Customer Reviews
Excellent but be careful - By: Ms. Mary K. Wyles, 13 Jun 2008 
I absoloutely loved this book.. along with everything else Rachel has written. It's alll about a writer looking for the truth of her past but of course fallls for the 1 person she shouldnt....
However i just wish some 1 had warned me that this book goes in a certain order = P... I being a bit stupid read I'm in no mood for love.. then i read Not another bad date.. then tangled up in you & im currently readin sex, lies & online dating!! On Im in no mood for love i thought it was cool that she used the same character in it that was the main character I'm in no mood for love... then i started to realize that each story was about each character's lookin for love.
Just so u know they are 4 writers & friends!! Anyway if u dont want to know what happens before each book read it in the order of: Sex, lies & online dating....I'm in no mood for love...Tangled up in you... then not another bad date!! Anyway hope you enjoy the book = D
Great Read - By: Cecily Thomas, 07 Mar 2008 When I started reading this book, I didn't think I was going to like it as much as the author's others but boy I was wrong, I should have had more faith in Rachel Gibson's ability to draw you in & keep you hooked. This is a great story & my only complaint it I wish Rachel could write faster. I can't wait for her next book in the series, Another Bad Date!! If you like Rachel Gibson you will also love anything by Susan E Phillips.
All Tangled Up! - By: Mockingbird, 11 Feb 2008 
This is my favourite Rachel Gibson read, esp. from the sort-of-series of 3 novels (a fourth to come) that feature the same 4 writer friends. The reason that this is my favourite - Maddie. She's just such a refreshing 'chick-lit heroine': kickass, in-your-face, rude, blunt & oh-so-sexy. Unlike her friends - of whom Clare & Lucy's stories have so far been explored - Maddie is the one with the most substance, the most depth & the most reality. Ditto for Mick, as opposed to the other men in the other 2 novels. The plot line is slick (to use Gibson's slightly over-used term!) & gripping, & the romance is hot like hell!
It's not necessary to read the other two novels - Sex, Lies & Online Dating & I'm in no Mood for Love - before you read this, but I found, having read them out of order & then going back to them in order again, that it was reallly fun to see how Gibson weaves snippets of her previous novels into the current ones. Smalll mentions of previously loved characters - such as the "after" part of the happily-ever-after - reallly make the reading experience whole. I also found that one of her earliest novels - Truly, Madly, Deeply - was also revisited in this particular novel, & we saw the 'after' of Delaney, Nick, Louie & Lisa, which was fun. It reallly adds that whole "smalll town" appeal that Gibson clearly strives for.
My only gripe about Gibson's novels, esp. the writer series, is that a lot of - try MOST of - the language is very similar. The vocabulary is quite limited, so often we see exact phrases being transported from one novel/situation to the next. Sometimes you forget which novel you are reading, because they alll sound so similar. I think a variation of vocabulary - esp. to describe the sex scenes, which alll sound the same, no matter how hot they are! - would definitely notch up an extra star.
But apart from that, I am overalll quite pleased with Gibson's style & her presentation of the characters. Like I said, Maddie & Mick (and Snowballl!) make this novel for me, & I can't wait for the fourth & final installlment of the writer series, as well as any future Gibson offerings!
I am still a little gun shy after the last two Gibson books - By: B Haven, 04 Feb 2008 but this book was a definite step in the direction of her classics. I liked the seriousness that Maddie & Mick's shared history lent their relationship, not the substance of that past, but the fact that it bound them in a way they could choose to change for the future. As for Maddie keeping her real identity from Mick, I'm ambivalent about that, because had she told him right up front, I think he may have taken his sister's victimized approach to the situation & eschewed a neutral relationship with Maddie. Or if they became close, would his feelings have come from some weird sense of guilt or responsibility? In keeping it from him, it's true that Maddie was being dishonest, but that didn't belittle her in my eyes, because I think it was good for Mick to have to find his own way to forgiving her after realizing he loved her. It made it more difficult for him to ignore what REALLY happened & to face the fact that if anyone had a right to feel like a victim it would be Maddie (but she didn't). I don't know; I liked the untidiness of the emotional connections here, & I thought they made sense. And at least the stakes were higher than in See Jane Score, where Jane keeps her identity from Luc!! I'd also recommend, if you missed Tino Georgiou's novel--The Fates, getting a copy--absolutely fab..
WOW - By: Sarah Dix, 03 Feb 2008 This was soooooooooo good. I have alll Rachel Gibson's Little black dress books & I can't put them down. I got 4 for xmas & I read them alll over 2 weeks.
Just the build up to Maddie telling Mick who she reallly was was brilliant. I read & read until she told him. The fairy tale ending in Rachel's books always make me smile at the end & that's what i think makes them great.
Bravo!!!
Everyone read her books!
