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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312940980
ISBN number: 031294098X
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: June 26, 2007
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 61803
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You’re invited to spend the weekend with three extraordinary sisters…
When she was sixteen, Dee Fortune kidnapped her two younger sisters and ran from danger. Now twenty-nine, she’s still trying to control her shape-shifting power—no easy task when Danny James shows up one Saturday morning with his deadly smile and dangerous questions about the past.
Lizzie is determined to save her family from financial ruin by turning straw into gold; now if she could only stop turning forks into bunnies. Then Elric, a sorcerer, appears one Friday—annoyed with the chaos Lizzie is creating in the universe and in his heart. . . .
The youngest Miss Fortune, Mare, towers above her sisters but her telekinetic power is dwarfed by their gifts. She spends her days at Value Video!! and her nights contemplating the futility of her existence. But then a gorgeous Value Video!! VP and Mare’s long lost love turn up. . .and they all turn up the heat on a weekend that no Fortune will soon forget!
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The book is well written. Our three heroines and their men are all attractive and distinctive, with quirky personalities. The dialogue is witty. The problem here is the plot. Aunt Xan, an evil witch if there ever was one, is intent on stealing Dee, Lizzie and Mare's powers, which will renew her own and keep her young. However, they are all part of a witchly society, which presumably frowns on such things. Xan had similarly stolen the powers (and killed) the sisters' parents, and she does the same to a former paramour who she's grown tired of. Does no other witch suspect? And why is she so intent on stealing from her nieces? There are plenty of other witches closer to hand. Also, it's way too easy for her. By the book's end, the sisters are aware of the plot and have developed strong powers of their own, yet somehow Xan is able to suck them right up. In particular, Elric, Lizzie's chosen love, is one of the most powerful wizards in existence. Why doesn't he put a stop to this? In the end, this book is amusing but it doesn't make much sense.
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Ok, It's not as if I am going to suggest that this rivals Vonnegut or Shakespeare but I LOVE this book. I've read it probably 7 times. I think the characters are easy to identify with and real enough that it doesn't feel like total fantasy. Somehow the magic doesn't feel forced in this.
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These 3 authors wrote a novel with 4 romance stories, 5 cases of female empowerment, and almost too many happy ending to count. What's more, the stories all blend together seamlessly, all of the characters shine, and when you are done reading you will find yourself smiling for days afterward.
I sincerely hope these three ladies collaborate again - and soon!
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How on earth could I resist this novel (it's not an anthology!) when two of the collaborators are favorite authors? And even if they hadn't been, their joint blog about the book would have convinced me.
Let me repeat: this is a novel, not an anthology. It's one story, written by three authors. Three heroines, three heroes, one villain.
The three Fortune sisters have magical gifts, but it hasn't made their lives easier. Ever since the death of their parents, they've only had each other, and they never stay in one place for very long because their aunt Xantippe keeps catching up with them.
And why not? It's not like Dee, Lizzie, and Mare are using their powers. Heck, those powers are making them miserable. If Xan takes those powers, she'd be doing them a favor, really. And if doing so keeps her young and beautiful, well, she deserves to be paid for that favor, right?
So Xan has cast a spell to send her nieces their true loves, giving them a reason to give up their powers. For Dee, there's Danny, who's writing a book about their parents; sorcerer Elric is for Lizzie; and for Mare, there's Jude, a VP at Value Video! where she works, who's offering her a dream job. Except that Mare's ex, Crash, shows up too.
The sisters are all individuals, each with her own niche in the family, and their powers reflect their personalities, or vice versa. The heroes likewise are perfect for each of them. And it's loads of fun watching how Xan's plan backfires when finding true love doesn't make her nieces want to surrender their powers.
Xan is a great villain, too, because she's just so reasonable. She's not evil, she just sticks up for herself, and everything would be just fine if people would only listen to her. And when things go wrong, it's not her fault. Much fun. It's really a shame this isn't the start of a series, because I'd love to see more of Xan.
As with the Crusie/Mayer partnership, each author wrote the scenes that are in her character's POV: Dreyer writing Dee, Stuart writing Lizzie, and Crusie writing Mare and Xan. Since the author shifts coincide with POV shifts, the collaboration was very smooth, and without the three names on the cover, I wouldn't have been able to tell it wasn't written by a single author.
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I finally took this book off the TBR pile thinking that a Crusie book could not be bad. I was mistaken.
The previous reviewer who said that these three writers did not have compatible styles was absolutely correct. I did not care about any of the characters, including the "love of their lives" men. I never really got why Xan killed the parents. To take their powers? Then why not kill the kids right away? Why let them live for years when she seemed to be able to locate other people?
The last 100 pages of the book were just sex and pleas not to move to foreign locales.
This is the worst book I have read all year. I only finished it so that I could get rid of it.
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