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Summary: Charming!
Review: I like Jennifer Cruisie books, which are rather more intelligent romantic fiction than most of the alternatives available right now. This book is a charming example of what she can do best, which is create believable characters while avoiding stereotype and putting them in believable and authentic situations that somehow retain a sense of humor and sense of the absurd.It is an accomplishment most modern romantic fiction writers somehow avoid, to their eternal detriment. In this particular missive, Cruisie chronicles a take on the time-honored mistaken-identity plot, in which our hapless heroine, recently divorced and swearing off all but the most irrelevantly physical of relationships, gets intertwined with the the town's police officer who's investigating her former husband on charges of embezzlement. Of course, the two have a disproportionate attraction to each other, which interferes with the task at hand. Of course, there are myriad opportunities for confusion and conflict. Of course, this being a Cruisie novel, there is a dog (or, in this case, three dogs, including Heisenburg, the moppish dog who has coined his own joke). This is a great example of escapist modern literature. While Cruisie might not be Shakespeare or Homer, she aims for another chord altogether... it's a worthwhile, fun, intelligently wrought chord. Try it!
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Summary: Cute, sweet and satisfying!
Review: This book was a fabulous read. A funny, down-to-earth, modern-day romance,"Getting Rid Of Bradley" is a book I'd recommend to any romance-lover. Jennifer Crusie has a wonderful way of telling stories. Her writing is fabulously funny, direct and just screams with realistic dialog. There was never a moment where scenes became pointless, long-winded or boring, as I've found other romances to be. This is a great book to indulge yourself with. Happy reading!
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Summary: Not the most sophisticated writing
Review: I love Jennifer Crusies books, and while this title wasn't a complete waste of my time, it wasn't a keeper either. This story was too simplistic and lacked the marks of a seasoned author. I looked at the copyright and was surprised to see it was recent as I would have thought this was a first effort.
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Summary: Entertaining...
Review: This isn't the best book I've read in the last year, or even in the last month, but it was worth reading. Lucy and Zack were good together. I also liked Lucy's sister. The story line was a little lame, but in no way was the way in which Lucy met Zack silly. It was very plausible for her to have met the man of her dreams on the very day she felt her life was falling apart.
However, I will say that the focus on Lucy's badly dyed hair was stupid.
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Summary: funny, if you believe in Santa Clause
Review: There was something missing in this book and I believe it was the lack reality. I thought it was very funny but it was too unrealistic. I mean come on- a woman meets the man of her dreams the same day she is going to court to get a divorce- which yes that by itself could happen- but then the dream man happens to be severly commitment-phobic (he equates commitment to marriage and marriage to death) but after living with her for a few days he falls in love and asks her to marry him and obssesses over the idea of marrying her (oh yeah and it just so happens that he moves into her house the day after they meet because he is protecting her from a psycho ex-husband). It was cute and all but as I was reading it just got more and more unbelievable. When I'm reading a book I like to believe that the story could potentially happen in real life. This story is too far fetched. The whole book (newly divorced girl meets commitment phobic boy, move in together, fall in love, and decide to get married) happens in less than two weeks! It is funny though with all the dogs and the dialouge. so it's an easy funny read but it doesn't leave a warm fuzzy feeling behind because it's based in la-la land.
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Summary: Jennifer Crusie does it again
Review: I absolutely love Jennifer Crusie's books and her well developed characters. But I have to say, out of all her books, this was my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, it was a good book but it just didn't have the umph her other novels have.
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Summary: A fun, fast read
Review: This is a fun, fast little mystery. Not much gore and a pretty entertaining story. I would have given it a 5, but I got REAL tired of the learing and longing for sex between the 2 main characters; way too much of that.
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Summary: Ugh
Review: I read four chapters and put the book up for sale without finishing it. Why do some of these romance writers think it endears us to their heroes and heroines for them to be dumber than dirt? And why do they think it's funny to repeat the same thing over and over and over? Ugh. I got rid of Bradley...and Cruisie as an author I'll pick up and read.
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Summary: Modern Entry in Fantasy Romance
Review: With a heavy helping of humor, Jennifer Crusie treats the reader to a fun and witty escapist romance. No, it's probably never going to happen this way, but it's fun, it's charming, and the dogs will warm your hearts too. The Lucy character manages to be smart, cute, sassy and independent, which is a big improvement over some of the lame ladies in romantic fiction. Zach, as the macho policeman, is a bit much but able to be taught. Crusie also allows the reader a certain amount of imagination when it comes to the lustier moments. This book might just be the answer for a cold winter evening.
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Summary: Getting rid of this book
Review: I had the impression that "Getting Rid of Bradley" was another entry in the "chick-lit" genre. It wasn't. This book reads like a Harlequin romance and was a mind-numbingly boring exercise in banality. The "heroine" was an airhead, and the "hero" was a macho-know-it-all. BORING AND POINTLESS!
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