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ghostroom217's review
1.0
I watched Honey West recently on DVD and was curious how the books were. Pretty awful is what I found out. Incompetently written to the point where you just want it to end. Odd tangents throughout... In one section, Honey wants to find out if three young thugs are heroin users, and of course the best way to find this out is to challenge them to a game of strip poker (track marks under their long sleeves, get it?). Despite winning several hands, in which they remove their pants before their shirts, Honey loses because she's wearing a single-piece outfit. Further examples like this abound. Schizophrenic writing, with some really labored metaphors thrown in to further try one's patience. Suspension of logic and reality throughout. Every character is a suspect until he or she turns up dead at the end of the chapter. Authors (it's a husband and wife team) pretty much admit at the end that they don't know what happened (or why) in their own book! About the only good thing I can say is it's short.
averagegal's review
I've read my share of pulp fiction so I thought that I would enjoy this more than I did. The dialogue and one-liners were mildly amusing, but the plot twists were confusing. I gave up 3/4 of the way through the book before finding out who the culprit was. I am still interested in checking out the TV show that was based on it, though.
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