For me there's enough sincerity in the first-person narrator's character to make her humor work. Reading the Goodreads reviews of this book, it's clear that this sort of humor isn't for everyone-but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would going in, so a solid 3.5 stars automatically rounded up. In general, this book is a messy fluff piece and I've deleted any subsequent books by this author from my Nook sample reading list. I live in Los Angeles and not only are the freeways not that interesting, on a normal day you'd find it impossible to get from point A to point B as fast as this character does. Many words are spent detailing driving the Los Angeles freeways, which seems to have little, if anything, to do with moving the story forward. Not that I expected it to be much else, but don't get this book thinking there will be red herrings or twists and turns that keep you on the edge of your seat. By the time I hit the halfway mark in the book, I really didn't care much about the characters, the end of the story was predictable and it was the literary equivalent of eating a couple bowls of cotton candy. I had to stop counting the dangling participles and incomplete sentences, which were very distracting.Īside from the language and writing errors, this book is a light beach read at best. There were times I had to stop and re-read a sentence to make sense of it, due to lack of punctuation. I would expect better writing and command of the English language from someone who has been the "recipient of numerous awards" (according to her website). #5.5 Honeymoon in High Heels (short story) #3.5 Christmas in High Heels (short story) But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears-along with $20 million in embezzled funds-and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder.
shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion.
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