Jane Heller's books are great for light, quick, humorous reads, which I think is her intent, but I think she generally goes a little too far with her endings. They seem to jump to a new level of unrealistic towards the ends. The ending here reminded me of something you'd see on a cartoon, with the two sisters picking a fight and ultimately knocking the "bad guy" into the ocean, and not really seeming to flinch when their friend was shot in the leg. Also, the fact that the three climbed onto the yacht of the guy they knew had a gun (really?). Her characters in this book are also too similar to the ones in "Infernal Affairs" for my liking. (Deborah falls in love with a guy she didn't like at first, compared to Barbara who fell in love with the guy she hasn't liked for years...) Definitely not a novel to be taken seriously, but enjoyable if you're looking for something that's a page turner and will make you laugh out loud. Good recreational reading, but onto more dense fiction for me.
Good story with a fast pace that kept my interest to the book. The story had a little bit of the ridiculous towards the end when Deborah and Ray confront the killer; it was a little over the top. Deborah and Sharon's relationship was majorly petty; women in their 40's to be acting that way was very childish. I'm glad they resolved their differences (for now at least) and learned to accept one another. I never did understand what their problem was to begin with beyond the sibling rivalry and jealousy issues. There is a little bit of irony at the end also when the reader is shown that Ray and his brother have the same kind of relationship that Deborah and Sharon had.
