Weekend Warriors (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Paper))

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Summary: Tedious and full of gross errors!
Review: I picked this up in the grocery because I thought the concept sounded fun, but was so annoyed by the poor writing and editing I could not finish the book. I won't buy a Fern Michaels or a Zebra Book ever again.

For instance, a butler/slash/MI6 agent turns to an experienced prosecutor, whom he's known all his life, shows her how to download email (in their highly technical war room), and asks her if she can "handle it." Whoa, probably too complicated for the little lady, huh? Later, butler/MI6 agent decides to "download" some dossiers, but for some unexplained reason, they all print out on the fax. At another point he announces to the ladies at breakfast that they have 90 minutes to relax and eat. After 10 seconds of conversation, one of the them stands up, stretches, and says, "Well, our ninety minutes is almost up!" I went over the passage twice to see if I'd missed something. Nope. During this meeting, on page 46, they're told they will vote to see whose case takes priority. On page 51 they're told to draw slips from a shoebox. None of the characters questions the change.

A glaring error occurs with a key character--a woman truck driver--and her "rig." Michaels assumes, in total error and without a stitch of research or common sense, that a "rig" includes the trailer, which is, unfortunately, also an important part of Michaels' plot. So she's got this woman toting her own trailer throughout the story, and "vacuuming" her trailer after a run. Really? In a day and age where the trailers belong to the produce and packing companies, and are unpacked, cleaned, and reloaded by warehouse companies? Drivers unhitch one trailer and pick up another--they don't stand around making loaders wait while they "vacuum" their trailers, not to mention I've never heard of such a silly thing anyway! They're swept and hosed out!

I'm sorry, I was deeply offended that Zebra thinks so little of their readers that they will put stuff like this out on the shelves, knowing that we'll buy it anyway.


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Summary: NOT WHAT I'M USE TO FROM FERN
Review: I have read everything Fern Michaels has written and I own all her hardbacks. She is one of my all time favorite authors and I will just reach for anything she writes, sight unseen, but I have to tell you, when I saw the cover of this new book, I didn't want any part of it. Bad cover, big turnoff!! I decided since it was small, I would go ahead and start it and see what I thought. I have to admit, I enjoyed it a lot. It was very different and I was amazed at the method of revenge, but I read it straight through,laughed a bit, couldn't put it down. I loved the characters, all of them. I look forward to the next in the series. While I enjoy Fern's other books a whole lot more and it is hard for me to believe that she really wrote this, it certainly has grabbed my interest in seeing what the "sisterhood" does next time around. Perhaps Fern was in a rut and wanted to branch out in a different way. If so, good for her. I just hope she keeps writing her "normal" fare too as there is nothing I love more than to sink completely into one of her long, wonderful tales.

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Summary: weekend warriors
Review: I have read this first of her sisterhood books and found it funny and entertaining. I think it is dlightfully different of Fern to write about some of lifes injustices and how these ladies chose to deal with them. I am waiting for the next sequel with great anticipation. Thanks Fern for not just writing romantic tripe. I get so tired of reading she loves him and he loves her but they cant stand each other for the whole book until the last chapter they fall passionately in bed and love.

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Summary: AMAZING!!!
Review: I was privileged to read an advance copy of this book. WOW! This series is shaping up to be even better than the stories about the Colemans and the Thorntons which up until now have been my all time favorites. It's quite a change of pace from what Ms. Michaels usually writes, but I've come to expect the unexpected from her writing. Her books are never dull. I laugh, I cry, and thoroughly enjoy each story. I hope the second book in the series will be out soon.

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Summary: Hooray! Finally a book that says what we secretly think....
Review: It's so tragic when you see on the news of yet another mother's child that has been killed or murdered, whether by a kidnapper, drunk driver, rapist, and the family is left to pick up the pieces of their lives after the murderer or rapist gets off with what amounts to nothing. I have often thought if anything like that ever happened to my child, the perpetrator should be far more afraid of me than of the law. I cannot imagine the pain and heartache, and I know most mothers feel the same way. Fern Michaels' characters in this book deal with it in a most ingenious way, sort of like an eye-for-an-eye thing. In my opinion, to have any sympathy for those rapists is sicko. I found this an entertaining read, evoking laughter, anger, and empathy. I read it in two sittings. I can't wait for the next book in the Sisterhood series!

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Summary: Amateurish Writing
Review: Needing a book to take to the beach, I picked this up in the supermarket check-out line because it sounded interesting and I'd read Fern Michaels before and enjoyed her books. This book was a real disappointment. Poor writing, unbelievable dialogue, outlandish plot and one-dimensional characters. I didn't even finish the book.

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Summary: weekend warriors
Review: OUTSTANDING..I'VE READ A FEW OF FERN MICHAELS BOOKS AND DIDN'T LIKE THEM AT ALL...THIS WAS BY FAR THE BEST BOOK...DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S NOT REALISTIC, THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT..I LOVED IT AND CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT INSTALLMENT.

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Summary: Definitely A Surprise Read!
Review: This book blew my mind. At last a group of women who go after men to get justice and prevail! Bravo! I cheered for this little band of savy ladies from the first page to the last. I have to admit, the book and the contents surprised me. But then, Fern Michaels never writes the same book twice, that's why I like her books. No same old, same old here. If this is going to be a new series, I can't wait to read the next one.
Each of the characters was so real and the punishment so apt. I even laughed in parts of it. Who among us doesn't want revenge for some wrong in our lives but don't have the guts to do something about it? One reviewer said the characters weren't sympathetic. Huh? Were they supposed to be sympathetic? Was Charles Bronson sympathetic when he went after the people who killed his wife and ruined his daughter? Is it okay for men to do wicked things but not women? I applaud the author, the publisher and the finely drawn characters in this fast reading book which I read in one sitting because I couldn't put it down. I also liked the cover and didn't find it trashy at all. I knew when I picked it up that it would have suspense in it because of the cover. I loved this story and can't wait to read more on the super seven females.

Rating:
Summary: Definitely A Surprise Read!
Review: This book blew my mind. At last a group of women who go after men to get justice and prevail! Bravo! I cheered for this little band of savy ladies from the first page to the last. I have to admit, the book and the contents surprised me. But then, Fern Michaels never writes the same book twice, that's why I like her books. No same old, same old here. If this is going to be a new series, I can't wait to read the next one.
Each of the characters was so real and the punishment so apt. I even laughed in parts of it. Who among us doesn't want revenge for some wrong in our lives but don't have the guts to do something about it? One reviewer said the characters weren't sympathetic. Huh? Were they supposed to be sympathetic? Was Charles Bronson sympathetic when he went after the people who killed his wife and ruined his daughter? Is it okay for men to do wicked things but not women? I applaud the author, the publisher and the finely drawn characters in this fast reading book which I read in one sitting because I couldn't put it down. I also liked the cover and didn't find it trashy at all. I knew when I picked it up that it would have suspense in it because of the cover. I loved this story and can't wait to read more on the super seven females.

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Summary: what editor in their right mind thought this was a good idea
Review: This is absolutely the worst book I have ever read. The writing is like that of a two year old, the character's motivations as well. Nothing rings true, not even the anger or desire for revenge. It devalues the experience of every single woman who has ever been raped, and also every woman who has lost a child to a hit and run driver. This isn't entertainment on any level, and there is certainly nothing morally uplifting about this overwrought tripe.
The woman in question who is raped is not only raped, she is raped and sodomized in front of her husband who is handciapped and can't help her. Talk about laying on the sensationalism with a trowel.

I am appalled that this book was published, even more shocked to see that it is part of a series-apparently a seven book series. This book was brief enough, printed in large print, I doubt it was even 50,00 words, but however many it was, it was way too many for me. It was predictable, overwrought, and just shows that publishers will do anything for sensationalism, and for new 'product', a book with a prominent writers name on it. And this author has the gall to think she has invented a new genre, 'the man in peril'.I think everyone offended by this book should complain to the publisher, and perhaps the rest of these extremely offensive series will be confined to the trash heap.

Spoiler:

How they can surgically castrate the three men, leave their testicles in plastic bags, and then find it FUNNY when the men turn up at a doctor's office (not the hospital?) to ask to have them put back, is just too sick for words. And the doctor's secretary selling the story to the tabloids for $50000 is even more sick. Avoid this loser of a series if you have any taste or sense.