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The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3)
The Trouble With Valentine's Day - Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3
Author: Rachel Gibson
ISBN-13: 9780060009267
ISBN-10: 0060009268
Publication Date: 1/25/2005
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 374 ratings
Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Paperback
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chiricahuagal avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 6
I loved this book! I like Rachel Gibson's funny and irreverent writing style, and I also felt she captured the heroine Kate's insecurities in a way that made me feel Kate's pain in dealing with men. There's just enough of that in the story to give it depth without too much angst. The hero Rob has some issues of his own - he rejects her proposition in the opening scene but when you read his story, you'll understand why. Now if they can only resolve their feelings about past loves... Well, sure they do, it's a Romance!
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Helpful Score: 4
This book has some: very witty dialogue. very hot sex scenes. a protagonist who isn't willing to settle. And some hot Aisle 6 sex. Makes you rethink the supermarket.
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Helpful Score: 4
Good book with laugh out loud parts.
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Helpful Score: 4
Funny, touching, and steamy sex. Fast, light reading.
JunebugTX avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 50 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book is a fun book to read. It is about Kate Hamilton who decides to throw caution into the wind and makes a proposition to a stranger just to be turned down. She moves to help her grandfather and runs into the stranger again.
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Helpful Score: 2
If you can trudge through the first 50 page which are heavy with backstory, this is a fun romance.
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Helpful Score: 2
great romance novel.
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Helpful Score: 2
Very amusing. Snappy dialogue! Rachel Gibson is a lot of fun.
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Helpful Score: 2
very funny
Sue avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 72 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Can't go wrong with a book from Rachel Gibson. Loved this book alot, funny and steamy a very enjoyable read.
daylilylover avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 768 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Quick read! Details life in a small town and families.
clarkstonmom avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 15 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A cute read. I enjoyed the small town setting. The quirky residents of the town added a lot to the humor of the book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Very cute read - Kate Hamilton is a quirky heroine who is entertaining and this book offers a few laughs.
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Helpful Score: 1
Cute - as all of Rachel Gibson's books are.
evelyn0309 avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 84 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Typical cute Gibson story. Heavy on the witty and humorous dialogue with sexy leads.
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Helpful Score: 1
great summer read!
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Helpful Score: 1
An excellent chick-lit beach read.
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Helpful Score: 1
Fun contemporary romance.
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Helpful Score: 1
Really loved this book. A fun and sassy series all about those hunky hockey players. Yum!
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Helpful Score: 1
Rachel Gibson are fun reads.
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what can i say but i just love her books
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Love everything Gibson writes. Laughs plus romance, even though you know how it's going to end, it's fun to see how it gets there.
sweetnblissful avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 88 more book reviews
I loved this book!! My favorite so far by Rachel Gibson. This book is soo steamy and so hard to put down.
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I picked up the first book in this series by chance. I read it so fast and LOVED it so much that I promptly logged on to my Paperback Swap account and proceeded to order the next 5 books in the series. I love them. This one was great because it was still about a Chinook hockey player but he isn't with the team anymore and he is living in Idaho. Interesting change, but still keeping up with what the team is doing. What a great writer, hope she adds more to this seris.
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Another cute romance from Rachel Gibson! I love the Chinooks Hockey series!
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Good book.....really liked that the characters didn't just assumed the wrong thing. However, I didn't like the way the author 'glazed over'
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I really enjoyed this. It was a light and frothy read with a satisfying if pat ending. Great for the beach, a plane ride, etc.
shelly- avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on
This was the first book I've read by this author....I loved it!
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Endearing characters and snappy dialogue, just for starts.
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An awesome book! Couldn't put it down!
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Pretty funny at times. I enjoy this author very much. A good story.
Bernie avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on
I laughed until I cried. Rachel Gibson is always a quick fun read.
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Funny and a great romance.
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One of my favorite books. Rob half the time makes you just want to smack him and my heart goes out to kate
robinmy avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 2042 more book reviews
Dumped by her boyfriend and stressed out by her job, Kate Hamilton decides to visit her widowed grandfather in Idaho. During the drive to Idaho, she stops at a ski lodge and decides to live out one of her fantasies and proposition a gorgeous man. He flatly rejects her.

After Kate arrives at her grandfather's, she helps him at his store. He introduces her to Rob Sutter, the owner of the sporting goods store across the street and the man she propositioned. She can only pray Rob won't tell her grandfather how they met before.

This was a funny story with snappy dialogue. Rob has a good reason for never picking up women in bars. It takes him a long time to come around to the fact that he really cares for Kate but doesn't want to get into a relationship with her. Kate has other ideas. My rating: 4.5 Stars.
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Very, very good story!
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Yummy, lots of tension between the well-matched characters. Hotshot ex-hockey star meets lively red-headed PI while both are reassessing their futures in what's left of the unspoiled west.
DameEdna avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 149 more book reviews
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Kate Hamilton is a private detective on hiatus because after she helped a man find his family, he turned out to be a homicidal maniac. She is looking for some R & R at her widowed grandfather's house in Gospel, Idaho. En route, she stops at a ski lodge in Sun Valley and decides to break her own rules by having a one-night stand with a gorgeous man. But much to her chagrin, he not only turns her down, he also lectures her. Rob Sutter wants nothing to do with loose women in bars. His last partner in forbidden love was a pyscho stalker who shot him, ending his career as a professional hockey player. When Kate gets to her grandfather's, she meets his new friend, none other than the dream guy from the ski lodge. Now Kate has to prove to Rob that she is not really a slut. Unabashed matchmakers, including a romantic, second-time-around older couple and some of the world's worst poets, populate the close-knit community that award-winning Gibson brings so vividly to life in this heartwarming, small-town romance filled with humor, charm, and passion. Shelley Mosley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
MaxieCat avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 261 more book reviews
Rachel Gibson's hockey player series. Typical romantic "chick lit." Good read for the beach.
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Valentine's Day is a single-girl's worst nightmare. Can Kate find a man to make her day full of hearts and candy?
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Kate Hamilton is a private detective on hiatus because after she helped a man find his family, he turned out to be a homicidal maniac. She is looking for some R & R at her widowed grandfather's house in Gospel, Idaho. En route, she stops at a ski lodge in Sun Valley and decides to break her own rules by having a one-night stand with a gorgeous man. But much to her chagrin, he not only turns her down, he also lectures her.

Rob Sutter wants nothing to do with loose women in bars. His last partner in forbidden love was a pyscho stalker who shot him, ending his career as a professional hockey player. When Kate gets to her grandfather's, she meets his new friend, none other than the dream guy from the ski lodge. Now Kate has to prove to Rob that she is not really a slut.

Unabashed matchmakers, including a romantic, second-time-around older couple and some of the world's worst poets, populate the close-knit community that award-winning Gibson brings so vividly to life in this heartwarming, small-town romance filled with humor, charm, and passion.
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Highly recommended! Funny book about female ex-bounty hunter who gets involved with an ex-NHL player.
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A sweet, fluffy romance.
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Fun, quick read as usual.

Rob is such an idiot but you learn to adore him. I have to give Gibson credit for making a cheater into a lovable character. It probably wasn't easy. I liked that Kate is very strong and opinionated but somehow she doesn't come off as having a chip on her shoulder.

There are some problems with consistency in the book and with the series. It seems like Gibson can't decide how tall Rob was. Also Sherriff's Dylan's name is misspelled in the book but it's still a great book.
Bkcrazee avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 388 more book reviews
This was light reading but enjoyable
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*Starred Review* Kate Hamilton is a private detective on hiatus because after she helped a man find his family, he turned out to be a homicidal maniac. She is looking for some R & R at her widowed grandfather's house in Gospel, Idaho. En route, she stops at a ski lodge in Sun Valley and decides to break her own rules by having a one-night stand with a gorgeous man. But much to her chagrin, he not only turns her down, he also lectures her. Rob Sutter wants nothing to do with loose women in bars. His last partner in forbidden love was a pyscho stalker who shot him, ending his career as a professional hockey player. When Kate gets to her grandfather's, she meets his new friend, none other than the dream guy from the ski lodge. Now Kate has to prove to Rob that she is not really a slut. Unabashed matchmakers, including a romantic, second-time-around older couple and some of the world's worst poets, populate the close-knit community that award-winning Gibson brings so vividly to life in this heartwarming, small-town romance filled with humor, charm, and passion. Shelley Mosley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
bad avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 191 more book reviews
A great story by Gibson in her Chinooks Hockey series. Love all the books in this series.
Caffey avatar reviewed The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey, Bk 3) on + 120 more book reviews
Fun book!
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Crichton is BACK!!!!
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