
The Husband Habit
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THE HUSBAND HABIT is Generation X's princess story of fame, love, and fortune. Beautiful Vanessa overcomes childhood traumas, earns a graduate degree in literature from Yale, and returns home to New Mexico, where she's considered a genius chef. Amid all this overachievement she has one foible: She repeatedly falls in love with married men. It's all because she grew up with combative alcoholic parents, says Paul, her new love, muscular and supposedly single. Eve Bianco flawlessly narrates the author's buoyant prose. Effortlessly Bianco portrays Vanessa's youthful na•veté and emphatic opposition to the Iraq war, where Paul served as an interrogator and fighter pilot. This production is a perfect stress reliever, with tantalizing recipes as a bonus. K.P. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

May 18, 2009
The sixth novel from Valdes-Rodriguez (The Dirty Girls Social Club
) is a mixed bag of overly ambitious prose, lighthearted romance and southwestern flavor. Vanessa Duran, one of Albuquerque’s most talented chefs, keeps falling in love with married men, so after a string of dud relationships, her sister extracts a promise: Vanessa will take a break from dating and use the time to figure out why she keeps getting involved with all the wrong men. Of course, Vanessa is attracted to the very next guy who crosses her path—Paul Stebbit, an unpretentious Iraq War veteran. The sparks and banter fly, and Paul seems different enough from her other disastrous relationships that Vanessa begins to open up to him. Of course, an obvious complication pops up. Vanessa’s Albuquerque serves as a nice backdrop, and the characters avoid most genre pitfalls, but there’s an uncomfortable disconnect between the expository passages and the inane dialogue, and some plot developments (particularly one involving a date featuring a flight in a fighter jet) stretch credibility. A few big holes come close to killing the froth.
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