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It is, When newly divorced Kate Adams is approached on the sunny deck of a California hotel by hockey star David Burke, and he invites her to dinner, she almost says no. It is, after all, her fortieth birthday. So while Kate guards her fragile heart, David sets out to win her over with the same determination that drives him on the ice.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Until You , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Aug 26, Carol [Goodreads Addict] rated it it was amazing Shelves: Until You is by Jeannie Moon. I won this book in a prize package in a give a way. It is Kate Nicholls fortieth birthday and she is sitting alone at a bar at a hotel on the beach in California drinking wine, and crying. Her divorce from her now ex-husband, Richard, has just become final.
Richard left her ten months ago for his mistress. Even though she has had plenty of time to mourn the loss of her marriage, having these final p Until You is by Jeannie Moon. Even though she has had plenty of time to mourn the loss of her marriage, having these final papers in her hand brought everything to the surface again. Just as she drained the last drop of the wine from the bottle, one of the most beautiful men she has ever seen approaches her, wanting to talk.
Kate has never done anything spontaneous like this. But it is her birthday, and he is gorgeous. So when he asks her to dinner, she accepts. He is team captain and plays forward for the Flyers. He accepted a bet to try to get the beautiful woman sitting alone in the bar to go to bed with him. But when he approached Kate and saw she had been crying, everything changed. He wanted to make her smile and take away what ever made her cry.
The minute he sat down in the chair across from Kate Nicholls, his life was forever altered. This woman could matter to him. Beautiful women threw themselves at him and he took advantage of it, finding his picture in the paper countless times with different women on his arm. After he met Kate, though, he lost interest in anyone but her. He saw a glimpse of something he yearned for, a woman he could easily spend the rest of his life loving. Kate is an English teacher at a prestigious private school. But that is only part time.
Kate is a romance novelist, a famous author that has had four books on the best seller list. One of her books has been optioned for a movie deal. This man is abusive, manipulative, and I think just plain crazy. Especially towards the end, it seemed to me this man was a few marbles short of a full jar. During their entire marriage, Richard controlled everything to do with their lives. Laura believed everything her father told her about her mother. She wants to hope that David is different. When he finds out her age, though, he got scared.
That is only the first of many mistakes that he made that had Kate pushing him away. Kate and David were awesome together. Both these women finally found the strength to stand up to him. And in doing so, they found something they had lost in themselves. Laura got her childhood back and her mother back. And, Kate found love. View all 21 comments.
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Dec 27, Aestas Book Blog rated it really liked it. I picked this book up randomly the other night because I was drawn to the premise and I started reading the first few pages out of curiosity and never stopped until the very end! David is one of those special book heroes whose pure devotion to the heroine is downright heart melting. I really loved his character and admired how far he was willing to go to prove to her that she was the only one he wanted… forever. I really liked that he was perfectly willing to admit when he made a mistake and had no problems going to any lengths to make up for it.
I also appreciated that despite his playboy past, his devotion to Kate was never once brought into question. It was plain to see that she was it for him. All he had to do was convince her of that too. What had started as a bet, and was supposed to be a simple one-night stand, had become much more. This woman mattered to him. At some point, David had stopped thinking about himself and started thinking about her.
Her vulnerability, her openness, her intelligence were at the heart of what he felt, but there was more. It was the way they connected. They understood each other. Having spent the last ten years married to a manipulative, cunning, controlling and at times abusive husband, Kate naturally was extraordinarily wary about trusting anyone — let alone a famous hockey star who was known for leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake. While there were times when I got frustrated with the way she kept pushing David away, the more you read, the more you saw why her trust was so broken.
And I really liked that she was very successful career-wise and stable on her own. Even though he was this famous sports star, it was almost a situation of him being out of his league with her instead of the other way around which made for a really interesting dynamic. He had to make sure he did everything right. Overall, I quite enjoyed this book. Admittedly, I found it a little cheesy in places but at the same time, I feel like it was so heart-warming that I just kind of made a decision that I just would accept it for what it was without judgement.
It was a romance that made my tummy flutter and I swooned and cared for the characters so all in all, I was happy. I have a seventeen-year-old daughter! Not seeing you again bothers me a lot more. Given that this was a legit Adult romance, I felt like it was a little out of place to have fade-to-black bedroom scenes. I believed in them. It was clear how much they both cared for each other and I really enjoyed watching them slowly build trust.
Kate, he wanted to draw in, keep close. It reads as a complete full length standalone so you get the whole story in one fell swoop with no waiting. View all 7 comments. I was expecting a romance between a forty year old divorcee and a twenty-nine year old Pro Ice Hockey player when I started Until You , who due to their age differences amongst other things have to deal with a few bumps in the road along the way.
Sadly that isn't the only thing going on in the book, and it became secondary for most of the part I read. The pr 1 - "The bad days always manage to get worse. The problems start for me with the addition of POV's from Kate's abhorrent ex-husband view spoiler [ who at one point enters her house, without permission and pins her to a wall, that didn't sit well with me at all hide spoiler ] as well as her seventeen year old daughter, who is essentially a spoiled, selfish, brat added into the mix, personally I don't think they actually added anything to the story, and in all honesty I wasn't interested in their thoughts or opinions which in relation to Kate and David's story, didn't really seem to have anything to do with it.
There were just too many characters fighting for page space, and at approaching a third of the way through the book there wasn't a lot of development too the story as a whole. That sadly isn't the case for me with Until You it needs to have the erroneous POVs removed and more time with the actual couple included.
This is of course only my opinion. I have read this authors work before and I really liked it, and I would happily read more from her in the future. On this occasion I don't think the synopsis really gives an accurate enough picture of what the book is truly about, and I wanted the story from that synopsis and not the one actually in the book. ARC generously provided via Netgalley, I am sorry that I cannot provide a more positive review on this occasion. View all 12 comments. Dec 29, NinaReader rated it liked it. Liked but didn't love. I thought this had a lot of potential The beginning was great.
How they met and the night they spent together. It wasn't just the sex either There was a genuine connect Liked but didn't love. There was a genuine connections and ease to them both. I really felt their potential. It's after that night that the story takes a lot of different directions. Then on the David the hot hockey player who's 10 years younger than her storyline, it was starts and stops for a while. There's some realism about the start and stops but after a while, I was just ready for their story to finally pick up some speed.
An interesting thing the author does in this story is writing in multiple POVs. Oh and also this was a book that faded to black when all the good stuff you've been waiting for was finally going to happen.
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This was hard to rate because some aspects of the story I really really liked and some just felt too long and fell short on the totally capturing me meter. I felt it had a lot of potential but didn't quite make it there. Still a like though. View all 20 comments. Feb 03, Marea rated it it was amazing. I was lucky to get an advance copy of this book. After years of abuse her husband has left her for another woman, their daughter hates her and on her 40th birthday she slept with a 29 year old.
Not just any 29 year old, a well known hockey player that her 17 year old daughter has a serious crush on. David Burke was a player both on an off the ice, not wanting to com I was lucky to get an advance copy of this book. David Burke was a player both on an off the ice, not wanting to commit to a serious relationship just yet. So when his NHL team had an away game in California, while at their hotel, his teammates issued him a challenge…get the woman at the table in bed by the end of the night.
You know the magically connection you hear or read about, that some couples have? Well there is definitely one between Kate and David. But can that magic actually overcome all the odds and every roadblock placed before them as they try and figure out exactly what they want. It has the twists and turns, ups and downs, hate and romance that we can only dream about happening in our lives.
Jeannie Moon hit this one not just out of the park but out of the country! Now if only the story was really finished Feb 01, Three Chicks rated it really liked it. I also love hockey, so this book was a no brainer for me. Kate spent her 40th birthday in a hotel bar overlooking the Pacific Ocean, celebrating the milestone with a bottle of red wine and her divorce papers.
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That my friend is like a kick in the crotch. Kate Swirled the last of the wine in her glass and took a deep breath. Enter hockey star David Burke. In California for a hockey game, he looks over and is suddenly drawn to her. Still moving slowly, David took her in. Damn, she was pretty. For the first time he could see her eyes they were hazel-not quite green, not quite brown, large and surrounded by dark spiky lashes. When she looked up and caught his gaze, David felt a whole new kind of kick in his chest. Something about this woman, about the way she looked at him, stopped him cold.
When she finally broke eye contact, David regained his senses. What does playboy David have to lose? He asks her and no one is more shocked than Kate when she says yes. Kate she is just looking for a good time tonight. She is not thinking about tomorrow she is not thinking that this guy is 10 years her junior, she is not thinking that he probably has girls in every single city he visit.
She is thinking of forgetting that she is forty and divorced. Why is he fighting this hard, when he can have anyone he wants? I mean his picture is all over the gossip pages. She was wonderful- proud, stubborn and completely vulnerable. David pressed her body into his. Heat shot through him. He leaned closer and whispered in her ear. Can she find happiness again and open up her heart to love? Feb 14, Sandy Bartles rated it it was amazing.
Jeannie Moon has outdone herself with this fantastic book. I couldn't put it down until I finished. Kate is a high school teacher and a successful novelist who has just been divorced by her lying, cheating husband. She is picked up in a bar by year-old hockey player, David, on her 40th birthday. I love the way Ms. Moon let us see the relationships between each of the characters in the story and the heartache and rebuilding between Kate and her daughter, Laura. I was given an AR Jeannie Moon has outdone herself with this fantastic book.
I was given an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Jan 28, Patty Blount rated it it was amazing. I was fortunate to have read an early version of this book and it blew me away. Kate and David are very real and honestly portrayed characters and I adored the older-woman fling becoming a real romance, with real issues, and all too real mistakes. My favorite parts of this book are Kate's struggles with her teenage daughter, who seems to prefer her ex-husband's wife over Kate.
Pass me the tissues In fact, the teenage daughter's sub-plot injects a bit of a YA romance into this big book an I was fortunate to have read an early version of this book and it blew me away. In fact, the teenage daughter's sub-plot injects a bit of a YA romance into this big book and for me, that's a bonus! The book is full of tender moments and some hot love scenes. I think I fell in love with David myself by the second or third chapter.
It was a joy for me to experience all these outside influences tugging at David and Kate, trying to show them how they can never work, but both characters mvoing beyond those limits and growing closer despite -- or maybe because -- of them. This book was the perfect blend of romantic fairy tale and real life and has me going to hockey games to find my own David! Aug 03, Wendy Marcus rated it it was amazing. Usually I like my sex scenes hotter, but honestly, I didn't miss the hot sex. My only complaint is I made the mistake of starting this story on the way home from vacation But make sure you have time to read it in one sitting!
I rarely read a book where the heroine is the older one in the relationship, so this was a nice change of pace. Kate is drowning her sorrows on her 40th birthday when a young good looking man invites her to dinner. She almost says no, but changes her mind and goes. What happens after is a wonderful love story.
She's just turned 40, recently divorced from a TOTAL jackwagon, insecure because of her ex-husband's horrible treatment of her, and lost in her fai I rarely read a book where the heroine is the older one in the relationship, so this was a nice change of pace. She's just turned 40, recently divorced from a TOTAL jackwagon, insecure because of her ex-husband's horrible treatment of her, and lost in her failing relationship with her 17 year old daughter.
Along comes this handsome younger man, and they click immediately, but David has a reputation as a player and Kate is wary because of that and his age. After David pulled his head out of his rear and realized he really cared for Kate, he had to work to get her back. May 20, Debbie rated it it was ok. I expected more from this book.
She has interesting stories to tell, and she does tell them. However - unlike the authors of other biographies and memoirs I have read recently - she seems overly-impressed with herself. Of course if famous people are a part of your life story, those names need to be mentioned. But there are ways to do it that flow more naturally.
She tells us that she'll talk about her encounters with a few of them "later", and when she does they turn out to be little more than someone introducing them, with no further contact or impact on her life. Pretty much every man she encountered wanted her, according to her own accounts, and pretty much every woman was jealous of her.
I'm sure some of those people were surprised to read that! It was also hard for me to get past the constant "Jeannie blink! It was cute the first time, but seemed childish and unnecessary to me when it kept appearing after that. I don't blame her for not going into more detail about the tragedy involving her son, but I do wish she had woven more of a thread prior to that so we could have understood her and felt more.
She actually mentions him very little considering he was her only child who she clearly loved, and I was confused as to where he was living some of the time. She mentions a sister too, but we don't ever hear much about her. I didn't dislike this book completely. I was disappointed, and I wanted to come away liking her more than I did. I wish she had been more genuine, and I wish she had focused less on trying to impress her readers. But her story is interesting. View all 4 comments. Jul 21, Katie Christian rated it did not like it.
Before starting this book, I genuinely liked Barbara Eden. I was, of course, a fan of "I Dream of Jeannie" and I had seen her in several other shows and movies, enjoying them all. I've probably read a hundred celebrity autobiographies and they're generally very entertaining. The celebs will admit their mistakes and even when talking about their accomplishments it's in a self-depricating way to relate to the reader.
This book omits ALL of those principles. I really can't over-emphasize how shocked I was by this book. Barbara Eden's self-centered side is clearly out of control. One would think that in an autobiography the author would tell personal stories. She does tell some personal stories, but none about herself. She even names a famous director who was a hermaphrodite, later throwing in how Katherine Hepburn threw herself at Barbara's date, but wouldn't even speak to Barbara.
That's right - she thinks Katherine Hepburn was jealous and threatened by her. These stories took a serious backseat to Ms.
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Eden's perspective of the leading men she's worked with throughout the years. Don't get me wrong here - Barbara Eden was a cute little blonde girl. She was not Raquel Welch. According to this book every single man that Barbara Eden ever worked with wanted to sleep with her, or at least made a pass at her. And she lists them all in great detail. She was MUCH too prim and proper and had much higher morals than everyone else in Hollywood, so she would never have gone out with any of them. Even if this were true, how classy of her to list them in this manner. Before she was a 'star', she was hired as a dancer in a club.
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She admits that she was awful, but the men came there to see cute blondes, so she kept her job. Eden, the other dancers in the show became so jealous that Barbara was getting all the men's attention that one night they locked her in the dressing room so she couldn't perform. Please keep in mind that all of these girls were also hired for their looks. It was hard to read this section because I kept involuntarily rolling my eyes!
There are so little actual honest stories about her life, I wonder if she even had anything to do with writing this book. Her own son died of a heroin overdose and she barely touches on it. If she wasn't prepared to talk about this, she should've said that, or not written the book. She's been married three times, but showing pretty much no respect for her current husband, she repeatedly describes her first husband as the love of her life, and their divorce as the only mistake she ever made.
All-in-all, I wish she hadn't written this book. I much prefer the perception of Barbara Eden that I had before reading her autobiography. I think her Wikipedia entry is more informative and less offensive. View all 5 comments. Dec 31, HeavyReader rated it it was ok Recommends it for: This memoir was the first thing I read in Too bad it was kind of a yawn. I learned that Larry Hagman was the real diva on the set of I Dream of Jeannie , throwing temper tantrums, getting drunk and stoned during work, even pissing on the set at least once. Other than that, Eden doesn't really share much juicy gossip that I didn't know.
What I didn't already know, I didn't much care about. Yes, yes, the TV censors wouldn't let her show her belly button when she played Jeannie. I already knew t This memoir was the first thing I read in I already knew that. Even if I hadn't known, writing it once would have surely been enough. Very annoying was the way, in the beginning of the book, if Eden wanted to shift time frames, she would mention doing a "Jeannie blink" before the flashback or flash forward.
Luckily she quit doing that after the first few chapters, because it was really getting on my nerves. I wish these Hollywood people would realize that when people read these memoirs, we want to hear all about the sex. Well, at least I do, but I don't think I'm the only one.
Why do these Hollywood people try to be so coy? The book does have an index, which is endearing to me, but I can't imagine why anyone would use it. Jun 11, Kathryn rated it did not like it. Here are all the famous people I met, no mention of anyone else in my life because they haven't been mentioned on TV or in the movies. All the name dropping is about all I'm good for because I say 'no' to just about everything.
Oh and by the way you'll only learn about two, possibly three personal incidents in my life, because between jumping from this year, back to that, flash forward to this other year you'll be so confused that you'll want to slam my book closed "Hi, my name is Barbara Eden. Oh and by the way you'll only learn about two, possibly three personal incidents in my life, because between jumping from this year, back to that, flash forward to this other year you'll be so confused that you'll want to slam my book closed and Jeannie Blink it out of your life.
It was barely personal and felt like a menagerie of name dropping opportunities. Not worth the read. Apr 10, David L. What a great insight to the woman who launched a thousand dreams as the beautiful genie of TV land. Barbara came across as "regular folk" who wasn't aware of how truly gorgeous she really is.
I liked her candid stories about what a terror Larry Hagman was on set a report he confirms was true and about her ass of a second husband. My heart really broke for her as she described the horror of having to give birth to a still born baby which she had to carry full term though the baby had died months What a great insight to the woman who launched a thousand dreams as the beautiful genie of TV land.
My heart really broke for her as she described the horror of having to give birth to a still born baby which she had to carry full term though the baby had died months before and how that, plus other piddly factors, led to the demise of her first marriage to Michael Ansara, who she loved with such ferocity that it seemed inconcievable that she would have left him. But as she as in such a dark place after the still born, I can understand why. I do wish she spent more time talking about her days on "I Dream of Jeannie," however that would probably best be suited for an entire book on its own.
Sep 29, Rama rated it it was amazing Shelves: An intimate portrait of Barbara Eden This is an intimate account of Barbara Eden's early childhood, and her work on stage, TV, movies and live concert performances. Her emotional breakdown following the death of her only son, Matthew left her in grief and deep distress. His long addiction to controlled substances was devastating. He had injected himself with pure cocaine.
Eden has beauty in words when she is describing key events in her life. She makes the narratives come to life and fascinates us, the lows and highs of her life, with a sense of humor. The book is deeply engrossing and her style of writing is exemplary. Larry was extremely moody and heavily into alcohol. He was a troubled young man. The storms and conflicts regularly raged on the set and the only way for Eden was to hide in her dressing room. He was openly rude to his television crew and co-stars. Guests of the show were treated with insult and rudeness.
Despite all his tirade against the guests and crew and Barbara, he delivered the scripted dialogue in a professional manner. That is how we saw him; bright and happy astronaut in love with a Jeannie. Eden has been much news lately, at 86, she appeared at the Hollywood Beauty Awards, where she proved that age certainly hasn't affected her grace and beauty.
This is a memorable piece of literature; I am fascinated with her life. Oct 02, Nicola Mansfield rated it really liked it. I enjoy actor's memoirs from the '70s on back in time and was intrigued to see what Barbara Eden had to say for herself. Barbara Eden comes off as a very classy, non-Hollywood-type, of lady who has lived a rich and rewarding career, meeting many famous celebrities and enjoying enough success to satisfy herself. She loves to work for t Reason for Reading: She loves to work for the joy of it but she has also suffered some tragedies in life namely the death of her only child at his age of thirty-five.
Barbara tells the whole story of her life, briefly from early childhood, but mostly starting with her life in Hollywood as she tried to make a career for herself as a singer, got side-tracked as a model and ended up an actor, until she reached the stage when she could be both sing and act, whether on Broadway, TV or in the movies.
Barbara was married to the same man for most of her career on through the Jeannie years and though she has many tales to tell, she does tell all in a certain way. She doesn't have that much to tell as she was in a faithful marriage and respected her colleagues even when they were difficult to deal with.
So we get a lot of stories of who tried to pick her up and who she turned down along with the tumultuous backstage antics of Larry Hagman on the set of Jeannie. A very interesting look into this time period of the entertainment business from someone who wasn't dragged down into the drug scene. And an insightful look inside the exciting and tragic life of an iconic woman who will always be remembered as "Jeannie". Feb 03, Jaime rated it liked it. It is pretty much a biography of Barbara Eden's life which does mention a lot of her time spent on I Dream Of Jeannie.
In all honesty I felt that she was a little in love with herself the way she was constantly going off about how all these men were falling for her and hitting on her all the time,from Elvis to the smallest nobodies. She was and still is a very attractive woman but there is no way every singl I checked this out from the library because I was and still am a I Dream Of Jeannie fan.
She was and still is a very attractive woman but there is no way every single man that crossed her path wanted to have relations with her.