It was cute and fun, so I ended up giving this one 3.5 stars. Well, he asks her out on a date the very night she has to pretend to be her friends famous date (Brad Cruise, get it?). Her scientist colleague, Kyle, is the man she's been in love with for over ten years, but afraid to say anything. Claire has a unique ability that her friend manipulates her into exploiting to get a little revenge against the jerk who dumped her. This reminded me of a screwball comedy from the 80s (which I love). It just goes to show that you need to be in the mood to read certain books. I thought it was going to be way too light and fluffy and annoying as Claire used her power to deceive the man she was in love with. I actually enjoyed The Claire Switch Project, and I didn't expect to like it. Very cool! Four stars for the quality of the story, even though this one disturbed me.Īttempt #2 Went much better as I finished the Lynsay Sands story. I'm not into dark and sexual so much, and this story has that edge to it, hence I was a bit turned off. Kim Harrison is one heck of a writer and she pulls you into the stories that she spins.

This was a beautifully written, but dark, dark story. Maybe that was the point, and we will see her evolve as she spends more time around the more innocent and sweeter Rachel. It's good to have some perspective on Ivy, but I'm afraid I don't have a good opinion of her character right now. Her relationships with the men in this story were dark, tangled, and unsettling. It was not at all what I'd call a romance. I was distinctly disturbed by Ivy's backstory (from the Rachel Morgan books by Kim Harrison), featured in Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil. I started this one and put it down almost two years ago.

Dates from Hell by Kim Harrison