Crusie wrote ANYONE BUT YOU in 1995 and it was a great read and highly enjoyable, but it felt more like a short story than a full-length novel. Her book, BET ME, that I just read recently and absolutely loved, was written about 9 years later and I think she has definitely come a long way between the two.

ANYONE BUT YOU still has her trademark great characters (both main and secondary - loved Charity and especially Max, Alex's brother), wonderful humorous scenes, and great romance and chemistry. But like I said, it just feels like a short story when compared to BET ME, there just isn't the same plot development, character development, detail (scenes are mentioned - Alex and Nina have dinner as a couple with each of their families, but whereas similar dinners are described in Bet Me, here they're just referenced), etc. Still a great read though and definitely worth checking out from the library - I'm just not going to be buying my own copy. ( )

nice, quick ( )

Fun, quick read - very light romance. ( )

Very fast, entertaining & easy reading. Sassy contemporary romance about second chances and getting it right. ( )

A quick, cute read, though this is definitely an early Crusie: there isn't a plot so much as a series of convenient and rather repetitive excuses to draw the book out to its required length. I'm also beginning to wonder why it is that Crusie is so insistent that none of her heroines have or want children: trying to buck genre constraints, or something else? Still, this was very funny, Fred the depressive beagle was adorable, and it's got an older woman/younger man romance—definitely worth the couple of hours it takes to read. ( )