Jordan McAdam picked herself up after the firm where she
worked collapsed, and started her own dating review site
for women. In this cheeky novella, Jordan goes so far as to
vet and review the businessmen in town, that she takes
temporary
secretarial jobs in their offices undercover. If a man is
appalling to work for in the boardroom, he won't treat
women any better in his private life, is her reasoning.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW starts with Jordan secretly
despising the latest macho idiot, when he has a business
meeting with two lawyers who tell him he's failed to get
approval for a partnership on their development in
Washington D.C. While it's not in Jordan's capacity to
comment, she privately remarks that Forrest Redder, one of
the visitors, is much more her type of guy. Nobody has yet
posted a review of a date with Forrest.... If Jordan does
go out with this single businessman, will the review site
come between them and ruin any chance of a relationship?
While it feels wrong to find men characterised as Creepy
Dude or Ken Doll behind their backs, Jordan and her close
friends don't believe they're doing anything wrong by
posting uncensored reviews for site members. Women can't
be too careful, they say, and a man could be lying about
his marital status, or kinky in bed, or he could select a
pricey restaurant and then insist that the lady pay her own
way. But girls talk, and word spreads, and business
reputations can suddenly be on the line.
I did like the review posts at the start of each chapter -
they range from "Honey, he's a genius with that swing. Go
for it!" to "He tried that line about being a spy on me
too, then I found my Visa card in his wallet." Saying any
more would spoil the story, but this novella by Helenkay
Dimon is a good read for adult women and a potentially
scary one for men. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW includes
a man's entire dating history, give this book a try.
Welcome to Need to Know—Because a Woman Can't Be Too
Informed
Dating in D.C. is like navigating an apocalyptic wasteland
populated by men in expensive suits with zero mating
potential. Need to Know provides all the information a savvy
single woman like you needs to avoid dating disasters.
By night, Jordan McAdam is the proprietor of a popular
website that rates D.C.'s hottest bachelors—everything from
how quick they are to email you back, to their skills in the
sack. She's been burned once too often to accept any man at
face value. By day, her job as an office temp puts her in
the perfect position to do a little fact-checking on her
rich and powerful subjects. When her latest assignment
brings her face-to-face with the sexy but mysterious Forest
Redder, Jordan decides to do a little "hands-on" research of
her own. To Jordan, he seems like the perfect man—but she
knows there is no such thing. Moreover, there's a big
problem: Forest knows Jordan's the woman behind the
scandalous site—and Jordan knows he knows. Will he expose
her secret—or find his own posted on Need to Know?
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