When a young woman plunges from a Las Vegas tour helicopter, landing in the Pirate’s Lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle the 8:30 Pirate Show, almost everyone wrote her off as another Vegas victim. But Lucky O’Toole, the wise-cracking Head of Customer Relations at the Babylon, the newest, most over-the-top mega-resort on the Strip, smelled a rat.
Even though Lucky’s got a lot on her plate – dealing with the Adult Film industry’s annual awards banquet, a Trendmakers spouse-swapping convention, and a hotel bursting at the seams with sex toy purveyors hoping to lure the interest of the pocket-protector crowd attending Comdex – she can’t resist turning over a few stones. When a former flame, Irv Gittings, is one of the snakes she uncovers, Lucky is certain this was no Sin City suicide.
Lucky must control this rapid-fire onslaught of events, solve the crime, and struggle to keep her life and her libido from spinning out of control – especially when she meets her fellow investigator, a shockingly handsome, charismatically charming Texan named Paxton Dane.
Could be fun for some, not for me. I gave this review 3 stars to be fair, because after about ten pages I realized this book was not intended for me. This book was entirely too unrealistic for me to enjoy. The plot is the standard “generally unassuming person setting out to solve the murder of a friend” story thats been recycled thousands of times in movies, tv, and books, what drew me in was Vegas, thats what I thought would set the book apart. But even the Vegas aspect was cheesy. Apparently the author resides in Vegas, but…
Wanna Get Dumber? Hack Writing 101 If I were to teach a college course on hack writing, this would be example number 1. How this trite, uninspired yawner ever got published, much less garnered 5 star reviews, is beyond me. I doubt that it would have if the author weren’t married to you know who.Â
Too much romance; too many cliches I bought it on Marilyn Stasio’s recommendation, being like her, a fan of comic crime. It started off well,in the inner workings of a gigantic Las Vegas hotel casino. I thought at first I had found a new Elmore Leonard or Janet Evanovich or Carl Hiaasen, But then it veered off in direction that were less interesting to me although they might appeal to lovers of glitzy romance and mild porn. Lucky, the Amazonian assistant manager in charge of customer relations, has a steamy affair with a cross…