The Husband Habit, Alisa ValdesRodriguez
The Husband Habit, Alisa ValdesRodriguez
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The Husband Habit

Author: Alisa Valdes-Rodríguez

Narrator: Eve Bianco

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Women, Romance


Synopsis

Vanessa Chavez is a successful sous chef in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's rich with friends, loved by her family, but she has one giant Achilles heel—she keeps falling for married men. Not that she knows they're married, but each and every time she ends up duped, mistaken, taken for a ride, outright fooled. When The Husband Habit begins, Vanessa has just fallen for a married guy yet again—but this time, the wife finds out about Vanessa and tries to run her over with her minivan. There's nothing for a girl to do but take a vow of celibacy and figure out why she makes bad choices over and over again. Vanessa focuses on work (sure, whatever), hangs out with her parents (boring!), and resists the efforts of her friends Manny and Lucy to set her up on dates. They introduce her to Kevin, and even though on paper he's all wrong, he's got great manners, and he's awfully good looking. Not bad in the kissing department, either. But just when her guard goes down, the red flag goes up—Kevin, of course, is married. But could there be an innocent explanation?

About Alisa Valdes-Rodríguez

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club and Playing with Boys, among other novels. She is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and Pulitzer-nominated former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. She has written and sold pilot scripts to Nickelodeon, NBC, and Lifetime Television, as well as a teen crossover feature film based on The Kindred.

About Eve Bianco

Eve Bianco is a graduate of the Juilliard School’s Drama Division. In New York, she has performed in such plays as Bedroom Farce, An Artist’s Life, and The Dybbuk by Tony Kushner. She has been seen in both film and television and has been heard in many commercials and audio books. She is a proud member of The Actors Company Theatre and lives in New York City with her two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Danielle on July 14, 2011

I had a really hard time rating this book. I gave it three stars instead of two because I really enjoyed the premise of the book and the main characters. I also really enjoyed the writing style. The thing that got to me about this book is some of the opinions about Paul and some of his views that ar......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 09, 2009

Spoiler alert – don’t keep reading if you don’t want a hint of what happens in the book. Vanessa is a masterful chef, save for the fact that her boss, Hawk, steals her ideas and takes credit for them. But while she’s on top of her recipes, her love life is a mess; every time she meets a guy, whether......more

Goodreads review by Alysia on November 17, 2017

Oh man. I don’t really read romance novels. It’s a huge market that oversaturated with very popular but often very bad books. Whether they have bad plots or bad characters they’re just too many bad ones to plow through. I picked this up at random and the plot on the book jacket sounded pretty hilari......more


Quotes

“Paul and Vanessa’s messy lives make them a couple to root for. Pride & Prejudice for the CNN age.” Kirkus Reviews