What Men Want

by Deborah Blumenthal

What Men Want by Deborah Blumenthal released on Jan 31, 2006 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and nutritionist who now divides her time between writing children's books and adult novels. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times (including four years as the Sunday New York Times Magazine beauty columnist), and a home design columnist for Long Island Newsday. Her health, fitness, beauty, travel, and feature stories have appeared widely in many other newspapers and national magazines including New York’s Daily News, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Self, and Vogue.

Blumenthal lives in New York City.

Reviews

[ShyAnn64 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jenny George, a successful political columnist at the New York Daily has only one thorn in her side: Slaid Warren, her handsome rival at a competing paper. When Jenny uncovers a possible scandal involving public officials in the city's film office taking bribes from a Hollywood mogul, Jenny's editor decides to send her to the posh hotel in the Caribbean where the meeting is taking place. While Jenny is excited about scooping Slaid, she's reluctant to leave her boyfriend, Chris, alone around Christmastime working on an ad campaign featuring a beautiful model. But Jenny dutifully pursues the story, even getting close the movie producer, who clearly wants to bed her. But when Slaid Warren shows up, Jenny starts to worry about getting scooped--and about her growing interest in Slaid

[Courtney · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't completely understand the plot. Girl worries about losing boyfriend, loses boyfriend, and then gets new boyfriend?

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was cute! I finished it quickly, so that’s a bonus. I liked the characters and the plot. All in all, it was cute. A solid 3 stars.

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cover's teaser and the title are really rather misleading. I expected the boyfriend to dump the MC right at the beginning, but it doesn't come until nearly two-thirds through the book. The teaser makes it sound like she and her competitor start heating things up in the Caribbean, but really, they don't actually do a lot of heating at all. You can tell they plan to, but it doesn't happen before the end of the book. And I like that. The book isn't about hot sex; the book is about Jenny figuring out what she really wants, and the relationship between her and Slaid is about a connection they feel I also liked that, while Jenny had some things about herself that she'd change (like the typical "drop x pounds" thing), she wasn't totally obsessed with her image. Some books that are labelled "chick lit" are really image conscious: everything's about how fat the narrator is or feels or what she wore or what they wore or how her hair just ruined her day. But Jenny George is so much more …grounded. Yes, her appearance matters to her. Yes, she'll dress nice and do her make-up. Yes, there are things about her appearance that she'd like to change. But these things aren't always on her mind, and they don't stop her from living her life; her mind is occupied with things that matter, like her relationships and her job. Not everything leads back to her butt. And I really appreciate this. I'm tired of books geared toward women being about either the sex or the size of the narrators butt. Or, in some unfortunate cases, both. Does that make this book literature? No. It's still light and fluffy. But it's more like popcorn instead of cotton candy. I like cotton candy once in a while, but I like popcorn a lot more.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

So-so. It was a book about a columnist, that was kind of interesting. I really felt disappointed in this book though. There weren't may interesting messages, except for one character that had moved to the wilderness to escape the pace of modern life, even though he was perfectly OK when had to come to the city. There was some commentary on the role of journalism in society, but nothing too earth-shattering.

Honestly, I felt like there were so many characters and stories that a lot got left out... I'm guessing this one was edited way down. End result = so-so.

[Shea · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book took me over a month to finish, which for me means it wasn't all the great. The plot didn't do much for me; there was nothing there that made me have to finish it other than the fact that once I got halfway through I figured it'd be dumb not to. Definitely not something where I'd read something else by the author (unless by accident).

[Margaret]

This was better than I thought it might be although I thought the ending was rather predictable. Like a lot of chick lit books, I thought the main character (in this case, Jenny) was a little on the ditzy side, which led to some bad decisions on her part and it goes on from there ... this of course does make it entertaining.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

J'ai d'abord commencé par trouver l'histoire mollassonne mais gentillette, puis petit à petit ma vision de Jen s'est modifiée, et je me suis mise à réellement l'apprécier au point de me mettre à sa place pour traiter cette ordure de ##### de tous les noms. Le style de Blumenthal aidant, on se laisse facilement porter par son écriture pour finalement passer un agréable moment.

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a book that you can devour in one sitting. This is one of those. I thought, perhaps, there could've been a little more closure though. The ending lacked a bit compared to the rest of the book.

[Maria (Ri) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bleh. I found this one predictable and only very mildly entertaining. It seems to be the same old chick lit fodder, just mixed up a little bit. At firt it seems like there will be a bit of a mystery, but sadly, no, just more predictable plot. I found the title to be ill fitting as well.

[Maryann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because when it's the time of year when I get overwhelmed with school stuff, I need a little time for myself-sort of good-to-read-in-the bathtub novel. This one fit the bill. Surprising? No, but cute...and sometimes that's exactly what one needs.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sent to me by a BookCrosser and I thought I'd give it a read before releasing, despite the mixed reviews it received. Pains me to say that I didn't listen to reviewers. At first, it had the potential to rise above the ordinary, but alas, never made the leap -- at least not for this reader.

[Tressa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not sure how I feel exactly about What Men Want. I liked Jenny even though she seemed to dwell constantly upon the possibility that her boyfriend, Chris, was cheating on her. I did think that the ending was hopeful.

[Celeste Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute book! I really enjoyed this novel..I'm going to have to check out some more books by this lady!

[Cheryl · Rating 2 out of 5]

the only kind of book i can while feverish and sick, some mindless chick lit!

[Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy and enjoyable read.

[Elsa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Everything happened at the end.

[Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

“liked it -- only just at the end, thought it had a weak, not very satisfying ending.”