Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie my review
Review courtesy of April Hollingworth
Humor, snark and an exceptionally ugly toy that all kids want, an aunt on the hunt to find one on Christmas Eve, in the hopes of saving Christmas for her beloved nephew. As you can imagine finding the hot toy of the year at Christmas is not easy, throw in some espionage and a previous date gone wrong and only one toy, mix them together and you get this fun short read.
It was humorous yet I found myself wanting to shake the sister back to reality, also where the brother in law was concerned, the biggest question bouncing around my head was… how could you not get it for your son when you promised you would?
Opening Scene:
Trudy Maxwell pushed her way through the crowded old toy store, fed up with Christmas shopping, Christmas carols, Christmas in general, and toy stores in particular.
The Review:
After her brother in law fails to buy the latest hot toy for his son, mayhem ensues on Christmas Eve, when a determined shopper grabs the last latest hot toy off the shelf, throwing her into a real-live spy game with a sexy secret agent…
Notable Scene:
“I do believe in Santa,” Trudy said as Nolan came closer.
“That’s a Major MacGuffin.” He sounded stunned.
“Can you believe it?” Trudy was so amazed she forgot to be mad.
“No,” Nolan said. “I can’t. I knew you were an amazing woman, but this puts you in a whole new league.”
“What?” Trudy said.
“I’ll give you two hundred bucks for it,” Nolan said.
“No.” Trudy stepped away from him, holding on to the MacGuffin box.
Nolan smiled at her, radiating sincerity. “I know, your nephew wants a Major MacGuffin, but he doesn’t want that one. He wants the Mac Two. The one that spits toxic waste and packs a tac nuke, right?”
Trudy thought of Leroy, waxing rhapsodic about how ’Guffin spit green stuff when you squeezed him. “Yes.”
“What you have there is a MacGuffin One,” Nolan said, sounding sympathetic and entirely too reasonable. “Last year’s model. No toxic waste.”
FTC Advisory: Amy Goppert through NetGalley provided me with a copy of Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie. Published through St. Martin’s Press. Kindle Edition. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
