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This book was extremely difficult to finish. I was surprised because it had gotten some great reviews and I was really excited to sit down with it. I also ordered Dear Prince Charming and have only gotten a quarter of the way into it, it has been sitting unread for ten days; which is totally unlike me since I love to read. I would recommend borrowing this book from a friend if instead of purchasing it. Save yourself a few hard earned dollars.


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It took me a little bit to get into this book. Right off the bat we meet not only our heroine, Tanzy, but her whole group of zany friends, which for me was confusing and too much at one time.

Tanzy writes a very popular romance column wherein she amusingly spouts her opinions and compares men to wolves or sheep. It's her latest theory, that men all fall into one or the other category. Women date wolves, but marry sheep, and she does not understand the attraction to the sheep and is trying to figure it out. I personally thought it was kind of a dumb theory, and I think that's part of what made it hard for me to get vested in the story too quickly.

When her great-aunt Millicent needs to go out of town just before the Christmas holidays, she asks Tanzy to house sit for her. All the staff will be on vacation, except her new personal assistant, Riley. Tanzy can write her column from anywhere she has computer access, so she grudgingly packs a bag and moves into her aunt's huge home.

Tanzy is a serial dater, proclaiming to the world that women think about sex just as much as men, and as long as a woman uses safety precautions, there's nothing wrong with her having a healthy sex life. And she practices what she preaches. Love? No, thank you. She's not interested in that, or marriage or kids. And she is very unimpressed with Riley, noting that when he shakes her hand at their first meeting his grip is limp. That's how she describes it. He's a dull, boring sheep and she avoids dinner with him in her aunt's kitchen every night by eating in her room while she works.

Tanzy has been getting emails from an obsessed fan who goes by the name SoulM8. She's had crazy fans before, but this one is starting to worry her a little. Not enough to do anything about it though or let it interfere with her life and her fun. Besides, she now has something new on her mind. For some odd reason, she finds herself intrigued by the resident Riley sheep, and even wondering what it would be like to kiss him. What the heck is wrong with her?

Riley of course is not who or what she thinks he is. He's got a job to do, and is determined to be professional and detached while maintaining a low profile.

There's a lot going on in this book, but the best parts of the book are when the huge cast of supporting characters fade into the background and we're with just Tanzy and Riley, watching them get to know each other. I loved the banter between them, with many exchanges that made me not just smile, but grin or even laugh out loud.

Finding out who SoulM8 is becomes a large plot point, and while I certainly didn't figure out the stalker's identity, I did figure out more than either Riley or Tanzy did long before they did, which was disappointing and made the big reveal a bit of a let down for me. When SoulM8 finally made a personal appearance, our hero and heroine were both shocked to their cores, while I was asking them how they could be so stupid.

But the journey to that point was fun and well worth my time.
Now, I usually avoid including possible spoilers like the plague, but the content was so annoying that had I known, I would have skipped the book completely. If I can save someone else $$, it's worth it.

I liked several of the author's other romances, so I thought I'd give this one a try. Well, not as good. It's very overtly "Sex in the City", just change the main character columnist's name to Carrie, and you're about set, including the shoe obsession. It's light and fluffy, and the sex is decent, which I expected, but then there were a couple things that actually made me a bit mad, which I did NOT expect

MILD SPOILER ALERT
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When a tech company is discussed, the main characters point out that all of the women are very unattractive. As a woman in tech myself, I know this is an unfair, outdated stereotype and rather cheesed me off. This chapter colored my view of the characters pretty seriously from there on out, and lost much of my sympathy (which was already iffy). But this wasn't the worst point for me.

BIGGER SPOILER ALERT
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Now, here's the real bone in my craw the portrayal of implied (and overt) LGBT characters.

Usually, the author is pretty good about including peripheral gay characters as if it's no big deal, and as fairly real. In this one, well, let's just say it's a complete FAIL Whale. If I thought the women in tech stereotype was annoying, I found her treatment of the LGBT character not only extremely negatively stereotypical, but borderline offensive.

CONCLUSION
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So if neither of these attitudes bother you, and you're looking for a light fluffy romance with lots of girly-girl shoe and designer purse references, you may enjoy the book. Though honestly, she's done much better. My Recommendation is to skip this one, and try almost any of her other series instead; the Sugar Rush (Cupcake Club) one is a good one for light, enjoyable, romance reads, show how she's grown as a writer.
Really enjoyed the build up..good cat and mouse romance with great mystery to solve...great ending.

Enjoyed the disguise of the hero
One of a series by Donna based on Glass Slipper, Inc. This was a great read as are some of the others in this series. This book is definately for anyone looking for her Prince Charming.
This book was extremely difficult to finish. I was surprised because it had gotten some great reviews and I was really excited to sit down with it. I also ordered Dear Prince Charming and have only gotten a quarter of the way into it, it has been sitting unread for ten days; which is totally unlike me since I love to read. I would recommend borrowing this book from a friend if instead of purchasing it. Save yourself a few hard earned dollars.