What The Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie

***** out of *****

This was a re-read of the first Jennifer Crusie I really got. I tried Fast Women before this but couldn’t get beyond the first couple of chapters. But this book moves much faster – its shorter and in a more popular style. Once you’ve got into Crusie’s books there is no turning back. You’ll still look back fondly at this one though.

There are some boringly stereotyped secondary characters in this, but the main protagonists are so appealling that its forgivable. As usual for a Crusie at the end I was still wondering quite what had happened. Which is a good excuse for a re-read.

If you like the mystery/mafia family plot of this, then try Agnes and the Hitman by the same author.

Genre: Romance with bit of mystery

Read: 12/4/8