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Faking It [Hardcover]

Jennifer Crusie
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Aug 17 2002
Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who have run a respectable art gallery for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who sedates herself with double-crostics and double vodkas, Eve the oldest daughter who has a slight identity problem (she has two), and Nadine, the granddaughter who's ready to follow in the family footsteps as soon as she can find a set that isn't leading off a cliff. Holding everyone together is Matilda, the youngest daughter, who's inherited the secret locked down in the basement of the Goodnight Gallery, the secret that she's willing to do almost anything to keep, including break into a house in the dead of night to steal back her past.

Meet the Dempseys, or at least meet Davy, a reformed con man who's just
been ripped off for a cool three million by his financial manager, who then gallantly turned it over to Clea Lewis, the most beautiful sociopath Davy ever slept with. Davy wants the money back, but more than that he'll do anything to keep Clea from winning, including break into her house in the dead of night to steal back his future.

One collision in a closet later, Tilda and Davy reluctantly join forces to combat Clea, suspicious art collectors, a disgruntled heir, and an exasperated hitman, all the while coping with a mutant dachshund, a juke box stuck in the sixties, questionable sex, a painting of three evil fisherman closing in on a dyspeptic tuna, multiple personalities, miscellaneous Goodnights and Dempseys, and the growing realization that they can't turn their backs on the people they were meant to be...or the people they were born to love.

Faking It: What has reality ever done for you?

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Setting: Columbus, Ohio

Sensuality: 7

Mural artist Tilda Goodnight is struggling to pay off the mortgage on the family business and keep the Goodnight secrets safely hidden. Juggling her life gets even more complicated when she hides in Clea Lewis's closet and collides with sexy Davy Dempsey. Tilda is in Clea's bedroom to steal back a forged painting; Davy's there to steal Clea's account codes and retrieve the $3 million the larcenous blonde stole from him. Somehow, Tilda finds herself exchanging a mind-blowing kiss with her fellow burglar, and when Davy follows her home and rents a room from her mother, she's forced to deal with the charming con man. Everyone in Tilda's world is pretending to be someone else, including her daydreaming mother, her split-personality sister, and her cross-dressing ex-brother-in-law. All of them, including Tilda and Davy, are Faking It. What will happen when all the secrets are out and everyone knows the truth about everyone else? Will Davy recover his 3 million? Will Tilda recover all the forged paintings and find her true artistic calling? Will Tilda's mother run off to Aruba with a hit man named Ford? And exactly what is the difference between a man labeled a "doughnut" and one who deserves the title "muffin"?

Faking It is a hilarious, warm novel with a cast of quirky and wonderful characters that endear while they charm. Readers who met the Dempsey siblings in Crusie's Welcome To Temptation will be delighted to revisit the family and discover what happens to Davy Dempsey when he meets his romantic nemesis, Tilda Goodnight. --Lois Faye Dyer

From Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Crusie (Fast Women, etc.) takes readers on another smooth ride in her latest romantic caper. At the wheel this time is fab art forger Matilda Goodnight, whose chance encounter in a closet with cute con man/thief Davy Dempsey leads to madcap mayhem and breathless romance. He's trying to steal back the money he filched from Clea Lewis, ex-girlfriend (and possible husband killer), who had taken it right back. Tilda just wants her last "Scarlet" painting, which Clea has bought to impress Mason Phipps, her rich art-obsessed beau. It's the last of six forgeries Tilda did for Tony, her now deceased gallery-owner dad, and Tilda is determined to preserve her newly squeaky-clean reputation. Confused yet? It gets wackier, because the whole Goodnight clan and supporting cast are as enormously engaging as the loopy plot. There's Tilda's mother, Gwen; her sister, Eve/Louise, a split-personality teacher/diva; her gay ex-brother-in-law, Andrew; and her precocious teenage niece, Nadine. Add a host of shady characters and would-be hitmen, and the breezy plot thickens and puffs up like the light airy doughnuts all Goodnight women are attracted to but eventually forsake for muffins: "Muffins are for the long haul and they always taste good. They don't have that oh-my-God-I-have-to-have-that thing that the doughnuts have going for them, but you still want them the next morning." Finally, defying all odds, Crusie answers the burning questions she poses can liars and thieves fall in love, live happily ever after and stay out of jail? while confirming the dangers of dating doughnuts.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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MATILDA GOODNIGHT STEPPED BACK FROM HER LATEST MURAL AND REALized that of all the crimes she'd committed in her thirty-four years, painting the floor-to-ceiling reproduction of van Gogh's sunflowers on Clarissa Donnelly's dining room wall was the one that was going to send her to hell. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not faking this review April 5 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It's wonderful when an author can make you laugh out loud and sometimes shed a tear. Somehow I found myself doing both of those things reading this book. She writes about passion and lust in a refreshing way (it doesn't always work) and I didn't have to skip that part to get back to the story because it was part of the story. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly Wonderful Entertainment! Mar 29 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Tilda detests painting murals, fakes of Monet and Van Gogh, but it pays the family bills, and keeps their privacy - and this family has secrets up the ying yang. Through unfortunate, and certainly illegal circumstances, Tilda meets Davy when they simultaneously break into a neighbor's house, each for their own hidden purposes. They kiss in the neighbor's closet and their lives unravel from there. This story has double-identities, sex, hit men, crazy family, FBI, cons, forgeries, fakes and love!

Wow. To say that Crusie weaves a compelling story is a serious understatement. Faking It has laughter, tears, emotion, suspense and more laughter. Great beginning, great middle, great ending. May I say once again - WOW! If you haven't read this book already, pick it up now.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Faking it. Mar 23 2004
By Dawn
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the first book I've read by Jennifer Crusie and I absolutely loved it. It's smart and funny. "Faking It" is the kind of book you space your time out when reading and go back and reread for all the gems you missed the first time. Tilda and Davy have such great chemistry and are just hysterically funny.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book!
I have to admit "Welcome to Temptation" is my favorite book. That's what got me started on this author. While this one wasn't as good, it was still a lot of fun to read. Read more
Published on Mar 5 2004 by mahikahn
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantabulous!
Simply a delight - fantastic, sharp, witty sense of humor weaved thoughout the funny, interesting, and involving story. Read more
Published on Feb 18 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Davy Story
We met Davy in Welcome to Temptation, now he has his own story and it is wonderful.
As usual Crusie has drawn strong main and secondary characters. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2004 by L. Coltharp
2.0 out of 5 stars Mildly entertaining!
Unlike a lot of friends of this over-rated writer I was disappointed with this book! I thought the characters were plastic and boring and the plot wasn't even remotely plausable. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Worth It!
I NEVER would have picked up this book, not even to read the back. I generally read fantasy. I was shopping one day though and this book was packaged with Nora Roberts Three Fates,... Read more
Published on Jan 28 2004 by Elizabeth Berry
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fast, Fun Read, But Not Crusie's Best
Matilda Goodnight knows that she will spend the rest of her life trying to pay off the Goodnight debts and hide the Goodnight secrets. Read more
Published on Jan 22 2004 by Silmarwen
4.0 out of 5 stars Romantic Times Review
...>This laugh-out-loud romp is one to treasure! Nobody combines wit, irony and sexy sizzling plots better than New York Times bestseller Jennifer Crusie. An automatic buy! (Aug. Read more
Published on Jan 20 2004 by K. J. Blake
4.0 out of 5 stars Overpopulated but still fun
Once you've read one of Jennifer Crusie's books, you'll be hooked and want to read them all, including this one. Read more
Published on Jan 14 2004 by Stephanie Dragon
5.0 out of 5 stars Didn't Have To Fake Liking This one
At first glance, Crusie's books appear to be just chick lit, but when I began reading, I quickly discovered an intricate plot-line and very real/likable characters. Read more
Published on Jan 2 2004 by H. A Truett
1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted my time
Aarrgghhhhh so frustrating reading this book. I almost didn't finish it, but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and plowed through it. Read more
Published on Dec 30 2003 by merilee
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