Faking It (Jennifer Crusie 2004)

by Jennifer Crusie

• ISBN10: 0312989075
• ISBN13: 9780312989071
• Publish Date: 14 April 2003 (first published 1 August 2002)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Imprint: St. Martin's Press
• Edition: Revised ed.
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

This book speaks to me in ways that few books do. I’m glad it exists. (I can’t believe it exists.) It’s even better the third time.

***

First read, Dec. 2017:

This book is NOT what I expected. I’m really into books full of mayhem right now, and Crusie should advertise mayhem on the cover. Right is wrong, wrong is right, bad is good, sane is crazy— that’s the way to my heart. Plus con artists and art thieves and a running contest to see who’s the most screwy. I love it. Right when I’m crawling out of my own skin, this is exactly the thing that I needed to read.

Also: I have this thing where I’ll flip to a random page and try to make sense of it without knowing the context. Impossible to do with this book. There’s not a page that makes sense out of order. And yet in order, it makes hilarious sense.

[Rowena]

My first DNF of the year. I remember this book not being my favorite Jennifer Crusie but holy, it was so boring to me this time around. I forced myself to get through half the story before I gave up. I didn't connect with either the hero or the heroine. It wasn't even a mood thing, I just wasn't invested in anything.

[ibeforem]

If there’s one thing that Crusie is good at, it’s writing a fun story. From the moment Tilda and Davy bump into each other in Clea’s closet to the final page, there’s ne’er a dull moment in the lives of the Goodnights and Dempseys.

It’s hard to imagine a dull moment in their lives even without that bump in the night. Everyone in this book is a character with a capital “C”. It could have been overkill, but I think Crusie gives them enough “real” characteristics to balance out the wacky. You want to root for them, even for the unconventional hit man.

The search for the Scarlett paintings gives a bit of meat to the romance, and I enjoyed it. For the most part, I really like what Crusie does. It’s a little like if Carl Hiaasen wrote romance books.