone else's needs first! Enter Hawk. The deliciously sexy former NFL player offers Nicole a taste of the freedom she craves. Hawk may know the way, blindfolded, to her sweet spot, but Nicole's not about to let him get close enough to break her heart. Of course, she might not have a choice in the matter if Hawk's past keeps getting in the way of their present.…
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 Can Hawk make Nicole Happy? July 25, 2008
B. Ferris (Northern CA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love Sweet Spot!
Susan Mallery has Nicole endearing herself to the reader after her witchey ways in Sweet Talk.
Nicole is the older fraternal twin by 2 minutes so she has always been the bossy one! After their mother's death while she was with Claire Nicole has had most of her mother's responsibilities--house to run, the bakery to work at and her little sister to raise so she feels she was cheated out of her teenage years and has blamed Claire for this and as we learned in Sweet Talk Claire didn't have any more to say about things than Nicole did--maybe their parents hadn't acted in THEIR children's best interests after all.
Nicole meets Hawk, former NFL player Eric Hawkins, after his star quarterback tries to grab and run but not pay for the boxes with the 5 dozen donuts that he has ordered. Hawk gets the call from the police about the incident and goes to try and talk the owner out of filing charges. The owner, Nicole, isn't so sure and isn't "sweet talked" into forgetting but is willing to give the boy, Raoul, a job. Raoul and Coach Hawkins, the hero, become very important to Nicole as the book progresses and Nicole becomes the focal point of Hawk's thoughts and Raoul's friendship.
Nicole is a great heroine that I liked but thought she was so hard on Claire in Sweet Talk but in Sweet Spot she becomes loveable Hawk's a widower who coaches the high school football team. He has a 17 y.o. daughter, Brittany, who also has a big part in Hawk's world too, is it too big?
Nicole is in the process of getting a divorce from Drew, her BIL's stepbrother who she hadn't loved when she married him but this divorce is so hard. Of course she had found Drew in bed with someone so important to her it really hurt!
Such a group of characters to create this wonderful world of the Keyes is great fun to read. Nicole has grown up and has her HEA, Claire married and pregnant has her HEA and next we'll meet Jesse in Sweet Trouble in September. I'm sure Susan Mallery will give us a great story again.
 The second bakery sis gets her man September 8, 2008
Tracy Vest (Northern California)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Nicole is bummed that she's in the middle of a divorce, not speaking to her youngest sister, and everyone around her (including a stray dog) seems to be pregnant. One morning a teen comes into her bakery and attempts to steal donuts. She calls the cops but instead sexy football coach Eric "Hawk" Hawkins shows up. Brash Nicole wants nothing to do with the smooth charmer, but agrees to let Raoul work off the donuts at her store. Raoul soon proves to be an invaluable asset and she gives him a full time job, and soon he moves in with her when she discovers his foster family has kicked him out. Meanwhile everyone seems to be taking pity on her single status, so she opts to make a bargain with Hawk to pretend to be her lover in exchange for, well the fringe benefits of being a lover. Widowed Hawk never even considers that he might actually fall for the often prickly baker. And then there is his impetuous princess of a daughter...
Mallery's second installment in the Bakery sisters trilogy is a bit disappointing. Nicole is absolutely obnoxious throughout 95% of the first novel, and pretty much half of this one, so I had a hard time actually liking or caring what happened to her character. I did like that Raoul brought out the softer side of her, but disliked the way that she treated just about everyone else around her. And what about her supposed BFF, Wyatt - he was completely MIA in this novel.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: I really hate the trite plot device that some authors resort to in order to get a couple together - the dreaded unexpected pregnancy. Really, can't they find a better way to bring a couple together? Use a little creativity. This novel could have been so much better had Mallery not resorted to impregnating all three of the Keyes sisters in order to get their respective men (well, don't know for sure about baby sis Jesse since she is in the next book, but my money's on it). She has realistic dialog, pretty good secondary characters, and a heroine who (finally) grows. It could have been a pretty good story; instead, it's just pretty average.
Tracy Vest, September 2008
Disappointed August 8, 2008
Susan (Ohio, USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I don't know if it is a trend to make the women in the current romances, and even suspense novels so unlikeable but I have almost decided to quit reading some of my favorite writers. I enjoy reading about strong women but Nicole has been cruel to her family and I have not found any reason to care what happens to her. For her sisters and lover to be loyal is a real mystery to me. She seemed selfish and if she truely cared about others she would listen to them. I did find myself concerned about Jesse but according to the reviews Nicole continues to treat her badly in the next book.
 Not So Sweet Spot September 1, 2008
IndigoRaiyne (Aiken, SC)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I tried to like this book. I didn't enjoy Sweet Talk because of Nicole and hoped that I would like her more in this book dedicated to her, but I didn't.
She still comes across as nasty and judgmental. However, I did like the relationship she had with Raoul was sweet, I never understood why Hawk was with her.
I was also put off by Hawk's relationship with Brittany that the author decided to deal with in the last five chapters or so of the book. For two hundred and some odd pages, Brittany never seemed to have a problem with Nicole or behaved in a way that was spoiled or selfish and then, suddenly, she starts yelling at Nicole and acting like a princess. It didn't fit.
The dialogue was witty but at times there was too much of it. The characters did a lot of talking. And I never saw Nicole really change. She was still selfish, controlling and bossy.
I am looking forward to Jesse's story because I always kind of liked her. We'll see.
tense character driven contemporary tale August 7, 2008
Harriet Klausner
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
In Seattle, Nicole Keyes still recuperates from her gall bladder surgery and the reappearance of her estranged fraternal twin sister Claire in her life. Complicating her emotional state is that Claire and her best friend Wyatt are a loving entry with her sis pregnant three months while her other estranged sister Jesse slept with Nicole's ex husband Drew and may also be carrying a baby.
At the bakery, a Pacific High School teen starts to walk out with a box of donuts without paying. She has her employee Maggie call the cops while the kid just stands still. Pacific High School coach Eric Hawkins arrives instead of the police. Nicole is nasty to the hunk while Raoul the star quarterback apologizes. A widower Hawk returns to the bakery as he is intrigued with the woman who sacked him earlier. As he and Nicole fall in love, a feeling she hates, his teenage daughter Brittany does not want a new mom in her life, but is sure of having Raoul in her life.
The battling Keyes sisters remain somewhat dysfunctional although Nicole and Claire have reconciled while an ashamed Jesse has vanished. This time the war is between the two women in Eric's life but Nicole knows she cannot win that fight. Once again the relationships beyond just that of the lead pair makes for a tense character driven contemporary tale.
Harriet Klausner
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