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The pace and the whipcrack dialogue and the incident keep coming until you are cheerfully bound up with them, hoping as much as they do that some kind of redemption lies at the end of the route.
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But I had never come across a book that contained and channeled its emotion into a whipcrack of cold disdain.
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Her second book, OVERKILL, is a whipcrack page turner, with a smart and sexy protagonist in Emma Streat, international venues and a plot that keeps you guessing.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW:Eugenia Lovett West, part 1 2010
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The pace and the whipcrack dialogue and the incident keep coming until you are cheerfully bound up with them, hoping as much as they do that some kind of redemption lies at the end of the route.
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“Or something,” Diana repeated, and Lizzie could tell she was trying for that hard, mocking, whipcrack tone, but not quite getting there … that she was amused in spite of herself.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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“Or something,” Diana repeated, and Lizzie could tell she was trying for that hard, mocking, whipcrack tone, but not quite getting there … that she was amused in spite of herself.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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How did this immigrant cobbler's son become the hottest consultant/shaman/whipcrack to top world leaders and the haute art/fashion crowd on this or any planet?
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 The first one, written by Andrew Cosby and Kevin Church, is an action-packed romp laced with occasionally groan-inducing humor but often with smart, whipcrack dialogue, while the second, written by Chip Mosher and illustrated wonderfully by Francesco Francavilla, is a more serious spy story that doesn't end well for the participants.
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Just rainy season with real whipcrack thunderstorms.
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Just rainy season with real whipcrack thunderstorms.
Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » A quickie… for your pleasure 2007
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