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mandy_pandy's review against another edition
5.0
I loved the suspense in this book! I had no idea what was going on and what I guessed was wrong so I was pretty excited about that. Plus, the romance was one of my favorites by this author. I really loved this couple.
slovenianbookworm's review against another edition
3.0
3,5 stars.
Written like Phillips, but so not her. While the other books (The Chicago Stars series) are really positive, this one starts like some sort of thriller. To be honest, it was a little dark (I don't mean that in a mafia-dark way, just...while other books could be described as colorful, this one was more grey-ish). It has a love story, a complicated one, and mystery, but I just didn't feel like this one is for me.
Written like Phillips, but so not her. While the other books (The Chicago Stars series) are really positive, this one starts like some sort of thriller. To be honest, it was a little dark (I don't mean that in a mafia-dark way, just...while other books could be described as colorful, this one was more grey-ish). It has a love story, a complicated one, and mystery, but I just didn't feel like this one is for me.
rlp78's review against another edition
4.0
While I can totally get the comparisons to Ain't She Sweet (they are painfully obvious) I didn't really mind it so much simply because I loved that book. It took me awhile to like Annie and her puppet conversations and it took quite awhile for me to trust Theo. In the end he was almost too perfect but not quite.
The writing was everything I've come to expect from this author. It took me awhile to want to start this book but once I did I had a hard time putting it down.
The writing was everything I've come to expect from this author. It took me awhile to want to start this book but once I did I had a hard time putting it down.
kokod's review against another edition
4.0
Oh, I love SEP. 3.5 because it was not as funny as SEP usually is.
So the book starts off as bizarre--with the whole puppets and whatnot thing. Thankfully, we get away from that crazy and delve into other parts of crazy. It was a fun and quick read with some great SEP moments:
"'I had no idea you were such a sexist.' His head jerked up. 'What are you talking about?' 'Any rational woman married to a man who was abusing her the way your wife was abusing you would have gotten out, gone to a shelter, whatever it took to get away. But because you're male, you were supposed to stick around? Is that how it is?'" (267)
"His voice was soothing, but the look he shot Annie told her if she even thought about moving from the room a terrible fate would befall her followed by an even worse fate, followed by total annihilation" (376)
So the book starts off as bizarre--with the whole puppets and whatnot thing. Thankfully, we get away from that crazy and delve into other parts of crazy. It was a fun and quick read with some great SEP moments:
"'I had no idea you were such a sexist.' His head jerked up. 'What are you talking about?' 'Any rational woman married to a man who was abusing her the way your wife was abusing you would have gotten out, gone to a shelter, whatever it took to get away. But because you're male, you were supposed to stick around? Is that how it is?'" (267)
"His voice was soothing, but the look he shot Annie told her if she even thought about moving from the room a terrible fate would befall her followed by an even worse fate, followed by total annihilation" (376)
jenc5309's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this book! I'll give it a month or two, and read it again. It had the perfect mix of humor & chills & romance.
leslierobertson5's review against another edition
The voice doing the audio of the book grated on my nerves. The idea that her ventriloquist puppets talked to her in her head initially intrigued me, but they were insanely irritating and it just kept getting more and more creepy rather than quirky.
salene27's review against another edition
3.0
This was a hard book to rate. If this was any other writer, I would have given it a four or five star rating, but I'm used to much more depth from SEP. This book was really funny in places, but it just felt so off from her other books. The resolving of the "mystery", also, literally came out of nowhere.
kamenceto90's review against another edition
funny
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
mokey81's review against another edition
3.0
This is for all the women out there who swoon over the "romance" in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. If you're looking for a romance between a woman and the dark, broody, jerk of a man in her world, this is the book for you. The author didn't do enough to redeem the man in this book for me to be ok with the relationship.
I thought I had the book figured out pretty early on and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't. The overall plot (sans romance) had a reasonably interesting threads of plot weaving through it.
This is not my typical fare, so I can't say I truly enjoyed it. But it helped keep me awake at work, so there's that.
I thought I had the book figured out pretty early on and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't. The overall plot (sans romance) had a reasonably interesting threads of plot weaving through it.
This is not my typical fare, so I can't say I truly enjoyed it. But it helped keep me awake at work, so there's that.