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    The Girl Most Likely To...

    By Susan Donovan

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    Kat Cavanaugh was sixteen when she hitchhiked out of Persuasion, West Virginia and vowed never to return. Who could blame her? She'd just stumbled upon her father's adulterous affair, found out she was pregnant, got dumped by her boyfriend, and kicked out of her house and school . . . all in a single afternoon. Twenty years have gone by and Kat's back—gorgeous, rich, and looking for an apology from everyone who'd turned their backs on her. First on that list is Riley Bohland, the boy who broke her heart before she could tell him about the baby.

    But Kat didn't count on Riley having his own axe to grind, or that he'd be just as delicious as he was at sixteen. She also didn't count on her heart opening at the sight of him. When their anger ignites a passion intense enough to burn through two decades of secrets and lies, Kat must question everything she thought she knew about her past. And what about her future? The only place to find the answers may be in Riley's arms…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 30, 2008
    ISBN9781429915526
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    The Girl Most Likely To...
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    Susan Donovan

    Susan Donovan's novels are witty, sexy, and entertaining--"brain candy for smart women," as she puts it. Her books include Not That Kind of Girl, The Night She Got Lucky, and Ain't Too Proud to Beg. Susan is a former newspaper journalist with degrees from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and has worked as a reporter in Chicago, Albuquerque, and Indianapolis. Her other jobs have included fine arts fundraiser, freelance journalist, painted furniture artist, horse stall mucker, proposal writer, and aide to a U.S. Senator. Susan lives in rural Maryland with her family and dogs.

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    • 5/5
      i read all the reviews here on scribd,about this book,and they really have nothing to do with the book itself.
      In one of the reviews i even read about a custody process between the 2 main characters,which was nowhere mentioned in the book,and i wondered a few times if we actually read the same book.
      Some of them even said that they could not finish the book,it was so boring,and hard to get in action....again,i'm wondering if we read the same book.The story was good,fast clipped,there was not a single moment where i got bored or couldn't get in it,something always happenet,secrets being revealed,etc.
      It was indeed funny at moments,and full of anguish at others,and besides the money part (which i think everybody dreams about happening to them) everything sounded pretty real and believable.
      But maybe that's just me.
      Anyway,i'm not going to say more about the book itself,I'm just going to say "go for it and read it".
      My complaints,and why I actually wrote a review,are only about the other reviews here,which are totally outside the subject of the book itself,full of details that don't even exist in the book,and because of them I almoust skipped it.Happy I didn't though.

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    • 2/5
      The cover promises a light and funny read, which this most definitely was not. However, the main characters Kat and Riley, were very well drawn. The scenes between these two were nothing short of beautiful and if the book had been a short story with only those scenes, I'd have rated it 5 stars. Unfortunately, the other characters were all two-dimensional caricatures, the external conflict contrived and the ending predictable, which contributed to the overall 2 stars I am giving it.

      Parts of this book are rich, emotional and honest, and for that, I am glad that I read it. I just wish that the whole book had been that caliber. It could have really been something special.
    • 4/5
      Another hit from a favorite author. There were definitely flaws, but overall the characters were well drawn and the writing as strong as ever.
    • 2/5
      Scrolling through my shelves, I wanted a light and entertaining read. With a flirty cartoonish cover that promised fun, I was hoping that Susan Donovan's contemporary romance, The Girl Most Likely To..., would fit the bill. But the cover belied the contents, leaving me a tad bit disgruntled and disappointed. When Kat sashays back into Persuasion, WV, she intends to face the demons of her past. She ran away when she was only sixteen, newly pregnant, dumped by her boyfriend, disgusted by her abusive, nasty father, and fresh off a disillusioning confrontation with her mother. Somehow she landed on her feet, taken in by a kind and generous woman, but she's never gone back to Persuasion. Until now. Now that she's inherited a lot of money and can flaunt her life in front of the people who almost destroyed her so many years ago, she's back. But twenty years on, all is not as Kat envisioned. Kat's old boyfriend Riley is now a doctor in town, trying to build a new and desperately needed clinic for the underserved in the area. When Kat first sees him again, he is up on a roof working hard. She is shocked by his burning anger over the fact that she hid his son's existence from him, draining away all the satisfaction that she expected to get from informing him of his paternity. But before she can figure out just what he knows and how, she finds out that her irascible bastard of a father has had a heart attack and is in the hospital. When she goes to see him there for the reckoning she knows they must have, she runs into Riley again, this time in his role as doctor. Kat is obviously dealing with serious relationship issues, from her toxic father to her feelings of abandonment by Riley, and she wants to show everyone that she is in a much better place now. Riley, too, is dealing with serious relationship issues. He has a psychotic ex-fiancé, Carrie, and is incredibly angry with Kat for denying him the chance to know his son for so many years. But even though they each carry these burdens, they are still incredibly attracted to each other and find it difficult to keep their hands to themselves. In fact, the sex scenes are white hot. But what drives their reunion is the tension between them, which would be understandable except for the fact that Riley dumped Kat before she left town so many years ago. This means he really has no leg to stand on as regards his anger with her. And Donovan seems to know it, throwing in over the top, kooky secondary characters to take the focus off of that contrived and artificial conflict. Kat's father has no redeeming qualities, Riley's ex is wacko in the extreme, the gossipy, blabby innkeeper where Kat is staying is frankly a little silly, and Kat and Riley's son Aidan, the chief bone of contention between them, is barely present in the novel. The ending, which throws the reader a curveball, stretches credulity rather a lot, even if Donovan tries to explain it through flashbacks to Kat's years growing up in her completely dysfunctional family. Somehow the novel manages to be both over the top and flat at the same time. Maybe it would work better for someone who didn't take the cover as an indication of the contents but as is, it just didn't work for me.
    • 1/5
      Kat Cavanaugh at age sixteen leaves Persuasion, West Virginia after breaking up with boyfriend and learning she was pregnant. Returns home with her son. He find out about son and tries to take custody. ok book. Shallow. Will not recommend.
    • 3/5
      Kat Cavanaugh returns to Persuasion, West Virginia, to tell her former high school boyfriend that he's the father of her twenty-year-old son. It's a standard romance novel set up that Donovan handles with sympathy and humor. Yet it fails to keep the reader's interest. So what exactly went wrong? The characters are likable enough and fairly well developed; the storyline is marginally interesting but also highly predictable. The supporting characters are characteratures and stereotypes and do little to increase interest. Donovan has written much better books; she's sleep walking though this one. And unfortunately the reader nods, yawns, and follows along. There are far worse books out there; therefore I'm giving this one three stars. It's not an awful read, just not the book that it could have been.
    • 4/5
      Susan Donovan is a writer who's very good at combining humor and romance. So when I pick up one of her books, I know she'll have me grinning and lift my spirits. "Girl Most Likely To..." surprised me. Not because it's not humorous, but because Donovan managed to inject her humor into a story that's quite touching and all about love and forgiveness.Kat had a miserable childhood. Her artist father cheated and beat her mother, her mother quietly put up with it, and when Kat was 16 her best friend and lover dumped her before she could tell him she was pregnant. So Kat left town that night with $83 and a heap of fear and bitterness. She lucked out and ended up with a wonderful woman who was everything her mother couldn't or wouldn't be to Kat. Now it's twenty years later and Kat has come back to her hometown for a bit of revenge. But she didn't count on how things can look a bit different when viewed as an adult vice a sixteen year old...nor did she count on still loving the father of her child.I just reread my book synopsis and it doesn't sound funny. And I guess the situation isn't, but Susan Donovan finds the humor in the different relationships Kat has with friends and family. There's even a secondary romance with Kat's best friend, an Italian from Baltimore, and her old boyfriend's brother. There's also a psycho ex-fiancee stalker, a gossipy inn-keeper, and a wonderful hound dog. This novel has hot sex, laughter, tears, pain, and forgiveness. And best of all, you end it with a big smile on your face.