4.5 stars Alice “Allie” McGuffey is the best radio producer WBBB in Tuttle, Ohio has ever had and it’s pretty much the unspoken truth that she’s the reason the radio station runs as well as it does. She loves her job and thrives on it, so when the radio station’s current Drivetime star, Mark King, who up until two months ago was her lover, tells her that she’s been moved to a different time slot, and from now on, he’ll be using Lisa, her former […]
Faking It
Faking It is a rather carefully contrived series of coincidences, but then, most romances are. I like Jennifer Crusie’s novels because the heroines are rarely 20 year old waifs. Matilda Goodnight is definitely not a 20 year old waif. Neither is she cosmetic-ad gorgeous. She’s struggling to hold together a family and a failed art gallery when a problem from her past announces itself, propelling her from mural painting to art theft in a single evening. And Davy Dempsey, the brother of Sophie Dempsey (Welcome […]
A Jennifer Crusie Cruise
I went on a Jennifer Crusie binge a few weekends ago. I wanted it to be a Gilmore Girls binge, but instead, my kid wanted to have a Friends binge, and since I already know that Ross is going to pick Rachel over the bald girl who is married to Ben Stiller in real life, I needed something I could read even though the tv was on. Hence, Jennifer Cruise. Plus, she was a free download from the library. And it was cold out. So […]
Cinderella should have skipped this ball…
Normally, I like Jennifer Crusie. She can be counted on for some mad-cap adventures, a hot guy or two, and a girl who is kind of a mess but fiercely independent. She’s chick lit, but she’s usually pretty good chick lit. Perfect for an audio book. But The Cinderella Deal left me feeling pretty disenchanted. Daisy Flattery is a free spirited unemployed artist, struggling to make ends meet and struggling to make her paintings speak. Her apartment is a riot of color, and she has […]