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Summary: fluffy Key West crime story; smiles but no laughs...
Review: 'Virgin Heat' is certainly not one of Laurence Shames's better works. Of course it has the funky Key West setting, as do all his books, and a host of kooky characters. But the story, while initially engaging, falls flat long before the end.In 'Virgin Heat' we have the (virgin) daughter of a mobster chasing after a long lost love in Key West. Her man, unfortunately, is under a witness protection program for telling truths which put her father in the slammer for ten years. Daddy is out of jail, daughter wants her man, ... and so on. While there are humorous moments I felt the author got terribly repetitious on pointing out Key West weirdness, especially the very strong gay element. Perhaps I should have been shocked by the thought of nude gay men hanging around a motel pool, and so the author harps on this point dozens of times? Well I found it to be rather ... uninteresting, unfunny, and anything but shocking. Bottom line: passable fluff for a beach read. But very missable.
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Summary: What Happened to Bert the Shirt?
Review: After reading (and loving!!!) Florida Straits, Sunburn, Welcome to Paradise, and Tropical Depression, I was looking forward to more of Laurence Shames books. But he disappointed me, big time, he left Bert the Shirt, Sandra & Joey and the other wonderful characters and went on to write more violent, harsh stories minus all the warm characters he had created earlier. I don't know what happened to Laurence Shames - it's as if someone else took over the writing.
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Summary: Adjective-drenched Drivel
Review: Slogged through 12 or 15 pages of this adjective-drenched drivel. Got to the line where he describes a guy's crooked pinky finger as "independent" and i had to quit. This is truly awful.
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