Blurb:
Halloween is murder.
Everyone in Liberty Heights is invited
to LouAnn’s party. Dress as an Adams. Nobody can figure out why LouAnn chose
such a peculiar theme, and the town’s residents wrack their brains for costumes
representing famous characters named Adams. That doesn’t include the gate
crashers; sister BettyAnn, now a bonafide member of Registered Witches of
America, and her new boyfriend who’s practicing to be a vampire. Then there’s
the uninvited costumed guest who plans to use the party to murder LouAnn, but
this is Liberty Heights, where the unexpected usually happens.
Who’s trying to kill LouAnn? Why? How
do the folks in Liberty Heights prevent a murder? Celebrate Halloween—Liberty
Heights style.
Review:
- Choking Hazard: Do not eat or drink anything while reading Adams and Eve.
- Laughing Hazard: Do not read Adams and Eve in public unless you want to explain while you’re rolling around on the floor laughing your derriere off.
I read Adams and
Eve at the VA while I was there to do my volunteer work. It was a slow day. I sit at a desk in a large waiting room with
very little to absorb sound, so my peals of laughter echoed down the waiting
room and through the hall. And there
were a lot of peals of laughter. Of
course, this was my sixth trip to Liberty Heights, New Jersey and I love its
denizens, both human and animal, so I laugh at inside jokes as well as the
obvious ones—like Wayne’s ESP. Wayne is
a beagle. Or LouAnn Friedbush’s
spelling. She means, “Come as an Addams.” She dresses as Morticia, her boyfriend Howie
Fleischowitz is Gomez, and Wayne is Cousin Itt for a few minutes at least. He isn’t fond of his costume.
BettyAnn and her boyfriend show up unannounced without
costumes, but they’re weird enough not to need them. Simon P. Stein, the wanna-be vampire, more
closely resembles Herman Munster—and doesn’t like the sight of blood.
So, LouAnn’s expecting a Pugsley and a Wednesday or two,
maybe an attempt at a Lurch, a few Uncle Festers and possibly another Morticia. What she gets are John and Abigail Adams, Don
Adams as Maxwell Smart with his faithful Agent 99, and a plethora of rather obscure
Adamses plus a gorilla who Wayne clearly doesn’t like.
Yuppers! Halloween
Liberty Heights style is both hilarious and memorable. But you’ll have to buy the book to find out
who the gorilla is. I highly recommend
it. Just re-read the warnings at the top
of my review.
Length: 97 Pages
Price:
$2.50
You’ll
notice I always include the publisher’s buy link. That’s because authors usually receive 40% of
the book price from the publisher.
Editors and cover artists usually receive about 5%. When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes &
Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut and the author,
editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is left. So, if a book costs $5.99 at E-Book
Publisher.com and you buy from there, the author will receive about $2.40. If you buy the book at Amazon, the author
will receive about $0.83.
Downloading
the file from your computer to your Kindle is as easy as transferring any file
from your computer to a USB flash drive.
Plug the USB end of your chord into a USB port on your computer and
simply move the file from your “Downloads” box to your Kindle/Documents/Books
directory. I actually download my books
using “Save As” to a “Books” file I created on my computer that’s sorted by my
publisher, friends, and books “to review,” and then transfer them to my Kindle
from there. That way, if there’s a
glitch with my Kindle, the books are on my computer. Your author will be happy you did when he/she
sees his/her royalty statement.
Nice review! I like Elle's books, too!
ReplyDeleteYa gotta know Halloween's gonna be special in Liberty Heights--especially now that the Friebush's are there. I think Pansy would've made a great Cousin Itt, and she may have kept the costume on longer. ;-D)))
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