Rating: 3.5 stars
Official book description:
Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they have for each other, an attraction they’ll do everything in their power to resist—because Dennie thinks that Alec is running interference for her interview subject, and Alec suspects that Dennie is linked to his swindler. As the confusion grows, so do their feelings for each other, and what begins as a romantic comedy of errors may just end in the love affair of a lifetime.
This book was a quick, fun read, with several cases of mistaken identity and a lot of silliness taking place in a hotel over the course of a weekend. The protagonists are both likable and good at what they do (although I wasn't entirely sure why Dennie thought her entire career would be made by interviewing this one woman that she keeps pursuing) and there's also a nice secondary romance between the main two supporting characters, who are middle-aged.
I would have liked it if the romance wasn't quite so instantaneous, the couples really don't spend a lot of time together at all before apparently, they're madly in love with one another (yup, this is the case in both the primary and secondary romance). I would have liked more build-up and banter, as it was, the relationships seemed almost pre-destined, as the characters met, sparked, bantered a tiny bit, fell into bed with on another and decided this was their HEA, all in one weekend. With all the various storylines being juggled, neither romance gets enough focus.
A while back, I still had a bunch of Crusie's early romances on my TBR list, all purchased in e-book sales over the years, usually only rediscovered when the book in question fit into one of my reading challenges. Having finished this, I think I may only have one or two of Crusie's back catalogue left unread. As her books tend to be, this was an entertaining read, which I got through in only a day r two- unlike her really classic contemporaries, however, this book was nothing very remarkable either, but I think she managed her goal of creating a screwball comedy rather well.
Judging a book by its cover: Anyone thinking that this book will have a serious canine presence based on the cover, will be sorely disappointed. Our intrepid heroine DOES own a dog, who she thinks about a lot and mentally asks for advice a few times, but the two are separated for much of the story, and placing the adorable doggo front and centre on the book is rather misleading.
Crossposted on Cannonball Read.
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