O-M-G. This a fabulous guilty pleasure book. There is steamy romance, swift and devastating revenge, hard won redemption, and a hilarious text message meltdown. Also, I want an assistant that will allow me to call her Renfield too. ( )

Occasionally, in a novel, a brilliant character will override the handicap of a conventional plot. Raney Moore is a partner in a big-time New York law firm, scary, strong willed, and self-contained. She's got a great, famous husband from the ultimate "meet cute", twin 15 year old daughters, a big house in the suburbs, a driver...everything. Until a strange man calls and tells her that his wife slept with her husband. Raney reigns appropriate digital and social media hell on Aaron and launches into a reluctant redo of her entire life, and a lot of humorously inappropriate behavior follows. I was so entertained by the witty dialogue and found it all to be entirely within the realm of possibility. Great big fun here!

Quotes: "I work in a profession that tends to attract a particular type of man - arrogant, argumentative, combative. Sometimes that type of man would prefer that a woman know her lace, which to him is not on a bench, or at counsel's table, or across from him at a deposition."

"It's New York City pre-K. he's probably missing a session on personal branding."

'Can I ask you something?' never precedes a question. It always precedes a judgement."

"If I was all business, I was a humorless robot. If I tried to be playful, I wasn't taken seriously. If I accepted praise, I was cocky. If I demurred, I was weak." ( )

This was a quick read, and I liked the ultimate message, but it was a little far-fetched. Do This For Me tells the story of a woman finding out about her husband's affair. This woman is used to being in charge (she's a high-powered lawyer) and is kind of a control freak. Her response to the affair is extreme, and it was at this point where I doubted a lot of the story following.
I flew through it and I liked it enough but it needed to be toned down about three levels. ( )

Raney Jane Moore is a high powered attorney at a top NYC firm. She is married to a famous entomologist and successful author, and they have twin daughters. By all accounts, Raney has the perfect life, until she answers the phone one day and her world crashes around her.
How Raney reacts to this new normal is funny, sad, inspiring, confused, and emotional. In seeking out the help of her partners, associates, staff, clients, therapists, and friends, Raney discovers things about herself and reinvents who she is and who she wants to be.
I really enjoyed this book, even though the circumstances and some of Raney's actions were tragic. Pretty light reading, but fun.

#DoThisForMe #ElizaKennedy ( )

Can I give a 5 star rating for PART of a book?!? I was ALL-IN from page one of this book. The beginning was so fast, so awesome, with such manic intensity - I was like, this chick is BAD ASS! I TORE through the first quarter of this book. And then... meh. I guess we needed a bit of a breather because the first quarter of this book is one serious wild ride. It got back to it's intense awesomeness almost mid-way through, but then I felt it just got sappy and fizzled.

I need a book about JUST the Raney Moore in the beginning. She is NO JOKE. High-powered attorney Raney Moore has it all. Shes partner at her law form, he husband is a famous bug guy, and shes got twin teenage girls who are the light of her life. She's wealthy, and can have anything she wants. But she already seems to have it all. Or so she thinks. When Raney finds out her life is not as perfect as she thought - in less than a split second she turns into a jilted-wife phsychopath - and goes balls-to-the-wall revenge-mode to destroy the cause of her pain. But may in fact destroy everything good in her life. You don't even see it coming. I was riveted by the endless access she has to everything you can imagine to carry out her plans. Money, researchers, cars, hackers.... you name it. Don't mess with Raney. You cross her and you will be in SERIOUS trouble.

I read a lot of reviews that people didn't like the book because they hated Raney. I think some of the best books are when you have intense feeling for a character. Good OR bad. Raney was a character I couldn't get enough of. There's another almost equally manic scene in the middle where she is in a dressing room, and the crazy, intense Raney (with yet again, resources aplenty) returns and I am once again enthralled with her.

But unfortunately, after about mid-way it just fell flat to me. A lot of the dialogue is hilarious. It's witty, fast and keeps your attention, but the rest of the story just wasn't what I wanted - what I craved. I wanted more Raney. I didn't want her to try to change herself, or be a better person. Eliza Kennedy shouldn't have written the old Raney as such an incredibly intense and off-kilter character because she made me fall for her - but then she took her away! (sad face)

I'd kill for a prequel. To see Raney as she emerges into the person she was in the beginning of this book: her start at the law firm, her rise to Partner. Give me that Raney All. Day. Long. ( )