Bought this as an airport read and didn't regret it. Chick-lit meets OCD - I swear this is better than I'm making it sound. The heroine, Grace, has to count everything she sees because of a Problem in Her Past, as happens to these sort of women in these sorts of books. Yet usually these sorts of books do not involve erotic fantasies starring Nikola Tesla. In an Aztec temple, no less. It's really a pity more chick-lit heroines aren't openly mentally ill, because the genre needs more weird sexual fantasies and less nonsense about buying shoes. Maybe I'm alone in my pervert opinion, though.
Jordan manages to make her heroine angry and unhappy without making her unsympathetic - in fact, Grace's misanthropy is funny enough that I could sort of see what the romcom boyfriend saw in her (if you want an example of how not to write an unhappy woman, read Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed). Bonus points for making her horny as well - well, to put it less bluntly, bonus points for writing a relationship in which sexual attraction is a good thing and not a sign of future disaster (if you want an example of how to write an romantic "happy ending" where it's easier to imagine the "lovers" clipping each others' toenails than ever having sex, again - Good in Bed is for you. God, that book annoyed me.)
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You might also check out "Carrie Pilby" by Karen Lissner (well, someone Lissner, anyway) if you like this type of novel. That one, I thought, was excellent. And I agree with you on all counts with this one (maybe I should read the book now).
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