Kissing Frogs

by Laura Marie Altom

Book Overview

Once upon a time, a beautiful maiden went looking for her very own species of frog. Instead she found her Prince Charming! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0505525682
• ISBN13: 9780505525680
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Love Spell
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

An amusing twist to "the frog prince" fairy tale

Lucy Gordon, a biologist in the not so far future, wanted to make a name for herself in a time when scientists were more famous than actors. She's tried to make her father proud by following in his footsteps, but instead makes a fool of herself by claiming a new species of frog that her father had found years earlier. So a few years pass, and she's now practically engaged to a Duke and on her way to a happy, contented life. In enters the hero.... Driving down the road she swerves to avoid running over an odd looking frog. Noticing a new species, she happily kisses it, and ends up under a very large, and very naked man. I was so into this story. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. The hero stays completely naked for most of the book, and it doesn't seem strange. I have to give it to the author for coming up with such a strang and original twist to the tale. Ten stars. Pick this book up PRONTO. You won't be disappointed.

delightfully original slant on a princely tale

In the not too distant future, scientist are the superstars not movie stars or athletes. Lucy Gordon's father is one of the best of the best. Being a good daughter, she aspires to be like daddy dearest. She is working with frogs as a barometer for the environment - if the frogs skin is nice and green everything is okey dokey; if the frogs or a sickly shades then bumpy roads are ahead. To this aim, Lucy wants to breed a new strain of frog. But it backfires and she is set down, and made to teach science in a Brit boarding school. This has not stopped her from trying to find the trick to get back in the good graces of the Scientific Community and daddy's eyes. Her efforts results in a very unique species of from - or so she thinks. The Frog she had transforms into 200 pounds of pure hunk, when Lucy excitedly kisses it. Dazzling one might say, but Lucy wants her frog not a prince! 1000-year-old Prince Wolfe Graye refused to marry a Sorcerer's daughter, and for his temerity he is put under the old standard spell of being turned into a toadie hop hop. The Welsh warrior is delighted someone finally released him from his amphibian form, so he is not happy Lucy wants Kermit for company more than him. He must charm the lucky lass into loved him human self or be banished back to a diet of flies and living on lily pads. Chugerumph! Medieval warrior finds himself out of league in this modern world, so he must upgrade Male 5.0 for Male XP quickly to woo his lady. He has only until the next full moon to break the spell or its back to the Muppets for life. Lucy had to choose between the Prince trying to be charming and winning daddy's approval. Frankly, not much choice, in my opinion, but in Laura Marie Altom's charming spin on the Faerytale, you're given a great time and some charming fun...princely style.

I love the irony of this story!

Fractured Fairytales, remember those? In KISSING FROGS Ms. Altom takes my all time favorite fairytale, The Frog Prince and gives it a delightfully contemporary twist. I love the irony of this story. Biologist Lucy Gordon would rather have the new species of frog than the thousand year old Prince. Okay so he doesn't look that old and in fact looks pretty good naked... Yes, Wolfe is arrogant, but so what? It's a romance, you know he's going to redeem himself in the end. And he does. The outragous set up is what makes it so fun and a smile a minute book.

Reader from Midwest

Ms. Altom has written a delightfully, funny book based on a fairy tale. This fairy tale has a twist with a wonderfully sexy hero who many women would like to find by their pond.

fine Fractured Fairy Tales like rendition of The Frog Prince

Scientists realize that frogs are the perfect barometer of the health of the environment for if the species has hearty skin, the quality of the surroundings is safe; on the other hand sickly frogs mean a deadly environs. Cotswold boarding school teacher Lucy Gordon knows she has come along way from her hometown of Springdale, Alabama to instruct the aristocracy in the equivalent of fifth grade biology. However, what she really wants is to find her own special frog species to make her father proud of her achievement.Lucy swerves her car to avoid a "bouncing green blob", but her tire blows. The green blob turns out to be a unique species of frog. Euphoric, she kisses her amphibian, only to find herself pinned under a muscular naked hunk. Lucy has liberated Welsh Prince Wolfe from a millennium old spell that turned him into a frog. He feels obligated to his rescuer and needs her to survive in this strange world. As they fall in love, Lucy wonders if her dream of universal acknowledgment of frog success is incompatible with her hunk while also wondering if his feelings are love or just gratitude.KISSING FROGS is a delightful amusing modernizing of the classic fairy tale, The Frog Prince. The story line is filled with fun leaps and frolics as author Laura Marie Altom plays this novel to bring joy and laughter to her audience. The prime romance is delectable because the lead couple is a fine duo struggling between his medieval outlook and her ambition and doubts. This reviewer anticipated Rocky and Bullwinkle to show up (they didn't) with this enjoyable version of Fractured Fairy Tales.Harriet Klausner