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With a Little Luck Wisconsin Americana # 49 Janet Dailey 9780373898497 Books

I'm not a regular fan of Janet Dailey. Her characters and story lines are too predictable in the standard, tiresome Harlequin mold. "Americana" does little to break that mold.

Dailey's male protagonists are uniformly wealthy as well as just too "chiseled" of countenance and physique; too cocksure and unerringly able to know the heroine better than she herself does. These guys are simply too "compellingly male" to be believable.

The heroines are predictably portrayed as insecure "good girls," unaware of their own attractiveness yet possessing of wholesome, sweet personalities. Often they are presented as being in shaky financial straits. Though Eve Rowland is spared that last trait, she nonetheless toes the line as one who considers herself a "brown mouse" not worthy of even the passing glance of a man as vital as Luck McClure.

The rest is even more predictable. Said hero is able, through brute-force application of his potent masculinity along with liberal "quirks" of the mouth and eyebrows, to overcome said reticence and charm our heroine, despite growing rebellion against her feelings, into a "devastating" kiss that gets her to reassessing her romantic priorities, etc., etc., etc. Then they get engaged and, implicitly, soon married. Financial problems solved too.

This book is redeemed for me partly by its setting in my home region of Northern Wisconsin. Credit Dailey with having done a good job of researching the locale, and accurately portraying it and casting its denizens as the peripheral characters in the story. Surprisingly and delightfully, McClure's eight year-old son adds a nice touch to set this one a notch above the formulaic. I found "The Homeplace" (Iowa) palatable for the same reasons - personal familiarity with the locale and the inclusion of a precocious child.


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With a Little Luck Wisconsin Americana # 49 Janet Dailey 9780373898497 Books Reviews

I love this book as much this time as all the times I read it before. It is an endearing romance. It is set in Wisconsin I do not know why the cover says West Virginia. This book is in the series written at least one in every state. "Wild and Wonderful" is the title of the one set in West Virginia.
I really loved this book as a teenager, and am returning to re-purchase it later it because it is one of my favorite Janet Daily stories. The characters are extremely believable and down to Earth. The heroine is a genuinely sweet person. It is wonderful to see her blossom under the attention of "Big Luck." This book is definitely about Wisconsin, NOT West VA.
Re Just a little luck by Janet Dailey. I was under the impression that this story would take place in WV. Not only did it not but there was not even a single mention of WV.Very very disappointed in this book. This was the 1st time I had used my kindle and I'm not sure if I'll be using it again if this is the kind of junk you end up with.
I enjoyed the book
I'm not a regular fan of Janet Dailey. Her characters and story lines are too predictable in the standard, tiresome Harlequin mold. "Americana" does little to break that mold.

Dailey's male protagonists are uniformly wealthy as well as just too "chiseled" of countenance and physique; too cocksure and unerringly able to know the heroine better than she herself does. These guys are simply too "compellingly male" to be believable.

The heroines are predictably portrayed as insecure "good girls," unaware of their own attractiveness yet possessing of wholesome, sweet personalities. Often they are presented as being in shaky financial straits. Though Eve Rowland is spared that last trait, she nonetheless toes the line as one who considers herself a "brown mouse" not worthy of even the passing glance of a man as vital as Luck McClure.

The rest is even more predictable. Said hero is able, through brute-force application of his potent masculinity along with liberal "quirks" of the mouth and eyebrows, to overcome said reticence and charm our heroine, despite growing rebellion against her feelings, into a "devastating" kiss that gets her to reassessing her romantic priorities, etc., etc., etc. Then they get engaged and, implicitly, soon married. Financial problems solved too.

This book is redeemed for me partly by its setting in my home region of Northern Wisconsin. Credit Dailey with having done a good job of researching the locale, and accurately portraying it and casting its denizens as the peripheral characters in the story. Surprisingly and delightfully, McClure's eight year-old son adds a nice touch to set this one a notch above the formulaic. I found "The Homeplace" (Iowa) palatable for the same reasons - personal familiarity with the locale and the inclusion of a precocious child.