(Disclaimer: I got this one from the author, via her publisher.)
Oh, I did like this one. More Bobbie Faye drama!
Bobbie Faye's at her job, trying to not sell a little old lady a gun, when her hussy cousin Francesca, whose dad is a mobster, comes stomping in. Turns out that her mom made off with some diamonds, and "supposedly" Bobbie Faye's the only one who knows where they are. Naturally, she has no idea, but this starts off yet another Bobbie Faye Day (or days, as it turns out).
This one is really awesome. Trevor returns as Bobbie Faye's partner in not-exactly-crime, and her ex Cam is still around, and he and Bobbie actually do some interesting communication in this one. And one of the bad guys starts to like Bobbie Faye, but uh...you really don't want her to end up with him. We also get to meet more of her family, including her absentee dad, her mobster uncle, her alcoholic sister, her blind psychic aunt...Turns out psychic powers run in the family, which makes me wonder about Bobbie Faye. Her boss Ce Ce also continues to work up magical mojo to protect her friend, which works better this time. And the resolution of this one is very interesting, though I am still confused on one plot point (see below the cut). I adore the love triangle and its participants in it, and I love how it's going. And there's a lot of good moments elsewhere in the book, such as the old lady with the gun, various shootouts, and one terrorized governor. Not to mention the awesome revelation about someone at the end....I'm looking forward to seeing how that comes out.
So, big love for this book! Five stars from me.
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My plot point question: at the beginning of the book, Bobbie Faye dreams that she shoots a guy she doesn't know, while having misshapen boobs and wearing an old shirt of hers. She wakes up with evidence of having shot the guy. But we know she didn't do it because Francesca did it while pretending to be Bobbie Faye. Bobbie Faye seems to chalk this experience up to roofies...but um, how would that work? It's not like Bobbie Faye was on so many roofies that she'd just murder a guy. And not that I've been on roofies, but I hear their key action on your body is to put you to sleep. So I still don't know how this happened. I am going to guess that Bobbie Faye had some kind of psychic dream? (Toni, should you read this, feel free to answer this question, I'd love to know.)
;) Hey, THANK YOU for such a nice review. It's such a kick to see what people enjoyed about the book.
On that plot point... Francesca was dressed to look just like Bobbie Faye (p. 265, where Trevor's figured it out) Francesca needed BF physically out there so that eyewitnesses would place her at the scene, but Francesca committed the murder, knowing the video would (a) catch and and (b) be in bad enough lighting so that she looked enough like BF to frame BF.
BF was in and out of consciousness and saw enough to think she was "seeing herself" and then assumed later she'd dreamed it, because it didn't make sense. Until it did. ;)
Posted by: toni | June 05, 2008 at 09:53 AM