What do You think about Kill The Competition (2003)?
Usually enjoy Stephanie Bond but I could not connect to Belinda in this book. I did not like her very much. I hated how far she went with Julian while pushing Wade away if he was supposedly the H in this book. The word Yilk? WTH? Lots of spelling errors. This book could have been better if 50 pages of traffic descriptions were eliminated. If I wanted a traffic report, I'd listen to the radio. I liked Wade but did not get enough info about him. The best thing about the book was probably the funny things the carpoolers said. As for the mystery? I figured who killed Margo, but I did not even care because she was such a be-yatch.
—Jen_C
This author has written a lot of books but this was the first I have read. I think this one was great. I really enjoyed it. It's about a bunch of four different women carpooling who all work in a furniture store in Atlanta.She does use a word that annoyed me quite a lot-yilk........I've not heard of that before but it jarred on me each time I saw it ! There were also a few crashing spelling errors which I was shocked to see as surely an editor has been employed. Hook for book/budding for building/minors for mirrors being a few. Not good and let it down.There were some great laugh out loud moments-most for me involved her relationship with her cat Downey. I'd recommend it but just ignore the errors. She had a clever idea with the epilogue and I liked that. I also like what she wrote at the end as it's so true these days. "I know you have a lot of entertainment choices at your fingertips, so I'm thrilled you chose to spend a few hours with my story"......nice touch.
—Lynda Kelly
I got this one free from Pixel of Ink, and really loved it, although I'm not just sure of why. I guess it doesn't matter, but it wasn't that it was all THAT well written, or all THAT engrossing..... I just fell under its spell. Lieutenant Wade Alexander may have had something to do with that.... What a hunk!! I liked the interaction between the car pool ladies, and how Belinda came to see that you really do need friends and people you can lean on. I've been stuck in rush hour traffic in Atlanta too, and my guess is that the author lives there. You have to have been stuck in it to believe it. I guess that it also helped that I didn't figure out who the killer was. So, a totally unhelpful review here -- but as you can see it ended up with 4 stars so.......
—Lizz
