Spygirl: True Adventures From My Life As A Private Eye (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Okay, so this was not really what I expected. And it's totally my fault. Clearly I didn't read the back of the book carefully enough because I was expecting sneaking around, hiding in bushes and spying on cheating husbands. She didn't do any of that (well, she did follow someone. Once). Wait, nevermind. It was not my fault. I just read the book cover again. It does NOT mention that her Private Investigator job was for corporation purposes and done almost entirely on the computer. Alright, we're all on the same page now. The book cover is misleading and she was not a kick-ass spy tailing misfits and shady characters in order to solve a mystery. She was following misfits and shady characters on the computer. The real disappointment is not that she was working as a somewhat boring PI, it was that she spent the majority of the book focusing on her love and social life. Now, I actually ended up being okay with it in the end because it was kind of interesting to me (you know, being a single gal myself and all), but to suggest that the book is primarily about her PI life is a complete lie. There were a couple of interesting cases, but she really only goes over a handful of them. It's more about a woman in her twenties finding herself. Which, as I said, is fine, but there's a whole lot of false advertising going on here. I just like people to be aware. So now you're aware.
Terrible book. While the rest of us spent our early twenties busing tables at Hooters (or was that just me?) Amy Gray got to play Laura Holt in the seedy underground of New York City. The back cover reads:‘….she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics, narcissists, polygamists, sociopaths, felons, petty thieves, and pathological liars”.’Sounds like another day at Hooter's to me. The book is supposed to be about Amy Gray’s experience as a female private investigator. Instead, it’s more about Ms. Gray’s quest to find a boyfriend while she passes the days and pays the rent searching Internet databases on investment firms. Whatever motives there may be for reading this book, it’s the definition of disappointment. I wouldn’t recommend it nor would I lean towards author Molly Jong-Fast who apparently found Spy Girl to be ‘funny and clever’. I waited 271 pages to find that and never did. I guess she’s a better detective than I.
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