I got this blurb from Nicole’s blog, who in turn got it from Maya Bank’s website.
Seducing Simon
One fateful night, Toni Langston seduces her best friend, the guy she’s been in love with forever. Two problems—he doesn’t remember a thing that happened and now she’s pregnant.
Toni Langston has been in love with Simon, her best friend, for years. The night Simon breaks up with his long time girlfriend, he and Toni make love. Toni is devastated and humiliated when, in the heat of the moment, he calls her by his girlfriend’s name. The next morning, Simon remembers nothing of the previous night and Toni is only too relieved not to remind him.
Two months later, she discovers she’s pregnant. She wants Simon to love her, apart from any obligation he might feel because of the baby. So she embarks on a quest to seduce her best friend, to make him see her as more than a little sister, to make him love her as much as she loves him. It works. Maybe too well. Now when things are perfect, she faces telling him of the secret she’s kept.
This book sounds spookily like Shiloh Walker’s, Her Best Friend’s Lover.
I know that millions of books out there have the same themes, and plot devices, but these two books, sound too close for comfort.
I’m certain that Miss Bank’s book has probably been executed differently to Shiloh Walker’s, but having read SW’s book, I can’t help but think that it’s almost the exact same storyline. The events even seem to happen in the same order.
I’d like to hear from anybody who’s read both books, so that they can give me their take on the main differences.
By the way, this is not a post about plagiarism, so there’s no point in knickers getting all twisted up over it.
Maili
May 23
10:35 am
FWIW, it’s a very popular storyline – especially when the friends-turn-lovers theme is used – for most of Harlequin’s lines, ranging from Temptation to Presents.
The story order is same, too [the hero gets drunk, sleeps with his best friend/heroine, doesn’t recall the next day, she gets pregnant, he thinks the mite she carries is the other man’s, battles with his emotions, sometimes offers to marry her, and la la la].
I remember reading this type in a Janet Dailey book over twenty years ago [This Calder Sky?].
I have both stories, so I’ll read them and see how it goes, but I suspect that they are drastically different. Will see. 🙂
Angela James
May 23
11:24 am
I’ve read Shi’s book and love, love, loved it (I was pregnant when I read it and I think it struck a chord, because of how her pregnancy plays out). Obviously I have access to the other *grin* so I’ll have to read it and get back to you!
Nicole
May 23
12:40 pm
I’d heard of Shiloh’s story but never thought to read it after strongly disliking the one book of hers I read.
And as Maili mentioned, it’s a common storyline with the events happening in that order.
Anne
May 23
10:52 pm
I read Shiloh’s and it’s interesting that that someone else now has the same storyline. Very interesting. : )
Stacy~
May 24
1:25 am
I read Shiloh’s book, and when I read the the blurb for Seducting Simon, I did get bent out of shape cuz I loved Shi’s book. But a good point was brought up – it’s a very common storyline – so I let go of my rant. I haven’t read SS, so I won’t comment further, but I’m curious to know what others think of it who’ve read both.
Dawn
May 24
9:13 am
I read Shiloh’s story and thoroughly enjoyed. Same as everyone said, am curious about how the other story comes across.