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AAR Home Masthead Reviews Page Andrea Pool 
Senior Reviewer
About Me
I’m the big reader in my family. I’ve read constantly ever since I can remember – Mom says I taught myself how and loves to tease me about walking around the mall and reading a book.
I can always be found with at least one book in my purse, several strewn about my car, and about a million on my nightstand and bookshelf at home. My favorite authors are Judith McNaught, Diana Gabaldon, Nora Roberts, Suzanne Brockmann, Julie Garwood and Julia Quinn. I started reading romance with the young adult Sweet Dreams line (my favorites are Secret Identity, Little Sister, Love Times Two, and several I can’t remember) and the Sunfire books (my favorites are Victoria, Roxanne, Danielle, Kathleen and Jessica). My first adult romance was Julie Garwood’s The Gift.
I live in Texas, land of heat. I’m married with no kids and a spoiled beagle named Belle (from my favorite Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast). My real job is in communications at a school of public health. Besides reading, dancing is my other passion. Jazz and ballet are my favorite classes, and I started taking them again about three years ago. Since then I’ve found I like hip hop as well. :) Other hobbies include scrapbooking (when I find the time), running, traveling and watching Alias.
Personal Reading Tastes
What I’m a sucker for in a book:
Military men, spies, detectives, romantic suspense, strong heroines, scientist heroes and heroines, external conflicts that bring the main couple closer together, and humor.
What I don’t particularly care for in a book:
Stilted dialogue, repetition of a word too many times, and carrying a motif too far in the narrative.
What drives me absolutely nuts in a book:
Secret babies, amnesia, will stipulation marriages, TSTL/feisty heroines, big secrets that aren’t, Big Misunderstandings that could be resolved with a two-minute conversation, heroines who are already pregnant when they meet the hero, and suspense that isn’t suspenseful.