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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  julianapwk | Oct 23, 2009 |  Enjoyed reading it like I did with "Faking It" and it has a lot of tension going on. I loved the miscommunication, witty dialogue, and the longest foreplay in history. Not much sex scenes but a lot of sizzling makeout parts. It would always make you wonder what happens next with the unpredictable characters, and charming supporting characters on the side. Speaking of which, are very likable but not very alike. JC makes it a point to add a pet to her novels I think I already read 3 that has, this time it's a cat. Very entertaining and sexy, I'd read it again! I love JC! (  ) yurioujo | Oct 11, 2009 | awesome love scenes but it took me a little bit to get into. I initially wanted to beat the crap out of everyone in the book. The hero was the first to grow on me and I ended up liking the heroine but somewhat reluctantly. (  ) kendosam | Sep 7, 2009 | I'm a big chic-lit fan, but this book just didn't cut it. I felt like it was drawn out and the plot wasn't developed enough. (  ) blumsclues | Aug 9, 2009 | I don't really consume 'romance' books as a regular part of my book diet, but we all need something sweet every now and again, right? I read this book in one sitting, staying up until 3AM to finish, so that definitely says something about it. I think it is a well written, modern romance and the witty repartee is excellent. As a 'healthy' girl myself, I enjoyed the thought of a man romancing a woman with food, especially chocolate-iced doughnuts (which are a particular weakness of mine). I *bet* you will enjoy it to. (  ) VictoriaPL | Aug 6, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0312303467, Hardcover)Setting: small city in OhioThirty-three-year-old Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her current boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sisters' wedding. But she's downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now "ex" boyfriend bet hunky Calvin Morrisey that he can't take her home and bed her. In fact, she's so angry at them both that she lets Cal take her to dinner and decides to string him along until after her sisters' wedding. Minerva pegs Cal as a handsome "used car salesman of seducers." Cal thinks Minerva is a "cranky, starving, risk-averse statistician." But Minerva's hormones keep whispering "this one," although she knows the gorgeous Cal isn't the man for her practical, white-cotton-bra, several-pounds-over-thin, self. And Cal is blindsided by the lust he feels for the voluptuous, sensual woman he glimpses behind Min's actuary exterior. While Cal and Min struggle to deal with their mutual distrust and attraction, their friends and families try their best to interfere and direct the progression of the unlikely romantic connection. Bet Me is unabashedly, irrepressibly romantic. In the wacky, wonderful world of Min and Cal, author Jennifer Crusie leaves no humorous situation unexplored--no potential comedic cauldron left unstirred--no hysterically funny complication left undeveloped. The reader is treated to a seemingly mismatched hero and heroine who fling caution to the winds to explore their unexpected attraction. The sexual tension is hot, the dialogue witty and wickedly sarcastic, and the supporting cast of secondary characters hilarious. Like Min's favorite Krispy Kreme donuts, this novel is rich and sinfully delicious. Indulge. Enjoy. --Lois Faye Dyer (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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There are almost always things - even in an absolute-5-star-favorite book - that I would want to change if given the option, even if it's very small. Here, the ONLY thing I would want to change would be in the epilogue where it says that Cal and Min don't have kids ... in my mind, they do, the epilogue just hasn't got that far yet time-wise.
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WONDERFUL!!! READ IT!!! (