Rachel Gibson, I’m in No Mood for Love

I'm in No Mood for Love

Rachel Gibson

Avon, Oct 2006, $6.99

ISBN 0060773170

In her thirties, romance writer Clare Wingate thinks nothing of it that her live in lover Lonny has a low sex drive until she came home unexpectedly to see him making love with a Sears technician; a male technician that is. Stunned she still has to wear a pink bridesmaid dress as she has her best friend Lucy's wedding to attend that night. Unable to not down the champagne though she knows better from bitter experience, Clare drinks too much.

The next morning she wakes up stunned in a hotel room with a stud sleeping next to her, an act she had not done in years. Even more shocking he calls her Claresta, a name only her mom uses. She recognizes that she slept with her childhood friend investigative reporter Sebastian Vaughn, who always challenged her to games and won all their contests. They are attracted to one another, but she is embarrassed by her actions and he is not sure whether he wants a friendship or a romance as he believes you cannot have both.

I'm In No Mood For Love is an amusing contemporary romance in which the lead couple's doubts about what type of relationship to forge seems forced as both have the hots starting with her drunken binge through the morning after until the climax (pun intended). The lead duo is a likable pair as they struggle with their careers, their romance, and her truly martinet mother. Fans of lighthearted tales, in which the "Maytag man isn't the loneliest guy in town" will want to read this delightful humorous romp.

Harriet Klausner