“The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I signed the document, took the check, and had David draft another document forbidding all Spellmans to practice any form of blackmail. David tried to explain to me that a contract in which you promise not to break the law is ultimately redundant, but I didn’t care.” Yes, the Spellmans are back, with all of their crazy, backstabbing, surveillance-ridden ways. Izzy […]
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
This weekend, I finished the second and third of Lisa Lutz’s Spellman Files books, and I’m mostly finished with the fourth. Yes, I was on a road trip and had lots of time for reading, but also, they are quick reads. This is not a bad thing however — The Spellman Files are a lot of fun and keep you interested enough to flip those pages as fast as you can. In Curse of the Spellmans, we join Izzy Spellman once again as she fumbles her […]
the Spellman Files
I can’t decide what I thought about The Spellman Files. Isabel definitely reminded me of Veronica Mars, which I loved, but there was just one too many story lines going on that the whole novel felt a bit ADD. “I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.” There is boy drama, family drama and one last case. Like Veronica, Isabel is a private investigator who works for her family and has a natural knack for the profession. Her family is […]
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
“My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.” Never have I been so pleased by what was basically an impulse buy. The Spellman Files was fun, funny and occasionally touching, and as soon as I finished, I immediately ordered the (five!) sequels from Amazon. Izzy Spellman has worked for her family’s PI business her entire life. She’s now 28, and her family’s constant disregard for her privacy […]