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Kisser |  | Author: Stuart Woods
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 2346
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B002UXRF6C
Publication Date: November 21, 2009
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Product Description
Stone Barrington is back in this thrilling new page-turner from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.
Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he's looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman & Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price. . . .
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 He's just phoning it in these days. July 27, 2010
Bruce from LA
It should be pretty obvious by now that Woods has long ago ceased being any kind of rational fiction writer. His "plots" are somewhat less plausible than the James Bond or Walter Mitty fare and his attention to detail is....well, practically non-existent. It's like he just phones in his stories as he makes them up and no one even bothers to edit them. He can't even keep the names of his characters straight. Is it Mitzi or Mimi? Is it Philip Larkin or Philip Parsons --- and all this not only on the same page but often even in the same paragraph!!!
If you like the Walter Mitty shtick you may like killing some time reading his books on the beach or an airplane or whatever. Everyone in his stories is rich, beautiful/handsome, sexually adventurous and promiscuous. Also most everyone is a gourmet cook, art critic, private pilot who owns their own plane and/or NYPD Homicide Lieutenant who can fix any inconvenient legalities that might arise. What's not to like, right? Just don't get too invested in the plot because it will eventually fizzle into the utterly absurd for no reasons you can logically discern. Read it like you would a comic book...or else find a real novel by someone else.
 worst Stuart Woods book ever July 26, 2010
Donna Gurkin (baldwin, MD United States)
Mr. Woods has written excellent books in the past -- I would give 5 stars to both Palindrome and Chiefs and would recommend these books to friends. "Kisser" however I could barely finish -- and the only reason I finished it was that I was on vacation and it was the only book I brought. This book makes no sense, the excessive sex scenes are unbelievable and overall it was simply: boring. I am giving Stone a break.
Dreadful July 15, 2010
Vanessa F. Hinds (Cambridge, Ontario Canada)
What a piece of garbage. I finished it yesterday and I'm still wincing. I continue to be embarrassed for Stuart Woods. His "work" over the last 8-10 years makes him appear nuttier than "Dolce." I defy him to write one book, just ONE, where he can recall all of his own characters names, (yes, Stuart, first AND last names) for the entire book. Speaking of Dolce I'm shocked he has kept her name straight for so long. I keep expecting his next book to have me reading about how "Dorothy" was hiding in the shadows with a gun, etc.
Please Mr. Woods, I beg of you, make a genuine effort to write something for us that is interesting, clever, doesn't contain irritatingly written and preposterous sex scenes...and CAREFULLY written (ie: if someone's name is Kerry Smith don't change it to Kerry White halfway though.) Thank you in advance.
Kisser (Stone Barrington No. 17) July 15, 2010
Rosellen Price (Woodward, IA USA)
Quite honestly, I have completely quit reading any of Stuart Woods books. I absolutely loved his first Stone Barrington books. I was totally hooked. For the last few years, they've been all the same. Then a couple of years ago he pulled a stunt that made everybody mad. He put two of his already published books into one and gave it a new title, which I consider a really cheap trick.
I have actually published 3-mystery novels of my own. I contacted Stuart Woods through his website asking for advise on publishing, and he was quite arrogant in his response. My books are about a 37 year-old Interior Designer named Madeline Fox. Blood & Wine, Deadly Referral and Fatal Intentions. If you want a good mystery like the early Stone Barrington's, read these.
Why Did I Bother Reading This? July 1, 2010
Barbara J. Mitchell (Hallstead, PA)
Now I remember why I stopped reading the Stone Barrington series years ago. Although Woods is obviously a talented writer who has written 40+ successful books, this is not worth reading.
Everything comes easily to characters in this book and they are all beautiful or handsome, sexy, and oh so clever and smart that they are too much of a stretch to believe even for 288 pages. Mostly the book consists of Stone's ridiculous sex life in which there are so many gorgeous insatiable women throwing themselves at him and into his bed that he would have been dead long ago. The plot lines lack mystery or even satisfactory endings, heck they aren't even interesting. The only people who aren't terribly bright are of course the criminals, who willingly let the clever characters pull the wool over their eyes. It only takes a little flirting to catch them. Give me a break.
I wish Mr. Woods would take the time to write something worth reading, but in that case he would have to come up with characters that have some depth to them.
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