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This is Jessica Bird's (aka J.R. Ward's) first book in the Mills & Boon `Moorehouse Legacy' series (four books in total). The Moorehouse Legacy refers to a family estate in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. In its hey-day the Moorehouse Mansion was the pinnacle of the Moorehouse families success. But decades have past and the mansion, now the Moorehouse B&B, belongs to siblings Frankie, Joy and Alex. They inherited the house after their parents died in a sailing accident. Alex, the eldest son vanished soon after his parent's death to pursue professional sailing. Frankie, second eldest, gave up a dream of studying business and moving to New York in order to run the B&B and support her youngest sister, Joy and their senile grandmother Grand-Em. The house is falling apart and Frankie's behind on her mortgage payments and her chef has just quit.

Enter Nathaniel Walker. In a twist of fate Nate's car breaks down not far from the B&B and he knocks on the back door and enters into a scene of complete chaos. After saving Frankie's bacon, Nate offers to work at the Moorehouse B&B for six weeks.

If the whole premise sounds a little cheesy, that's because it is. As the plot set up I was rolling my eyes a little bit at all the coincidences and happy circumstances - but it's really only in the beginning that Bird asks you to suspend belief. Otherwise this is actually a pretty good Mills & Boon romance because the characters have real problems (monetary, unrequited love, death etc). The plot takes a few hard-nosed twists and turns that you wouldn't expect to be so realistic in a Mills & Boon romance.

J.R. Ward (Jessica Bird) published this book the same year that `Dark Lover' was released. There's no sense of familiarity in `Beauty and the Black Sheep', it is very different from J.R. Ward's other books. The only consistency is in the male protagonist - she likes writing hero's with shady pasts, some sort of trauma or `incident' that affected them a great deal.

The sex scenes are the tamest of Ward's I have ever read. There's very little description and they only last a few paragraphs. Perhaps for that reason I didn't really feel much spark between Frankie and Nate. Sure, they're very sweet and clearly hot for each other - but it didn't translate so much for me. In `Beauty and the Black Sheep' other romances for future books are glimpsed - and I felt more excited (and sensed more sizzle) in those than I did in Frankie and Nate's.

I didn't love this book, but I really loved the set-up for future books. The previews of relationships for books #2, #3, and #4 had me very intrigued and eager to read more.

2.5/5


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Beauty and the Black Sheep Moorehouse Legacy Book 1 Jessica Bird 9780373246984 Books Reviews

Frankie (Frances) Moorehouse has been taking care of her family ever since her parents died. While only 31, Frankie is worn out with caring for her younger sister, Joy; her grandmother, who has dementia; and the crumbling bed & breakfast that has housed Moorehouses for six generations. To top matters off, the cook has quit. Frankie has reached the end of her rope when she hires Nate Walker. Nate, a 4 star chef, is passing through when his car breaks down. While Nate is in the process of using his life savings to find a restaurant to call his own, Frankie's little bed & breakfast looks like the perfect answer for the summer months.

Nick and Frankie have plenty of problems to work through. Both parties have been burnt in the past and bring numerous issues to the table. In fact, at one point, I got frustrated, because everytime one problem got solved, another problem arose. Because of all the old baggage, sometimes the romantic conflict seemed a little forced. I enjoyed the character of Nick, who was wonderful, although sometimes I couldn't understand why he was attracted to Frankie, who seemed too guarded and too stubborn. The book was very well written and I liked the ending, but I was able to set it down and walk away several times. While not a J.R. Ward entry in quality, a nice book for a pleasant afternoon.
It was a fun quick read. I liked the chemistry between the characters, and that the female character stood her ground. She was strong - much like other characters JR Ward creates. I will read the rest of the series.
I love her writing style and it’s so easy to get lost in the worlds that she creates.
This was a real life feeling book. It could easily happen, and I love that she didn’t make it a fairy tale ending type book. You’ll understand when you get to the ending.
When her parents died ten years ago, life as Frankie Moorehouse knew it ended. At twenty-one, she was thrust into the role of parent for her teen-aged sister Joy, caretaker for her grandmother, who suffers from dementia, and manager of her once wealthy family's home, now a Bed & Breakfast in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. That's a huge responsibility for someone so young, but given her older brother Alex had taken off to the sea years ago, she was the only one who could keep it all together. And so she did. Barely.

Now thirty-one, Frankie is hanging on by her fingernails as the old family home deteriorates and the bad economy chips away at the tourists who are their livelihood. She's behind on the mortgage and things keep breaking and flooding and growing mold. It's a bleak, scary time, and the sixteen hour days, seven days a week that she's putting in still haven't lead to any headway. So when her cook dashes off to Vegas with no warning, Frankie is stuck taking on yet another responsibility for her floundering business. Too bad she's not exactly a world class chef.

Once heir to a massive family fortune, now disowned black sheep of the family, Nathaniel Walker is a renowned chef with Cordon Bleu training. On his way up from the city on a leisurely trip to Canada, he's taking the summer to find the perfect location for his and his friend and partner Spike's new restaurant. He was driving through the Adirondacks when his car Lucille gives up the ghost, and a tumble into some poison ivy, along with a sprained ankle, left him with limited options for the night. He makes it to the Moorehouse back door just as Frankie is in a panic over the scorched chicken and scorched temper of hungry guests. Fortunately for her, there's only one other thing Nate does better than cook...and he'd like to try that out on Frankie, too.

Nate may have saved her bacon, but his presence burns Frankie's buns. She's a control freak of the first order and he's impossible to control. Thing is, if she's going to save her family home, it's obvious she needs him. Doesn't mean she has to like it...or be at all civil to him. If she can just remember that his employment is definitely short term, they may be able to make something for the B&B if they work together. Problem is, the looks he gives her definitely raises her temperature, and his advances, while confusing, are the stuff of which dreams are made. Before she can even figure out if she can survive employing him, an even scarier question arises. Can she survive loving him?

Kicking off the Moorehouse Legacy series, Jessica Bird (aka J.R. Ward), starts with feisty, core-of-steel Frankie and big bad chef extraordinaire Nate. I loved these two. Though, admittedly, Frankie was such a thankless shrew at first it took me some time to warm up to her. I ended up admiring her strength and her tenacity in the face of monstrous responsibility and sacrifice. And Nate just tickled me. Bird has a gift for characterizations, that's for sure. I also adored the backdrop of this series. Reminded me of my grade school years in Glens Falls, and my childhood memories of the mountains up there.

I had a couple of issues with the book, which started with a bit too convenient an introduction between Frankie and Nate. I'm all for kismet, but still, that seemed pretty contrived. Fortunately, the pace of the plot and the presence of the characters was strong enough coerce me into forgiving that too-convenient beginning. Frankie was a bit unsympathetic for much of the beginning of the book, and her wild hair over Nate's presence in "her" kitchen felt a bit overdone, but again, that smoothed out as the book went along. I do wish more development had been given to Nate and the impact of his break with his family. That could have added another dimension to his character.

Likable (in Frankie's case, eventually) lead characters, charming and interesting secondary characters and a solid, if slightly unsurprising romance were pluses for Beauty and the Black Sheep, but I would definitely have appreciated a bit more depth to Nate's background and some added complexity to both of their personalities. The plot was classic contemporary romance fare, but it was well written and nicely paced, with a smooth narrative and realistic dialogue, all framed by picture postcard scenery. I enjoyed it and look forward to continuing the Moorehouse Legacy series.

Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
This is Jessica Bird's (aka J.R. Ward's) first book in the Mills & Boon `Moorehouse Legacy' series (four books in total). The Moorehouse Legacy refers to a family estate in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. In its hey-day the Moorehouse Mansion was the pinnacle of the Moorehouse families success. But decades have past and the mansion, now the Moorehouse B&B, belongs to siblings Frankie, Joy and Alex. They inherited the house after their parents died in a sailing accident. Alex, the eldest son vanished soon after his parent's death to pursue professional sailing. Frankie, second eldest, gave up a dream of studying business and moving to New York in order to run the B&B and support her youngest sister, Joy and their senile grandmother Grand-Em. The house is falling apart and Frankie's behind on her mortgage payments and her chef has just quit.

Enter Nathaniel Walker. In a twist of fate Nate's car breaks down not far from the B&B and he knocks on the back door and enters into a scene of complete chaos. After saving Frankie's bacon, Nate offers to work at the Moorehouse B&B for six weeks.

If the whole premise sounds a little cheesy, that's because it is. As the plot set up I was rolling my eyes a little bit at all the coincidences and happy circumstances - but it's really only in the beginning that Bird asks you to suspend belief. Otherwise this is actually a pretty good Mills & Boon romance because the characters have real problems (monetary, unrequited love, death etc). The plot takes a few hard-nosed twists and turns that you wouldn't expect to be so realistic in a Mills & Boon romance.

J.R. Ward (Jessica Bird) published this book the same year that `Dark Lover' was released. There's no sense of familiarity in `Beauty and the Black Sheep', it is very different from J.R. Ward's other books. The only consistency is in the male protagonist - she likes writing hero's with shady pasts, some sort of trauma or `incident' that affected them a great deal.

The sex scenes are the tamest of Ward's I have ever read. There's very little description and they only last a few paragraphs. Perhaps for that reason I didn't really feel much spark between Frankie and Nate. Sure, they're very sweet and clearly hot for each other - but it didn't translate so much for me. In `Beauty and the Black Sheep' other romances for future books are glimpsed - and I felt more excited (and sensed more sizzle) in those than I did in Frankie and Nate's.

I didn't love this book, but I really loved the set-up for future books. The previews of relationships for books #2, #3, and #4 had me very intrigued and eager to read more.

2.5/5