Weekend Warriors (2003)

3rd Fern Michaels book read.

A guilty pleasure. If you want a quick read without too much thought needed, this is your novel. It is fun while being unrealistic to a fault. ( )

Ummm... this book is poorly written. The author tells everything, doesn't let anything unfold. And it's all done by dialogue that doesn't feel normal. People just don't talk like this; the only reason why they talk the way they do in this book is because the author wants to tell the story to us by spelling it all out.

I'm sure it's a feel-good get-even story going on but the stupid conversations (i.e. the main character will have a conversation with her foster-mother and start it with "remember when I was 12 and such and such happened?") were just too much for me. ( )

In this book a wealthy woman who had been wronged by the legal system puts together a group of women also wronged to seek revenge vigilante style for the crimes committed. Very interesting start to what has become quite a series. Not your regular Fern Michaels romance book. ( )

Publishers Weekly Review: Readers beware: this book is not for the faint of heart or for fans of Michaels's more traditional romances (Kentucky Rich , etc.). There is no happily ever after here; indeed, the primary emotion fueling this story is not love, but anger. Anger leads wealthy Myra Rutledge, who lost her daughter to a hit-and-run driver with diplomatic immunity, to found the Sisterhood, a secret vigilante group of women who have been unable to seek justice through lawful means. Assisting Myra in this effort are former MI6 agent Charles Martin and defense attorney Nikki Quinn, who was Myra's daughter's best friend. High on estrogen and hate, the women pinpoint their first target—the Weekend Warriors, a group of motorcycle enthusiasts who brutally raped Kathryn Lucas, one of Nikki's former clients. The women decide on a Lorena Bobbitt–style punishment and carry it out with very few misgivings—so few that readers will have trouble seeing them as sympathetic. With its paper-thin premise and lack of a rational or moral grounding, this overwrought story isn't likely to satisfy or inspire. ( )