Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Class Act

This is the 58th installment in the Stuart Woods series about Stone Barrington.  At this point the series is definitely a bit predictable in certain aspects, dinner with Dino; Stone as a playboy;  people wanting to kill people.  All of this was present but I did find the plot a little better than the recent installments in the series.  I also found some of Stone's decisions to be a deviation from his normal behavior with a bit of a more edgy and questionable slant.  The plots are enough to keep my attention and will keep me returning for more but if you are looking for highly thought provoking or intricate details this is not the series for you. 


Class ActClass Act by Stuart Woods
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

On one hand this is a typical Stone Barrington story. Rotating trysts and people wanting to kill him amidst fancy dinners at PJ Clarke’s and Patroon. This installment was a bit more gritty and showed a side of Stone that isn’t often seen. He is faced with some moral and ethical choices that he deals with himself rather than passing off to Herbie or other associates. This book will full of action, deceit and double crossing highlights the fact that people are not always what they seem and their pasts may surprise you

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Challenge Prompts

The Challenge Prompts I will use this for are:  


  1. Library Love  #LibraryLoveChallenge  Book #100
  2. Finishing the Series   #FinishingTheSeries2021  Stone Barrington #58
  3. Virtual Mount TBR #VirtualMountTBR2021   Book #108
  4. Back List Reader  #Backlistreader  Book #122
  5. Calendar of Crime  #CalendarOfCrime2021   
  6. Cloak & Dagger  #CloakDaggerChal  Book #103
  7. Around the Year in 52 Books #31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years  
  8. Medical Examiner Challenge 6 Toe Tags
  9. Beachcomber Challenge  
    • Crime Scenes 
      • Row 1
        • Kitchen or bakery
      • Row 4
        • Street or sidewalk
      • Row 5
        • Bedroom
        • Bathtub, shower, bathroom
    • Weapons
      • Row 2 
        • Hand gun x3 
        • Pointy object x2 
      • Row 3
        • Bomb or explosion
      • Row 4
        • Dagger 
      • Row 5
        • Hands or fists
    • Detectives- Stone/Dino
    • Victims- Manny/Hilda/Sal/Cora/the Don/Michael 
  10. Six Shooter Challenge  Target #5b  Shot #1


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