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Hex and the Single Girl

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Emma Hutch thinks of herself as a good witch. She helps women find true love--or at least to get a date with the man of their current dreams--by placing a psych picture of the woman in the man's mind. The man assumes he's having sexy thoughts and--voila, a date. As clients go, Daphne Wittfield is no prize, but she's attractive, motivated, and she'll pay Emma's price. Which is handy since Emma is about to lose her much-loved New York apartment. Daphne wants a date with a sexy software billionaire and Emma intends to oblige. No matter how attractive she finds William Dearborn.

Emma's psychic power complicates her life in a number of ways but one of the worst is how it affects her sexually. Every man she dates ends up running--and the latest date finally helps her figure out why when he admits to seeing erotic visions of--William Dearborn. There's a chance for another match, but not before Emma finds herself in trouble with a dangerous accountant.

Author Valerie Frankel combines a touch of magic, chick-lit circles of friends, and a deft touch of humor to create an engaging story. I was reading this book at a library--and embarassed myself by laughing out loud twice. Librarians may not be as tough on noise as they once were, but I still wasn't a favorite. Emma makes a great heroine with her combination of self-doubt, fear, and weird self-confidence all wrapped into one package. William Dearborn isn't on the stage much, but Frankel makes the most of what time she gives him. The story, though, is really about Emma and her friends.

One weakness in the story--the subplot about corporate embezzlement never quite came together. Still, HEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL is a lot of fun, well written, and definitely an enjoyable read.

Hex and the Single Girl is pee in pants funny. I love Val Frankel's books, and this is her best yet. High concept: Emma is a "Good Witch" who can put pictures into people's heads. She uses this skill in matchmaking, dresses up in costumes and stalks men all over Manhattan for her clients. So many scenes made me laugh, but I'm thinking of one in a hospital emergency room when Emma was disguised as a Naughty Nurse. Val Frankel is more imaginative than any other chick lit writer out there. And funnier.

i loved reading this book, it was so funny that at times, i had to stop reading because i was laughing so hard. this is not your typical chick lit or romance novel. it's different and refreshing to read. if you like books about successful women or women who is finding her own path and identity, this is for you. and the love interest being an english guy was a plus as well. loved it loved it loved it

I found this book very fun and interesting. It has a great way of weaving in the "magic powers" of the good witch main character so that the story remains fairly believable. If you've enjoyed other novels by Valerie Frankel, you will not be dissapointed by her latest.

For some reason most of Valerie Frankel's books have such a great plot and characters, yet I get a little bit bored while reading it. I did think this was a cute story and I liked most of the characters, yet there was so much going on at once that it was hard to follow. It was enjoyable since I like to read paranormal chick lit like Shanna Swendson's books (something to look at if you liked this book).

There are many novels out there that use the premise of match-making to set the stage for their main characters. But Ms. Frankel puts an interesting twist onto this plot point by adding a touch of the supernatural. Emma Hutch, heroine and "Good Witch" has the ability to imprint images onto the minds of unwitting men in order to entice them to fall in love with her clients. Things go slightly awry when one of those men turns into the man of her dreams. Basic "fairy tale" stuff, but very enjoyable in this modern world.

I bought this book on an impulse - it looked like a fun, amusing and light-hearted read. And I wasn't wrong, as I was smiling with nearly every page.

Emma is very likeable for a witch, and one can easily empathize with her as she struggles to strike a balance in her life - using her power scrupulously to make a living, doing something about her non-existent love life and helping those near and dear. I love her relationship and interaction with her best friend, Victor. Her love interest, William, however, isn't as well-developed a character as Emma, hence he isn't very interesting and I can't feel for him.

There are too many side-plots which distract the story - the man in the park, the embezzlement and the villain, and Emma's countless rescue of the hapless Hoff and Susan, which by far irritates me the most. There should have been more focus on Emma and William.

All in all, a light, entertaining read.

Valerie Frankel's heroine Emma Hutch is surprisingly believable and utterly captivating - a good witch with orange eyes and a rare gift- but becomes increasingly unbelievable because she is SO utterly gorgeous and a super-sexual dynamo. The story itself got campier and more over the top silly with the half-baked corporate embezzlement storyline,lashings of real life celebrities thrown in the mix (in unflattering ways). Not to mention happy endings for everyone. New York came across well in all its goofy denizened,luminous glory and the supporting characters are fun. I just got bored with Emma's romance with boring William Dearborne. And this was a short book!

This is my first Valerie Frankel book. If Hex is any indication of what I can expect from her backlist, I've got some books to buy. The characters were complex, and the plot was more complicated than most novels in this genre, which I, for one, appreciated. Emma, the main character, and Liam, the hero, had some red hot sex scenes (also appreciated). Overall, an enjoyable, laugh riot with surprises all along the way. Highly recommended.

I was told that I simply MUST READ this adorable book, so I did. I could not have been more dissappointed with a book. I wasn't expecting anything life-changing, after all, look at the title, but I was looking forward to a fun, deliciously girly romp through the city with a "good witch".
Wow. I considered throwing the book in the trash 50 pages in, but I wanted to give it a chance. Down to the last page I was rolling my eyes and in sheer disgust. There is not the first likeable character in the book, it is filled with vomit inducing puns, and is beyond outlandish in it's caricatured cast (the sweet, successful disarmingly handsome object of affection, the ditzy model, the lean, mean witchy advertising exec out to stomp anyone in her path, the beyond metro sexual photographer best friend that understand EVERYTHING, the amber-eyed perfect female specimen otherwise known as the good witch, the middle-aged swindler convicted of stealing over 6 million from clients-who by the way uses a law office called Dooey, Fleecum, and Howe)... I felt like almost everything that happened is unrealistic (and I approached this book total open to the believablity of a woman that can with simple touch put images into ones head). Does anyone really believe that over 200 people can be invited to a Halloween party in NYC the day of and show up hours later as if they had no other plans?
It was such a dissapointment, the language was juvenile, and the story/charater development resembled a thwarted attempt into writing by a 13 year old girl.