The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set By Anne R. Allen
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I m giving up I just finished chapter 10 out of 37 chapters I hate every character in this book I was hoping it would be a fun cozy mystery series and was looking forward to reading all of the books but I can t even get through the first book in the box set Camilla is ridiculous shallow and quite possibly the moronic character I have ever read I originally bought this box set on kindle back in 2013 for 99 cents What a waste of a dollar 9781908961051 I bought this set and the next book for 99 each I have gotten my money s worth The writing is technically very good There s quite a bit of wit in the writing even The editing is also good fewer of the typographical errors we tend to get in ebooks too The characters are well developed and fairly consistent even if they are just consistent in their inconsistency The supporting characters in each story are gems. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set booklet The problems I have no inclination to care one bit about the main character She s passive shallow and rather foolish in general Very little evidence of a strong modern woman there But she was a debutante so this is not a surprise in choices of caricatures Her character doesn t overcome challenges and change like I am convinced she should do Sometimes she overcomes challenges sometimes she s handed a get out of jail free card but ultimately I don t feel like the character evolves other than in the very first book in the set The plots are terrible predictable over complicated but pedantic and rather familiar This was my first venture into Chick Lit I will read the 4th book since I bought it I think the writer s skills are there and they re fast light reads but that s the last I need to read of Camilla Randall 9781908961051 This is three books in one Most of my comments will apply to all three and then some specifics of each book. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box set It was fun reading about rich spoiled self centered Camilla Randall s descent into poverty and insight Anne Allan s protagonist starts out with everything a 42 room mansion can hold including a stable for her horse and garage for her DeLorean and she has the psychological depth of a tree stump. The camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box set mystery thrillers in order In a series of well crafted set backs in Book 1 Camilla loses the property and gains a soul Not an enlightened soul but that might happen should she ever find true love The action starts when her deep in debt father dies in either a murder suicide or accident Her mother suddenly bankrupt marries a brutal billionaire rather than lose her Bergdorf credit card Camilla flees gets into a bad crowd finds a career and gets set up for murder The evocation of the Ronald Reagan years is quite well done Although the story is kick started with the mystery of what caused her father s death that s sorted out as almost an afterthought. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box settings Book 2 finds Camilla moved into modern times post divorce to the man she hated loved lost and then married in Book 1 She s still destitute her career hanging on a thread and her choice in men remains abysmal Her designer duds help her attract the wrong men including those who die everywhere she goes Some of the themes resonate from Book 1 is her new love the killer Is he Mr Right or another Mr run as fast as you can as far away from him as possible Will she learn self sufficiency and self restraint Some things are different from Book 1 It s moved from third to first person narrative While still cheeky funny there are elements of farce in some of the crowd scenes at the writers conference Camilla is still broke but her image management has improved. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set Self help Book 3 and other man inconveniently dead at her designer clad feet and the recurrent theme of which of her inappropriate male interests might be the killer This time she is resilient and resourceful and always readable 9781908961051 Pull down your list of superlatives This is the best mystery tale I ve read since Spenser and here s the real kicker it s just as funny Fewer fistfights but what you gonna do nothing s perfect. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set bookworm Camilla Randall as a movie would be Legally Blonde meets Perils of Pauline My advice to you well first off don t be an idiot buy this book but after that my advice would be 1 stop trying to figure out what s up and 2 read it while seated and wearing a safety belt The twists and dips got so violent that towards the end of the first mystery I started to feel better when things went badly for Camilla and nervous when they improved You just KNOW but then Anne Allen proves you wrong again You don t know Sit back and enjoy. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setup A debutante with neither malice nor clue is plunged into murder bankruptcy drugs sex and fashion nightmares than you can count Neither she nor anyone she meets turns out to be the person you thought at first it s not that there aren t wonderfully cliched characters but they insist on playing musical chairs. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box set As an author I long to hear readers say that my tales have heart that tug in your chest while you follow a character means you care what happens you re invested the story affects you Ms Allen accomplishes this not only for Camilla but for a respectable cadre of friends nemeses and supposedly chance acquaintances What on earth will happen next And one thing when readers invest time and energy looking at your world they need to know it all means something In spades You will be watching each crumpled newspaper and discarded cigarette butt before this tale is done everything comes around for Camilla which is a true testament to this wonderful character. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box set Buy this book if you love mystery adventure humor spicy romance female protagonists sexually ambiguous confidantes snippy rivals reality immune mothers Feds who actually know what they re doing reporters who don t or the wisest garbage collector since Dilbert This is the first book I bought purely because I liked the author s blog post Her writing gave me complete confidence that I would be in good hands even way out of my normal genre And it s probably the best story I ve bought this year My highest recommendation to The Camilla Randall Mysteries 9781908961051 Have to admit it I only knew author Anne R Allen through her often witty and frequently irreverent blog posts I knew that she wrote novels but I m not a follower of that genre known as chick lit but one should never judge a book by it s cover or it s title I enjoyed her blog posts and her viewpoints on everything from social media to her take on the news along with her comments on reviews and reviewers. Pdf the camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box set pdf free It wasn t until I read How To Be A Writer In The E Age And Keep Your E Sanity which Anne co authored with Catherine Ryan Hyde that I really began to wonder if these novels that she had written but I didn t know exactly where to start A little searching brought me here to The Camilla Randall Mysteries in a 3 in 1 Kindle box set which seemed to be an ideal place. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setback The Camilla Randall Mysteries is made up of three of Ms Allen s previously published stories and after an introduction by Saffina Desforges we are taken to the books broken down in this 827 page Kindle box set as three very large chapters Anne R Allen s Ever witty Triple DipThe Best Revenge is where we first encounter protagonist Camilla Randall who appears in all three of these books Based in the 1980s it s also where we re introduced to the author s fast and witty dialogue in this fast moving romp that takes us from meeting Plantagenet Smith her gay best friend to where she s going her best to avoid the lusty Arkansas Chickenburger King picture a Colonel Sanders type individual here who has something other than chicken on his mind We find that debutante Rosewood girls do not dress like Vestal Virgins in heat and that our heroine is capable of some pretty wild excursions that take us from coast to coast. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setja pdf Ghost Writers In the Sky fast forwards to where a mature Camilla Randall now a New York etiquette columnist known as the Manners Doctor accepts an invitation to a Z list Writers Conference thinking that she s going to have an easy ride there But her life unravels as she deals with a collection of batty writers tree hugging protestors a sharp shooter an attractive policeman who may be suffering from road rage a cross dressing celebrity impersonating transsexual dominatrix and a dead body in the bedroom This one is typically fast paced and hysterically funny. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set Self help Sherwood Ltd takes our heroine Camilla to the England of Robin Hood legend but Nottingham was never as entertaining as it is with her adventures here The fashionable upscale adult press Sherwood Ltd is seeking for ways to become respectable and who better to help them than the Manners Doctor Camilla meets Peter Sherwood sort of postmodern Robin Hood and our striving for publication author again ends up in the most implausible yet believable circumstances dealing with a covert smuggling business and a homicidal authoress This one is an engaging tale has some adult content and above all is quite enjoyable. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box seta But it s Anne Allen s humor that jumps out at us as can be seen especially in Sherwood Ltd This passage is a perfect example Yes Peter I said I can forgive everything Except maybe the hair It really was awful in that Alan Greene rat tail I think it s time you let your hair down Release your inner Fabio I reached to pull off the elastic that bound his sun bleached locks I fluffed his hair around his shoulders feeling like a 1950s movie hero romancing the mousy librarian I giggled He giggled too then drew me to him in an intense kiss With lips locked we sank onto the futon His hands moved under my blouse I let them. Mystery Thrillers The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box seth Yet if I had to make any criticism it s based on the concept that I ve labeled elsewhere that we re in the depths of The Summer of the Fifty Shades of You Fill in the Blanks I m not comparing The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3 in 1 Box Set to author E. PDF The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box seth L James wildly bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy as to begin with Anne Allen s offering here is far better written and by a long shot The character of Camilla is intelligent though sometimes a bit na ve witty very articulate and the range of her mental lexicon has to be in the level of a university professor at about 15000 words whereas the average college grad is about 6000 words In comparison and apart from writing at about a ninth grade level in the Fifty Shades of Grey series E. The camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box set self help guide L James protagonist Anastasia appears to have a vocabulary limited to about 2378 words give or take about a dozen The most frequently used of her exclamations seem to be a lot of Oh my and holy crap throughout the trilogy along with My breathing hitched. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setkeydelay But where I do find a similarity and please don t shoot the messenger on this is that there seems to be a regular convention that s used in chick lit novels and that has to do with brand plugs There are disturbing parallels in both almost like product placements In the Fifty Shades series we hear ad nauseam of Christian Grey s Audi his BlackBerry and Anastasia s iPad along with all of that Diet Coke Pinot Grigio and Bollinger Only a film or TV producer could dream up this much product placement And yet we find similar name dropping throughout all three volumes of the Camilla Randall Mysteries with product placements poking through like Louis Vuitton luggage Wonderbra Birkin bags and Here s an example I think I squealed when I saw my favorite things the Stella boots Alexander McQueen dress Burberry suit and Versace undies. Book The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setup Yet it s Ms Allen s often amazing prose that pops up when least expected with true gems such as this Maybe it was the pimply kid in the Marilyn Manson tee shirt who had insinuated himself into the already overflowing car at Columbus Circle He d pressed in to join the three of us who had already staked claims on the center pole I jabbed the boy in the ribs with an elbow He grunted an obscenity. The camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box setaway Of the three books in this set this reader must admit that my favorite was Sherwood Ltd Author Allen s ability to keep a reader going really showed up in this tale going from page to page waiting for what was to come next But personally I dislike such overdone product placement as I did in in the Fifty Shades Trilogy and know that as a writer Ms Allen can do better and for that reason I m knocking off a point for these repeated distractions even if some of them may be tongue in cheek. The camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box setaway All that being said Anne Allen had me laughing unexpectedly and sometimes out loud with her wonderful crafting of her words into sentences that became alive and three dimensional throughout these stories Bottom line is that this is a solid 4 star set of books that are real keepers and I may have to go to her book The Gatsby Game next. The camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box setting instructions com in a revised form 9781908961051 
I am a mystery buff at heart I would rather have a book in my hands that has so much mystery that with every turn you don t know what to expect Some of my first books were mysterys Nancy Drew The Hardy Boys just to name a couple So when I came across a post on this book The Camilla Randall Mysteries Set by Author Anne R Allen well let me say that I was not going to let this one go by me with out at least giving it a read Boy Oh Boy am I SO GLAD I DID This is three books in one that alone is an amazing deal Then you add mystery in each one and there you go The cover alone caught my To read of my review Breath of Life 9781908961051 I actually enjoyed the 3rd book in the series than the 1st one The second one also seemed better to me than the 1st Maybe it was just me I felt the writing was good I just didn t like Camilla s personality in the first book 9781908961051 These are the Camilla Randall mysteries and have been described as Bridget Jones meet Miss Marple I m not quite sure that s an apt description Bridget Jones may have been ditsy but she wasn t stupid and there is ABSOLUTELY NO resemblance to Miss Marple Though there are murders in the books Camilla doesn t really do any investigating The action happens around her as she lives her life as a penniless socialite can one be a former socialite and interacts with her loser friends She s involved in the murders but I can t say she really solves them The character is pretty naive in the first book supposedly a prequel but it s the first I read anyway which is fine because she s 19 However she doesn t really change in the latter two books when she s 20 years older She s still the same makes the same mistakes etc They were freebie mysteries for e book apps and sounded fun I was wrong I wouldn t recommend them I see there is now a third or 3. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box Set kindle app 5 fourth book in the series I am torn I ve started the series and wonder if the third or fourth time s the charm I liked some aspects of the stories characters but don t know if I could really stomach another especially since right now I d have to pay for it the e Book is 4 right now 9781908961051 Anne R Allen is the author of 10 rom com mysteries published by MWiDP Kotu Beach Press and Thalia Press FOOD OF LOVE THE LADY OF THE LAKEWOOD DINER and THE GATSBY GAME now available in a boxed set BOOMER WOMEN THREE COMEDIES ABOUT A GENERATION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD plus the Camilla Randall Mysteries THE BEST REVENGE GHOSTWRITERS IN THE SKY SHERWOOD LTD NO PLACE LIKE HOME SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM THE QUEEN OF STAVES GOOGLING OLD BOYFRIENDS and CATFISHING IN AMERICA. Mystery Thrillers The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box seth She co authored HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E AGE A SELF HELP GUIDE with PAY IT FORWARD author Catherine Ryan Hyde And Catherine wrote the foreword of her latest guide THE AUTHOR BLOG EASY BLOGGING FOR BUSY AUTHORS. Book the camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box set free Anne R Allens Blog which she shares with Ne Anne R Allen is the author of 10 rom com mysteries published by MWiDP Kotu Beach Press and Thalia Press FOOD OF LOVE THE LADY OF THE LAKEWOOD DINER and THE GATSBY GAME now available in a boxed set BOOMER WOMEN THREE COMEDIES ABOUT A GENERATION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD plus the Camilla Randall Mysteries THE BEST REVENGE GHOSTWRITERS IN THE SKY SHERWOOD LTD NO PLACE LIKE HOME SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM THE QUEEN OF STAVES GOOGLING OLD BOYFRIENDS and CATFISHING IN AMERICA. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setjmp She co authored HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E AGE A SELF HELP GUIDE with PAY IT FORWARD author Catherine Ryan Hyde And Catherine wrote the foreword of her latest guide THE AUTHOR BLOG EASY BLOGGING FOR BUSY AUTHORS. The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3-in-1 Box setin Anne R Allen s Blog which she shares with New York Times bestselling author Ruth Harris was named one of the Best 101 Websites for Writers by Writers Digest site_link The Camilla Randall Mysteries Snarky delicious fun Bridget Jones meet Miss Marple Perennially down and out socialite Camilla is a magnet for murder mayhem and Mr Wrong but she always solves the mystery in her quirky but oh so polite way The Best Revenge is a prequel to the series and takes us back to Camilla Randall s teen years when she first meets Plantagenet Smith and is accused of murder herself Ghostwriters In The Sky fasts forward to a mature Camilla hoping to have an easy ride at a writers conference in California Needless to say fate has other ideas When a handsome young writer is found dead in Plantagenet s bed Camilla must enlist the help of a cross dressing dominatrix to clear Plant s name In Sherwood Ltd a homeless Camilla lands in Robin Hood country where some not so merry men may be trying to kill her and of course Camilla once again ends up in the most improbable but always believable circumstances The Camilla Randall Mysteries 3 in 1 Box Set.
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So that s a nice evolution of her character The mystery killer is well developed, Mystery thrillers the camilla randall mysteries 3-in-1 box set for sale You ll have to read Sherwood Ltd to see how this scene plays out.As it turned out it was.8 2 2012Note this review appeared earlier on