Manhunting [Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged] [MP3 CD]

Jennifer Crusie (Author), Renée Raudman (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2007

Kate Svenson is attractive, successful, a brilliant businesswoman – and miserable. After three failed engagements, she realizes it’s time for a PLAN…an organized, detailed agenda with a clear goal: finding Mr. Right. The Cabins resort is ripe with eligible bachelors, all rich, distinguished and ambitious - just her type. And they’re dropping like flies around her…at least, that’s how Jake Templeton views the situation. After he’s stuck pulling her latest reject out of the swimming pool, Jake’s convinced this femme fatale is trouble. Especially for him. But can a man who’s sworn off ambition for good and a woman hanging from the top of the corporate ladder find common ground in the unpredictable territory called the heart, where the word proposal takes on a very different meaning…?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A sure bet . . . Jennifer Crusie's rollicking romance hits the jackpot." -- BookPage on Bet Me

"Crusie seems incapable of writing a boring page, or one that's not aglow." -- Kirkus Reviews on What the Lady Wants

"Few popular writers handle light romantic comedy as deftly as Jennifer Crusie." -- Boston Globe on Bet Me

"Wonderful, fresh, funny, tender, outrageous . . . Crusie is one of a kind." -- Booklist on What the Lady Wants --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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

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Product Details

• MP3 CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed; Library edition (January 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423305000
• ISBN-13: 978-1423305002
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,316,056 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

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123 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book hunting? This one's a keeper!, May 22, 2001

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Dianna Johnston "Compulsive Reader" (Joplin, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manhunting (Mira Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

As my first taste of a Jennifer Crusie book, I think I ordered well. While not a book for those who enjoy stories that require heavy brain use, readers of all types can gain pleasure from this book. For the serious in you, Manhunting touches on commitment and career issues. For the practical person, the orderly list-making and the perfecting art of finding a suitable mate will appeal. But most importantly, for the romantic reader, Manhunting will have you climbing up the wall with anticipation -- like any good romance book should.

Kate Svenson has what she thinks any woman would want: beauty, money, a successful career, and an apartment full of French Provincial furniture. Unfortunately, she also has too much time and lonliness on her hands. Tired of the single life, Kate and her best friend, Jessie, come up with the plan to beat all plans. Thus begins Kate's search for the perfect man. Armed with her list of qualifications (tall, distinguised and successful), Kate heads to Toby's Corner, Kentucky, home of The Cabins Resort and vertical golf -- a magnetic haven for the suave businessmen of Kate's desire.

Well, it started out a good plan... Within the first few days of her arrival, Kate has managed to attract men that meet her requirements but with disastrous results. The only thing decent out of the whole trip? The two new friendships she's made: Penny, gorgeous and engaged, who feels she needs to do a little harmless dating before she's tied down for good, and Jake, the rugged resort handyman and exact opposite of the man of her dreams. Hopeless and exhausted, Kate is on the verge of giving up. But wait...is there a light at the end of this tunnel after all?

Manhunting is a delicious romp of a novel, full of sexual tension and too much pride. And while readers can guess the ending before cracking the spine on this book, it does not deter whatsoever from the sheer pleasure of reading. Contains writing that veers toward inexperienced during the first few chapters, but soon Jennifer Crusie hits her groove and takes off like a woman on a mission. Excellent debut from an author worth reading again.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't walk, RUN and get this book!, June 21, 2000

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Jennifer Childress - See all my reviews

This review is from: Manhunting (Harlequin Temptation) (Paperback)

This is one of Ms. Crusie's best books ever. She has her standard quirky, fun-loving, bantering characters that Jennifer Crusie is known for, but the heroine and hero are such a HOT couple and fun that I didn't want it to end. Kate and Jake are the total opposite on the surface but once you get below that cover layer you find two people that are such a great compliment of one another that you want to push them faster together. And watching Kate deal with the dates from hell, and Jake give her a hard time over them, you just laugh all the way through the story. I loved this book and it is on my keeper shelf to be read when I need a pick-me-up.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth hunting down, August 23, 2000

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amf0001 (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manhunting (Harlequin Temptation) (Paperback)

This was Jennifer Crusie's first published romance and it's so sophisticated and slick and funny, that any would be writer will go green with envy.

It has all the trade mark Crusie attributes even at this early stage - great humour, even better energy level - it's a fun, uplifting read. It also has a great heroine in Kate, who is too thin, too successful but also too staid. She makes you aware of the price Kate has paid to get where she's at. And you laugh out loud at the terrible dates she manages to get for herself on her one woman mission to 'manhunt' herself a husband.

Jake is an equally great character. He is warm and lazy and funny. He also needs more direction in his life.

Both lovers help bring out the best in each other - which is what love's all about after all...

There was a quirk or two with the secondary characters (Jake's brother is unexpectedly brutal (emotionally, not physcially!) in one scene) so it's only a 4 star rating, but it shows Crusie to be the talent she so obviously is, from the word go.