Spying in High Heels (High Heels, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Sep 23, 2011 Gina rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, mystery, books-i-own-read, chick-lit, kindle

Ok so this book was on my TBR shelf and was recommended to me as part of a book club. I got the book for free from Amazon and when I downloaded it, I didn't have high expectations for it but, when someone actually recommended it, I thought I would give it a fair chance. Welllllll....I did try to like it. The books opens with Maddie, the main character and shoe designer, going to meet her lawyer boyfriend. He cancels on her for lunch and then doesn't show up later. He disappears, a murder takes p Ok so this book was on my TBR shelf and was recommended to me as part of a book club. I got the book for free from Amazon and when I downloaded it, I didn't have high expectations for it but, when someone actually recommended it, I thought I would give it a fair chance. Welllllll....I did try to like it. The books opens with Maddie, the main character and shoe designer, going to meet her lawyer boyfriend. He cancels on her for lunch and then doesn't show up later. He disappears, a murder takes place,and Maddie decides she is on the case. So here we go following Maddie around as she and her friend try to be detectives. Along the way she meets the sexy cop, Ramirez, so they start the usual banter of "I want to help you be a policeman" and "No, you need to stay home. This is a dangerous situation." This plotline is so thin that I can't say much more about the story without telling it all. The story felt like I was listening to a teenager talk on and on and on....and you get it right? There was also a whole lot of eating fast food and driving around L.A. I may not live in L.A. but I can't imagine their highways and Taco Bells as being any more exciting than mine. I know I am out of the target range for the audience of this book so I feel like its kinda unfair of me to even review it. Did I like it? No. But someone younger may. That is why I stretched it to a 2 star review of the story.

The actual writing cannot be ignored no matter the target. Its hard to believe the author has won awards for her writing because this was very flawed. Maybe it was produced in Kindle format without any editing. The chronology of the story was all over the place. Today is a weekday and the next day is Saturday but then she is calling someone on a work day?? I am not even sure how many days this story took place over. Maybe the author thought such details don't matter? I'm not sure. There were punctuation marks all over the place and the writing was just a mess. I made my 7th grade students write better structured sentences than were in this story. So the actual writing gets a 1 star. Someone could have edited the thing.

So you can make the decision to read this on your own. It was a freebie and I guess I got what I paid for. This story wasn't for me. I found myself skimming parts just to finish. The writing is bad and the story was thin. I think it reads as a bad YA novel trying on high heels. ...more

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Feb 20, 2023 Connie N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: cozy-mystery, first-in-series, blue, kindle

#1 in the High Heels mystery series

This was an unexpectedly fun first in series. I don't know how I ended up with it on my Kindle, but I finally got around to reading it and enjoyed it very much. Maddie is a great MC. She is funny but strong and intelligent. Sure, she meddles where she shouldn't into the murder investigation, but she explains that and just feels compelled to help. She doesn't do anything that seems, on the surface, to be terribly dangerous, but it oftens turns out to be more tha ...more

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Jan 07, 2012 Angel **Book Junkie** rated it really liked it

First as awful as I feel this week I am shocked that I can take the time to read a book. So glad it was free and made me giggle. Truthfully I have not LOL'd at a book in a long time but, this one was ridiculous at times and I had to laugh.

OKKKKKKKK! I am a dork but, a sucker for Free Books on the Kindle. Some are brilliant some are not so brilliant. Right now I am reading Spying in High Heels. Too cute. Okay I know that bad spelling, bad punctuations, bad grammar, BUT it is FREE. So you have to ...more

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