Call of the Wild/Everything But Anchovies

by Lisa Bingham and Susan Peterson

Call of the Wild / Everything but Anchovies (Duets 2-In-1, 49) [Mass Market Paperback] This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373441150
• ISBN13: 9780373441150
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

everthing but anchovies

delightful, funny... a bit of a mystery! really enjoy this book, sue has a wonderful talent with words story flows so nicely. hope to see more books by her soon!

I LOVE this book!

I can't say enough good things about Susan Peterson's EVERYTHING BUT ANCHOVIES. The characterization is excellent, the pacing is fast, and the one-liners are hilarious. Quinby Parker is a true original. Fresh, funny, and brilliant, from the first line to the last, this book is a definite keeper. Like a previous reviewer, I wish the author would write a bigger book--I'd sure like to stay with her characters longer. I'm in the middle of CALL OF THE WILD, and I have to say, it's also quite original and well-written. All in all, this Duets is one of the freshest category romances I've read in awhile.

Buy it for the Anchovies

Unfortunately, although Bingham shows she can write, the heroine in "Call of the Wild" is one of those romance heroines whose lives come to a halt when they meet A Man and suddenly the entire universe revolves around him with no room for the heroine to shine on her own. (And frankly, this Man doesn't seem worth it.) The setting held great promise with the fascinating premise of gorilla behavior contrasted to the life of a radio relationships advisor, but unfortunately fell flat when that premise was given a simplified, saccharine and sexist coating.However, Susan Peterson's entry is wonderful, well worth the price of the book and then some. Funny, romantic, heartwarming, and down-to-earth. The only negative thing about it is that it was too short and the father sub-plot was resolved off-camera, the son sub-plot was unresolved (unless the dance with the ex was supposed to signal in some way that it had been resolved), and the unusual foster family was not examined more closely.That was the main problem. A great read like "Anchovies" cried out for a longer book where we could really dig into the characters of these diverse, fascinating and funny people.

Two delightful romps in one book

"Call of the Wild" by Lisa Bingham. When Nellie the gorilla rejected her eleventh suitor in two years, Dr. Wilhelmina Bush, owner of the Maratonga Behavioral Institute and Zoological Park decides a change is needed. She informs researcher Jake Grisholm that she hired radio sex therapist Alana Childe to assist. Alana learns the hard way that her client the "goddaughter" is a gorilla, but even more difficult is that Jake is the one man whose seduction years ago remains implanted in her heart and soul. Likewise that night of ecstasy is Jake's dream moment. With a gorilla and her godmother interceding, how can this couple fail to mate? A gorillas in the midst of a relationship turns this work into a charmingly humorous tale. "Everything but Anchovies" by Susan Peterson. Between filling in at the restaurant making and delivering pizza and working as a tyro police officer on the Bracket City, New York force, Quinby Parker has no social life. Part of her problem is a lack of time, but a major dilemma is that no one wants to date a cop. However, Sergeant Josh Reed, the most decorated cop on the force, sure looks good to the female rookie, but the supercop has a kid and besides why would he date a klutzy police officer like Quinby unless love sentences both of them to a lifetime together. Two cops and a pizza are the right ingredients for a jocular romantic story. Once again, the two stories in the Duet line are fun and amusing, as readers will enjoy the latest Duets.Harriet Klausner

Everything You Could Want in a Romance...Except Anchovies!

Quinby Parker has a way with pizza and with jobs...lots and lots of jobs. But now she's a rookie, paired with a gorgeous officer, Josh Reed. Can she succeed as a cop, and even more importantly, with Josh himself? Susan Peterson's first Duet is a wonderful story that will leave you hungry for more!