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Name Dropping

by Jane Heller

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Nancy Stern, a preschool teacher, has her mundane life altered forever when a blind date intended for a glamorous neighbor with the same name leads her on an adventure of mix-ups and murder.
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Possibly one of the worst book I've ever read. The whole storyline started of so well in this interesting premise of preschool teacher Nancy Stern taking on a blind date that wasn't meant for her, but was actually for the other, more glamorous, Nancy Stern that had just moved into the same building. Teacher Nancy seemed to be a stable, reasonable woman, and for this one time she acted on impulse to accept the date. But it went downhill from there, with Nancy becoming this neurotic, nagging, nosy, completely obnoxious character. Where did this drastic personality change come from? It became really bizarre when a murder was introduced into the story that took this plot in a bad direction. The men-bashing in the book was over-the-top as well, and the one guy that is propped up as the standard for men seemed way too understanding about all of the deception coming from Nancy and the fact that he would even tolerate her constant nagging is ridiculous.
The ending was so cheesy that I was constantly rolling my eyes.
It started out so well and had some potential for a fun read, but it just completely fell flat with its characters and plot. It's never a good thing when you can't stand the main character and feel no sympathy for anything that happens to her. ( )
  tikilights | Jul 26, 2006 |
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