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Summary: Fun and engaging!
Review: This great early effort by Jennifer Crusie is a fun, fast read that will leave you grinning. It is the story of Kate Svenson, a serious business woman with a string of failed engagements behind her. With some heavy-handed encouragement from a meddling friend, she goes to a secluded golf resort with a plan to catch a husband. As her frustration with her would-be suitors mounts, she finds herself spending more and more time with the inn's caretaker, Jake Templeton. The two couldn't be more different - Kate is wedded to her high-powered career whereas Jake deliberately left it all behind to enjoy life on the lake. You will laugh out loud as Kate dispatches her various suitors and Jake teaches her the joys of fishing.
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Summary: Funny and Romantic
Review: This is an unashamedly romantic and sexy book that is great summer reading. The plot is somewhat predictable but the characters are very lovable and you just have to read on to make sure that everything turns out just fine all around at the end.
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Summary: Don't walk, RUN and get this book!
Review: This is one of Ms. Crusie's best books ever. She has her standard quirky, fun-loving, bantering characters that Jennifer Crusie is known for, but the heroine and hero are such a HOT couple and fun that I didn't want it to end. Kate and Jake are the total opposite on the surface but once you get below that cover layer you find two people that are such a great compliment of one another that you want to push them faster together. And watching Kate deal with the dates from hell, and Jake give her a hard time over them, you just laugh all the way through the story. I loved this book and it is on my keeper shelf to be read when I need a pick-me-up.
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Summary: Simply the best!
Review: This is really one of those rare books that overwhelm Amazon's rating system - Amazon only allows you up to five stars, but this book is really worth much more, if there was such a thing as ten stars, this book would be it, IMHO.
One of the fun things of finding a brilliant author with a backlist is that you get to read some really good gems, and this sure is one of them. Nothing different or unusual about the plot - uptight, female executive goes husband-hunting and ends up with the exact opposite of what she had planned; but the way this book is done, wow! The characters, the way they interact, the dialogue, even Jennifer Crusie's signature craziness, is all there, this book is simply a masterpiece, if you are looking for a solid few hours of enjoyment, "Manhunting" is sure to deliver!
The characters - it's funny, but I read a *serious* work, and I recognize the characters - vaguely. I read a Jennifer Crusie book, and these people - I know them, they're me, my friends, people that I could relate to. I think it's because they're unpredictable, and don't fit into a mold - that makes them more real, because people seldom do predictable things in real life, and sometimes life is even a little crazy. So I think that Jennifer Crusie *does* real life better than some of the more serious authors that I have read. I suppose it helps that Ms. Crusie really is a brilliant author - it's women like her who spoil me for any other kind of novel.
I had just finished reading "A Summer to Remember" by Mary Balogh, and, transported in another time and another place, these two books have a similar plot (which is not hard to do, considering that this must be "the" most used romance plot ever). And I thought this book was done better. I especially loved that Ms. Prim and Proper managed to liberate herself all by herself, and wasn't waiting for "Mr. Right" to do it for her. I generally like it more when women are able to do things on their own, instead of waiting for *him* to fix them, but rather, they fix themselves. What brought this observation to mind was the "going swimming in the lake" thing, Kate did it on her own, while Lauren had to be forced into it. I usually hate being forced into *anything*, even by Mr. Right, so I liked this particular part of the story a lot better here.
But that just my observation!
Loved "Manhunting". Read it, you'll love it too.
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Summary: Another good Crusie romance book.
Review: This is the fourth book that I've read by Jennifer Crusie, and I've enjoyed them all. "Manhunting" centers on the life of a woman named Kate, who is in her thirties, and desperate to get married. After three failed engagements, she and her friend, Jessie, decide to come up with a "plan." This plan involves the qualifications that any man must possess, in order for Kate to take an interest in him. During August, Kate decides to take a vacation at a resort in Kentucky, where she plans on meeting her future husband. She dates several men, but each date ends in disaster. Depressed that she is not meeting anyone who fits the plan, Kate thinks her chances of getting married are slim to none, until she finally takes a look around her, and sees that, sometimes, the person that best suits you is right under your nose.
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Summary: Another good Crusie romance book.
Review: This is the fourth book that I've read by Jennifer Crusie, and I've enjoyed them all. "Manhunting" centers on the life of a woman named Kate, who is in her thirties, and desperate to get married. After three failed engagements, she and her friend, Jessie, decide to come up with a "plan." This plan involves the qualifications that any man must possess, in order for Kate to take an interest in him. During August, Kate decides to take a vacation at a resort in Kentucky, where she plans on meeting her future husband. She dates several men, but each date ends in disaster. Depressed that she is not meeting anyone who fits the plan, Kate thinks her chances of getting married are slim to none, until she finally takes a look around her, and sees that, sometimes, the person that best suits you is right under your nose.
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Summary: Even the best-laid plans go awry ...
Review: This is the third Jennifer Cruise book I've read so far and it's hilarious! I read it in one day ~~ despite the chaotic holiday weekend! What turns out to be a short-lived summer romance ends up being a hot romance. It was a book I couldn't put down.Kate is a well-off business woman, who after three failed engagements, sets off to a resort in Kentucky in hopes to meet Mr. Right. She set up a list of the qualities that she wanted to see in her Mr. Perfect ~~ only to discover that despite best intentions, it didn't work. Hilarious accidents seem to befall the men who chase after her. As she begins to despair that she'll never find Mr. Perfect, Cupid has other ideas. Jake is the man every woman loves to love ~~ handsome, charming, laid-back and sexy ~~ the only thing stopping him was a lack of ambition. He gave up the rat race five years prior just to enjoy life again. That was before Kate crosses paths with him. And she turns his life upside down, much to his chagrin. Then the rest is history ~~ two people rediscovering what love is. And Cruise writes with gentle humor throughout the book ~~ and saucy sex scenes engraces the book (though not as revealing as some of her later books! Thank heavens!) ~~ it's a sweet book filled with laughter. It's a read that I highly recommend if you're taking the afternoon off to hang out at the pool or at the beach ~~ it's light, saucy and fun. So far, Jennifer Cruise hasn't disappointed me yet.
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Summary: Just "okay"
Review: This was disapppointing. I kind of like the idea of two people who start out as friends and who gradually realize they're sexually attracted to each other, but I've always disliked a storyline where the woman acts desperate. Kate seems to put a lot more into having a relationship with Jake than he does. Besides that, this book was just plain boring. There just wasn't enough happening to keep your interest.
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Summary: Worth hunting down
Review: This was Jennifer Crusie's first published romance and it's so sophisticated and slick and funny, that any would be writer will go green with envy. It has all the trade mark Crusie attributes even at this early stage - great humour, even better energy level - it's a fun, uplifting read. It also has a great heroine in Kate, who is too thin, too successful but also too staid. She makes you aware of the price Kate has paid to get where she's at. And you laugh out loud at the terrible dates she manages to get for herself on her one woman mission to 'manhunt' herself a husband. Jake is an equally great character. He is warm and lazy and funny. He also needs more direction in his life. Both lovers help bring out the best in each other - which is what love's all about after all... There was a quirk or two with the secondary characters (Jake's brother is unexpectedly brutal (emotionally, not physcially!) in one scene) so it's only a 4 star rating, but it shows Crusie to be the talent she so obviously is, from the word go.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: What a funny book! It is a really cute romance, but I've got to say that most of all, it is brilliant comedy. I very rarely read anything that makes me laugh out loud--I usually need to be in a group to get a good belly-laugh going. But I was laughing aloud through most of this novel. It's hilarious! Kate is definitely manhunting: every man she comes into contact with ends up in the emergency department!. My favorite scene involves made-from-scracth mashed potatoes (DEFINITELY not instant), a fork, and a man who just doesn't know when to leave well-enough alone. I dare you to take more than 24 hours to read this book. Once you fall into Kate's clutches, you won't be able to escape, any more than all those men she's rouding up!
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