She has a sharp tongue on her and I even winced sometimes when she knocked Cal down a peg or two! When it’s time to come to Cal’s defense though, she more than rises to the occasion, and I found myself gasping in shock as she dealt with his awful family. Min has turned out strong and funny and she somehow has a good grasp on what’s important in life. Some girls really are just big-boned and no amount of carb-cutting will help, but Mrs. I don’t know how she’s as well-adjusted as she is with a mother like hers. But it does matter enough to knock back a book that would have been 4.5 or possibly even 5 stars to a plain old 4. It definitely continued, it just didn’t matter as much anymore. It was driving me crazy! But it didn’t take me long to get caught up enough in Cal and Min’s almost-romance that I was able to overlook it. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to continue for a while there. They’re great shoes,” Cal said.Īgain, NOT a direct quote, but it might as well be. I obviously don’t have anything in front of me to give a real example but it was literally this bad: I swear, every other sentence, and sometimes every sentence, ended with said. I listened to this book, and while I loved Deanna Hurst’s narration, I picked up on a serious fault in the writing that I probably would have overlooked in print.

Cal’s charm is almost impossible to resist, as are his amazing good looks.

She’ll go out with Cal, string him along and make him and the barely-ex look like fools. She decides that she can play this game as well. But Min isn’t going to take this lying down, so to speak. As she’s heading over to introduce herself to him, she hears her just-minutes-ago-turned-ex-boyfriend make a bet with him that Cal can’t get her into bed within a month. One night, Min meets Calvin Morrissey in a bar. Her shoes are fun, frivolous concoctions. She’s an actuary, the man she’s dating is a sensible choice, and her clothes are sensible and “slimming.” But then there are her shoes. I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase merchandise through links on my site. I have an affiliate relationship with and Malaprop's Bookstore in beautiful Asheville, NC.

Bet me by jennifer crusie