Kooks for your Kindle?– The usual selection of supporting characters, including a typically adorable Ms Congeniality and a slightly batty mother, not too over the top.
The Bella-Swan-Pathetically-Self-Sacrificing-Factor– Phew, not a whiff of it here; Happy is on a mission to prove how resourceful and clever she is. Unfazed by danger, she doggedly sets out to clear her name and subvert the stereotype of the dumb beauty queen, while respecting the hard work she and her colleagues put into pageanting.
Painting a picture for your paperback?– It’s doubtful that anybody needs any encouragement to go to Hawaii, but you are guaranteed to feel the urge to sip a well decorated cocktail at sunset having read this book. The setting is mostly at the plush hotel, with some eventful excursions. The author has a lovely way with words, of course that’s what we take for granted in an author, but Dempsey has a singular way of conveying the intelligence behind the pretty exterior of the lead character.
Nookie for your Nook?– This being a pageant for married women, our heroine has her husband along, but most of the time he is stashed out of the way in another hotel and largely forgotten. Fortunately he seems extremely understanding.
Evaluation of your eBook?-. A character with potential (a sequel is already out there), with echoes of the Miss Congeniality movie. There are shades of Stephanie Plum in her amateur, plucky efforts at crime solving, but different enough to set it apart. It reduced speed at one small point in the middle, but still skipped along well for a medium size read. Best devoured on a beach, because it WILL invoke the urge for the aforementioned cocktail.
Frothy Ranking: 4/5 cocktails.
UK: A bargain 77p on Amazon UK
US: 99c from Amazon or 99c from Kobobooks US and Kobo Canada.
I found this author while searching for cheap eBooks, and uncovered a goldmine by a very prolific lady. Ladden the antiques dealer acquires a mysterious carpet along with a lamp. Not long after this a strange man seems to make things happen for Ladden and his favourite customer Jasmine. Unfortunately Jasmine is already involved with a prominent local figure up for re-election. Three Wishes is one of her shorter books and has a light-hearted supernatural element, which together give the impression of a vacation read. A little suspension of belief never did anyone any harm and it’s a sweet story.
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An oldie but goodie. Ironically I didn’t read any of hers for the longest time because I found the covers a little too frothy, but this proved to be well worth a read! Stephanie Plum has lost her job as a lingerie buyer and is in dire financial straits. However family connections and a little harmless blackmail land her a job as a bounty hunter, where she soon finds that her first potential catch is an old flame. Who she hasn’t spoken to since she intentionally ran him over and broke his leg. It’s essentially a crime/mystery story, and the narrative occasionally has the punchy feel of a 70s detective novel, but it’s undoubtedly aimed at women.
It couldn’t get any worse for Becca, her husband has been killed in an accident and she subsequently discovers she’s pregnant. In a reluctant backwards move, she moves in with her parents for the duration of her pregnancy. Back in her hometown, she discovers a former college friend of both her and her late husband, leading her to face the events of their past before she can contemplate her future. Despite this, the book is not at all morbid, only poignant, positive and a good medium sized read.
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