What do You think about Faking It (2004)?
Tilda Goodnight is an artist working out of the gallery that's been in her family for hundreds of years. Her whole family lives in the building that the gallery is located in, and in the basement they hide the family secrets. And this family has a lot of secrets.Enter Davy Dempsey (previously seen in Welcome to Temptation). He comes from a family with a lot of secrets, too. When he and Tilda realize they have a common goal and a need to commit a crime, they start working together - and falling for each other. I thought the story was ridiculous and the characters were flat. Also didn't love their tendency to spout movie quotes and I didn't always need to know what song was playing on the jukebox.
—Alexis
**3.5 Stars**Davy frowned at her. "So I'm a selfish bastard for wanting to do the right thing?""Yes," Tilda said."I know that's wrong." Davy stood up. "Let me get back to you on why.""Well, until then, keep your mouth shut," Tilda said. "You Honest people can make life hell for everybody else."I was so confused by this book, and I'm not sure in what way completely.This book is a sequel to Welcome to Temptation. This book is Davy Dempsey's adventure.Things I liked about this book: Their, Davy and Tilda, relationship was very calm compared to some chick-lit relationships. (view spoiler)[Between bad sex and Tilda's stubborn nature. The lack of sex between them was actually funny and enjoyable to read. (hide spoiler)]
—Marie
My favorite Crusie, who is my favorite contemporary romance writer, smart and witty.I am wanting a lot of analgesic fiction this week, so I am rereading a bunch of Crusie and Krentz (who is my Crusie-methadone go-to). Crusie never seems to write quite the same book twice, and so is much more limited in her output. (Krentz does not seem to have that disability, so she's much harder to run out of, but her books do rather blur together in my mind after a bit. My fave of hers is Light in Shadow, if you're looking for a rec.)That said, I also just reread The Cinderella Deal, an early Crusie, and doing the two books back-to-back did display an earlier and a later pass on some of the same ideas and tropes. In Faking It, Crusie is definitely at the top of her form, for my tastes.Technically, Faking it is a sequel to Welcome to Temptation, in that romance-series way that jumps to follow another somehow-related couple, but it works fine as a stand-alone as well.Highly recommended.I bought a Kindle edition, since my old paperback copy is buried in a box in my garage at present, and I didn't want to wait in line for Overdrive from my library. Mostly pretty good in terms of transfer-typos, but it is missing an italicization of one critical line; I don't know if this can be fixed. ("I'd have bought it, too." is NOT the same as "I'd have bought it too." Nor, for that matter, the same as "I'd have bought it, too!", although that does not enter in.)
—Lois Bujold
