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Crazy For You
When Sexton St. Croix hires Bree to rid his cruise ship of a ghost named Daisy who has a penchant for chaos, he gets more than he bargained for when he is drawn into an eighty-year-old love triangle and surrenders his heart to this lovely clairvoyant. Original.
288 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 2005
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Kate Angell
37 books591 followersUSA Today bestselling author Kate Angell lives in Naples, Florida. She’s an animal lover, avid reader, and sports fan. Bookstores are her second home. She takes coffee breaks at Starbucks. Her philosophy: Out of chaos comes calmness. Enjoy the peace.
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May 9, 2012
Actions were not supported with logical motivations. I was not engaged. I wanted it to be over.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I had technical problems with plot and motivations. But if you’re in the mood for a mindless escape with this subject matter, you might like it. The ghost Daisy is a flapper from the 1920s. Her dialogue is full of flapper speak which is fun. For example “Nothing but flat tires. Get a wiggle on. Lets ankle.” (flat tire: dull boring person) There is a Jazz Age Glossary at the end.
Sexton is a wealthy playboy famous for lots of sex and lots of women. After having sex for the first time with Bree, he thinks “H’ed never had such phenomenal sex. The woman was amazing.” I’m shaking my head, what? She was passively receptive, in the missionary position, not doing anything unusual. I think it was a quickie. Was there some sort of chemical zing going on to give him a “phenomenal feeling?”
My biggest problem is character actions do not fit character goals and motivations. The author has characters do things because she wants them to, not because it fits them. The worst instance is the killer. For reasons I still don’t understand, he plans to shoot and kill A, but accidentally kills B. Then he sees A, does not kill A, and does something different. And then A’s actions do not make sense to me. Third, Sexton and Bree know each other for a couple of days. He plays tour guide for her as they visit islands. Then all of a sudden, before they have sex, he thinks about marrying her. “For the first time in his life, he desired a woman for something other than her body. He loved Bree for her intuition and her sweet disposition.” I didn’t see his motivations for this. A similar thing happens with Daisy and Randolph back in 1925. Randolph (in first class) meets Daisy (lower class). Within one day he decides to break his engagement with Eloise and marry Daisy. “Daisy offered him smiles and sassiness, and a future that would never be boring. She brought him joy.” I think they had one breakfast together, a short talk, and then he sees her eating and socializing at a dinner dance. How was this enough to know he wants to marry her?
I was slightly disturbed with the illogic of Bree’s changing psychic ability. When she first meets Sexton, every time she touches him she relives his past sexual experiences. After a couple days of touring around, she no longer senses anything about him. Now they can have sex without her seeing other women. That was convenient. Bree didn’t lose her ability to touch and have visions about Daisy.
I had a minor problem with Sexton’s name. Throughout the book everyone calls him Sex. That was too cutesy for me.
STORY BRIEF:
There are three stories, broken into brief scenes, interrupting each other, and being told throughout the book. I don’t mean to sound critical, it’s a writing style. It can be a good style. The three stories follow.
In 1925 Randolph and Daisy are on a cruise ship. Authorities believe Daisy shot Randolph and then shot herself. Today Daisy’s ghost still haunts the ship.
Sexton’s family owns the ship which has been inactive all these years due to the ghost. Sexton hires independent psychics for a week to get rid of the ghost. Bree is one of them. About twice a day when she touches something on the ship she goes into a trance and has a vision about Daisy. Each vision is a scene from the past. After about ten of these she has the complete story.
The third story is the relationship between Cecelia (Sexton’s sister) and the former football player security guard Jackson. She’s been in lust/love with Jackson for three years. He resists her because he feels too low class for her. They have some hot sex (hotter than Sexton and Bree).
DATA:
Story length: 288 pages. Swearing language: moderate. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 6. Total number of sex scene pages: 14. Setting: 1998 and 1925 mostly aboard a cruise ship near Florida and the Caribbean islands. Copyright: 2005. Genre: contemporary paranormal romance.
OTHER BOOKS:
I’ve reviewed the following Kate Angell books. Dates are copyright dates.
Boys of Summer (Richmond Rogues baseball team):
4 stars. Squeeze Play (Book 1) 2006
4 stars. Curveball (Book 2) 2007
3 stars. Strike Zone (Book 3) 2008
5 stars. Sliding Home (Book 4) 2009
3 stars. Ho, Humbug, Ho (in anthology Santa, Honey) 2009
2 ½ stars. Sweet Spot (Book 5) 2012
Other:
1 star. Calder’s Rose 2003
2 stars. Crazy For You 2005
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I had technical problems with plot and motivations. But if you’re in the mood for a mindless escape with this subject matter, you might like it. The ghost Daisy is a flapper from the 1920s. Her dialogue is full of flapper speak which is fun. For example “Nothing but flat tires. Get a wiggle on. Lets ankle.” (flat tire: dull boring person) There is a Jazz Age Glossary at the end.
Sexton is a wealthy playboy famous for lots of sex and lots of women. After having sex for the first time with Bree, he thinks “H’ed never had such phenomenal sex. The woman was amazing.” I’m shaking my head, what? She was passively receptive, in the missionary position, not doing anything unusual. I think it was a quickie. Was there some sort of chemical zing going on to give him a “phenomenal feeling?”
My biggest problem is character actions do not fit character goals and motivations. The author has characters do things because she wants them to, not because it fits them. The worst instance is the killer. For reasons I still don’t understand, he plans to shoot and kill A, but accidentally kills B. Then he sees A, does not kill A, and does something different. And then A’s actions do not make sense to me. Third, Sexton and Bree know each other for a couple of days. He plays tour guide for her as they visit islands. Then all of a sudden, before they have sex, he thinks about marrying her. “For the first time in his life, he desired a woman for something other than her body. He loved Bree for her intuition and her sweet disposition.” I didn’t see his motivations for this. A similar thing happens with Daisy and Randolph back in 1925. Randolph (in first class) meets Daisy (lower class). Within one day he decides to break his engagement with Eloise and marry Daisy. “Daisy offered him smiles and sassiness, and a future that would never be boring. She brought him joy.” I think they had one breakfast together, a short talk, and then he sees her eating and socializing at a dinner dance. How was this enough to know he wants to marry her?
I was slightly disturbed with the illogic of Bree’s changing psychic ability. When she first meets Sexton, every time she touches him she relives his past sexual experiences. After a couple days of touring around, she no longer senses anything about him. Now they can have sex without her seeing other women. That was convenient. Bree didn’t lose her ability to touch and have visions about Daisy.
I had a minor problem with Sexton’s name. Throughout the book everyone calls him Sex. That was too cutesy for me.
STORY BRIEF:
There are three stories, broken into brief scenes, interrupting each other, and being told throughout the book. I don’t mean to sound critical, it’s a writing style. It can be a good style. The three stories follow.
In 1925 Randolph and Daisy are on a cruise ship. Authorities believe Daisy shot Randolph and then shot herself. Today Daisy’s ghost still haunts the ship.
Sexton’s family owns the ship which has been inactive all these years due to the ghost. Sexton hires independent psychics for a week to get rid of the ghost. Bree is one of them. About twice a day when she touches something on the ship she goes into a trance and has a vision about Daisy. Each vision is a scene from the past. After about ten of these she has the complete story.
The third story is the relationship between Cecelia (Sexton’s sister) and the former football player security guard Jackson. She’s been in lust/love with Jackson for three years. He resists her because he feels too low class for her. They have some hot sex (hotter than Sexton and Bree).
DATA:
Story length: 288 pages. Swearing language: moderate. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 6. Total number of sex scene pages: 14. Setting: 1998 and 1925 mostly aboard a cruise ship near Florida and the Caribbean islands. Copyright: 2005. Genre: contemporary paranormal romance.
OTHER BOOKS:
I’ve reviewed the following Kate Angell books. Dates are copyright dates.
Boys of Summer (Richmond Rogues baseball team):
4 stars. Squeeze Play (Book 1) 2006
4 stars. Curveball (Book 2) 2007
3 stars. Strike Zone (Book 3) 2008
5 stars. Sliding Home (Book 4) 2009
3 stars. Ho, Humbug, Ho (in anthology Santa, Honey) 2009
2 ½ stars. Sweet Spot (Book 5) 2012
Other:
1 star. Calder’s Rose 2003
2 stars. Crazy For You 2005
August 24, 2025
Very fun and original - felt like a 2000s rom com movie!
November 21, 2012
This book is fantastic. I loved the setting on a cruise ship and all of the characters. How can you not love a guy nicknamed Sex? His full name is Sexton St.Croix and he's desperate to get a ghost off his cruise liner Majestic. Daisy Alton murdered his great-grandfather's brother and then herself, or so he thinks. Bree Emery is a clairescient and is one of the hundreds of psychics aboard who are all trying to get the $100,00 reward for getting rid of Daisy.
Then you have Jackson, Sex's right hand man, and Cecilia, Sex's sister, who are trying to fight their attractions for each other due to misconceptions that could be cleared if they stopped playing games long enough to talk. Don't get me wrong, the games are hot. The amount of chemistry and heat in this book is explosive, even if the actual doing is not so much. It's definitely quality over quantity.
Either way this book balances everything in such a way, you end up enjoying what you're reading. I mean it has paranormal touches, romance, intrigue, history, drama, and sex. There's a lot of 20's slang, and a glossary at the end of the book for your reading pleasure. It's the complete package. I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this book and I'm sure you will be too after you read it.
Then you have Jackson, Sex's right hand man, and Cecilia, Sex's sister, who are trying to fight their attractions for each other due to misconceptions that could be cleared if they stopped playing games long enough to talk. Don't get me wrong, the games are hot. The amount of chemistry and heat in this book is explosive, even if the actual doing is not so much. It's definitely quality over quantity.
Either way this book balances everything in such a way, you end up enjoying what you're reading. I mean it has paranormal touches, romance, intrigue, history, drama, and sex. There's a lot of 20's slang, and a glossary at the end of the book for your reading pleasure. It's the complete package. I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this book and I'm sure you will be too after you read it.
June 14, 2020
Bree Emery
Sexton St Croix
Bree has been hired by Sexton (Sex) to get rid of Daisy Alton the ghost that is haunting his Majestic Cruise Liner. Bree is a “clairsentience” psychic in that she reads people or things through touch. The mystery needs to be solved as to what happened to Daisy so she can be released. You have Sexton falling for Bree and a side romance between Sexton’s sister Cecilia and Jax, Sexton’s right hand man. I really enjoyed this book, it was a fun, fast read. The characters are easy to like and I liked the relationship between Sexton and Jax.
I would read more books by this author.
Sexton St Croix
Bree has been hired by Sexton (Sex) to get rid of Daisy Alton the ghost that is haunting his Majestic Cruise Liner. Bree is a “clairsentience” psychic in that she reads people or things through touch. The mystery needs to be solved as to what happened to Daisy so she can be released. You have Sexton falling for Bree and a side romance between Sexton’s sister Cecilia and Jax, Sexton’s right hand man. I really enjoyed this book, it was a fun, fast read. The characters are easy to like and I liked the relationship between Sexton and Jax.
I would read more books by this author.
November 4, 2012
Sexton St. Croix lives the life of the privileged and wealthy. He works hard as the heir to the St. Croix fortune, spearheaded by its Cruise Line. He plays even harder-women aren't hard to come by when you're good-looking, charming, and ungodly rich.
For Bree Emery, living the life of a gifted psychic isn't always charmed. She works a lot, plays a little, and her dwindling bank account forces her to take just about any job that comes along. That's how she ends up on the SS Majestic, walking into the owner's suite to meet a man wearing nothing but boxers adorned with hamburgers and french fries, and the word supersized emblazoned on the fly.
Some girls might be shocked. Some guys might be embarrassed. Sex and Bree, who are anything but the embarrassingly shockable type, take it all in stride.
There's a ghost haunting the SS Majestic, and it's not your average, run-of-the-mill type ghost. Oh, no. This cruise ship is haunted by one Miss Daisy Alton, a woman who died long before her time in the swinging Jazz era of the early 1920's.
Daisy was a flapper, a gay-hearted, outgoing, exuberant woman who performed at small-time clubs and speakeasies to her hearts content. But aboard the SS Majestic, Daisy met her match in a wealthy man who vowed to love her for eternity. Although it was sure to invoke a scandal, she agreed to marry her love, only to be gunned down, along with the regal Randolph St. Croix, by a cunning killer. The murder of St. Croix was staged to look like a love triangle gone wrong, and Daisy was branded a murderess. No way was this feisty flapper going to leave this ship until everyone knew the truth.
For Sexton, that means hiring Bree to rid his cash cow of the flamboyant ghost. For Bree, it means helping Daisy prove that she didn't murder Randolph, and setting her soul free.
The passion, romance, tempers, and arguments that ensue, only add to this delectable story of ghosts and passion that refuses to be denied. CRAZY FOR YOU is a delightful story that will have you laughing out loud, and wishing for all you're worth that Daisy gets the justice she deserves. And if Bree and Sex do a little investigating into that blatant claim of supersized along the way, it just makes the story even more devilish.
For Bree Emery, living the life of a gifted psychic isn't always charmed. She works a lot, plays a little, and her dwindling bank account forces her to take just about any job that comes along. That's how she ends up on the SS Majestic, walking into the owner's suite to meet a man wearing nothing but boxers adorned with hamburgers and french fries, and the word supersized emblazoned on the fly.
Some girls might be shocked. Some guys might be embarrassed. Sex and Bree, who are anything but the embarrassingly shockable type, take it all in stride.
There's a ghost haunting the SS Majestic, and it's not your average, run-of-the-mill type ghost. Oh, no. This cruise ship is haunted by one Miss Daisy Alton, a woman who died long before her time in the swinging Jazz era of the early 1920's.
Daisy was a flapper, a gay-hearted, outgoing, exuberant woman who performed at small-time clubs and speakeasies to her hearts content. But aboard the SS Majestic, Daisy met her match in a wealthy man who vowed to love her for eternity. Although it was sure to invoke a scandal, she agreed to marry her love, only to be gunned down, along with the regal Randolph St. Croix, by a cunning killer. The murder of St. Croix was staged to look like a love triangle gone wrong, and Daisy was branded a murderess. No way was this feisty flapper going to leave this ship until everyone knew the truth.
For Sexton, that means hiring Bree to rid his cash cow of the flamboyant ghost. For Bree, it means helping Daisy prove that she didn't murder Randolph, and setting her soul free.
The passion, romance, tempers, and arguments that ensue, only add to this delectable story of ghosts and passion that refuses to be denied. CRAZY FOR YOU is a delightful story that will have you laughing out loud, and wishing for all you're worth that Daisy gets the justice she deserves. And if Bree and Sex do a little investigating into that blatant claim of supersized along the way, it just makes the story even more devilish.
November 4, 2022
Ah, my second venture into chick lit, and to be honest? Meh
CFY follows Bree Emery, a psychic hired by the rich playboy Sexton St Croix to get rid of a ghost haunting one of his luxury cruise liners. That ghost is Daisy Alton, who nearly a century before, was murdered along with her lover as well as Sexton’s great-great uncle, Randolph St Croix. We also follow Cecilia, Sexton’s sister, and her bodyguard, Jackson Kyle. Not that it really matters.
The whole murder-mystery plot is overshadowed quite a bit by romance (Between Sexton & Bree and Cecilia & Jackson respectively) which is quite a shame because the murder-mystery aspect is far more interesting and engaging. Whenever Bree would get her flashbacks it was always a welcome escape. Ugh, the romance...it was pretty...not yikes but close to that. The whole aspect of Sexton being Bree’s employer/boss does not work with the romance. For me at least. For one, it violates so many codes of conduct, and secondly, he has the power over her. Bree never seems to care though, even though it is literally her job to get rid of Daisy, she still romps around with her employer on sexy dates. Sexton isn’t even that nice of a dude, he downright sexually harasses Bree and thinks of women as objects. The news of him wanting to marry Bree after two days of knowing her does not pair well with this.
The ending…. oh god the ending. Bree finds out who actually killed Daisy and Randolph and confronts them. What do they do? They outright confess to everything, even though Bree is a psychic and has no objective evidence of them. It doesn’t even imply anything happens to them, they don’t get arrested and sent to jail, and everyone sails away toward the sunset all happy. Way to make your ending have zero weight whatsoever.
I don’t feel like talking about this mess anymore.
Overall, Crazy For You has unlikeable characters and a story that doesn’t pay off in the end.
Rating: 2/10
CFY follows Bree Emery, a psychic hired by the rich playboy Sexton St Croix to get rid of a ghost haunting one of his luxury cruise liners. That ghost is Daisy Alton, who nearly a century before, was murdered along with her lover as well as Sexton’s great-great uncle, Randolph St Croix. We also follow Cecilia, Sexton’s sister, and her bodyguard, Jackson Kyle. Not that it really matters.
The whole murder-mystery plot is overshadowed quite a bit by romance (Between Sexton & Bree and Cecilia & Jackson respectively) which is quite a shame because the murder-mystery aspect is far more interesting and engaging. Whenever Bree would get her flashbacks it was always a welcome escape. Ugh, the romance...it was pretty...not yikes but close to that. The whole aspect of Sexton being Bree’s employer/boss does not work with the romance. For me at least. For one, it violates so many codes of conduct, and secondly, he has the power over her. Bree never seems to care though, even though it is literally her job to get rid of Daisy, she still romps around with her employer on sexy dates. Sexton isn’t even that nice of a dude, he downright sexually harasses Bree and thinks of women as objects. The news of him wanting to marry Bree after two days of knowing her does not pair well with this.
The ending…. oh god the ending. Bree finds out who actually killed Daisy and Randolph and confronts them. What do they do? They outright confess to everything, even though Bree is a psychic and has no objective evidence of them. It doesn’t even imply anything happens to them, they don’t get arrested and sent to jail, and everyone sails away toward the sunset all happy. Way to make your ending have zero weight whatsoever.
I don’t feel like talking about this mess anymore.
Overall, Crazy For You has unlikeable characters and a story that doesn’t pay off in the end.
Rating: 2/10
April 22, 2012
Crazy for You by Kate Angell
This was a good story.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
From the moment she spotted his hamburger-and-French-fry emblazoned boxers with the word supersized on them, Bree knew Sexton St. Croix was trouble. Here was a man with just one thing on his mind, but Sex had hired her to do a job and she'd let nothing get in her way. Not even a sudden insatiable craving for fast food, the hotter the better.
Sexton St. Croix had a big problem. His luxury ocean liner was haunted--by the ghost of an unflappable flapper named Daisy. Now, in an effort to persuade Daisy to "cheese it," he'd opened the ship to a veritable psychic circus. With every type of paranormal phony swarming the decks, he was counting on Bree's "clairsentience" to save his bacon. Her exquisitely sensitive fingers could detect the emotional vibrations of an 80-year-old love triangle and the unsolved murder that had resulted, while her tender touch unlocked secrets in his own heart. Here, at last, was the woman to convince the pleasure-before-promises playboy of the virtues of good, old-fashioned romance.
This was a good story.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
From the moment she spotted his hamburger-and-French-fry emblazoned boxers with the word supersized on them, Bree knew Sexton St. Croix was trouble. Here was a man with just one thing on his mind, but Sex had hired her to do a job and she'd let nothing get in her way. Not even a sudden insatiable craving for fast food, the hotter the better.
Sexton St. Croix had a big problem. His luxury ocean liner was haunted--by the ghost of an unflappable flapper named Daisy. Now, in an effort to persuade Daisy to "cheese it," he'd opened the ship to a veritable psychic circus. With every type of paranormal phony swarming the decks, he was counting on Bree's "clairsentience" to save his bacon. Her exquisitely sensitive fingers could detect the emotional vibrations of an 80-year-old love triangle and the unsolved murder that had resulted, while her tender touch unlocked secrets in his own heart. Here, at last, was the woman to convince the pleasure-before-promises playboy of the virtues of good, old-fashioned romance.
February 19, 2017
In the big scheme of all things called storyline, this one is obviously on the silly side, but it delivered cuteness and beyond as far as I'm concerned.
1) How do you not love a Hero named Sex and a heroine who read you by touch, see ghosts and become part of her visions to the point of almost not returning to the living?! :) lol .. well you can't!
2) Murder on the high seas 80 years before and victim STILL haunting the cruise line to this day ... does it get cheesier? NOPE, but I loved every minute of it
3) ACTUAL murderers (in wheelchairs and oxygen) traveling present day on said cruise line while heroine psychic is trying to rid the boat of its ghost ... silly personified but yet LOVED IT!
I could go on and on but I won't. If you dont wanna think too much and wanna laugh for a few hours then this is the book for you. The romance between Sex and Bree was actually very touching and cute and in the sidelines we also have Sex's sister and best friend explosively coming together ... it made for a real fun and entertaining read!
1) How do you not love a Hero named Sex and a heroine who read you by touch, see ghosts and become part of her visions to the point of almost not returning to the living?! :) lol .. well you can't!
2) Murder on the high seas 80 years before and victim STILL haunting the cruise line to this day ... does it get cheesier? NOPE, but I loved every minute of it
3) ACTUAL murderers (in wheelchairs and oxygen) traveling present day on said cruise line while heroine psychic is trying to rid the boat of its ghost ... silly personified but yet LOVED IT!
I could go on and on but I won't. If you dont wanna think too much and wanna laugh for a few hours then this is the book for you. The romance between Sex and Bree was actually very touching and cute and in the sidelines we also have Sex's sister and best friend explosively coming together ... it made for a real fun and entertaining read!
June 2, 2014
A fun paranormal romantic romp.
The owner of USS Majestic Sexton St. Croix plans a cruise with one clairsentient and various mediums, psychics and tarot card readers invited by his sister. Hi is trying to rid his ship of the ghost of a flapper who is haunting his ship since her death with his great great uncle in 1925. Bree, the clairsentient, can read people's history by touch. She requests to stay in the stateroom of the spunky flapper ghost, Daisy. Bree finds herself feeling Daisy's presence and finds herself having visions of Daisy in 1925. Daisy has been accused of killing Randolph St. Croix and herself and can not rest until her name is cleared. The growing attraction between Sexton, known as Sex, and Bree Emery is a fun trip.
The book is delightful. I highly recommend it for an enjoying light read. I do not know how I have missed Kate Angell's books up until now but I am really enjoying getting caught up.
The owner of USS Majestic Sexton St. Croix plans a cruise with one clairsentient and various mediums, psychics and tarot card readers invited by his sister. Hi is trying to rid his ship of the ghost of a flapper who is haunting his ship since her death with his great great uncle in 1925. Bree, the clairsentient, can read people's history by touch. She requests to stay in the stateroom of the spunky flapper ghost, Daisy. Bree finds herself feeling Daisy's presence and finds herself having visions of Daisy in 1925. Daisy has been accused of killing Randolph St. Croix and herself and can not rest until her name is cleared. The growing attraction between Sexton, known as Sex, and Bree Emery is a fun trip.
The book is delightful. I highly recommend it for an enjoying light read. I do not know how I have missed Kate Angell's books up until now but I am really enjoying getting caught up.
August 8, 2014
Just a typical romance story between a psychic and a guy who owns a cruise ship haunted by a ghost of a lady who is believed to have murdered the guy's great grand uncle or something. Eventually the ghost's name was cleared by the psychic and the ghost now becomes matchmaker for psychic and cruise ship owner.
In short nothing much happened. Just a few days' romance, and they lived happily ever after.
In short nothing much happened. Just a few days' romance, and they lived happily ever after.
March 12, 2010
I really enjoyed this read. She is psychic of sorts and goes on a cruise boat to solve an old murder mystery.
December 19, 2011
Read this book in a couple of hours. Very easy to read.
Want to read
April 1, 2013Recommended by Helen.
October 25, 2016
Paranormal mystery romance. Fun read.
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May 2, 2010ok - the ghost didn't work for me
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