Helpful Score: 3
Typical best friends who finally realize they are the "ones" and fall in love.
Helpful Score: 2
Cute story of geek who gets the girl he loves to make him into the uber bad boy" she so admires. takes her a while to catch on. Fun! Sparks fly.
Helpful Score: 1
A fun read of the younger loves we experience when 20ish...and that transition we go through in learning what qualities really matter in a mate!
Helpful Score: 1
Tracie loves those musician types in leather jackets. She's got a weakness for classic bad boys who seem too good to be true...and usually are.
Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. He's about as good as they come: a khaki-clad tech whiz with stock options in the bank who visits not only his own mother on Mother's Day, but all his father's ex-wives, too.
Then, fed up with his forlorn love life, he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. With an artful makdover, she succeeds in turning him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy, and soon it seems half of Seattle's womenwant Jon to themselves.
Including Tracie...
Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. He's about as good as they come: a khaki-clad tech whiz with stock options in the bank who visits not only his own mother on Mother's Day, but all his father's ex-wives, too.
Then, fed up with his forlorn love life, he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. With an artful makdover, she succeeds in turning him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy, and soon it seems half of Seattle's womenwant Jon to themselves.
Including Tracie...
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book!!!! So funny!!!
Helpful Score: 1
Mz. Goldsmith has done a superb job in writing a real funny novel with Jon errr, Jonny and his true love yet doesn't know it, Tracie. It tickled my sides and made me laugh pleasantly. I like to laugh because something is funny, not because someone or something thinks its funny and that I should laugh. 3 thumbs up, Olivia. Keep up the good work. I am getting ready to read your "The bestseller".
Helpful Score: 1
Very funny book. I couldn't put it down. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Helpful Score: 1
Good book. I enjoyed it.
Helpful Score: 1
It started out slow, but after I got to the middle, I couldn't put it down! Goldsmith writes with humor about the rituals of today's dating scene.
Helpful Score: 1
Romantic farce. An old fashion tale of love and friendship. The story
is infused with much humor, a compulsively readable plot and a hapless happy ending. A inhalable book for dreary days.
is infused with much humor, a compulsively readable plot and a hapless happy ending. A inhalable book for dreary days.
Helpful Score: 1
Romance and Comedy
Helpful Score: 1
...funny, sexy, hip and very clever......
I love all her books. The heroine and hero are great in this book. And watching them fall in love with each other?- Priceless!
Tracie teaches her best friend how to attract women, and ends up falling for him herself.
What woman hasn't had someone in her life that with a little- "CHANGE" could be WOW? This book tells what happens when a woman has the chance to make-over her best friend. Really good. I rate it as one of her best.
LOTSA laughs!!!! Good hearted story!! ead 3 times!!! LOL
Tracie loves those musician types in leather jackets. She's got a weakness for classic bad boys who seem too good to be true...and usually are.
Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. He's about as good as they come: a khaki-clad tech whiz with stock options in the band who visits not only his own mother on Mother's Day, but all his father's ex-wives, too.
Then, fed up with his forlorn love life, he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. With an artful makeover, she succeeds in turning him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy, and soon it seems half of Seattle's women want Jon to themselves.
Including Tracie...
Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. He's about as good as they come: a khaki-clad tech whiz with stock options in the band who visits not only his own mother on Mother's Day, but all his father's ex-wives, too.
Then, fed up with his forlorn love life, he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. With an artful makeover, she succeeds in turning him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy, and soon it seems half of Seattle's women want Jon to themselves.
Including Tracie...
tracieloves the musician types in leather jackets. jon on the other hand is a rich nerd. and wants traie to teach him a few tricks for the ladies, with an artfull make over she succeeds in turning him into a heartbreakingly HOT bad boy. the only trouble is every girl wants him . this is a fun read, of courxe it has a good ending. but you juist keep turning pages to catch what happens next, ,
Olivia Goldsmith was a great writer, all her books are great!
My first Goldsmith. This book was OK, I guess. Not a quick read, though -- it's really, really thick.
From Publishers Weekly
For all its hip talk and flaunting of high-tech accessories, Goldsmith's (The First Wives Club) cream-puff new read is an old-fashioned tale of love and friendship. In the new Seattle--a town suddenly stinking rich, "famous for its bad boys, good coffee, and Micro Millionaires"--Tracie Higgins is a young reporter for the Seattle Times. Though she has a musician-poet-lout boyfriend, every Sunday Tracie meets platonic chum Jonathan Delano for brunch. Jonathan is a techno-wizard for Micro/Con; he is responsible, dedicated, environmentally correct; good to his mother and stepmothers; and alas, an ugly duckling dweeb who hasn't had sex in a year. Tracie agrees to give him a "make over": the clothes, the moves, the haircut, the lines--in short, attitude. "Women don't want nice guys," she says. She should know. In fact, every man in the book (except Jon) is a selfish leech, abusive or indifferent. Every woman seems clueless. But the dialogue is crisp and funny, and though the characters are shallow, they're lively, comradely and comic. The makeover itself is wonderfully funny, especially as poor Jon remains pretty hapless on the pickup. Soon, however, his spiffy clothes, spiked hair, stale lines and casual cruelty turn his love life around. Has the loyal friend, the true lover, the decent, smart, stock-optioned man vanished into chic-ether? Read on.
From Publishers Weekly
For all its hip talk and flaunting of high-tech accessories, Goldsmith's (The First Wives Club) cream-puff new read is an old-fashioned tale of love and friendship. In the new Seattle--a town suddenly stinking rich, "famous for its bad boys, good coffee, and Micro Millionaires"--Tracie Higgins is a young reporter for the Seattle Times. Though she has a musician-poet-lout boyfriend, every Sunday Tracie meets platonic chum Jonathan Delano for brunch. Jonathan is a techno-wizard for Micro/Con; he is responsible, dedicated, environmentally correct; good to his mother and stepmothers; and alas, an ugly duckling dweeb who hasn't had sex in a year. Tracie agrees to give him a "make over": the clothes, the moves, the haircut, the lines--in short, attitude. "Women don't want nice guys," she says. She should know. In fact, every man in the book (except Jon) is a selfish leech, abusive or indifferent. Every woman seems clueless. But the dialogue is crisp and funny, and though the characters are shallow, they're lively, comradely and comic. The makeover itself is wonderfully funny, especially as poor Jon remains pretty hapless on the pickup. Soon, however, his spiffy clothes, spiked hair, stale lines and casual cruelty turn his love life around. Has the loyal friend, the true lover, the decent, smart, stock-optioned man vanished into chic-ether? Read on.
