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Summary: Fashion With a Twist
Review: Dallas O'Connor, a top fashion stylist, who has just come from her trip in Paris, and ends up maxing out on clothes for her next assignment. She has to create the 'look' for a new girl band who is shooting their first music video. This all takes place on a private island in the Caribbean, in an exclusive, luxurious castle. 'Paradise' as Dallas calls it... or is it? When she first steps onto the grounds, she is greeted by the proprietor and a local priestess named Mama Garcia. This was a little disturbing, as she skips the 'hellos' to say,'Dat girl, she wear de face of Death.' But when it seems nothing could be better, who is going to care about some juju warning? -Not her.
This all changes when she is up and running on the beach early in the morning, like normal. Except for this morning, she fines a dead body washed up on the beach, who she suspects is the musician friend who had left unexpectedly the day before. To make it worse, none of the girls believe her because when she brings them back to the place on the beach where she had seen the body: he vanished without a trace! All the girls just try to laugh it off and tell her that it was just a bad hangover from too much rum the night before. Soon after, one of the members of the band gets nearly poisoned to death and then, a body is found stabbed to death. Everything goes down hill from here as Dallas tries to figure out, who is behind all this. Who is trying to make her paradise into dreadful fear?
As all of this is going on, Dallas keeps falling in and out of love with the a very handsome Latino chef named Oscar. He is the one who gets blamed at first, for poisoning one of the girls by eating one of the lunches he made. Denying it, Dallas believes him, along with the others that were accusing him. But the same question keeps popping up: who would want to harm the band members, or anyone else.
This story is a great thriller if you like mysteries of which I am a fan. The reader goes from exciting events such as parties on the beach and sizing the girls' outfits so they fit just right, to finding a dead bodies and lots of suspicion. When events such as the ones I just mentioned happen in books, it makes the story more interesting. It makes the reader want to keep on reading, want to know how everything is going to turn out.
Although I enjoyed the book, I didn't always understand what was going on, due to the fact that sometimes, Green (the author) skips around in the text conversations. This causes me to get lost and not being able to tell who did what, the first time I read it. Despite this minor dislike, I would defiantly recommend this book to a mystery-reader, or anyone who really enjoys suspicion and intrigue.
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Summary: complicated who-done-it
Review: Fashion stylist Dallas O'Connor is in Paris when she gets a call from her agent with an assignment in Bimini in the Caribbean. If she accept the job, which is very high paying, she will be the stylist for a five women rock band, Fate of Paradise, who is going to cut their first video. Dallas accepts the plum job and she has unlimited funds to dress the girls and is delighted they are all going to be staying at a palace.When she arrives, the islanders tell her she is wearing Death on her face. She laughs it off, enjoying the rich food, the tropical beach and tries to ignore the sexy chef who wants to get to know her. What she can't ignore is the dead body she finds on the beach but when she convinces the members of the group to take a look the body is gone. As time passes, Dallas finds a clue that leads her to believe the others are lying to her but if they are, she doesn't have a clue why. The heroine of FASHION VICTIM is well known in her field and is not owned by the rich and famous who are her clients. She is adorable and endearing, someone the readers will like to get to know in further novels in the series. Chloe Green has constructed a who-done-it that is so complicated readers won't be able to guess what roles all the characters are really playing. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: complicated who-done-it
Review: Fashion stylist Dallas O'Connor is in Paris when she gets a call from her agent with an assignment in Bimini in the Caribbean. If she accept the job, which is very high paying, she will be the stylist for a five women rock band, Fate of Paradise, who is going to cut their first video. Dallas accepts the plum job and she has unlimited funds to dress the girls and is delighted they are all going to be staying at a palace. When she arrives, the islanders tell her she is wearing Death on her face. She laughs it off, enjoying the rich food, the tropical beach and tries to ignore the sexy chef who wants to get to know her. What she can't ignore is the dead body she finds on the beach but when she convinces the members of the group to take a look the body is gone. As time passes, Dallas finds a clue that leads her to believe the others are lying to her but if they are, she doesn't have a clue why. The heroine of FASHION VICTIM is well known in her field and is not owned by the rich and famous who are her clients. She is adorable and endearing, someone the readers will like to get to know in further novels in the series. Chloe Green has constructed a who-done-it that is so complicated readers won't be able to guess what roles all the characters are really playing. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Fun but with emotional depth--very enjoyable
Review: For stylist Dallas O'Connor, it's a perfect job--spending lots of money, dressing beautiful women, and a week on a Caribbean island with a way-handsome chef. Except, when she arrives, Mama Garcia accuses her of wearing the face of death. When Dallas finds a body on the beach, no one seems to care--or even to believe her when they finally follow her to the spot and find--nothing. There's something going on other than a music video shoot, but Dallas doesn't have a clue what it is--and she knows she'd better find out quickly if she wants to stay alive herself. Author Chloe Green delivers a spicy blend of mystery, fashion, and island cooking. Green's light touch works perfectly in this enjoyable romp. Dallas is an entertaining character, with a family and personal history that makes her yearn for what she cannot have. Love interest Oscar is also richly detailed with appropriate angst--and not a little danger. Fans of this series (each novel can be read independently) will definitely want to read this one. Chloe Green has matured as a writer and, in FASHION VICTIM, has hit her stride.
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Summary: 3rd in the series is terrible do not waste your money
Review: I bought the first two fashion series and really liked the first one-still think it is worth reading, the second one was okay and this one is terrible. I will not waste my money on the next Dallas mystery. The charcters are not well written or developed-as an example they have supposedly fired 40 stylist but when Dallas arrives and starts working with them-they are all smiles and easy to get along with, no complaining about the clothes, the shoes, etc. So it does not make sense. The plot line is not done well she tried to weave together too many things and the story does not hold up even if you are drinking while reading the plot is too impossible to be enjoyable. The dialogue is just bad-wincingly bad. I completely gave up on ever spending my money on this series again when the names on the passports give away a relationship that supposedly has been kept hidden from the record company who is paying for everyone to be on the exotic island-how stupid or how many drinks we were supposed to have had to think that a rep from the company would not have had copies of everyone's documentation. Do not waste your money-I won't next time.
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Summary: DEDICATED TO SEQUELS BUT NOT THESE ANYMORE
Review: I have to say that I was excited about reading the third installment because I was a not too happy with the second one and thought that the third was a charm. But, please... There was a good start and then total confusion. Like 40 designers before her and what??? tell me. And all I could say as I read on about this new person, and sister and brother, and Goodfeather, was what the hell happened to this story. It was like someone changed the channel on me. I did not understand the last of the book and I want to say, it stunk.
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Summary: The series is going down hill..
Review: I liked Green's first two books. They had their rough spots, but Dallas is engaging and I thought as Green gained experience the series might really be worth following. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Dallas was still entertaining, but the book was poorly plotted. It also started with a gimmick flashback which added nothing to the book. And then the ending was, well, just stupid. Sorry, that is just the best word for it.
I don't know if I will give Dallas another try, but I definitely won't buy the book if I do. I will check it out at the library. If you liked the first two books, go ahead and give this one a try--but don't buy it, borrow it.
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Summary: Don't be a victim, pass this one by
Review: I read this book hoping that it would clear up the loose ends in the second installement of the series. It didn't. Instead, Green spun a convoluted plot that made absolutely no sense. Worse still, this book was in serious need of a good editor. There were some glaring errors. The dialogue was hokey and irritating at best. Green tried to keep her characters current with making pop culture references from 2001-2002. Most of the time it came off as a middle-aged surburban parent trying to capture urban lingo. It didn't work. And some of the references were tasteless- like the reference to R&B singer Aaliyah's death (which was mispelled). All of this I could have overlooked had there been a good story with a good mystery (seeing that it is in the mystery genre). But alas, there is not.
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Summary: Another Home Run for Green
Review: If you know the fashion industry, you will love this. If you don't, you will have fun learning while solving a murder. If you like Chloe Green -- and I do -- then try the historicals by J. Suzanne Frank, Chloe's other pen name.
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Summary: stylish fun
Review: Murder has its place in fashion stylist (and Texan) Dallas O'Connor's third outing, but it's second to the frenetic pace, glitzy artifice and shady commercialism of the manufactured pop-music scene. Dallas, who casually drops designer names too haute to otherwise cross my radar, accepts a gig to create the look for a new all-girl band, put together by a record company contest. Dallas' first chore is an unlimited clothes-shopping spree in Paris before meeting the girls on the private Caribbean island where they are shooting their first music video. Green pulls out all the stops in describing this place, every room a palace of indulgence, a chef as handsome as he is talented, even "a stylist's fantasy" workshop. Except for its hidden door and a Mafia boss's trademark button. It should all be too much, but somehow it works in a froth of fascinating glamour. Dallas is a dab hand with cutting-edge clothes (even if one of the girls has ballooned to a shocking size 8, maybe even 10!), the characters posture and pose delightfully, the island food and drink will make your mouth water, to say nothing of the temperamental chef, and, oh, yes, there are mysterious anomalies, nagging questions, even secret passageways and sinister secrets. We know there's a murder because the body appears on page one, before the story backtracks to its Paris beginning, and that's enough to know. High style fun.
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