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	• Paradise Judith McNaught Atria, 1991 - 489 pages average customer review:based on 241 reviews
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McNaught's Best

Judith McNaught is famous for creating or perfecting many of the romance genre's cliched plot devices and I mean that as a compliment. If the cliches didn't work so well, others wouldn't have copied them and run them into the ground like they did.

This book is the perfect example of how those cliches (which weren't cliches when she wrote this) can work beautifully. The standard McNaught "Big Misunderstanding" is used to great effect. In many romance novels, the "Big Misunderstandings" are just the result of the characters being complete idiots. In "Paradise," you can honestly see how they could be torn apart and kept apart for years.

McNaught has two fully realized protagonists that are great fun to read about. The secondary characters are fully fleshed out as well. As I neared the end, I started to get depressed that there wasn't more (and this is a 700+ page paperback book).

This book is so engrossing that even though I read it the first time when I was sixteen, I bought it again recently and read it cover to cover, ignoring everything else that needed to get done because I just couldn't put it down. And seeing as how I already knew the entire story, that's really saying something.

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A wonderful story

Judith McNaught is a great writer. Paradise contains so much excitment page to page you just can't stop. There is actually a plot with folds of development instead of a mere love story. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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paradise

Judith has managed to cater for the wider audience by switching from traditional to modern theme but it was done intricately and I was hooked to the book until the end.

Wonderful Story

I continue to think about it after reading other books. It was very hard to put down. I wanted to read the entire book in one sitting. Meredith comes from wealth. Her family owns a Chicago department store. She wants to become President of the family business. Matt comes from a steel mill working class family. He makes his fortune buying, remaking and selling companies. He's just about perfect. She has a few flaws. I am eager to read more of this author. I understand from other reviewers that Perfect and Every Breath You Take are sequels to Paradise, with Meredith and Matt making cameo appearances. Sexual content: moderate.

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Loved the Second Chance ....

This is the fourth Judith McNaught book I've read and it is one of my favorites. I loved Matt ... and while I agree that Meredith was spinless at times, I think McNaught really understands the human character and insecurities that come out during conflict. Not everyone reacts perfectly in every situation. Her character development helps the reader relate to each character individually. This book is a great read. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

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