Metro Girl (unabridged CDs)

Registered by editorgrrl of New Haven, Connecticut USA on 5/18/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Thursday, May 18, 2006
Unabridged on 8 compact discs; 9 hours. Performed by C. J. Critt. HaperAudio 2004. Received in the mail from Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, through PaperbackSwap. Listen to an audio excerpt at harpercollins.com. To be followed by a sequel, Motor Mouth. Read more at evanovich.com.

From AudioFile
Meet Alexandra Barnaby, a brown-belt insurance clerk from Baltimore who is Evanovich's newest sleuth. Other wacky characters include Alex's missing brother, Wild Bill; a schnauzer addicted to spice cookies; an exiled Cuban warlord; thugs with slicked back hair dressed all in black in the sweltering Florida sun; a NASCAR driver; and Felicia, a gun-toting, cigar-rolling Cuban refugee who shoots villains and then worries about the luminosity of her skin. C. J. Critt's narration adds the spice to these quirky characters, making them unforgettable and paving the way for a new series. Her inflections add sizzle to the romance and groans to the silly quips.

From the box
Buckle your seat belts. Number-one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.

"Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big sister Alex heads for Miami, Bill's last known sighting, on a harrowing hunt to save her brother ... and maybe the world. Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search south to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Engaged in a deadly race, Wild Bill's "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset ... just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Alex and maybe run into scumbag Bill. The race to the finish is hot and hard.

Journal Entry 2 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Thursday, August 24, 2006
I'm giving up halfway through. I hate C. J. Critt's reading -- her "NASCAR guy" sounds like a gruffer Bobby Hill from the Mike Judge cartoon King of the Hill. And the writing's awful -- for example, Barney refers to her ex-boyfriend's penis as "Mr. Stupid."

I'm putting this in lightwavz's MISC. AudioBookBox US. Evanovich is hugely popular, so I'm sure someone will enjoy this book.

Journal Entry 3 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Thursday, September 28, 2006
I enjoyed this book, and look forward to hearing it and revisiting Barney and NascarGuy before the second in this series comes out in Octoer!

Journal Entry 4 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Sunday, September 16, 2007
Can't believe I forgot to journal this book. I love Barney . . . she is smarter and wittier than Stephanie Plum and NASCAR Guy is much, much funnier than Joe and Ranger combined. The peripheral characters live up the Grandma Mazur standard too. All around, ridiculously fun mindless entertainment.

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