Hostile Makeover

by Wendy Wax

Book Overview

It was the first orgasm Shelley Schwartz ever faked. She swore she'd never do it, but she was late for a career-saving meeting at Schwartz and Associates and her options were limited. If she'd faked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553587951
• ISBN13: 9780553587951
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Laugh out loud funny

If you enjoy a good sense of humor and a little attitude in your main charaters, you will love this book as much as I did. Yes, it was a little predictable. But, you usually don't read these kinds of books for their thrilling plots. Don't take it too seriously, sit back, and enjoy a comical and relaxing read.

humorous chick lit

The story is focused mainly on the heroine and her attempts to prove to herself, her family and her new boss that she really can work hard in the family ad agency business. It's funny, it's a fast read and I enjoyed it a lot.

Single Jewish girl not looking for a man

At Swartz & Associates, Shelly has the label of being the founder's daughter who never took her position at the company seriously. In Atlanta, she spends money like crazy (which isn't hard to do) and shows up to work when her appointments at the Spa or her shrink permits. Nobody at the company takes her seriously. When her Father is rushed to the hospital for an emergency bypass surgery, Shelly learns that Ross Morgan will be taking over as President of Schwartz & Associates. Shelly is not pleased about this because of her love/hate relationship with Morgan. Shelly makes a promise to herself that she is going to whatever is neccessary to keep her job and prove Morgan wrong that she is just a "Daddy's Girl". This was my first read by Wendy Maxx and I enjoyed it. It was a funny, fast read centered around the hustle & bustle of Atlanta.

fun chick lit tale

When sixty something Harvey Schwartz undergoes emergency by-pass surgery and is forced to take an earlier than planned retirement, his thirty-three years old daughter Shelley expects to be placed in charge of the family business Schwartz & Associates. Instead her dad selects hot shot Ross Morgan to run the advertising firm especially after she comes very late to a critical client meeting looking as if she had sex, which she did with her boyfriend Trey Davenport. Shelley takes out her disappointment on Ross, who pulls no punches that she has not earned the position as he did and if she was not related to the owner she would have been fired years ago. He challenges her to prove her worth by handing her several dormant cases to drum up needed business. Shelley plans to prove him wrong even as their boardroom squabble lead to love. This fun chick lit tale stars a Jewish American princess who cannot understand why daddy did not entrust her with the company (readers will know why) and a hardworking intelligent hunk who refuses to take any guff from her. The story line is lighthearted especially as her matchmaking mother keeps parading potential Jewish spouses that Shelley rejects because they come from her mom and she refuses to date anyone Jewish. A final twist makes for a fine boardroom to bedroom romance. Harriet Klausner