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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fun!, February 28, 2008
This review is from: Guns Will Keep Us Together (Greatest Hits Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I've just gotten my hands on the most unexpectedly awesome book ever - Guns Will Keep Us Together. I picked it up at the supermarket, of all places.
An almost airheadedly blithe assassin acquires an unexpected illegitimate son at the same time that the family business (in killing people) has acquired some bargain-basement competitors. So! There's nothing to be done but pick off the competition while considering offing the PTA.
The "hero" of this thing is one of the most hilariously note perfect first person narrators I've seen in years. He chattily waltzes through cell phone squabbling with his mother mid-execution, making a family vacation out of a hit on a guy in a Mickey suit at Disney World, and an attempted assassination of a bear-keeper at a zoo that goes horribly, brilliantly wrong.
You know those start a chapter with a quote things that a lot of books have? This author went for Addams Family, Blackadder and The Heathers quotes (among others), all even funnier in context. It's just that kind of book. Fluffily fun black comedy!
Now, to be frank, I think this book has a truth in advertising problem. Theoretically, it's a "mystery romance", but this is less of a romance than your average science fiction novel about very large bombs and prehensile aliens written by a gruff sixty five year old grandfather. I say this as someone who likes romance. Read it if you want rollicking action comedy - which I certainly did!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Spastic Heron With Rickets", February 7, 2008
This review is from: Guns Will Keep Us Together (Greatest Hits Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
When I read the first in this series, 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy, I thought there was no way she could follow up with a second book as good. Leslie's voice is hilarious, sarcastic...and laugh out loud funny. I looked forward to reading Dak's book (Guns Will Keep Us Together) because I thought he would be this smooth killer that he appeared in the first novel--but he's not. And I was wrong: this book was even funnier than the first book.
In any case, the bear scene at the zoo is worth the 5 stars alone, though I think Disney World might be a close second.
Run and buy this book. Great fun, escapist read.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I tried to love it . . ., September 17, 2010
It is a fun, light-hearted romp, but--
The characters were so glib that they didn't ever feel real. I had a hard time believing anything really touched them. Any of them. The six-year-old boy had an emotional maturity that few people have ever achieved in the entire history of the world. He was definitely way more mature emotionally than his father--
Who cried after making love to the heroine for the first time. He apparently fell in love with her at first sight because she was a hot red head instead of the hot blondes he usually has sex with. That and he was starting to have performance issues.
And for someone who is supposed to be so smart about security, the hero makes such a dumb move in the later half of the book. The cannon fodder of slasher movies usually show about the same level of smarts.
It is funny. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter are fun. I wish I could have just sat back and enjoyed the ride instead of overthinking it.
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