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Title: The Big Bad Wolf Tells All by Donna Kauffman ISBN: 0-553-38222-5 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fizzled
Comment: This book started okay. So we've got a heroine with a newspaper column, she's going to meet with a sexy man who's not all he seems, and maybe some hot sex will ensue. Well. That's what I *thought* would happen.
Suddenly, in comes this secondary plot line about a stalker. Kauffman didn't put enough emphasis or thought into this for it to be decent, simply threw it in so that she could give the heroine some tender comfort and say it was more than just a boy-meets-girl chick-lit book. and as mysteries go, this one sucked, considering that the culprit only appeared in the book within the last seventy-five pages of the novel, and the only other suspect was far, far too obvious to have done it.
The heroine went on throughout the book about relationships, suddenly declaring all her woes due to family troubles, and then in the last half of the book there kept being long streaks where all that was going on was the main characters talking about how much they loved each other but how one feared commitment (although this never actually surfaced...) Okay, we get it, they love each other. I don't want to read a thesis on the subject. Not to mention that all the hype over the character's column seemed unwarrented, especially in the later excerpts. It's a bit like reading a very tame diary.
The male lead had his flaws, too. The secondary story-line between him and his father seemed overdone, and Kauffman went too far when she had to make him start speaking with an irish-accent half-way through. It's clear he's a fantasy man: he's a football player, private investigator, and he has a dreamy accent. *sigh.* Pick your poison, but don't mix them.
The ending was completely unexplained and anticlimatic. Very disappointing, all in all. Only read it if you have a lot of free time on your hands... like if both of your legs are broken.
Rating: 1
Summary: If only the book were as cool as it's title
Comment: I'll admit, right off the bat, this review is not fair-- I don't like stream of consious narration (something the reader will have to adore to enjoy this book), I like editing. And I hate the overuse of Hip prases since by the time the book comes out the phrase is no longer hip. Also, if some heroine talks about her Jimmy Choos I automatically deduct 2 stars-. It's all been done way too much- or at least use another shoe brand.
I was interested in this book because of it's title- "The Big Bad Wolf Tells All" sounded dangerous and sexy, but I was wrong. See Tansy's Rich and Beautiful and Brilliant and Talented and she's Glamorous and Sexually Liberated, and "poor her" all of her friends are married-- my solution, add to your friends! Include other single women! Ha Ha, that would lead to her feeling not so alone and even happier. No, she just tries to get out of spending time with her friends because they're trying to fix her up with Sheep types (the opposite of her favored "Wolf" types). Great, so she cuts her friends off. What a gal.
I'm two hundred pages in and I can't finish the dang thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Kauffman Keeper
Comment: Fun Cover and Great Book. But that is what I always get in one of Donna Kauffmans Books. I have read every book she has written. This was a great HOT read. Can't wait for Cinderella to get here. Don't miss any of her books.
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Title: The Cinderella Rules by Donna Kauffman ISBN: 0553382349 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Wilde Thing by Janelle Denison ISBN: 0758203594 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bad Boys to Go by Lori Foster, Janelle Denison, Nancy Warren ISBN: 0758205511 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Standing in the Shadows by Shannon McKenna ISBN: 0758204531 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Jingle Bell Rock by Susan Donovan, Lori Foster, Nancy Warren, Alison Kent, Donna Kauffman, Janelle Denison ISBN: 0758205694 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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