Crusie, Jennifer - Getting Rid of Bradley

[oyceter]

And I have just started glomming Jennifer Crusie again! (just sneaked to Borders to get another book... they only had Manhunting, was looking for Cinderella Deal. Oh well, will take anything).

This feels like an earlier book (probably since it is). It's funny, because I can get glimpses of Crazy for You in this book, especially in the Lucy-Bradley/Quinn-Bill relationship. Lucy, recently divorced, manages to get her life in danger thanks to some sort of mixed up scheme involving her ex, Bradley. Luckily, Zack the policeman is there to save the day. He ends up in her house as protection and learns how to cook (and enjoy it) and in general gets a bit domesticated.

It's got some very Crusie themes -- getting what you need, not what you think you need, and having Zack give Lucy the perfect present (ala Calvin and Min in Bet Me).

I'm rather fond of Lucy, particularly her blinking habit, because I suspect I do something like that too.

A particular favorite bit is Zack's proposal.

Romance books are hard to review, because so much of it depends on the characters instead of a clever plot or good world-building.

Anyway, warm, fuzzy, plus a really bad dye job, crazy exes, bombs, and three dogs.

Links:
- rachelmanija's review

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Is everyone on LJ reading Jennifer Crusie?

You're right, they're hard to describe. You notice my long post on three of hers didn't get into their plots at all. Either the plot isn't important, or, as in FAKING IT, it's as impossible to describe without both ruining all the surprises and sounding ridiculous as THE AWFUL TRUTH or BRINGING UP BABY.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy Crusie; but I do like most of her more recent ones better than the older ones... maybe justme getting older and reading so much of this.

[oyceter]

Me too. Although I am greatly starting to enjoy her older categories, great fuzzy, light reading. But they don't quite have that painful underlying substance that her later books have (with the exception of Bet Me, which is pretty funny... maybe because it's based on an older book).

[oyceter]

Hee, hopefully they are ^_^.

It's like describing the plot of Angel or Buffy -- sounds absolutely ludicrous until you see it in effect.

I want to shove her books in people's faces and just say, "It's good. Trust me."