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Hostile Makeover

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When sixty something Harvey Schwartz undergoes emergency by-pass surgery and is forced to take an earlier than planned retirement, his thirty-three years old daughter Shelley expects to be placed in charge of the family business Schwartz & Associates. Instead her dad selects hot shot Ross Morgan to run the advertising firm especially after she comes very late to a critical client meeting looking as if she had sex, which she did with her boyfriend Trey Davenport.

Shelley takes out her disappointment on Ross, who pulls no punches that she has not earned the position as he did and if she was not related to the owner she would have been fired years ago. He challenges her to prove her worth by handing her several dormant cases to drum up needed business. Shelley plans to prove him wrong even as their boardroom squabble lead to love.

This fun chick lit tale stars a Jewish American princess who cannot understand why daddy did not entrust her with the company (readers will know why) and a hardworking intelligent hunk who refuses to take any guff from her. The story line is lighthearted especially as her matchmaking mother keeps parading potential Jewish spouses that Shelley rejects because they come from her mom and she refuses to date anyone Jewish. A final twist makes for a fine boardroom to bedroom romance.

Harriet Klausner

I was really looking forward to reading the newest book, I even read the excerpt from Wendy Wax's website. It sounded cute and had some great possibility. I should have just read the excerpt and saved myself some money and time.

Shelley is your typical spoiled princess, daddy gave her a job and apparently one with very good money attached to it. She doesn't take anything serious until her father decides to hand over running the agency to her nemisis Ross. They have history, we don't really know why, there is no explanation about the "supply closet sex." They really don't interact,I would think in order to have some type of romance the couple should actually be in the same room together. There are so many characters in this book I would think you would need a program to keep them straight. There were just too many stories going on to really make this a good book. I will have to see if her next book is better. The other two reviews must be talking about a different book.

Shelley Schwartz is the quintessential Jewish American Princess. She is a spoiled daddy's girl who has a job at his ad agency in name only, and comes in when she feels like it - preferring to spend her days shopping, lunching, and getting spa treatments. And ditching the many eligible Jewish Atlanta bachelors her mother tosses her way while her shiksa best friend decides to convert to Judaism to find a suitable husband (a little too "Sex in the City" if you ask me).

Shelley feels that she is ready for more responsibility in the form of a new account, but when she is too busy catering to a boyfriend's sexual needs, the account is given to her nemesis, Ross Morgan, who is second in command at the agency. In the past, the two shared an erotic interlude in a supply closet that neither acknowledges. When her dad has a debilitating heart attack and has to step down, rather than pas the baton on to his daughter, he passes it to Ross, much to Shelley's angst, the only stipulation is that Shelley is to remain gainfully employed..

Then Ross lays down the gauntlet - he may have to keep her on the payroll, but she sure as heck better spend eight hours in the office. He adds insult to injury by demoting her and giving her a series of dead accounts, hoping she will fail. But to everyone's surprise, including Shelley's, she rises to the occasion and comes up with some really great (and costly) ideas for her clients, and soon has Ross impressed. Before long, a supply closet is not enough for them, and while shooting a commercial in LA, the two get pretty cozy. By the next morning, Ross apologizes for it happening, and she is crushed. Will Shelley ever learn from her sins of the past?

Wax's third novel was a little difficult for me to like, since the main character is unabashedly spoiled and her own worst enemy. I also found the ending to be a little to pat and trite. The premise had me hooked, but the execution was a little lacking and full of cliches. But no one can write humorous antics like Wax - even better is her first novel, "Leave it to Cleavage."

At Swartz & Associates, Shelly has the label of being the founder's daughter who never took her position at the company seriously. In Atlanta, she spends money like crazy (which isn't hard to do) and shows up to work when her appointments at the Spa or her shrink permits. Nobody at the company takes her seriously.

When her Father is rushed to the hospital for an emergency bypass surgery, Shelly learns that Ross Morgan will be taking over as President of Schwartz & Associates. Shelly is not pleased about this because of her love/hate relationship with Morgan.

Shelly makes a promise to herself that she is going to whatever is neccessary to keep her job and prove Morgan wrong that she is just a "Daddy's Girl".

This was my first read by Wendy Maxx and I enjoyed it. It was a funny, fast read centered around the hustle & bustle of Atlanta.

If you enjoy a good sense of humor and a little attitude in your main charaters, you will love this book as much as I did. Yes, it was a little predictable. But, you usually don't read these kinds of books for their thrilling plots. Don't take it too seriously, sit back, and enjoy a comical and relaxing read.

The story is focused mainly on the heroine and her attempts to prove to herself, her family and her new boss that she really can work hard in the family ad agency business. It's funny, it's a fast read and I enjoyed it a lot.

I thought this looked good and the jacket sounded good so I bought it even though I haven't read any of Max's other books. I wished I had just found something else. The main character is so annoying and selfish that I couldn't like her. If you can't like the main character its sorta hard to read a book. The romance at the end sort of appears out of nowhere and you wonder how the poor guy could fall in love with this pathetic, selfish spoiled girl. Also, the parents manipulating her into falling in love with the guy by NOT mentioning that he is jewish was juvenile.