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Long, Lean, and Lethal

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Jennifer is a 28-year-old soap opera actress. She is living with her ill mother, Abby, who has been hearing voices and talking to "people in the walls." Abby also believes that she has received letters threatening Jennifer's life, so Abby has called on her stepson, Conar, also an actor, to return to Hollywood to protect Jennifer. When young actresses start turning up dead "Hitchcockian style," everyone begins taking the "threats" against Jennifer seriously.

Jennifer is an idiot. When she's not having elementary school jealousies about her mother's affection for Conar, she's making a complete fool out of herself: Drinking until she throws up, tripping up stairs, making lustful sexual innuendoes when she REALLY only means to insult Conar, bumping into doors, "accidentally" flashing her breasts in public places ... And Conar, well, he just spends most of his time laughing at her. Oh, and let's not forget Abby telling Jennifer that Jennifer really should have sex more often; then she wouldn't be so cranky. Ooh, yeah! We've come along way, baby!

Early on in the book, Conar and Jennifer are told, and are given proof, that there are secret passages in their house. Both feel as if "they are being watched" most of the time. Do either of these characters experience natural, human curiosity and try to search out those passageways? Do either of them think that maybe someone could be hiding in those hidden passageways? Oh, no. They just sleep with baseball bats close to hand and inanely wonder if "a house could have eyes."

So much to gripe about ... so little space! Save yourselves! :-)

Heather Graham's books snap, crackle and pop with energy and red-hot romance. Though fairly predictable, I really liked the intermingling of fantasy and reality of her latest book, LONG, LEAN and LETHAL. Set in the world daytime soaps, the fantasy of the show begins to entwine with the mundane (and sometimes deadly) world of reality. I immediately fell in love with the concept - not to mention the leading man. And I also enjoyed the strength and attitude of the heroine. Witty, charming and full of dramatic energy, it's a great escape book - watch it when you are in need for your "soap fix" for the day.

I've never written an Amazon review before and normally wouldn't take the time to do so, but this book was so bad that I feel compelled to warn others not to spend the $ on it. The heroine was a whiny, immature brat that you could never quite like and there were so many characters that you couldn't warm to any of them. The storyline was hokey. The dialogue was so stilted and unrealistic that I nearly didn't finish to book--and now I wish I hadn't bothered. This book is so different in quality from her previous books that either she pounded it out in two days to meet her publisher's deadline or she was possessed by a "bad writer" demon during its creation. I guess we'll never know...

LONG, LEAN AND LEATHAL was an average read, not great, but not bad. Someone is murdering people associated with the soap opera, Valentine Valley, copying the style of Alfred Hitchcock. It appears that the beautiful actress, Jennifer, is next on the list to meet her movie-style end. A large cast of characters with varying reasons to commit murder keeps the reader interested and guessing. A romance develops between Jennifer and the previously, much-despised Conar, which will prove beneficial in the end. A strong point to this story is that I could not guess the murderer until it was revealed. Then everything fell neatly into place. A negative is that there did not appear to be a connection between the story and the title.

Not the usual great book from Heather Graham. The heroine was a complete ninny and the story line was very very weak. I really love her books, normally, but I had to struggle to finish this clunker.

She is absolutely right! I really enjoyed Tall, Dark and Deadly. I foolishly thought Long, Lean and Lethal would be up to that standard. The storyline was very weak and especially uninteresting to me. Was this a mystery or a soap of a soap opera? Why wasn't the "secret passageway" plot built up more, to strengthen this storyline? That was the only interesting part of the book! I cannot wait to get this book out of my personal library, and I will most likely not read the rest of this trilogy.

This story was not vintage Heather Graham. It was a weak story line right from the beginning. It was almost as though she had to write something, and this was the result. Heather Graham is a wonderful writer, but this story does not do her repetoire justice. It was weak and frankly quite dull. This reader is looking forward to the sequel to Ms. Graham's vampire series.

This one was worse than the other Heather Graham romantic suspense novels I read, the title of which I can't even remember! Even more so than the other one I read, this one was written extremely simplistically, almost on a young-adult level. I don't like this author's style of writing, at least her contemporary-romance-suspense novels. And this one had a stupid story, with no development of the characters, so I couldn't care less about any of them. The twist at the end, while a surprise to me, was, well, stupid. The character who turned out to be the "bad guy" and why he was the bad guy were contrived. It seemed like the author wrote herself into a corner and "had" no choice when it came down to who turned out to be her ultimate "bad guy" and why. I would steer clear of this author for contemporary romantic suspense.

Absolutely agree with every single negative comments on here.

Irrational, jealousy filled 28 "child" heroine, who constantly throws tantrums, it really gets tiresome and annoying. She's either jealous of or jealous at the hero who spends most of his time laughing at her. The book is riddled with way too many secondary characters, and they ALL happen to be beautiful. Every one of them. I for one really like having a beautiful heroine in a romance novel but the author took this too far. To top it all of, half the book is just one big preparation/set-up for her next book in this series.

This romance had very little chemistry, stilted dialog, too vast a number of dull secondary characters that will bore you to tears. The mystery..... LOL, really, too corny for words. Pass up on this snoozer of a romance novel.

For some reason to me this book seemed to get off to a very slow start and I even considered not finishing it. However, I hung in there and I am glad I did because it finally caught my interest and I ending up enjoying the book a great deal.

There was one thing that drove me crazy. Why do so many authors try to make a heroine appear strong and independent by having her state over and over that "I can take care of myself" and then stupidly go sneaking off from the people who are trying to keep her safe. In this book, Jennifer Connolly had to prove that she could take care of herself even though she had reason to believe she was perhaps being stalked by a killer.

I think I am a very strong person and I can tell you straight up that if I thought a killer was after me I would accept the help of my husband (or boyfriend), the police, the mailman, the chef at the corner restaurant... anyone who could help keep me safe would be welcome to do so. When the threat was over I would go back to being self sufficient!

Also, although they were not related by blood, the fact that Jennifer and Conar were step brother and sister who became lovers and eventually married and had a child gave this book a slight "eeewwwww" factor for me.