This was a cute book, and I liked that the main character was unabashedly hot and sexy, instead of the usual self-deprecating cute girl characters these books usually have.

This was well-written, but disappointing. I think the reader is supposed to rally around poor single, yet beautiful Grace, but I couldn’t do it. Her amazing job, her designer clothes budget, her UWS apartment, her loving adoptive parents, her devoted bestie & her beauty privilege affording her 2 guys who loved her and a hot booty call made me not care very much about her personal betterment (not that the story proved it really existed) or her anxiety about dealing with her birth mom's family. I didn’t care about her and there might have been a couple romantic moments that could have been something, but there was no story aside from her.

A good summer read, certainly isn't going to make you a deeper person, but a cute romantic story.

It was okay, but sometimes I felt as though the writer was trying to trick us into thinking she was pregnant. Also, I felt as though more could have been developed between her and her sister. I also got really annoyed with the young clebrity, and could never really see her importance.

Ok, all in all. I really liked parts of it but there were other parts I felt dragged on. Not one of my favorites.

2.5 Liked the character, but kept waiting for more to happen. :)

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I read this book fairly quick. It had my interest from the beginning however there was some "whining" I could have done without. I think that is my biggest peeve about Chick Lits. The authors seem to feel that having the main character whine about their life is going to make it seem like real life. Instead it makes me irritated and will make me put the book down. For Grace's age and how many men she had bedded by the time she was 35, she was a complete whiner on her age and where she was in her life. Yes she thought she had a fabulous job and so much money, but her happiness was completely missing. I did finish the book and it was a good book.

Grace Noonan is a 34 year old career girl who finds herself longing for more than the stream of non-committal men in her life. She wants to be recognized for her talent at work. She wants to hear from her birth mother whom she recently found. She even finds herself wanting to have a baby! We follow Grace's antics in the cosmetic world and with a young colleague of her father, Tom, who- even though a fashion-backwards professor - does something to her that she can't explain, or resist.

It's nice to read a book when you already know the characters. But, you could pick this up without having read "Engaging Men" and still enjoy it just as much. Grace is a wonderful character, with real reactions to everyday problems. I like that the book ends without tying-up all (or any) of her loose ends too. It shows that the point is being happy for yourself and with yourself and everything else will fall into place. I'm hoping a sequel will come at some point.

The ending felt too rushed.