"Phone Kitten" ~ Marika Christian

A friend of mine turned me onto this free Kindle book site called Pixels of Ink.  I both love and hate this site.  Usually twice a day they list 3-5 books that are free for Kindle on Amazon at the time of the post. I  LOVE free books.  I HATE the  temptation because, even though they aren't taking up physical space, adding 5 books a day to my to-be-read pile is intimidating even for me.  Anywho, this leads me to my latest book, "Phone Kitten", which I got free thanks to the above mentioned Pixels recommendation.

This book was just a funny, cute, and light hearted mystery.  Emily Winters finds herself fired from her newspaper job, through no fault of her own, sees an ad to be a phone sex operator and thinks why not.  Now, I do have to say that I was slightly worried about a raunch factor, but the author handles the subject matter with a sly, witty, subtle touch that just had me giggling in some parts.  What Emily finds is that once the deed is done, most of these guys just want someone to talk to and at two dollars a minute, she's happy to oblige. 

With her life back on track Emily has met a new guy and on their first date, she accidentally runs into one of her clients.  When he turns up murdered the next day, she is sure she's in trouble.  So she decides to start "Drewing it", as in Nancy Drew, against the advice of her best friend Dennis.  Emily is sweet and completely inept in the style of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum.  The romance with Rick is just adorable and hot in all the right places. 

Did I mention that I liked this book?  It hit all the right notes in all the right places for me.  Chick Lit, Romance, Comic Mystery, what ever, it was enjoyable.  Like a perfect cupcake.  You couldn't live on it, but boy is it good.  I can't wait to see where this series goes.  As I said it was free when I got it and is now listed at $2.99.  Unfortunately it only seems to be available in ebook format at the moment.  Hopefully that changes soon.