A GUY VS. A DOG One of them is affectionate, loving, and eternally loyal –� a companion for life who lives only to make you happy... Small–town veterinarian Megan Rose doesn't usually wake up next to strangers. But this morning she finds one sleeping in her bed. Unfortunately, "Baywatch" a stray puppy, doesn't belong at the address on her tags, the mansion of Sutter Foley, millionaire software mogul and six fabulous feet of gorgeous, eligible male. Sutter doesn't even like dogs. He does, however, like the sexy, spunky vet who's trying to saddle him with a pooch. The animal magnetism they share is intense, but so is the spotlight in which Sutter lives. Can Megan stand the heat? Though her outspoken ways make a lot of waves in Sutter's goldfish–bowl world, he's never enjoyed life so much. Could she be the trustworthy companion he's been looking for . . . or should he stick with the dog? It's the old girl meets dog . . . girl and dog meet guy . . . guy loses girl, gets dog . . . Or will there be a frisky new twist to this puppy's tale?
A satisfying book. Like a warm from the oven, gooey and delicious cookie. It wasn't amazing like a decadent chocolate cake, I probably won't be talking about it for weeks, but it was a simple pleasure and I enjoyed it.
Sutter is almost nearly a celebrity and I hate reading about ficticious celebrities unless they are sports players. But I was not too bothered about the "rag" plot and the new stories and such. So that was good.
Basically this is comparable to Lori Foster's stories ... except I would say I like Foster's storylines a bit better. But there was a lot going on in this book and thankfully no "I thought you were my friend" female backstabbing. It seemed like we were being set up for Pen. talking to the papers or something but she was supportive all the way through. Yay.
Plot: Lonely billionaire (my heart bleeds), lumbered with an unwanted dog and despite his intelligence and money - doesn't appear to know what to do with dog. Then confronted by an impertinent overzealous Vet, some unwitty tedious dialogue. They fall in love(?). The End. Thoughts When people write about rich, eligible famous men they represent them as this clichéd lonely man looking for someone who will treat him “like normal person� (i.e. as though they're not “famous and incredibly wealthy�) which for some obscure reason invariably results in the “heroine� being impertinent and demonstrating a shocking lack of manners which she wouldn't display to any other person without billions in his bank account and a mug shot in the papers.
It's such a tediously old, tried and trite method which usually manifests itself as a challenge(?) for the rich guy to win over the impertinent wench (in reality he'd get bored and move onto the next lass who takes his fancy). DUMB. DUMB. DUMB. SO DUMB IT HURTS.
Also how does a billionaire businessmen have so much time in his hands to play “happy families� with a dog if he's making millions every few seconds? Or does he change a habit of a life time within seconds of meeting our willful heroine? I appreciate it's fiction (and chick lit at that), but I do enjoy fiction within the realms of quasi reality. I mean come one - talk about plot holes.
NO MORE PLEASE! YOU DUMB %^$£ Additionally, why is the herione trying to convince us readers that she's not interested in his billions like the millions of gold diggers out there when her conversation and thoughts revolve around the dude's money?
And then there's Sutter (the hero) who is meant to be British (or rather English). He's apparently from a council estate (not that the author knows what “council� means but she mentions he's from a poor area of London). However, the man speaks so formerly you'd think English wasn't his first language. If the author demonstrated that Sutter conversed thus because he was hiding his disadvantaged background by elegant formal speech than perhaps that would make sense � but I think she represents him as a weird Mr Darcy because she thinks English people speak this way. JUST SHUT UP. YOU'RE STUPID.
Than there's how she uses English colloquial terms completely incorrectly. For example, first she represents Sutter as being utterly formal in speech and then he's thinking to himself by using terms like “Cor� (which I presume is part of “cor blimey�) which again makes no sense (perhaps she's watched far too many re-runs of Oliver Twist??). Its ridiculous and its obvious a lack of research and lack of understanding of Britain and England is visible here. This book is so “light� that it floats. It lacks details (we don't know the characters ages, or their hobbies apart from the pet peeves, or much about them to give them depth). If you've read “Man at Work� (a semi clichéd romance but sooooo much fun and lots of chemistry) or “Hot Stuff� (a very un-clichéd romance with sparks and fireworks and intelligent conversation) than you'd be forgiven for being baffled when reading this vomit inducing, trite, tedious drivel.
And what is it with the dogs? The author seems obsessed with them as all her recent books seem to revolve around the canine species.
This is a perfect Summer beach read! It is quick, lighthearted, and fun. This is a classic story girl meets a dog, girl hunts down the dog's owner, owner doesn't want the dog but wants the girl.
I've now written dog so much it has lost all meaning.
This book has a cute meet-cute, a billionaire who is mysterious to everyone but Megan. Sutter has it all, or so it seems, but the one thing he is missing is a dog AND a girl who wants him for him and nothing else.
This review is just me recounting the events of what happened in the book so I can I remember what I've read.
I suggest not reading this if you don't want to know all the details I'm recounting.
Okay, so we've got megham the new vet in WV & sutter foley the down a few houses neighbor millionaire, and a stray golden retriever named baywatch - meghan tries returing the dog to the address on the baywatch's collar. sutter doesn't want the dog but he vaguely thinks it was the caretakers job (full of tats & was short) before he was untimely "let go" but doesn't tell her that precisely - sutter tries paying megan into taking the dog to the pound for him but she refuses - the dog's collar had this listed address - if he want's him gone, then sutter will have to do it himself, apparently...
okay, so we meet sutters pa, montgomery, they talk about the dog - it's charlies, ex groundskeeper who was fired after speaking to the tabloids about him. then we meet another pa who isn't to great at secretarily work & asks her what his 2:30 meant in the calaender but she has no idea because she can't remember nor had she written it down.. back to meghan, opens the vet shop on monday, meets a few of the locals, one has a great dane, the other is a gossip apparently, named penelope & she lets it slip when asking "has doc rose pinched you yet" to which she finds out that doc rose is meghans dad & takes sev mins trying to apologize, then comes back later that morning & takes her out to eat to further apologize - they talk about sutter....
sutter finally manages to bring the do back to doc rose's vet place but it's past hours but thankfully, megan opens the door anyway, lets him in, & maniuplates him into "fostering" the dog till they can find a better family for baywatch...
Georgie ex husband & new wife are having a litter - huge Dane dog - then, they talk about real babies & how Penelope can't have any.
We jump to Sutter - Park, it's raining, they kiss, he flees - he's talking to his sister about their mom
The SPCA board - benefit/acceptance. Megan is being accepted to the board & so is Liz folely, but her brother went in lue of her absence, but he refused & sent his very incompetent secretary instead who insulted the entire organization (ps, how this author is portraying this secretary is bs - she can't be thay stupid- this is more of a males personality trait)
After the benefit/acceptance board speeches, megan heads to sutters place to confront him about his secretary botched speech. They argue about what was said in jest & what was meant - they couldn't resolve it because he believed that she already made up her mind about himself so nothing he said would make any difference, she tries to leave, he kisses her, they end up having sex. He gets a phone call, she gets sensitive & flees b4 overstaying her welcome. She talks to Penelope & Georgie about what happened while Georgie goes on about her ex & his new litter of puppies being of special genes.
He named the dog twister. He spoke w/aunt Edna- Edna says megan rejected him, which got him thinking. He tried training the dog, it didn't go well. The dog ate through his pants. They head to Megan's & invite her out for lunch - their dogs both go. But apparently the pants the dog attacked dropped his wallet so when he went to pay, there was no card, which made her day, that she got to pay for the millionaire not to wash dishes. Twister than throws up his credit card. Snicker.
Tanner a tabloid junkie got ahold of her & tried grilling her for info on sutter (this is the same guy who got his groundskeeper to talk about him & why he was fired). Then she & her dad talk about the spca board & how they never invited him for it. Then her friends Georgie & Penelope tell her sutter sent the board 10k to smooth things over from his incompetent secretary speech. The tabloid fodder came out, he's upset - there's a Briana in town for him, megan thinks it his new gf, which hurts. Sutter runs into Megan's dad at a restaurant
Ugh, seriously, he's harping on her about the tabloid mistake & being a complete dick about it. Cause God forbid he not understand that not everyone is used to tabloid fodder like he & his millions are used to. Wth dude. Get a reality check. You blaming her & the way ur yelling at her about is not cool.
Yes! Thank God, she let him have it! She told him where he could shove his accusations of her planning this tabloid crap all along! Then he finally admits she was right, that he should have told her to be on the lookout for the tabloid bloke & about Briana. She ends things, tells to him tonjust forget they ever met, then talks about how fidelity is myth & all & she's used to guys cheating & not remaining faithful l, even if it's to someone whose as perfect as movie star bombshell Briana. He then kisses her & the tabloid bloke takes a pic of them. She flees, tells her friends & they tell her that he must love her.
I don't like his assistant montgomery - seems to think everyone is out to get sutter - he keeps accusing megan of pulling stunts on him. Finally, sutter confronts montgomery & says something along the lines of "do you think the only reason women are into is because of money, no other reason"
Also, Megan's pregnat. He came into the vet shop & they said their "fairwells" to each other....which was always cause neither are saying anything about their feelings towar each other but whatever
Finally he ends things w/Brianna
Wow, that sucks. Her baby announcement made it to the tabloids before she got the chance to tell sutter. Awkward...
Wow, seriously! You took that stance! Again, this author peeved me off w/her "pick me" girl vibes/inner misogyny crap. Really, she's the one that points out & asks how can he be sure the baby is his? What the hell is wrong w/this girl! No sane woman would ever say that to man. Only a male dumb enough to not respect women would say that. Ugh. Way to ruin a supposedly good hea. But whatever. And nice bringing in marriage right along those lines of having a baby because that wasn't just as disrespectful as having the girl question whether or not the baby was his.
The Hea for this book was not warranted.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Yesterday, I just found myself needing something cheerful and light and romantic. So, I pulled this off my piles of book that I've gotten for my Kindle. What fun! This is a wonderful story - with dogs! - with a likable heroine - with a dog! - and a sexy hero - with a dog!
In fact, I'm not sure that there are many characters in this book that don't have dogs. It's a fun little story with fun circumstances and good passion. I'll have to check out more of Elaine's work!
This was a cute, light read that tickled me because of the animal capers. Not only does the divorced veterinarian catch the millionaire, but her friend and father manage to dognap a puppy and prove he was created with stolen sperm! This is the first time I've seen the word Nuticles in print outside of a veterinary office! Fun, fun, fun.
The humor in most of this story was good and Megan’s friends were interesting characters. However, there was little to no character development in this and the drama that was going on between Sutter and Megan was dull. Everything was pretty predictable and I found myself bored with the whole rich boy meets poor girl via dog and fall in love plot.
i am kind of astounded that this was at the byu library? this book started out funny and predictable and then turned overly soap-operatic and predictable.
Megan Rose, who is a veterinarian and Sutter Foley, local billionaire spar through this book trying to become an item. This was a slow moving book that was pretty predictable.
Guys & Dogs by Elaine Fox ⭐⭐� Need something light and cheerful? Love dogs? This story is for you! A very quick, cute, light, fun, Romantic Comedy! Available in the store or online at A GUY VS. A DOG One of them is affectionate, loving, and eternally loyal –� a companion for life who lives only to make you happy... Small–town veterinarian Megan Rose doesn't usually wake up next to strangers. But this morning she finds one sleeping in her bed. Unfortunately, "Baywatch" a stray puppy, doesn't belong at the address on her tags, either: the mansion of Sutter Foley, millionaire software mogul and six fabulous feet of gorgeous, eligible male. Sutter doesn't even like dogs. He does, however, like the sexy, spunky vet who's trying to saddle him with a pooch. The animal magnetism they share is intense, but so is the spotlight in which Sutter lives. Can Megan stand the heat? Though her outspoken ways make a lot of waves in Sutter's goldfish–bowl world, he's never enjoyed life so much. Could she be the trustworthy companion he's been looking for . . . or should he stick with the dog? It's the old story: girl meets dog . . . girl and dog meet guy . . . guy loses girl, gets dog . . . Or will there be a frisky new twist to this puppy's tale?
I truly enjoyed this one. Megan finds follows a puppy Sutter's front door believing the puppy is locked out. She's a veterinarian, and only wants to return the dog to it's owner. As they get off to a rocky start each begins to feel drawn to the other. Of course a relationship ensues, but this is not your typical love story. There is much more going on here. Intrigue, adultery, theft, and money. No you will not see this coming. have a read. You will not be disappointed. Sometimes animal do bring us closer, and sometimes they can also help solve crimes.
2.5 stars I was thinking, guy with a british accent, dogs, enemies to lovers, what's not to like? Well, enough apparently. Sutter was really over the top pretentious and until the end of the book (like the last two chapters) Megan and Sutter made NO sense together, no even in an opposites attract kind of way. I didn't like how he had this pseudo relationship with another women because she checked the boxes on paper, while he was 'falling' for Megan. Ick. And I thought the side plot with her friends was dull and unnecessary. But the dogs were cute.
I've enjoyed this author before but this particular book wasn't my cuppa. I thought the hero was foolish for sticking with an empty-headed girlfriend just because she could manage the limelight around him. And the heroine--a vet, no less--less than admirable for not practicing safer sex despite being told she couldn't conceive, when there was no obvious and irrefutable barrier, especially with a new partner.
Anyway, passing onto the world.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
I could never really get into this book because Sutter and Megan has no chemistry at all. I just didn't see the attraction or reason they even liked each other. There were no other sub-plots or characters to make up for the lacking in the main characters. I'll give the second book in the series a shot but I would not recommend this one to anyone.
This book was a nice, fast what I call pallet cleanser. It’s a fluffy romance able to be read in a day. He’s a billionaire, she’s a vet. She turns him into a dog lover. It’s nothing earth shattering but it’s cute.
Read a book set within a 100 miles of your location. I read this for the BookRiot Read Harder Challenge 2017. This is a lovely romance set in Fredericksburg and I enjoyed it immensely.
Not sure that I will try another book in this series. I only finished this one because I was stuck in a hospital waiting room and going to run out of reading materials if I didn't.