Charlie All Night was the first Crusie book I ever read, and while What the Lady Wants later replaced it as my favorite of her series titles, this one is still right up there. Allie McGuffey’s life revolved around her job as the producer of the prime time radio show at an Ohio station. Then…
It’s official! Dead Sexy is Dead Funny. Initially I was a little leery of this Brit Chick Lit novel, which sat in my TBR pile for a while giving me the evil eye and throwing off postmodern feminist vibes. I was pleasantly surprised by how laugh-out-loud funny it is, and how intelligently and sensitively it…
Jennifer Crusie’s newest, Bet Me, is straight-up 100-proof women’s fantasy. I think you’re gonna love this one. Plump, plain, fashion-impaired Minerva Dobbs suffers one of the harshest fates of a single girl’s life: she gets dumped by her boyfriend three weeks before her beautiful sister Diana’s wedding. She was really counting on David to be…
Julie Kenner’s The Spy Who Loves Me features Phineas (“Finn”) Teague, a hero who’s dissatisfied with his law career and likes to slip into his alternate, pretend persona of Python, secret agent extraordinaire. When he begins following an attractive woman who he has cast as a villainess, his pretend life and real life collide. The…
A girl in gorilla suit strikes up a conversation with a cute country singer after he’s been dumped by his girlfriend, only to end up on the run with he and his mother after bullets whiz by her head outside the Heart O’Reno Casino. Dream On gets off to a rip-roaring start and never loses…
Wealthy, successful, 30-something John Sebastian appears to have it all – millions of dollars in the bank, a highly successful business, and a young girlfriend whom he can afford to set up in a townhouse. He even gives generously to charities, albeit for tax write-off purposes. So why does his life feel so empty? It…
If I admitted it on a message board, I can admit it in a review: I was intrigued by this book because I could just tell that the heroine and I had something in common. But while I was drawn in by the heroine’s lack of cleavage, the humor is what kept me turning pages….
Like most super-successful women’s fiction and romance authors, Susan Elizabeth Phillips elicits strong opinions from readers who either love or hate her distinctive style. Ain’t She Sweet won’t change anyone’s mind. On the one hand, it will probably please most fans because the author mines previously successful character types and plot themes and employs to…
I can’t remember when I have had such fun reading a book. The Ideal Bride is light, sweet, funny, and charming as can be. It may be late in the year, but I’ve found the best Regency romance for 2003. Gabriel Carr is a wealthy London businessman. A methodical man, he spent several years having…
There are several ingredients in How to Treat a Lady that should have made it harder for me to enjoy this book than I did. Dialogue that sounded a bit anachronistic to my ear, and that creaky old plot device, amnesia, should have turned me off. But I discovered that in the right author’s hands,…
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