jennifer crusie – Cannonball Read 17

“That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific.”

The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie

July 29, 2024 by Nart 1 Comment

I love reading Crusie novels to remind myself that not every romance novel pre-mid-2000’s is, in retrospect, unreadable trash. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Loretta Chase, but her 90’s books, as lovely as they are, definitely still need to be read with the context that those books are 30 years old now. The real pain from reading this book almost 30 years later was that Daisy was paying, for a bachelor apartment, $300/month in rent. *cries in rent inflation and wage stagnation* Plot: […]

“If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture.”

Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

February 13, 2022 by Nart 2 Comments

A relationship that starts with a bet is a really, really hard trick to pull off. Crusie manages to pull off a non-problematic bet trope, which would have surprised me now, and certainly surprises me with a book published in 2004, or the Decade of Problematic Nonsense With The Added Indignity Of Low Rise Jeans. Plot: Calvin is a small business owner that knows that the only way a small business succeeds is keeping his clients happy. So when one of his client challenges him […]

“Hi, I’m Phin Tucker, and I’m inside you. I know how these things slip your mind.”

Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

February 13, 2022 by Nart 1 Comment

One of my goals for 2022 has been to go back to some of my old romance favourites and see if they’re still good after I’ve read more than a handful other romance novels. Crusie is known for writing punchy dialogue, ridiculous plots, and unabashedly feminist heroines. Ten years after publication (it was published in 2000, which was 10 years ago, fight me) it mostly still holds up. Plot: Sophie Dempsey comes from a family of crooks, but she’s worked hard to be the one […]

The dog on the cover doesn’t really feature much in the story

Trust Me on This by Jennifer Crusie

March 18, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Official book description: Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they have for each other, an attraction they’ll do everything in their power to resist—because Dennie thinks that Alec is running interference for her interview subject, and Alec suspects that Dennie […]

A fun, but forgettable detective romp

What the Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie

June 20, 2019 by Malin 2 Comments

From Goodreads: Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was nothing like the movies. He’d envisioned a world of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, stunning dames. Instead he saw case after case of cheating husbands, suspicious wives and unsuspecting mistresses until she walked through the door. Right down to her stilettos, Mae Sullivan was a knockout with a lethal body–and a lethal family to go with it. There was something not quite on the up-and-up about her, but she came […]

A Great Book for a Bad Week

February 11, 2018 by Kitkat Leave a Comment

Last week was terrible for the PTA I run. The event coordinator for one of our biggest fundraisers of the year quit, and the event coordinator for the annual talent show also quit. By Friday, I was ready to curl up on the coach with a bottle of rosé and a book, so I drove over to the library and hit the romance section hard. My first selection — and the novel I’m reviewing here — was called Agnes and the Hitman. This book was […]

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