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bikes_books_yarn's review against another edition
4.0
Read: October 2005
Re-read: February 2009
This was a great book! I have decided to put this in the hallowed Keepers pile because it is the perfect girly indulgance.
The main character is Lou Calabrese - a screenwriter who dated actor Barry Kimmel until he ran off with the co-star of the movie he was working on and married her. Lou is broken hearted and pissed off. Lou has to fly to Alaska to work on the movie she wrote - Copkiller and ends up in a helicopter with Jack Townsend - the star of Copkillers - and the jerk who changed her writing in the movie. (He was supposed to say It's always funny until someone gets hurt and instead he changed it to I need a bigger gun and of course it stuck and the whole world is saying it like they are Clint Eastwood or something.)
So of course Jack and Lou end up crashing in a helicopter in the Alaskan Wilderness together. They hole up in a cabin alone together (que Barry White) and OH - Did I mention people are trying to kill Jack?! Yeah. So that's kind of exciting too.
Yummy.
Re-read: February 2009
This was a great book! I have decided to put this in the hallowed Keepers pile because it is the perfect girly indulgance.
The main character is Lou Calabrese - a screenwriter who dated actor Barry Kimmel until he ran off with the co-star of the movie he was working on and married her. Lou is broken hearted and pissed off. Lou has to fly to Alaska to work on the movie she wrote - Copkiller and ends up in a helicopter with Jack Townsend - the star of Copkillers - and the jerk who changed her writing in the movie. (He was supposed to say It's always funny until someone gets hurt and instead he changed it to I need a bigger gun and of course it stuck and the whole world is saying it like they are Clint Eastwood or something.)
So of course Jack and Lou end up crashing in a helicopter in the Alaskan Wilderness together. They hole up in a cabin alone together (que Barry White) and OH - Did I mention people are trying to kill Jack?! Yeah. So that's kind of exciting too.
Yummy.
simira's review against another edition
1.0
Just a silly girl book. Mindless read. Horrible, overused plot: boy and girl hate each other, are stuck out in the middle of nowhere with people trying to kill them, and fall in love. Most of the writing consisted of the 2 main characters thinking how hot the other was...that's it. And a little unbelievable storyline: stuck in woods of Alaska for 2 days (and 2 blizzards) dressed barely appropriate for the area and no one gets frostbite or hyperthermia? Just ridiculous.
bookhoarding's review against another edition
3.0
Meg Cabot can do no wrong. Sure, it's a typical boy/girl hatred turns to love story, but at least there was a ton of mystery and suspense.
phantomeyer's review against another edition
4.0
I don’t know how this book found its way onto my bookshelf as early as it did, perhaps a relative recognised Meg Cabot’s name and assumed this was another YA book. Suffice to say it retains a special place in my heart as my first ever romance novel. A tame introduction, but an introduction all the same.
_rebeccareads_'s review against another edition
3.0
Just going to say this for now: I can't stand how Meg Cabot writes sex scenes in some of her books. It's just so horrible to read and unnecessary. That aside, this book didn't really appeal to me.
penandpencil's review against another edition
1.0
I normally like Meg Cabot, but characters here were just a bit too one dimensional and shallow. Situations are totally unbelievable, like getting all hot and heavy in the Alaskan wilderness while waiting to be rescued int he freezing cold wilderness!
apfel_cake's review against another edition
3.0
Predictable, sweet, and somewhat cantankerous, Lou Calabrese is a good main character for this easy beach read. Her relationship with Jack is obvious from the start, but all in all, still hot when it comes around.
caseyjarryn's review against another edition
4.0
Probably a 3 star read really, but this one gets an extra star for nostalgia.
josiecmyers's review against another edition
1.0
this was not good and was lowkey a chore to finish. Also very clearly from the early 2000s with the way women were talked about. Kind of an ew for me.
falulatonks's review against another edition
4.0
How much fun was this??? Super charming, a new Meg Cabot fave. I don't have a lot of Meg Cabot faves, because after a certain point her style just grates on you, the throwaway "on account of"s and weird sentence breakdowns and "he said. but then he. so then i."s - I can't explain it, but I don't really need to, because this book stayed cleared of that!!!! The explosions were lots of fun, and the romance was a lot of fun, and while they decided they were endgame way too easily for me, I enjoyed the rest of the book too much to care. And honestly, the characters were all fun enough that I'm glad on that reason alone that they got together: Lou is particular was so much fun! Cabot tends to write heroines that feel like they've come out of the same mold, I think, but Lou was fierier, sillier, good on her feet; a girl with a dad who was a cop. It probably helped that we got parts of the book from Jack's POV - Cabot doesn't do hero-POV often, does she? - because that definitely balanced things out. I super enjoyed them both.
I have to say, though, that for a good part of this book I got super worried that Lou was drinking as much as she did, because didn't she hit her head against the seat of the helicopter before it crashed, and then hit her head against something else as they crashed, and then woke up with a really terrible headache? WHY DID SHE KEEP DRINKING? THE RUNNING PROBABLY DIDN'T HELP - an unavoidable issue, but still - I am pretty certain she should've had a concussion, or at least been cautious of having a concussion. christ that was distracting.
I have to say, though, that for a good part of this book I got super worried that Lou was drinking as much as she did, because didn't she hit her head against the seat of the helicopter before it crashed, and then hit her head against something else as they crashed, and then woke up with a really terrible headache? WHY DID SHE KEEP DRINKING? THE RUNNING PROBABLY DIDN'T HELP - an unavoidable issue, but still - I am pretty certain she should've had a concussion, or at least been cautious of having a concussion. christ that was distracting.