What Have I Done For Me Lately by Isabel Sharpe

Ryan Masterson was the dream of every girl in New York City, including Christine Bayer. Sexy and successful, he would make the perfect husband for Christine. So Christine moved into the apartment across the hall from Ryan and began working her way into his life. After six months, of being subtle, Ryan finally asked her out on a real date. But Christine’s plans were shattered when Jenny Hartmann sent Ryan a drink while they where enjoying their dinner.

Jenny Hartmann was everything Ryan used to be. Wild and impulsive, Jenny never wanted to go back to her former life where she’d do anything to please a man. When she finds Ryan’s picture in the paper, Jenny knows she needs to return to the past and show Ryan she wasn’t the boring person he thought she was. Except she never expected to find that Ryan had ditched his motorcycle jacket for a pin-striped business suit. Nor did she expect to find Ryan dating a fairy tale princess.

With two very different girls chasing after him, Ryan needs to choose between one of the hottest women he’s ever known and the woman that represents the new life he spent the last eight years creating.

This is perhaps the strangest Blaze I’ve ever read. Two women. One man. Someone has to lose. The back cover gives away the answer, so you’re actually better off not reading the cover. This book is definitely a refreshing change and I highly recommend reading it. Of course in the end, everyone gets what they really want so you won’t be disappointed.

Now the real question is this chick-lit or something else? To me this isn’t chick-lit. It feels like a single title romance novel more than anything else. Perhaps something like Danielle Steele might write. Though I suspect if I wrote it, it would have had a much different ending :; . I'm hoping that next month’s All About Attitude might be a real chick-lit novel.

Details: Blaze #244, April 06

Bottom line: A very good book