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World Hotels - Hitched (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 9)
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416523369
ISBN: 1416523367
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2007-02-27
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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Editorial Reviews:
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Regan Reilly and Jack "no relation" Reilly -- head of the NYPD Major Case Squad -- are getting married! Arriving at a bridal salon to pick up her dream gown, Regan discovers the designers bound and gagged. Four dresses (hers included!) are missing; a fifth is in shreds on the floor. With just a week before her wedding, Regan takes the case, meeting an unusual mix of brides and grooms-to-be, or not-to-be. Meanwhile, Jack is determined to crack a perplexing series of rainy-day bank robberies -- before his upcoming nuptials.
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Summary: Needs a fact checker!
Comment: A ridiculous plot, but somewhat fun to read. Ms. Clark needs to know more about gambling, since she has the bad guys shooting craps in Atlantic City, then the Rileys interview the dealer-uh?! I pictured a guy throwing handfuls of dice around.Also at craps, you win or lose-no other player wins money from you. And I suspect going thru Nebraska isn't the shortest way from NYC to Vegas.Now I will be wading thru "Laced" Hope it is better.
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Summary: Romeo saves the day
Comment: This story of a top designer's April brides losing their wedding dresses to an inept pair of thieves was an interesting read to me. The Bridezilla theme was overplayed a bit, but one hussy does redeem herself helping to rescue one casualty of a dangling subplot. The bank robbery second mystery didn't quite jell. However, the flashes of humor win out, such as the pet parrot Romeo whose favorite expression is "lazy bums," referring to the main culprits.
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Summary: Too many sub-plots...
Comment: This book was bad from start to finish. Having read one of the author's mother's books and not been impressed, I should have known that this one would not be to my taste either. Although Ms. Clark did a good job of keeping someone who had not read the previous Regan Reilly mysteries up to date, her characters were shallow, there was no suspense, and there were too many subplots. Who cares who is robbing the banks, who cares what happened to this secondary character who disappeared? Ms. Clark did not need these filler subplots to bring this book together, and yet that is what she used them for. All I know is that I have been cured from wanting to read any of Carol Higgins Clark's other Regan Reilly "mysteries".
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Summary: Bored to tears
Comment: After reading this author's other books I picked this one up at the airport to keep me company during a long flight. Let me just say I never finished the book and was very disappointed. I love Reagan Reilly but this adventure of hers was a bit too much. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Mystery, or Romance? Either way the book needs improved!
Comment: I am new to this author and I acquired the novel via my neighbor. I guess I should have known something was up because she wasn't excited about the book when she gave it to me, but I thanked her gratefully and read it.
If by chance you haven't been informed, the title is derived from the main character, Regan Reilly, a private detective from California, and her plans to marry Jack Reilly, of NYPD.
However, a short time before the wedding, Regan decides to pick up her wedding dress and low and behold, she discovers that the dress shop owners have been robbed of 20 thousand dollars in cash and on top of that, her wedding gown had been stolen. At the same time, Jack Reilly has his hands full trying to locate the person(s) that have been robbing banks.
By this time I'm a little frustrated with this story. Is it a mystery? It claims to be. Or is it a romance and a mystery? I read on, but the author's storytelling abilities never improved. The characters were a mixed bag of alphabet soup. After awhile I found them down right boring. Not one to give up (Growing up on a dairy farm taught me that quality) I was determined to finish this novel. The ending was disappointing and I felt that the author gave little or no thought to improve the story at this point. That was a shame because with a little effort on the writer's part, the ending would not have been so bland and disappointing.
I put the book down, inhaled deeply and thought about how much I value quality literary works from both well known and lesser known authors, and wondered "How does something like this novel get published?
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