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The Secret Life Of Damian Spinelli: As Told To Diane Miller (2011)

by Carolyn Hennesy(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1401324134 (ISBN13: 9781401324131)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Hyperion

review 1: It is never easy describing a book when all I can rank it with is a “so-so” rating. I didn’t hate it. I didn’t love it. I wanted to be sucked in like a speck of dust caught in the path of a vacuum cleaner. Sadly, this did not happen with the cases told by Damien Spinelli.Though the stories and setting were modern, Spinelli’s story-telling method was like a time machine. Using nick names like “doll” while suiting up with suspenders and a fedora hat, I had to remind myself not to envision everything in black in white since the stories are set in 2011. Enjoyable, and rarely confusing, this perspective lent a humorous aspect to Spinelli’s point of view since Diane’s perspective is clearly in modern colors.Revisiting the same characters throughout the stories ... morewas also fun. I was visiting new friends, getting to know them a little better with each new visit. Of course, being a soap- based novel, it’s expected to use the same characters living in Port Charles. If you are a follower of General Hospital, you will like this book all the more, though you need not to know the soap to follow along with the stories.Spinelli’s mysteries were cute, but far from hair-raising. I suppose if I had actually developed a relationship with the characters of Port Charles I might have cared more when one - or five - of them went missing on different occasions. But, I was too perplexed with tales that involved un-aging men, adulterous men leading double lives, or murderous grandmothers who were too stupid to pull off their schemes. I just didn’t know why I should care.Maybe it is just my love of the classics, but Sherlock Holmes just seemed so much classier, smarter, and most importantly, believable, when he would solve strange mysteries. In comparison, Spinelli is like Holmes’ nerdy second cousin, twice removed.
review 2: If you enjoy the daytime soap opera General Hospital, then you will for sure enjoy this book. It is hilarious, it is over-the-top, super geektastic as only one Damien Spinelli can be. The stories are embellished a great deal, the character's are engaging and likeable even when they're not trying to be, and Diane Miller is one hell of an amazing attorney. I have loved Spinelli from the moment he graced my screen in 2006 and I continue to still love him today, all of his techo-babble, his serious geek status...he is simply put, a rockstar in his own way. Not to mention, I love the fact that he would move heaven and hell to the point of risking his own life to save the people that he cares about the most. That is who Spinelli is and that is how he's won the hearts of so many.Watching him fall in love and embark on a relationship with Maxie, was truly an honor. The way he's so undeniably loyal to Jason "Stone Cold" and is such a wonderful endearing albiet sometimes annoying friend to Sam, and yes even his love for the Valkryie whom I personally detest; encompasses all of the reasons for which I love him.What the actors brings to these two characters, Spinelli and Diane Miller every day, is truly spectacularly phenomenal. Run, do not walk, to your nearest book store and get your own copy of this book and devour it in one sitting like I did. You will not be disappointed. You will laugh all of the way through it, I did. less

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