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I'm In No Mood For Love

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What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she's suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown she'll never wear again, and the next thing she knows it's morning . . . and she has the nastiest hangover of her life.

To make matters worse, she's wearing nothing but a spritz of Escada and lying next to Sebastian Vaughan . . . her girlhood crush turned sexy, globe-hopping journalist. Somewhere between the toast and the toss of the bouquet she'd gotten herself into a whole lot of trouble.

Clare had the right to go wild—after all, she'd been knocked off her dyed-to-match shoes after finding her own fiancé in a compromising position with the washing machine repairman. Clearly her society wedding is off.

But Sebastian pushed all the wrong buttons—and some of the right ones, too. Clare is in no mood for love—not even for lust—and wants to forget about Sebastian and his six-pack abs ASAP. But he isn't in the mood to go away, and his kiss is impossible to forget.

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PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMar 17, 2009
ISBN9780061796692
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Rachel Gibson

Rachel Gibson began her fiction career at age sixteen, when she ran her car into the side of a hill, retrieved the bumper, and drove to a parking lot, where she strategically scattered the car’s broken glass all about. She told her parents she’d been the victim of a hit-and-run and they believed her. She’s been making up stories ever since, although she gets paid better for them nowadays.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Clare's carefully ordered life fell apart before her eyes when she walked in on her fiance playing cowboy with the Sears repairman on the closet floor. But she's determined to set it aside til her best friend gets married. When she accidentally gets loaded that night at the reception, she awakens to find herself in a hotel room with a man she's known all her life but hasn't seen for ages.Sebastian has known Clare since they were kids, but seeing her in a sexy pink thong has put a different spin on things. Sure he played the perfect gentleman- well, almost anyway- and didn't touch her, but he's finding it difficult to get the image of her stripping down before him out of his mind.When Sebastian decides to stay a few more days to spend time with the Dad he's lost touch with, he and Clare are thrust together, forcing them to reacquaint when both just want to run away. Until one passionate kiss rocks their world.Their relationship doesn't just come together, however, she's nursing a broken heart and he's got a career to think of- plus he's a commitment phobe- but when Clare realizes she's no longer gonna follow the path she's taken in the past when it comes to men, Sebastian must face some things about himself as well- or lose the woman he's come to care for more than any other.I love the "we've been friends forever and now we're suddenly more" hook and it works well here. Clare and Sebastian feel instant heated attraction but, because of their history, they don't quite believe it, much less trust it. Still this is one hot couple and I'm glad Gibson put them together.I can so identify with Clare and that's another reason I enjoyed this books so much. I've lost a love that I thought was gonna be forever, I've over indulged and woke up, brushing hangover hair out of my eyes, wondering what the hell was I thinking last night, I've dated all the wrong types of men, and I've had to make my way with a family that didn't understand me. The only thing I don't have that Clare has- well, besides the perfect body- is a Sebastian. And that's why I ultimately fell for I'm In No Mood For Love … because I too am the hopeless romantic that won't settle for nothing less than love.I was totally shocked to see this book getting crap reviews on Amazon. IMO, the book is outstanding for many reason but mostly because it is totally character driven- really not much of a plot other than them getting together. Clare is a modern woman and it's easy to identify with her. Seabstian, (okay a little too good to be believed, but what romance novel hero isn't?), is well drawn and supplies much of the humor in this book.Finally, I adore Gibson's writing style. I loved that the hero's point of view had a prominent part of the book. The aspiring writer in me became envious of how effortlessly she'd have the characters move around a room and give us simple little things to make them come alive. His tie catching the breeze, her heels clicking on the kitchen floor, little things like that made the characters feel three dimensional and that you simply don't get in this genre too often.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm In No Mood For Love is a friends-to-lovers story.
    We find out the reason behind Clare 's bizarre behaviour at Lucy's wedding in the previous book. After she finds her fiancé Lonny with the Sears repairman in her walk-in closet, Clare decides not to trust any more. I dislike cheating trope with passion but the description of what she found in her closet is hilarious ('She’d stood there with her great-grandmother’s pearls in hand, too shocked to move, while the man who’d fixed her Maytag the day before rode her fiancé like a cowboy.')
    So when a man from her childhood appears, the only thing she is ready for is to be his friend with benefits. But since this is Clare we are talking about, that isn't easy.

    What I found annoying are the following: 'He wasn't going to cry like a hysterical woman' or 'like a paranoid old woman'. Anyone can be hysterical or paranoid as far as I know. I wasn't aware old women were more paranoid than the rest of the world.

    There is no serial killer or anything like that in this book. I prefer romantic suspense to this, but there are other things that are worth the reading time, Sebastian's relationship with his father being one.
    Anyway, If you want to read a low angst love friends-to-lovers story with a happy ending, this would be it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    nice
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    really good enjoyed very much.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm In No Mood for Love
    4.5 Stars

    After catching her fiancé in flagrante delicto with the repairman, Clare Wingate gets rip roaring drunk and awakens in an unfamiliar hotel room. Unfortunately, the occupant is no stranger, but Sebastian Vaughan, the bane of her childhood existence who has turned into a sexy and successful journalist. While Clare is determined to forget the embarrassing episode, Sebastian has other ideas and isn’t shy about showing Clare exactly what she’s been missing ...

    Although contemporary romance is not a preferred genre of mine, every once in a while a series comes along that grabs me. This is one such series.

    Clare is an endearing heroine and one cannot help sympathizing with her feelings of loss and betrayal at her fiance’s actions. Sebastian is completely commitment phobic, but certainly knows how to lay on the charm and does a really good grovel, which makes for a wonderful ending. Their romance is sweet and spicy as they have excellent chemistry and their banter and bickering makes for entertaining reading.

    My one small caveat is that Clare and Sebastian spend lengthy periods of time apart and these sections are too drawn out. They are definitely better together.

    All in all, a lovely romance and I look forward to reading Maddie’s book next.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Entertaining and funny to read, but it took to long, to get them to get together, but at the same time, it was interesting to learn how they spent their time apart.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Overall, a well written book. It was a very good romance.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Eh, this book was good whenever Clare and Sebastian were in the same room together. Other than that it took way to long to get to the point. The whole book is them picking on each other. Though, I loved Sebastian and how positive he was and so bold about everything omg it was so sexy! Other than that like I said...whenever they were in the same room together was when this book was interesting. Everything else I could have done without.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Uneven pacing and gratuitous brand name dropping distract from the story.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Clare Wingate arrives home unexpectedly only to discover her fiance in flagrante delicto with the washing machine repairman. She doesn't have time to focus on this catastrohe because she has to act as bridesmaid to her good friend so she decides to deal with Lonny and his infidelity (and sexuality) later. But later turns out to be after an extended amount of time and drinks in the hotel bar and Clare can't remember much of the rest of her evening, knowing only that she has awakened naked in a hotel room. Worse yet, it appears she has awakened in the bed of her childhood nemesis Sebastian, now a gorgeous reporter who has chased important and dangerous stories around the globe. When she assumes that the two of them slept together, Sebastian doesn't disabuse her of the idea, thinking it's rather fun to see perfect, monied little Clare flustered. There is a reasonable amount of friction between the two characters but there is quite a lot of time spent on each of their seperate development and growth and not nearly as much as might be expected in a romance on the actual relationship and its evolution. It is interesting that Gibson chose to make Clare a romance author who can't even command respect from her mother given her choice of subject matter despite the fact that her rather over the top prose has made Sebastian hot and bothered. The story doesn't follow the traditional arc of a romance but it also doesn't work as anything other than a romance novel and so this deviation from the conventional, instead of being a strength, ends up weakening the story and leaving the eventual resolution feel a bit rushed. It is also a tad wearying that the character who is unable to sustain the concept of "friends with benefits" is Clare, causing Sebastian to panic until he realizes that he too needs more than to stay the cliched commitment-phobic male. Romance fans will likely not be ambivalent about this one, either hating it for its tepid relationship or loving it for its ability to show major change and growth in the main characters independent of each other. Personally I'm rather wishy-washy about it, appreciating the attempt but ultimately finding that the attempt created flaws that wouldn't otherwise have been as evident.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book was good enough but not as strong as some of Gibson's other work. Everything was too tepid to merit more than three stars. The characters were likable but not memorable. The plot was interesting but not gripping. Even the sex appeal was heated yet not sizzling. As I said -- tepid.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I'd heard great things about this book, but I found it to be painfully boring. Neither of the two main characters interested me in the slightest, and I had to force myself to finish the book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    another fluffy romance typical of Gibson...light, funny and succinct. a great stand by
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    After finding her fiance in a compromsing position with a washing machine repairman and attending a wedding in which she served as a bridesmaid, Clare Wingate awakens with a hangover, next to her childhood crush, Sebastian Vaughan, now a sexy, globe-traveling journalist. Rachel Gibson's books are always fun to read with a hot romance and sometimes a light mystery thrown in. This one didn't have as much content as some of the others, but it was a light, entertaining read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When Clare stumbles on her fiancée and the Maytag repairman in the closet together needless to say it is quite a shock. Almost as much of a shock as waking up the next morning in a hotel room with her childhood nemeses, Sebastian Vaughan, without any clear recollection of what happened, but one heck of a hangover. For Sebastian stumbling upon the cause of his exile at the age of 12 from his father's home in a bar was the surprise of a lifetime. Neither Sebastian nor Clare had any intention of being more than passing acquaintances, but sometimes there is nothing you can do to escape attraction. Even if you're no mood for love.Once again I have enjoyed Ms. Gibson's contemporary tale. Although the story did seem to drag a bit in places, overall I found it to be well written and it kept my attention. I will definitely be reading more by Ms. Gibson in the future and would not hesitate to recommend her to fans of contemporary romances.