Last Will
Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser, and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible now that he's inherited his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes...
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Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser, and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible now that he's inherited his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a mansion, a lot of obligations, and a very problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother--Meda is all those things, and she may be the only person who can help Bernie survive his new and very public life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780982773475 (0982773471)
Publish date: April 24th 2012
Publisher: Stairway Press
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
3.5 Stars"What a cunt," Ray said, louder, emboldened by his friends' laughter. Meda didn't pause and my gut churned to hear him reduce her to the thing he'd done to her. The truth is that every fistfight I ever had, most of them with Robby, ended with me getting the worst of it. I was not prepared t...
Just don't think I can do this. To be fair, I want to think about the review before I write it. Just did not like this at all. It never engaged this reader.Nope .. not thinking this will be a happy read.ARC 06/05/2012.
2.5 stars. This is the second time in less than 24 hours where I'm going to have to use the terms quiet and anti-climactic in a review. There's no doubt that I should consider digging deep into my mental thesaurus to come up with different terms but I'm going to reserve the effort for a book I'd rat...
This review has some spoilery read at your own risk. I thought the writing style of the book was good although it had, kind of, a depressing tone to it. My favorite thing about the book was the dry humor. I'm not even sure if parts were supposed to be funny, but I found myself laughing through the ...
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