A review by cardinalgirl75
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

4.0

I'm not going to lie.  This is probably a book I shouldn't like anymore as much as I do.  I can see the flaws in the plot--why do Cal and Min fall in love in the first place, when they don't seem to spend much time together and she remains convinced for much of it that he's made a bet to get her into bed within a month?  (A bet he made with her ex-boyfriend, mind you.)  Even back when I first read it, Liza continually hitting Cal whenever she caught him kissing Min was NOT COOL.  And the entire "Cal is a jerk because he breaks up with women after a couple of months when they're expecting him to marry them" is...come on, really?  That's a little extreme.  The only woman who should have had any expectation of marriage was, at best, his most recent ex-girlfriend, because of the length of their relationship (nine months), but even that was a bit of a stretch when it was clear that he wasn't in love with her.

I told myself as I listened to the story again that I shouldn't like it as much as I do.  I went and looked up negative reviews on Goodreads and...rolled my eyes so hard at some of them.  And finally told myself that I was allowed to like what I liked, regardless of how silly it was.  I like BET ME.  It isn't my favorite Jennifer Crusie book, but it's pretty darned good.