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    LeaningTraveler Oahu

    LeaningTraveler Oahu

    Travel and Navigation

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    LeaningTraveler Oahu - a GPS adventure travel guide map app that provides turn-by-turn GPS map...

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated The Big Kahuna in Books

Jun 5, 2019  
The Big Kahuna
The Big Kahuna
Janet Evanovich, Peter Evanovich | 2019 | Mystery
3
3.0 (1 Ratings)
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The Big Letdown
Unlikely duo FBI agent Kate O’Hare and former (maybe) conman Nick Fox have been asked to look for a tech billionaire known to pretty much everyone as The Big Kahuna. He disappeared a few days ago, but Kate and Nick are shocked to find that both his wife and his business partner are already hoping to have him declared dead. Kate and Nick aren’t willing to declare him dead yet; they think he might be hiding out in Hawaii. With Kate’s father and Cosmo, another FBI agent, tagging along, they set out to see if they can find him. However, it appears someone wants The Big Kahuna dead. Can they find him in time? Or will they lead the killers right to him?

The last book in this series was three years and a different co-author ago, and it shows. Nick and Kate are shadows of themselves, with Kate going to Nick for plans on everything instead of them working as partners. Their romantic relationship has gone back several books, too, and yet they don’t appear to be hiding the fact that they work together professionally. Kate’s dad is just a caricature now, and the new characters are one note jokes, per se, which makes spending so much time with them painful. While the plot does include a couple of small cons, it is nowhere near as elaborate and therefore fun as the previous books. Really, any group of characters could have been the stars of this plot. The pacing is uneven, especially early on when we get travelogues of Hawaii. We could have easily cut 30 pages without noticing at all, and in a book that already reads short, that is saying something. I did get hooked as I went along, but I think the flaws would have been more frustrating if I hadn’t been able to knock the book out in a couple of days. I borrowed this book from my local library, but I’m not sure even that price (free) will be enough to get me to come back if Nick and Kate have any more adventures.
  
    ASE Courses

    ASE Courses

    Medical and Education

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    Download the ASE Meetings App! Stay up-to-date on all of ASE’s live educational courses by...

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Pete Fowler recommended Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren in Music (curated)

 
Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren
Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren
1973 | Rock
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Album Favorite

"One of the best blue-eyed soul voices ever. Famously he didn't do drugs in the '60s and made up for it in the '70s. My girlfriend gave me a book about how he recorded each album, it's incredibly detailed. For this record, he got a studio together in New York and got a load of musicians together to make the record. At no point did he play any of the session players any vocals – they heard bits of music but they had no clear picture of what the actual song would be like. He had a total vision and he didn't want to deviate from that with anyone else's opinion. People talk about records that go from jazz to prog to psych to vaudeville in one track and that's Todd. A proper studio head who could write hooks and songs in an almost Brill Building way. My favourite story about Todd is that he lives in Hawaii and one side of his house doesn't have a wall. He said about it, "Lots of things come in. Animals, super-fans, stalkers, the weather."

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    City Racing 3D

    City Racing 3D

    Games and Entertainment

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    #1 Free Physics 3D Car Racing game Proudly Presented! Bring fast driving experience to a whole new...