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Bezig met laden... Just Add Water (Hetta Coffey Series) (Volume 1) (editie 2013)door Jinx Schwartz
Informatie over het werkJust Add Water (Hetta Coffey Mystery, #1) door Jinx Schwartz
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Book 1 in light mystery series. A fun read about loud, abrasive Hetta Cofffey, a self-employed civil engineer with a swath of failed multi-national affairs in her jet stream.Plying the San Francisco waterfront, trolling for triceps, her attention is snagged by a parade of passing yachts-especially their male skippers-and experiences a champagne-induced epiphany. If she had a boat, she could get a man.Inspite of a spectacular ignorance of all things nautical, Hetta buys her dream boat, but a shadowy stalker, an inconvenient body, and Hetta?s own self-destructive foibles imperil her goal. Hetta Coffey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase ?sink or swim?. This is a “fluff” read about a woman who has it all, including a disappearing, dishonest boyfriend, but wants more now that he has gone bye-bye. There is a mystery involved, but there is an awful lot of yacht-clubbing and boredom as well. It was mildly entertaining, and I appreciated the strength of friendships, but it was too long for an unsubstantial story. I borrowed this ebook through Kindle Unlimited. 2 ½ stars out of 5. I can’t tell you what the book is about. Instead, I have to refer you to a description of the book by Amazon or Goodreads. After reading 25% or 98 pages of the book, I was still in the setup for the story. My goodness, what is the purpose of reading 98 pages introducing the characters when it should have taken 10-20 pages. Boring! I didn’t like the characters as presented - and found no remorse in not finishing the book, there are too many other better reads, to waste my time. Hetta Coffey is an engineering consultant who, at the beginning of this book, is working for an American consulting company in Japan. Her fiancée, an American whom she met after arriving in Japan, is working at another company. When he is found to be stealing from the company and using company shipments to smuggle stolen goods, he gets out ahead of being arrested, and along the way cleans out her bank account. The only thing he can't get is the key to a certain locker, that he left in her innocent keeping, which she wears on a chain around her neck. Five years later, she's back in the US, owns a house in Oakland, and has her own consulting business. She still wears the key, as a reminder that men can't be trusted. The only male in her emotional life is a yellow Lab, adopted from a shelter, whom she calls RJ. Then strange and interesting things start to happen. She and her friend Jan meet the Jenkins brothers, Lars and Bob, a.k.a. "Jenks." She and Jenks initially really don't like each other, but you know immediately where that has to go. Especially since Jenks runs a security company, and Hetta is going to be needed security, very soon... She starts getting hangup calls, and strange things seem to be happening around her house, including her dog getting out of his very secure enclosure to harass the mailman, and someone seemingly having gone through her jewelry box. Hetta and Jan are from Texas, and they don't like "Yankees." Lars and Jenks are Yankees, and since Boston is mentioned at some point, that doesn't mean they're just fans of the New York Yankees baseball team. Hetta and Jan find repeated need to mention their dislike of Yankees. What fun. Hetta repeatedly exercises quite impressively bad judgment, and, for a woman who prides herself on being strong and independent, and despite a willingness to be quite impressively rude sometimes, other times is depressingly polite when she needs to be assertive, because the plot requires her to agree to something a little normal rudeness would help her avoid. She is also, for a woman who says men can't be trusted, amazingly trusting of men trying to put something over on her. Honestly, I'm being a bit unfair. The plot would be fun if I didn't find Hetta so annoying. Also, the dog dies. Not by violence, or so Hetta can prove she's a responsible adult (good thing!), but still a cheap grab for emotion. Too many writers find it far too easy to kill the dog, and I don't like it. I would not have picked up this audiobook if I knew that there was a dog who would die in it. But for people who don't find Hetta annoying, and who don't have my reaction to writers killing dogs for the easy emotion, this is probably a fun book. I bought this audiobook. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Hetta Coffey is a globe-trotting civil engineer with attitude who is working on coming of age, a little late. Pushing forty and still single, Hetta is the epitome of the "B" word: bold, bossy, brassy, breezy and brash. After leaving a lifelong swath of failed multi-national affairs in her jet stream, it is no wonder Hetta prefers living with her dog R. J. But old habits die hard, and trolling for triceps is Hetta's hobby. Plying the waterfront in search of Saturday brunch, Hetta's attention is snagged by a parade of passing yacht--especially their predominantly male skippers--and experiences a champagne-induced epiphany: if she had a boat, she could get a man. In hopes a floating Valhalla will overcome an all-time low-water mark in her life, Hetta buys her dream boat in spite of a spectacular ignorance of all things nautical. But a shadowy stalker, an inconvenient body, and Hetta's own self-destructive foibles imperil not only her new life, but a newly- found romance. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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