Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

Blurb from gr: Thirty-three-year-old Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her current boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sisters' wedding. But she's downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now "ex" boyfriend bet hunky Calvin Morrisey that he can't take her home and bed her. In fact, she's so angry at them both that she lets Cal take her to dinner and decides to string him along until after her sisters' wedding. Minerva pegs Cal as a handsome "used car salesman of seducers." Cal thinks Minerva is a "cranky, starving, risk-averse statistician." But Minerva's hormones keep whispering "this one," although she knows the gorgeous Cal isn't the man for her practical, white-cotton-bra, several-pounds-over-thin, self. And Cal is blindsided by the lust he feels for the voluptuous, sensual woman he glimpses behind Min's actuary exterior. While Cal and Min struggle to deal with their mutual distrust and attraction, their friends and families try their best to interfere and direct the progression of the unlikely romantic connection.

Acquired: paperback; purchased by me

I don't normally read romance novels. Lately I'd wondered what all the hype was about, so I decided to give the genre a try. I found a book blog website, and took note of a few highly-praised titles.

This was the second romance novel I read, and probably the last modern-day romance I will read. It was okay - there was nothing wrong with the book, other than it's just not my style. I think if I'm going to read romance, it will be either historical or paranormal romance.

In my experience, no normal, handsome, and well-off man is really going to be getting all hot and bothered over how a chubby so-so looking woman scarfs down doughnuts in front of him.

All in all, I would recommend the book if you are already a romance fan, or like modern fiction, but I think I'll stick to my normal scifi/fantasy books.

My rating: 5.5/10