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| Sweet Trouble (Bakery Sisters) | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0373773056
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373773053
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Jesse Keyes has done some serious growing up. With a steady job and a vibrant four-year-old son, Gabe, she's in a far better place than when she left Seattle five years ago…pregnant and misunderstood by almost everyone in her life.Now it's time to go home and face her demons. But her sisters, Claire and Nicole, aren't exactly impressed with the new and improved Jesse. And then there's Matt, Gabe's father, who makes it clear that he never wants to see her again despite the lust that still smolders between them. Jesse doesn't know if she can make up for all the mistakes of her past. But the promise of sweet nights with Matt might just give her the extra incentive she needs to make it worth the trouble.…
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The last of the sweet sisters October 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was my least favorite in the series, but it was still pretty good. It was definitely written to be a stand alone book even though it follows along with the other two books.
Mallery definitely reviews everything that happened from the first 2 sisters and for me it was just too redundant.
I like Jesse's character. She's someone who's made a lot of mistakes and gets badly burned, but leaves to become a responsible and respectable person. She comes back 5 years later to an unforgiving sister (Nicole) and a bitter ex (Matt) who's the father of her child.
I did appreciate that there was a little follow up on the other sisters. But I thought it was weird Mallery didn't make more that each sister had a son the exact same age.
So redundancy was the first reason this was my least favorite book, but Matt's character was the other. He was a jerk. I understand that he was wrongly done and missed out on his son's life, but he was too cruel and cold throughout almost the entire book. I didn't like him until the very last chapter. And even then he just seem to fall a little flat.
I wanted to give this book 3 stars, but I still liked Mallery's writing style, and appreciated her humor throughout. Not that this book is hilarious, but it has some light hearted moments to make you smile.
 This title is very misleading October 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those who read the previous two books in this serious, I expect you will buy this book even if only for that reason.
Jesse Keyes, the youngest sister and co-owner of the famous Keyes Bakery, is back home after almost five years away. With a son in tow, she does her best to make amends with her (falsely) betrayed sister and Matt, her ex-love. She's finally grown but has she learned from the mistakes she ran away from? That is pretty much where the plot ends. Sorry.
To be honest, I believe Ms. Mallery really should have combined all three stories into one book. The trio shortened and combined would have earned five stars. It was a miracle that Jesse's story hit 300 pages alone as it was repetitive and dragged out. She said the exact same thing to five people about seven times. Also, the main characters did not really spend enough time together to fall back into love so the courting had that rushed and forced edge to it that the best romance writers learn to avoid.
I feel as though I must share one minor problem I had with both this story and Claire's (the piano prodigy twin). Gabe was just too one-dimensional. Kids are not supposed to be perfect, it would drive their parents nuts. They are like puppies; when someone asks you how they are, you remember the scratches on your forearms and the yellow puddle awaiting you in the living room and then you smile with happiness anyway. All the children included in this series are just too unrealistic and quite boring.
I may be wrong about the quality of the book, Sweet Trouble was not a disaster, but it did seem like a rough draft rather than something delivery-ready.
 Does Matt still Love Jesse? October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a good book to finish the series!
Jesse has returned to Seattle after 5 years to get her life in order. She left town after making life so complicated and miserable for herself she just had to leave and make a life for herself and the new life she was going to have! She's pregnant with Matt's child but he doesn't believe that it's his child.
We met Jesse in SWEET TALK, first of the Bakery Sister trilogy. Jesse is the youngest of the girls. She was born after Claire, the younger twin, was sent to NYC to be a child prodigy pianist. She is the one who called Claire to come to Seattle. Nicole the oldest ends up raising Jesse and having the bakery too but she's only a child herself. Nicole's book was SWEET SPOT. Jesse and Nicole have a troubled relationship and Jesse was running from Nicole at the time she left.
Jesse and Claire have emailed over the years and Claire isn't surprised when Jesse shows up but Nicole and Matt are. Neither are nice to her either! Jesse came so her 4 y.o. son, Gabe, could get to know his father but she also has to admit to herself she wants to see his father too.
Matt seems to be a hard nosed and ruthless man so maybe Jesse does have some fear of him but she doesn't even realize how fearful he can be. He decides to payback Jesse for the heartache he has gone through! He's going to take Gabe away from her! This is their story of love and all the up and downs it creates.
What a wonderful story Ms Mallery has written for us. Jesse, Nicole and Claire have all 3 shown their warts and all to us and we're still crazy about them. Of course the men they have chosen maybe some of the reason too, even with those men-warts Matt, Hawk & Wyatt are special guys too LOL
To mention of few of the secondary characters, Matt's mother Paula and Jesse's boss and friend Bill with their wonderful little stories adding to the book we have a complete story of all 3 sisters and the men they love and the children they have! What a great series!
 Least favorite of the series... September 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've read all three books in this series, and although I'm glad I read this one, and even enjoyed it, it is by far my least favorite of the three. As a whole, I much preferred the Buchanan's series, but will gladly read whatever Susan Mallery has to offer.
Sweet end to the Bakery Sisters series September 23, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Jesse Keyes is the ne'er do well sister who left town pregnant under a cloud of suspicion after failing to get her family and boyfriend to believe her when she was suspected of sleeping with her brother in law. It's five years later and little Gabe has been asking about his father, so she decides it's time to return to Seattle to heal old wounds with her sister and with Matt. Only Matt is just as excited now as he was five years ago and suspects Jesse's true motivation is his vast fortune. But one look at Gabe and he sees the resemblance. Rather than blaming himself for not believing her, he instead decides to destroy her, by making her fall for him all over and then getting full custody of Gabe. But when his feelings start to change, he is not sure if he wants his heart ruled by passion or revenge. Her attempts at reconciling with older sister Nicole are met with trepidation at first, particularly when Nicole discovers that Jesse is so grounded - enough so that she wants back into the bakery to prove herself. Armed with a recipe of to die for brownies, she tries to revamp the bakery, despite Nicole's misgivings.
Mallery's final installment in the Bakery sisters trilogy is an interesting story, and would easily be my favorite if it weren't for one thing - the constant flashbacks. I would have preferred a prologue that contained all this material then the jump five years later. All it does it confuse the flow of the story. The character of Matt is kind of a jerk. Jesse really should have made him squirm a bit more. And Nicole, who was so nasty in the first two books has grown and is finally a mother, but still is somewhat bitter, making her still a character you wouldn't want as a friend. But Mallery ends the series on a high note - despite the flaws, it is a sweet and uplifting story, and little Gabe will steal readers hearts.
Tracy Vest, September 2008
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