Everything You Have Is Mine (Lauren Laurano Mysteries)
by Sandra Scoppettone
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Author: Sandra ScoppettoneEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-07-20
ISBN: 034537682X
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Fawcett
Book Reviews of Everything You Have Is Mine (Lauren Laurano Mysteries)
Book Review: Good plot, irritating writing style
Summary: 2 Stars
I really wanted to like this book. I'm always trying to find novels with lesbians characters and I love mysteries. This was recommend in an article [...]. The story is interesting and engaging; Scoppetone sets up several plausible potential suspects and plays them off one another with lots of suspense and dramatic tension. I found myself getting drawn into the book...
And then getting thrown by one of Scoppetone's weird writing tics. She seemed a teensy bit obsessed with size and weight issues. She mentioned "weight problems" several times, her partner and most of their friends always seemed to be on a diet, she used "fat" as a pejorative and all-purpose descriptor (i.e. to mean stupid, argumentative and slow), and seemingly every few pages, Kip, the main character was bingeing on lovingly-described sweets and talking about how great it was that she had a high metabolism and could eat dessert all the time. It was like reading a novel written by a bulimic.
Scoppettone also seemed fascinated by panhandlers and people who were (presumably) homeless. Nearly every chapter included Kip interacting with a panhandler. As someone who's worked on homeless issues, I found these interactions and Scoppettone's depictions of the homeless to be filled with stereotypes and very offensive. Part of this is due to the time period the book was written in but it still made me cringe.
In general I found Scoppettone's writing to be fairly frustrating. Most of her descriptions of characters were superficial and that made it hard to care about any of them. I found it really difficult to finish the book.
Finally, I should also mention that this book is very dated. I recently read Sue Grafton's B is for Burglar (published in 1985) and you would never have known it was a couple of decades old. In contrast, the cultural references, clothing descriptions, housing prices, music and social assumptions of Everything You Have is Mine are firmly placed in the late 80s/early 90s. This can sometimes be confusing. For example, Scoppettone often refers to the year people were born to explain their age. Since a character's presumed and real age plays a part in the plot; "There's no way this woman could have been born in 1969;" much of the Aha! moment is lost in translation.
Overall, I thought this book had potential, but just wasn't very pleasant to read.
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