Candy Halliday

Your bed or mine is a a well written, funny book with well developed characters and an good balance between silliness and seriousness. Zada Clark is a feisty children's author who was abandoned by her father as a child and Rick Clark is a strict military man raised in a military home who runs a bomb dog training facility.Zada and Rick have been married for a year and when the story begins, Zada and Rick are at the courthouse to get a divorce. While they both agree that they need to divorce show more because they can't live together, the disagreement comes when they decide who will get custody of their blind dog Simon and who will live in the $800,000 house they had customized so that Simon could live an normal life. When they go to the courthouse to get the divorce, they are met by a judge who is appalled by the fact that they are being so immature. Instead of giving them a divorce, the judge chooses to make Rick and Zada work things out on their own and gives them 90 days to come to an agreement in reference to who will get the dog and the house. Zada and Rick decide to fight each other the whole way on the matter and pick the house they lived in as their battleground. Zada decides to give Rick a welcome present for when he returns to the house by having a messy house which she knows drives him crazy because he is a neat freak. Rick then turns the tables on Zada and proceeds to messy up the house even more that Zada has a chance to do any further damage.With the help of Zada's friends as well as Rick's friends, Zada and Rick realize that they are still in love with each other and are just being stubborn. Rick and Zada are stubborn and the different antics they play on each other will make some reader laugh and will annoy other readers. Both characters also have issues which contributed to why they feel how they do about marriage. Zada comes from a family where her father abandoned her mother but her mother took him back so Zada has abandonment issues and she views taking back a man who's walked out on her is a sign of weakness. Rick was raised is a home where his father was a military man and his mother didn't really stand up for herself. Overall, "Your Bed or Mine" was a fun entertaining story and a quick read. show less

After reading "Your Bed or Mine," I just had to read the next book in the housewives fantasy club series "Dinner first,me later." This book focuses on another resident of the Woodberry Park suburb, Alicia Greene. In "Dinner first,me later," Alicia Greene is a successful relator who is enjoying her thriving business and her friends Zada,Jen, and Tish. All of that changes the day Jake Sims moves into the neighborhood. Jake Sims is a retired baseball player/underwear model who has moved to show more Woodberry Park in hopes to create a new life and home for him and his estranged teen daughter Danielle. Alicia, unknown to Jake, had a teen crush had a crush on Jake which she buried after a awful appearance in a Barbara Walters interview. Unfortunately for Jake, not only does her have to convince Danielle that he's a good guy,he's going to have to convince Alicia too. Throughout the book, Halliday creates a story with a lot of heart and depth as well as a lot of passion. I sympathized with Jake as his heart broke after being abandoned by his wife.I also enjoyed the reading the interactions between Alicia and Danielle. The way Danielle behaved reminded me of friends I've know who drastically changed their appearance to get attention. The scenes of passion between Jake and Alicia are both well written as well as hot. I personally liked the way Halliday described the scene down to the smallest detail;this helped me get more involved in the story. I also liked that Halliday gives a "quick & dirty" summary of "Your Bed or Mine" for those who may not have read the book yet. Halliday also does a great job in giving each character a back story and life,even if the character is in the story for a brief time. Overall,this book was a great read and I'm looking forward to more Housewives Fantasy Club books in the future. show less

After reading "Your Bed or Mine," I just had to read the next book in the housewives fantasy club series "Dinner first,me later." This book focuses on another resident of the Woodberry Park suburb, Alicia Greene. In "Dinner first,me later," Alicia Greene is a successful relator who is enjoying her thriving business and her friends Zada,Jen, and Tish. All of that changes the day Jake Sims moves into the neighborhood. Jake Sims is a retired baseball player/underwear model who has moved to show more Woodberry Park in hopes to create a new life and home for him and his estranged teen daughter Danielle. Alicia, unknown to Jake, had a teen crush had a crush on Jake which she buried after a awful appearance in a Barbara Walters interview. Unfortunately for Jake, not only does her have to convince Danielle that he's a good guy,he's going to have to convince Alicia too. Throughout the book, Halliday creates a story with a lot of heart and depth as well as a lot of passion. I sympathized with Jake as his heart broke after being abandoned by his wife.I also enjoyed the reading the interactions between Alicia and Danielle. The way Danielle behaved reminded me of friends I've know who drastically changed their appearance to get attention. The scenes of passion between Jake and Alicia are both well written as well as hot. I personally liked the way Halliday described the scene down to the smallest detail;this helped me get more involved in the story. I also liked that Halliday gives a "quick & dirty" summary of "Your Bed or Mine" for those who may not have read the book yet. Halliday also does a great job in giving each character a back story and life,even if the character is in the story for a brief time. Overall,this book was a great read and I'm looking forward to more Housewives Fantasy Club books in the future. show less

Simple romance novel, with plenty of withheld desires. It's not as gratuitous as some romances that I've read, but is peppered with scenes.