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Summary: What a Disappointment!
Review: I was initially drawn to this book because of Janet Evanovich's name but I don't believe her input into the story was a major one. This book was a vague continuation of some of the characters from Full House. I found it difficult to believe that the young Max became the shallow, superficial adult Max. Worse than that was the character of Jamie - she seemed to be a mass of neuroses but generated little sympathy. The chemistry between the two was nil and there didn't seem to be any reason why either one would be attracted to the other. The mystery was not interesting and I found some of the supporting characters mean spirited, the rest were uninteresting at best. I will just stick to the Stephanie Plum books from now on.
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Summary: Don't waste your money...
Review: This is the typical story of dashing rich man sweeping beautiful lonely girl off her feet. There is nothing new with that. Then throw is a totally ridiculous talking car (imagine Kit from "Night Rider") and an uninteresting story line. What a disappointment!
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Summary: ENTERTAINING STORY
Review: While different than the Stephanie Plum stories, this book is a lot of fun. It keeps you guessing and laughing. Highly recommend.
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Summary: This Book is Terrible!.Another Disappointment From Evanovich
Review: After having wasted my money this past Christmas on "Visions Of Sugar Plums" , I trusted Janet Evanovich's name and reputation once more and was terribly disappointed again. Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels are so much fun, and usually so consistently well written, that this awful collaboration with Charlotte Hughes is incomprehensible.
It's just badly written and silly. Don't waste your money. Like I did. Again.
All I can say is "To the Nines" had better make up for this!!
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I really felt this was just a bad take off from the Stephanie Plum series. It was the same characters with different names and different foibles. I took a chance and paid for it. I won't fall into that trap again.
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Summary: Knight Rider redux
Review: Janet's got the basis for an interesting series: a wacky, inventive genius, a daring newspaper reporter, and a computer with a personality built into a car. Wait -- that last part seems familiar. A lot of this seems familiar. We get embarrassing stereotype after embarrassing stereotype, compounded with a computer-car that seems straight out of the old TV series (which I didn't watch, so I'm making some assumptions). The leads who should be vibrant are instead flat and lifeless. In fact Our Heroine at times does things that place her squarely in the Too Stupid To Live category. I thought the depiction of the flaming gay guy was particularly demeaning, especially when he suddenly became ultra-John Wayne after a concussion.Where are the original characters one expects from a book with "Evanovich" on the cover? Oh, okay, so her Plum series is getting bogged down in stereotypes, too. It didn't used to be that way. As for the book itself, it took me three full chapters before I felt as if I were interested enough to keep reading. On the whole, it's your average romance (with a rushed ending that didn't make much sense characterwise). Why two stars instead of three, then? Because the name "Evanovich" is on the cover. The quality of this book SHOULD be better. I probably won't pick up the next in this series. Why should I? The characters are completely uncompelling.
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Summary: ...
Review: A moment in silence of the memory of Max. Max changed from the cool eccentrcic genius in the first book (Deedee and he were the only cool characters) to an annoying guy EXACTLY LIKE HIS BROTHER! (Nick) He's fallen victim to one of Evanovich's "Look at my Armani suit let's go screw" syndrome. I guess Evanovich finds these guys cool, but they just come off as arrogant jerks to me and annoy me to no end. The lead female character, Jamie, is boring boring boring and makes me long for Stephanie. She's another regular girl with spunk. (Apparently the authors thinks that a bitchy comment or two = spunk and an interesting charcter.) Hmm, average girl meets insanely rich perverted stuck up rich guy . . .WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS BEFORE? Maybe the first book! The writing has cliches. They have to mention just how rich and famous Max is mulitiple times, using "Armani" over and over again. He's a stuck up rich guy, I get the point! They contain the romance-novel cliche of stuff like "I was lost in the pools of his brown eyes boring into me" . . . yawwwwn. Frankie, ex-wrestler, is now Mr. Boring Super-Sensitive and Perfect Husband. Deedee's assistant, Beenie, provides one of the few funny moments in the book, but is soo stereotypically gay I want to strangle the author. Billie and Nick fans (are there any?) shouldn't read this as they are only mentioned briefly. In spite of all this, this book *does* have some funny moments, but it lacks the wit and charm of Full House which lacks the wit and charm of the Stephanie Plum books.
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Summary: Very bad mixture
Review: I bought this book only because I was stranded in an airport for 2 days. I totally regretted buying it! Really poorly written...authors seem to have tried to bring in humor, sex and mystery...but didnt really suceed in doing so. I hope the authors try to be more consistent in their writing in future.
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Summary: Waste of Your Money
Review: I can only assume Janet Evanovich has lent her name to "Full House" and "Full Tilt" and let Charlotte Hughes do most of the writing. Because the person (Evanovich) who has written the great Stephanie Plum books, cannot possibly have lent time and effort into this junk. I read "Full House" because Evanovich's name was on it. It was sorta cute. I read "Full Tilt" because Evanovich's name was on it. It was pure waste of time. I've purchased my last Evanovich/Hughes collaboration. Don't waste your hard-earned dollars, people.
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Summary: Full Tilt(ing) downhill!
Review: I love the Stephanie Plum books and have read them all. Didn't care that much for the Christmas book but at least it was all Evanovich. I read "Full House" and while it wasn't on the same level as the Plum stories, it was entertaining enough. But this one has gone from fair to really poor. I do like romance novels as well as mysteries, but believe me this book missed in either genre. I think Evanovich is coming up with the characters and Charlotte Hughes is doing the writing. Full Tilt is missing something romantically. I didn't feel a real attraction or sexual tension between the main characters (not like what there is between Stephanie and Morelli or Ranger). Also, the computer in the car was stupid. Muffin didn't come accross as real at all. I definetly will not buy the next book in this series!
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