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Summary: A Look Back at Early Crusie
Review: This is a book written by Jennifer Crusie before her blockbuster best-sellers. It's shorter than her recent books (written to that short, digestable romance format), so the characters aren't as well developed as you'll find in "Tell Me Lies", "Crazy for You", "Welcome to Tempation", "Fast Women". But Crusie is such a solid writer (and was back then, too) she rises above the limiting format and delivers a solid, fast-paced, enjoyable tale. She has a gift for humor and believable, but witty, dialog. You do come to care for the characters. I'd recommend this book!
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Summary: Thank heavens for reissues!
Review: This book first came out in 1994 and despite beating a path to bookstore doors for the release of Ms. Crusie's last 4 books...I was caught unaware by this one. But, I snagged it off a shelf, brought it home and couldn't stop reading once I had started it. Phone calls went unanswered, dog went unfed and frankly, I'm not sure if I remembered to feed myself! A more unlikely couple would be hard to find then Lucy, a wacky, recently divorced teacher looking for some changes in her life, and Zack...a cop that feels his age weighing heavily on his tall muscular body, even though he's only 36. The verbal exchanges they put each other through are some of the funniest I've read and that includes Jennifer Crusie's more recent offerings. This book is a delightful experience of laugh-out-loud, foot stomping, eye watering exercises. Along with the hysterically zany moments, we're awarded some of the most enduring, red-hot steamy romantic displays between Lucy and Zack that rivial anything I've read. This book is a whoop and a keeper!
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Summary: Thank you Jennifer!
Review: This was the first book by Jennifer Crusie that i have read and i just loved it. i had got hold of this book on a very 'bad day'. I was very depressed. it was not easy to make me laugh but this book did it. i laughed out loud... and it felt very good! As from now Crusie is my favorite romance writer. Thank you jennifer for writing this book!
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Summary: Love, tenderness and loads of laughter!
Review: After catching her perfect husband with a blonde, school teacher Lucy gets a quickie divorce and just wants to put the whole mess behind her. She intends to become a fully independent woman whose biggest responsibility will be keeping her menagerie of mutts happy. She doesn't want or need another man in her life but when she spots dangerously handsome Zack in a café she figures a fling might not be a bad idea. But when he accosts her in the parking lot all of her sexy thoughts fly out the window and she beats the crap out of him with her textbook! She's thrilled with herself until she discovers he's an undercover cop who was only trying to save her life. When further attempts are made on her life he moves in to protect her and ends up falling in love with her dogs and, although it scares the
heck out of him, her.
This is one of my favorite Crusie books. The heroine is easy to identify with as she has a perpetual bad hair day throughout most of the book. The hero looks tough, and tries to act tough but is a big marshmallow on the inside, especially when dealing with Lucy and her dogs. When he brings her a special gift I was a goner - and so was she. There's a lot of humor, love and touching moments in this great book. I had a blast reading it.
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Summary: 1995 Rita Winner for Short Contemporary Romance
Review: GETTING RID OF BRADLEY was awarded the 1995 Rita for Best Short Contemporary Romance by the Romance Writers of America
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Summary: Knock-out book!
Review: This book is just what I would want. Handsome cop protecting me against the bad guys and then falling in love with the cop. Getting Rid of Bradley is a romance novel through and through. Cute, absolutely hilarious! and makes you blush. This is a fast read and it makes you want more and more.
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Summary: Really... get rid of Bradley...
Review: The ONLY reason I am giving this book a MARGINAL 2 stars is because it is entertaining in how bad it is. The plot is contrived, the characters are one sided and annoying and the writing is wretched. And no... it's not even funny. I didn't even crack a grin. But probably the biggest annoyance with the book is how annoying the characters itself are. Lucy tries so desperately to assert her "independence" it's irritating... and the bad boy sexy mytery cop? The whole mid-life crisis thing made him not so mysterious... and defiantly not sexy... Honestly there were times when I had to stop reading in the middle of a chapter and just walk away because it just raditated with... stupidity. If you want to read about a smart, funny airhead, with not one but TWO sexy men than please check out Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series. Trust me, you're wasting your time by reading the title.
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Summary: Dead Dog!
Review: What a fun book! I had a great time reading this, and chuckled my way quite a few parts of the book. The characters in Ms. Crusie's books are so likeable and enjoyable that I always have fun reading her books and count myself among one her new fans. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Funny bone required
Review: Despite having seen Jennifer Crusie come up time and again on reviewer's favorite lists, I didn't buy them right away. I think that's because humor is a relative thing, but many times I have read a book that other people have found funny, but I was thinking "Where's the humor?" I finally gave it a plunge on "Getting Rid of Bradley" and much to my surprise, this book was really FUNNY! This is a book full of zany people doing zany things, and everywhere they turn, something zany happens to them. They are funny, but they are likable too. It's hard not to feel sorry for our heroine - while some of us could have an unlucky day, there's nothing like having an unlucky LIFE to make you feel really, really, really down in the dumps! I loved the people, I loved the dialogue, I loved the hero/heroine, I just thought they were sweet.
The book starts off with our heroine deciding that she's finally finished letting everyone else tell her what to do, and now that her divorce is final, she'll tell her busy body sister that she's now in charge of her own destiny. Right away we are getting a bad feeling, and yes, as they say in Murphy-land, everything that could go wrong promtly goes wrong. What we end up with is an hilarious tale of cops and robbers, and what the reader gets out of this is three hours of laughs, plus a really happy ending (did you ever see a guy fall in love with a woman with green hair? Not grass green, but slime green? When that happens, you know it's for keeps.)
It's funny, but the style of this book reminds me a bit of Rex Stout's Archie Goodwin. (This is an older book, for those who don't know him). But unlike Rex Stout, the plot of the murder mystery is really hardly anything to write home about. Especially the Bradly part - I kept waiting for some tie-in as why they are both Bradley - but it never happened. It seems that it was just a coincidence - that's just a little bit too coincidental, even for a book that's not based in too strongly in reality.
This book is definitely recommended to anyone who like to laugh.
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Summary: Great romantic humor
Review: I will admit to being a bit overwhelmed in the beginning since it jumped in with all these characters and all this action, but it did not take me long to settle down comfortably in the plot. I adored how Crusie allows the reader a certain amount of imagination when it comes to the lustier moments. The characters had a wonderful blend of humor, intelligence, and chemistry. Also, the plot was interesting and had a few twists and turns, but nothing that seemed outlandishly implausible.
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