Marne Davis Kellogg
Author of Brilliant
About the Author
Series
Works by Marne Davis Kellogg
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Gender
- female
Members
Reviews
Perfect: A Novel by Marne Davis Kellogg
I think I got this for free or .99 and it ended up being better than I expected. Fluff for sure, but sometimes that's what I want since I do a lot of reading in bed when I'm so tired I can barely follow a plot line. I will check out more in the series.
Not quite as good as the first book, Brilliant, in this series but lots of fun and a quick read. Middle aged retired cat-burglar goes back to work to maintain her reputation and catch a copycat burglar. Kit is very smart, sophisticated, a gourmet cook, and stylish so her quick conclusion that her husband had left her seemed really silly to me.
Fun read. Woman "of a certain age" is an executive assistant at an auction house during the day and a cat burglar by night. From very humble beginnings, she turned into a cultured, sophisticated woman who knows about jewelry, antiques, paintings, wine and gourmet cooking.
The Little Bookworm
Kick Keswick is the world's best jewel thief. But she is retired. That is until the Queen's jewels are stolen and Kick is recruited to steal them back. Kick enters the world of the beyond wealthy to find the thief and get back the jewels and it will take all her wits and skill to do just that.
I love heist stories. And this one is an inverted heist story because Kick is a thief stealing from a thief at the behest of Scotland Yard. Kick is very good at what she does and she knows a lot about jewels and jewelry and all the finest things in life. I liked her and her descriptions of all these things. And food. OMG the food in this book is described in such detail. I went around hungry the entire time I read it.
It turns out, though, that this is third in the series. It wasn't a problem, prior knowledge isn't really necessary to read this one. There is some summing up of past adventures but it's not blow-by-blow or anything. But now I want to start at the beginning and read some of her adventures when she was an actual jewel thief and not just "coming out of retirement" for this caper. Because Kick is very clever and really knows her stuff. The plan is so simple yet so elaborate and I loved reading how it played out. This is definitely a fun series if you like mysteries or heists or food or all of the above.… (more)
Kick Keswick is the world's best jewel thief. But she is retired. That is until the Queen's jewels are stolen and Kick is recruited to steal them back. Kick enters the world of the beyond wealthy to find the thief and get back the jewels and it will take all her wits and skill to do just that.
I love heist stories. And this one is an inverted heist story because Kick is a thief stealing from a thief at the behest of Scotland Yard. Kick is very good at what she does and she knows a lot about jewels and jewelry and all the finest things in life. I liked her and her descriptions of all these things. And food. OMG the food in this book is described in such detail. I went around hungry the entire time I read it.
It turns out, though, that this is third in the series. It wasn't a problem, prior knowledge isn't really necessary to read this one. There is some summing up of past adventures but it's not blow-by-blow or anything. But now I want to start at the beginning and read some of her adventures when she was an actual jewel thief and not just "coming out of retirement" for this caper. Because Kick is very clever and really knows her stuff. The plan is so simple yet so elaborate and I loved reading how it played out. This is definitely a fun series if you like mysteries or heists or food or all of the above.… (more)
You May Also Like
Statistics
- Works
- 12
- Members
- 658
- Popularity
- #38,343
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 11
- ISBNs
- 36
- Languages
- 3
- Favorited
- 1