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| | Plain Jane |  | Author: Fern Michaels
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 568
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0786234342
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780786234349
Publication Date: November 2001
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Amazon.com Review
New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels dishes up the fantasy of every awkward, spotty, nerdy young woman who dreams of one day becoming a beautiful swan. Jane Lewis's life is perfect. Isn't it? No longer the overweight, frumpy, painfully shy girl she once was, Jane has it made with a thriving psychiatric practice, a popular radio call-in show, and now the attentions of the hottest boy in high school who has since grown into one seriously seductive man. So what's wrong? Jane is haunted, unable to forget one horrific night in college when she was powerless to protect her friend. And now it appears that Jane's home is haunted, too--for real. Perennial favorite Fern Michaels takes readers for quite a ride with Plain Jane, a suspenseful romance featuring a retired police dog you can't help but love, a couple of crusty crime writers with no need for Viagra, a supportive and oh-so-sexy love interest, and a restless spirit with a need to put the past to rights. A winning combination indeed! --Alison Trinkle
Product Description
Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead, she was just Plain Jane - overweight, frumpy and painfully shy. That was then. Today, a lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving psychotherapy practice, her own radio talk show, a beautiful old Louisiana mansion, and her affectionate, nutty dog, Olive, to keep her company. The only thing missing is someone to share her life.
Jane has never forgotten Michael Sorenson, the boy she had admired from afar in college. Now, he's inspiring her to hope for a future together. She's also never forgotten the brutal, unsolved attack that ended Connie Bryan's life - and that haunts her still. Suddenly, the present collides with the past, as Jane finds clues into the identities of Connie's attackers - clues that send her into a world of risk and excitement, challenging her to become a truly extraordinary woman . . . if she dares.
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 Plain Jane February 1, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Fern Michaels is such a superb writer. The characters are very well written, which draws the reader in, and you can't help but become immediately emotionally involved with them and the story.
Jane Lewis grew up to be a strong independent woman who is still haunted by an unsolved death in her past. To be free of the past, she must resolve it. Jane and Mike are perfectly matched old friends that fall in love. Secondary characters Trixie and Fred are well developed and compliment the story well.
 zzzzzzzz.... again June 22, 2007
Having read and reread all of my old Judith McNaught and Teresa Medeiros books to death, I decided to step out and try and find a new author to like. Alas, Fern Michaels seems to be cut from the same cloth as every other formula writer out there.
Here is what I did not like about the book: a. the characters were oddly one dimensional. You never really get to know why they feel like they do. b. The dialog was choppy and the conversations often did not even make sense. Plus, Michaels has the habit of saying her characters names over and over. ("How are you, Jane?" asked Trixie. "Trixie, I'm doing great. Thanks for asking, Trixie." responded Jane. ARRRRG!) Pet peeve. c. Even for a romance, it was SO unrealistic (at one point, Jane has a patient go stay with her godparents because of her fragile state. Apparently, she also completely divulges the patients traumatic past. Doctor-patient confidentiality, what??)
Here is what I did like about the book: It had dogs in it.
In conclusion, save your money. Just reread your old favorites.
 A "heroine" to hate and a confusing tale September 1, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was my first Fern Michaels book. I was looking for a new author. But I HATED this book.
First, the author's writting style is clunky, for lack of a better word. I can't explain it, but the conversations all seem somewhat rushed and disjointed. I'm not sure which is the main story, the heroines search for the rapists or her romance. Then there are the subplots, the dogs and the ghosts.
Second, the heroine, Jane... you want to like her but as the book progresses you like her less and less and less. Her godparents bemoan the "hard knocks" she has had through life and ask themselves when she is going to get a break. WHAT???? In the first place, Jane never got raped during the attack she wallows over for years, just called a few names. The latter apparently enough to keep an intelligent, wealthy and successful woman from going to the police. Jane has a better life than most of us could even imagine. She has a PhD, a thriving and lucrative business and is a minor celebrity in her area. She has godparents who are more supportive to her than most biological parents. Plus they are major writing celebrities and have oodles of money to burn on trivialities, all of which they have bequethed to Jane. Jane also apparently has money to burn, as she is able to purchase and fully furnish a house for a ghost; not to mention throw away a career many people would spend their lives building. On top of that, she has a wonderful and supportive boyfriend who is understanding even though she is a major jerk to him on several occasions and acts like a wacko most of the rest of the time. Despite all the wonderful things in her life, she wallows constantly in self-pity, bitterness and hatred.
Third, the characters are hardly believable. Jane is a doctor and lacks a basic understanding of why medical professionals have to maintain a professional distance and not get personally involved with all their patients problems. She acts so immature at times I wonder how she ever managed to get through medical school or deal with psychatric patients. Her godmother's "tough love" is way out of bounds. At one point the godmother chews the boyfriend a new one simply because he doesn't want to let Jane wallow is self-pity, something the godmother attacks Jane for later on. On top of that, the godmother's obcession with the retired police dog goes beyond believability. The actions of the animals are unbelievable too. They are way to understanding of human speech and all that stuff. It is ridiculous.
Finally, the ghost and rapists story lines were ridiculous. Jane invites 7 attackers to her home and nothing happens whatsoever. So anticlimatic, then the author just stops giving any care to the story and doesn't even wrap it up. It was so unsatisfying. Instead, the story drags on with Jane's idiocy and you begin to wonder if she in fact should be a psychiatric patient. The ghost stories were ridiculous too and told me that this writer could not be taken seriously. I wonder where her editors and publishers were. With some help, this could have been a decent novel. Too bad.
 OK Read June 6, 2006
I actually ended up liking this book more than I thought I would. I really enjoyed the dog interaction. I must say, though, the book definitely fell short in at least one area...Jane finally found the guys resonsible for the crime, which the majority of the book leads up to, but then their punishment wasn't discussed in detail. Overall,I enjoyed the book, and would recommend it.
Boring Jane August 15, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Plain "Jane" is a psychiatrist and so is her would-be-boyfriend Mike. When a troubled patient shows up at her clinic requesting treatment, it dredges up a long-dead trauma from Jane's own past. Can Jane overcome the trauma of her past experience to find happiness with Mike?
While at first I enjoyed Plain Jane, I quickly grew bored with some of the 'over the top' elements in this novel. Dogs are heavily featured in this book. Don't get me wrong- I love dogs, but do I really need to know where Olive is staying every chapter? And whats the deal about the vegetarian dog? The author states Olive is "vegetarian" but then goes on to discuss the dog eating pig ears. Last I heard Pig Ears were meat. What gives?
And then there are the ghosts. Jane's house is haunted by a ghost named Billy. Jane and Billy have conversations together while she sleeps. The weird thing is, this is a fairly minor subplot. Its like the author wanted to include a ghost but didn't want to risk offending people, so she kept the ghost in the background. This made the plot really weak. I won't even go there about the crazy godmother with the police car, siren, and surplus pot baggies.
Overall, this would've been a decent novel if Michaels' had ditched the weak romance, and focused on either the dog plot or the ghost plot. In the end, I found Plain Jane to be weak and ineffectual, 2 Stars.
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