Madison Castelli, the beautiful, street-smart heroine of Jackie Collins's L.A. Connections series, returns in Lethal Seduction, an edgy novel full of danger, passion and suspense. Madison is having problems -- her ex-live-in lover who walked out on her is trying to walk back in. Her new lover is giving her a hard time. And her father turns out to be a man with deadly secrets. Set between the high-powered world of New York and the manic excitement of Las Vegas, Lethal Seduction is packed with all the intrigue and glamour fans have come to expect from Jackie Collins. This deliciously uninhibited tale of cover-ups, deception and mob involvement finds Jackie Collins at the height of her creative powers as the diverse cast of characters in Lethal Seduction take an exhilarating walk on the wild side, where nothing is ever exactly as it seems and danger is all around. In Lethal Seduction you will also meet: Jamie Nova -- a breathtakingly beautiful interior designer, who catches her Wall Street husband cheating. Jake Sica -- a laid-back photographer not looking for a commitment. Rosarita Falcon -- an ambitious and sexy would-be New York socialite with a yen to murder her husband. Joel Blaine -- the playboy son of a billionaire with an unquenchable taste for public sex. Carrie Hanlon -- a top supermodel with a degree in egomania and bitchery. Dexter Falcon -- a handsome soap star with a romantic heart and an unbeatable body. And... Kimm Florian -- a Native American gay detective with a dry wit and a big heart. Together these characters will take you on a sometimes funny, sometimes sad trip guaranteed to seduce you all the way.
'Lethal Seductions' is all about sex, lust, luxury, money, and not to forget,deception, betrayal, and crime; it seems the latter co-exist with the former naturally. Jamie is betrayed by Peter and Dexter by Rosarita. Michael kills one wife after another, his daughter Madison's mother and step-mother so methodically and skilfully that she gets no idea about it until she is twenty nine. And when life surprises her with startling information of the existence of a brother and an aunt and that her father was a professional killer, she feels like a stranger to her own world, her own family. Sex occupies the center of the world of luxury, riches, and licence. This pervades the world of the old too - Leon Blaine, the billionaire,Chas the moneyed father of two married daughters and not to speak of Dexter's father Matt who ogles at any woman including Varoomba's famous artificial assets and pours vulgarities into his son's ears. But beneath all these are the assumptions which men and women live by, written in Collins' inimitable pithy style.They are many, but here are just a chosen few: "..,women are like wine...they get sweeter and more precious" p 245 "A person gets the friends they deserve."p 303 "Nothing worth having is easy." p 192 "Thirty is old when you are twenty." p 137 I award this book five stars.
What do You think about Lethal Seduction (2001)?
Well I would definitely say this book is r rated and I would only recommend people above the age of 18 to read it. Filled with sex and a little bit of drugs I thoroughly disliked this book. It was recommended to me as a relaxing read (my sister, I guess she didn't know the type of genre that I'm in to ) but I was thoroughly disturbed by this book. That aside I thought the characters were not deep enough. Madison the main character was very fickle and strange in that she would push issues she was facing aside ( dramas with her father) and discuss other random irrelevant things such as her doorman . I didn't like how the book was from the point of view of several characters, although it did all tie together in the end So overall if I could go back I would not read it since it was a waste of time and after finishing it I feel thoroughly disturbed and dissatisfied.
—Firdosh
As usual Jackie Collins sets her stories in Las Vegas with all the characters being interconnected. This book was about the same sort of things that are in her other books which include fake money-hungry women, stray husbands, lovers, power, murder and more. What was different about this one however is Madison Castelli, the main character, as I greatly admired her strong personality. She refused to give the sleazy men any attention and was extremely intelligent. Her past lover, David, who cheated on her and went to marry a dumb blonde came crawling back and I loved how cold she was with him, showing no mercy while engaging in a love affair with a photographer Jake. This is a feel-good book and may not be everyone's type but I definitely recommend it to young adults, Vegas lovers, or any older adult who just wanted a fun read.
—Tala Aqqad
This is my first Jackie Collins, and I'm not sure if there will be anymore of Jackie for me. There are too many characters and slow build up to the climax, if there's any climax. I don't particularly fancy the fact that I have to pause for awhile and recall about a character at the beginning of every chapter, because there's so many of them, equally important. No doubt the writing is very good, Jackie is an excellent and detailed story teller but there's not much anticipation going on in the book making it a bit boring.
—Faye Rahman
