Customer Reviews

Cupidity (Simon Romantic Comedies)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

The premise seemed pretty cute. A high school girl calling on the ancient Roman gods for help in her love life. And it is mildly cute...but that's about all.

Goode's writing style is annoying. I can't stand writers who feel the need to constantly remind the audience of their characters' appearence, personality, etc. Usually in sentences like "You're a loser," said the dark-haired beauty. And that's just a mild example of what her sentences are like.
And her characters are even worse. Stereotyped to the Nth degree, with less personality than lime Jell-o. Laura is unsympathetic as a heroine, Cupidity runs around like she's had too many Pixie Styx...only the gods are mildly amusing.

The plot is ridiculous. Apart from being fairly predictable, so much of it is random and scattered. Loose ends aren't tied up, things happen for no good reason, and Laura has one friend (Ashley) who has a habit of appearing out of thing air. There's little explanation or reasoning behind Laura's realization of who she loves, and she's pretty unconvincing about it anyway.

And for someone who most obviously prides herself on being a mythology buff, Goode seems to have forgotten that the gods have been around a lot longer than 3000 years.

Laura Sweeney wants a boyfriend, so she does what every other teenage girl does: she calls Jupiter to send her one! Cupid comes disguised as a girl and sets her up on a series of double dates to see if he/she can find a match for Laura.
It really was a good book. It was funny in a laugh out loud kind of way. But it wasn't romantic at all. She falls in love on the last page with a guy she was friends with forever but never noticed really until literally the last page. It makes no sense, it's not romantic...but it is a comedy and I liked it.

I can't believe the average rating for this book on AMAZON is so low. This was a great, fun read. I loved all the characters - especially Cupidity (Cupid in disguise) and the main character Laura. Too often these days in teen novels, the female characters are petty and annoying but Laura was real and sweet if a little dorky (which is okay because I am too). I would recommend this to any woman (young or old) who likes a little romantic comedy fun.

Being a fan of Xena and Hercules this book was perfect for me. Though I believe they should have said it was Greek Mythogoly rather than Roman because of the names of the gods and goodess they choose.

This book is about a young girl, Laura, who asks Jupiter aka Zeus for a boyfriend. The gods are retired now but they come out of retirement to help her. They get Cupid to disguise himself as a beautiful teenage girl to get to know Laura. But things start going wrong and its up to Laura to get things figured out.

Its full of silly and crazy happenings. Its very light hearted and entertaining. I really enjoyed reading this one.

This was an OK book. Laura Sweeny is a high school senior who is obsessed with ancient Roman/greek mythology. She is also desperately in love with the 2 most unnatainable guys in school. Mythology lover that she is, Laura goes the old fashioned route to love: Jupiter, send me a boyfriend. What she gets is Cupidity, Cupid in disguise. Complete with bow and arrow, Cupidity turns the school into a love warground, setting up the most ridiculous couples. When Cupidity gets shot with one of her own arrows, she forgets that she is really a he-god in disguise! Its up to Laura to reverse the damage before Cupidity's disguise runs out, revealing him to be the fat little god he is! Can she manage to fix it and find true love?

This was the first book in the series (Royally Jacked, etc) that I have been able to get past page two on. Possibly because I have a love of mythology myself and I enjoy seeing what other people will do with it in their own work. The main character is very blah--she is sort of a more dedicated nerd version of Princess Mia (From the Princess Diaries). The gods that are in this are very clearly undeserving of being immortal and the point is made that they really do belong as old relics in a nursing home. It is predictable at the end. It did satisfy me in that one couple that Cupid puts together (the least likely one) stays together. However, issues that it raises for the characters--Laura's newly lovey dovey parents, Cupid's parental baggage, why Mercury cares for the humans more than anyone, why the ambrosia and nectar seems to be not doing its job and keeping the gods young anymore--these are things that are unanswered, and the presence of an epilogue could have helped greatly with a majority of them. I also felt that the resulting pair that Laura was made a part of was forced, I was cheering for her to embrace her singleness. Because maybe the 'moral' shouldn't have been that we don't need the Roman gods to get us to love anymore, but that we should concentrate on ourselves before we even try to involve anyone else in our lives in that way. After all it was made clear that most teens in relationships in this book were far from happy.

High school dating is one of the most challenging things a girl - or guy - is forced to face in their lives. After all, it's every man - or woman - for themselves. Then throw in the fact of the social totem pole, and you're pretty much looking for trouble. High school senior, Laura Sweeney, is no exception to this problem. Not that it really matters, since she hasn't had a date since...ever. This year, however, Laura plans on going out on dates and getting invited to the Homecoming Dance. The problem, she knows that she can't do it conventionally, so she calls to the higher Gods. The Roman Gods, to be exact. Suddenly, girls and guys from every social class are being thrown together in strange, mismatched relationships. It's now up to Laura to figure out how to stop the matchmaking mastermind she's called from far and above known as Cupid, before he throws everything related to high school dating out of whack.

As a fan of the previous books in the new SIMON PULSE ROMANTIC COMEDY series, I had a hunch that I would love CUPIDITY, and I truly did. Laura is a fun character whose obsession with Mythology is interesting, while at the same time hilarious. Her bright personality makes the book fun, while the touch of paranormal phenomena thrown into the story makes it truly fabulous. Teen readers looking for a cute romance for Valentine's Day will adore this new addition to the genre.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

Simon Pulse Romantic Comedies are always a fun read. These books are not necessarily the best written novels but the stories are always fun and you know you will get a happy ending. I think some adult romances could take a note from these books b/c they are characterized well which is much of the battle in writing any novel since you want your characters, for the most part, to be endearing and relatable.

terrible book. There was BARELY any type of plot and the characters were shallow and undeveloped. At first I thought the book was going to be some cute teen chickflick but APPARENTLY NOt... i couldn't even finish it at all >< its probably gathering dust on my shelf sumwhere....

I've been reading all of the 'romantic comedies' in this series, and there are the good ones and the so-so ones, but this is so far the only one that I thought was awful. It's so predictable, and most of the things they say are corny. If you want a good one read She's Got the Beat, Ripped at the Seams, or How NOT to Spend Your Senior Year