And really, if you'd been trying to cast a comic book villain named the Fabio-inator (which, okay, why would you be, but still) you could not have done better.
"I take the animal now," the shadow told me, only he said "de" instead of "the" in that kind of accent Arnold Schwarzenegger has made so popular. Two years! This book has been out for two years! How did I miss reading it until now? Now, I already think that the chick-lit-mystery sub genre flat-out rules.
Granted, her cousin Alyson is a totally snarky evil beast, but occasionally totally snarky evil beasts do make valid points. Within two chapters, she has been publicly mauled by a three-legged cat, leaves a wedding in shambles (with the bride AND the five-tiered cake in the swimming pool) and has been locked up by hotel security. Except this is Jas Callihan we're talking about - she's the girl referred to as "Calamity Callihan" by her cousin Alyson. Everything and everyone should be relaxed, fine and dandy. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Jasmine (Jas) Callihan is on a family vacation in Las Vegas. Krista HutleyĬopyright © American Library Association. Don't look for plausibility here-everything is irrepressibly larger than life-but readers able to check their disbelief at the door will have a great time. Her friends are dazzling, quirky quipsters though they occasionally blend together, as their dialogue is limited to flippant comments, they provide amusing, if sometimes distracting, running commentary.
Jas, who narrates in breezy first person, is likable, quick-witted, and extremely funny. He forces her to leave a plum police internship behind to go to Las Vegas for the family's summer vacation, but the city turns out to be "an EXCELLENT place to engage in amateur crime fighting." It isn't long before Jas and her three vacation-crashing friends are embroiled in a mystery involving a famous model, her family, and a three-legged cat. Seventeen-year-old Jasmine (Jas) has wanted to be a detective since first grade, but her nose for trouble, as well as her penchant for dusting for fingerprints with eye shadow, drives her father crazy.
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