Disappointing and very boring....................
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I have always enjoyed Jackie Collins books - great for holidays etc - but I have found her last few offerings to be dull, boring and predictable and this one is no exception. Constant reminders of the past - unnessessary if you have read the others in the series - and a 'plot' that goes nowhere! Time to put a lid on this series and get back to what she does best - sex, drugs and rock and roll!
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Drop Dead Boring
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The first Collins novel I read was Thrill and it lived up to its title. Her newer books aren't a patch on her older work, in this book she seems to have given up on the sex, glamour and excitement for a trundle through an old characters latest escapades.
This story features some old and new characters, although you could pick it up without reading the previous books in the Santangelo series. It centres around Lucky and her latest hotel 'The Keys' which is a bit 'been there, read that', and her daughter Max who gets kidnapped and just as it gets exciting the drama stops and you find yourself getting off halfway through the ride. The story picks up a bit towards the end but it seems like she ran out of time and sums up the ending of each characters storyline very quickly over a few pages which is a real anti-climax.
Collins keeps the chapters short, which is good for a bedtime read and the suspense follows the trusted formula of moving between the characters and leaving each chapter on a cliff-hanger, but if you lost this on the beach you might find yourself not caring about the story enough to go and buy it again, and it's not one you will re-read over and over again like some of her others.
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GREAT!
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this is the first Jackie Collins i've read, and read it by accident. i was hooked from start to finish and now i'm a hardcore Jackie Collins fan!
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ok-ish, but....
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I enjoyed this book but if you read all of the six santangelo books in sequence and then finished with this one I think you would be very disappointed, and also it would be very obvious how Jackie Collins just isn't writing books like she used to; I think she's just writing them for the American market now - she's forgotten where she comes from!!! Even for a holiday book this really isn't good enough, and if you read one of her early books not knowing who the author was, and then this, again not knowing who the author was, if you were then told it was the same author you just wouldn't believe it! This book is really amatuer and I just wish she would return to her old style and put a bit more effort in. I haven't read a truly good JC since Thrill! and that was a long time ago. As one reviewer said in an earlier review, she's just relying on her name now, and that's pretty sad. I wouldn't really recommend this and I certainly would suggest for anyone who has never read her books or who is just starting to, start at the beginning of her career!
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Entertaining
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I had this book for Christmas and finished it in 2 days. It was ok ish and the chapters were short so you felt you wanted to keep reading. I did have issues with the characters though in that they are all a little bit too fantastic to believe. Gino, being 95 and still going to Vegas looking around hotels and enjoying parties, i think not, not even in Hollywood. Max, Luckys spoiled teenage daughter, spoiled but oh so doesnt do drugs etc, do celebrity children really have such a great upbringing that they dont do drink or drugs, more like mummy and daddy are too interested in grabbing headlines that they give a damn about their kids, or even know their names, and the character Lucky herself and her husband Lennie. Too good to be true, how old is Lucky, im guessing mid forties, why no wrinkles, why is she so fabulous looking, her husband is fabulous looking, her children are fabulous looking, everything she does is a success, her relationship with her husband is fabulous, they never argue, how real is that!!! I feel a bit of substance and real life wouldnt go amiss here. Life isnt the fairytale. I enjoyed the book, entertaining enough, but wouldnt rush out to buy it and probably wont ever pick it up to re-read it again.
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