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Mary Alice Brannigan doesn't believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that Dreamland, the decaying amusement park she's been hired to restore, is a prison for the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world. Plus, there's a guy she's falling hard for―and there's something about him that's not quite right.
But rocky romances and demented demons aren't the only problems in Dreamland: Mab's also coping with a crooked politician, a supernatural raven, a secret government agency, an inexperienced sorceress, an unsettling inheritance, and some mind-boggling revelations from her past. As her personal demons wreck her newfound relationship and real demons wreck the park, Mab faces down immortal evil and discovers what everybody who's ever been to an amusement park knows: The end of the ride is always the wildest.
- Sales Rank: #432127 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-26
- Released on: 2011-04-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.77" h x 1.07" w x 4.18" l, .43 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
Review
“Fabulous fun.” ―Booklist (Starred review; a Top-Ten Romance of the Year) on AGNES AND THE HITMAN
“Wildly entertaining.” ―Seattle Times on AGNES AND THE HITMAN
“A comic caper and raucous romance...laugh-out-loud funny...a fun ride.” ―Kirkus Reviews on AGNES AND THE HITMAN
“Wickedly funny.” ―Cincinatti Enquirer on AGNES AND THE HITMAN
“A bubbly novel with amusing banter and…moments of poignancy.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Bless the day that Crusie and Mayer sat down to chat, for this collaboration is inspired!” ―Romantic Times BOOKreviews (Top Pick) on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“Crusie + Mayer = a great time. Don't miss it.” ―BookPage on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“Noted romance/chick-lit author Crusie (Bet Me) and adventure author Mayer (Z: A Dave Reilly Novel) team up [and] the writing is seamless.” ―Library Journal on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“The two writers/two viewpoints style lends itself to humor, and the authors don't stint on fast-paced action and complication.” ―Tampa Tribune on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“It's light; it's witty; it's a page-turner. It's romantic, in a he-man/she-modern-woman manner.” ―The State (South Carolina) on DON’T LOOK DOWN
“Combines wit, romance, and movie-quality action in one fast-paced book.” ―News and Sentinel (Parkesburg, WV) on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“Plenty of big guns, helicopters…and light repartee…all in good fun. Readers will be happy to get a bit damp.” ―Publishers Weekly on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“Think Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie True Lies.” ―Georgia Library Quarterly on DON'T LOOK DOWN
“This first collaboration between bestselling romance writer Crusie and adventure-thriller writer Mayer is a rare delight. Mayer's delectably dry sense of humor perfectly complements Crusie's brand of sharp wit, and together the two have cooked up a sexy, sassy, and smart combination of romance and suspense that is simply irresistible.” ―Booklist on DON'T LOOK DOWN
From the Back Cover
A "LAUGH OUT LOUD" (Library Journal) roller coaster of a novel from the always-amusing duo of Crusie and Mayer
LIFE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS.
Mary Alice Brannigan doesn't believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that Dreamland, the decaying amusement park she's been hired to restore, is a prison for the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world. Plus, there's a guy she's falling hard for―and there's something about him that's not quite right.
BUT IT'S ALWAYS A WILD RIDE…
But rocky romances and demented demons aren't the only problems in Dreamland: Mab's also coping with a crooked politician, a supernatural raven, a secret government agency, an inexperienced sorceress, an unsettling inheritance, and some mind-boggling revelations from her past. As her personal demons wreck her newfound relationship and real demons wreck the park, Mab faces down immortal evil and discovers what everybody who's ever been to an amusement park knows: The end of the ride is always the wildest.
"This is one ride you won't want to end!"―Romantic Times
About the Author
JENNIFER CRUSIE is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of Maybe This Time, Welcome to Temptation, Tell Me Lies, Crazy for You, Faking It, Fast Women, and Bet Me. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University, a master's from Wright State University, and a master of fine arts from Ohio State University. She lives on the banks of the Ohio River.
BOB MAYER is a former Green Beret and the USA Today bestselling author of thirty-two novels under his own name and the pen names Robert Doherty and Greg Donegan. He has over two million books in print.
Most helpful customer reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
great sendup of the paranormal genre
By Andra Tafoya
This is not a typical Crusie and some of the readers who reviewed this book seemed very unhappy and or disappointed with the story. I thought the story was hilarious, and anyone who is a fan of the paranormal or "modern" fantasies should find this a very funny read. I've always thought Fun Zones or Carnivals as kind of creepy places and clowns even creepier so I found it brillant in a wacky way to set the story in an amusement park filled with demons, devils and assorted baddies. Perhaps those who disliked the story should give it another try. The Crusie/Mayer team were playing with you folks, poking fun at a genre that has gotten so out of hand that a friend was complaining to me the other day about vampires, werewolves, wizards and demons taking over the bookstores. Now I'm a fan of Butcher, Briggs, Harrison and many others who write about things that go bump in the night but it seems one cannot turn around without another "new" author coming out with another take on the paranormal and I'd guess that Crusie has probably been asked to read, review and critique a bunch of this stuff, which might have given her the idea to do this story. It is a joke, a satire, yes, but a gentle one, she is inviting us all to share a laugh with her.
38 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Is Jennifer Crusie done?
By jhl
I have often noticed that authors don't - can't, I suppose - have an inexhaustible supply of fresh and engaging books in them. It seems as if every writer I've ever loved has run out of steam at some point - stopped writing or started recycling well-worn formulas. I don't even have one book in me, so I'm not, in a sense, in a position to carp, but it's hard to lose something you care about, and it looks to me as if we're losing Jennifer Crusie.
If you just picked Wild Ride off the shelf - a book by a new author, for whom you have no expectations - it wouldn't be a bad read, maybe 4 stars. It's an unusual plot (although I don't like woo-woo stuff), fast-paced, with a lot of oddball characters. If you paid $5 for it at an airport, you'd be entertained reading it on the plane and happy to toss it afterwards.
If, on the other hand, you were looking for Jennifer Crusie, who wrote character-driven books with funny and intelligent leads and interesting relationships that you cared about, then this book would be 2 stars at best. I don't think we can blame her collaborations any longer, because Wild Ride has a lot in common with The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes and Dogs and Goddesses, and Crusie's the common denominator here. This is a plot-driven, good-humans-with-super-powers-against-evil-supernatural-forces book; clearly this is what interests Crusie now. Most of the characters are paper-thin (except Ethan - liked him a lot, but he's not typical of Crusie; is he Mayer's character?), and their relationships with each other are largely irrelevant. While the book's light-hearted, I wouldn't exactly call it funny, and I can't imagine wanting to read it again (once you know the plot twists, you're pretty much done). Is it worth the $17 you pay to buy an author you love in hardcover? No way.
42 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Mixed reactions
By Kindle Customer
I think this is going to be it for me as far as buying JC's books go, and I hate to say that because I've read and enjoyed her romances for years. I wanted to get into this book, because I like the author and paranormal books, but I automatically approach her works as romances, and this one (like Agnes & The Hitman) doesn't work that way. If you can read Wild Ride as a paranormal work rather than a paranormal romance, you may enjoy it. I had to keep fighting against my romance expectations too much to really enjoy the book, and there were a few other issues.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Mab felt recycled to me because she felt too much like two different female leads that JC had used in earlier works (Cinderella Deal and Faking It, if memory serves me correctly), and had written best in Faking It. If I had met her fresh, I'm still not sure that I would have liked the Mab version of that character type. I much preferred the male lead, Ethan; I kept thinking how much stronger the book would have been (at least to me) if the main characters had been Ethan and Weaver, instead of dividing the storyline up with Mab's half of the tale.
I didn't like the way that Mab spent most of the book sleeping with a guy that you knew was a red herring, while her real romantic partner had barely there scenes. I didn't like the cliche secret siblings plot twist or the equally cliche got knocked up twist. The knocked up thing felt particularly last minute tossed in. Two cliches in one book seemed a bit much. Cliche twists can work well if the writer does something interesting or takes it somewhere different, but this didn't go anywhere unexpected. It was very Rosemary's Baby meets Star Wars.
Mab, "Joe", and her romantic lead (can't even remember what the guy's name was), felt flat and dull, while the secondary characters like Weaver, Cindy, and the inquisitors felt real. I think I would have gotten in Mab's real romantic lead if I'd gotten to know him better and he had more scene time. I'd love to see more of Ethan and Weaver, Cindy and her dragons, but Mab and the demon spawn...meh. The main demons weren't nearly as interesting as the minion demons. I liked the amusement parking setting; it had a lot of promise.
If you enjoy paranormal works, and couldn't care less about romance, you might this one. If you loved JC's romances and want more of the same, this isn't the book for you. If you love JC's writing and don't care what she writes about, you would probably like this book.
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