Silhouette Desire, $3.75, ISBN 0-373-76201-1
Contemporary Romance, 1998

There is something utterly satisfying about reading a gorgeous, drop dead sexy, if somewhat oblivious man feeling totally lost after his divorce. He can’t cook, he can’t eat, his now-bachelor pad is a mess, and he can’t bring himself to date anyone. He spies on his ex’s doings through a network of friendly relative and ex-in-law spy network, and runs off in pursuit when the ex-wife goes off on a hot-air balloon with another guy.

Simply wonderful. Likewise, how could I not give a chuckle when this same man, Tyler Fuller, is actually terrified when his female boss makes a move on him? Tyler divorces Kayla – accidentally, really, for he files for divorce in a desperate attempt to get her attention, and yikes, she signs that thing! Drat. And when a he commiserates with his fellow male species that he would never understand woman, well, I laugh.

So How to Win (Back) a Wife is fun. But somehow, the author left out the heroine in this story. Oops. Okay, Kayla’s the heroine, but the whole story is all from Tyler’s point of view. I have no idea of her feelings, nor why they actually divorced in the first place, so I can’t help but to wonder what this story is supposed to stand on in the first place.

It’s a good thing I adore Tyler. Otherwise this book, with its almost nonexistent foundation and flimsiest of flimsy plot, would definitely be another pf those “Why am I reading this again?” cases.