Warning: this is a terribly disjointed review about a terrible book. It had potential, but it was all shot to hell. My review is barely coherent and it’s taken me over a week to write it because I can’t articulate properly what sucked so bad about this one. My review is full of questions. Questions I cannot make sense of. God, I hated this book. Jessica is helping launch a new makeup line and needs someone to pose as her boyfriend for a week of […]
Ignore the Title, Enjoy the Contemporary Romance
Sex, Straight Up A couple of weeks ago, I snapped this up during the Harlequin sale on Amazon. Ignore the title, it’s a sweet romance that masquerades as something spicy when it’s really just shorthand for a romance that starts with physical intimacy and works backward to an emotional connection. From Amazon: Meeting a handsome loner on a deserted beach in the Hamptons was like being hit by lightning. One steamy weekend in bed with Daniel O’Sullivan and Catherine Montefiore was marvelously woozy from a […]
Is Good a Euphemism for Stupid?
As you can see I picked up just about any book that someone said was like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train this summer…and I’ve been burned people, burned I say! But YOU may love it because it looks like my opinion is not the popular sentiment. Mia Dennett is a 25 year old art teacher and daughter of a judge. One evening, after her boyfriend stands her up she makes the decision to go home with a man named Colin whom she meets […]