Somehow, Kate manages to get Toby Mancini into a pirate s outfit and his personality undergoes a dramatic change. He seems to turn into a much more dangerous guy than she had believed he could be. Then she gets him out of that outfit again . . . Both stories work with romantic comedy. And both have similar flaws and virtues.
Romantic comedy is tough.
This Duets weren t as funny as romantic comedy should be, but it had some good points, too. Sometimes the plot and characters got a little too frenetic. For The Wild One the heroine, in particular, jumped from stodgy lawyer to klutzy bubblehead to private eye and sometimes back again within a page or two. The Pirate had some similar problems with all the characters. OK, Mom was having a mid-life crisis, so maybe she was allowed a few more personality changes.