I picked up a copy of this book due to the premise. It sounded good and I was ready for a light hearted, funny read. Well the light hearted part was correct but the humor was missing.

Eliza is a klutz. I kind of felt bad for her. She had a lot to prove with her family history. Eliza tried her hardest to show she could be a good cupid even if at first she was resistant to the idea. Although, I could understand where she was coming from. Her mother was mean towards Eliza and had no faith in her.

In regards, to the love interest Jake; I thought he was alright. He at least tried to bring some humor to the story. Again, my major disappointment is the fact that I wanted humor and didn't get it. Additionally, the characters were "so, so". The storyline felt like it was lacking in substance. A nice idea that didn't fully execute all the way.

A cute book about Descendants more specifically Descendants of Eros. Eliza Herman comes from a family of Cupids. She is the absolute worst cupid in the world. She accidentally enchants people all the time from the greeting card aisle to playground classmates at a young age to her parents throughout her childhood. When the family business Herman and Herman, a matchmaking company is in dire straights Eliza steps up to help out. A new law states that she needs to have her license to practice love enchantments to even answer the phone. That's what she does with the help of her childhood crush/best friend Jake Sanders. 

Like everything else in life, nothing is easy for Eliza. She is beginning to believe that true love is in fact real--because she feels it for Jake. But a conspiracy theory is brewing that might just be accurate. Eliza must prove it. In order to prove it, she also has to prove that her enchantments worked. After all, she is one of the most powerful and a special type of cupid.  To prove it, she risks her relationship with Jake including his trust as well as both their lives.

I am a huge fan of Amanda so I was beyond excited to see another book from her up on Netgalley! Then the name grabbed me and without even reading the description I was like YES PLEASE!
Crazy Cupid Love is an amazingly cute romantic novel with a surprising mythological twist. At first I was like hmmmmmm what…but OMG Amanda did it so good that that twist was truly my favorite part.
I truly fell “crazy cupid in LOVE” with this book! You will def want to add this book to your 2019 Must Read list!

"Crazy Cupid Love" is such a fantastic romance novel with a mythological twist! Eliza is a descendant of Eros, a.k.a. a Cupid, but she has never really embraced her heritage. She always seems to stumble and have her gift go awry. With some Cupids, they have to draw blood to work their powers (like with the traditional bow and arrows) and make someone fall in temporary love (to be differentiated from the real capital-L Love). Eliza is so powerful that even the tiniest injury can induce love (essentially lust). As such, she views herself as a liability and stays out of the family Cupid business.

After Cupids went public, the government has highly regulated them. When she learns that her family's business is in trouble, Eliza offers to step in temporarily, but doing so will require her to go through the government regulations/licensing process. As part of that, she must select a non-family member mentor. Luckily (or unluckily), Eliza's childhood friend Jake has returned from the Cupid Corps and offers to be her mentor. Unbeknownst to the other, they have each had a crush on the other for a long time. While on her first case, Eliza accidentally drops a candy dish on Jake and gives him love (not the capital-L kind) for her. They set up rules that seem really hard to follow.

As Eliza works to keep the family business running, it turns out there is something more sinister afoot and Eliza is trying to figure it out along the way. With the romance, funny anecdotes, and the mystery of what is happening to Cupid enchantments, the book is a really enjoyable ride. In terms of the romance, I absolutely loved the couple- we get a couple sections from Jake's point-of-view which were icing on the cake. With the cases Eliza handles, this adds some funny and sweet stories to the plot. Adding in the mystery (which I honestly did not figure out on my own- the best kind), it gets a slight cozy mystery feel.

Overall, this was a really fantastic read, and I really loved it! You'll want to snag this one before Valentine's Day, and I think you'll fall in love with these characters and story too!

Please note that I received an ARC from the publisher through netgalley. All opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed the first half of this book; the concept itself is fairly original, so I was intrigued. I also thought the romance was nice, except the love interest's chapters. Those read...for lack of a better term, serial-killer-esque. The protagonist's chapters are in third person, yet the love interest's are in first person, and it is very very startling to suddenly be inside of someone's head. Someone who lusts after the protagonist (which, again, read more creepy than romantic, even though I liked him). The second half of the book fell short for me because the plot just got too boring. Also the fact that the first half is all about the romance and then suddenly we fall into a weird plot line? Yeah, I didn't care for it.

Overall, though, this book was cute. The world building and the concept is cool, but I wouldn't say that the Greek mythology aspect is super apparent despite the way the summary is written. I liked the romance and the characters, but really, this book fell flat in the actual plot line.

A fun and entertaining read. I particularly liked the chracter of Eliza, who had plenty of mishaps as a cupid! The storyline kept you guessing as to what would happen in the end.

This was such a fun read! I didn't know what to expect when I started this one and I must say I was pleasantly surprised.
The premise was very nice. Eliza, a descendant of Eros, fills in at her family Cupid-for-hire shop and makes couple fall in love. Unfortunately she also accidentally enchants Jake, her mentor!
I was sold! The novel is filled with funny moments but it also has its steamy and romantic scenes.
I really liked this book and I can't wait to see what the author has in store for the future.

Such a fun and funny read about Cupid's crazy route to matchmaking and love.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author. All opinions are my own.

If you’re in the mood for a laugh-a-minute thrill ride of love, humor, and amazing F-U-N then this book is totally for you! A brief glimpse inside the amazingly talented mind of Amanda Heger where everything can be turned into a double entendre this book is an escape from the mundane and a trip into the roller coaster world of Cupid’s and other mythical creatures. There is literally nowhere that Heger is afraid to go, and nothing she won’t say to make you smile and experience all of the feels.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if two Cupid’s fell in love? Have you ever wondered if that love story was set to the tune of all of the pop culture references you could ever imagine and set against the backdrop of inuendo and “that’s what she said” jokes in a light hearted, thoroughly entertaining way? Heger did, and then she set out to tell us her vision in such exquisite descriptive detail that the world she created not only became real we miss it more than a little bit when we read “the end”.

An instant classic!

Amanda Heger’s wildly charming Crazy Cupid Love is a wonderful, magical little fantasy romance in which fantasy creatures are real – and they’re looking for love.

There’s nothing in the world Eliza Herman hates more than Valentine’s Day. It’s cutesy, cheesy, it clashes with her birthday - and it causes other effects to spark up and negatively affect her life.  For Eliza is a Cupid – a descendant of Eros with Erosian blood running through her veins – and she’s blessed and cursed with the ability to help anyone fall in love, with her or another person if she causes them a minor injury, (and vice-versa).  Naturally skilled with magical powers, Eliza instead runs around desperately trying not to get her bones broken or her skin sliced, a task which is complicated by her clumsiness; and being mainly annoyed by her powers, which have cost her multiple jobs.  She’s otherwise extremely unpopular with others, especially when compared to her extremely popular twin brother Elijah.  Even her anxious mother seems to find her clumsiness a nuisance.

When Elijah chooses to celebrate their shared birthday by bringing Eliza a piñata stuffed with condoms (a tribute to a traumatic childhood memory involving candy, vomit, and the birth of Eliza’s cupid powers) their father promptly has a heart attack and passes out into their birthday dinner. On her way back from the hospital, Eliza runs into the handsome Jake Sanders, and realizes she’s in terrible trouble. Jake’s gotten much cuter since she last saw him.

She’s known Jake, a fellow Cupid, since they were in elementary school.  Once close childhood friends, they had drifted apart in junior high, and after Jake enlisted in the Cupid Corps to aid war-torn areas, he fell out of Eliza’s life entirely.  Discharged, he’s back and acting as a courier.

Soon, Eliza finds out that Elijah and her mother are fighting over Herman and Herman, the family’s cupid-for-hire business, which owes over thirteen thousand dollars to the California Department of Seduction.  Herman and Herman’s business is suffering from a lack of modernization and stiff competition from Vic, who runs a more modern but less reliable and hopelessly sleazy establishment across the street.  In light of her father’s heart attack, Eliza vows to stop running from her destiny and test for a provisional Cupid license, and Jake, who knows how to do enchantments and has more experience than she does, is willing to be her mentor and help her out.  He joins the team to bolster Eliza and Elijah in their time of need.   Eliza borderline-passes, which is enough to allow her to take her place in the family business, but her results are mixed.

The last thing Jake and Eliza want is to fall in love; Eliza doesn’t believe in it, and Jake plans to run for a spot on the Northern California branch of the Cosmic Council, a notion extremely rare for Erosians; so the last thing he wants is to fall for Eliza right now.  But then Eliza accidentally enchants Jake – which forces them to work at a distance to keep him from falling in fully in love with her.  Yet the two of them – bit by bit, fantasy by fantasy and case by case – are doing just that.  But soon enchantments start going wrong and long-bespelled relationships begin falling apart. Something’s messing not just with the Hermans’ magic but with the magic of all Cupids, and it seems to tie in to a popular video game.  A conspiracy is afoot that seems to be trying to not only undo the magic that all Cupids share – but the very spell that keeps love alive in the modern world.

This book was a total, complete delight. Crazy Cupid Love is so easy to get lost in and so much fun to read that you’ll find yourself smiling along and nodding in public.   By the time Jake and Eliza find themselves being blackmailed into helping a woman re-enchant her sex android into falling in love with her, you’ll be strapped in for the wild, out-of-left-field ride the author is taking you on.

The important part of the story is the simplest part: Eliza’s a wonderful heroine who never gives up, and Jake’s a great guy who wants Eliza to be happy.  Their romance is a lot of fun, and is built on old memories and a fresh foundation of purpose.   It’s the little ways in which Jake cares about Eliza – bringing her Dunkaroos from Canada because they were the only thing that made childhood worthwhile to her - and the little ways Eliza cares about Jake – like pushing him into following his dream of sitting on the counsel – that drives the book.  Theirs is a love built on peach cobbler-flavored condoms and Ron Weasley, her squat, orange, piece of crap car which won’t obey anyone but Eliza.  I loved them both.

The minor relationships in the book are great, too.  Elijah and Eliza have a wonderful, well-meaning and teasing relationship that’s sometimes punctuated by a little bit of unnecessary meanness from Elijah, which they eventually work through and grow out of.  Eliza and her mother, meanwhile, have to push through her mother’s lack of faith in Eliza so that Eliza can reclaim her faith in herself and her mother can see who she is as a person; something that happens gradually.   Also populating the universe are a number of clients of Herman and Herman, from a seemingly sweet couple of septuagenarians who turn into a pair of bickersons the second Eliza’s enchantment wears off, to a group of maenads straight out of Clueless.

The only flaw I found in the entire book was the fact that, in this split-PoV tale, Eliza’s chapters are related in the third person, while Jake’s chapters are in the first.  This keeps a bit of distance between the reader and Eliza, but not enough to really detract.

The worldbuilding here is fantastic and fun; very deep and very trenchant, but not in a way that’s intimidating.   If you want to get lost for a few hours in the harsh, unforgiving chill of winter, Crazy Cupid Love is an excellent way to do it. It’s the most unique, refreshing myth modernization I’ve read in ages.

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Not really my type of book. It was ok but way out there! I like my books more realistic, Eliza is kind of known as the world's worst Cupid she's spent most of her life avoiding her calling as a descendant of Eros! Right there kind of days it all I guess I didn't read the blurb for this book lol I'm sure many will enjoy this book it's just not for me! I did try it but didn't like it lol Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with !

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Loved this book very much. It had just enough sweet romance and the storyline was great! I highly recommend!

This was my first time reading this author. The book is definitely quirky, and has an interesting premise. Eliza and her family are Cupid’s, and live in a world where Cupid’s are known of. It follows Eliza’s journey of embracing her Cupid and falling in love. I enjoyed it. I received an ARC via netgalley for an honest review.

I really liked the idea of this novel, I've read books before that played with the idea of cupid which is always fun. This one was no different. What I really liked was that the "Cupids" have been exposed in this world which I found quite different from previous cupid novels I've read, I wasn't expecting it. But the way that the Cupids have managed to integrate into the world was honestly great!

From what I read about the author, she is a lawyer, and I loved all the little bits before the chapters about the "cupid laws". It made it part funny, part realistic.

It was a bit dramatic at times but that just made it funnier.

When a single arrow inspires romance, can you really trust happily ever after? Eliza Herman (a.k.a. The World's Worst Cupid) has spent her entire life carefully avoiding her calling as a Descendant of Eros. But after a family emergency, she decides to step in. Eliza finds herself enchanting couples under the watchful eye of her assigned mentor, Jake Sanders...the one man she could never get out of her head. Before long, things start going wrong, enchantments don’t seem to work... Now Eliza and Jake must fight to unravel a conspiracy that could destroy thousands of relationships, including their own...and spell the end of Love itself.

Honestly, it was not what I was expecting - there was a little more “fantasy” in it than I’d original expected but to be honest it was possibly because I just didn’t read the description properly. But at the end of the day, it was a beautiful love story - not just between Eliza and Jake but the couples that came into Eliza’s life in need of a little nudge in the right direction. It is funny, honest and beautiful all at the same time. Big fan and would definitely recommend picking it up when it comes out next year!!