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Dying for Siena
Dying For Siena By Elizabeth Jennings Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. That just about sums up talented mathematician Faith Murphy's life. After a disastrous one-night stand with hockey heartthrob Nick Rossi, she flees to a conference in Siena, Italy. She expected her Boss from Hell, Roland Kane, to be unbearable. She wasn't expecting him to be dead. A head injury has destroyed Nick Rossi's hockey career. Maybe if he hadn't been devastated and drunk, he wouldn't have seduced Faith Murphy. By the time he realizes she might be the woman of his dreams, she's run off to Siena. It's Palio season in Siena. The Palio, a no-holds-barred medieval horse race, has the whole city in a lather. Nick knows Siena like the back of his hand. He knows he can get Faith back if he follows her to Siena. But there's the little matter of suspicion of murder in the way… Cops don't have time for murder in Siena during Palio season. Police Commissario Dante Rossi finds it hard to focus on murder when there's a horse race to be won. But when his cousin Nick shows up in pursuit of a pretty American who's the prime suspect, all bets are off.
315 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 31, 2006
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August 10, 2008
This is an earlier work of Elizabeth Jennings, a.k.a. Lisa Marie Rice. I'm such a fan of all her other books, and thought I'd check this one out too. Unfortunately, this one does not quite live up to the standard set by her other works. It's a simple who-done-it with just a touch of romance, and no sex scenes to speak of. If this was a movie, the sex scenes would have all happened off camera.
The book mainly takes place in Siena, Italy, and the backdrop of a local annual horserace that's been going on for centuries, was not terribly exciting for me. The heroine, Faith, is this brilliant Mathematician attending a seminar in the town of Siena, where she stumbles upon the murder of her boss, Professor Kane. Kane is a despicable drunk, with NO redeeming qualities, and many, many people have a reason to want to kill him. But since Faith discovers the body, she becomes a prime suspect. Following her to Siena, is the long time object of her affections, and recent one-night-stand, ex-hockey star Nick Rossi. Nick just happens to be related to the police commisioner of Siena, Dante Rossi, who is so involved with the upcoming local horse race, he really doesn't want to be bothered with a murder case. There's lots of local flavor in this book, with many, many descriptions of the town of Siena, and lots of Italian words sprinkled throughout the book. If that's to your liking, then this is the book for you. After a while I found myself skipping over the descriptive passages of the town and its people and especially anything to do with the local horserace. I was interested in the who-done-it, which was fairly interesting, even though I figured it out pretty quickly. If the book just punched up the romance aspect a bit, I probably would have added another star, because the few scenes between the H/H showed much promise. This was not the worst book I've read, but I'd probably just describe it as no more than a pleasant read.
The book mainly takes place in Siena, Italy, and the backdrop of a local annual horserace that's been going on for centuries, was not terribly exciting for me. The heroine, Faith, is this brilliant Mathematician attending a seminar in the town of Siena, where she stumbles upon the murder of her boss, Professor Kane. Kane is a despicable drunk, with NO redeeming qualities, and many, many people have a reason to want to kill him. But since Faith discovers the body, she becomes a prime suspect. Following her to Siena, is the long time object of her affections, and recent one-night-stand, ex-hockey star Nick Rossi. Nick just happens to be related to the police commisioner of Siena, Dante Rossi, who is so involved with the upcoming local horse race, he really doesn't want to be bothered with a murder case. There's lots of local flavor in this book, with many, many descriptions of the town of Siena, and lots of Italian words sprinkled throughout the book. If that's to your liking, then this is the book for you. After a while I found myself skipping over the descriptive passages of the town and its people and especially anything to do with the local horserace. I was interested in the who-done-it, which was fairly interesting, even though I figured it out pretty quickly. If the book just punched up the romance aspect a bit, I probably would have added another star, because the few scenes between the H/H showed much promise. This was not the worst book I've read, but I'd probably just describe it as no more than a pleasant read.
September 21, 2009
Dying for Siena is a very enjoyable read but be warned. It has very little romance and the hero takes a back seat to his cousin in the narrative. The focus is solidly on Siena and the palio on 1 hand, and the murder mystery and suspects on the other. The romance between Faith and Nick feels almost like a tacked on afterthought, written to qualify this book as a romance rather than a mystery or travelogue. However this is a very nice book, and the author clearly loves and is knowledgable about this part of Italy. I appreciated it for what it was.
June 26, 2014
I've always been a fan of the author but maybe because it's one of her early books,this was a bit of a disappointment for me. I'm all for romantic suspense and its set in Italy! I like it when the authors description of a location makes you fall in love with the place. This book tried too hard imho. It raved on and on about Siena and the Palio for it seems like half the book and kept interrupting the pace of the romance and the mystery that it took second place.
July 23, 2014
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Resenha em português e inglês / Review in Portuguese and English
ARC recebido da autora para resenha honesta / ARC received from author to honest review.
Este livro foi previamente lançado com o título Dying for Siena e sob o nome de Elizabeth Jennings.
A história é uma comédia com uma ponta de suspense e algum romance.
Nossa heroína Faith Murphy, daí o nome do livro, é uma brilhante matemática, mas ela sofre com dificuldades de tratar com as pessoas e com os relacionamento sociais.
Nosso herói é um atleta meio cabeça oca e que além de tudo é um mulherengo.
A história começa com nossos heróis transando, ela esperando mais e ele está muito bêbado para lembrar do ocorrido. Ele sofreu uma concussão e acaba se embriagando e acorda desorientado e nem lembra com quem ele dormiu.
Ela fica mortificada e foge, pois descobre que ele iria se encontrar com outra mulher que não apareceu.
Faith é chamada às pressas para uma conferência na Itália e chegando lá se envolve no assassinato de um colega. Ela é realmente muito desajeitada e apesar de inteligente não consegue fazer as coisas muito bem e acaba sendo suspeita número um do crime.
A partir daí temos muita descrição de lugares e de uma corrida de cavalos chamada Palio.
Achei um pouco chato e confesso que pulei algumas descrições mais chatas.
A história prossegue e tem cenas hilárias onde os policiais aparecem e também da investigação policial.
Achei o primo italiano e a irmã do Herói personagens bem interessantes.
Mas eu prossegui com a leitura para descobrir afinal quem matou o cara, afinal eu estava curiosa sobre a trama e quem matou o cara.
Eu até nem me importei mais com o casal eu queria saber quem era o culpado do assassinato.
O herói não é nenhum macho alfa que estamos acostumadas encontrar nos livros da autora. Me acostumei com os homens da série Ghost Op.
Fiquei desapontada, mas no final a leitura foi boa.
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This book was previously released with the title Dying for Siena and under the name of Elizabeth Jennings.
The story is a comedy with a hint of suspense and some romance.
Our heroine Faith Murphy, hence the name of the book, is a brilliant mathematics, but she suffers from difficulties of dealing with people and with the social relationship.
Our hero is an athlete half empty head and that he's a womanizer.
The story begins with our heroes having sex, she's expecting more and he's too drunk to remember what happened. He suffered a concussion and ends up drunk and wakes up disoriented and don't even remember with who he slept with.
She is mortified and flees, because discovers that he was meeting with another woman who didn't show up.
Faith is called hastily to a Conference in Italy and getting there becomes involved in the murder of a colleague. She's really very clumsy and although smart can't do things very well and ends up being number one suspect of the crime.
From there we have a lot of description of places and a horse race called the Palio.
I found a bit annoying and I confess that I skipped some descriptions more boring.
The story continues and has hilarious scenes where the cops and also of the police investigation.
I thought the Italian cousin and Hero's sister very interesting characters.
But I continue reading to find out who killed the guy, anyway I was curious about the plot and who killed the guy.
I don't even care anymore with the couple I was wondering who was guilty of murder.
The hero is no alpha male that we find in the books of the author. I got used to the men of the series Ghost Op.
I was disappointed, but at the end the reading was good.
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Resenha em português e inglês / Review in Portuguese and English
ARC recebido da autora para resenha honesta / ARC received from author to honest review.
Este livro foi previamente lançado com o título Dying for Siena e sob o nome de Elizabeth Jennings.
A história é uma comédia com uma ponta de suspense e algum romance.
Nossa heroína Faith Murphy, daí o nome do livro, é uma brilhante matemática, mas ela sofre com dificuldades de tratar com as pessoas e com os relacionamento sociais.
Nosso herói é um atleta meio cabeça oca e que além de tudo é um mulherengo.
A história começa com nossos heróis transando, ela esperando mais e ele está muito bêbado para lembrar do ocorrido. Ele sofreu uma concussão e acaba se embriagando e acorda desorientado e nem lembra com quem ele dormiu.
Ela fica mortificada e foge, pois descobre que ele iria se encontrar com outra mulher que não apareceu.
Faith é chamada às pressas para uma conferência na Itália e chegando lá se envolve no assassinato de um colega. Ela é realmente muito desajeitada e apesar de inteligente não consegue fazer as coisas muito bem e acaba sendo suspeita número um do crime.
A partir daí temos muita descrição de lugares e de uma corrida de cavalos chamada Palio.
Achei um pouco chato e confesso que pulei algumas descrições mais chatas.
A história prossegue e tem cenas hilárias onde os policiais aparecem e também da investigação policial.
Achei o primo italiano e a irmã do Herói personagens bem interessantes.
Mas eu prossegui com a leitura para descobrir afinal quem matou o cara, afinal eu estava curiosa sobre a trama e quem matou o cara.
Eu até nem me importei mais com o casal eu queria saber quem era o culpado do assassinato.
O herói não é nenhum macho alfa que estamos acostumadas encontrar nos livros da autora. Me acostumei com os homens da série Ghost Op.
Fiquei desapontada, mas no final a leitura foi boa.
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This book was previously released with the title Dying for Siena and under the name of Elizabeth Jennings.
The story is a comedy with a hint of suspense and some romance.
Our heroine Faith Murphy, hence the name of the book, is a brilliant mathematics, but she suffers from difficulties of dealing with people and with the social relationship.
Our hero is an athlete half empty head and that he's a womanizer.
The story begins with our heroes having sex, she's expecting more and he's too drunk to remember what happened. He suffered a concussion and ends up drunk and wakes up disoriented and don't even remember with who he slept with.
She is mortified and flees, because discovers that he was meeting with another woman who didn't show up.
Faith is called hastily to a Conference in Italy and getting there becomes involved in the murder of a colleague. She's really very clumsy and although smart can't do things very well and ends up being number one suspect of the crime.
From there we have a lot of description of places and a horse race called the Palio.
I found a bit annoying and I confess that I skipped some descriptions more boring.
The story continues and has hilarious scenes where the cops and also of the police investigation.
I thought the Italian cousin and Hero's sister very interesting characters.
But I continue reading to find out who killed the guy, anyway I was curious about the plot and who killed the guy.
I don't even care anymore with the couple I was wondering who was guilty of murder.
The hero is no alpha male that we find in the books of the author. I got used to the men of the series Ghost Op.
I was disappointed, but at the end the reading was good.
August 10, 2014
A Vânia do Borboleta que Lê me convidou e claro eu aceitei novamente participar de um book tour com a Lisa Marie Rice. Dessa vez o livro escolhido foi o Murphy's Law.
Esse é um relançamento. Na sua primeira edição ele se chamava Dying Siena e Lisa Marie escreveu-o com seu outro pseudônimo: Elizabeth Jennings.
A tórrida noite de amor que vive com Nick se transforma em pesadelo quando na manhã seguinte ele sequer consegue lembrar o nome dela. Por isso a viagem a Siena veio a calhar. Mas ela nunca imaginaria que se envolveria em um episódio de assassinato. Ser a primeira descobrir que o chefe tinha sido morto acabou criando um bocado de problemas.
E é aí que conhecemos o Dante, da polícia local e responsável pela investigação, e também primo do Nick e da amiga da Faith, que vem a ser a irmã do Nick. O ex-jogador de hochey se dá conta que cometeu um erro enorme e vai atrás de Faith em Siena. E é no meio das investigações e do burburinho que vive a cidade por causa do Palio é que Nick tenta reconquistar Faith e a ajuda a provar sua inocência. Tudo isso embalado por extensas descrições de Siena (que alguns podem achar chato, mas eu gostei) e pela investigação.
Considerando que já li vários livros dela (em ebooks, por isso não os resenhei aqui) posso dizer que esse é, comparado com os outros, um pouco fraco. O romance mesmo entre o casal não foi bem desenvolvido. O foco acaba sendo a investigação e o "turismo por Siena".
Digo também que o Dante é quem ganhou o meu afeto, ao ponto de em determinadas passagens da história começar a torcer para a Faith largar o Nick e ficar com ele.
O melhor de ler essa história (que não é ruim, volto a dizer) é saber que Lisa Marie Rice é como um bom vinho, quanto mais tempo passa, melhor fica.
English review
Readings of Carol #807
When Vania from The Butterfly Reads invited me one more time to join a Book Tour Lisa Marie Rice’s I accepted again, of course.
This history is a reissue. In its first edition it was called Dying for Siena and Lisa Marie wrote it with his other nickname: Elizabeth Jennings.
The torrid night of love that her lived with Nick turns into a nightmare when the next morning he can’t even remember her name. Then travel to Siena was good. But she never imagined that would be involved in an episode of murder. Be the first to discover that the boss had been killed just creating a lot of problems.
And that's where we met Dante, and the local police responsible for investigating and also Nick's cousin and friend of the Faith, who happens to be the sister of Nick. The hochey of former player realizes he made a huge mistake and goes after Faith in Siena. And it is in the middle of investigations and the buzz that the city lives because of the Palio is that Nick tries to win back Faith and to help prove his innocence. All this packed by extensive descriptions of Siena (which some may find it boring, but I liked it) and research.
Considering I've read several of her books (ebooks, because this i don’t have review them) I can say that this is compared with others, a little weak. The same romance between the couple was not well developed. The focus of the criminal investigation and "Tourism for Siena."
I also say that Dante is the one who won my affection, to the point of certain passages of history start cheering for Faith drop Nick and stay with it.
The better of to read this story (which is not bad, I say again) is to know that Lisa Marie Rice is like a fine wine, the longer it goes, the better it gets.
Esse é um relançamento. Na sua primeira edição ele se chamava Dying Siena e Lisa Marie escreveu-o com seu outro pseudônimo: Elizabeth Jennings.
A tórrida noite de amor que vive com Nick se transforma em pesadelo quando na manhã seguinte ele sequer consegue lembrar o nome dela. Por isso a viagem a Siena veio a calhar. Mas ela nunca imaginaria que se envolveria em um episódio de assassinato. Ser a primeira descobrir que o chefe tinha sido morto acabou criando um bocado de problemas.
E é aí que conhecemos o Dante, da polícia local e responsável pela investigação, e também primo do Nick e da amiga da Faith, que vem a ser a irmã do Nick. O ex-jogador de hochey se dá conta que cometeu um erro enorme e vai atrás de Faith em Siena. E é no meio das investigações e do burburinho que vive a cidade por causa do Palio é que Nick tenta reconquistar Faith e a ajuda a provar sua inocência. Tudo isso embalado por extensas descrições de Siena (que alguns podem achar chato, mas eu gostei) e pela investigação.
Considerando que já li vários livros dela (em ebooks, por isso não os resenhei aqui) posso dizer que esse é, comparado com os outros, um pouco fraco. O romance mesmo entre o casal não foi bem desenvolvido. O foco acaba sendo a investigação e o "turismo por Siena".
Digo também que o Dante é quem ganhou o meu afeto, ao ponto de em determinadas passagens da história começar a torcer para a Faith largar o Nick e ficar com ele.
O melhor de ler essa história (que não é ruim, volto a dizer) é saber que Lisa Marie Rice é como um bom vinho, quanto mais tempo passa, melhor fica.
English review
Readings of Carol #807
When Vania from The Butterfly Reads invited me one more time to join a Book Tour Lisa Marie Rice’s I accepted again, of course.
This history is a reissue. In its first edition it was called Dying for Siena and Lisa Marie wrote it with his other nickname: Elizabeth Jennings.
The torrid night of love that her lived with Nick turns into a nightmare when the next morning he can’t even remember her name. Then travel to Siena was good. But she never imagined that would be involved in an episode of murder. Be the first to discover that the boss had been killed just creating a lot of problems.
And that's where we met Dante, and the local police responsible for investigating and also Nick's cousin and friend of the Faith, who happens to be the sister of Nick. The hochey of former player realizes he made a huge mistake and goes after Faith in Siena. And it is in the middle of investigations and the buzz that the city lives because of the Palio is that Nick tries to win back Faith and to help prove his innocence. All this packed by extensive descriptions of Siena (which some may find it boring, but I liked it) and research.
Considering I've read several of her books (ebooks, because this i don’t have review them) I can say that this is compared with others, a little weak. The same romance between the couple was not well developed. The focus of the criminal investigation and "Tourism for Siena."
I also say that Dante is the one who won my affection, to the point of certain passages of history start cheering for Faith drop Nick and stay with it.
The better of to read this story (which is not bad, I say again) is to know that Lisa Marie Rice is like a fine wine, the longer it goes, the better it gets.
July 22, 2014
Faith and Nikki were already known for a long time. She had a secret crush on him while he.. did not spend one minute of his life thinking about her.
The chance came when Nikki was in a bad phase of his career to realize his hockey player career was being blown due to a head injury, and therefore had too much to drink, he and Faith wind up in bed.
After a night in the room which "burns", Faith sees her dream crumble when, the next morning, Nikki even remember her name. And Faith was habitué in his family home, being a good friend to his sister, Lou.
Very hurt, Faith went away, and enjoyed an event in Siena, Italy, which would replace a friend, and to put an ocean between them (her and Nikki).
Surprisingly, Faith ends involved in a murder case.
Her boss, Professor Kane, an alcoholic and a despicable man, was killed; and though half the world have reason to have killed the bastard, was Faith who found his body. And worse, she had touched him.
Accused of murder, police comissario Dante Rossi had every reason and evidence to put her in jail.
But look at the coincidence! Dante's cousin - even very close! - Nikki ended up knowing the trouble they got into Faith, and left for Siena to help his cousin to exonerate her.
The start is given to hunt the real killer!
Different from the author's standards books, the focus here is given to the mystery, not the romantic couple.
The pace is good, the characters are believable, but I missed the romantic catch.
3,5 stars
The chance came when Nikki was in a bad phase of his career to realize his hockey player career was being blown due to a head injury, and therefore had too much to drink, he and Faith wind up in bed.
After a night in the room which "burns", Faith sees her dream crumble when, the next morning, Nikki even remember her name. And Faith was habitué in his family home, being a good friend to his sister, Lou.
Very hurt, Faith went away, and enjoyed an event in Siena, Italy, which would replace a friend, and to put an ocean between them (her and Nikki).
Surprisingly, Faith ends involved in a murder case.
Her boss, Professor Kane, an alcoholic and a despicable man, was killed; and though half the world have reason to have killed the bastard, was Faith who found his body. And worse, she had touched him.
Accused of murder, police comissario Dante Rossi had every reason and evidence to put her in jail.
But look at the coincidence! Dante's cousin - even very close! - Nikki ended up knowing the trouble they got into Faith, and left for Siena to help his cousin to exonerate her.
The start is given to hunt the real killer!
Different from the author's standards books, the focus here is given to the mystery, not the romantic couple.
The pace is good, the characters are believable, but I missed the romantic catch.
3,5 stars
July 22, 2014
We once again thanks Lisa Marie Rice, who sent us the book to read and come up with a preposterous suggestion. This history is actually it a Remake the Dying for Siena, a novell written by your pen name, Elizabeth Jennings, and launched in January 2006. The history is totally adapted in Siena, in Italy, and quite different from other novells of Lisa. It’s good, but good guy leaves a bit Lisa’s standards, those overprotective men that when they beat the eye in the girl, the world can if chip off around that they do not care less. And Nick Rossi takes a while to see our girl.
Book quite different from Lisa, as we comment before, why we are accustomed to read about men more decided. And Nick is indeed the Lisa’s man more dumbo I’ve seen. He has a mild dyslexia, which complicated your life at school, therefore the man does not stand out by the intellect, what by itself already differentiates it from the Lisa's men. But the book is interesting, mostly by the construction of the supporting characters and by the thing more that funny brawl between the city dwellers who are divided during the Palio. And we’re not talking about car brands, OK?! Lol.
Book quite different from Lisa, as we comment before, why we are accustomed to read about men more decided. And Nick is indeed the Lisa’s man more dumbo I’ve seen. He has a mild dyslexia, which complicated your life at school, therefore the man does not stand out by the intellect, what by itself already differentiates it from the Lisa's men. But the book is interesting, mostly by the construction of the supporting characters and by the thing more that funny brawl between the city dwellers who are divided during the Palio. And we’re not talking about car brands, OK?! Lol.
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June 14, 2014this book has previously been released under the name Elizabeth Jennings - dying for Siena, so be careful
August 10, 2014
Review in Portuguese (English review scroll down)
Durante toda sua vida Chicó se dedicou a desvendar as agruras da Matemática, devido a sua extraordinária capacidade lógica e a rapidez no cálculo mental. Expert no assunto, tem como oração no criado mudo a Fórmula de Bhaskara. Assim como a Adriana, ela é uma das poucas que ama essa tão incompreendida, malfadada e difamada matemática, bem como a Professora Boattini.
Chicó é cheia de contrastes, pois apesar de sua assombrosa capacitada matemática e o PhD numérico, ela é uma moglie travada e uma negação no traquejo amoroso, uma lástima no entrosamento sexual e não tem nenhuma experiência no dois pra cá dois pra lá da dança do crioulo doido, ou seja, ela é uma “Virgem in Conserva” cujo lacre ainda está intacto e inviolado.
Entre os delírios do quadrado da hipotenusa e a soma do quadrado dos catetos, Chicó está com um olho no peixe no Teorema de Pitágoras, e o outro no gato da função quadrática de João Grilo, irmão de sua melhor amiga.
Há muito tempo ela baba pelo seu imenso corpo delineado, musculoso, gostoso e phodido, que praticamente não tem nenhuma grama de gordura e quase 100% de puro músculo e delírio. O que já era de se esperar do corpo de um jogador profissional de hóquei de alto nível, ainda mais sendo ele um atleta de elite.
Tantos anos de trombadas, capotamentos e colisões, fizeram João colecionar inúmeras fraturas e diversas contusões de todas as cores e tipos. Entre um esmagamento de osso, um tornozelo quebrado, um joelho amassado, uma costela partida, um ombro deslocado e inúmeras fraturas sem fim. Pode-se dizer que ele ficou com o corpo pherrado e com muitos Grilos!
Após receber a triste notícia de que não poderá mais jogar profissionalmente, pois corre o risco de ficar aleijado pra sempre, sem sorte João fica sem norte quase a beira da morte ao imaginar a longa vida de inércia que terá pela frente, o que o deixa cheio de Grilos ao imaginar o tédio que será a sua vida sem nenhuma atividade física.
Ele está longe de ser um paciente modelo. Seguindo o exemplo de todo Men machão, turrão e teimoso que se preze, o que você imagina que ele faz para fugir da tristeza e esquecer que esse é o fim de sua carreira esportiva? Vale lembrar que o "trator" passou por cima e ele ainda ganhou uma bela concussão cerebral. O quê? O quê? O quê ele faz com esse imbróglio?
Corre para o hospital e fica na UTI em repouso absoluto? Passa massa corrida a fim de colar a fissurinha? Enche a cara e bebe até cair para fugir da dura realidade, na esperança de esquecer que sua carreira esportiva foi pra casa do Caráaaglio? Dica: Lembre-se da combinação letal e fatídica de Concussão + Birita!
Nas esquinas das ruas da vida, os caminhos da sóbria Chicó cruzam com o ébrio João Grilo. Entre um gole de cana braba e outro de catchaça, eles se esbarram pelo caminho. Ela que o cobiçava escondido, de repente fica face to face e se torna sua amiga de copo e companheira de birita. Como boa samaritana, entre um gole aqui e um tropeço acolá, ela o leva para casa.
Já de pilequinho e com o corpo todo moído, eis que eles vão parar entre lençóis e João, que nunca botou reparo em Chicó, de repente fica todo interessado e com uma vontade filadaputa de mostrar pra ela toda a belezura que é o seu Grilo!
A boca do mano é uma draga que a suga feito um bueiro entupido. No paraíso, ela quase capota e começa a suar frio quando é cutucada por seu imenso bastão. Ela que só tem a experiência de uns amassos juvenis, se vê acossada por um Men expert que, mesmo bêbado, sabe com maestria dar um duplo mortal twist carpado. Apesar de só ficar no amasso do lepo lepo, ele a faz contar estrelinhas.
Quando João roça o capim e começa a desbravar sua caverna, apesar de bêbado, percebe que há uma trava e um cadeado na porta do dragão, grogue e meio alto pergunta cheio de Grilos...
— Arebaba! Ma rapaz! Não me diga que tu é uma “Virgem in Conserva”?
Com medo de perder a vez e ter que sair do seu lugar privilegiado na janelinha, ela tem receio de admitir e perder o descarrilamento desse trenzinho caipira, por isso responde cheia de delírios...
— “Virgem in Conserva”? Tá louco Men? Com a minha idade? É claro que o lacre Seal rompeu a very long time ago!
Recebendo o aval e a chave da cidade, carinhosamente e cheio de precisão ele engata a primeira, desliza na segunda, soca na terceira, martela na quarta, marreta na quinta e dá a ré, o que a faz gritar no seu SEGUNDO orgasmo múltiplo!
Revoltada, a Adriana quer deixar anotado aqui por escrito que a mermã é professora de Matemática, e até hoje só apareceu João Ninguém na vida da mina, que além de tudo só quis botar Grilo na cabeça da Boattini! Ixalá Santinha bota reparo in Nóis Caráaaglio!
Até o momento ela mais parecia uma boneca inflável, pois só conseguia virar os zoinhos devido à falta de experiência e o medo de meter os pés pelas mãos. A ânsia de querer aproveitar todo esse delírio a fizeram ficar imóvel a fim de saborear todo o movimento sexy, mas ao ver o mermão arfando satisfeito após Seal phodê gostosinho...
Eis que ela cria coragem e começa a acariciá-lo lhe dando umas bitoquinhas, prova o seu gosto salgadinho o lambendo like pirulito além de apalpar o seu corpo phodido. Apesar do aconchego nos braços de João, começa a se sentir esmagada com o peso dos seus músculos. Ao ver que não aguenta mais os seus Grilos, murmura pedindo...
— Foi tudo muito bom, bom, foi tudo muito bem, bem, mas realmente, mas realmente, eu não estou conseguindo respirar, muito menos me movimentar devido ao imenso peso do corpo do mano. Por isso vos peço encarecidamente... Dá pra dar uma licencinha ai, e sair de cima di mim Caráaaglio?
Nisso recebe como resposta...
— Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ!
— Puuutaaa Quuueuuu Paaariuuu! Não vai me dizer que o filadaputa não só dormiu como ainda está roncando bem alto em cima di mim?
No dia seguinte...
— Ei você? Ehhh Você mesmo! Ô Psit? Gata? Mina? Mermã? Moglie? Ohhh Caráaaglio! Tô falando com você que Seal phodeu comigo!
Cumé? João comeu do bom e do melhor, saboreou o seu body, arrombou o sio cuore, tirou o seu lacre e nem se alembra quem es tu Brutus? Pelo menos ele deveria ter a decência se lembrar que ela é a melhor amiga de sua querida irmãzinha, pelo menos isso!
Ohhh Sorte Triste! Vai ver foi a maldita catchaça aliada a bela concussão cerebral que o fizeram se esquecer, sem nenhum Grilo, de quem é Chicó! Oh vida lazarenta. Só sei de uma coisa... Só sei que foi assim!
Como desgraça pouca é bobagem, ela ainda descobre que ele iria sair com outra e como levou o bolo, a pegou como um paliativo genérico e transgênico, uma vez que a original não apareceu! Ai confesso que ele phodeu de vez com todas as chances de ser perdoado e compreendido!
Derrotada, deprimida e arrasada, o Raul nem perguntou que Chicó se tocou e pegou o seu banquinho saindo de fininho pra Pasárgada, ou melhor, aproveitou as oportunidades matemáticas e foi trabalhar em Siena, na ensolarada Itália!
Engraçado não? Na real life a única coisa que dá para fazer quando algo dá errado na vida da Adriana é molhar os pés na beira da represa Guarapiranga ou então jantar fora, colocando a mesa no quintal do vizinho sob o brilho do luar e o aconchego das estrelinhas. E essa filadaputa da Chicó ganha uma passagem de ida com todas as despesas pagas para a Itália? Quisera eu pudesse fazer as malas diante de um problema, e me mandar curtindo a fossa parlando italiano com um Men tudibom. Mama Mia! Porca Miséria di vida maomeno é essa Boattini!
Como diz a Lei de Murphy... Não há nada que esteja pior que não possa piorar! Nesse paraíso italiano, ela tem um chefe que tem uma calculadora no lugar do coração, o que a faz pensar que ele precisa urgentemente fazer um transplante, pois acredita que ele tem um vazio no sio cuore!
Por isso, quando ela o encontra imóvel caído no chão, catatônico e imóvel, após minutos de conjecturas ela coloca o seu cérebro matemático pra funcionar e se aproxima da vítima, mas ao ver o Men azul, pálido, praticamente uma múmia paralítica, que ainda tem uma faquinha di rocambole encravada no peito... O que ela faz? O quê? O quê? O quê Caráaaglio?
Liga desesperada para o SAMU? Presta os primeiros socorros e faz massagem cardíaca? Corre abilolada em busca de ajuda? Grita: Somebody help me? Se afasta para não destruir as evidências e faz o possível para não corromper a cena do crime? Fica a espera dos representantes do CSI Siena e do CSI Itália que vão querer vasculhar em busca de provas a procura desse assassino? Bebeu Adriana? Ah já sei... tu cheirou cola Boattini!
Mama mia fala logo Caráaaglio... O quê ela faz porca miséria? É claro que não só ela mexe no corpo, como ainda o move como um pedaço de carne exposta no açougue da esquina. Como se ainda não bastasse, ela ainda retira a faquinha di rocambole que estava enterrada até o talo no peito do Boss, a manuseando e examinando como uma perita, deixando bem claro e nítido todas as suas digitais. Inicia-se então... O Auto da Compadecida!
Confesso a vocês que nessa altura do campeonato o Horatio Caine, do CSI Miami, deve estar arrancando seus cabelos vermelhos, segundo a Marilda. E aposto que o Mac Taylor, do CSI New York, está espumando diante do estrago das evidências! Mama Mia! Esperava-se um pouco mais de racionalidade e objetivo em uma moglie matemática, racional e tão detalhista. Isso está parecendo o cenário de um assassinato de um filme trash de quinta categoria!
Como todo livrinho além da imaginação, quando chega o policial responsável pela investigação, não só ele é o sonho di consumo molhado de toda moglie, como ainda é nada mais nada menos do que o primo gostosão tudiboom e distante de João Grilo. Um Men desse naipe e com todo esse grosso calibre já é demais, agora que faça gorgulhas de amor em italiano? Ulalá!
Confesso a vocês que a Adriana deixa de muito bom gosto o João Grilo para a Chicó. A Adriana só pede encarecidamente que deem a vaga para a Boattini assumir o cuore desse Gustoso Cugino que é uma delícia! Manda esse primo policial pra mim! Só de imaginar seus murmúrios de amor em italiano nos meus ouvidos, roçando o queixo barbeado no meu cangote... Me deu um frio na barriga e me subiu um currupio! Putz Ovulei Caráaaglio!
A partir daí não é de se admirar que Chicó seja uma das suspeitas de ter cometido o crime, e quando João fica sabendo de todo esse babado pelo primo italiano, corre cheio de Grilos atrás do prejuízo.
Esse livrinho é atípico, pois todos os Men da Lisa Marie sempre dão um Seal Rice quando botam reparo na mina, pois na primeira vez que se encontram, imediatamente sentem a próstata pular e o bingulim sacolejar, e mesmo antes de respirar ele já sabem que ela é o seu “Casal Sagrado do Caráaaglio”, o que não é o caso de João que logo de cara ficou cheio de Grilos!
A Adriana agradece a Lisa Marie pela oportunidade do povo Tupiniquim mostrar o que acha da sua estorinha, ao nos permitir fazer a nossa versão. Muito Obrigada a Vânia “Antenada” Nunes por colocar a Boattini nesse “Rol da Fama” Literário, e a Marilda “Gambito” Custódio pela revisão final e por seus pitacos tão cheios de sabedoria.
Review in English
Throughout his life Math devoted to unravel the travails of mathematics due to its special logic capacity and its speed in mental calculation. Expert on the subject has the prayer on the nightstand: Bhaskara formula. Like Adriana, she is one of the few who loves this so misunderstood, maligned and ill-fated math, like Boattini teacher.
Math is full of contrasts, despite his amazing qualified mathematics and PhD, she is a stuck moglie and a denial of the loving graces, no sexual relationship and have no experience, she is a "Virgin Preserved" whose label is intact and inviolate.
Among the delusions of the square of the hypotenuse and the sum of the squares of the legs, Math is with an eye on the fish on the Pythagorean Theorem, and another cat in the quadratic function of Hockey, the brother of her best friend.
Long ago she drool by his immense, muscular, healthy, outline body and fucked that virtually has no ounce of fat and almost 100% of muscle. What was to be expected in a professional hockey player high level, even him being an elite athlete.
So many years of bumps, collisions and rollovers, did Hockey collect numerous fractures and various bruises of all colors and types. Between a crushing bones, a broken ankle, a battered knee, one broken rib, a dislocated and numerous fractures endless shoulder. You could say he got screwed!
After receiving the sad news that you can no longer play professionally, because it runs the risk of being crippled forever, no luck no north, Hockey is almost dying to imagine the long life of inertia that will have, what makes glimpse life of boredom that will be your life without physical activity.
He is far from being a model patient. Following the example of the whole macho men and stubborn self-respecting, what you think it does to get away and forget the sadness that is the end of his athletic career? Remember that the tractor ran over and after the damage, he still won a toast concussion. What he does with this mess?
Rushes to the hospital and is in ICU at absolute rest? Pass mass wall to patch the crack in the head? Drink till you drop to escape the harsh reality, hoping to forget his sporting career went home the Fuck? Hint ... Remember the lethal combination and fateful: Concussion + Drink!
In the corners of the streets, Sober Math crosses paths of drunken Hockey. Between a sip of beer and another of vodka, they stumble along the way. She suddenly comes face to face and becomes her friend and companion drink. How good Samaritan, between a sip here and there stumbling, she takes him home.
Already drunk and with his whole body bruised, behold, they will stop between the sheets. Hockey had never noticed Math, suddenly get all concerned and with a willingness motherfucking to show her gorgeous stick!
His mouth is a dredge that sucks like a clogged drain. In heaven, almost turn off and starts to sweat when it is poked by his huge stick. She only has the experience of a juvenile snogging, sees beset by an expert that even man drunk he knows waddle masterfully. Despite being just groping, he makes she count stars.
When Hockey graze the grass and starts playing the bells of her cave, same drunk realize that there is a lock on the door of the dragon, groggy ask her a suspiciously question...
— Arebaba! You're a “Virgin Preserved"?
Afraid of losing time and having to leave the privileged place in the window, she is afraid to let go of that little train derailment, responds full of delusions ...
— "Virgin Preserved"? Are you nuts? With my age? Of course the label broke a long time ago!
Receiving the endorsement and the key to the city, affectionately and full precision he engages the first, slides into second, punches in the third, fourth hammers, sledge hammer on Thursday and gives the defendant, which makes her scream in orgasm SECOND!
Outraged, Adriana wants to leave noted in writing that she is a professor of mathematics, and to date only appeared John Doe in my life, that besides all just wanted to put cricket on head Boattini! Ixalá Our Lady helps us fucking!
So far she looks more like an inflatable doll, because she could move her eyes due to lack of experience and fear to exchange her feet with her hands. The urge to want to take all this delirium, did her stay stopped still in order to enjoy all the sexy movement, but to see him gasping satisfied after fucking hottie ...
She creates courage and begins to stroke him, give him kisses and test your taste like licking lollipop and gropes her body fucked. Despite the warmth in her arms, she begins to feel overwhelmed with the weight of your muscles. Not holding more, murmurs asking ...
— It was very good over really I'm not able to breathe, much less move around due to the body weight. So I ask you ... Can you kindly excuse me and leave me the fuck up?
She receives an answer...
— Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ!
— Holy shit! Do not tell me that this son of the bitch not only slept like is still snoring loudly yet upon of me?
The next day ...
— Hey you! Yourself! Ohhh..? Girl? Cat? Woman??
What's? Hockey ate the good and the best, savored his body, broke his heart, took his stamp but not remember who is she? At least he should have the decency to remember that she is a friend of his sister, at least that! Ohhh Sad Luck! Maybe it was the damn drink combined with concussion made him forget who's Math! Oh sorry fate. Ohhh life difficult!
How little doom is silly, she still finds that he would come out with another and as received the pipe, took it as a generic and transgenic palliative, since the original did not appear! Then I confess that he fucked every chance to be forgiven!
Defeated, depressed and devastated, she's gone and slipped away and took the mathematical opportunities and went to work in sunny Italy!
Not funny? In real life the only thing you can get done when something goes wrong in the life of Adriana, is to go get their feet wet on the edge of Guarapiranga or dinner then off to put the table in the backyard, under the glow of the moonlight and the warmth of the stars .
And this math, son of the bitch has a one way ticket with all expenses paid to Italy?? I wish I could pack up and send it to enjoy speaking italian with my mess. Mama Mia! Misery! Ohhh Boattini this dull life!
As Murphy's Law says ... There's nothing you can not get any worse! In this Italian paradise, she has a boss who has a calculator in the heart, what makes you think he urgently needs a transplant because it believes there is a void in his chest and no pulse in his heart!
So when she finds him lying motionless on the ground motionless and catatonic after minutes of conjecture, she puts your brain at work and mathematical approaches, but when she see your boss blue, pale, almost a imovel mummy with a stylus stuck in his chest... what does she do? What? What? What's fuck?
Call desperate to 911? Provides first aid and does massage heart? Runs for help? Scream: Somebody help me? She enters and no touches nothing? Depart does not to destroy the evidence? She does her best to not corrupt the crime scene? The CSI Siena and CSI Italy are expected that will want to scour all?
Does Adriana drank? Oh I know ... You sniffed glue Boattini! Mama mia talk soon... What she does fucking? It is clear that not only moves the body like withdraws the stylet buried in the chest of the man!
I confess to you, at this time Horatio Caine from CSI Miami must be pulled his red hair, second Marilda. Mac Taylor from CSI New York must be twitching by evidence of damage! Mama Mia! I was waiting a little more rational and objective in a mathematical person. This is like the scene of a murder of a fifth category of trash movie!
Adriana wants to say thanks to Lisa Marie for the opportunity to show what brazilian people think of your story, to allow us to do our Review. I need to say thank you too to Vanya "tuned" Nunes by put Boattini in "Hall of Fame" Literary. And thanks to Marilda "Gambito" Custodio for your final review and its opinions so full of wisdom.
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Durante toda sua vida Chicó se dedicou a desvendar as agruras da Matemática, devido a sua extraordinária capacidade lógica e a rapidez no cálculo mental. Expert no assunto, tem como oração no criado mudo a Fórmula de Bhaskara. Assim como a Adriana, ela é uma das poucas que ama essa tão incompreendida, malfadada e difamada matemática, bem como a Professora Boattini.
Chicó é cheia de contrastes, pois apesar de sua assombrosa capacitada matemática e o PhD numérico, ela é uma moglie travada e uma negação no traquejo amoroso, uma lástima no entrosamento sexual e não tem nenhuma experiência no dois pra cá dois pra lá da dança do crioulo doido, ou seja, ela é uma “Virgem in Conserva” cujo lacre ainda está intacto e inviolado.
Entre os delírios do quadrado da hipotenusa e a soma do quadrado dos catetos, Chicó está com um olho no peixe no Teorema de Pitágoras, e o outro no gato da função quadrática de João Grilo, irmão de sua melhor amiga.
Há muito tempo ela baba pelo seu imenso corpo delineado, musculoso, gostoso e phodido, que praticamente não tem nenhuma grama de gordura e quase 100% de puro músculo e delírio. O que já era de se esperar do corpo de um jogador profissional de hóquei de alto nível, ainda mais sendo ele um atleta de elite.
Tantos anos de trombadas, capotamentos e colisões, fizeram João colecionar inúmeras fraturas e diversas contusões de todas as cores e tipos. Entre um esmagamento de osso, um tornozelo quebrado, um joelho amassado, uma costela partida, um ombro deslocado e inúmeras fraturas sem fim. Pode-se dizer que ele ficou com o corpo pherrado e com muitos Grilos!
Após receber a triste notícia de que não poderá mais jogar profissionalmente, pois corre o risco de ficar aleijado pra sempre, sem sorte João fica sem norte quase a beira da morte ao imaginar a longa vida de inércia que terá pela frente, o que o deixa cheio de Grilos ao imaginar o tédio que será a sua vida sem nenhuma atividade física.
Ele está longe de ser um paciente modelo. Seguindo o exemplo de todo Men machão, turrão e teimoso que se preze, o que você imagina que ele faz para fugir da tristeza e esquecer que esse é o fim de sua carreira esportiva? Vale lembrar que o "trator" passou por cima e ele ainda ganhou uma bela concussão cerebral. O quê? O quê? O quê ele faz com esse imbróglio?
Corre para o hospital e fica na UTI em repouso absoluto? Passa massa corrida a fim de colar a fissurinha? Enche a cara e bebe até cair para fugir da dura realidade, na esperança de esquecer que sua carreira esportiva foi pra casa do Caráaaglio? Dica: Lembre-se da combinação letal e fatídica de Concussão + Birita!
Nas esquinas das ruas da vida, os caminhos da sóbria Chicó cruzam com o ébrio João Grilo. Entre um gole de cana braba e outro de catchaça, eles se esbarram pelo caminho. Ela que o cobiçava escondido, de repente fica face to face e se torna sua amiga de copo e companheira de birita. Como boa samaritana, entre um gole aqui e um tropeço acolá, ela o leva para casa.
Já de pilequinho e com o corpo todo moído, eis que eles vão parar entre lençóis e João, que nunca botou reparo em Chicó, de repente fica todo interessado e com uma vontade filadaputa de mostrar pra ela toda a belezura que é o seu Grilo!
A boca do mano é uma draga que a suga feito um bueiro entupido. No paraíso, ela quase capota e começa a suar frio quando é cutucada por seu imenso bastão. Ela que só tem a experiência de uns amassos juvenis, se vê acossada por um Men expert que, mesmo bêbado, sabe com maestria dar um duplo mortal twist carpado. Apesar de só ficar no amasso do lepo lepo, ele a faz contar estrelinhas.
Quando João roça o capim e começa a desbravar sua caverna, apesar de bêbado, percebe que há uma trava e um cadeado na porta do dragão, grogue e meio alto pergunta cheio de Grilos...
— Arebaba! Ma rapaz! Não me diga que tu é uma “Virgem in Conserva”?
Com medo de perder a vez e ter que sair do seu lugar privilegiado na janelinha, ela tem receio de admitir e perder o descarrilamento desse trenzinho caipira, por isso responde cheia de delírios...
— “Virgem in Conserva”? Tá louco Men? Com a minha idade? É claro que o lacre Seal rompeu a very long time ago!
Recebendo o aval e a chave da cidade, carinhosamente e cheio de precisão ele engata a primeira, desliza na segunda, soca na terceira, martela na quarta, marreta na quinta e dá a ré, o que a faz gritar no seu SEGUNDO orgasmo múltiplo!
Revoltada, a Adriana quer deixar anotado aqui por escrito que a mermã é professora de Matemática, e até hoje só apareceu João Ninguém na vida da mina, que além de tudo só quis botar Grilo na cabeça da Boattini! Ixalá Santinha bota reparo in Nóis Caráaaglio!
Até o momento ela mais parecia uma boneca inflável, pois só conseguia virar os zoinhos devido à falta de experiência e o medo de meter os pés pelas mãos. A ânsia de querer aproveitar todo esse delírio a fizeram ficar imóvel a fim de saborear todo o movimento sexy, mas ao ver o mermão arfando satisfeito após Seal phodê gostosinho...
Eis que ela cria coragem e começa a acariciá-lo lhe dando umas bitoquinhas, prova o seu gosto salgadinho o lambendo like pirulito além de apalpar o seu corpo phodido. Apesar do aconchego nos braços de João, começa a se sentir esmagada com o peso dos seus músculos. Ao ver que não aguenta mais os seus Grilos, murmura pedindo...
— Foi tudo muito bom, bom, foi tudo muito bem, bem, mas realmente, mas realmente, eu não estou conseguindo respirar, muito menos me movimentar devido ao imenso peso do corpo do mano. Por isso vos peço encarecidamente... Dá pra dar uma licencinha ai, e sair de cima di mim Caráaaglio?
Nisso recebe como resposta...
— Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ!
— Puuutaaa Quuueuuu Paaariuuu! Não vai me dizer que o filadaputa não só dormiu como ainda está roncando bem alto em cima di mim?
No dia seguinte...
— Ei você? Ehhh Você mesmo! Ô Psit? Gata? Mina? Mermã? Moglie? Ohhh Caráaaglio! Tô falando com você que Seal phodeu comigo!
Cumé? João comeu do bom e do melhor, saboreou o seu body, arrombou o sio cuore, tirou o seu lacre e nem se alembra quem es tu Brutus? Pelo menos ele deveria ter a decência se lembrar que ela é a melhor amiga de sua querida irmãzinha, pelo menos isso!
Ohhh Sorte Triste! Vai ver foi a maldita catchaça aliada a bela concussão cerebral que o fizeram se esquecer, sem nenhum Grilo, de quem é Chicó! Oh vida lazarenta. Só sei de uma coisa... Só sei que foi assim!
Como desgraça pouca é bobagem, ela ainda descobre que ele iria sair com outra e como levou o bolo, a pegou como um paliativo genérico e transgênico, uma vez que a original não apareceu! Ai confesso que ele phodeu de vez com todas as chances de ser perdoado e compreendido!
Derrotada, deprimida e arrasada, o Raul nem perguntou que Chicó se tocou e pegou o seu banquinho saindo de fininho pra Pasárgada, ou melhor, aproveitou as oportunidades matemáticas e foi trabalhar em Siena, na ensolarada Itália!
Engraçado não? Na real life a única coisa que dá para fazer quando algo dá errado na vida da Adriana é molhar os pés na beira da represa Guarapiranga ou então jantar fora, colocando a mesa no quintal do vizinho sob o brilho do luar e o aconchego das estrelinhas. E essa filadaputa da Chicó ganha uma passagem de ida com todas as despesas pagas para a Itália? Quisera eu pudesse fazer as malas diante de um problema, e me mandar curtindo a fossa parlando italiano com um Men tudibom. Mama Mia! Porca Miséria di vida maomeno é essa Boattini!
Como diz a Lei de Murphy... Não há nada que esteja pior que não possa piorar! Nesse paraíso italiano, ela tem um chefe que tem uma calculadora no lugar do coração, o que a faz pensar que ele precisa urgentemente fazer um transplante, pois acredita que ele tem um vazio no sio cuore!
Por isso, quando ela o encontra imóvel caído no chão, catatônico e imóvel, após minutos de conjecturas ela coloca o seu cérebro matemático pra funcionar e se aproxima da vítima, mas ao ver o Men azul, pálido, praticamente uma múmia paralítica, que ainda tem uma faquinha di rocambole encravada no peito... O que ela faz? O quê? O quê? O quê Caráaaglio?
Liga desesperada para o SAMU? Presta os primeiros socorros e faz massagem cardíaca? Corre abilolada em busca de ajuda? Grita: Somebody help me? Se afasta para não destruir as evidências e faz o possível para não corromper a cena do crime? Fica a espera dos representantes do CSI Siena e do CSI Itália que vão querer vasculhar em busca de provas a procura desse assassino? Bebeu Adriana? Ah já sei... tu cheirou cola Boattini!
Mama mia fala logo Caráaaglio... O quê ela faz porca miséria? É claro que não só ela mexe no corpo, como ainda o move como um pedaço de carne exposta no açougue da esquina. Como se ainda não bastasse, ela ainda retira a faquinha di rocambole que estava enterrada até o talo no peito do Boss, a manuseando e examinando como uma perita, deixando bem claro e nítido todas as suas digitais. Inicia-se então... O Auto da Compadecida!
Confesso a vocês que nessa altura do campeonato o Horatio Caine, do CSI Miami, deve estar arrancando seus cabelos vermelhos, segundo a Marilda. E aposto que o Mac Taylor, do CSI New York, está espumando diante do estrago das evidências! Mama Mia! Esperava-se um pouco mais de racionalidade e objetivo em uma moglie matemática, racional e tão detalhista. Isso está parecendo o cenário de um assassinato de um filme trash de quinta categoria!
Como todo livrinho além da imaginação, quando chega o policial responsável pela investigação, não só ele é o sonho di consumo molhado de toda moglie, como ainda é nada mais nada menos do que o primo gostosão tudiboom e distante de João Grilo. Um Men desse naipe e com todo esse grosso calibre já é demais, agora que faça gorgulhas de amor em italiano? Ulalá!
Confesso a vocês que a Adriana deixa de muito bom gosto o João Grilo para a Chicó. A Adriana só pede encarecidamente que deem a vaga para a Boattini assumir o cuore desse Gustoso Cugino que é uma delícia! Manda esse primo policial pra mim! Só de imaginar seus murmúrios de amor em italiano nos meus ouvidos, roçando o queixo barbeado no meu cangote... Me deu um frio na barriga e me subiu um currupio! Putz Ovulei Caráaaglio!
A partir daí não é de se admirar que Chicó seja uma das suspeitas de ter cometido o crime, e quando João fica sabendo de todo esse babado pelo primo italiano, corre cheio de Grilos atrás do prejuízo.
Esse livrinho é atípico, pois todos os Men da Lisa Marie sempre dão um Seal Rice quando botam reparo na mina, pois na primeira vez que se encontram, imediatamente sentem a próstata pular e o bingulim sacolejar, e mesmo antes de respirar ele já sabem que ela é o seu “Casal Sagrado do Caráaaglio”, o que não é o caso de João que logo de cara ficou cheio de Grilos!
A Adriana agradece a Lisa Marie pela oportunidade do povo Tupiniquim mostrar o que acha da sua estorinha, ao nos permitir fazer a nossa versão. Muito Obrigada a Vânia “Antenada” Nunes por colocar a Boattini nesse “Rol da Fama” Literário, e a Marilda “Gambito” Custódio pela revisão final e por seus pitacos tão cheios de sabedoria.
Review in English
Throughout his life Math devoted to unravel the travails of mathematics due to its special logic capacity and its speed in mental calculation. Expert on the subject has the prayer on the nightstand: Bhaskara formula. Like Adriana, she is one of the few who loves this so misunderstood, maligned and ill-fated math, like Boattini teacher.
Math is full of contrasts, despite his amazing qualified mathematics and PhD, she is a stuck moglie and a denial of the loving graces, no sexual relationship and have no experience, she is a "Virgin Preserved" whose label is intact and inviolate.
Among the delusions of the square of the hypotenuse and the sum of the squares of the legs, Math is with an eye on the fish on the Pythagorean Theorem, and another cat in the quadratic function of Hockey, the brother of her best friend.
Long ago she drool by his immense, muscular, healthy, outline body and fucked that virtually has no ounce of fat and almost 100% of muscle. What was to be expected in a professional hockey player high level, even him being an elite athlete.
So many years of bumps, collisions and rollovers, did Hockey collect numerous fractures and various bruises of all colors and types. Between a crushing bones, a broken ankle, a battered knee, one broken rib, a dislocated and numerous fractures endless shoulder. You could say he got screwed!
After receiving the sad news that you can no longer play professionally, because it runs the risk of being crippled forever, no luck no north, Hockey is almost dying to imagine the long life of inertia that will have, what makes glimpse life of boredom that will be your life without physical activity.
He is far from being a model patient. Following the example of the whole macho men and stubborn self-respecting, what you think it does to get away and forget the sadness that is the end of his athletic career? Remember that the tractor ran over and after the damage, he still won a toast concussion. What he does with this mess?
Rushes to the hospital and is in ICU at absolute rest? Pass mass wall to patch the crack in the head? Drink till you drop to escape the harsh reality, hoping to forget his sporting career went home the Fuck? Hint ... Remember the lethal combination and fateful: Concussion + Drink!
In the corners of the streets, Sober Math crosses paths of drunken Hockey. Between a sip of beer and another of vodka, they stumble along the way. She suddenly comes face to face and becomes her friend and companion drink. How good Samaritan, between a sip here and there stumbling, she takes him home.
Already drunk and with his whole body bruised, behold, they will stop between the sheets. Hockey had never noticed Math, suddenly get all concerned and with a willingness motherfucking to show her gorgeous stick!
His mouth is a dredge that sucks like a clogged drain. In heaven, almost turn off and starts to sweat when it is poked by his huge stick. She only has the experience of a juvenile snogging, sees beset by an expert that even man drunk he knows waddle masterfully. Despite being just groping, he makes she count stars.
When Hockey graze the grass and starts playing the bells of her cave, same drunk realize that there is a lock on the door of the dragon, groggy ask her a suspiciously question...
— Arebaba! You're a “Virgin Preserved"?
Afraid of losing time and having to leave the privileged place in the window, she is afraid to let go of that little train derailment, responds full of delusions ...
— "Virgin Preserved"? Are you nuts? With my age? Of course the label broke a long time ago!
Receiving the endorsement and the key to the city, affectionately and full precision he engages the first, slides into second, punches in the third, fourth hammers, sledge hammer on Thursday and gives the defendant, which makes her scream in orgasm SECOND!
Outraged, Adriana wants to leave noted in writing that she is a professor of mathematics, and to date only appeared John Doe in my life, that besides all just wanted to put cricket on head Boattini! Ixalá Our Lady helps us fucking!
So far she looks more like an inflatable doll, because she could move her eyes due to lack of experience and fear to exchange her feet with her hands. The urge to want to take all this delirium, did her stay stopped still in order to enjoy all the sexy movement, but to see him gasping satisfied after fucking hottie ...
She creates courage and begins to stroke him, give him kisses and test your taste like licking lollipop and gropes her body fucked. Despite the warmth in her arms, she begins to feel overwhelmed with the weight of your muscles. Not holding more, murmurs asking ...
— It was very good over really I'm not able to breathe, much less move around due to the body weight. So I ask you ... Can you kindly excuse me and leave me the fuck up?
She receives an answer...
— Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ... Ronc... ZZZ!
— Holy shit! Do not tell me that this son of the bitch not only slept like is still snoring loudly yet upon of me?
The next day ...
— Hey you! Yourself! Ohhh..? Girl? Cat? Woman??
What's? Hockey ate the good and the best, savored his body, broke his heart, took his stamp but not remember who is she? At least he should have the decency to remember that she is a friend of his sister, at least that! Ohhh Sad Luck! Maybe it was the damn drink combined with concussion made him forget who's Math! Oh sorry fate. Ohhh life difficult!
How little doom is silly, she still finds that he would come out with another and as received the pipe, took it as a generic and transgenic palliative, since the original did not appear! Then I confess that he fucked every chance to be forgiven!
Defeated, depressed and devastated, she's gone and slipped away and took the mathematical opportunities and went to work in sunny Italy!
Not funny? In real life the only thing you can get done when something goes wrong in the life of Adriana, is to go get their feet wet on the edge of Guarapiranga or dinner then off to put the table in the backyard, under the glow of the moonlight and the warmth of the stars .
And this math, son of the bitch has a one way ticket with all expenses paid to Italy?? I wish I could pack up and send it to enjoy speaking italian with my mess. Mama Mia! Misery! Ohhh Boattini this dull life!
As Murphy's Law says ... There's nothing you can not get any worse! In this Italian paradise, she has a boss who has a calculator in the heart, what makes you think he urgently needs a transplant because it believes there is a void in his chest and no pulse in his heart!
So when she finds him lying motionless on the ground motionless and catatonic after minutes of conjecture, she puts your brain at work and mathematical approaches, but when she see your boss blue, pale, almost a imovel mummy with a stylus stuck in his chest... what does she do? What? What? What's fuck?
Call desperate to 911? Provides first aid and does massage heart? Runs for help? Scream: Somebody help me? She enters and no touches nothing? Depart does not to destroy the evidence? She does her best to not corrupt the crime scene? The CSI Siena and CSI Italy are expected that will want to scour all?
Does Adriana drank? Oh I know ... You sniffed glue Boattini! Mama mia talk soon... What she does fucking? It is clear that not only moves the body like withdraws the stylet buried in the chest of the man!
I confess to you, at this time Horatio Caine from CSI Miami must be pulled his red hair, second Marilda. Mac Taylor from CSI New York must be twitching by evidence of damage! Mama Mia! I was waiting a little more rational and objective in a mathematical person. This is like the scene of a murder of a fifth category of trash movie!
Adriana wants to say thanks to Lisa Marie for the opportunity to show what brazilian people think of your story, to allow us to do our Review. I need to say thank you too to Vanya "tuned" Nunes by put Boattini in "Hall of Fame" Literary. And thanks to Marilda "Gambito" Custodio for your final review and its opinions so full of wisdom.
http://adriboa.blogspot.com.br/2014/0...
July 3, 2014
NOTE: Dying for Siena was recently republished with a different title, Murphy's Law, and under the author's Lisa Marie Rice name. According to the description on amazon, it's been "extensively rewritten" and is "much sexier and funnier".
I've had Dying for Siena in my TBR for years, even since I read LMR's Midnight series and immediately bought her entire backlist. When I heard she'd written some books as Elizabeth Jennings, I bought those too. I had heard that this one didn't have much romance in it, so it languished for several years. I decided to pick it up now purely because of the setting. I recently had a really lovely holiday in Tuscany, which included a visit to the wonderful Siena, and fancied another little visit.
The story actually starts in the US, when Faith Murphy wakes up in a very hungover Nick Rossi's bed. Actually, Nick is pretty much still falling-down drunk, and between that and the fact that he's having some issues with a head injury he got while playing hockey, he can't quite say Faith's name. Faith is offended. This isn't a stranger hook-up; Faith is a good friend of Nick's sister Lou's, and she socialises with the family frequently. She up and leaves (immediately after which, of course, her name finally drops off the tip of Nick's tongue).
A couple of days later, Faith is in Siena. She's a mathematician, and the head of her department has asked her to replace a colleague in a Quantitative Methods seminar. Since it was all very last-minute, Faith hasn't quite finished her preparations, but when she goes to the department head's room to request some supercomputer time for data-crunching, she finds him dead. Even worse, Faith initially thinks he's merely dead drunk, so she makes the mistake of accidentally touching the murder weapon while checking to see if he's ok.
In a not-particularly-convincing coincidence, it turns out that the detective in charge of investigating the case is Commissario Dante Rossi, who just happens to be Nick and Lou's cousin. The cousins are really close, to the point that they spent summers together growing up, and Nick still visits Siena every year at the time of one of the Palios. And when Nick hears what's going on from Dante, and that Faith is a suspect, he's off to Italy like a shot.
That setup does sound like the romance is on the forefront, but it really isn't. Nick does hang around, "helping" Dante with the investigation and trying to protect Faith, who's not particularly open to his overtures, but the focus really isn't on the romance. It's definitely much more of a mystery and a story of a woman whose life is finally getting really good, after years of being put down. Not to mention a story where the setting is almost a character on its own!
Faith could have come across as a bit of a put-upon character. She's been working in a relatively junior academic post, and her supervisor (the murder victim) has been very efficient at claiming the glory for the excellent work she's been doing. She's also been nursing a bit of a crush on Nick, while he goes around womanising and not sparing her a thought, other than as his sister's nice friend. Two things keep her from being a martyr, especially on the work front. First, she really resents the situation, and it's one where I thought it was believable she'd be powerless to change it. And second, we meet her just as things begin to change and opportunities emerge for her to get the appreciation she deserves. She grabs those opportunities with both hands and great relish. As for Nick, she still likes him, but she's not going to be a pushover, now that he's realised he actually cares about her. For starters, she's too busy enjoying her now turbo-charged career, and she makes him feel that.
Something I particularly liked was that the stuff Faith and her colleagues are working on really did sound like the sort of thing mathematicians would do, or at least, what they would have been getting excited about at the time this was written. Such a refreshing novelty, after all those romances where the only defining characteristic of a mathematician is that they can do complicated artithmetic in their heads!
The mystery itself is serviceable, rather than great, but I thoroughly enjoyed the way the investigation of it brought loads of humour into the book. A while ago, when I posted about rereading Woman on the Run, an early LMR, one of my frequent commenters mentioned that something she thought was missing in late LMRs was the humour that was present in earlier books. Well, Fernande, I think you'd like this one.
Dante and his men are responsible for a lot of the humour. Actually, Dante ends up being just as important a character as Faith and Nick, and I was charmed by him. He's really annoyed that he has to investigate this murder (foreigners, typical!) right when more important things are going on. The Palio is about to be ran, and his side finally, after so many years, have a real shot at winning. His thought processes are just beautiful. It's sly, witty and charming humour, and I loved it. Loiacono, the Sicilian inspector who assists Dante deserves a special mention. He is hilarious, with his overeagerness and insistence on behaving as if he was in the FBI, not to mention his over-the-top use of titles (I didn't realise that was a Southern thing, I thought it was just an Italian thing in general. It makes sense, we in Uruguay got mainly Southern Italian immigrants, and that results in people calling me "Economist MyLastName" whenever I vist!).
I think what I liked the most about this humour is how it's done with great and very clear fondness. Dante and Loiacono are not made into ridiculous characters, and neither is the Italian way of doing things excoriated or ridiculed. I believe LMR has spent a lot of time living in Italy, and it shows. Based on the narration, I'd guess she loves the place and the people and admires a lot about it, while seeing clearly that there are things that are a bit surreal.
Finally, I need to say something about the setting. It was like going back to Siena for a while, which is exactly what I wanted. I loved it. As I mentioned, the action takes place right before the Palio, the famous horse race that takes place twice a year there, and with which so many Sienese are completely obsessed. That was one of the things our guide told us when we were there: Siena is quite a touristy place, which might make you suspect they do a thing like the Palio mainly for the tourists, but he said that was very much not the case. He said that the Sienese really, really care about it, and winning the Palio basically gives very coveted bragging rights to particular 'contrade' (these are different areas of the city, which compete against each other in the Palio). If this book tells even half of it, they certainly do take it seriously. There was this really funny scene when the medical examiner comes in and Dante thinks that he's not just a colleague, he's also an enemy, because he is... a Turtle! Yep, some contrade have pretty fierce names (Panther, Dragon, Eagle), but there are also Goose, Caterpillar and Porcupine! And our manly-men Dante and Nick are Snails! I loved it. Romance is too full of Dukes of Falconridge; where are the snails?
MY GRADE: A B+.
I've had Dying for Siena in my TBR for years, even since I read LMR's Midnight series and immediately bought her entire backlist. When I heard she'd written some books as Elizabeth Jennings, I bought those too. I had heard that this one didn't have much romance in it, so it languished for several years. I decided to pick it up now purely because of the setting. I recently had a really lovely holiday in Tuscany, which included a visit to the wonderful Siena, and fancied another little visit.
The story actually starts in the US, when Faith Murphy wakes up in a very hungover Nick Rossi's bed. Actually, Nick is pretty much still falling-down drunk, and between that and the fact that he's having some issues with a head injury he got while playing hockey, he can't quite say Faith's name. Faith is offended. This isn't a stranger hook-up; Faith is a good friend of Nick's sister Lou's, and she socialises with the family frequently. She up and leaves (immediately after which, of course, her name finally drops off the tip of Nick's tongue).
A couple of days later, Faith is in Siena. She's a mathematician, and the head of her department has asked her to replace a colleague in a Quantitative Methods seminar. Since it was all very last-minute, Faith hasn't quite finished her preparations, but when she goes to the department head's room to request some supercomputer time for data-crunching, she finds him dead. Even worse, Faith initially thinks he's merely dead drunk, so she makes the mistake of accidentally touching the murder weapon while checking to see if he's ok.
In a not-particularly-convincing coincidence, it turns out that the detective in charge of investigating the case is Commissario Dante Rossi, who just happens to be Nick and Lou's cousin. The cousins are really close, to the point that they spent summers together growing up, and Nick still visits Siena every year at the time of one of the Palios. And when Nick hears what's going on from Dante, and that Faith is a suspect, he's off to Italy like a shot.
That setup does sound like the romance is on the forefront, but it really isn't. Nick does hang around, "helping" Dante with the investigation and trying to protect Faith, who's not particularly open to his overtures, but the focus really isn't on the romance. It's definitely much more of a mystery and a story of a woman whose life is finally getting really good, after years of being put down. Not to mention a story where the setting is almost a character on its own!
Faith could have come across as a bit of a put-upon character. She's been working in a relatively junior academic post, and her supervisor (the murder victim) has been very efficient at claiming the glory for the excellent work she's been doing. She's also been nursing a bit of a crush on Nick, while he goes around womanising and not sparing her a thought, other than as his sister's nice friend. Two things keep her from being a martyr, especially on the work front. First, she really resents the situation, and it's one where I thought it was believable she'd be powerless to change it. And second, we meet her just as things begin to change and opportunities emerge for her to get the appreciation she deserves. She grabs those opportunities with both hands and great relish. As for Nick, she still likes him, but she's not going to be a pushover, now that he's realised he actually cares about her. For starters, she's too busy enjoying her now turbo-charged career, and she makes him feel that.
Something I particularly liked was that the stuff Faith and her colleagues are working on really did sound like the sort of thing mathematicians would do, or at least, what they would have been getting excited about at the time this was written. Such a refreshing novelty, after all those romances where the only defining characteristic of a mathematician is that they can do complicated artithmetic in their heads!
The mystery itself is serviceable, rather than great, but I thoroughly enjoyed the way the investigation of it brought loads of humour into the book. A while ago, when I posted about rereading Woman on the Run, an early LMR, one of my frequent commenters mentioned that something she thought was missing in late LMRs was the humour that was present in earlier books. Well, Fernande, I think you'd like this one.
Dante and his men are responsible for a lot of the humour. Actually, Dante ends up being just as important a character as Faith and Nick, and I was charmed by him. He's really annoyed that he has to investigate this murder (foreigners, typical!) right when more important things are going on. The Palio is about to be ran, and his side finally, after so many years, have a real shot at winning. His thought processes are just beautiful. It's sly, witty and charming humour, and I loved it. Loiacono, the Sicilian inspector who assists Dante deserves a special mention. He is hilarious, with his overeagerness and insistence on behaving as if he was in the FBI, not to mention his over-the-top use of titles (I didn't realise that was a Southern thing, I thought it was just an Italian thing in general. It makes sense, we in Uruguay got mainly Southern Italian immigrants, and that results in people calling me "Economist MyLastName" whenever I vist!).
I think what I liked the most about this humour is how it's done with great and very clear fondness. Dante and Loiacono are not made into ridiculous characters, and neither is the Italian way of doing things excoriated or ridiculed. I believe LMR has spent a lot of time living in Italy, and it shows. Based on the narration, I'd guess she loves the place and the people and admires a lot about it, while seeing clearly that there are things that are a bit surreal.
Finally, I need to say something about the setting. It was like going back to Siena for a while, which is exactly what I wanted. I loved it. As I mentioned, the action takes place right before the Palio, the famous horse race that takes place twice a year there, and with which so many Sienese are completely obsessed. That was one of the things our guide told us when we were there: Siena is quite a touristy place, which might make you suspect they do a thing like the Palio mainly for the tourists, but he said that was very much not the case. He said that the Sienese really, really care about it, and winning the Palio basically gives very coveted bragging rights to particular 'contrade' (these are different areas of the city, which compete against each other in the Palio). If this book tells even half of it, they certainly do take it seriously. There was this really funny scene when the medical examiner comes in and Dante thinks that he's not just a colleague, he's also an enemy, because he is... a Turtle! Yep, some contrade have pretty fierce names (Panther, Dragon, Eagle), but there are also Goose, Caterpillar and Porcupine! And our manly-men Dante and Nick are Snails! I loved it. Romance is too full of Dukes of Falconridge; where are the snails?
MY GRADE: A B+.
June 24, 2018
Not overly bad, but not great. Some of the character were very unlikable most of the time and the horse race issue was very confusing at times. Some typos.
September 25, 2021
Booooring. More mystery than Romance and too much description of Italy. The hero was a arrogant jerk and the heroin while intelligent becomes puddle for the hero. Mehhh
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 6, 2022
I love this book but hate an ending that's incomplete. Why must we be left to guess what else is going to happen
May 23, 2024
Kindle
March 9, 2015
I was always a fan of Lisa Marie Rice. There is so many things to love about novels not excluding her hot alpha heroes and her damsels in distress.
Murphy's Law did not live up to her standards. In fact, I felt as if someone else had written the whole entire thing.
Things I couldn't get over in the book:
1. I cannot connect with the characters. I tried to like the hero and the heroine, but I couldn't. Ms. Rice didn't give us anything to relate to them even superficially. In fact, there was no development of characters at all.
2. Ms. Rice spent almost half the time writing under the POV of Dante, the hero's cousin. One would feel that the book was about him and his preoccupation with a horse race, seeing how little of the book was devoted to the hero or the heroine.
3. No chemistry between the couple. The book started off the hero and heroine having sex. That's it. No sizzling chemistry, no getting to know them first. Just jump us right into a sex with little passion. Out of the bedroom, there was so little time devoted to having them get to know each other. We have somewhat of a decent background story of them knowing each other through his sister, but there was no development of the relationship.
4. There was so much irrelevancy in the book that it was disjointed. We get a lot character being preoccupied with things that are better off left less detailed. The whole book has more exposure to the annual horse race than the murder case itself.
5. I had to struggle to finish the book. All readers know that when you even have to force yourself to finish a book, there's something wrong about it. And boy, there was a lot of things wrong with this book.
Would I recommend this? Two words: ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Murphy's Law did not live up to her standards. In fact, I felt as if someone else had written the whole entire thing.
Things I couldn't get over in the book:
1. I cannot connect with the characters. I tried to like the hero and the heroine, but I couldn't. Ms. Rice didn't give us anything to relate to them even superficially. In fact, there was no development of characters at all.
2. Ms. Rice spent almost half the time writing under the POV of Dante, the hero's cousin. One would feel that the book was about him and his preoccupation with a horse race, seeing how little of the book was devoted to the hero or the heroine.
3. No chemistry between the couple. The book started off the hero and heroine having sex. That's it. No sizzling chemistry, no getting to know them first. Just jump us right into a sex with little passion. Out of the bedroom, there was so little time devoted to having them get to know each other. We have somewhat of a decent background story of them knowing each other through his sister, but there was no development of the relationship.
4. There was so much irrelevancy in the book that it was disjointed. We get a lot character being preoccupied with things that are better off left less detailed. The whole book has more exposure to the annual horse race than the murder case itself.
5. I had to struggle to finish the book. All readers know that when you even have to force yourself to finish a book, there's something wrong about it. And boy, there was a lot of things wrong with this book.
Would I recommend this? Two words: ABSOLUTELY NOT!
January 3, 2018
Es mucho el ir y venir de los personajes, la escritora de concentró más en la relación amorosa que en el misterio. Demasiado predecibles los acontecimientos.
June 5, 2016
about one-third in (one fourth maybe) and the H has been a dick, and then a no show, and we, the audience (readers) get to see a lot of Dante, H's cousin, and get to hear (read) about all these women that Dante has slept with. The references just keep popping (coroner's daughter, some math dept head's daughter, all the english speaking female tourists he's banged). I can honestly say, this is more annoying that the H's ows! Docking one point for the H and one for his cousin, because I actually like the novel so far.
H's a bit of a ho. And hasn't deigned to notice the h hanging around for the past year, while he waded through his sea of women, last of whom was Dee Dee, who we get to read a bit about (how the h compares favorably to her)
The murder-mystery is engaging and rather gripping... .
Rather good. Story picks up in the second half. Almost makes me add a star level. almost.
H's a bit of a ho. And hasn't deigned to notice the h hanging around for the past year, while he waded through his sea of women, last of whom was Dee Dee, who we get to read a bit about (how the h compares favorably to her)
The murder-mystery is engaging and rather gripping... .
Rather good. Story picks up in the second half. Almost makes me add a star level. almost.
October 31, 2014
Siena, the city, is beautiful, but in order to be worthy, the characters in this book also had to be beautiful. The emphasis on beauty and the direct correlation of how miserable the ugly characters are annoyed me greatly. There were other issues, too--constantly referring to the hero as dumb; the hero making a completely unprofessional scene with one of the heroine's colleagues, and she takes him to task not at all; reference to a date rape drug and why anyone would use it on an unattractive person; constant mention of how many beautiful women had been bedded by two good-looking cousins. The character of the murderer was written so obviously that a reader couldn't help but wonder how clueless the rest of the characters had to be not to see it; it lacked only moustache twirling to complete the picture of a villain.
This was the first book by Ms. Rice that I've read and there's another in my TBR pile. I hope the next one goes better.
This was the first book by Ms. Rice that I've read and there's another in my TBR pile. I hope the next one goes better.
April 26, 2015
Some weird-bad copy editing issues in this: like secondary character Richard Richard Allen sometimes being called Paul (or vice versa, I'm not sure which it is really).
Also, when I first read the opening chapter, I was all "oh poor woobie heroine" but then later realized that Nick's two-day hangover was maybe a sign that he'd been too drunk to consent, and then I was all "gross gross gross." (And given the murder motive was rape facilitated by knock-out drugs, that juxtaposition was extra weird.)
What little romance there was all seemed to take place before the book started. As I was going to write this review I saw that it was originally released under the author's mystery pseudonym, which helped explain why that part of the story was so subdued.
The descriptions of Siena were great and Nick's cousin's internal monologs were kind of hilarious. It kind of felt like he'd wandered into this book from another, more interesting book by mistake.
Also, when I first read the opening chapter, I was all "oh poor woobie heroine" but then later realized that Nick's two-day hangover was maybe a sign that he'd been too drunk to consent, and then I was all "gross gross gross." (And given the murder motive was rape facilitated by knock-out drugs, that juxtaposition was extra weird.)
What little romance there was all seemed to take place before the book started. As I was going to write this review I saw that it was originally released under the author's mystery pseudonym, which helped explain why that part of the story was so subdued.
The descriptions of Siena were great and Nick's cousin's internal monologs were kind of hilarious. It kind of felt like he'd wandered into this book from another, more interesting book by mistake.
April 22, 2016
La Ley De Murphy es una novela independiente creada por la autora Lisa Marie Rice y tiene a Faith y Nick como protagonistas.
A primera vista la novela no me llamo la atencion pero decidi darle el beneficio de la duda porque estaba escrita por una autora que me encanta. Despues de haber leido tantos libros de Lisa Marie Rice nunca pense que habria alguna de sus historias que no me gustara pero esta lectura no fue lo que esperaba.
Lenta, con una trama aburrida y muy falta de desarrollo, todo era plano, sin nada que hiciera la historia memorable, ni siquiera la relacion de los protagonistas me gusto, me parecio apresurada e inverosimil.
En fin, seguire buscando la lectura que me saque de mi bloqueo. * suspiro *
1.75 Estrellas!
November 14, 2014
Buffff me ha hecho gracia todo lo relacionado con Siena y el Palio porque estuve allí este año y pude vivir las contratas en vivo y en directo. La historia de fondo con el asesinato y ver cómo iban descubriendo las pistas ha estado bien, aunque la historia de amor entre Nick y Faith me ha parecido floja. Que Nick se enamorase en cuestión de segundos no me convenció porque parecía que la quería a ella porque tenía que renunciar a su carrera y ese final... creo que le falta un capítulo más por lo menos...
October 13, 2016
What the hell did I just read??
It had the set-up for a nice romantic suspense plot and I'm somewhat glad I hung in there because I was thrown for a loop about the ending but man what a bunch of babble in between!! Most of the story is about H's cousin Dante and his past love life (good god did he sleep with everyone's daughter in Siena??) and the famous horse race.
2 stars just because I enjoyed the first couple chapters, H's struggle with picking a new career and the last couple chapters when the action finally happened.
It had the set-up for a nice romantic suspense plot and I'm somewhat glad I hung in there because I was thrown for a loop about the ending but man what a bunch of babble in between!! Most of the story is about H's cousin Dante and his past love life (good god did he sleep with everyone's daughter in Siena??) and the famous horse race.
2 stars just because I enjoyed the first couple chapters, H's struggle with picking a new career and the last couple chapters when the action finally happened.
August 24, 2014
This book is completely different from anything else I have read by Lisa Marie Rice. It was funny and light although there were serious issues taking place.
I loved that the heroine was a math nerd. I did not like that the hero was considered to be dumb by all his friends and family. Faith is the only person in Nick's life who has never made fun of his intelligence.
I have to wonder if she ever wrote a book about Nick's cousin Dante. He definitely needs his own story.
I loved that the heroine was a math nerd. I did not like that the hero was considered to be dumb by all his friends and family. Faith is the only person in Nick's life who has never made fun of his intelligence.
I have to wonder if she ever wrote a book about Nick's cousin Dante. He definitely needs his own story.
November 7, 2014
a pesar de ser una de mis autoras favoritas, este libro no me gusto, si quieres saber sobre la historia de las carreras de Italia y a la vida en Sienna este es tu libro, desafortunadamente la interacción entre los personajes y la historia se pierde con tantos datos, además que aparece más el primo que el protagonista.
January 2, 2015
The main character in this book was not a couple but the city of Siena, Italy, and I loved that. The love story of Nick and Faith was wonderful and I really rooted for them. I just wish the sex scenes had been more explicit. The murder mystery including an excellent who-done-it made me rate five stars.
January 12, 2015
Smiled throughput
Always enjoy this author's books. Great plot great H great h . The villain really was the dead guy and the secondary villain was a surprise. Loved secondary characters especially Dante. Would love to see book with him and also Lou. Ended way to quickly without wedding just cut off needed something only drawback with this one
Always enjoy this author's books. Great plot great H great h . The villain really was the dead guy and the secondary villain was a surprise. Loved secondary characters especially Dante. Would love to see book with him and also Lou. Ended way to quickly without wedding just cut off needed something only drawback with this one
September 22, 2015
This is one of the worst books I've read. I don't like writing reviews like this one, and I normally like this author a lot, but this book was just so boring. I couldn't enjoy it, no matter what and I tried...
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September 29, 2008Elizabeth Jennings aka Lisa Marie Rice is an excellent read. It's not as hot and sex hot as some of her others but this one you need to read if you ever plan on going to Italy
November 9, 2012
a good book, one of this author's earlier efforts. have to admit, didn't see it coming just who the murderer turned out to be!
June 16, 2014
3.5**
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