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I'll read anything Jennifer Crusie writes. Most of her novels multiple times, but this, like most of the other books she's written in collaboration, once is enough.

I laugh out loud at regular intervals with her solo books, but I realized as I was finishing this that I only laughed out loud once in this book. At almost 400 pages, I think it's too long. The story is just not tight enough and there are places where it drags. Ms. Crusie has said it takes her 2 years to write a solo book. I'm willing to wait. In fact, I'd rather wait and add a re-reader to my shelves that get a once-is-enough book.

I'm about halfway through this book now and uncertain whether I will continue. There's a sort of forced overcuteness to it. The female characters are somewhat individuated, but the males are sketchy and pretty much could be anybody. I kinda like the Goddess, but I'm already tired of the talking dogs.

This might make a funny movie, depending on the casting, because you'd have the different faces of the actors to help you keep the characters straight, and their work to lend some personality to them.

I think many readers might find this more entertaining than I do - admittedly much contemporary romance with supernatural elements is ho-hum to me - but even to such readers I'd say: At 7.99, don't buy it new, it isn't worth it.

I'll start by saying that I LOVE Jennifer Crusie's books, so I have high expectations for any book with her name on it. However, this is not her finest. It's good, but not as good as "Welcome to Temptation", "Tell Me Lies", "Agnes and the Hitman", etc. It was well worth the price (got it on sale at Target!) and enjoyable, but just not as great as I expected. The talking dogs were funny and the three main women were well-fleshed out, but the guys were pretty interchangeable. I wish they had narrowed down the number of females in the group as seven plus the goddess was too many. The concept was fasinating and the ending funny, but "The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes" (the other book Crusie has co-written with two other authors) was better.

I just could not get into this one even though I love all of Crusie books, maybe it was just me.

Great book! Interesting and different storyline than most!

I really enjoyed this compilation. At times making me laugh out loud and at other times bringing a tear to my eye.

I was hoping for a little more background, but with so many characters, I understand that would have made the book too long.

Overall and great read.