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Summary: fast women
Review: Well here we are once again , disapointed. so far none have compared to her' Tell me lies'....Im sorry, but I just feel she's trying way to hard.and it just doesn't work. I didn't feel good about this one.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Up until this book, I was a huge Crusie fan. I've bought & read all of her books & not regretted it...until now. I returned this one to the store when the heroine had sex with the hero's cousin within the first 75 pages of the book. Call me a prude, but that was a bit much for me. After this, I couldn't really respect Nell (the heroine) again, and I sure couldn't take to the hero, since he was so cavalier about the whole thing (let's not even talk about the cousin! He was in a relationship at the time.). Truthfully, this book has now turned me off of Ms. Crusie forever. I'll borrow her books if they're in the library, but I'm sure not spending anymore money on them.
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Summary: The thrill is gone.
Review: Usually, I'm a big, big fan of Crusie's work but the partner-switching element in "Fast Women" first and foremost put me off this story. Secondly, Nell's conversation with her ex-husband in the diner, with interjections from her friends, also stood out as distasteful. For me, Fast Women lacks likeable characters. I found heroine Nell Dysart's decisions to be improbable and unrealistic. She and Gabe constantly fought and their relationship came across as requisite and trite.
A lot of readers enjoy the comic dialogue in Jennifer Crusie's novels. The comedy is here in this novel, but the action just plays too fast and loose with too many characters for my taste. You may not find it so.
I wanted to like "Fast Women" and have thoroughly enjoyed reading most of Jennifer Crusie's back titles, but this time around I thought the chemistry between the two main characters was noticeably forced and not enjoyable. I highly recommend Crusie's earlier titles, especially "The Cinderella Deal" and "Tell Me Lies" as fresh, funny, and delightful.
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Summary: romance meets dick tracy
Review: this novel was a great romance novel but a not-so-great mystery. fairly predictable.
i enjoyed the metamorphasis of the heroine.
the allusions to lesbianism i could have done without.
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Summary: MOVE OVER YaYa's
Review: This was my first Crusie book and it definitely won't be my last. I plan to take my next one with me on a cross country air trip. I know that if the flight is bumpy, I probably won't even notice. Crusie has a great style, fun characters with eccentricities real enough that I squirmed occasionally, and a plot quirky enough to make anyone forget they are flying at 30,000 feet in little more than a giant tin can. Consider me a new fan!
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Summary: Good read
Review: This book kept me entertained through a 10-hour transatlantic flight. I had never read any of Ms. Cruises work until now, but I will in the future.
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Summary: Waste of my time and money
Review: How dissapointing after reading reviews raving about what a great author Jennifer Crusie is. This book was so tough to get into, it was a struggle to make it through to the end. With each chapter, I'd hoped it would get better, but to no avail. The characters are dull, and the hero and heroine have no chemistry. A real dissapointment for romance lovers. Do yourself a favor and stick with Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
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Summary: Not to be confused with Fasting Women
Review: Jennifer Crusie again affirms life through food, sex, humor, and a heck of a good story in Fast Women. Nell Dysart, obviously not at the highest point in her life, comes to work at Gabe McKenna's detective agency, and finds herself at the nexus of a twenty-year-old mystery involving her ex-husband's family. It's a well-executed and unpredictable plotline, but as with other Crusie novels, the plot is not the point. The way it is written is what makes this book stand out above others in both the romance and suspense genres. And the laugh-per-page ratio is very high.But what do you expect from a woman who claims to get her ideas from Sears? Who says researching her sex scenes is a hassle because she always has to keep one hand free to take notes? Crusie (who is working on a PhD in literature) is herself at least as fascinating as her characters, to whom she pays the utmost attention as they grieve, recover, and find their strengths as women and lovers. I highly recommend Fast Women for a wonderful escapist read, with one caveat: don't read while you're waiting at an airport. You'll miss your flight announcement.
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Summary: Another Great Crusie Book
Review: I've enjoyed every Jennifer Crusie book I've ever read, and this one is no exception. The characters act like real people, and the story just zips along. Unlike some romance books, there's not a lot of time wasted on the characters getting mixed signals and going around and around trying to untangle all sorts of misunderstandings. In this book, they make mistakes and then they un-make them, without a lot of ... beating and blaming. The female characters are generally strong and know what they're doing, and even though sometimes they need a little bailing out, that doesn't make them weak--it just makes them human. The male characters are also interesting; they hold their own in this "woman's book". I can't wait for the next Crusie book. She's the best.
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Summary: coulda woulda
Review: This is my first Jennifer Cruisie book and while it gave me reason to look into here earlier writings, I can't really recommend this one. It's very complex at the beginning and really makes the reader work hard to keep the characters straight. While I liked the idea of strong women making their own paths, it was pretty obvious. I also agree with an earlier reviewer that the women just weren't that likeable! However, Cruisie's writing in itself is sharp and funny, which is why I'll look for an earler book and hope the plot of the next one is more focused and appealing.
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