I swear, Jennifer Crusie is going to wind up on my favorites shelf beside Elmore Leonard. And for the same reasons. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. And characters. She skips the boring parts. Good is way better than perfect, and bad is often better than both. People are screwy and screwed up and grumpy and complicated and funny and noble in the weirdest ways. There are some real nuggets of wisdom here, and not the trite kind. The kind that come from the mixed-up, messy realities of life. If you can do that and then put bodies in freezers and make me laugh out loud, I’m in.
“She means well.”
“Which is about the worse thing you can say about anybody,” Riley said.