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| Weekend Warriors | 
 enlarge | Author: Fern Michaels
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 12027
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0821775898
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780821775899
ASIN: 0821775898
Publication Date: July 1, 2004
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Nikki Quinn is devastated when her best friend Barbara is knocked down and killed by a hit-and-run driver who claims diplomatic immunity. But Nikki has her work and her lover, fellow lawyer Jack Nolan, to keep her going, whereas Barbara's mother, Myra, has nothing. Festering in a sea of recriminations and hatred, unable to gain a sense of perspective, Myra is lost...until one day she switches on the evening news and sees Marie Lewellen, mother of a murder victim, take matters into her own hands and stab her daughter's killer. An idea is born, and within months Myra and Nikki have drawn together a group of women who have one thing in common: they have been failed by the American justice system, they're down but they're not out, and they're ready to find their nemeses and make them pay. First up is Kathryn, a long-distance truck driver who was raped at a road stop by three motorcyclists as her paralysed husband watched, helpless. Banding together, the Sisterhood plot the ultimate revenge - but with dissension from inside the group and out, there's no saying if the plan will work until the moment of truth arrives.
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 what editor in their right mind thought this was a good idea August 24, 2004
33 out of 56 found this review helpful
This is absolutely the worst book I have ever read. The writing is like that of a two year old, the character's motivations as well. Nothing rings true, not even the anger or desire for revenge. It devalues the experience of every single woman who has ever been raped, and also every woman who has lost a child to a hit and run driver. This isn't entertainment on any level, and there is certainly nothing morally uplifting about this overwrought tripe.
The woman in question who is raped is not only raped, she is raped and sodomized in front of her husband who is handciapped and can't help her. Talk about laying on the sensationalism with a trowel.
I am appalled that this book was published, even more shocked to see that it is part of a series-apparently a seven book series. This book was brief enough, printed in large print, I doubt it was even 50,00 words, but however many it was, it was way too many for me. It was predictable, overwrought, and just shows that publishers will do anything for sensationalism, and for new 'product', a book with a prominent writers name on it. And this author has the gall to think she has invented a new genre, 'the man in peril'.I think everyone offended by this book should complain to the publisher, and perhaps the rest of these extremely offensive series will be confined to the trash heap.
Spoiler:
How they can surgically castrate the three men, leave their testicles in plastic bags, and then find it FUNNY when the men turn up at a doctor's office (not the hospital?) to ask to have them put back, is just too sick for words. And the doctor's secretary selling the story to the tabloids for $50000 is even more sick. Avoid this loser of a series if you have any taste or sense.
 AN ACES READING September 15, 2005
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
When the seven women in Fern Michaels's "Weekend Warriors" get their dander up, dander is not just a bit of ire - they're dealing out dynamite. In addition to friendship, what binds these women together is a mutual feeling that the legal system has done them wrong. Prior to forming a sisterhood, each felt helpless, victimized. Now, they're empowered and going to set things right.
Founder of the group is rich Myra Rutledge whose daughter was run down by a man with diplomatic immunity. He could not be prosecuted and Myra is left to grieve. After some time she realizes that perhaps there is something she can do and turns to her late daughter's best friend, lawyer Nikki Quinn, who witnessed the fatal accident. Together they find the remaining members of their avenging party.
First person to be vindicated is a woman who was raped by a group of motor bikers, the Weekend Warriors. When I say these women seek revenge in spades - think Lorena Bobbitt.
Laural Merlington gives an aces reading to this tale of women who are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
- Gail Cooke
Not a "nice" book, just a fun and good one! October 17, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unlike some of the others, I do find the anger real. Is it hard to sympathize? Yes, these women are doing vigilante justice, they are not sweet and shy, they are pissed and out for business. BUT it seems to me that there are stories like this where the vigilante is a man, and people can sympathize.
This is a quick read, I didn't buy it expecting perfection, I bought it to keep me interested. I am surprised at the anger express by some of the other reviewers. `I am never going to buy another Zebra book'? Since I am not a Zane Grey fan should I give up on Dorchester?
There are parts of the story where you know it just couldn't happen the way described but most novels have parts that just couldn't happen. The dialogue was weaker than I expected and the characters less developed, but I expect that is so the series has room to grow.
Don't buy this book if you are excepting sweet and nice. This is not a "nice" story but it keeps you cheering most of the time.
 Go Girls! August 27, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book kept me up late for two nights. I did not want to put it down. I enjoyed the story, I sympathized as well as empathized with the characters and I wanted in on the action! Ms. Michaels really out did herself with this one and I was left wondering if she was writing from personal experience. I can't wait to get to the rest of the series!
Weekend Warriors October 24, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was a great book and a wonderful continuation of Payback. I love Fern Michaels as a writer. Always interesting and entertaining.
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