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Loading... The Marriage Gameby Fern Michaels
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A simple one word review: silly. It went over the edge from cute, to inane. I'm not likely to repeat the experience with this author. ( )Good I found this book quite funny at times and a great chick-lit novel. I especially liked the strong female characters in it. However, there was a lot of "suspension of reality" in this book. For example, a group of ex-wives who have met for the first time are recruited by a super secret organization. These women have nothing in common with each other, other than an ex-husband. It is not explained why these women are recruited, nor why the main character, Sam, was recruited originally as an FBI agent. Not only do you have to not think about why these women were recruited, there are backstories to other characters which don't make sense either. Overall, this is a cute read, but it is very much fiction and if your like me, reading the parts about their physical training will leave you exhausted and questioning why anyone would do all this work. A mild thriller for a quick read. The characters unfortunately are unremarkable and in many ways an insult to intelligent women. There are far funnier, sexier, and more suspenseful thrillers out there that don't make their femminist heroine win the day by taking off her clothes. Not believeable; fund afternoon read; wouldn't buy but would pick it upif it was at the beach house no reviews | add a review
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When Samantha Rainford -- newly wed to Douglas Cosmo Rainford III -- returns home from her honeymoon to find divorce papers waiting, she's shocked and heartbroken. Then she discovers that she's not the first to be abandoned -- she's one of four (or maybe more) ex-Mrs. Rainfords -- and decides it's time to put into practice that old truism: Don't get mad, get even.
With the help of her longtime girlfriend Slick, a glamorous fashion model, Sam gathers together a highly unlikely team: Mrs. Kayla Rainford, an architect who moonlights as an exotic dancer; Mrs. Zoe Rainford, a plumber; and Mrs. Olivia Rainford, a former cheerleader and cartoon artist. Sam and Slick flunked out of FBI training school, but they still learned a few things there -- like how to plan a mission. And the fivesome is determined to do whatever it takes to bring down Douglas Rainford III.
Whatever it takes means attending a top-secret private special-ops training camp in the North Carolina mountains, where Sam meets fiercely disciplined ex-CIA operative Kollar Havapopulas. Six feet three and handsome as a Greek god, "Pappy" is the best at what he does -- transforming civilians into highly skilled fighting teams. What he's less adept at, however, is telling a woman how he feels, and before long he discovers he's developing some very warm feelings for Samantha Rainford -- an attraction that seems fated to be a total disaster. Two personalities as strong as Sam and Pappy are sure to strike sparks, but will the fire that burns between them consume everything in its way?
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