Following "Vegas Rich" and "Vegas Heat", Fern Michaels brings the fortunes and destinies of the Thornton clan full circle with her spellbinding conclusion to "The Vegas Trilogy". When Fanny Thornton, proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, chooses her first husband's illegitimate son to run the family's dazzling Vegas casino, it is a decision she will live to regret--one that turns her children against each other and threatens to destroy the Thorntons once and for all.
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Michaels wraps up her Vegas trilogy in typical fashion. As Fanny Coleman Thornton struggles to reunite her scattered family, remnants of her past with her first husband, Ash, prevent her from being at peace. To make amends with the past, Fanny places Ash's illegitimate son, Jeff, in charge of Babylon, the family casino in Las Vegas. Her son Sage has no interest in running the casino because he is focusing on his own family, and her daughter Sunny is learning to live with the muscular disease that changed her life. Fanny's other son, Birch, reappears with an avaricious wife in tow expecting to take over the casino but is disillusioned when he sees there is no place for him at Babylon. The last child, Billie, faces financial disaster as she is sucked into the gambling fever her father always feared. Disaster plagues the Thorntons until a deadly threat draws the family back together and everything is forgiven. Most of the plot twists are wrapped up neatly, but a few threads just disappear (maybe there will be another book?). Libraries will need Vegas Sunrise to complete the trilogy, but it is weaker than the first two installments. Melanie Duncan
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The final installment of Michaels's Vegas trilogy is even more over the top than its predecessors (Vegas Rich, 1996; Vegas Heat, p. 87). Here, matriarch Fanny Coleman Thornton confronts all her old demons and some new ones too as she oversees Babylon, the family casino, with her by now characteristic blend of steel nerves and fluttering indecision. Her four children aren't always a help. Son Birch finally returns from South America with new wife Celia in tow--a conniving gold-digger as everyone (but Birch) knows. Birch's saintly twin Sage is having problems with his equally saintly (and pregnant) wife Iris. Sunny, who has inexplicably been institutionalized with multiple sclerosis despite complete wheelchair mobility and no negative effects to her mental capacity (she's still portrayed as the sharpest Thornton child), wants to marry her also-wheelchair-bound beau. And, finally, Billie, the child no one ever had to worry about, has been sneaking around Vegas incognito in a desperate attempt to conceal her gambling addiction from the family. When Fanny allows her former (and deceased) husband Ash's illegitimate son Jeff Lassiter to take over the day-to-day operations of Babylon, everyone's life is thrown into an utter uproar--especially after Sage discovers (thanks to longtime friends in service as spies) that Jeff and Celia are in cahoots. Meanwhile, the least appealing aspect of this third, and purported last, installment in the saga is that the dead Ash is given one of the leading roles; he appears to all the Thorntons as a vision in times of crisis, doling out advice in his customary crotchety manner. Before his demise Ash was tolerable, but as a ghost he's insufferable. Far too many Thorntons and entrepreneurial schemes (casinos in Atlantic City, free-range chicken farms, fast-food restaurants, etc.) clutter this already jam-packed finale. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Fern Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Fool Me Once, Sweet Revenge, The Nosy Neighbor, Pretty Woman, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.
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I chose to read the Vegas series by Fern Michaels by mere coincidence. I was given the 2nd book, read it, loved it, and then searched the other two books out to read. I highly recommend all three Vegas books due to the excellent family understandings, misgivings and sentiments the author used. Everyone has a little bit of each one of the characters in them!
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Jeff Lassiter, Celia Thornton, Atlantic City, Costa Rica, Ash Thornton, Thornton Chickens, Fanny Thornton Reed, Metaxas Parish, Birch Thornton, Ruby Thornton, Neal Tortolow, John Noble, Jeffrey Lassiter, Pop Pop, Sallie Thornton, Las Vegas, Harem Lounge, New England, Fanny Reed, Sage Thornton, The Chicken Palaces, Room Service, Uncle Simon, Golden Nugget, Holy Grail Browse Sample Pages:
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