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Summary: romance, intrigue, intelligence!
Review: Alisa Kwitney's second novel isn't a crafty as The Dominant Blonde. The book starts each chapter with the main character's secret fantasies. Unfortunately, I think it takes away from the potential of what the story could have been. There were just too many of them. Delilah Levine has a husband who shows minimal attention to her and a daughter who seems pretty well adjust considering the fact she has a flaky mother. Delilah becomes attracted to her new plumber, Ford. He spends a lot of time at the crazy Levine house "fixing" the building's pipes. As her life goes out of control, Delilah finds herself spending more time with Ford. Her husband, Jason, is a corporate lawyer at a company that is developing a new aphrodisiac called Biosensual. Delilah finds her husband's notes on the top-secret project on the backside of the soap opera script she just submitted. Well, the producers love her "long" notes and want her to flush out a corporate espionage storyline around the aphrodisiac drug. After she shares with her husbands boss her great story idea, accidents keep happening to her. With Ford's help, Delilah gets to the bottom. However, you will be thrown for a loop as well. Much of the story comes at you from behind a corner. Overall, a good read.
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Summary: The Sophmore Mini-Slump
Review: Alisa Kwitney's second novel isn't a crafty as The Dominant Blonde. The book starts each chapter with the main character's secret fantasies. Unfortunately, I think it takes away from the potential of what the story could have been. There were just too many of them. Delilah Levine has a husband who shows minimal attention to her and a daughter who seems pretty well adjust considering the fact she has a flaky mother. Delilah becomes attracted to her new plumber, Ford. He spends a lot of time at the crazy Levine house "fixing" the building's pipes. As her life goes out of control, Delilah finds herself spending more time with Ford. Her husband, Jason, is a corporate lawyer at a company that is developing a new aphrodisiac called Biosensual. Delilah finds her husband's notes on the top-secret project on the backside of the soap opera script she just submitted. Well, the producers love her "long" notes and want her to flush out a corporate espionage storyline around the aphrodisiac drug. After she shares with her husbands boss her great story idea, accidents keep happening to her. With Ford's help, Delilah gets to the bottom. However, you will be thrown for a loop as well. Much of the story comes at you from behind a corner. Overall, a good read.
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Summary: Brilliant, hip, funny, full of insight
Review: Does She or Doesn't She is brilliant, hip, funny and full of insight about contemporary women's lives. It's a more challenging read than Kwitney's Dominant Blonde, but even richer and more rewarding. (And Dominant Blonde is an amazing book!) Kwitney addresses an entire history of women's fantasies and desires while, tongue-in-cheek, exploring why perhaps we shouldn't attain them . . . but don't expect a morality lesson. Expect a thoroughly ironic romp full of life-threatening plot twists. Expect to laugh--and wince at the heroine's emotional insights. Does She or Doesn't She is a delicious hybrid of genres. You'll find romance, mystery, high adventure and wisdom--all packed into one great book. Does the reader buy it? Or doesn't she? I say if she has a brain, she does!
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Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....
Review: Don't think I'll be finishing this one! I always try to give an author respect for their efforts by finishing a book even if I find it boring, but I simply cannot stand the fantasies at the beginning of each chapter. It throws the reader of course, and is rather irrevelant. Frankly I'd rather not waste the time as I think I figured it out in the first 1/4 of the book. Maybe I'll finish it and see if I'm wrong...
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Summary: SHE DOES IT ALL... AND I WANT MORE!!
Review: I actually picked this book up in our local Target a full week before it was suppose to come out. I read it all in one day. To Del's fun filled fantasies, to her strange behavior of her husband, Del leads a half exciting (soap opera writer) to dull (her marriage) life. Then Ford comes into her life and flips things literally upside down. I would recommend this book for a great read by the pool, bed time and the beach. Great Read!! I'm looking forward to reading some more from this author.
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Summary: Silly summer read
Review: I hate to be harsh, and I have never read anything else by this author, but I would not recommend this book to anyone. Halfway through I was wondering why I was reading it! It was a quick read for summertime around the pool. I didn't care for the plot and the fantasies were kind of confusing.
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Summary: chick lit for the slightly more mature chick
Review: I love chick lit, but there's a limit to how many books I can read about snarky twentysomethings who have entry-level jobs and spend a lot of time drinking with their roommates. Along comes this book, which has the first-person humor and insight we've come to expect from chick lit, along with a heroine who is a wife and mom. It turns out that life doesn't end at twentysomething, or when you get married! Who'd have thunk it? This is a great read from an author with a really fresh voice. It's lucid and literate and funny at the same time, and DOES fit squarely in the romance genre. The new, improved romance genre, that is, where the heroine doesn't necessarily have to be a damsel in distress. It IS a great beach read, or plane read, or just a read any old time and place. I'll definitely be checking out her other books. Bonus for big romance fans: the heroine's fantasies at the beginning of each chapter span the breadth of romance subgenres, so even though you're reading a contemporary, you get hints of paranormal, historical, futuristic, native american, etc. romances, too!
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Summary: romance, intrigue, intelligence!
Review: I read Dominant Blonde and loved it, so was really looking forward to reading Does She or Doesn't She? Frankly, I'm surprised anyone would give it a negative review--it seems to me that here's a fantasy-filled, fun book with characters that have more depth and a lot more hidden in their closets than in Dominant Blonde. I love that Delilah is a real woman, with a daughter, a troubled marriage, and a struggling career rather than a quirky 20something with no life experience. Her daughter is a hoot, her plumber totally yummy, and her husband, well, he has some problems. All in all, I thought this was a more complex read, but still displayed the same humor and insight into people the author showed in her previous work. As for the plot being complicated--anyone who watches Alias should have no problem keeping up!
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: I read this book on a plane. Blew through it with 2 hours left in my trip, and was very disappointed. The fantasies are boring, the plot convoluted, the main character completely unlikeable and the end unsatisfying. Don't waste your time with this one--go for something by Jennifer Crusie, who is quoted on the front cover and whose books are interesting and funny.
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: I read this book on a plane. Blew through it with 2 hours left in my trip, and was very disappointed. The fantasies are boring, the plot convoluted, the main character completely unlikeable and the end unsatisfying. Don't waste your time with this one--go for something by Jennifer Crusie, who is quoted on the front cover and whose books are interesting and funny.
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