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mindyo1's review
4.0
This was a quick "re-read" for me. The books were fun, light reading and a nice break.
pgchuis's review
4.0
This was set in a detective agency, where Nell goes to work for Riley and Gabe and helps solve a mystery involving a law firm run by Gabe's father's best friend. I really enjoyed the first half of the novel: Nell sorts out the chaos in the office and falls for Gabe, but then it just kept going for pages and chapters and pages more and the plot was more complicated than I really cared about and Nell kept nearly getting killed and people kept moving boxes and talking endlessly about china. I like Riley and Suze and I couldn't get a grip on Margie - how old was she even meant to be? What purpose did she serve? Fun over all.
jamiereadthis's review
4.0
I swear, Jennifer Crusie is going to wind up on my favorites shelf beside Elmore Leonard. And for the same reasons. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. And characters. She skips the boring parts. Good is way better than perfect, and bad is often better than both. People are screwy and screwed up and grumpy and complicated and funny and noble in the weirdest ways. There are some real nuggets of wisdom here, and not the trite kind. The kind that come from the mixed-up, messy realities of life. If you can do that and then put bodies in freezers and make me laugh out loud, I’m in.
“She means well.”
“Which is about the worse thing you can say about anybody,” Riley said.
reader_fictions's review
4.0
Time has somewhat dimmed my love for Fast Women, but I do still really enjoy it, and I remember why I loved Jennifer Crusie's books so much. There are a number of problematic elements, most noticeably and obnoxious for me was the other-woman-shaming, but they are generally handled with an awareness that they're not healthy things. For example, Gabe and Nell's fractious relationship is viewed with concern by all of their friends, because yelling and then having makeup sex constantly isn't a healthy relationship. That's something you don't usually see and romance, and it made me feel a bit better about the book as a whole.
Fast Women tries to tell both Nell and Suze's stories, but the focus is more on Nell and Gabe. I would have liked a bit more of Riley and Suze, because there's just enough of them that it's clear they're mean to be a fairly significant ship too but not enough to actually feel like they're sufficiently covered.
This book is over-long for a romance, but it's so funny and zany and constantly full of plot that it doesn't feel long at all.
It is weird though that Gabe and Nell were born in the fifties. Doing the math on that, it works out for late 90s, and this came out in the 2000s, but it blew my mind a little bit. My PARENTS were born in the fifties.
Fast Women tries to tell both Nell and Suze's stories, but the focus is more on Nell and Gabe. I would have liked a bit more of Riley and Suze, because there's just enough of them that it's clear they're mean to be a fairly significant ship too but not enough to actually feel like they're sufficiently covered.
This book is over-long for a romance, but it's so funny and zany and constantly full of plot that it doesn't feel long at all.
It is weird though that Gabe and Nell were born in the fifties. Doing the math on that, it works out for late 90s, and this came out in the 2000s, but it blew my mind a little bit. My PARENTS were born in the fifties.
rhodered's review
3.0
3.5 or 3.75... Great, especially at the post-divorce transition thing, and her theories about kissers vs kissees. Also loved the dog's outfits. Only drawback, I could not keep all the family relationships straight especially as key characters such as Trevor were introduced by comments about them instead of actually appearing in the story much until quite late. I also didn't understand why the other two women loved Margie so much - she was too vague and weak from the start.
georgiewhoissarahdrew's review
3.0
The first half of this shapes up really well - The Maltese Falcon on speed. Crusie does unresolved sexual tension very well, with a good line in resolving it too. There's a complicated murder investigation going on in the background, which I think I followed. Points deducted for the fact that too much time is spent on secondary characters at the expense of the MCs' story, and for some strange conflicts introduced into the MC story at the end. Less is more, sometimes. But - it's Crusie and so worth the read.
missmarketpaperback's review
3.0
What an excellent book. WHAT AN EXCELLENT BOOK. I read this when I was in high school and this reread brought out so many facets that I could not have appreciated as a younger reader. This book has a brilliant cast of characters, especially the Goodnight women. The family dynamic is just brilliant. Davy is a great con-man/hero. I love Tilda's art and the crazy furniture and the dog and Gwennie. I JUST LOVE THIS BOOK.
brownbetty's review
4.0
I've read it before, but last time I read it I hadn't read [b:Welcome to Temptation|33727|Welcome to Temptation (Dempsey's, 1)|Jennifer Crusie|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168462742s/33727.jpg|2563621], which shares some characters and takes place prior. And I was feeling nostalgic for it. Re-reading it, it definitely confirms my memory of it as a really great read, possibly Crusie's best. It won't tug at your heart strings, but you probably won't put it down 'till you finish it, either.
One of the great things about this book is the bad!sex our heroine has with our hero. No flowery metaphors about fireworks, just awkward sex, and this does not doom them as a couple.
Also contains a gay man not in the role of 'terminally single gay best friend,' but in the role of father. For a mainstream romance, this is moderately progressive.
Contains a dog, who is criminally underused.
One of the great things about this book is the bad!sex our heroine has with our hero. No flowery metaphors about fireworks, just awkward sex, and this does not doom them as a couple.
Also contains a gay man not in the role of 'terminally single gay best friend,' but in the role of father. For a mainstream romance, this is moderately progressive.
Contains a dog, who is criminally underused.
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