Where are all the good men? Marianne and her best friend, Bijoux, are dying to know. Turns out they've been holed up around card tables, playing Texas Hold 'em. So Marianne and Bijoux decide it's time to up the ante and get in on the action. But they never imagined that Marianne would have a seriously talented poker player lurking inside her. And everyone knows what they say about lucky in cards...
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Two L.A. hotties find love in the cards in Maverick's lighthearted but flatly written romantic comedy. Tax accountant Marianne Hollingsworth is on track for a partnership in her staid firm, but somehow the combination of corporate affluence and her on-again, off-again relationship with handsome but commitment-phobic Donny Fazzuli is about as compelling as an IRS audit. So, Marianne and her gold-digging best friend, Bijou Sterling, decide they ought to learn how to play poker: not only will they meet available men, they'll "slay [them] and take their money." The would-be gamblers stumble out of the gates, getting tricked into strip poker with Donny's pals and mistakenly signing up for a game with teenage boys, but Marianne is no slouch, and pretty soon she's earned herself an invitation to a big-money poker tournament in Vegas. Maverick sets up a romantic quartet (the ladies, Donny and Peter Graham, the journalist writing about Marianne's poker escapades) but falls victim to some lazy writing in the couples scenes. The card-playing scenes fare better, bolstered by cameos by real-life poker celebs. (Dec.)
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Liz Maverick is a writer and adventurer whose travels have taken her as far as Ross Island, Antarctica. A former CPA with an MBA, she once worked as a tax accountant in corporate America and then as a website developer in Silicon Valley. She is currently living on the West Coast.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
better for poker fans,
This review is from: Card Sharks (Paperback)
I got this after enjoying What a Girl Wants and Adventures of an Ice Princess.
Best friends Marianne and Bijoux are looking for something more. Ex-heiress Bijoux wants a man who'll keep her in the style to which she used to be accustomed, and Marianne wants to find someone permanent and to quit falling back on longtime friend and sometime lover Donny. When they ask where all the men are, it comes to them: they're playing poker. So Marianne and Bijoux decide to learn to play poker to meet men. Only it turns out that Marianne is very, very good at it. So good, that she ends up in Vegas at the World Series of Poker, accompanied by Bijoux, Danny, and Bijoux's reporter friend Peter. The romance in this story (no, I'm not going to tell you who ends up together) was sweet, if tepid. The poker started out mildly interesting, but got boring in a hurry. I think I'd have liked this story more if I cared at all about poker. The tournament itself was a little fun, but I kept thinking of the tournament in Maverick, and this one was just not quite as exciting. (not fair, I know--Marianne can't compete with the sparks flying between Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster) Mostly, I think it's just that other than a slight detour on the road to love, there wasn't any big change in Marianne. Sure, she learns she's good at poker, but that's not the only thing she's ever been good at--it's not like discovering a talent gave her faith in herself that she'd been lacking before. And that character growth is what I tend to look for in chick lit. The friends started out the book bored, and unfortunately, it proved to be contagious.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read,
By Nikkie (Toledo, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Card Sharks (Paperback)
Marianne and her heiriess turned golddigger best friend Bijoux, are looking for love. Marianne wants something more stable than her off and on relationship she is having with Donny, and Bijoux is looking for someone that will keep her in the manner that she's been accoustomed to since Mommy and Daddy are cutting her off soon, too soon.
Enter Peter, a friend of a freind of Bijoux's. He's a journalist, and tells Bijoux jokenly that the reason she and her friend can't find a man is because they are all playing poker. Marianne also knows that Donny plays poker with 'the guys'. The two girls devise a plan, to join the men and beat them at their own game in cards, and find love. Only something happens. People, including herself, realize how GOOD Marianne is. So good that she, Peter, Bijoux, and Donny wind up in Vegas so that Marianne can be in high stakes big scale poker tourney on ESPN. And the four of them find out about each other, and themselves along the way.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
intriguing chick lit tale,
This review is from: Card Sharks (Paperback)
In California, Marianne has a good job and a nice fellow sort of; at least she has an "F"- buddy, but Donny has no thoughts about the future and lives only for today. However, though she knows all this she feels something is missing as there is no excitement in her life. Her best friend Bijoux echoes her sentiment of where the good men are while stuck escorting the nephew of the neighbors around town.
When Donny comes by for a quickie before running off to play poker), Marianne realizes where the males hide. She and Bijoux invade the Texas Hold'em poker bastion. Marianne proves to be one of the best players with men suddenly salivating for her. This includes Donny who sees a different side to his former girlfriend and ex "F"-buddy as he now wants to raise their relationship while she apparently will fold unless he hopes she is bluffing. CARD SHARKS is an intriguing chick lit tale that focuses on the hold that poker has on many people with TV events and players like actress Tilly wining tournaments, but is much more than just the card games. Marianne is a terrific individual and though doing well feels somewhat disenchanted as she wonders who will enable her to want to get up early in the future. Bijoux supplements her as her best friend sharing some of the same concerns. The poker environment provides an environs for Marianne to capture some of the "va-voom" she feels missing in her life. Though the ending is chick lit 101, fans will appreciate the Marianne's lesson that life requires a balance between responsibility and pleasure that no bluff can attain. Harriet Klausner
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