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| Original Title: | Curse of the Spellmans |
| ISBN: | 1416532412 (ISBN13: 9781416532415) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Spellmans #2 |
| Characters: | Izzy Spellman |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2009), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009) |
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| Title | : | Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #2) |
| Author | : | Lisa Lutz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 362 pages |
| Published | : | March 11th 2008 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Humor. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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THEY'RE BAAAAACK.
Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny story of suspicion, surveillance, and surprise.
When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She's been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good -- even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not.
When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- as only she, a thirty-year-old licensed professional, can.
When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her "best friend," Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler's holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991Â-92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As Curse of the Spellmans unfolds, it's clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases -- her own and that of every other Spellman family member.
(Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation -- all in the name of unconditional love.
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Izzy's back! I was so excited to see a sequel to The Spellman Files.So, we revisit Isabel and the rest of the Spellman family, but they're not as colorful as I remember them. The Spellman parents aren't as nosey, and her younger sister, Rae, is not the little spy she was in the first book. And her perfect brother, David, isn't so perfect anymore. Only Izzy remains in that crazy Spellman zone--ever suspicious of everyone and everything.And this is where our story begins. A new neighbor for theThis was a reread for me and chosen deliberately. I miss Izzy. I miss Rae. The series ended document six, and I was desperately hoping for more. Its not to be, however. So I enjoyed the trip down memory lane, getting to know all the characters all over again.
3+ I feel like a sympathetic friend listening as Izzy explains how the Spellman family detective agency solves this case and the mysteries of the world. Witty and goofy and if its not apparent at first, she ll figure it out along the way.
So much fun! The Spellman dysfunctional and quite crazy family always manage to make me laugh, and this time, Lutz had them also go through life changes that developed the characters in an interesting ways. The plot is suspenseful, the dialogues superb - here is a writer who can write a teenager who is really smart, but who is also still child-like and speaks her age. Intelligent and fully entertaining.
While I thoroughly enjoyed the humor of this novel, I found it to be so disjointed and oddly organized as to be annoying. The book was chocked full of interesting characters with dysfunctional relationships that offered a good deal of humor but the plot took a backseat to the humor and sadly the humor was the central part of the book. It was funny, but it was far too cutesy. In fact it was so cutesy it came across like an episode of the naked gun. What little mystery there was got resolved in
The Good Stuff Another wild and wacky tale of the delightfully dysfunctional, yet totally loveable, Spellman family Would love to take mamma Spellman to some of Jake's parent teachers meeting - she totally rocks Love how Izzy refers to potential dates as Ex-Boyfriend #? Don't really have to read the first book in order to understand the plot, it will help and you will love it, but you won't be totally lost if you don't Gives you a synopsis of the first book without too much repetition for those
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