Naked Brunch [Import] [Hardcover]

Sparkle Hayter (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; 1St Edition edition (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0771037953
• ISBN-13: 978-0771037955
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,875,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Departure from the Usual Werewolf Fare, July 1, 2003

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MONTGOMERY (WASHINGTON, DC - U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Brunch: A howlingly funny novel of love run wild (Paperback)

I finished reading "NAKED BRUNCH" a few days ago, and enjoyed the way the author tied in the stories of the main characters (e.g., Annie Engel, Jim, Dr. Marco, Sam), thus making for a harmonious whole. It's a refreshing morality tale and provides an interesting departure from the usual werewolf fare. Annie Engel, both as a woman and as a werewolf, has a big heart and soul. She is representative of those of us who are sickened by the rich and powerful, who, time and again, place profit and personal gain over the best interests of humanity. Consequently, we feel frustrated by our relative powerlessness as individuals to do anything to stop the amoral robber barons and 'merchants of death' in today's world. At least, when Annie becomes a Wolf, she can sniff out these amoral powerbrokers and hunt them down. She's a righteous Wolf!

WHEN WILL THERE BE A SEQUEL???

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crunchy Reading!, July 3, 2003

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Charles Cale (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Brunch: A howlingly funny novel of love run wild (Paperback)

Mz. Hayter writes well! Her 'Robin Hudson' books are amazing good fun! "Tart Noir" at it's best!

This "Naked Brunch" is a whole new animal! This book is gonna be a socio-political classic! It sincerely puts her into the Vonnegut, Orwell, Oates realm of literature! A view of our current political world through the eyes of folks who can't help ripping out the throats of those who would destroy in the name of profit! Not only is this book hilarious, horrific and deeply thought provoking, it's intelligently sexy! Leave out those oddball "Anne Rice meets Kafka meets Dorothy Parker" comparisons, and just accept that Sparkle Hayter is the best damn writer this world has going! HA! How's THAT?

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I didnt want to... but I do, June 20, 2005

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Page Turner (Chicago, Il USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Brunch: A howlingly funny novel of love run wild (Paperback)

I picked up this novel, a departure from the Robin Hudson series, and wanted to love it. 20 pages in, I decided that Hayter had failed me terribly and tossed the book aside. Months passed and without a new Hudson book to appease me, I again picked up Naked Brunch. Still hated it. I read and re-read the reviews here at Amazon time and again and thought about how everyone must be reading some chapters that were left out of my copy. How could these people love this book so much? The one negative review I read still failed to execute the horrible justice that I felt Naked Brunch deserved.

Again months passed and STILL no new Hudson novel. So, on the third try I discovered something. I hadnt seperated myself from the series that I felt so protective of. Hayter had betrayed Robin Hudson and this new Annie Engle person was weak and pathetic, werewolves are a ridiculous choice of topic, and who did this Dear Tweets person think he was?

On that third try, and almost a year after reading anything about Robin Hudson, Tomayo, Mrs. R and the gang, I realized that Hayter had actually written a beautiful book and I had wasted months bashing it because I was expecting someone else to be in its pages. I wonder now if I should seek therapy for my charachter attatchments, but first, this:

This is not a Robin Hudson book and it doesnt pretend to be. Theres no need to re-tell the plot as several have already done so. What you should know is the book is quick paced, funny, but not in a hilarious way, and not chick-litesque at all. The charachters are brilliant and stick with you long after the book ends and all have a fascinating story to tell.

The truth is I want to live in Hayters world. As with the Hudson books, Sparkle Hayter makes our city a more magical place. And while reading her, and for a long time after, you notice things differently, and wonder if the guy next to you on the bus could be smuggling a dangerous chemical agent in that brown bagged bottle or may even be a werewolf.