Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
Best selling author of the Frog with the Glass Slipper, Dr. Kate Stonewall makes it quite apparent to her Seattle radio audience what she thinks of sports potatoes. After having been married to one fanatic and thankfully divorced, Kate warns women about men who live, breath and die for sporting events. She particularly detests her radio station's sports guru Jeff Hardin whose higher rated show often bounces part of her advice show off the air.
Resenting Jeff at work is bad enough, but finding that he has moved next door to her on Bainbridge Island is a calamity. Jeff wants more than a neighborly relationship with Kate even as though she treats him like a swamp frog. Still she acknowledges, though not to him, that he is quite good with her son, who adores him. As she compares his habits to her Mr. Perfect, she finds herself dreaming more of slob-frog rather than her flawless prince. However, will she realize that there is room in her life for a man who she thinks betting on the Niners is a tad less enjoyable than kissing Kate?
A PRINCE OF A GUY is an amusing romantic romp centering on opposites attracting to one another, making for an odd couple with Jeff being Oscar and Kate being Felix-ette. Though the story line never takes itself too seriously, the plot digs deep into the emotions of two people and that of their tentative relationship. Fans who derive joy from a humorous contemporary romance will feel Sheila Rabe is a princess of a writer.