Careful What You Wish For by Lucy Finn
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: June 2007
- 304pp
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- Pub. Date: June 2007
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 304pp
- Series: Signet Eclipse Series
- ISBN-13: 9780451221049
- ISBN: 0451221044
Publishers Weekly
Finn displays promise and personality to spare in her debut novel, an Arabian Nights spin on contemporary comic romance. When unemployed attorney and single mom Ravina Patten uncorks a bottle she finds in her baby's Diaper Genie, it releases a real genie-more specifically, a hunky Australian WWII fighter pilot who's been bottled up for the past 60 years after a run-in with a cuckolded Bedouin-who must grant her three wishes in order to gain his freedom. Ravina finds life with the genie a dream: he's got the house cleaned, the meals prepared, the baby fed and Ravina's libido satisfied. Unfortunately, she's not so satisfied with the results of her first two wishes, and of course faces an ethical quandary over her last wish-will she use it to lift the genie's curse, allowing him to return to the life he left 60 years ago? Fans of high concept, multilayered fantasy-romance populated with quirky, comical characters will find this novel a charmer and Finn an author worth watching. (June)
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I want more Genieby Anonymous
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June 20, 2008: I don't read many books twice but this one is definitly REREADABLE! But, Lucy, tell us the rest of the story! I loved everthing about this book and I am sure the next one will awesome as well.
warm whimsical romantic fantasyby harstan
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May 04, 2007: In Noxen, Pennsylvanian twenty-seven years old attorney Ravine Patton raises her infant son Brady by herself the father Jake was a one night stand in remote Texas after a bad day with a client. One day inside her Diaper Genie she finds an odd bottle. When she touches the bottle, Gene the genie appears. ---- Gene is a bewitched Australian World War II pilot who has waited six decades for someone to free him from the bottle. Now if Ravine makes the three wishes he grants her, he can go home. However, as she considers what she wants, she watches the kind hearted Gene help her around the house without a wish and especially play with her child. As he begins to believe twenty-first century Pennsylvania is home as that is where his heart is, she begins to wish he would stay with them. If she uses the wishes up, he literally goes home, which they assume is 1940s Australia (before she is born) if she fails to make a wish, he remains a genie. ---- This warm whimsical romantic fantasy stars an intelligent female and a pragmatic kind hearted genie. Ravine and Gene make the tale fun enabling readers to wish that the caring hunk who called a bottle home for the past sixty plus years is the type of person that we all fall in love with. ---- Harriet Klausner
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