Book Review

FAKING IT (2012)

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Writer: Jennifer Crusie; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: St. Martin's Press

After best-selling predecessors like Fast Women and Welcome to Temptation, Crusie has her formula for romance down cold. Smart, secretly vulnerable heroines -- in this case Tilda Goodnight, the cracked center of a family of art forgers -- meet wayward men who are worth setting straight. The Goodnights, three generations of no-nonsense broads who run a debt-ridden gallery, divide men into categories of muffins (dependable) and doughnuts (dangerous). And do these girls have an appetite for destruction. The sex scenes are sublimely silly (''Davy's kiss tasted like vodka and disaster'') and the story of mistaken identity is a hoot. Oh, go ahead. Indulge.

Originally posted Aug 09, 2002 Published in issue #666 Aug 09, 2002 Order article reprints

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