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Product Details:
Author:
MaryJanice Davidson
Mass Market Paperback:
224 pages
Publisher:
Brava
Publication Date:
May 01, 2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
0758208057
Package Length:
7.0 inches
Package Width:
4.2 inches
Package Height:
1.1 inches
Package Weight:
0.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
based on 29 reviews
Description:
They Want Her To Save The World. As If.
One minute I'm out with my sorority sisters; the next there's a terrible accident (beyond my friend Stacey's outfit) and I'm waking up in some weird clinic transformed into a human cyborg--with a mission: to stop evil and stuff. Uh, hello? I've got a beauty salon to run.
Granted, it is cool to run faster than a Ford Mustang when I need to, even if it's totally hard on my shoes. But then I have to bring in another human cyborg on the run? One who happens to be male, totally gorgeous, smart, funny--and, um, his "enhancements"?--as if!
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4.5 starsDec 08, 2008 Contemporary romance is what it says on the spine, but it's more chick lit/paranormal.
The heroine is in an accident and would have died, except she's picked up by a shadowy government agency and transformed into the Bionic Woman.
There are actually two romances in the book, but they take a back seat to the humor and action.
It's a fun, fast, exciting read.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Ridiculous premise, but still fun to read!Jun 23, 2008 Part romance, part science fiction, part mystery and loaded with silly humor Hello, Gorgeous! is the story of twenty-four year old former sorority sister, party girl, hairdresser Caitlyn James who is transformed into a government agent cyborg after dying in a car accident. Caitlyn keeps her personality - and her fashion sense - but due to her infusion of "nanobytes" she gains superhuman strength, speed, and memory recall. The downside is that she has no desire to work as a secret assassin for The Boss, who is responsible for saving her life.
Wanting only to highlight her hair - and possibly beat up her supervisor - Caitlyn is reluctantly persuaded to use her talents to track down a serial killer but her main motivation to join the hunt comes from meeting Dimitri Novakov - a handsome rogue agent with a few secrets of his own. He's everything Caitlyn could want in a boyfriend, but he also might be the killer she's after.
MaryJanice Davidson crafts a delightful, fun adventure in this lighthearted and sexy novel. Similar to Davidson's Alaskan Royal Family series, the characters are witty and likable. Though the cyborg plot is certainly ridiculous, the unbelievability factor only adds to its humorous charm as a fast-paced summer read.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Profanity mars this cross between Bionic Woman and La Femme NikitaMar 07, 2008 Hair salon owner Caitlin dies in a car accident and wakes up to discover that she has been given superhero powers courtesy of a government project just like the Bionic Woman. The project head, a man known as The Boss, forces Caitlin to work for them on miscellaneous missions like Nikita, but with no apparent training whatsoever. Unlike Jamie Sommers or Nikita, however, Caitlin will hardly rise to the occasion. She is no more than an inarticulate, superficial boozehound looking for Prince Charming, albeit one who can run faster and punch harder than your average trailer trash bimbo.
The humor is pathetic and the plotting and conflict are superficial at best. During the course of one mission, the big play by the boss is pretending to send Caitlin to Paris, France only to reveal that.... oh, I cracking up with unfettered laughter here... she's only going to Paris, Texas. Har. De. Har. Har. During the course of this mission she encounters Dimitri, a fellow cyberborg who is also (to fulfill a girl's princess fantasies) a Lithuanian duke with his own castle! Be still my heart! Meanwhile, The Boss crashed a party and meets Caitlin's BFF Stacey and they promptly fall in implausible love, which makes Caitlin want to kill someone, preferably The Boss. She spends a lot of time stomping around complaining about The Boss and Stacey and generally acting like a two year old in the midst of a tantrum.
This lightweight and derivative contribution to the superspy chick subgenre might have been mildly entertaining. Might have been. If, that is, the author had seen fit to create even one real female character with any depth, intelligence or wit. Instead, she gives us cartoon drawings for characters and poorly-executed missions. The only originality given the reader here is the sheer number of times the f-bomb can be dropped per chick-lit page. Of course, the f-bomb is merely one among many many many other curse words planted throughout the book like so much cow manure in a cornfield. The profanity-laden dialogue of both Caitlin and her BFF Stacey is symptomatic of their apparent inability to have an articulate conversation with anyone. Both of them appear to be no more or less than self-absorbed, alcoholic bimbos. If I wanted to experience the joys of such entertainment, I could tune in to the next episode of COPS.
I gave this book 2 stars only because I reserve one star for books I loathe and despise.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
FantasticJan 18, 2008 As always, MaryJanice Davidson provides a strong, independant female character with tons of funny wit and amazing talent, plus some steamy scenes as well! Complete with a goregous, inherently masculine male lead character and a great plot, Davidson gives a great show and a wonderful time!
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
struck me funny!Aug 20, 2007 What would you do if you are out for a good time with friends, and then wake up some time later, and you are that lady from the bionic woman? This is cool premise and it struck me as just so funny. She is just like Lindsay Wagner ( I think her name was - only saw them in reruns). Sometimes it was silly, but it still had me laughing. And a good laugh is always worth the ticket. 4 stars for originality, 1 one star for fun.
Not sure how it will hold up as a series, but willing to go another book or two to see.
based on 29 reviews
