Unzipped

A Chrissy McMullen Mystery #1

by Lois Greiman

ANALYZE THIS.…

Chrissy McMullen has made a career leap, all the way from slinging drinks at Chicago’s most notorious nightclub to dispensing psychotherapy from her sleek new practice in L.A. Even if she can’t quite shed her too-loud, too-curvy alter ego–or the brawling family that insists on claiming kinship. So when her most famous client, buff football star “Bomber” Bomstad, starts chasing her around her desk and getting, well…unzipped…Christina gets just a little miffed–until Bomber has the bad manners to drop dead at her feet.

Enter Jack Rivera, a no-nonsense detective with a grim attitude and a great butt, who’s determined to prove this cocktail-waitress-turned-shrink was engaging in some very unethical behavior. Persuading Rivera that she’s not a murderer isn’t going to be easy. Plunging headfirst into a city full of people in need of some serious therapy, Chrissy will have to use all her street smarts, a good deal of sex appeal, and a little love to clear her name–and cancel an appointment with a killer.

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Cozy Mystery, Chick Lit, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 31, 2005

About the author

Born on a North Dakota cattle ranch, Lois Greiman graduated from a high school class of sixty students before moving to Minnesota where she professionally trained and showed Arabian Horses for several years. Since that time she's been a high fashion model, a fitness instructor, and a veterinary assistant. But an incurable case of writing fever put a stop to all those occupations.

Since selling her first book to Avon in 1992, she has sold twelve other historical romance novels, most of which are set in medieval Scotland and involve her very popular Forbes clan. In an attempt to pursue her love of humor, Ms. Greiman has also recently sold three romantic comedies to Harlequin Enterprises.

While caring for three children, fifteen horses, and a menagerie of pets on her small farm in Minnesota, Ms. Greiman writes full time, producing two or three novels a year and garnering much praise from readers and reviewers alike. Affaire de Coeur called HIGHLAND WOLF "magnificent." Romantic Times proclaimed LADY AND THE KNIGHT"...pure magic." Christina Dodd proclaims "Lois Greiman delivers....The Fraser Bride offers delightful characters, breathless adventure."

Her Highland novels have received Affaire de Couer's Critic's Choice Award, Romantic Times K.I.S.S. Award, and been nominated for Romance Writer's of America's prestigious Rita. Her titles have appeared on Barnes and Nobles Best Selling Romance list and won her the Midwest Fiction Writer's Rising Star Award.

Reviews

[Shawna Finnigan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Note: This review will contain adult content which is not suitable for people under 18. This review will also contain discussions of some of the triggers I include in the triggering warning list.

TW// fatphobia, graphic depictions of attempted rape, mention of cannibalism, mentions of pedophilia, mention of anorexia, mention of rape, mention of sexual assault, drug overdose, discussions of suicide, mention of physical punishment/child abuse, mention of self harm, mentions of cheating, mention of illicit drug use, mention of overeating disorder, mention of drug addiction, murder, mention of suicide attempt, car accident, mentions of divorce

I don’t even know where to start with my review. Unzipped was so messy that it would take me several full college essay lengths to get into everything I hated about it. I thought there was a chance that it could be a funny hidden gem of a book, but it instead turned out to be a poorly written, insensitive, and problematic book.

My biggest issue with this book is how it dealt with the topic of therapy. The main character is a therapist and a lot of the “jokes” in the story involve her making fun of her patients’ problems. The one that irked me the most was how she kept making fun of one of her patients who had troubles making decisions. It came off like he had autism, anxiety, and/or OCD when I read about his problems, but the main character is constantly making jokes about him. Therapy is truthfully a great tool for many people, so it’s really disheartening to see a book portray therapists in this way.

Speaking of the main character, I absolutely detested her. She was incompetent as a therapist and she constantly got on my nerves. There was nothing likeable about her, but as she pointed out numerous times in this book, apparently guys were attracted to her often, which baffled my mind. She also had this one ongoing problem that starts toward the end of the book that was unacceptable. She was drunk and a man refused to have sex with her. Obviously it was the right choice to make because she can’t consent when she’s drunk. However, she holds a grudge against this guy because of it. People are allowed to refuse sex for any reason, but in this instance there was an EXTREMELY valid reason why he refused. It was frankly gross to have her be pissed off about the refusal even after she was sober. Then there’s also the whole issue with how she keeps threatening to report someone for sexual harassment if he doesn’t do everything she wants him to. The guy she was threatening was definitely a sexual predator, but it still felt gross that she was using sexual harassment allegations as a pawn to get what she wanted.

Rivera wasn’t great as a love interest. He constantly harassed Chrissy and honestly he should’ve lost his job the first time that he started victim blaming her after she almost got raped. I truthfully don’t see any romantic connection between him and Chrissy besides lust. They don’t treat each other well and even though I hate Chrissy, she deserves to be with someone who doesn’t victim blame her for her trauma.

This book is technically a mystery, but it didn’t feel like it for most of the book. It felt like Chrissy kept making poor decisions and because of that, she was just scrambling to get herself out of legal trouble throughout the whole story. I wanted more clues and investigation scenes with less of her acting like a bumbling idiot. Maybe that’s too much to ask for, but I had hoped for at least a decent mystery with this book.

Now onto the insenstive and problematic parts, which there is quite a few. I’ll try to include quotes where I can.

First of all, this book is constantly fatphobic. It stems a lot from Chrissy’s body image issues, but the way that the book dealt with her internalized fatphobia wasn’t great. Here’s a few quotes regarding the fatphobia in this novel:
-“It was rumored he had once counseled Rush Limbaugh concerning his weight problem, but I guess even geniuses strike out sometimes.”
-“Some people become anorexic under stress. I don’t have that problem.”
-“‘I was a compulsive overeater.’
‘No way!’
‘My father called me Pork Chop.’”
-“Her man happened to weigh in at 327 pounds and walk like a platypus.”
If Chrissy’s overeating had been properly addressed, it would’ve been okay to have the internalized fatphobia because it would show the way that an eating disorder impacts a person’s body image. However, this book didn’t deal properly with the eating disorder and instead decided to make terrible "jokes" about weight.

In terms of the gay representation in this book, something felt really off. Most of the time it felt as if the gay characters were viewed as a problem. Chrissy kept feeling inconvenienced that these gay men were no longer in her dating pool after they came out. It was weird. If this comment was made once, I’d just ignore it, but it was a repeated theme in the book. Here’s just a few of the times it happened in the story:
-“My roommate’s name had been Brian. For a while I had thought he was the one I’d take home to mom - until I’d discovered the pictures of movie stars under our mattress. Male movie stars.”
-“The waiter smiled at Angler, then at me, which meant he had to be gay. My luck didn’t run that way.”
-“We’d dated briefly, and truth be told, he was one of the good guys, but he’d come out of the closet some months later and it didn’t look like he was going back in any time soon. Wouldn’t you just know it.”
If it was just one instance, then that would be that, but the repeated instances of Chrissy being “inconvenienced” by men coming out as gay rubs me the wrong way.

There was some racism thrown in the book that was so casual that it was clear that the author either intentionally made her main characters racist or the author was racist herself. It was not a good look.
-“My temper was rising again, which sucked, because El Charro was way across town and I always craved Mexican when my ire was up.” - The only time Mexican people were brought up was in relation to bad tempers.
-After Chrissy is almost raped for the second time, the love interest starts interrogating her and asks “White or black?” This didn’t seem bad at first until after she said she didn’t know, he narrows that down to just “Was he black?” as if his first thought is that black men are more likely to be rapists.
-“Those Asians really know how to eat. Maybe that’s why they’re the approximate width of my eyeteeth.”
-I’m not going to quote the whole long passage here, but there is a lengthy racist passage in which Chrissy dresses up as a stereotypical Muslim woman. Even worse than that though is she uses a towel as a hijab and that's especially racist since it’s a common Islamaphobic comment to call Muslim people “towelheads.”
Some of these racist ideas from the book are very normalized so it might even skip some readers’ attention, but they’re still deeply problematic, especially since the main character and her love interest are the ones being racist throughout the book.

Let’s finish my review with why I could not wait to finish this book: the god awful writing. I try not to label writing as inherently good or bad, but in this case I feel judgement is warranted. I’m honestly surprised this book has so many high star ratings on here given how poorly written it was, especially those terrible similes. Here are some of the worst quotes:
-“Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals and you, the unsuspecting entree.”
-“I considered throwing my shoe at him, but I’m a professional.”
-“Don’t be late, the Geek God don’t like to be kept waiting.”
-“…he was already there, leaking into my living room like flan gone bad.”
-“I fluttered my lashes like a llama with a retinal problem…”
-“…for just a moment I fantasized about reaching across the leather seat and twisting his nipple until he screamed. But I was generally against torturing unconscious men…”
-“Rivera’s smile made him look like a cannibal at a fat farm…”
-“But I’d always thought the ape was the sexiest of the lower primates.”
-“If I were her dad I’d have moved to the Antarctic with her by now. Keep her in layers of goose down and feed her whale fat.”
-“There are days when I would gladly sell all three of my moronic brothers into slavery for a mozarella stick.”
-“Nancy Drew wouldn’t have sat around listening to some pervert talk about bazoombas while her life slid down the drain.”
-“‘Tell me you are not concerned about your figure,’ he said…
‘I just like lettuce.’”
-“I shivered down to my bone marrow.”
Some of this bad writing was probably written to be funny, but it just doesn’t strike me as funny; it strikes me as cringey and terrible.

Unzipped was published in 2005 so maybe it’s just outdated, but it’s for sure a book that should stay in the past unless it gets a revised version that is a bit more considerate of people. I’m definitely not going to be continuing on with this series as book two seems to get even worse -- the little preview at the end of Unzipped for the sequel included the r-slur. I’ve had enough of this messy story with one book, so I’m not going to bother with a sequel that already seems worse than the first book.

[Linda · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF at a bit over 25%

Okay. That's it. I can't take any more of this.

I understand this is supposed to be a humorous, light-hearted mystery. But for that, you need to have endearing characters and dialogue and situations that actually are funny. Instead, we have unlikeable, unprofessional, and downright stupid characters. The repeated use of offensive stereotypes and cliches was more lame than infuriating, but it was but one of many annoyances. The last straw was when Chrissie stole the Porsche from the oversexed computer nerd she was trying to get (illegally) to gather information for her and then threatened to accuse him of sexual harassment when he wanted it back!

It's been a while since I've wanted so badly to b*tch slap a fictional character. Enough of this nonsense.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

An entirely pleasant read, about as light and fluffy as murders can get when we blend "cozy mystery" and "sexy cop," sprinkle liberally with humor, and stir. The overwhelming tendency in the reviews is to compare the main character and first-person narrator Chrissy McMullen with Janet Evanovich's famed Stephanie Plum, and there are indeed similarities. But there are major differences too.

Compared with Stephanie, Chrissy spends much more of her time (and ours) poking at her self-concept, pluses and minuses both, and she's much more easily distracted; again and again, sexy thoughts and other sorts as well interrupt action scenes and tense dialogues--real interruptions of the "Oh, right, I'd better pay attention to what's happening" sort. Chrissy is if anything sassier than Stephanie, and more likely to act without thinking.

We get a few glimpses of Chrissy with clients in counseling sessions, and it looks like she really is a competent and caring psychotherapist for all that she sees the humor in her patients too. Really, not enough exposure to Professional Chrissy to be certain, but let's give her the benefit of the doubt. Her fifteen years tending bar at the Warthog in Chicago (I kid you not) probably helped to prepare her for the human side of her new career in Los Angeles, where with her recently acquired degree she has just started a practice called L.A.Counseling with her assistant Elaine, a truly delightful character. Another fun character is J. D. Solberg, aka The Geekster, who doesn't do favors easily; she absconds with his sporty Porsche and much teasing ensues.

Then there's Jack Rivera. The publisher's blurb, reprinted at the head of this Goodreads page, is more informative than most blurbs, especially about the case that launches this story. And it's true that Rivera, in charge of the investigation, thinks at first that Chrissy was unwittingly responsible for Bomber Bomstad's sudden death--it happened in her office, after all, and his corpse has a fully exposed erection, so who wouldn't think he and Chrissy had a Thing going, especially if she was counseling him for impotence as she believed?

Under that kind of suspicion, Chrissy does all sorts of zany things hoping to clear her name, and Rivera's responses make sense at first. But he's clearly attracted to her, and that takes him too far across the line for me to be comfortable with his conduct as a cop while she's still a person of interest. It all ends well, it's just the route it took to get there. Three stars then, which still means "I liked it" in Goodreads code.

[Lilyan · Rating 4 out of 5]

There comes a time when you just need to put your analytical and critical mind aside and just enjoy a silly book.

While reading the first few chapters the Good Reads reviewer in me was screaming out profanities and insults at the ridiculousness of the book. Silly, one dimensional characters, constant mentions of boobs (around 70 times to be exact), a far-fetched murder mystery, etc. However, it finally dawned on me that I was actually reading a silly book. It's SUPPOSED to be silly. It's not pretending to be a deep intellectual book. It's tagged as a chick lit. Once I realized that, I chucked my criticism in the garbage and thoroughly enjoyed the book.

4 stars for pure entertainment and lots of laughs. The book's contents are already starting to fade from my memory. A month from now I won't even remember the plot, but it has made me happy and amused me those past couple of days and for that I'm going to give it the 4 stars.

Will I be reading the rest of the series? No.

Do I recommend this book to other readers? Yes, if you're into silly chick lits and are between hefty serious books.

[LORI CASWELL · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dollycas’s Thoughts

When I started reading this book I immediately thought of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum. She and Chrissy both have the worst luck. Imagine being a psychologist treating a football hunk for a certain dysfunction and have him say he is cured and gives you very private visual evidence as he chases you around the office. Yup, that happened to Chrissy, and then the guy keels over dead at her feet. A quick 911 call should bring help but instead brings Detective Jack Rivera, also a hunk, but he think Chrissy murdered her patient and nothing she says seems to change his mind. She is on her own to prove she did not kill her almost rapist.

While classified as a cozy type mystery it has a strong chick lit feel with adult scenes and language.

It is a zany story, Chrissy is a hilarious protagonist. Cocktail waitress turned psychologist, with a mother that just wants her to come back home, gets herself into some dicey and comical predicaments. Her friend and assistant Laney tries to keep her friend out of trouble. She also has a geeky friend Solberg, he can hack anything and has a high tech job that allows him to drive one sweet ride. Chrissy also checks in regularly with her mentor Dr. David, more now with the dead body in her office. The relationship with Detective Rutabaga, I mean Rivera, Chrissy never uses his real name, was the most enjoyable part of this book.

While the plot is far fetched it was an entertaining read. The investigation by the police wasn’t too intense and there was no real evidence. Chrissy was trying to clear her name rather than find the actual killer. Her queries did make the murderer worry she was actually going to figure out the truth and that did put her in imminent danger. I was surprised totally by the reveal as was Chrissy. I wish there had been more clues throughout the story rather than the explanation at the end.

As the first book in this series it is a good start. I am not completely sold on these characters yet but being the first book there is plenty of room for development. The dialogue between characters was good and the quotes the begin each chapter were quite humorous and gives us just a peek at others in Chrissy’s life. I definitely want to see where the author takes these characters as the series continues.

A lighthearted read for a lazy afternoon.

[Cmkage · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are looking for light-hearted entertainment, similar to the Stephanie Plum books, this is the book for you. I really enjoyed the voice of the heroine Chrissy, a cocktail waitress turned psychologist who gets accused of murder when one of her clients drops dead in her office with his pants unzipped.

Chrissy is funny, sassy and at times sarcastic. There aren't that many characters, the book focuses mainly on Chrissy, Rivera (the cop investigating the murder, her best friend Elaine, computer geek Solberg and colleague Dr. David. But just the antics between Chrissy and Rivera (not to mention their chemistry) are enough to keep the book going.

The case is also interesting and I actually really liked how it gets solved. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter (mostly from friends and family members of Chrissy) were also a nice touch.

I'll definitely read the second book in this series.

[Barbara ★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG what a fun book! Chrissy's one-liners were priceless. And I loved the fact that she kept messing up Rivera's name (which really pissed him off though he did his best not to show it.) I just loved Rivera - what a hoot. I will definitely continue this series as I have to know how they get on once they are a couple.

The storyline is enjoyable and the mystery flows nicely though it is surprising (well sort of anyway) that Chrissy is more interested in clearing her own name than finding out who actually murdered Bomber. Chrissy is a little bit ditzi for a psychologist but then again she did start out as a cocktail waitress -- kinda the same job when you think about it.

[Sana Zameer · Rating 2 out of 5]

It started off a bit slow but interesting enough but soon turned into silly cheese- fest, with under-developed characters and humor that mostly fall flat.

[❂ Murder by Death · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this book enou to go out and immediately order all the rest in the series. Comparisons to Syephanie Plum are misplaced in my opinion. The main character is witty and funny, but there was none of the slapstick you find in the Plum novels. Indeed there are a few very serious scenes throughout the book that make it hard to fit this book into a cozy category. Definitely a great find.

[Stacie Haden · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars. It's a mystery/thriller, but it was funny! I love Ms. Greiman's sense of humor and will definitely continue with the series.

[Lena · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars ⭐️ this has been compared to the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. Not sure I agree with it, but this was and interesting enough read. I will likely continue the series but I am not in a rush.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such fun!

I really enjoyed this book. The characters are a lot of fun and I can’t wait to see who’s around in book 2. The story was entertaining.

[Sandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unzipped starts off a bit too slow but eventually picks up after a few chapters. The storyline and plot is too dull and lacking. The characters are two-dimensional. Their personalities aren't believable and a bit dry. The mystery? A client of psychologist Christina McMullen drops dead in her office during a session. She tries to clear her name as she believes she's the suspected murderer. Enter Lieutenant Jack Rivera. He's in charge of the case and clearly tries to get Christina to confess. But she won't budge. And since she becomes the focus of the investigation she figures she has to do something to convince Jack she's innocent. She starts questioning people and enlists the help of an old geeky acquaintance, J.D. Solberg, aka Geek God, to dig up information on certain people such as Jack. But this only leads to trouble and more trouble down the road.

Unzipped is the first in the series. It shares similarities to the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich in its humour, zany, and fast-paced silliness. Overall, I wouldn't say this book hooks me in. It doesn't pop. It's not absorbing and doesn't make sense in a lot of parts. The characters don't have much personality and other parts of the book seem underdeveloped. However, I like the interactions between Jack and Christina; funny how they never refer to each other by their first names. Unzipped is a light read but good enough to pass the time. If you're looking for something with real thrill, drive, suspense and action, I suggest something else. 1.5/5 stars.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a wretched, awful reading experience this was. The only thing pushing me forward was my incessant need to complete things.

First off, the characters. There is not an enjoyable or realistic one in the bunch. It feels as if the author read three Janet Evanovich books, and said "Let's do that, but worse." Christina McMullen is a poorly written collection of tropes more than a fully fleshed out character. Stumbling around the entire novel talking about food, sex, and sometimes murder, she's as unlikeable and unrelatable a protagonist as I've ever seen. And her love interest made me think Greiman hadn't even bothered to watch an episode of SVU before penning a cop's personality. Rivera would have been fired six times over for his actions here!!

Add to that a plodding mystery with some loose string collections, some hyper misogynistic (in terms of female representation especially), vapid, and at times racist (or at least racially charged) language, and Unzipped has to go up as one of my worst reading experiences of all time. AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had to give this book one star because I am almost embarrassed to say I read it all the way to the end. I did want to know who set the series of murders in motion. But, unfortunately, like the rest of the book the resolution was "frothy" at best. I found two things in this novel that really bothered me. First, the psychologist-central character doesn't name the attack she suffered as attempted rape until the middle of the book. I suppose this oversight could be explained by the fact that she was dazed by having the rapist die in her office...or not. The second thing that really bothered me is that the police department seems to be extremely limited in its handling of forensic evidence, apparently having only the capacity to test a spot on a blouse and little ability to recreate what may have been the activities at a crime scene. I could add to this list of irritants, but, the one star rating probably says it most succinctly.

[LaFleurBleue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written at the first person, with limited characterization either from the narrator or from the persons she knew or just met
The investigation took place over a matter of weeks/days, and frankly never did the narrator show any real psychological analysis capacity, nor PhD brain for that matter. The way she found clues and jumped on them was by pure chance all the time.
Entertaining, distracting, very light read, that could occasionally be funny, though way less for me as it was probably intended
The writing was a bit too familiar, a bit too spoken language, as can often be the case with books written at the first person, and overall did not help engaging me in.
2.5 stars rounded up as a few jokes made me smile wide
However it clearly was not enough for me to feel like reading another and especially not if I had to pay for it.

[BJ · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is another book with pretty good reviews but is not one that I enjoyed. In fact, it drove me nuts with the constant goofy similes. The main character, Chrissy McMullen, is another Stephanie Plum rip off. However, it took me seven or eight books to tire of Stephanie instead of only seven or eight pages as was the case for Chrissy. The interaction between Chrissy and Lieutenant Rivera is unbelievable to the point of being bizarre. The murderer is easy to figure out because there aren't really any alternatives, but the killer's motivation and sudden change in behavior make no sense. I would like to read one of Greiman's books when the influence of Janet Evanovich wears off and she finds her own voice.

[JadeShea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chrissy is a shrink who is attacked one night in her office, and the man drops dead at her feet. Things start to get complicated for Chrissy when the detective Jack Rivera decides that she may be the only suspect. But these two have chemistry, and when Chrissy decides to investigate the matter herself this turns from bad to worse in ten seconds flat.

This book was okay. I didn't like how Jack called his ex-wife his wife, and I also didn't like how I felt they were going to go through their relationship. It was a little bit annoying. Other than that I did like it, and it was an interesting mystery with a twist in the end as well.

I don't think I will read more in this series, but this was a nice read to pass the time with.

[Jenny · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was so bad that I kept saying, "Just one more chapter... give it another chance..." until I finally just gave up and returned it to the library. The characters are stereotypes with no depth. The lives are more ridiculous than tv shows. The main character: a therapist who doesn't know if it's ok for her client to show up and drink booze during an appointment. The cop: a rude man who seems to have absolutely no knowledge of the law. Etc.

I am sorry I wasted my time reading as much as I did. I'm not even interested in the "who done it" aspect that I would normally feel for a mystery book, even one that I didn't like.

[Jeannine J9 · Rating 1 out of 5]

What in all that is holy did I just read? So, she’s a shrink who’s client comes to her office with alcohol and tried to rape her and then drops dead? And that’s funny? Wtf? Then the cop who thinks she’s guilty attempts to have sex with her while she’s shitfaced drunk? And her doctor friend, who turns out to be the bad guy, is hot for her too? Nope. Just nope and nope again. Rape is t funny. Misogyny isn’t funny. This was stupid and sad.

[Bookcrazy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Da mich momentan keines meiner aktuell angefangen Bücher begeistern kann und es nach einer momentanen Leseunlust aussieht - wurde es mal wieder Zeit eins meiner Lieblingsbücher nochmals zu lesen.

Chrissy konnte mich wie immer gut unterhalten :) Vielleicht mach ich mit der Reihe oder anderen Lieblingsbüchern weiter.

[Julia · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is drivel . How can anyone compare this author with Evanovich? No style, poor pace ,stunted, language jaded.
Greiman has just copied the format of Evanovich without contributing anything of substance fromm herself.

[EMP · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't mind silly books every once in a while, but not only is this silly, but it's boring. The characters are annoying and the main character's *constant* smart alecky internal banter (cute at first) got old after about 6 pages.

[Kayla · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just couldn't get into this book, I had high hopes. I was looking for something fun and quirky like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Pulm series. This was slightly funny. Maybe I'll revisit it at a later date and see if I have a different opinion at that time, or maybe not.

[sara Manzambi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read 20 pages and went to bed mad. This gotta be one of the worst male protagonist I ever read about.
Since when is it so « hot » for a man to be so disrespectul to woman, especially a cop. I’m apalled and really hope I will never meet this kind of person.

[Martha Grace · Rating 1 out of 5]

Picked at random

[No, David! No! · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't think there are any women that actually think like that... I certainly hope not.

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dialogue is frustrating...very slow moving. Too many attempts to be funny and falling flat.

[Marti · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fairly entertaining book featuring a psychologist, her clients, and an interested policeman. The author has another one called Unplugged--I may look for it.

[Genevieve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chrissy McMullen dispensines psychotherapy from her sleek new practice in L.A. So when her most famous client, buff football star “Bomber” Bomstad, starts chasing her around her desk and getting, well…unzipped…Christina gets just a little miffed–until Bomber has the bad manners to drop dead at her feet.Enter Jack Rivera, a no-nonsense detective with a grim attitude and a great butt, who’s determined to prove this shrink was engaging in some very unethical behavior.
I first chose this book because I needed it for a book bingo a book starting with U and I am so glad I did. I loved this book. Chrissy is a loud mouth, funny, and a bit off key main character with a few friends some who are a little weird. The story line is great and kept me guessing till the end. Jack Rivera is hot, sexy who knows what he wants. A great love match I am sure will happen in latter books. I will be sure to read the next book in the series.