How To Be The Perfect Girlfriend

Rating:
Summary: Very enjoyable book
Review: Tired of failed relationships, payroll assistant Sara Lipton enlists the help of her friends. She needs help with choosing and attracting the right kind of man, and then keeping his attention once she's got it. They decide that the perfect person for her to practice on is company vice-president Simon Northrup. Simon's not looking for a relationship because his life is already too full and too complicated. When his father was dying, he promised the man that he would help his stepmother with raising his preteen stepsister. This promise was a result of Simon's feelings of guilt for ignoring his stepsister, and his stepmother knows how to play on those guilty feelings (a stepmother, by the way, who was Simon's college sweetheart and when he took her home to meet the folks-girlfriend and Dad hit it off a little too well).

Sara and Simon are very strong, likable characters. The book had a good opening, great pacing throughout, and was very well written. This was my first Heather MacAllister book, but it definitely won't be my last.

I did think that Sara's friend, Hayden, was a distraction from the story. I didn't like her very much, but at the same time I was intrigued by her (I wondered what made her the kind of person that she is and if that would ever change and what it would take to make her change). Basically, I found myself focusing too much time and attention on this character, and that was time and attention that I should have spent focusing on Sara and Simon. However, now I'm wondering if Hayden is going to get her own book. If so, I'd definitely buy it.

Rating:
Summary: Very enjoyable book
Review: Tired of failed relationships, payroll assistant Sara Lipton enlists the help of her friends. She needs help with choosing and attracting the right kind of man, and then keeping his attention once she's got it. They decide that the perfect person for her to practice on is company vice-president Simon Northrup. Simon's not looking for a relationship because his life is already too full and too complicated. When his father was dying, he promised the man that he would help his stepmother with raising his preteen stepsister. This promise was a result of Simon's feelings of guilt for ignoring his stepsister, and his stepmother knows how to play on those guilty feelings (a stepmother, by the way, who was Simon's college sweetheart and when he took her home to meet the folks-girlfriend and Dad hit it off a little too well).

Sara and Simon are very strong, likable characters. The book had a good opening, great pacing throughout, and was very well written. This was my first Heather MacAllister book, but it definitely won't be my last.

I did think that Sara's friend, Hayden, was a distraction from the story. I didn't like her very much, but at the same time I was intrigued by her (I wondered what made her the kind of person that she is and if that would ever change and what it would take to make her change). Basically, I found myself focusing too much time and attention on this character, and that was time and attention that I should have spent focusing on Sara and Simon. However, now I'm wondering if Hayden is going to get her own book. If so, I'd definitely buy it.

Rating:
Summary: Deliciously Wicked...
Review: What a teasingly tempting read by Heather MacAllister! Her characters are engaging and unpredictable, and I couldn't bear to set the book down once I started reading. Haven't we all been Sara, at one point in our lives? Surrounded by others who seem to have what they want, while we stumble along in the dark? You'll be swept up in her story, caught up in every chuckle and sigh.

It is to MacAllister's credit that the protagonist is an intelligent, independent, thoughtful woman who treats herself with respect...and in turn, treats herself to an intelligent, independent, thoughtful man who treats her with respect. How refreshing!

Fair warning, though--you will never, ever, look at plastic wrap the same way again!

Rating:
Summary: Deliciously Wicked...
Review: What a teasingly tempting read by Heather MacAllister! Her characters are engaging and unpredictable, and I couldn't bear to set the book down once I started reading. Haven't we all been Sara, at one point in our lives? Surrounded by others who seem to have what they want, while we stumble along in the dark? You'll be swept up in her story, caught up in every chuckle and sigh.

It is to MacAllister's credit that the protagonist is an intelligent, independent, thoughtful woman who treats herself with respect...and in turn, treats herself to an intelligent, independent, thoughtful man who treats her with respect. How refreshing!

Fair warning, though--you will never, ever, look at plastic wrap the same way again!