Pros and Cons: A Short Story by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

I spent the better part of an hour writing a different review this morning — it wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be, but I’d worked on it a lot. And then I lost it. One stupid, wrong and mostly stupid click of the mouse and …poof. Didn’t have time to try to recreate it, but wanted to post something new today. And hey, I just purchased the Evanovich/Goldberg short story, Pros and Cons. Perfect! That’d fit the bill. Right? well…

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Pros and Cons: A Short Story (O'Hare and Fox, #0.5)Pros and Cons: A Short Story by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Series: Fox and O’Hare, #0.5

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I’ve been eagerly awaiting The Heist since it was first announced — I’m a big fan of both Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, so when this short story prequel was released I couldn’t resist.

I probably should have found the will power. This, at best, was not bad. Amusing at times, but most of the humor felt forced. Even then, the humor was overly broad most of the time. Worse than that, the story was chock-full of exposition dumps that are almost worthy of Dan Brown.

That said, I’ve read almost 30 books by these two over the years and have no doubt that the novels are going to be better. The primary characters — Agent O’Hare and scoundrel Fox, are promising and chock-full of potential. Sure, I’m a little less enthused about The Heist than I was yesterday, but I’ll get over that once it’s in my hot little hands.

Short version: Skip this tease, come back for the real thing.

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4 Comments

  1. Sorry you didn’t enjoy PROS & CONS…but if you like our other books, I’m confident you’re going to enjoy THE HEIST.

    Lee

  2. I’m pretty confident I will, too. 17-18 of your other books + 20 of Evanovich’s vs. one short piece? Yeah, odds are pretty good that I’ll enjoy The Heist.

    Thanks for your comment! My new blog’s first one — and it’s from Lee Goldberg. Auspicious start for me.

  3. Natsha

    I bought a e-book on amazon and when i start to reed it, it always skips 10 pages, for example if I am on page 20 and want to reed page 21 it skips to page 30 in stead. Can you fix it?

    • Um, sorry to hear that…don’t have issues like that with my Nook or Kobo books. Amazon.com’s customer support would be a better place to check than ’round here. Sorry.

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