A review by cardinalgirl75
Crazy For You by Jennifer Crusie

4.25

Quinn McKenzie is stuck in a rut, so she decides to make a small change by adopting a stray dog.  A small change that spirals into major changes for almost everyone around her, including the man she’s always been in love with even if she never truly realized it until now.  Even though there are several plot lines in this story, just as there were in the previous Crusie book I read, I enjoyed this story more because I didn’t feel like the main love story between Quinn and Nick was fighting for air with anyone else.  There was really only one other story that got significant time, and that was Darla and Max, while the others were in the background—you heard about them and knew enough of what was going on for the endings to be believable, which was my knock against one of the background stories in Welcome to Temptation.  I would probably say this is my favorite of Crusie’s novels, because it’s able to balance the romance, the zaniness of the background characters, and the villain of the piece is suitably creepy (and a little frightening since we hear stories all the time of men who seem to think that women don’t have the right to reject them, and we see one such story here as Bill’s complacency escalates to aggression, and sadly, Quinn’s belief that she fostered his thinking because she never objected to anything).  Very good book.