| Title: | Irresistible? | |
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| Author: | Stephanie Bond | |
| Publication Date: | Reprinting: July 2011 | |
| Publisher's Description | Wanted: Single women of any age to take part in a four-week clinical study. Ellie Sutherland wasn't exactly desperate... yet. But after fourteen months, five days and two hours of being without a man, she was getting pretty close. So when she had a chance to try out a pill that attracted the opposite sex, Ellie didn't waste any time signing up. After all, she had nowhere to go but up! Almost immediately, men started falling at her feet. She even had sexy Mark Blackwell eating out of her hand. And before long, she'd fallen head over heels in love with him, too. Ellie's life was a perfect, at least for a while. But when the pills ran out, would Mark still find her irresistible? |
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| My rating: | ***.5 | |
This book was a quick, light read. It was definitely a product of its time period, reading like the novelization of a 90s era chick flick, complete with the requesite components:
- Instant animosity between the hero and heroine
- An overreliance on coincidence
- A wacky gay best friend
- Mixed up shipments
- Multiple scenes where the heroine publicly embarrasses herself, in a variety of ways
None of these things made me dislike this book, but there never was much here to differentiate Irresistible? from a myriad of similiar books from the 1990s, either. Ellie and Mark had a lot going for them personality-wise, and helped this book to overcome the completely generic set of circumstances in which they found themselves. Plot devices were telegraphed chapters in advance, and while there was no mystery, I didn’t object to sticking around for the end. One thing that worked in Irresistible’s favor is that it was pretty funny; I enjoyed the dialogue more than I thought I might. The language isn’t dated at all, which seems obvious, since this novel isn’t even 20 years old, but other books from this era contain words that definitely date them. If you’re the kind of person who stops channel surfing when you come across a Drew Barrymore movie, this book is for you.
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