In the apartment downstairs, Alex is struggling with his life. She teaches him to use the fire escape to get in and out of the apartment rather than having to let him out at all hours of the night, and the two of them settle in comfortably. She sees something familiar in him, and upon hearing that Fred has only one day left until he's euthanized, Nina gives up all her ideas of perky and takes Fred home. Instead, she gets to the animal shelter and locks eyes with Fred. When freshly-divorced Nina hits her fortieth birthday, she decides to get herself a puppy to cheer up her lonely apartment. Fred is part beagle, part basset-hound, and all manic depressive. (Personally, I'm more of a cat person, but I can deal with a quirky dog, too.) This is the stuff good romances are made of.Īnyone But You is about Fred. Her heroines are always strong women who don't need a man to come rescue them, her heroes are genuinely likeable guys who don't want to punish or change anyone, and both sides have interesting and memorable friends. I love the unorthodox twists she puts on the romance standards. I'm really fond of Jennifer Crusie's books.

Yeah, I'm on to you and your sadistic ways. Which, of course, is why you're all glad the person who cobbled this together was completely colourblind. If either was a nice shade of blue, for example, I would have had very little to complain about on this cover. Really, all they had to do was not put orange and pink together. The type fonts are ok, the heart in the middle of 'you' is a little cutesy but I suppose we have to have some form of romance novel shorthand.

The dog is a nice change from the usual heaving bosoms of romance covers, and he's an important part of the story. Who put these colours together? And why do they hate my eyes so very, very much? The rest of the cover's actually ok. There's a whole lot of orange on this cover, and it's all clashing with the pink.

Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie