Gretchen GalwayRecensioni

Fun read. I enjoyed the mix of new magic rules with the classic mystery.

***DNF @6%***
I was bored.. part of it is my mood but part of it are the characters. The way they act feels a bit alien to me. Cultural differences perhaps?

Shame because it came highly recommended so maybe other people will enjoy it!

These books are so much fun!

Hex at a house party feels like a game of clue....all the pieces are together, there's super fishy stuff going on, and it's never quite who or what you expect. All of that with great characters, wonderful writing, and just enough loose ends to keep you wanting more.

I highly recommend this series!

This one almost-but-not-quite manages to escape the chicklit genre, but is dragged back down by an over-reliance on hot-monkey-love sex scenes and a cardboard villainess.

Beverly Lewis is surprised, to say the least, when her estranged grandfather unexpectedly leaves his sportswear company to her, thoroughly pissing off her evil aunt and the hunky executive VP, each of whom expected to be named as the heir. Originally planning sell out quickly, her plans are trashed by unexpectedly losing her job, so she decides to give it a shot until a new buyer can be found. Someone, however, is trying very hard to upset the applecart, and suspicion falls on several people in turn, most especially on Hunky EVP. Unfortunately, he seems torn between whether he wants to snatch the company or ... No, I'm not going to go there.

Galway, however, has no such reticence, and that's the book's biggest flaw. She draws these two intelligent, mature, rational adults as helpless puppets of their own sexual urges who spend most of the second half of the book ripping each other's clothes off whenever (and wherever) they happen to find themselves alone together.

Seriously?

Come on. Chicklit is notorious for 125 pages of lust-at-first-sight-even-though-I-hate-you teasers, followed by The Consummation, followed by The Misunderstanding, followed by The Explanation and happily-ever-after.

Galway manages to hold off for 150 pages before every sweaty moment of The Consummation is lovingly and minutely detailed, but has trouble getting past that part. To her credit, The Misunderstanding isn't some silly thing that could be explained in 25 words or less if the Other Person would just Listen. It's a deep mismatch of ambition and goals between these two people which proceeds to make both of them (and pretty well everybody else in the book) miserable for another hundred pages and six or eight sex scenes, give or take.

The revelation of who has actually been trying to sabotage the company, and what their motive was, makes for a nice twist, even if the about-face of the more viperous of Bev's relatives is a tad unbelievable.

All things considered, the grade on this one averages out only to a "C". Fans of the genre will find too many tropes missing; non-fans will find too many of them present.

Alma is awesome!!!
I had never read this author, so I wasn't sure what to expect, but from the beginning, I was hooked. The book starts with a dead witch on a bridge, and just keeps rolling.

One of the things I really enjoyed about the book was that the world wasn't over explained. Some books benefit from long descriptions and introductions, but this book didn't need that. Right from the beginning you can see it's different from what we know, but there isn't a rush to expose all of it's secrets. I also liked the main character, she is someone I would want to get to know. All the characters in the book were well rounded, and the world was one I would enjoy visiting. It also keeps you guessing with little twists here and there, and surprises around the corners. It's a fairly quick read, but I wasn't in a hurry to get to the end, even though I wanted to know what happened!
I can't wait to read the next book!

I did not like Jane, the main character. She is cold and petty. Always thinking about herself and jealous of anyone else’s good news. Grant, her love interest was thoughtful and caring. He can do so much better than Jane. The rest of the characters are all self-centered. Not likable at all. A very disappointing read.

I didn't think it was funny, or particularly romantic.

This cute little story started off a little slow, but then I really got into the characters and all their little quirks. I loved that Bev was so confident in her body and made her own decisions about her lifestyle and stuck to them. Liam is a dominate male who thinks women should let the men do all the work. But then when Bev's grandfather leaves her his sport fashion design company, the two butt heads constantly. Put a vendetta on Bev's head and a little lust between the two and there are sure to be fireworks for days. Loved it.½

Fast read, reminiscent of several romance books, you know the outsider comes in to a company in a top-level position and competes with an insider for control.

Liked the writing and the character development though the love/sex scenes were a little long and overdone . Will read more in the future.

Ya know, I really love it when I get surprised by a book.

I am going through books on my Kindle that I have just downloaded over the years because they were FREE or CHEAP. I have deleted a number of them just a couple of pages in. And since that is really why I am going through them, dumping the trash, I have actually enjoyed doing it.

But this book, I started reading right before bed one night, thinking I could quickly delete and go to sleep. Big mistake.

What a lovely surprise. A big woman with confidence and no problem getting dates. Well, maybe not as confident as she makes herself out to be in public, but still, not the stay-at-home-and-eat-more-cookies-until-Prince-Charming-happens-to-knock-on-my-door-to-borrow-sugar-and-intuits-how-fabulous-I-am type.

And how great is it to read a book where the female protag's legs don't go all the way to heaven, her waist is wasp thin, and, oh, gosh, she is just a darn good person. She wears thigh high boots, dresses to emphasize her boobage, and gosh, she really is a darn good person and doesn't have to be a size 2 to have a man who adores her.

Nope. This a good book with mature people and interesting situations. Okay, so the male protag is a reclusive, rich, computer geek who is a good person, has a great body and loves to pleasure a woman. While not totally believable, it is definitely a fantasy I can enjoy without too much guilt.

Well written, well edited. A couple of typos or just plain wrong words, but just delightful. Really, really delightful. Trying to hold off from doing a glom because those never end well, but my goodness, I am fighting the need to one click my little heart out.

The story has depth, humor, and humanity. There is some hot sex, but you have to wait for it. There are real world concerns and real world situations (excluding that whole secret millionaire situation) that are dealt with in believable, interesting language.

It is weird, but I found this book to be evocative of Attachments by Rainbow Rowell and Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie, two of my all-time-favorite books.

Free on Kindle. OK. The heroine is plump.

Laugh out loud funny and sweetly romantic - the characters act in believable ways.

The mystery elements aren't always well-integrated but you really enjoy the entire cast of characters. Well, maybe not Ellen!