Customer Reviews

Twanged (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 4)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

Most of you people didn't even get it! Carol is not trying to be like her mother and shouldn't and doesn't deserve to be compared to her mother. They write totally different. Carol is an entertaining author with a good grasp on mixing humor and mystery. Not all mystery has to be deep, dark and foreboding and Carol is not trying to be. She writes well and Twanged is a great new edition to her Regan Reilly series. I caught myself snickering a lot. It is a thoroughly enjoyable good read and a welcome change from more serious fare and those who think it was bad or juvenile just don't know how to enjoy a funny book. Go back to reading something dark and gory and let the rest of us have fun.

This is perhaps the worst mystery book I have ever read. If I was told that it was written for a grade school audience, I would have no trouble believing it. I bought this book because the cover review blurb said something about a cozy full of eccentric characters. But if this is what you want, don't read this book. Instead, for eccentric characters and wonderful writing, read the Rumpole stories by John Mortimer.

This is certainly the most horrible book I have read in a long time. The characters are dumb and not well developed, although who would want to develop such idiotic characters! I finished this book just to see what a moronic ending it would have. I was not disappointed. This is the first and last book by this author that I will read.

This book never could have been published without the Higgins Clark surname. I have not encountered such drivel since I read as a child. In fact, an acquaintance who read the same book thought that perhaps it had been written for "young adults," however, I know of no teenager who would tolerate such inane dialog. I know I will never buy another. Grow up, Carol, and if there is a next time,try to write as an adult. Even the title is ludicrous!!

Extremely light reading. Unreal, barely humorous characters. Other mystery writers have nothing to fear except loss of display area on bookstore shelves due mostly to the name in my opinion.

This book made me put off reading for awhile...until I could come back to it and try and finish it later. The book was so horrible I had to skim through the remaining chapters to try and figure out what happened in the end. After reading this novel I am hesitate on trusting the author with any of her newer books. This book is nothing like Carol's mother's books. Yesterday I read "I Heard That Song Before" in one day, and not once did I get tired of reading. I am going to check the reviews of Carol's books before I read another one of them. All book stores should pull this one off the shelf.

Since I can't think of a polite way to express it, I'll just say that this book is terrible.

You pick the category - characters, writing style, word choices, plot, voice, etc. - it is bad, bad, bad.

Don't waste your time if you're over 8 years old. Even if you're 7 or younger, there are far, far better books to read.

I purchased this thinking it was Mary Higgins Clark and boy, was I disappointed. It seemed that she threw in anything to appeal to anyman - from Don Imus to a wealthy goofball and his sidekick. There was something for everyone but not muck of an interesting story.

simply awful audio. the reading was appropriate to a children's story hour. ms. clark, having a high-pitched voice to begin with, alters it for the different characters so that all the male protagonists, including one meant to be a threatening stalker, sound like a cross between the pillsbury dough boy and a chipmunk. the main male protagonist sounds like a moronic pre-teen. his home, described as a castle fit for an amusement park has a wooden deck - bizarre. if, as i presume, this abridged version is the highlights spare me from rest of the book.

This story is definitely intended to be a light-hearted mystery, and the author does a good job of protraying annoying characters.

However, the paperback edition I picked up was filled with typos, which constantly jangled my nerves. Also, Chappy's shouts were always IN CAPSLOCKS! It drove me nuts! Like others have stated, it didn't give a good feel of the music industry (and don't get me started on the extremely dull interview the radio personalities gave...ugh. No wonder their station was doing badly).