Author: Vicki Lewis Thompson
Date: 2003
Publisher: Random House (reprinted by Ocean Dance)
ISBN: 978-1-946759-35-1
Quote: "[T]hey were in Honolulu scratching for a living, but at least Genevieve was working for Nick Brogan's company and hoping Nick would ask her out."
This is a romance in the classical sense. There's a love story, all right, both for Genevieve and for her twice-divorced Mama Annabelle, but the classical meaning of a "romance" as distinct from a "novel" was that a romance features fantasy adventures that couldn't possibly happen in the real world.
Such as characters leaving Hawaii by plane, crashing the plane on a small island that they suspect may be in the Leeward Islands chain, and having everyone who was looking for them find them on the first try. Some islands probably are "leeward" from Hawaii but the Leeward Islands are in a different ocean...
Anyway: Genevieve is a Tennessee hillbilly, transplanted to Hawaii. Her age is unspecified but in 2003 her taste in movie stars definitely tilts back toward the 1980s. She's also familiar with her mother's 1950s favorites and likes Nick because he resembles Cary Grant. Unfortunately for her Nick is not the sort of character Cary Grant usually played.
Jack, the office nerd who is completely color-blind, trusts other people to tell him how badly the plaid shirts he likes clash with everything else he wears, and has been known to forget about dates in the excitement of a computer project, discovers his inner nice pirate (you know, the kind of pirate who ties a girl up only when they've already had sex a couple of other ways and want to try something new) while rescuing Genevieve from Nick and the baddies looking for Nick.
It will all end happily, and comically, though for several chapters at the beginning of the book most of the jokes are outdated stereotypes about Tennessee hillbillies.
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