This isn't my favourite book by Jennifer Crusie, but I did enjoy it. The crazy stalking ex-boyfriend was a little more intense than I usually like in my chick-lit, but the characters and fantastic dialog more than made up for it. ( )

Quinn busca un poco de emoción en su monótona vida. Todo es correcto y normal en el día a día de esta joven profesora de arte. Su novio Bill, el tipo más simpático del pueblo, está loco por ella, pero Quinn necesita un cambio en su existencia. Entonces entra en escena Nick, el sexy mecánico local, famoso por sus aptitudes amatorias y por su falta de compromiso. ¿Podrá un romance con él perdurar en el tiempo? Y ¿será tan fácil olvidarse de Bill?

Loved this immediately. Quinn’s fury over the dog is priceless, and understandable to pet owners everywhere. The author well worked the overlapping relationships in this story. Women everywhere will get the issue the women have, and men reading this might become enlightened. Nick and Quinn are excellent characters for a romance. One word of warning: this book could contain triggering issues for abuse victims, though dealt with well toward the end. A few viewpoints may also seem outdated, but then all books are of their time. ( )

Crazy being the operative word.

Quinn is coasting through her life, trying to get through each day with a minimum of fuss, dating the local hero/coach of the high school where she teaches art, because it's easier than turning him down. Until one day a student brings her a stray dog she falls in love with and Bill tells her she can't keep it. That's the day Quinn snaps and decides to take her life back, causing a domino effect in the lives of those around her that is both hilarious and disturbing.

While Crusie writes incredibly entertaining, witty, funny chick-lit, she's frequently featured an ex-boyfriend/husband that's just a little bit...obsessive. Unhealthy mentally. But here, in Crazy for You she outdoes herself. While a lot of her other books have just a subtle touch of the creepiness factor, this one oozes creepy. For chick-lit, I found it to be extraordinarily uncomfortable. Still excellent, funny, and steamy, but damn that man creeped me out!

I like this one better than Bet Me because that creepiness, that profoundly disturbing obsessiveness gives the story a much edgier feel - still definitely chick-lit - that makes the story much more compelling. If you read psychological thrillers at all, this one is going to feel like puppies and marshmallow fluff, but if you stay on the more mentally stable side of fictional characterisations, you might find this read an entertaining way of pushing your personal envelope. ( )

I've been waiting months for this and my literary mouth is drooling....

October 14,2008 Within the last two days, I've been zipping through this novel. I've cleared something like 132 pages in two days which is such a feat considering my schedule.

Crazy For You (C4Y) has driven me crazy in a good way. You've heard about the butterfly effect? When reliable art teacher Quinn McKenzie dumps her boring boyfriend in search of positive change, she inspires nearly everyone she encounters in the small town of Tibbet to change as well. Some residents change for the best, and some change for the worst. The only person who is not willing to change is Quinn's inflexible ex-boyfriend Bill who will not take "no" for answer.

C4Y is so chock full of characters that it can be difficult to remember who is who. Some of the characters aren't really there to move the story along but to fill out personality of the town. C4Y is also one of the darkest Jennifer Crusie novels I've read. The stalker storyline kept me on edge as much as the sexual tension between main character Quinn and her hot ex brother-in-law, Nick.

All in all, I couldn't put this book down. I'm definitely a Crusie-o-phile now.

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