3.5.Review on the short side today, cos the Turkey needs to be cooked. Liked this one. Like Rachel Gibson's writing style. Sebastian and Clare had known each other for years. He was the Gardner's son, she was always tagging after him when they were kids. He moved away, became a journalist, did not get back to see his Dad very often and had a bit of a strained relationship with him. Her fiance is caught doing the business with the Sears repairperson. Clare breaks off the engagement, gets drunk, e...

Clare Wingate's carefully ordered life fell apart before her eyes when she walked in on her fiance playing cowboy with the Sears repairman on the closet floor. But she's determined to set it aside til her best friend gets married. When she accidentally gets loaded the night of the reception, she awakens to find herself in a hotel room with a man she's known all her life but hasn't seen for ages.Sebastian Vaughan has known Clare since they were kids but seeing her in a sexy pink thong has put a d...

While the second in a series, you don't really need to read the first to fully enjoy this one. The first is really good, though, so I recommend you do, and it's nice getting to know the writer friends one book at a time.I was interested to see the romance of the romance writer and this didn't disappoint. I loved how the romantic soul was both her great strength (in seeing the better possibilities of people around her) and her great weakness (in wishing so much for the good, even ideal, to be tru...

3.5 STARS "Why can't you just leave things alone?""Because I love you and that changes everything.""Love," he scoffed. "What do you expect from me? Am I supposed to change who I am and fit my life to suit yours because you suddenly think you love me?""No. I know you can't change who you are, which is why you're the last person I wanted to fall in love with." I really, really liked the first 97% of this book. In fact, I was teetering on 4.5-5 stars, until page 273 of 279. That is the pr...

Well, I knew it couldn't last. After eight straight 5 star Rachel Gibson reads, I knew I was tempting fate. It sort of crashed and burned for me with this book, the first one I've read from the Writer Friends series. The premise sounded good to me--romance writer Clare catches her fiance in bed with another (a man!), turns her back on looking for Mr. Right and hooks up with childhood friend (sexy world renowned journalist/commitment-phobe Sebastian) in a "friends-with-benefits" arrangement, but

I'm In No Mood For Love is a friends-to-lovers story. We find out the reason behind Clare 's bizarre behaviour at Lucy's wedding in the previous book. After she finds her fiancé Lonny with the Sears repairman in her walk-in closet, Clare decides not to trust any more. I dislike cheating trope with passion but the description of what she found in her closet is hilarious ('She’d stood there with her great-grandmother’s pearls in hand, too shocked to move, while the man who’d fixed her Maytag the d...

2.5 to 3 stars. A light rom-com type book, but not very memorable. Nothing special. Sadly, nowhere near as good as the Chinooks Hockey series. The H in this one is a hot journalist who has been there and done that, but somehow as a character he hasn't really got the 'it' factor. The h is a bit of a mess. Engaged for ages to a gay man, and she was the only one who didn't know he was gay. Hmmmmm. Is she just dumb? Or blind?And she's also apparently addicted to shopping. And right there, my interes...

A light rom-com but not memorable. It was ok, but extremely cliche and unreal.Ps. I wasn't expecting the sex scenes, not really my style.

Minus one star because I skimmed the last chapter.

Good story about friends with benefits and two people who have a history! However like most Rachel Gibson books the love bits come towards the end so it might be a little slow for some readers. I suggest to listen to the audiobook for an easier ride

This is another book that gets the honor of a place on my bookshelf. Mostly because of Sebastian - he's that guy that everybody knows - all the daddy issues in the world, unable to settle down and likes it that way. . . until Claire. While I didn't care about Claire that much (because she was inconsistently written), Sebastion is the one who matured alot. I also need to give points for a realistic portrayal of getting STD testing after finding your spouse cheating on you.Still, you'll get some h...

Normally, this would be my type of book. The H/H sharing parts of their childhood, an obnoxious hero who loves to tease an uptight heroine, and a heroine who really has had the worst luck wiht men. But, somehow, it just wasn't as good as my expectations.I loved the childhood connection parts. They were cute, though I wish there was more mentioned. And the general set up was so promising. But as we get to know Clare, she becomes a so-so heroine. I think its because she is described as a girly-gir...

Good enough. That’s it. Nothing much to really say about it.[image error]Let’s list down the reasons:-An extremely “been there done that” kind of a plot line. Childhood enemies grow up to be gorgeous and fall in love with each other. Who hasn’t seen that?I could have happily overlooked the above point, had the execution been good. But the novel lacked on the story telling front. The romance was just so…..ordinary. At no point did the characters sizzle my pants with their passion. One doesn’t nee...

**2.5 stars**This didn't age well. This book is chock full of homophobic jokes ("We knew he was gay because he liked decorating", "I'm too manly to be around lace!") and misogyny (i.e. men commenting on a female colleague's breasts.) Yeah, I know this was the way it was - I'm from the same generation as the leads and I had to suffer many such comments and probably have a higher tolerance than younger folks. But gay bashing is so rampant in this book (almost every other page) that even I was supe...

I’m not even sure this book deserves the 2 stars I’m giving it. The synopsis made it seem so interesting, but the romance really fell flat and never seemed believable to me. On top of that, Sebastian is nearly unbearable, what with all his ‘stuff like that is girly, and real men don’t like it’ / ‘I don’t want to cry like a girl over my own mother’s death’, and that disgusting bit when they slept together and the condom broke, and while Clare was in a panic, he started going at it again. Ew. I fe...

3/3.5 StarsThis was a bit of a slower grab for me and I was surprised. The book started out with the "walk of shame" and had me laughing, but then the connection was broken and slow coming back. I did, in the end, enjoy the book, but not as much [or nearly as much] as others by this author.Not sure I'm as keen on the "Writer's series", but am moving to another .. running out of RG reads. Not a happy sitch.You may enjoy this one more than, I. It was good, so don't let me deter you.Happy Reading!

I've read several Rachel Gibson books and this one is my favorite so far. Very cute book. I really really enjoyed it.

Rachel Gibson is an auto buy for me from now on!!!!

What can I say about this book? KISS HER ALREADY! Sorry just had to get that off my chest! This was not a typical romance novel. Usually the heroine and the hero hit it off right away and something happens to separate them. But not this book so much tension and pretending they didn’t love each other. Ugh it took the whole book for them to realize that they loved each other. Overall it was a good book just annoying they didn’t get together faster.

DNFing for rampant homophobia. I get that her ex cheated on her with a man and that is EXTREMELY jarring but YIKES at the rampant stereotypes such as the 'classic' "what straight man wears pink!?

I'm In No Mood for Love4.5 StarsAfter catching her fiancé in flagrante delicto with the repairman, Clare Wingate gets rip roaring drunk and awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room. Unfortunately, the occupant is no stranger, but Sebastian Vaughan, the bane of her childhood existence who has turned into a sexy and successful journalist. While Clare is determined to forget the embarrassing episode, Sebastian has other ideas and isn’t shy about showing Clare exactly what she’s been missing ...Although

(3.5 stars) I vacillated between giving this book 3.5 or 4 stars, but finally settled for the former. Once Clare and Sebastian start their relationship, the book really takes off, but I wish it had happened earlier. I enjoy antagonistic relationships between the hero and heroine, but if it goes on for too long one starts to wonder how believable a lasting romantic relationship between the two of them is. Clare and Sebastian rub each other the wrong way pretty much all the time until they sleep t...

Really, I think I would rate this a two and a half. I'm In No Mood For Love follows up Sex, Lies and Online Dating, except the main character is Lucy's friend Clare, bodice-ripping romance writer extraordinaire. She becomes entangled with her childhood nemesis Sebastian after attending Lucy's wedding and then finding her fiancee Lonny having sex with the Sears repairman in her closet.This book, as opposed to the first in the series, is much harder to read. And once again, it goes from naughty se...

Light and fluffy. Just what I needed. Charming allergic-to-commitment hero who thinks he's getting what he wants when the heroine proposes a protecting-her-heart, friends-with-benefits arrangement. I was afraid the heroine was going to be one of those prissy rich girls, but I found her very easy to relate to and quite a sympathetic character. I loved the hero's point of view in this book, and it was really sweet to see the little things he did and thought that clued us in to his feelings even be...

2½ stars.Not enough romance! What a shame since Clare is a romance writer. After reading the other three books from the series (in no particular order), I was so looking forward to Clare's story. It took me a while to get my hands on this book. In this case, it is certainly not worth the wait. Too much reminiscence about the past and family problem to really concentrate on the build-up of the characters relationship with one another. I thought the first chapter was great, but it went spiraling d...

I have to say, the first half part of this book was more a 3 stars than a 4. It was a little booooooring. The heroine was boring and her life was boring too. I suppose she needed to be injected with life and that when the hero came.I liked very much how their relationship developed, from just friends to "friends with benefits" and then to a couple.I think this phase of "friends with benefits" is always complicated for a woman. Usually they're involved and it's not "just sex".BTW the book was goo...

3.5 LIGHT AND EASY STARS!Childhood crushes resurface after Clare finds her fiancé in a compromising position after she arrives home unexpectedly. She then wakes up in a strange hotel room with a hangover and no idea how she got there or who else is in the room. Fun, light and predictable, but delightful all the same!

A sweet romance about love sneaking up on a 30-something couple when they least expected, and least WANTED it to. There were really sexy moments, great lines, and even (for me) one or two tear-inspiring scenes. And, of course, the requisite HEA.

It's alright. The story revolves around Clare and Sebastian. They were childhood acquaintances with Clare being a prim girl and Sebastian a teasing boy. It was cut short when Sebastian told her about how babies were made. Clare was horrified. Apparently, Sebastian told her that the sperms were as big as tadpoles. Clare told her mother and afterwards, Sebastian went back to his mother. Sebastian didn't see his father for a long time after that. His parents were divorced and he visited his father

I found this book to be very meh. It started off well. Lonely girl gets drunk at a wedding and wakes up in the arms of a childhood rival. But after that it just dragged on and on with descriptions of scenery and the H fishing with his father or something. Eventually the H and the h start hooking up sporadically whenever he comes to town. Then boom. Last chapter she falls in love, breaks up with him, he sulks for awhile then decides he loves her too and they reunite. It was completely rushed like...