Crazy for You/Tell Me Lies [Paperback]

Jennifer Crusie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 2005

What do you get when you combine scintillating secrets and steamy sex with rollicking laughter and magical love? You get a Jennifer Crusie romance! What do you get when you combine the New York Times bestselling novels Crazy for You and Tell Me Lies? You get two fantastic novels in one volume!

 

No one spins a story quite like New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie. Her legion of fans who have helped make her a household name are a testament to her success. Now for the first time, St. Martin's Griffin is publishing two Jennifer Crusie romances in one book.

 

In Crazy for You, Quinn MacKenzie's life spins out of control when she decides to adopt a stray dog. Now she's coping with dognapping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, and two men who are suddenly crazy--for her....

 

Tell Me Lies tells the story of Maddie Faraday, whose life would be perfect--if it weren't for her cheating husband, her distrusting daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that sexy guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago....

 

Pick up this special volume and discover the wonderful world of Jennifer Crusie!

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Nobody combines wit, irony, and sexy, sizzling plots better than Jennifer Crusie. --Romantic Times

 

"Crusie has a gift for concocting nutty scenarios and witty one-liners...genuine laughs." --People

About the Author

Jennifer Crusie is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You, Welcome To Temptation, Fast Women, Faking It, and Bet Me.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (September 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312355629
• ISBN-13: 978-0312355623
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #681,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Crusie was researching her dissertation on the differences in the way men and women tell stories when she got sidetracked into writing romance novels.

Her first book was published in 1993 (which pretty much finished off any hope of her getting that PhD) and her twenty-second book, Maybe This Time, came out in August of 2010, all of which she considers a minor miracle, especially since she is also a New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestseller and a two-time Rita award winner.

Jenny is currently working on her new Liz Danger mystery series. She is a very happy woman.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy for Crusie's stories!, August 30, 2006

By 

Kharabella "Kharabella" (Somewhere in the midwest . . .) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crazy for You/Tell Me Lies (Paperback)

I've been on Jennifer Crusie-kick for the last few months, after I read one of her novels for the first time, and I think she's now one of my favorite authors. This book -- two novels in one volume -- is a great buy for the price. These are two of Crusie's earlier novels, and they are a little different from novels like BET ME, but the story is just as good.

The best things about Jennifer Crusie's novels:

1. The heroines aren't rich, pampered, spoiled, blonde heiresses trying to make their lives useful.

2. The women aren't skinny size two or four stick figures with compulsive eating and exercise habits.

3. No one is obsessed with money, inheritances, status, or murder.

4. The stories are about real, complex relationships between families, friends and lovers.

5. There is real romance, even for women who aren't rich or perfect.

The first novel in this edition, CRAZY FOR YOU, is about Quinn McKenzie, and her realization that she does not want to live the same life and the same safe routine every day for the rest of her life. Her desire to make one small change in her life -- adopting a dog, even though her apartment does not allow them -- snowballs out of control. Quinn and her friends realize how many people have stopped noticing and appreciating things that are right in front of them, including themselves and loved ones, and many are inspired to try to make their lives and experiences feel new again.

The struggles of Quinn and her friends touch some important issues related to love, marriage, relationships, committment, appreciation, and loneliness.

TELL ME LIES is about a woman named Maddie Faraday. Maddie's cheating husband (cheating in more ways than one, and more people than just her) and his subsequent murder prompt her to shake up her life and provide her small time with something to talk about as she decides to start telling the truth to everyone, shed her "nice-girl" image, and make her own happiness a priority.

Neither of these books is really as good as BET ME or FAKING IT, in my opinion, but I greatly enjoyed both, and you can see a bit of Crusie's story-telling evolution. These stories are definitely different than the stories of the single, independent girls in the other Crusie novels that I have read.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites!, November 22, 2010

By 

L. Brenner (Malvern, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy for You/Tell Me Lies (Paperback)

This is one of my favorite books! The stories are well written, laugh out loud funny, amusing, unique, and written in way that you feel like you're a fly on the wall watching and taking everything in as you read. I couldn't put this book down!