GRR Reviews Chez Stinky by Susan C Daffron

Kat Stevens lives a boring life as a technical writer with a boss who never seems to do any work except barking orders. When she suddenly inherited a house in the small town of Alpine Grove, her life turns complicated indeed, when the inheritance has many conditions... Such as the existing pets, 4 dogs and 5 cats, must be taken cared of, and not just fed and sheltered either. Unfortunately, the house is seriously in need of repairs, both in terms of having a dead critter in the walls, a cat that may have fallen through the cracks... and a horribly leaky roof. The dogs scare her (one of them is HUGE). The cats... didn't like her. Fortunately, she had Joel... an unemployed techie who previously worked construction, but who seems to barely tolerate her. And the house is apparently uncleaned by many many years, that it's not just dust bunnies, but dust dinosaurs that inhabited the place. And she can't get to inheritance to fix the house UNTIL she gets clear title to it, i.e. she demonstrated she "deserved it". Oh, and there may be massive spiders, and an old grizzled hippie passed out in the yard... Any way you dice it, Kat's life will never be the same...

Good rom-com with pets and some ingenious solutions to problems. Joe doesn't' seem to have too much personality though besides very loyal and helpful. Still, the dogs and cats are cute.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman suddenly inherited a house... but there are conditions, and she needs her neighbor's help, and she fell for him, which creates more complications

Overall Rating: 4/5

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