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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I enjoy Jennifer Crusie's novels a lot, but adding the Bob Mayer's violence to a witty romance is just creepy. I'm not sure what made me like this book. It just moves really, really fast and it's interesting without being totally confusing. You can just feel Agnes' emotions. It was funny, sad, angering, worrying, everything! I found it highly entertaining, and I'd definitely recommend it. 4 out of 5 reasons I'm glad I have nothing whatsoever to do with rich people. They're crazy! Agnes and the Hitman is a quirky but enjoyable blend of romance and violence—Agnes, a food writer with anger management issues, is trying to organise a wedding against all odds while falling in love with Shane, a hitman with a complicated past. It's a fast-paced book, which works in its favour, pulling you along so you don't really have time to notice its flaws too much. I believe that Mayer wrote all the scenes from Shane's viewpoint, for example, and he's markedly less competent than Crusie when it comes to characterisation. Silly, verging on the ridiculous at times, but still a lot of fun. (And I think features maybe the second non-white character I've ever seen in a Crusie novel? A little stereotypical, but still present, which I suppose is a step up.) I have bought this book about 3 times and given it out each time. I LOVE it! Crusie and Mayer are amazing together both of the books they have written together are worth it. They have a little bit of everything you want it is. It's like reading a movie. Very cute, enjoyable read. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312363044, Hardcover)Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett and you’ve got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love… Agnes Crandall’s life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she’s staked her entire net worth on. Then a hero climbs through her bedroom window. His name is Shane, no last name, just Shane, and he has his own problems: he’s got a big hit scheduled, a rival trying to take him out, and an ex-mobster uncle asking him to protect some little kid named Agnes. When he finds out that Agnes isn’t so little, his uncle has forgotten to mention a missing five million bucks he might have lost in Agnes’s house, and his last hit was a miss, Shane’s life isn’t looking so good, either. Then a bunch of lowlifes come looking for the money, a string of hit men show up for Agnes, and some wedding guests gather with intent to throw more than rice. Agnes and Shane have their hands full with greed, florists, treachery, flamingos, mayhem, mothers of the bride, and—most dangerous of all—each other. Agnes and the Hitman is the perfect combination of sugar and spice, sweet and salty—a novel of delicious proportions. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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