Anyone But You Jennifer Crusie After getting a divorce and turning forty Nina is finally getting the dog she always wanted. Only instead of a cute puppy she guilts herself into taking smelly middle-aged Fred home from the shelter. Alex is under pressure from his family to move into a lucrative medical specialization despite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,66,50,4,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-3","category-books","category-ebook","category-fiction","category-rated","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Anyone](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/33732-94x150.jpg\")
<\/span>After getting a divorce and turning forty Nina is finally getting the dog she always wanted. Only instead of a cute puppy she guilts herself into taking smelly middle-aged Fred home from the shelter.
\nAlex is under pressure from his family to move into a lucrative medical specialization despite the fact that he’s happy working in the ER.
\nWhen Fred ends up in Alex’s apartment rather than Nina’s one flight up a connection is made despite the fact that he’s ten years younger than Nina.
\nTypically for a Crusie novel this has good dialogue, likeable characters and the usual flaws. What marks this effort down a little is the section towards the end of the book where folk act stupidly in out-of-character ways for no reason than to introduce conflict and extend the story. I feel it’s a lazy device overused by authors when there are more interesting ways to keep conflict between characters available.<\/p>\n