Kiss and Tell

by Suzanne Brockmann

Other authorsSusan Boyce (Reader)

Digital audiobook, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

813/.54

Publication

BBC Audiobooks America (2009), Edition: Unabridged Audiobook, Downloadable WMA/MP3 Audiofile, 5 hrs 30 mins

Description

Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML: From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann comes a funny, feisty, romantic tale about childhood rivals who discover the mystery of grown-up love. When Leila Hunt is swept off her feet by a ninja at a New Year's Eve costume party, she has no idea who the masked man is--but after he disappears into the night, she's determined to find him. When the clock struck twelve, what began as a friendly New Year's greeting quickly became the most unforgettable kiss Leila had ever experienced with anyone--including her absent boyfriend. But of all the possible suspects, Leila hardly imagines that the ninja is the same man who's teased, tormented--and secretly intrigued her--since childhood. Marshall Devlin is finally ready to face the terrifying truth: he's in love with his best friend's sister, and has been for years. There's just one complication: Leila didn't know he was her ninja. To win her, Marsh will have to woo her. But can he make Leila forget their decades of verbal sparring in time to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life? From the Paperback edition..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member lrobe190

Leila Hunt had grown up on the isolated island where her brother still lived. She couldn't wait to leave the island and the small town and gossipy neighbors for the Big City. When Leila returns to the island for a vacation, her fiance declines to come with her and she runs into Dr. Marsh Devlin,

her brother's best friend and her tormentor all during childhood.

I love Suzanne Brockman's Navy Seal novels, but this is one she wrote before that series. It's lightly entertaining, but didn't really hold my interest.

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LibraryThing member SusiB

Leila Hunt joins her brother in his Floridian home for a New Year's Eve party and subsequent vacations. At the party, she is kissed by a mysterious stranger in a ninja costume. She tries to find this stranger, but at the same time, she seems to be falling in love with Marshall Devlin, her brother's

best friend and her own childhood enemy, who has grown into an attractive and lovable man...
This is a reissue of a 1996 series romance and it shows. It's bad. Really bad. The author's talent shows even in this book - Brockmann can certainly write, and I have to admit that the book never got boring. But the heroine is intolerable. She's stupid. Bitchy - so much so that she takes bitchyness to a whole new level. She's fickle. She waffles. She considers getting married to a guy who she has been dating for about 2 years, who never has time for her, and who she is so attracted to that she hasn't even slept with him! I just couldn't stand Leila. The hero isn't too bad though, but he doesn't get enough scenes to actually save this book.

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LibraryThing member reneebooks

I really think Brockmann should give up the Navy Seals books and go back to straight contemporaries because she does them so well. This one was again witty, light, funny, with great dialog, like the other old Loveswepts she wrote. It's a friends to lovers story and I really enjoyed it. (Grade: B)

LibraryThing member CLDunn

Sweet story about long time friends finding love. Very quick and easy read.

LibraryThing member beckymmoe

Ugh. Very eye-roll worthy. Marsh was waaaay too wussy, and Leila was to clueless to be believed. And, I'm sorry, no guys have touchy-feely discussions like Simon and Marsh did. Not once, let alone often. Ugh. I need to stop reading the really early works of authors whose later works I love....

LibraryThing member walthoff

It was okay. I really liked the hero devlin marsh but could not believe that leila was just going arund kissing all these guys to find her ninja. It was sweet how at first , i thought of her as a spoiled brat but then began to regard her as more of a woman, as the book continued. what kind of girl

, would stick with a guy like elliot, when she had a ninja who adored her. I kept on wanting to shake leila for being so cluesless.

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LibraryThing member kayceel

This was okay - a bit cheesy and clearly dated (copyright 1996) - but sweet at times with a lot of sexy tension. Definitely not up to par with Brockmann's excellent Navy SEALs and Troubleshooters series.

LibraryThing member Okies

This was published in 1996, as it says above. The novel suggests Suzanne Brockmann's greatness to come, so some patience is required to accept its shortcomings.

It is a skilful tease of readers who wait upon Dr Devlin Marshall and Leila to find their way to each other. They have been in love for

years, or at least he has, and she seems to have been subconsciously.

The story is tightly wound around these two, with little else happening, so if it wasn't for the restrained passion of Marsh, and the ever ratcheting up of the tension between the two, then I may not have got to the end.

It's beautiful how buttoned down Marsh makes the decision that he has to reveal more of himself to Layla if she is to know him. Leila was a little unbelievable in that she didn't seem to hear what Devlin said to her, even when she really wanted to hear it!

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