Building on the characters in her novel Full House, Janet Evanovich joins with Charlotte Hughes for Full Tilt.
Max Holt (who was just a teenager in Full House) is now a wealthy businessman who frequently appears in big-city gossip columns. One day, he arrives in Beaumont, South Carolina in his top-of-the-line, NASA-designed car, complete with a talking computer named Muffin. His main objective is to help his brother-in-law, Frankie (once a professional wrestler), in his campaign for mayor. The city has become a corrupt mess, and Frankie needs Max’s help to figure out where the taxpayers’ money has gone.
While Max is in Beaumont, he also plans to visit his latest investment—the local paper. The owner, Jamie Swift, is his sister’s best friend, and Deedee begged Max to help keep the paper from bankruptcy. Little does Jamie realize that the calm, predictable life she lives as the owner of the paper and the future wife of the town’s most stable and predictable guy is about to turn upside-down. She soon finds herself questioning her relationship with her fiancé as she dodges the bullets of someone who obviously doesn’t want Max and Frankie to uncover the town’s corruption.
Full Tilt isn’t really a romance novel. There’s tension between Max and Jamie—but not really enough to make it interesting. It’s more of a (rather predictable) mystery, focusing on the threatening letters Frankie’s receiving and the mysterious hit men who show up in town. But when it’s all over, there are way too many holes in the story—and way too many questions left unanswered.
Like Full House, Full Tilt doesn’t really have the fun, quirky characters that readers have come to expect from Evanovich. And the story itself is nothing special. It’ll do for a quick, fluffy poolside read, but don’t expect anything spectacular out of this one.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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