A review by stephxsu
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

2.0

Unfortunately, I was not as enamored of this book as its recommenders are. The book read like one of those silver-screen comedies that rely on bodily humor (what's the term for this? isn't there an official term for this?) and whiplash-inducing back-and-forth "dialogue" to give it its supposedly cheeky tone. Yeah, sorry: not my kind of humor. The little boy was cute, though, and I'm glad that Minerva is a plus-sized woman and not someone either bemoaning her small, skinny, curveless stature or a totally fit model-worthy goddess in her 30s. But Cal never charmed me, and when I'm not cheering the characters on and wishing for their happy ending, the story's not going to work for me.