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Cupid F*cks Up – Ruth Roth Series Book 2
#1 Amazon Best Seller.
Paula Houseman is a very talented author with a profound ability to be both funny and perceptive. Her style of storytelling is down to earth, real and importantly funny! There are moments of gravity, of course, but through it all her gift to her readers is one that is almost a therapeutic session. I honestly have not laughed so hard or felt so connected to a story. Absolutely brilliant!
Laugh! Out! Loud! Love when the second book in a series is even better than the first! A book that doesn’t take itself too seriously and yet addresses some pretty heavy issues. A balancing act that is very handled within these pages.
Cupid F*cks Up is a highly entertaining laugh out loud comedy of growing older, raising a family, finding mister right and most important of all…finding yourself in the process. Paula Houseman has quickly garnered her way into “auto buy” status for me. I don’t even need to read a synopsis. If a book has Paula Houseman’s name on it I know I will be in for a treat.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I got this book and I’m forever hooked. This author has the ability to make you laugh out loud, a truly rare quality from reading a book, because usually one laughs to themselves quietly and or giggles a little out loud. This book will have you barreling out of control, laughing so loudly out loud, that wherever you are people will look at you like you belonged in an asylum.
I’m pretty sure the visceral realness of Ruth’s life is what makes for good reading, here. Not one part of these books had felt forced. This series is truly engaging and really lets you laugh and cry at the tragicomedy that is life.
I thought that this book was excellent, it is really funny and left me with tears in my eyes more than once! It is well written, has brilliant characters and a great flow – the story is one that can easily be read in one sitting as you get completely drawn in to the story.
Ruth Roth Series Book 2
(formally Apoca[hot]lips)
Ruth Roth is a straight shooter. Cupid? Not so much.
Smart-mouth Ruth is an inspirational humour columnist for a popular women’s magazine. Recently divorced from Mr Ticks-all-the-right-boxes, she’s found the love of her life. Ruth has decided she herself is her one and only.
And she’s in a comfy place. Why wouldn’t she be? No need to yell, ‘Put the bloody toilet seat down!’ No need to hear, ‘Pull my finger.’ No need to hoover toe-nail clippings off the carpet.
But then a silver-tongued Prince Charming fronts up in his shiny Merc and tickles her discarded, little-girl fantasies. He tells her she’s The One. ‘Our love is written in the stars,’ says he.
It must be a misprint!
A romance with this particular PC is not so PC. Still …
Ruth’s life plays out more like ancient myth than fairytale, and what hot-blooded woman can resist forbidden fruit?
Enter her cold-blooded mama squawking about the immorality of such a liaison, and Ruth recovers the impetus to live life in the fast lane again. She takes up with the hottie and takes on the harpy.
When tension mounts, though, even her man can’t protect her from the voices in her head. He’s hard-pressed to muzzle his own as spectacular twists in the not-so-fairy tale unearth more skeletons than in the local cemetery. It leaves Ruth feeling as if she’s dating her mother.
Yet, through a journey of self-discovery, she learns that while it appears Cupid can’t shoot for shit, he knows exactly what he’s doing.
All the same, who’s running this show?
Taking the advice she doles out to her readers is not that easy, and Ruth wonders if this love can survive, if it’s worth the trouble … or if she deserves it.
