Rating: 
Summary: Buy it for the Anchovies
Review: Unfortunately, although Bingham shows she can write, the heroine in "Call of the Wild" is one of those romance heroines whose lives come to a halt when they meet A Man and suddenly the entire universe revolves around him with no room for the heroine to shine on her own. (And frankly, this Man doesn't seem worth it.) The setting held great promise with the fascinating premise of gorilla behavior contrasted to the life of a radio relationships advisor, but unfortunately fell flat when that premise was given a simplified, saccharine and sexist coating.However, Susan Peterson's entry is wonderful, well worth the price of the book and then some. Funny, romantic, heartwarming, and down-to-earth. The only negative thing about it is that it was too short and the father sub-plot was resolved off-camera, the son sub-plot was unresolved (unless the dance with the ex was supposed to signal in some way that it had been resolved), and the unusual foster family was not examined more closely. That was the main problem. A great read like "Anchovies" cried out for a longer book where we could really dig into the characters of these diverse, fascinating and funny people.
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