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Summary: once again, a winner
Review: there is just something about the character of mallory that just makes you want to know more about her, and this - the 3rd book - starts to fill you in on the mystery. carol o'connell writes in such a way that you just want the book to keep going.
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Summary: Mallory and Malice go hand in hand.
Review: This book has been branded as one of my favorite books of all times. Mallory is an original to say the least. I liked this second book more than the first of the series. Mallory is such an interesting character and so is her sometimes partner Charles. The plot of this book is unique though not original. The way she carries out her investigation (how she uses modern technology to haunt her suspects) is Mallory and malice. There were some interesting twists to this story; Justin, the part of her past that is revealed to Charles and what he would do for Mallorys' sake. Mallory has a heart of stone but I hope it thaws a little where Charles is concerned. This book has a touch of humor along with the murder and mayhem. I hope they keep on coming!
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Summary: I sure wouldn't want this woman in my life!
Review: This is the second Mallory book and if I thought she was a cold hearted witch in her first book, I lack words to describe her in this one. Completely lacking in compassion, she bulldozes her way through an investigation of a woman's murder without regard to how she's messing up their lives. This complete lack of feeling extends to animals including the murder victim's unfortunate cat who's suffered enough abuse without landing in the care of a woman who proceeds to use the cat to trap the murderer. And kids, forget it. Given, she runs into child prostitutes and other unfortunates, but she's too busy to follow through when she places one girl into detox, too busy to make any arrangements for the poor girl to go anyplace where she'll have a chance when she gets out of detox. She's also too busy to be concerned about a boy in a very strange situation who calls her for help. The ending practically indicates that the author has no more concern for her characters, be they adult, child, or animal, than does her leading character. The story is told in seven very long chapters, chapters that are difficult to get through if you're as unsympathetic to the main characters as I was. We are given insight into Mallory's childhood, but what we're told doesn't as much explain why Mallory is what she is as it shows that she was the same cold and calculating individual as a 7 year old as she is now. One reviewer made it clear that she's not reading any more Mallory, and the ending of this book should keep me from reading more, but I have this hope that maybe the author will allow Mallory to someday become a human being.
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Summary: I sure wouldn't want this woman in my life!
Review: This is the second Mallory book and if I thought she was a cold hearted witch in her first book, I lack words to describe her in this one. Completely lacking in compassion, she bulldozes her way through an investigation of a woman's murder without regard to how she's messing up their lives. This complete lack of feeling extends to animals including the murder victim's unfortunate cat who's suffered enough abuse without landing in the care of a woman who proceeds to use the cat to trap the murderer. And kids, forget it. Given, she runs into child prostitutes and other unfortunates, but she's too busy to follow through when she places one girl into detox, too busy to make any arrangements for the poor girl to go anyplace where she'll have a chance when she gets out of detox. She's also too busy to be concerned about a boy in a very strange situation who calls her for help. The ending practically indicates that the author has no more concern for her characters, be they adult, child, or animal, than does her leading character. The story is told in seven very long chapters, chapters that are difficult to get through if you're as unsympathetic to the main characters as I was. We are given insight into Mallory's childhood, but what we're told doesn't as much explain why Mallory is what she is as it shows that she was the same cold and calculating individual as a 7 year old as she is now. One reviewer made it clear that she's not reading any more Mallory, and the ending of this book should keep me from reading more, but I have this hope that maybe the author will allow Mallory to someday become a human being.
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Summary: The Unwinnable Gender Wars
Review: When men fail to realize is that for every woman they have envisioned as maid, there are a significant number of women who view them as butlers or caddies. Not well publicized, however, the gender reverse of Cinderella is the illusive conquest that represents the commitment that Prince Charming was after. Far too many women treat kings as caddies, and caddies as kings, for their to be any semblance of logic in the love game. But, the studies are required to be made so that both men and women know the difference of when love is possible and when it is not. Since the distinction is more real than not, generally, the male has little to gauge the relationship upon except the perceptions of relatively new relationships, and the example that is visible between the woman's parents and the way in which they relate, often duplicated or expected to be duplicated in most relationships. So, logically, visiting inlaws has much to do with the framework of how, when love is older, the reality replaces the fantasy. Wise words of caution to most males is that treating a woman as a maid often comes back to haunt him many times over, and becomes the misery from which it is difficult to extricate himself, and needlessly, since he always had the choice to begin with. If men don't want to be treated as caddies, they would not contemplate treating or thinking of women as maids. Logic is Logical, not fantasy.
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