Treeman Book

This book is like a well worn jumper that you pull on to keep you warm as the early winter chill starts to bite. I love it. I have it sitting permanently in my bedside cupboard, ready to drag out if I need a little pick me up. Its premise is simple but smart. Quinn, thirty-six, leaves her boyfriend, Bill and starts to lead a new, more spontaneous life which includes among other things, a (very) hot affair with Nick, her used to be brother-in-law now best friend. The only problem is that Bill still wants her and seems to be doing all sorts of things to get her back, like booby traping her new house. So here we have a nice little romantic comedy about two people who always, kinda liked each other, who know each other so well that when they start to have sex with each other, its fireworks all round. And there's that tinge of danger with Bill on the fringes. But what makes this one of my favourites, is Jennifer Crusie's writing. She knows how to write characters that are endearing, with all their foils and triumps. She could be writing about you. No flashy, glamourous jobs or jet setting around the world that the characters in many modern romance novels seem to do (Quinn is a teacher and Nick a mechanic). But the very best thing about this book, the thing that keeps it in that bedside cupboard, is the dialogue. Its witty, its sweet and where it needs to be, its very, very hot. If you like reading the odd romance but want something funny and well written, then you have to read this.