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The Fashion Police (2010)

by Sibel Hodge(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sibel Hodge

series

Amber Fox

review 1: I think I've overdosed on cosy mysteries, especially Stehanie Plum lookalikes, because I didn't finish this. Once again, it seems I'm contrary to the other very positive reviews. Maybe I'm needing a change of genre for a while. I bought this because I like this kind of thing, because it was cheap, because I liked that the author had written lots of other types of books and because it got lots of really great reviews. I'm hoping that the other book I bought by the same author grabs me more. This was simply too samey for me. Very, very Stephanie Plum, with cute detective wearing combats, gought over by two cute men wearing combats or alternatively naked. She had a dysfunctional family and a minor eating disorder too, and she also had a pet. It wasn't bad, it just didn't feel... more very fresh. And you know how it is, when something is not really grabbing you and you're kind of just flicking through it to see if it will, then the things that might just minorly annoy you begin to really bug you. In this book, it was the Americanisms. I think the author is English. It's set in England. One of the reviews was by the RNA (British). Yet the language was this weird mixture. Candy and cookies, her dad says, instead of sweets and biscuits. She discovers someone doesn't have a social security number, instead of a National Insurance number. She lives in an apartment. Yes, we do have apartments in Britain, but they tend to be wildly expensive things and not just plain old flats. And so on. I know, I'm being picky. I'm not going to go off at a tangent that hasn't really much to do with this book. Why is it that we feel female protagonists in caper-style books need to have terrible eating habits? Primarily, they can't cook and pride themselves on not cooking and never cook, and secondly, they eat enough chocolate and cake to make their teeth fall out anew every day. Who are these women, because I don't know any? I mean, I know some who aren't great in the kitchen but they don't boast about it and they don't live off dried cereal out of the packet - another thing that bugs me, what's wrong with crockery and cutlery? They can put a ready meal in the microwave, unlike the female detectives of cute cosy mysteries. And the people I know who eat chocolate eat a LOT less of it and then, unlike these fictional babes who have hot men falling all over themselves, they have to either not eat anything else, or spend hours working out. Or just buy a bigger size clothes. Wby do we find these fictional babes funny? I mean, I did - I loved the early Stephanie Plum books. Now - now, it's become a cliché. Rant over, with apologies to the author of this book, it truly wasn't aimed at you. As I said, I'm just cosy mysteried out, it's not this book's fault. Sorry I read it at the wrong time. And no, I'm not writing this while I'm either high on chocolate or craving it. I don't actually even like it very much, which is, I know, a fatal thing for a writer or a detective to admit.
review 2: I am definitely not a fan of the mix comedy romantic suspense, mystery investigation with a funny chick-lit environment. I especially found the comedy part coming flat, as it was overdone.However in this genre, the read is quite enjoyable and the overall story line is pretty good; I saw some of the mystery quite ahead of Amber, but only part of it.The hesitation between the 2 men, that both look like a postcard, was starting to get on my nerves. I will probably not read the following. less

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