Product Description

Jasmine wants the name of her one true love and although her sister Amy is a psychic who could tell her, she's always refused. Then one day Amy shows up on Jasmine's doorstep, needing a place to crash. Jasmine makes her an offer: a place to stay for Jasmine's true love's name, but when Amy finally gives it up, Jasmine can't believe it. How can it be her People Magazine's SEXIEST MAN ALIVE, one of the biggest movie stars around and a fixture on the red carpet? Naturally shy she'd envisioned nights spent cuddling in front of the tv with her love not being chased by paparazzi. Josh Toby wants to be taken seriously as an actor. He's sick of playing the boy toy action star so he's done the scariest thing he can imagine - accepted a part on Broadway in 'Romeo and Juliet'. But no-one can know it's him or it will turn into the second coming of the Beatles. He turns to budding young designer Jasmine Burns to create a disguise. She's the most charming, genuine and delightfully eccentric woman he's ever met. Chemistry sizzles between the shy wallflower and the movie star but can true love really blossom between two polar opposites?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #349665 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
Diana Holquist lives in Pennsylvania with her family. SEXIEST MAN ALIVE is her second novel.

Customer Reviews

Loved it!
This book was fantastic! When I read about what it was about, I thought it sounded good, but when I read it, I thought it was brilliant! I was really upset when I finished it.

not a keeper but readable
There are elements of this book that are clumsy and disjointed and elements that are charming and funny. The reason I only give three stars is that it never seemed to quite flow for me. There's no reason not to read this book, it would make a thoroughly enjoyable fluffy holiday read, the characters are likeable and those funny elements provide laugh out loud moments. It's not often that I actually laugh out loud at a book (usually I smile slightly whilst snickering in my head) but the writer puts her characters in some truly funny situations. The exchanges between Jasmine and Librarian Josh(there are two Joshes - one is a librarian, the other an actor) were very comical.

Those are the good bits.

The bad: there are times when I felt the author's voice to be quite childlike and underdeveloped. Jasmine (the heroine), who starts off shy and completely unable to talk to men, changes almost overnight when she meets her hero. There's no slow and interesting character development for Miss Holquist and as a result the humour created for Jasmine's character slows down. Actor Josh (the hero) is perfectly pleasant for the most part but didn't, for me, ellicit any great feeling. I found myself disappointed by the fact that the characters weren't stretched to their full potential.

The plot had the same problem - too much too soon and there was nothing held back for the second half of the book. Or nothing that I particularly cared to read anyway.

Again if I were to sum up why I don't give more than three stars to this book it is that while enjoyable it was frustrating knowing that with excellent ingredients Diana Holquist couldn't have done more when putting them together. There are parts of this book that reminded me of Susan Elizabeth Phillips, I just feel that she would have written the story better.

So touching
I wasn't expecting much more than your run of the mill light hearted romance when I started reading this, and to an extent that's what I got, but somehow it felt like more when I was reading it.

The relationship between Jasmine and Josh was so touching. The way he fought so hard to keep them together, despite the problems they faced, made me melt. All day at work I was distracted and waiting to get home to read the rest of the book to find out what happened (despite the fact that I found the Amy character no less irritating in this book than in its otherwise enjoyable predecessor 'Make me a Match').

In short, I can't really explain to you what made this book special, it just was!