Kisser
February 9th, 2010 | 
- ISBN13: 9780399156113
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Stone Barrington is back in this thrilling new page-turner from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.
Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he’s looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman & Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he’d expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price. . . .
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You pushed the Kindle prices too much.
I will order hard copy in future unless i am traveling
Rating: 3 / 5
My son loves Stuart Woods books. While he was in Iraq ( for 27 months ) he read every one he could get his hands on. I preordered every one there was and shipped it to him. I still do this and he is now state side again. This was Woods last book,,,i texted my son asking him if he would like it. His answer was ” Oh Yes please”. And so i will continue to buy these books for him even though his years in the military will soon be over to start four years of college. I know he will continue to love the books.
Rating: 5 / 5
Stuart Woods writes like a modern Ernest Hemingway: lean, clear, witty and vibrant prose within an interesting and humorous plot. What others would say in several sentences, he says far better in a single line. Lawyer Stone Barrington is involved as usual with strikingly beautiful women. Carrie Cox is an actress who tells Stone that her ex husband is harassing her. Stone arranges protection for her and enjoys her sexually. But is she telling the truth? Stone is also hired to protect a beautiful young heiress from the clutches of a slimy reptilian man who has been married four times and was involved in criminal activities under different names, and he enjoys sex with the girl’s father’s beautiful employee. Stone arranges for an undercover operation against the man to catch him selling drugs and put him in jail, away from the heiress, and Stone enjoys sex with the beautiful undercover cop. The undercover operation is jeopardized by a senior police officer who is more interested in getting praise than in catching the criminals. This officer does not like Stone. Stone is also pursued by two women from his past. The word beautiful and sex crops up frequently in this tale, and Stone is frequently and understandably tired. “It’s a good thing you’re not Catholic,” Dino (his friend said to Stone). “At confession, you’d give a priest a heart attack.”
Rating: 5 / 5
Stone Barrington has long been one of my favorite fictional characters, but Stuart Woods misses the boat in this 300 page book. I stopped reading about 100 pages into the book and skimmed the rest of the book. Stone Barrington comes off in Kisser as a man who is a shallow, sex-obsessed, idiot. This is the 17th novel featuring Barrington and his personality has slid into a stereotypical portrayal of what was once an interesting character.
We see Stone Barrington picking up Carrie Cox in the first few pages of the book. It is unbelievable to me that Barrington cannot see through this woman after all of his experiences with manipulative, lying females. Nothing she did set off alarms while my alarm was dinging almost from the beginning–saying ’she’s bad news–don’t pick her up!’ Somehow within their short acquaintance he gives her advice on a sexual harassment incident which she just happened to tape, her instant fame and acceptance to a major Broadway show role, and her ex-husband, a stalker. Within a few days, Stone has a security system installed in the woman’s apartment and is monitoring the ex-husband. Carrie gives him a box to mail to the ex and after he mails it he asks what was in it and she says a couple of guns and some other things that I accidentally took. Alarm bells anyone???
As this is going on Stone is asked by one of the managing partners of the firm for which he works to take on another case and “OH” the partner also states that Carrie Cox tried to kill her ex-husband twice. I was getting visions of the film noir movies with the tragic heroine who is really a vixen and somehow gets her new boyfriend to kill her husband/ex-husband–she sets him up and while he is in jail she is on the beach sipping a pina colada.
If you are still following the story it seems like he starts to bed every woman he comes in contact with for his various cases plus his ex-wife Dolce shows up. Unfortunately, by now I’m a little hazy and short on the details since I couldn’t bear to sit and read the novel and skimmed a few chapters and skipped to the end.
Skipped is the operative word. This is probably going to be a disappointment to most Barrington fans. It would be nice if Mr. Woods would add some dimensions to Stone Barrington other than his legendary bedding of any beautiful woman that comes along. If you’ve read the other books you know that Stone does have the ability to become a three-dimensional character instead of the flat, predictable cardboard cutout that Woods has portrayed in this book and some of the recent Barrington books. A good comparison, although very different formats, would be Hamish MacBeth in the M.C. Beaton mysteries. She is on her 25th book of the series yet Hamish continues, although slowly, to develop as a person and you tend to learn something new about the characters. It is a shame that Stuart Woods is content to churn out the Barrington novels instead of working to make Stone more interesting and real to the loyal readers that have followed this series since the beginning.
Rating: 2 / 5
As with all of Woods’ books, I enjoyed this one. However, I found parts poorly edited. Two examples: he wears an “ear wire” and at one point it is referred to as him using it, then later in the same scene he is not. At the end, there is an error with Philip’s name. He is named Parsons through the book, but then for a few pages he becomes Philip Larkin.
But other than that….
Woods’ books are easy reads. You don’t have to constantly refer around to different characters, etc.
A great read for relaxing!
Rating: 4 / 5