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Revenge of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #3)

by Lisa Lutz (Goodreads Author)

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YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS COMPLICATED
Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch -- in court-ordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject.

As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a "friend" looking for a priva

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Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch -- in court-ordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject.

As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a "friend" looking for a private eye, Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that the case -- a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed -- will be short and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself with more questions than hard evidence.

Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy's brother, David, the family's most upright member, has adopted an uncharacteristically unkempt appearance and attitude toward work, life, and Izzy. And their wayward youngest sister, Rae, a historic academic underachiever, aces the PSATs and subsequently offends her study partner and object of obsession, Detective Henry Stone, to the point of excommunication. The only unsurprising behavior comes from her parents, whose visits to Milo's bar amount to thinly veiled surveillance and artful attempts (read: blackmail) at getting Izzy to return to the Spellman Inc. fold.

As the case of the wayward wife continues to vex her, Izzy's personal life -- and mental health -- seem to be disintegrating. Facing a housing crisis, she can't sleep, she can't remember where she parked her car, and, despite her shrinks' persistence, she can't seem to break through in her appointments. She certainly can't explain why she forgets dates with her lawyer's grandson, or fails to interpret the come-ons issued in an Irish brogue by Milo's new bartender. Nor can she explain exactly how she feels about Detective Henry Stone and his plans to move in with his new Assistant DA girlfriend...

Filled with the signature side-splitting Spellman antics, Revenge of the Spellmans is an ingenious, hilarious, and disarmingly tender installment in the Spellman series.

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Published March 10th 2009 by Simon & Schuster

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Nov 13, 2009 Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, spellmans, san_francisco, authors_i_have_met, arcs, signed_editions

Court ordered therapy is the least of Isabel's worries in this third installment in the Spellman saga. Having a car that keeps going MIA, a secret home as well as the looming decision of what to do with her life all compound to make Izzy's life very busy. Isabel has left her job at Spellman Investigations only to have Milo, her current employer and owner of The Philosopher's Club, attempt to force her back into what she's good at by offering her a case and then promptly firing her so that she'll...more Court ordered therapy is the least of Isabel's worries in this third installment in the Spellman saga. Having a car that keeps going MIA, a secret home as well as the looming decision of what to do with her life all compound to make Izzy's life very busy. Isabel has left her job at Spellman Investigations only to have Milo, her current employer and owner of The Philosopher's Club, attempt to force her back into what she's good at by offering her a case and then promptly firing her so that she'll make the right choice and go back to her parents. But Izzy isn't ready to make up her mind as to the future of Spellman Investigations until after she's spent some time rearanging David's liquor cabinet and searching his house while he's supposedly in Italy, giving her free reign... well there was a list of rules, but Izzy's working on breaking every one of them. Also Henry and Rae are not talking. Henry has gotten himself a sweetly neurotic girlfriend, Maggie, who Rae has made it known she will not like... she changed Henry's locks on her. Of course Maggie and Rae becoming best friends might even be worse then them at loggerheads. But that is nothing compared to Rae being accused of cheating on the PSATs.

Meanwhile, Izzy, sick of living in a shit hole in the Tenderloin, upon finding that David has a fully furnished apartment in his basement, promptly moves in, without David's knowledge. This ill advised, yet economically viable due to her lack of employment, scheme brings on a whole new plethora of problems. Mainly she's blackmailed. But not in the way you would think. It's more of a cultural blackmailing involving trips to the zoo, which apparently is not a legitimate replacement for SFMOMA according to the blackmailer, whomever he or she is. Also David is acting strange on his return and is also surprisingly not at work, a strange thing for a workaholic to do... and inconvenient for the person secretly squatting in his basement. But while all these people are moving on and making something of their futures, Milo selling the bar, Morty moving to Florida, Henry getting a girl, Isabel is not growing up. She's reverting to her old habits of evasion and subterfuge, which she won't even discuss with her therapist. Lacking sleep and clear conclusions she decides that her one case will decide her fate. If she can do this the right way, the way a professional would, and not resort to her baser tactics... then maybe this is the career for her... but what happens when there's old family feuds with dubious PIs, bribery by political consulates and the ever looming deadline as to what will become of the family business? And where did she leave her car!?!

If I liked them less, perhaps I could talk about them more. But the Spellmans are just my favorite fictional family. All the snooping, spying and double dealing... plus don't forget the negotiations! I know that they're a complete train wreck but can I help it that I wish I knew them... it's not like I have anything to hide, so I think we could get along, once they finished fishing and I provided them with my social security number. Again I feel that I relate a bit to closely to Isabel's tendency to do whatever it takes, sleep be damned, to get what she's after. If only she'd apply these techniques to Henry Stone... or at least listen to Morty. I believe this book also perfectly caputres the feeling of those in their early 30s, the ones who aren't sure where they're life is going or what they're doing... not that this is similar to me... But Isabel is doing what she's always done and everyone else is changing. By the end, the fact that she's actually able to come to a clear decision of what her near future holds shows that Isabel is capable of change as well, even if it isn't so radical as those around her... Also I really hope we get more books, I know there's the forth, but I was hoping for a fifth, she did mention a fifth in the distant future no matter what The Spellmans Strike Again says in it's blurb... personally I think, seeing as she's using the Pink Panther films as a naming convention, we should have at least two more, there's still The Return of the Pink Panther and Trail of the Pink Panther. And while these are my two least favorite Panther films, mainly because unused clips formed into a film and recasting David Niven was stupid, I still think they'd make great Spellman book titles!

First Read: December 26th, 2008

In this third installment of the Spellman clan, Izzy has to decided if she's going to go back to being a PI all while secretly living in her brother's basement. Its time for Izzy to grow up because everyone around her is, no matter how much she disapproves. This is another fun romp, with Izzy being just as neurotic as I love her to be, even if she's in therapy this time around. I'm glad there was development in the Henry Stone department, even if it's not fully where I think it should be...yet. The investigation of Ernie's wife was a little easy to solve, there was a small twist I didn't get, but I had it solved almost immediately (which I won't spoil for people even if they beg me!) Also while Rae is still as important as ever, I somehow felt she was underused...The only sadness I have is that now the book is over I have to wait a long time for another one...if only Lisa Lutz could write faster!
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Apr 07, 2009 Lisa Vegan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those who enjoy humorous mysteries, where the humor is more important than the mystery

Shelves: mystery, reviewed, fiction, novel, san-francisco, gr-author, humor

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. What a wonderful romp it is. I found it to be a great mood elevator. I’ve never read any books quite like Lisa Lutz’s; they’re unique.

Oh, how I adore this family. Oh, how Lisa Lutz makes me laugh. I’ve laughed out loud too many times to count while reading this book and also while reading the previous two in the series: The Spellman Files (book 1) and Curse of the Spellmans (book 2) and this third book really deepened the series and was just as hilarious.

I love Iz...more

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Mar 30, 2009 Jan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Lisa Lutz makes me laugh. Out loud. She is one of the most clever writers I know of, and her characters, who are part of a crazy family who are all part of their own private investigator business, are so much fun! But it's her copious footnotes that are truly hysterical! I'd recommend this series of books (the first two are now out in paperback) to anyone who could use a good laugh!

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Feb 24, 2009 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Dec 09, 2009 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery-suspense-thriller, read-in-2009

These books are a hoot. This is the third book in the Spellman Files and continues the saga of a dysfunctional family of private investigators. I enjoyed every page and didn't want to put it down. I like how Lutz tells her stories, the books are in an interesting format... I love how its like we're reading a case file.

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Apr 04, 2009 Bill rated it 3 of 5 stars

This third in the Spellman series made me laugh at times, and the many plot lines kept me interested throughout, but it comes nowhere near the hilarity of the first book, The Spellman Files. One thing that annoys me a bit about the 2 subsequent books is the constant references to the preceding books via footnotes (e.g. see previous document, The Spellman Files, now available in paperback.) Shameless marketing. Overall, though, as I said before, the plot still holds up and the characters are all...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Marlyn rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Apr 10, 2009 Leslie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Somewhere, Janet Evanovich is planning a hit on Lisa Lutz. The Spellman series just gets better, with some expected and unexpected character developments. Funny enough to make you snort your bourbon and Diet Coke out your nose, the Spellman books keep you intrigued equally with the "mysteries" and her characters. Can't wait for a fourth - here's hoping the movie in development doesn't spoil the books for new fans.

Read-alikes would be the aforementioned Evanovich, perhaps Diane Mott Davidson (at...more

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Mar 19, 2009 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

The writings of Ms Lutz (am I allowed to use Ms) is like a scab you keep picking at - I don't really like the the wrilting but I can not put her books down. The characters are delightfully bizarre except for Isabel that I just want to slap and say as one of the minor characters did, "Izzy, you have to grow up sometime."

The plots and sub-plots verge on drug induced. The 1000's footnotes drive drive me crazy but I would not miss reading one.

The family life depicted in the story cause me to offer...more

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Apr 08, 2009 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars

Can I tell you how much I adore this series??? I want to be Isabel Spellman, crappy life and all. She's smart, screwed up, and entirely convincing as a character. While I still think that Curse of the Spellmans is my favorite of the series so far, this one was on par with the first book. Suggested for anyone who loves their mystery with a high snark level. The new Irish Bartender doesn't hurt either...

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Mar 31, 2009 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery-california, mystery-charm, mystery-humor

Isabelle Spellman has problems--she hates her apartment, her boss is cutting her bar-tending hours, and her know-no-boundaries parents insist that she come back to work for the family private investigation business. On top of that, she's still involved in court-ordered therapy, the man she thinks she loves has a new girlfriend who isn't Izzy, and she's starting to obsess about the little investigative chore she's taken to oblige her boss's friend. Another enjoyable read fro Lutz.

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Mar 23, 2009 Jackie rated it 3 of 5 stars

The always zany Spellman family are up to shenanigans again. Izzy is secretly living in her brother's basement and deciding if she should go back in to the family business. And what's up with her brother anyway? He was gone for weeks and now doesn't seem to have a job.
Little sister Rae is driving her friend Henry (45 year old man-really better suited for Izzy) crazy with her interference. Lots of witty banter but the footnotes are getting a little annoying and the plot became confusing at the en...more

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Mar 31, 2009 Bayneeta rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series

Shelves: fiction, mystery

Okay, the plot is thin, but the smart-talking Izzy and her eccentric family of private eyes continue to appeal to me. A light, fun read. The footnotes (particularly the ones hyping her earlier books) started to wear a little thin. I suggest reading them in order starting with The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans .

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Mar 25, 2009 Jon rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love these Spellman books...they're quickly paced, they're witty, they have creative plot structures and they are fiction that employ footnotes. What's not to love? They're also a series of books that keeps improving with each new entry. I always look forward to the next installment.

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Apr 03, 2009 Barbara Kramer rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you are in the mood for light reading, pick this one up. In the vein of Janet Evanovich. The Spellman series is good for a quiet afternoon where you just want to escape.

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Jul 12, 2012 Stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, chicklit

3.5 stars

This review originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com.

A couple of years ago, at a wedding (a crazy wedding at that), I was chatting to a couple of Aussies who had relocated to San Francisco in order to seek investment for their tech start-up. Or, more accurately, they’d relocated near San Francisco, because apparently the rent there is so high that it’s liable to give you a nose bleed. And I thought Melbourne was bad.

Anyway, having heard this little anecdote, I wasn’t surprise...more

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Nov 28, 2011 Brenda Mengeling rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 48, mysteries

The third installment in The Spellmans series is the best so far. Isabel, in having to do some growing up, has become a more complex character, primarily be becoming a little less self-involved, but she is still hilarious, and she will never, thank heaven, be completely reformed. Her older, perfect, lawyer brother is perhaps even becoming more like Isabel.

The segments of Isabel with her court appointed therapists are very funny and good lessons in how to evade meaningful answers to difficult qu...more

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Nov 05, 2011 John rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, mystery

If there were a magic "2.5" button, I'd use it for this one, but after due consideration, I'll err on the side of generosity.

The audio narration affected my impression of the book to a significant extent; but first, I'll go into the story itself - weak, but served as a place holder for the next one. This is a series where one must read the books in order, otherwise the characters would be nearly impossible to follow. Izzy, the first-person narrator of the series, came across here as not just qu...more If there were a magic "2.5" button, I'd use it for this one, but after due consideration, I'll err on the side of generosity.

The audio narration affected my impression of the book to a significant extent; but first, I'll go into the story itself - weak, but served as a place holder for the next one. This is a series where one must read the books in order, otherwise the characters would be nearly impossible to follow. Izzy, the first-person narrator of the series, came across here as not just quirky, but annoyingly so - attributing that to the dysfunction in which she was raised only goes so far. Her (much younger) sister Rae came off as a brat. At one point Izzy insists on pressing auto theft charges against Rae for taking her car without permission, and when her folks try to get her to drop them as a "misunderstanding", Izzy replies in great frustration, "But ... there are never any consequences for anything she does!" At that point I added an "Amen!" of my own. There's a subplot about Rae and the PSAT test, later extended to her schoolwork and intelligence in general, which I could've done without. Her parents have let her get out of control, and then they're standing around moaning "What happened?" As for Henry Stone ... yes, I know there are metrosexuals out there, but as someone in a political forum wrote recently of Rick Perry: "My gaydar only goes to 10, but still he managed elebenty gazillion (in that NH speech)." Morty I'll get to in the audio discussion in a second, but the rest of the cast were pretty much stock; they were just ... there. The "secret" and blackmailing ended up a rather lame affair, but the Spellmans would shrivel up and die without that kind of drama in their lives.

I really liked Cristina Moore as the voice of Izzy in the first two unabridged versions, but Audible only offered Ari Graynor (who had read the abridged editions for those) as a choice for this title. I knew right away I did not care for her when I heard almost every single "he said" and "she said" - the woman is terrible with dialogue. Moreover, she made Izzy sound more like a suburban teenager, only a couple of years older than 16 y/o Rae, rather than a 31 y/o native San Franciscan. The most painful part was listening to her do Izzy's 84 y/o lawyer, and friend, Morty. She laid on the New York Jewish accent so thick, he sounded like a parody of a stereotype of a Borscht Belt comedian - ugh! I stuck with the audio as I'd paid for it, or I would've gotten the print book from the library.

So ... would I recommend the book (to Spellman fans)? Yes, as it introduces new characters, and Izzy does actually learn from her 20 mandated therapy sessions, though mostly in hindsight. I do not, however, recommend the audio at all. Just read it!

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Oct 13, 2011 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars

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One of the reasons I enjoy Goodreads’ First Reads program is that I can enter contests to win books I normally wouldn’t pick up, thus discovering new authors in different genres. Sometimes this backfires (see my review of The Medusa Amulet), but since I spent last night laughing like a hyena and scaring the dog, I think we can safely say my plan worked out great with Lisa Lutz’s Revenge of the Spellmans. This book was so funny in pl...more

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Aug 25, 2011 Lighthearted rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: humorous-fiction, mystery

Therapy is off to a rough start for San Francisco P.I. Izzy Spellman: she doesn’t want to talk about her plans for the future, her current living arrangements, the fact that someone is blackmailing her, or the fact that the man she loves is getting serious with another woman. Truth be told, Izzy doesn’t want to talk to a therapist at all but she doesn’t have a choice: the therapy sessions are court-mandated.

Izzy may not want to talk but she still has questions. Her brother David is acting extrem...more

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Feb 13, 2011 Paul Pessolano rated it 4 of 5 stars

Isabel Spellman is back and better than ever. For those of you who have not heard of the Spellmans, they are a family of private investigators. They are not your normal PI's in that they spend more time spying on each other than they do other people.

This is the third in a series, the first book, or document as Lisa Lutz perfers, was "The Spellman Files", and the second was "The Curse of the Spellmans". The books do not have to be read in order, but would certainly would be more enjoyable if read...more

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Oct 15, 2010 Shaun rated it 3 of 5 stars

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By: - Lisa Lutz
This book has a mixed genre of Adult mystery, with a crossover appeal for teens.
Isabel Spellman quit the family business, she couldn’t let go of a wrong investigation a few months ago and got into a court ordered therapy and she started questioning her own future. Her mother and father keep trying to convince her to return to the family business. She has kept her private investigator’s license but is bartending part time instead. She works at the bar which...more Revenge of the Spellman’s
By: - Lisa Lutz
This book has a mixed genre of Adult mystery, with a crossover appeal for teens.
Isabel Spellman quit the family business, she couldn’t let go of a wrong investigation a few months ago and got into a court ordered therapy and she started questioning her own future. Her mother and father keep trying to convince her to return to the family business. She has kept her private investigator’s license but is bartending part time instead. She works at the bar which her friend Milo (Morty) owns. Milo knows she should really be back at what she does best that is a private detective.
Milo has a friend who believes his wife is cheating on him. Milo ask Izzy(Isabel) to help his friend out. She takes on the case as a consultant. In the meantime Isabel finds a new place to stay, but can’t tell anyone that she has moved. Her family is a family of detectives, but seem to be better at spying at each other in the family. She doesn’t want them to know where she is staying.
Her sister Rae Spellman is getting older and causing more trouble. She appears to have cheated on the PSAT test. She won’t leave their police detective friend Henry alone and becomes with friends with his new girlfriend. Isabel’s brother David Spellman is also acting strange, disappearing for a few weeks. When he returns, Izzy doesn’t understand what he is doing. He isn’t going back to work and is hanging around the house more than often.
The Spellman’s are a mixed up loving family. The want the best for each other, but spy on each other to so call help them do better in life. Secrets are hard to keep in their family. The job which Izzy takes to help Milo’s friend gives her another perspective on families. She’s not sure what is going on with Milo’s friend’s wife, but she’s is sure that the women is not cheating.
I think the real key to this book “The Revenge of the Spellman’s” in addition to the loads of humour, is that the characters are delightful. I mostly enjoyed the relationship between Isabel and her eighty four year old friend Morty, as well as the jealously filled friendship between perfectionist cop Henry and Isabel’s teenage sister Rae.
Lisa Lutz has maintained the story telling style she had established in her earlier Spellman series books. The book stays funny throughout and has proper twists and keeps the reader like me fully engaged in the book through all the three hundred and eighty four pages. The Revenge of the Spellman’s is a light book with a few diversions in the plot and it features the life of private detectives trying to lead a normal life.

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Sep 12, 2009 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am totally in love with this series of books. The first one I picked up on a whim at the library, the second one I sought out, and I couldn't wait to read this one. The books are supposed to be mysteries, but any mystery involved is secondary to the mystery of how this family continues to function as a unit. The Spellman's operate a investigation firm, Spellman, Inc., and they enlist every possible family member into the firm. Isabel, who tells the stories, began to work and receive a paycheck...more

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Sep 07, 2009 Christy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Private investigator Isabel Spellman quit her job with her family’s detective business and is working part-time as a bartender at her friend Milo’s bar while trying to decide what to do next. She’s also been through one block of court-ordered therapy and has been passed by that therapist on to another. Milo persuades Isabel to take on a relatively simple case for one of his friends, whose wife is acting mysterious and bringing home expensive items. Meanwhile, Isabel’s brother David returns from...more

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Aug 29, 2009 Agathafrye rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like Stephanie Plum

Recommended to Agathafrye by: Pat

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The Spellman family runs a detective agency. Son David got out while young and is a lawyer, daughter Izzy is rebelling against her true calling and tending bar while unsuccessfully attempting to take a break from investigations and family drama. Youngest daughter Rae has moved into her teen years, and her cute and precocious childhood personality has now become annoying and manipulative. This family actually reminds me a little of my own, but with more spying and hiding. Apparently this is the t...more

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Jun 12, 2009 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: domestic, humor, fiction

In San Francisco the court orders out of control private investigator Isabel "Izzy" Spellman to attend therapy sessions; she spends her meetings tap dancing around the psychologist. Meanwhile her parents plead with their middle child to return to the family private investigative firm; they warn her that without her they will probably sell their company. Izzy considers their blackmail while hiding from them and others in her older brother David's apartment at the time he has simply vanished from...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Scott rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-books, first-half-of-2009, older-teens, summer-reading-2009

This is the third book by Lisa Lutz in the Spellman Mysteries. And it isn't the best, see Curse of the Spellmans for that. Of course, the "mysteries" in the other two are never quite as suspensful or interesting as in this one. This one actually has a pretty good mystery (SPOILER) Why is the wife keeping her marriage, or lack thereof, a secret from her husband? Dun Dun Dun. Ok, that isn't a huge spoiler.

The fault I have with this book, is it just isn't as quirky or hilarious as the previous vol...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Ann Rufo rated it 3 of 5 stars

The third in the Spellman series, I have read all three books and looked forward to both sequels. They are, to be honest, good old-fashioned mindless entertainment, which when one is trying to plow through the Great Books list and is permanently stuck in Ancient Greek is a welcome respite. The main character, Isabelle, is a sharp, sarcastic anti-heroine who says all the things to her smothering, overbearing family I wish I could say to mine. Their interplay is eccentric enough to be hysterical a...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Jennifer Rayment rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Good Stuff

* Once again Lutz has written a hilarious tale of the wacky Isabelle Spellman and her truly unique (read dysfunctional) family
* Some sweet and sad moments which are nicely written (and not schmaltzy)
* Third book in a series and I still enjoy this twisted family and their unusual capers
* Nice slow character development - realistic as in people just don't change their ways, even though they really should (in other words not all neat and tidy)
* Laugh out loud dialogue and aside...more

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Mar 24, 2009 Sara Carter rated it 5 of 5 stars

The antics of the Spellmans are still antic but this book has a more serious tone. The humor drew me in but its Isabel's struggle to be true to herself that stays with me.

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Lisa Lutz grew up in Southern California. After graduating high school, she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, University of Leeds in England and San Francisco State University, although she still does not have a bachelor's degree.

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“ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday.

DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why?

ISABEL: I was depressed.

DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.” — 18 people liked it

“The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I signed the document, took the check, and had David draft another document forbidding all Spellmans to practice any form of blackmail. David tried to explain to me that a contract in which you promise not to break the law is ultimately redundant, but I didn't care.” — 7 people liked it

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Revenge of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #3)

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