Crazy for You
by Jennifer Crusie
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Author: Jennifer CrusieEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2000-02-15
ISBN: 0312971125
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Crazy for You
Book Review: Gets better after the first half
Summary: 4 Stars
Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie
This is one of those Crusie books that you either love or hate. In fact, through the first half of the book, I pretty much hated it. A whole town of adulterers isn't exactly what I wanted to read about. And I grew up in a small town so I know there's more to one than a hair salon, a high school, and a mechanic's shop. But if you take the time to read the whole book, it's actually pretty good. There is definitely more sexually-explicit sex in this book than most of Crusie's other books and, as has already been said, there is a lesbian relationship in this book too, but all of it is done with Crusie's usual style and therefore done well. Even on her worst writing day, Crusie still writes better than most published authors today and it's nice to read a romance author who isn't tarnished by RWA's poor writing standards.
So here's the story. Quinn McKenzie, a high school art teacher, has always been the good girl, unlike her wild sister Zoe. Except it's really not working for Quinn. Her sister has the perfect life with the perfect husband and the perfect kids and she has Bill, the high school's head coach. So when she brings a stray dog home and Bill says no, she keeps the dog anyway. But when Bill takes the dog to the pound while Quinn's away at work, that's the last straw and she moves out and dumps Bill, forever. Her sister's ex-husband Nick Ziegler, who has been a lifelong friend, helps her move. And it's then that they both realize they have always been in love with each other; it just takes them awhile to figure it out. In the meantime, crazy things are going on in town.
Quinn's mother Meggy moves her lesbian lover of several years into her house and moves her husband (Joe) of over three decades out. Joe moves in with his daughter Quinn. Quinn's best friend, Darla Ziegler, who is married to Nick's brother Max, decides she's tired of her life and tries to spice up her sex life. Max doesn't handle it well and Darla leaves him, moving in with Quinn too. And Bill is stalking Quinn, sabotaging the rundown house she's purchased on the wrong end of town and repeatedly injuring her dog Katie.
There are parts of this story that really broke down for me and made me angry. Like when Max, Joe, and Nick end up trolling for young twenty something women to teach their significant others "a lesson". Or like Bank Barbie, the town husband-stealer, going after a new guy every three months so she can get her house fixed up. Or Meggy throwing her husband out without any kind of warning. Then there's the ending, which is pretty abrupt. For those things, I knocked off a star. And, as I said before, you may actually hate the first half of this book before you get to the second half where it starts to get interesting.
Summary of Crazy for You
High school art teacher Quinn McKenzie's life is perfectly normal--and it's making her insane. She's living with Bill, the nicest guy in Tibbett, Ohio, and he's crazy about her. Really crazy. Quinn is already having serious doubts about the future of their relationship when Fate intervenes, in the form of the scrawniest, squirmiest scrap of a dog you'd ever want to lay eyes on. She figures if the dog has the good sense to detest Bill on first sight, she ought to pay attention. And besides, there's Nick Ziegler, local mechanic and totally unsuitable love interest. Of course, that only makes Nick all the more appealing, not to mention his phenomenal aptitude between the sheets, and against the wall, and in the car, and... But getting rid of Bill is harder than Quinn ever expected. In fact, Bill was the last person she would have thought would try to hurt her. Thank God Nick is as capable with a two-by-four as he is with an automobile engine! Jennifer Crusie's second contemporary romance is a smash--literally! You'll laugh while you're tucking the covers around you a little tighter. --Alison TrinkleOn Wednesday, Quinn McKenzie changes her life. On Thursday, she tries to get somebody to notice. On Thursday night, somebody does.
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.
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