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Breakfast in Bed
by Sandra Brown
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc (1996-05)
ISBN: 1568953070
EAN: 9781568953076
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 213 pages
SKU: 01BB-060-7-0408
Condition: G VG
Comments: EX-LIBRARY with typical stickers and markings; Protective mylar cover attached by yellowing tape; Clean body of text; Shows minimal shelfwear; Corners and ends of spine very lightly bumped; Pages bright and tight. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com Review
Sloan Fairchild has made a rousing success of her elegant San Francisco bed-and-breakfast inn, but her love life has suffered--until her best friend's fiance comes to stay for a month. Should Sloan betray her friend, or deny her heart? A deeply romantic story of a woman forced to examine her conscience and make a hard decision.
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Product Description
After allowing her best friend's fiance to stay at her inn to finish the final chapter of his book, Sloan Fairchild faces a painful choice between her loyalty to a friend and her growing love for the dashing Carter Madison. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
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Customer Reviews
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Not Worth It!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-09-07
This is actually the first book I've thrown away. The characters were shallow, the plot was silly, just no substance. They were ready to jump each other right when they met! I just didn't get it, thought it was really a soft porn story, way too much sex!
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Breakfast in Bed
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-03-02
37 out of 37 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sloan Fairchild has spent her entire life feeling worthless. It happens with her family and anyone else she loves. She decided to put herself into her B&B. She was content until Carter Madison came into her life. He was trying to finish his novel, and needed some peace and quiet to complete it. They both felt the attraction, but he was her friend Alicia's fiancé. As they both try to fight their feelings, they fight a losing battle.
This is one of the first Sandra Brown books I read, and find myself pulling it out to reread it again and again. It is a classic story.
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Early Sandra Brown
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-04-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sloan Fairchild has spent her life feeling second-rate. Her parents are so involved in each other and their careers as Egyptologists that they barely acknowledge Sloan's existence expect as a glorified assistant. Her fiancé made no secret of the fact that he found her staid and boring, and left her behind without a glance when he found someone better. Alicia is a good friend to her, but Sloan has always felt she paled into insignificance compared to the beautiful and vivacious woman. Recently, Sloan has made changes to her boring life, chucking her job to turn the San Francisco Victorian she inherited into a B&B. It's hard work and Sloan is barely eking by, but she's enjoying her new life nonetheless.
Even more dramatic changes are in store for Sloan when she agrees to take in Alicia's fiancé for a month while he finishes work on his latest novel. Carter Madison was best friends with Alicia's late husband, and he has decided to take responsibility for Alicia and her two young sons. He is thrown into turmoil upon his first meeting with Sloan, and feels a spark he's never felt with any woman, including Alicia--and it's a feeling Sloan reluctantly shares. While they cannot deny their attraction for each other, they both know that their relationship has no future. Carter has made a commitment to Alicia and the boys and can't destroy their lives in order to be with Sloan.
I had a number of problems with this story, including the following:
--There was a lot of cheating and betrayal of trust going on here.
--That said, Carter's act of self-sacrifice just seemed a bit much for me. I'm just not sure why Carter felt the need to step into his dead friend's shoes. Alicia was not hurting financially, so the whole setup seemed overly contrived to me. (But, once everyone made that commitment, they should have stuck to it.)
--I'm not sure I even liked any of the main characters. Sloan's constant self-effacement was annoying, Carter's moods were offputting, and Alicia was flighty and inconstant.
BREAKFAST IN BED was initially published in 1983 and, while it isn't an utterly terrible book, it hasn't held up well under the test of time. Its biggest sin is that it is ultimately boring. There are so many better books out there--including some by this author--that I'm not sure that it's worth the investment of readers' time and money except for fans of Sandra Brown interested in getting a taste of her early work.
(Note: Alicia's story can be found in SEND NO FLOWERS.)
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Her bestfriends fiance is hot and living her under roof.
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-08-26
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Breakfast in Bed is a quick afternoon read with some fun twist. This is a story about Sloan Fairchild an owner of a new B&B and Carter Madison a famous author who is spending a month in her B&B. The twist is the Carter and Sloan are attracted to each other but Carter is engaged to her Sloan's best friend. The heart of the book is that they both want to do the honorable thing. This wasn't my favorite book but the author did a great job with the sweet story. I would also suggest books by Kate Angell, Deirdre Martin and Kimberly Raye.
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Lame, Lame, Lame!
Rating (2)
Date: 2005-08-25
2 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I really was not impressed by this one. I am a huge Brown fan, but what was she thinking?
The main heroine was boring and a little wierd if you ask me. The whole story was really annoying to me.
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