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| All About Evie | 
 enlarge | Author: Beth Ciotta
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 187936
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0373772076
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373772070
ASIN: 0373772076
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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CASTING CALL NOTICE: Seeking actress for role of ditzy former Vegas showgirl Sugar Dupont. Must possess strong vocals, outgoing personality and great gazongas. Well, two out of three ain't bad. A showbiz veteran, Evie Parish knows she has the chops to sing and dance with the best. A Wonderbra should take care of the rest. YOUR SCENE PARTNER: Arch, aka Charles Dupont, a doting older husband. THE GIG: Eight days of smooching, fawning and otherwise making a PDA spectacle of yourselves on a Caribbean cruise. AND?THE CATCH: Arch is one of a team of former con men staging a sting to catch a grifter?and, under his stage makeup, he's the sexiest hunk ever to don a fake mustache....
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 A whimsical ride into the "perfect" role March 6, 2008
I'm always looking for a good ole fun romantic comedy. Throw in a few disguises, a Caribbean cruise, and a woman giving the performance of her life... and you've got ALL ABOUT EVIE by Beth Ciotta. Definitely a fun, titillating read that throws in more than a few laughs to keep you glued to the plot, and rooting for Evie Parish to finally get the role of her dreams. And her Ex-husband/agent out of her life.
Evie Parish has been through the character actress ringer--done and been it all in her 40-something years. Not once has she ever risked more than a broken nail at an audition. Not until today that is. Being asked to take off her sarong to show a little leg put her over the edge in more ways than one. She needed this gig. And she was being passed up again for a more youthful (and green gilled) actress. And this was only for an emcee role at a local casino. What's a girl to do? Take things into her own hands... but then she has to explain things to her manager who happens to be her ex-husband.
Just as the news is being told to the ex-hubby. A new role, just sorta lands on her lap. She's to be Sugar Dupot, an ex-Vegan showgirl doting on her old (and rich) husband, Charles Dupot. Best part? All while she's on a cruise. She's definitely had worse assignments! And worse co-stars. Charles Dupot a.k.a Arch Reece. He's mysterious, cunning, charming, and maybe not what he seems to be.
The book is romantic, whimsical, and just a plain old fun book. Right at the heart of a romantic comedy. Perfect while lying in the tub and escaping what we like to call kids crying and life getting overly complicated.
It's all a blast. Definitely a lot of humor and believable character flaws bring you right along side Evie as she tries to whittle her way through this one last role. Well if she doesn't trip it up along the way.
 HOT!!!!!!! January 25, 2008
This was the first book that I experienced by Beth Ciotta, and I loved it!!!!! Evie is a woman everyone can relate to... She takes life on her own terms, jumps from the rut of her old life, and lands in the middle of her own adventure... She not only meets a man who is sexy beyond all get out, but also finds the beginning of the next chapter of her life...a life of her choosing....I loved the book and can not wait for Evie's next adventure... Yet, I hope her adventures dont end anytime soon... I see many more in her future with one hell of a sexy guy---Arch (along with a few other sexy men)..... HEre's to many adventures and hopefully many spin offs to discover what happens to the rest of the Chameleon crew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny, fast paced romance October 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beth Ciotta's All About Evie is a suspenseful, laugh-out loud romantic comedy. I loved the characters, especially Evie, and can't wait to read the next book in the series. This one's a keeper!
Simply charming September 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After exposing her breasts at an ill-fated audition, Atlantic City actress Evie Parish has hit rock bottom. While commiserating with her ex-husband (and manager), he reluctantly offers her the role of Sugar Dupont, wife of wealthy older and reclusive author Charles Dupont for a week long cruise. No stranger to improv, she jumps at the chance. What she doesn't realize is that her wealthy older husband is actually a young and studly former con artist named Arch, who is working the con of his life to catch the culprits that preyed on an elderly man who recently died. Sparks fly as the two try to convince a shipload of people that they are in love and themselves that this is just a gig. Along for the ride is Arch's partner and a former lover who wreaks havoc on Evie's self esteem.
Ciotta has penned a funny and lighthearted tale sure to elicit chuckles with a combination of first person and third person storytelling. Evie might be klutzy, but she and Arch are a match made in romance novel Heaven. The only drawback for me is the constant spelling of words in the way a Brit would pronounce them. It got really old really quick. Oozing with chemistry, Ciotta's first novel in her Chameleon Chronicles is a great start to a hopefully entertaining series.
A good "curl up on the couch" read. June 12, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The word I would use to describe Beth Ciotta's books is "charming." They're light bits of entertaining froth that entice the reader to go along with the often madcap antics. Like all really good screwball comedies, credulity is sometimes strained but never broken as the reader is invited along on the roller coaster ride.
Evie Parish has made a career working as an entertainer in the casinos of Atlantic City. Onstage, she's bright, perky and bubbly, but she's also pushing forty, which makes her over the hill as far as the casino bosses are concerned. After an...unfortunate audition, Evie's convinced her career in Atlantic City is over, which is why she jumps at a job her agent offers without bothering to check the details, except for the fact it's on a cruise ship.
Arch Reece is one of the details. Part of an agency on the trail of con artists, Arch is going undercover as "Charles Dupont" and needs an actress to play his bride, ditzy former Vegas singer Sugar Dupont. Taking on a civillian as his partner, especially one that doesn't know the full score, is a dangerous thing. The two of them form a sizzling combination as they combat growing feelings for one another as they track their mark.
Arch is suitably charming, brusque and Alpha male-ish without tumbling over the line into jerkhood (though there is clearly some jerkish behavior in his past). Evie is not as bubbly as her onstage persona, struggling to make a new life post-divorce and dealing with the fact that not matter how vibrant an image she presents, she's still too old for her chosen profession. There were some moments when I wondered if Evie's worrying about her age would get a little old, but it's part of her journey and she emerges from the other end the stronger for it. Nor is everything solved by the end of the book; this is the first volume of The Chameleon Chronicles and I think it's definitely going to be worth coming along for the ride.
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