Reviews for Haunted Spouse

The average rating for Haunted Spouse based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-16 00:00:00 Nima Hala before reading this book: ok, i pretty much HAVE to read this. i have not heard a more hilarious premise for a romance novel since Hand In Glove. "goddammit - i am being asked to construct a haunted house, but i hate haunted houses. i know!! my ex-wife!! she designs haunted houses for a living!!! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?????" i neeeed this! after reading this book: ugggh - no i didn't need this. this was not a good book. i don't know how i could have been so fooled! a haunted-house construction plot, a couple reunited for a project given a second chance at love after their divorce, a cat on the cover, a title that is a pun?? and yet - it was bad. how can this be? there is no intercourse in this book. which is fine - i don't need to read about boring people doin' it - but it is odd, isn't it? for a romance novel to have no grown-up time? there are some kissy-face scenes, which cause toes (not mine) to curl and the world to move etc etc., and i guess since these people were married to each other before, the thrill of discovery is no longer there, it is just worth noting, i think. but these characters = boring. he doesn't respect her because she designs haunted houses for a living and he thinks she should be making skyscrapers or something more lasting. and yet he is suddenly in the market for a haunted house, for some charity thing he has found himself in charge of. worlds collide - boom! they find themselves attracted to each other again, somehow, even though he is engaged to some society type and she (his ex-wife) wears sequinned sneakers nearly every day. and ghost earrings. she's a little...remedial, our heroine. she throws a lot of foot-stamping tantrums and wears a lot of pumpkins for a grown woman, is all i'm saying. not that there's anything wrong with an adult female wearing clothing intended for children. but we can't all be charlize... this book was just wicked dopey. and boring. i don't know what i was expecting, really, but next time i get excited over the name of a book, and a silly silly plot, i am going to maybe pause a moment before running right off to abe.com. maybe. come to my blog!

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-21 00:00:00 Fausto Gonzalez A man, a woman, and a haunted house Normally, architect Jared Rutledge wouldn't be caught dead designing a haunted house-he considered them "frivolous structures." But then he was asked to build one to raise funds for a physical rehabilitation clinic, and he agreed to do it. After all, how hard could it be? Before long, he realized that building a haunted house could be an absolute nightmare. And when things started to do wrong, Jared was forced to ask for help. That meant calling the Scream Queen, Lizzie Wilcox-a renowned haunted house designer who just happened to be his ex-wife! When I first found this book, my first thought was, Wow! The heroine designs haunted houses! How fun! Well, after I finished the book, my first thought was, Wow! That "hero" is such an asshat. An obnoxiously unthinking, unfeeling, and incredibly dense asshat. And for staying with such an asshat, that heroine must be pathetic and desperate. *Sigh* It's such a shame too. This could have been so much fun. If only the writer could have toned down Jared's insensitivity. He spends the entire time belittling her. Making thoughtless and heartless jibes at her deportment, her choice of attire, her inability to conduct herself in a professional manner, and her unfortunate and lacking choice of career. He even says to her face, as she is running herself ragged for him, if he will ever be able to secure another Very Important designing job after he has been professionally associated with the Scream Queen. But it's okay, because when she mindlessly overreacts to his thoughtlessness, (sarcasm) he comes back with an, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you." Followed by an eyeroll when she's not looking over her silly artistic temperament. When I say the entire book, I mean the entire book. Even as he's making his big speech at the end about how much he loves her and admires her, he still has to throw in a remark about how she could be designing "more conventional designs during her off-season." Maybe that remark would have been fine if it was by itself, but that comment heaped on top of all the other comments just showed me how he will never change his opinion of her. And since Lizzie hasn't changed during the course of the book, we all know how this make-believe romance is going to end up. In another fictional divorce. And since this was the first book I've read in a while, this just pissed me off. I ended up throwing the book down after I was finished feeling disgusted, after realizing I'd just wasted my time on a hero who does not respect his wife. And since this seemed like such a fun, entertaining read, I felt blindsided. Ugh. Humph. Thankfully my husband won't think I'm overreacting in a silly artistic snit when I kick this book across the room. He'll think me weird, but at least he'll still respect me in the morning.