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Title: An acquired taste, maybe?
Review: Satire is perhaps the most difficult form of humor to do well, and this one is definitely not to my taste. Perhaps if you are so familiar with the romance genre that you can catch all the "inside" jokes, but...The prim librarian secretly reads romance novels all night, chuckle. The heroine turns down her husband's amorous advances to stay up late with the latest romance tome, har, har. The funniest premise in the book is that a typical American, middle-class family can afford to hire a gardener, a Swiss au pair, AND a woman who comes in to help twice a week!The next time I want to read a mystery-romance-satire, I'll go back to the ever-reliable misadventures of dear, old Hank the Cow Dog and his eternal triangle with Beulah the collie and Missy Coyote.
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