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“Tightly written pulp. Quick and enjoyable.”
kittyism wrote this review Monday, September 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I feel like I should put on some chili red lipstick and shake out a cigarette before I start this review. I left the chili red lipstick at home and I don't smoke, so I'll do the best I can.
IYamVixenBooks wrote this review Wednesday, July 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
MONEY SHOT is a no holds barred, don't get attached to anyone kind of book. Under normal description, this could be a cozy mystery...the main character is not a detective and finds herself having to investigate the hell that her life has become through no fault of her own. Except cozy mystery writers tend to not utilize the porn industry as a backdrop and the main character is rarely (read NEVER) a porn star who now runs her own agency for porn starlets.
Angel Dare, porn star back in the day and still recognized for her work in X rated films, retired from in front of the camera and is now behind the scenes with her high class adult modeling agency Daring Angels.
Angel is having one of those days of feeling her years and finds herself saying yes to a request to get in front of the camera just one more time. She ends up hit in the face and stuffed in the trunk of a car, left for dead.
She wants to find out who did this to her and why and get her life back if she can.
It's grimy, sordid, definitely not a feel good book to read and I read it in practically one sitting. I couldn't sleep nights until at least some aspect of the awfulness that was happening to Angel was rectified. I read until someone got what was coming to them.
The voice over in my head for this book was Linda Fiorentino, all smoky.
Five gritty avenging beans......
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“More Hard Case Crime! My poor wallet! Update: Damn, this is one hardcore book. A REAL page-turner with a great ending, but *not at all for* the faint of heart.”
wsoutherland wrote this review Thursday, July 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Faaaaaantastic! Adult fiction - crude, but not obscene. The storyline and prose are tight: what you'd expect from hard-boiled fiction without being formulaic. My own knowledge of the seedier sides of LA and Vegas helped make the story even more real than I think it would otherwise have been. A quick read, and worth every minute.”
Emily F wrote this review Thursday, April 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I loved it.
Tony Varrato wrote this review Tuesday, June 24 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It's a classic noir revenge tale with an edge. By "Edge" I mean my kids won't be reading this one for many years!
Well-written, action and mystery.”
“This is a solid noir adventure of revenge. The plot moves along quickly, and briskly. I'd put the Dracula factor close to James Ellroy but only slightly less twisted. The heroine of the story is a former Porn actress who is put into play by someone that she doesn't even know, and has to navigate a underworld that she knows, but at the same time that she doesn't know. This book isn't for the faint of heart, if you like the kind of mystery where the cat and a cup of tea solve everything... this isn't for you... ”
Eric P wrote this review Wednesday, June 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Gritty uncompromising crime noir set against the world of adult film making. Entertaining and very fast paced.
I.E. Lester wrote this review Tuesday, April 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Surprisingly (in a good way) the book does not focus on the sex side, there are no endless graphic sex scenes getting in the way of the tale. When sex is used it is integral to the plot.”
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