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36th out of 102 books
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55 voters
Fat Assassins (Fat Adventure Series #1)
by
Marita Fowler (Goodreads Author)
Southern style sweet potatoes Shasta and Ulyssa have stuck together through thick and thin since their escape from third grade fat camp. But on one dark day, they both find themselves unemployed. A hazardous job hunt sees them turn down egg harvesting, drug dealing and phone sex before they settle for an exterminator job. Confusing mafia lingo leaves the girls thinking the...more
Paperback, 302 pages
Published
December 5th 2011
by Scuttlebutt Press
(first published December 3rd 2011)
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This was a terrific book about 2 women in small town West Virginia that accidentally get hired by the mafia to take care of a "problem." They have to figure out a way to fulfill their contract while avoiding rival assassins and various types of law enforcement.
The story is a lot of fun, and there are plenty of parts that are genuinely laugh out loud funny. The characters are lively and likable. Overall, it's just a very pleasurable read. It's also a very quick read. I really recommend this book....more
The story is a lot of fun, and there are plenty of parts that are genuinely laugh out loud funny. The characters are lively and likable. Overall, it's just a very pleasurable read. It's also a very quick read. I really recommend this book....more
I was raised in a small town in North Carolina, which despite having the word “North” in the title is very much part of the south. Perhaps it is my fondness for all things southern that led me to be completely in love with this book after having read only about 6 pages. Shasta and Ulyssa are two girls that I swear I must have met sometime in my life. They won me over with their language and the fact that they drink Michelob Light just like a southern girl should!
The story has these two ladies lo...more
The story has these two ladies lo...more
I really wanted to like this book. There were a few spelling errors, but sadly that's not unusual these days. Mostly though, the writing style reminded me of how I used to write as a teenager. Sometimes the tense slips into the present, and things happen that seem to make sense to the characters but not to me. For instance, a young man tries to drug his ex girlfriend's drink and it's not considered creepy, but almost endearing. Then his ex girlfriend actually goes after him with a knife, not eve...more
Silly, outrageous, laugh out loud, redneck through and through...I haven't laughed this much with any book I've ever read! It's not an intellectual book. It's for anyone that wants to just be entertained! If you don't like silly, funny, slapstick stories, this isn't the book for you. The two main characters, Shasta and Ulyssa, go from one crazy situation to another through no fault of their own and live to tell about it! I can't wait until the author writes the next book (Fat Bodyguards) with th...more
Fat Assassins had the makings of a awesomely funny book form beginning to end! Marita Fowler does a great job of making Ulyssa and Shasta to lovable characters who find them self involved in the crime solving business with the mob to make some ends meet. Marita Fowler even makes the bad guys funny and lovable!
The small town setting with all the local color that could possible come with was perfect!
Hats off to the author and I can't wait to read the next book!
It's a re-readable book and a book t...more
The small town setting with all the local color that could possible come with was perfect!
Hats off to the author and I can't wait to read the next book!
It's a re-readable book and a book t...more
During the first few pages, I thought I wouldn't be able to get into this book, it seemed a bit...red neck.
I then realised it was very definately red neck, and also a comical toungue-in-cheek adventure, which I got to grips with, and found I couldn't put down. It's one of the best humorous books I've ever read.
It's poorly edited, with lots of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but in the end the characters won me over. It's silly, and entertaining, and it made me laugh out loud. A great...more
I then realised it was very definately red neck, and also a comical toungue-in-cheek adventure, which I got to grips with, and found I couldn't put down. It's one of the best humorous books I've ever read.
It's poorly edited, with lots of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but in the end the characters won me over. It's silly, and entertaining, and it made me laugh out loud. A great...more
I rounded this up to a 3 star because it's definitely personal preference for me. I could not resist the title on this one and it sounded like fun, which it is but not quite my kind of fun. It took a little too long to get started and I really wanted to like it more than I did.
I like more of an understated 'inadvertently' funny type of humor and this felt somewhat reminiscent of the "Three Stooges" category of slapstick humor to me.
I like more of an understated 'inadvertently' funny type of humor and this felt somewhat reminiscent of the "Three Stooges" category of slapstick humor to me.
I have to admit I am not a big reader of fiction. But, this book has changed my mind. Once, I started reading, it was hard to put it down ... what was going to happen next. Shasta & Ulysses are fabulous characters, and this was just plain fun to read. The intriguing ending has me anxiously waiting for the next book in the series - Fat Body Guards.
These girls aren't your normal everyday assassins. The author did an awesome job bringing the south out in this book. The humor and adventure created a good mix and the two heroins were very likable. At just over 300 pages the book was a quick read and I was hooked from the beginning to the end. Thanks for the invite to the book launch and I can't wait for book 2!
If you enjoy Evanovich, then you will love this book! Two girls down on their luck find themselves in some extremely hilarious situations. I laughed so hard in several places I had to physically close the book to catch my breathe. My family looked at my like I had finally lost my mind...now my husband is reading it, laughing hysterically.
Finally, we Fluffy Ladies have a pair of Heroines to relate with!! MUST READ!!!!
I Had SSSOooo Much fun reading this book! The Author was brilliant to send us on a comical Journey along with 2 Beautiful, thick, southern fried woman! Great job at keeping me in suspence and giggling! ! I CANT WAIT for FAT BODYGUARDS!!!!
I Had SSSOooo Much fun reading this book! The Author was brilliant to send us on a comical Journey along with 2 Beautiful, thick, southern fried woman! Great job at keeping me in suspence and giggling! ! I CANT WAIT for FAT BODYGUARDS!!!!
Parts of this book I liked and others I did not. It was VERY redneck, ad nauseum at times. There were many funny parts though. The story line of two girls getting mixed up with the mafia and being hired to kill someone when they think they are being hired as extermintaors is not really plausible. The banter was funny, laugh out loud at times.
The story was all over the place but had its good points. There were definitely some laugh out loud moments. There are noticeable grammatical errors and I'm no English teacher. I would sometimes have to read a sentence twice to figure out what the author was trying to say because of the errors.
Funny....funny.....funny. I would love to see this adapted to film and please let Melissa McCarthy play Shasta! That would be awesome. I'm going to have to read the next book too. It was that good. I looked forward to my "me" time so I could find out what these sassy southern girls where up to...lol.
Horrid; a typo, mispelling or grammatical error on almost every page of this ebook. The story might have been cute, light chick lit, but it was hard to get to it, through the appallingly bad editing. Or lack of editing. If the author was responsible for the errors, she should take a class or five in English. If not, she should refuse to deal with her editor ever again.
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OMG!
If you havent read this book yet, you dont know what your missing!
Its funny, its daring and my goodness ya'll, its got a golden cooeter CAT!!!!
If you like Stephanie Plum will LOVE LOVE LOVE this book.
I cant wait for
FAT BODYGUARDS!!!
If you havent read this book yet, you dont know what your missing!
Its funny, its daring and my goodness ya'll, its got a golden cooeter CAT!!!!
If you like Stephanie Plum will LOVE LOVE LOVE this book.
I cant wait for
FAT BODYGUARDS!!!
It was a fun read. Interesting storyline. The characters were relatable as well as the southern town. I thought some of my relatives could have been in there. But it was kind of long and drawn out. Otherwise its a good fun read.
Cute story about a couple of southern NOT belles ( read: white trash)who have some funny misadventures. I really liked it at first, but then it went on just a little too much. Parts were really quite funny!
This is a tongue-in-cheek fun read. Silly, silly, silly and just the job for chasing away the blues.
Loads of ridiculous characters who all have elements of people we really know.
Lots of things we really shouldn't joke about are given the works, but isn't that the point of humour.
The book reads a bit like a strip cartoon, and could almost run as a weekly chapter story in the media. The two central characters would make great fall girls for any number of humorous stories.
This isn't literature,...more
Loads of ridiculous characters who all have elements of people we really know.
Lots of things we really shouldn't joke about are given the works, but isn't that the point of humour.
The book reads a bit like a strip cartoon, and could almost run as a weekly chapter story in the media. The two central characters would make great fall girls for any number of humorous stories.
This isn't literature,...more
I absolutely love this book. Every paragraph sounds exactly like my hick town. The only negative so far is that I kept my hubby awake last night - laughing as I read.
One of the best books I've read in a long time!
One of the best books I've read in a long time!
Loved this book! It was Hilarious. Marita shows true talent in her characters. A fun, action packed sassy read. Can't wait for the next big adventure with Shasta and Ulyassa.
The phrase 'a hoot and a half' comes to mind. These ladies have a trail of blind chance and random destruction that puts Stephanie Plum to shame. I can't wait to see what happens to them next.
Funny book with fairly entertaining characters. There's quite a few of them so try to make sure you remember who's who and how each of them are related! The dynamic between the two 'heroines' of the book is interesting and with how many mochas they go through you'd think they'd be even fatter and even poorer.
There seemed to be quite a few errors (mostly typos), though only one passage was difficult to read. Overall funny and entertaining read - still can't believe all the things Shasta and Ulyss...more
There seemed to be quite a few errors (mostly typos), though only one passage was difficult to read. Overall funny and entertaining read - still can't believe all the things Shasta and Ulyss...more
Funny, couldn't stop reading it. You need a good laugh this is a book to read, can't wait for her new one to come out "Fat Bodyguards"
This book should come with Depends or a Poise pad. I laughed,I cried, I snorted, I peed a little. Shasta and Ulyssa are the love children of Stephanie Plum and Serge A. Storms with Carl Haiasen as a fairy god-parent. The book is available from the author via her website, but I think that you should go to your local book store and demand that they start carrying this book and the subsequent books. This is too good too keep from the rest of the world. Shasta and Ulyssa are too funny, too gusty, an...more
I loved it. There were actually parts where I laughed out loud, had to read over and laughed een harder. Great characters, and just enough description.
I can't wait for book#2
I can't wait for book#2
I loved this book! It is funny hilarious and I could see myself and my BFF's as the main characters!
I loved this book.... Made me laugh out loud several times. Marita Fowler needs a new editor, however. So many spelling errors!
Definitely a fun read! I think the reason I enjoyed this book so much, other than it was free, is because there really are characters like this down here in the south! :) The golden cootie cat!! LMAO
What a fun romp through West Virginia!
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Marita Fowler began her literary career writing a comedic action series, titled THE FAT ADVENTURE SERIES. She grew up in rural Tennessee and drew from her small town upbringing to craft FAT ASSASSINS and FAT BODYGUARDS. However, she has recently tapped into her darker muse and released the first book (titled ADDERWALD) in the ANAGENESIS SERIES - a steampunk, post-apocalyptic, zombie series.
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