Deadly Deals (Sisterhood)

Deadly Deals: Sisterhood Series #16 (The Sisterhood) Loved this book, it is one that shows justice can be done. All the Sisterhood books are great.

Again a fantastic story bringing justice to the deserving. The bond of sisterhood is formidable. Fern Michaels is absolutely amazing in her ability to demonstrate how important details are when plotting and planning yet allowing for chance.

I really liked this one better than the last one. Good plot, the "gang" is all there again too. Lots of twists, turns and things that can go wrong and do. Add in a wild shift in the weather, which hinder movement and communications and you see problems add up. Although this could be a stand alone book, I think its better for the reader to have read the earlier books and get connected with some of the characters. The Vigilantes are also getting restless about the promised pardons from Madame President. They helped get her where she is and its been 2 years without those pardons. They told her the clock was ticking. She has been fighting against a lot of resistance within her administration about this idea among other things too.

Fern Michaels continues this series with another story that's fun, complicated, and sometimes downright funny. It may be a bit difficult for people who haven't read the series to catch up to the action. But, once the reader gets involved we're hooked on the action and the characters. Familiar institutions like the White House, the FBI and a major newspaper are all involved. They all seem much more humane when friends of the women are in high places.

Employees and fiancés of the women are called into action too because the women are wanted by the law for past deeds. The men often take center stage with their antics. Dialogue and scenarios involving them are often hilarious as they do their jobs. When it involves taking care of a roomful of babies under a year old it's priceless.

This is a good read, one of those stories we wish would happen in real life more often. It would be handy to have powerful people who use their skills and their friends in high places to right wrongs that have done to common folks. Ms. Michaels has another winner in this book. While it might be better if the reader has read other books in the series to fill in the details of how the women got to where they are, it's still a great story. - Dee Dailey

Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels was released in 2009. A fine story of the Sisterhood getting revenge for parents scammed in an adoption racket. I loved this. Fans of Fern Michaels will like this the most.

Sixteenth in the Sisterhood vengeance-suspense series about a group of women who bring justice to those the law leaves behind.

My Take
Again. I like Michaels' premise. I hate her execution. It's a train wreck ya just can't resist watching and this installment is no exception. It's almost embarrassing to read some of the exchanges the characters have with each other. It's kind of like they're on speed and they've condensed their thought processes into short choppy sentences that just don't connect with any sense of smoothness.

I'm guessing Michaels thinks the discussion about earrings is cute...blech... What's with deputizing Jack, Harry, Joe, and Ted during a blizzard and "promising" to send them horses as transportation? Just how is riding a horse in an icy situation anything like safe or practical?? Then there's "wallah". Oh, please. These are supposedly intelligent, I'm assuming sophisticated people so I can only assume that Michaels is unaware of the proper spelling, so there and "voila" and ta-dah. I know, I know, I'm getting nasty...

The Story
A desperate wanna-be mother contacts the Quinn law firm putting the vigilantes into action with her story of practically going bankrupt to fund the pregnancy of a surrogate mother who takes her babies back a few months after the Dawsons have spent loving the twins. The Dawsons are desperate as every lawyer they've spoken with has refused to take their case when they hear that the saintly Baron Bell is involved.

Bell practically has an open door invitation to visit the White House as he pleases and more judges in his pocket than lint. No lawyer wants to take him on which only allows Bell to continue his racket with his partner.

Naturally, all the ladies get involved while not really doing much as Avery Snowden and his crew does most of the heavy lifting. Annie and Myra break into Bell's office and crack his safes, getting caught in the process. Jack, Harry, Joe, and Ted do their own break-in on Adele's "secret" hideaway with better results. And Maggie, of course, has most of the fun in compiling her articles and creating her headlines exposing it all to the public.

The finish is the White House Christmas party staged to ensure the President understands that she's vulnerable unless she gets those pardons arranged.

The Characters
It's a small crew of vigilantes this time around: Myra and Charles get engaged; Annie teases Little Fish and a new possibility in Tobias Tyson, the safecracker; Nikki and Jack; Yoko and Harry who is renovating the dojo; Kathryn and Bert; Maggie Spritzer as Editor in Chief at the Washington Post and Ted Robinson; Alexis and Joe; and Isabelle who manages a short contact with Stu Franklin. Lizzie Fox uses her reputation as a cut-throat lawyer while Cosmo, Nellie Easter, and Avery Snowden have very small roles.

Baron Bell is a lawyer who is practically nominated for sainthood he has such a good reputation. Too bad his wife doesn't yet know about his partner, Adele Newsom, or his adoption sideline. Joan Olsen and Donna Davis are two of the surrogate mothers. Rachel
Dawson is the potential mother who brought the problem to the vigilantes attention.

President Martine Connor finally starts to take charge of the White House. God knows why she took so long. What a wimp!

The Cover
The cover is lovely with its beautifully-lit gazebo and striped outdoor furniture. Baskets of flowers both hanging and potted amidst a planned landscape of stones, a path and assorted plantings under a purple sky. The fact that most of the action in this story takes place in a blizzard doesn't seem to make a difference.

The title, Deadly Deals, probably refers to the bad guys having to deal with the vigilantes--I can't imagine what else could be deadly about the adoption angle.

"Deadly Deals": Messy, shallow, cruel. Had I not read "Blindsided", which was organized, I would never have figured out who's who. This novel has a good plot, but it was hastily thrown together, with so many loose ends, the ending was frazzled.

Michaels' shitck seems to be womans'- wish-fulfillment, with loads of money, hugs, fame, hugs, giggles, power, and hugs. Emasculating men is a repeating theme. The author's use of torture, while women grin and giggle and do high fives, leaves otherwise good writing reeking.

Cy Chase "Godlings"

Most of the banter between the characters was very sophomoric. The action parts of the story were interesting, but about 50% of the book is uninteresting silliness. I read about 2/3 of the book and then quit. I should have downloaded a sample before purchasing.. LOL

This may work for some readers, but it didn't keep my interest!

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the Sisterhood Series. I have the whole collection from WEEKEND WARRIORS to DEADLY DEALS. I've lent my entire series to two different people and they read the books in order one right after the other. I had to wait for each book to come out, so I envy them having been able to read each book right away and not wait. I recommend this series, but be sure to read them in order!

DEADLY DEALS by Fern Michaels is a staggering disappointment. The subject is fascinating and timely, but the story is flat and dull. It maybe that Ms. Michaels has incorporated too many characters into the stories and needs to give each of them a show page, but it doesn't work.
For the next one I hope she gives a few a vacation -- a long one. The dialogue between Harry and Jack is so repetitive it reads like a record needle stuck in a grove.
Nash Black, author of Indie finalists WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and HAINTS.

Another great book in Fern Michaels' Sisterhood Series. I've read them all and the only disappointment is that I have to wait until January to read her two new additions to this series. I love all the characters and feel like I know them all so well. Fern Michaels comes up with such great adventures for the sisterhood and also manages to let you into their personal lives. I am going to start the Godmothers series now to read while I wait for the new books.

Loved the Sisterhood seriers when it started but after Yono's problem was taken care of it should have ended with every one living happly ever after, instead the series has gone on ever after, with each book getting worse and worse. Very disapointed since I have loved anything Fern Michaels wrote, not anymore. Sorry . My recommendation, library not bookstore.

Loved the Sisterhood seriers when it started but after Yono's problem was taken care of it should have ended with every one living happly ever after, instead the series has gone on ever after, with each book getting worse and worse. Very disapointed since I have loved anything Fern Michaels wrote, not anymore. Sorry . My recommendation, library not bookstore.

I have been following this series for quite some time. I never realized how strong women can be! These ladies keep you intrigued wondering just how they are going to punish the wrong doers while saving the day. Great read!