What's a Girl Gotta Do? [Import] [Paperback]

Sparkle Hayter (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: No Exit Press (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1874061742
• ISBN-13: 978-1874061748
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, funny and wry. A mystery, too., July 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: What's A Girl Gotta Do? (Robin Hudson, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

Hayter is a great writer. Robin, her fictional heroine, sizes up people and situations with lightning speed and acerbic wit. I would pay her to hang out at my office and write about what she sees.

The book is a mystery, but I didn't notice. I was more interested in listening to Robin get herself in trouble with her superiors, insult her detractors and describe the overall state of her disheveled life.

I imagine Hayter can do well in most genres, both fiction and non-fiction.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uproariously funny, August 21, 2000

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This review is from: What's a Girl Gotta Do? (Robin Hudson Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Robin Hudson is a news reporter with a career on the fall. It seems that whenever she gets a break, she proceeds to embaress herself and the prestigious broadcasting company she works for. Like the time she was given the job of temporary White House correspondant and beched while standing under a super sensitive microphone at a press conference. After this disgrace, she was placed on the networks cash-cow, the Special Reports division, only to find out her husband was cheating on her with a 23 year old.

Robin's frank outlook on her situation, and rather bad attitude lend humor to some rather unhumorous situations. She attends the Network's New Years Eve party because she recieved a mysterious phone call from a P.I. who has been hired to investigate her and other on-air "talent" that work for her company. After the party, the P.I. turns up dead, and the police have some incriminating evidence, against her.

Plagued by other maladies like a machoistic boss, a report on a Sperm Bank that has been mixing up donor's "fluids", and a transvestite boyfriend, Robin tries to get to the bottom of the murder, and find out why she, of all people was being investigated.

This was a hilarious book. The mix of mystery and humor leaves little to be desired. Ms. Hayter writes very smoothly, and with good humor.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book truly "Sparkles", August 28, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: What's A Girl Gotta Do? (Robin Hudson, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

Do not judge this book by its cover! Sparkle's character, Robin Hudson, is a laugh a minute. If you love mysteries and laughter and you haven't read this book I advise you to put this one in your shopping basket without further delay. You won't regret it