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Title: If Looks Could Kill by Kate White ISBN: 0446530239 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46
Rating: 3
Summary: More Sex and The City than a Mystery
Comment: If Looks Could Kill is an ok effort, but falls kind of flat on it's face in the mystery department. Bailey Weggins is an appealing character, but the story itself does not hold up for her to shine. The book's main problem is the fact that it's not really centered on the mystery at hand but more on the nuances of the publishing world of magazines. Not to say that the magazine business is not an interesting topic but when it almost over shadows the story at hand, then there's a problem.
It's an ok effort but it should have been better. I will though pick up the next book in the series to see if the Character of Bailey Weggins get a better story to shine in.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining? Yes. Groundbreaking? No.
Comment: I, too, was expecting to do backflips over this book, based on the reviews I had heard. While I can't say it was a waste of my time (especially since it took only a day-and-a-half to read), and it was entertaining, I was left scratching my head as to what the fuss was all about.
This book would have been a lot better had Kate White spent less time describing the various breakfasts, lunches, and dinners Bailey consumed, and more time on character development. Also, for someone in the magazine world, White's description of what goes on behind the making of a fashion magazine was rather bland. I must admit the cracking the case alongside Bailey was fun, even though the plot twists were easy to spot. The ending was way too quick. White spent more time describing Bailey's public transportation woes than she did explaining the motives of the killer.
There is potential in this book, and I would be interested in seeing how this series develops. However, reading it made me wonder whether or not it would have been published to such rave reviews had Jane Noname submitted it.
Rating: 5
Summary: I never read mysteries, but I am glad I made the exception!
Comment: This book is great - fast-paced, interesting and NOT gory. I loved it. If you are like me, a voracious reader who doesn't choose mysteries 99.99% of the time, read this. You will love it.
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Title: Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles by Adele Lang ISBN: 0312288115 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Bachelor by Carly Phillips ISBN: 0446610542 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: For Better, for Worse: A Novel by Carole Matthews ISBN: 0380820447 Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd) Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Good Sister by Diana Diamond ISBN: 0312291655 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Beach House by James Patterson, Peter De Jonge ISBN: 0316969680 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 10 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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