Dakota Defined (Dakota Lester Series Book 2)

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Those who love paranormal romantic comedy should definitely give this one a try. My thanks to Penguin Group for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review. Nov 17, Ellie rated it really liked it. In a panic of being turned into a werewolf Harry does the only thing he can think of and dials the OOPS hotline. If anyone can help explain what has happened to him it has to be the women of OPPS who deal with paranormal crises but the wo The Accidental Werewolf 2: If anyone can help explain what has happened to him it has to be the women of OPPS who deal with paranormal crises but the women are not what Harry expected.

Now Harry is a werewolf, has found out that the majority of his co-workers are too and he is desperate to go back to being a plain human. With help from the women of OOPS, a zombie and a sexy werewolf Mara, Harry tries to get his new life together without letting the rest of the world know about his big change. All Mara Flaherty wanted was a child but when a lab experiment goes wrong she finds that she has turned her crush Harry Emerson into a werewolf which is punishable by the werewolf council. I love this series and Dakota Cassidy is one of the few writers that I can always depend on for laugh out loud humor with every book.

The Accidental Werewolf 2 picks up not long after The Accidental Genie left off and we get to catch up with all of the great characters from the series.

The book starts off with one of the best characters ever Nina getting a call from newly turned werewolf Harry. The banter between Nina and Harry from the beginning to the end of the book had me laughing so hard and keeps everything up beat and super funny. I could read books with Nina in them for days and add in that Nina is now a mom and acquires a pet zombie I was sold and knew this would so much fun to read.

I struggled with Harry at first mostly since he has such a horrible time accepting his new werewolf status and how he treats Mara. Once Harry gets over it I just loved how sweet he is to his kids and to everyone around him. Add in how nerdy and klutzy he his and he became one of my favorite characters. I really liked Mara but she needed to grow a pair for the majority of the book but thankfully Nina was there to let her know this.

I love that Dakota Cassidy can surprises me and throw in some great twists. This is a great addition to a great series! Oct 11, Marta Cox rated it it was amazing. Well Dakota Cassidy has done it again and written another hilarious offering in her popular Accidentally Friends series, this one is number 8 I believe and sure to delight her fans. Only problem is Harry seems oblivious to Well Dakota Cassidy has done it again and written another hilarious offering in her popular Accidentally Friends series, this one is number 8 I believe and sure to delight her fans. Finding out he has two small children at home to look after complicates things and the small matter of Maras libido where Harry's concerned doesn't help but when the children are threatened Harry and Mara have to work together.

Dec 05, Debbie Lester rated it it was amazing. Cassidy's over-the-top humor and pop culture references give this novel a light and fun atmosphere which will appeal to paranormal fans, as well as, romance readers. The author has a flair for the dramatic and her characters are vivacious and full of life. Something About Harry is definitely a hair-raising book, with lots of paranormal fun!

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This novel was a first fo The Accidental Werewolf 2: This novel was a first for me from this author and I was impressed with Cassidy's humor and the overall comedic appeal. Her books are obviously not meant to be dark paranormal tales. There was a lightness about it that was fun and entertaining. Pop cultures references abounded in Something About Harry, and Cassidy was able to interject them into just about every situation. From Harry Potter to the Walking Dead, the author had a penchant for contemporary speech and thought patterns that made me chuckle more than once.

The characters were multi-dimensional and had a bit of depth that is sometimes missing in a novel that has a lot of humor. Cassidy made staid accountant Harry come alive as he dealt with his newly acquired werewolf sensibilities and even his overactive libido.

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Mara was a perfect match with her analytic mind and her wacky experiments. These two sizzled on more than one occasion which was fine with this reader. What I didn't Like: Fortunately, there were not to many things I didn't like about this one. I am one of those readers than can get into any kind of romance book, paranormals being some of my favorites. I enjoy a good love scene, and it can get a bit graphic, but one thing that tends to bug me is the use of too many colorful metaphors as Spock from Star Trek might say. I don't like a lot of bad language in a book. In the bedroom certain things are expected, and I realize that "Good, Golly, Gosh Darn," doesn't always convey a characters point.

But too much is too much. This one was a little wordy for my tastes, so that's just something to be aware of. It didn't take anything away from the overall read, which was excellent! I wish I had started reading this series a lot earlier. Now I have to catch up. This a read that has a lot of humor, some great characters and a whole lot of contemporary pop culture references that will have readers rolling.

It is good as a stand alone and you won't get lost at all, but I have a feeling as part of a series, this one will rock! I think you'll like it. Mara and Harry, the heroine and hero of the story are both really great characters. Mara was super smart and logical, very loyal to her friends, and just a genuinely good all around person werewolf! They were good for each other, and I especially liked how Mara and the rest of the crew formed relationships with the children.

The characters other than Mara and Harry are great, for example, Nina, the grumpy vampire, Carl, the vegetarian zombie, and Guido, the incompetent witch doctor, and they all round out the story wonderfully. Several descriptive sex scenes May 10, Sonjipants rated it did not like it Shelves: DNF I enjoyed the first book in this series and then skipped ahead to this book, because none of the others sounded interesting to me.

I was really excited because it sounded promising. I love stories where the couple have known each other for a while and then realise they belong together. However I didn't even get close to that part of the story.

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Because of the opening scene. The book opens with Harry calling OOPS— 'Out in the Open Paranormal Support' helpline because he is changing into a DNF I enjoyed the first book in this series and then skipped ahead to this book, because none of the others sounded interesting to me.

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The book opens with Harry calling OOPS— 'Out in the Open Paranormal Support' helpline because he is changing into a werewolf and who is the helpful operator who takes his call? Shucks, this should be wacky, funny and a screwball comedy of errors sarcasm. That is like trusting Hitler to look after Poland without invading it. I HATE female characters who are written to be the 'funny, bitchy' woman who people love even though she is a bitch. She's not funny, she's just a bitch, who is being bitchy and annoying and is completely unsympathetic as a character.

The scene would NOT end. It was like the author thought "Maybe if I give her more lines, it'll just magically become funny. By the time Nina had insulted Harry for being well educated and having a vocabulary, got him to call her some stupid title like "Queen of Darkness", told him she was bored because "Like totally I've had a phone call where someone had turned into a werewolf for the first time and that is uber lame and yesterday now.

Do something interesting to keep me invested", I was about to throw the book across the room. So I would have loved to see the relationship between the two main characters come to fruition, unfortunately that scene happened and turned me off the entire book. Jan 23, Darkand rated it it was amazing Shelves: There is a snippet of wisdom from 'Fresh Fiction' written on the back cover of this book and it reads: I think everyone should have a badass vampire Nina in their lives. I do have a couple of qu There is a snippet of wisdom from 'Fresh Fiction' written on the back cover of this book and it reads: I do have a couple of questions for OOPS though.

First, wouldn't Guido be classified as an 'accidental' witch doctor and thusly be deserving of OOPS's services? He certainly proved himself in the long run but, doesn't his story of 'transformation' qualify him for their brand of 'help'? I'm guessing this would be covering brand new territory for the werewolf council but, I would think, as new situations arise, so to must the council - rise to the occasion as it were.

Just a few thoughts on future possibilities. I can't wait for the next accidental story but I am absolutely quiviering in antici Jul 08, Aaron the Werebear Writer rated it it was amazing.

This is the first book of the series I have read, but after reading this installment I would be greatly encouraged to read the others. I was not certain what to expect in the plot after reading other authors' takes on humorous paranormal romance erotica. I honestly was laughing so hard I had to stop myself as our dogs and cats were checking on me to make sure I was ok.

The geek and nerd humor references really resonated with me, especially when they refer to The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Star War This is the first book of the series I have read, but after reading this installment I would be greatly encouraged to read the others. The geek and nerd humor references really resonated with me, especially when they refer to The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Star Trek series in relation to the plot events. I can honestly say that I could identify with the characters in how it feels to be socially awkward yet intellectually brilliant.

Finding the right match for a partner is not easy and there are ups and downs. This made me feel very happy that even the geeks and nerds get their day of love. I love Cassidy's writing style because it is both serious but doesn't take the plot and characters too seriously. If anything, it makes social commentary accessible, honest, and with a twist that puts a new spin on an issue. In the case of this book, the matter of a woman's body, what she wishes to do with it, and her power to decide how she wants to become a mother.

It also points out what family means in the 21st century. To wrap up, this book encourages me to read more of Cassidy's work because it makes geeks and nerds the heroes who can figure out how to save the day. But most importantly, the female protagonist is a powerful, empowered woman in her own right.

Just the way I love them. Nov 13, L. Williams rated it it was amazing Shelves: Don't eat or drink while reading this book!

It's so funny you might choke! He's linear thinking and quite down-to-earth. He has no idea he's working with quite a few werewolves, until he takes a swig from the wrong bottle and things get beastly. As one does in this situation, he searches the internet for a fast solution, and finds O. The site's handy-dandy paranormal questionnaire reveals that he's turning into Caution: The site's handy-dandy paranormal questionnaire reveals that he's turning into a werewolf?! Mara Flaharty is a brilliant lab employee at Pack that no one seems to want as a mate.

She's had her tail in a fluff over Harry for quite a while, but the one time she'd approached him had ended in humiliation. To make matter worse, the concoction that Ralph drank was meant for her! But his hard-headed logic could prove to be a danger to the werewolf community, and his family!

Despite being the eighth book in the series, the story remains fresh and the characters well-written. While many authors fall into a slump of repetition, Cassidy maintains a loose formula for the stories in the series without producing cookie-cutter results. By far, her greatest strength is ranging from laugh-out-loud humor to fear and tension within a mere few pages with credibility. Second only to that is her ability to produce supporting characters that a reader will enjoy as much as Mara and Harry.

This is definitely going on my re-read shelf! Nov 29, Auden4 rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone who loves a pee your pants paranormal romp!! This latest book in her Accidental Series was laugh out loud funny!!

We got to meet up with our friends from the other stories and meet new ones. Dakota Cassidy is one of the few authors that I'm always in the mood to read!! Plus the side characters are in your face funny! This book has a bit of everything! How can you go wrong with a line up like that? If you've enjoyed Cassidy's other books you'll love this one more!! She pulls out all the stops in this newest book. This series gets better with each book. If you've never tried one of Dakota Cassidy's Accidental books you're missing out!

But, this would be a great one to try! Later, Thornhill invites Kendall, now the new Mrs. Thornhill, onto the upper berth of a train, which then, suggestively, enters a tunnel. Hitchcock's cameo appearances are a signature occurrence in most of his films. In North by Northwest , he is seen getting a bus door slammed in his face, just as his credit is appearing on the screen. She had previously appeared in Rear Window. Hitchcock stood by his choice of Eva Marie Saint. John Russell Taylor 's biography Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another film project:.

After a couple of weeks, Lehman offered to quit saying he didn't know what to do with the story. Hitchcock told him they got along great together and they would just write something else. Lehman said that he wanted to make the ultimate Hitchcock film. Hitchcock thought for a moment then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount Rushmore.

Lehman and Hitchcock spitballed more ideas: Eventually they settled on the U. For the central idea, Hitchcock remembered something an American journalist had told him about spies creating a fake agent as a decoy. Perhaps their hero could be mistaken for this fictitious agent and end up on the run. Lehman repeated this story in the documentary Destination Hitchcock: Hitchcock had the idea of the hero being stranded in the middle of nowhere, but suggested that the villains try to kill him with a tornado.

Lehman responded, "but they're trying to kill him. How are they going to work up a cyclone? In fact, Hitchcock had been working on the story for nearly nine years prior to meeting Lehman. Guernsey was the American journalist who had the idea which influenced Hitchcock, inspired by a true story during World War II when British Intelligence obtained a dead body, invented a fictitious officer who was carrying secret papers, and arranged for the body and misleading papers to be discovered by the Germans as a disinformation exercise called Operation Mincemeat.

Guernsey turned his idea into a story about an American salesman who travels to the Middle East and is mistaken for a fictitious agent, becoming "saddled with a romantic and dangerous identity. Hitchcock often told journalists of an idea that he had about Cary Grant hiding from the villains inside Abraham Lincoln 's nose and being given away when he sneezes. Hitchcock sat on the idea, waiting for the right screenwriter to develop it. The original traveling salesman character had been suited to James Stewart , but Lehman changed it to a Madison Avenue advertising executive, a position which he had formerly held.

In an interview in the book Screenwriters on Screenwriting , Lehman stated that he had already written much of the screenplay before coming up with critical elements of the climax. This was the only Hitchcock film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The scene of Cary Grant going to the United Nations in New York was filmed illicitly because UN authorities denied permission to film on or near its property, after reviewing the script. After two failed attempts to get the required shots, Hitchcock had Grant pull up in a taxicab right outside the general assembly building while a hidden camera crew filmed him exiting the vehicle and walking across the plaza.

The crop-duster sequence was meant to take place in northern Indiana but was shot on location on Garces Highway near the towns of Wasco and Delano , north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. The plane was piloted by Bob Coe, a crop-duster from Wasco. The British film magazine Empire ranked the crop-duster scene as the "greatest movie moment" of all time in its August issue.

The house near the end of the film was not real. Hitchcock asked the set designers to make the set resemble a house by Frank Lloyd Wright , the most popular architect in America at the time, using the materials, form and interiors associated with him. House exteriors were matte paintings. A panel of fashion experts convened by GQ in said the gray suit worn by Cary Grant throughout almost the entire film was the best suit in film history, and the most influential on men's style, stating that it has since been copied for Tom Cruise 's character in Collateral and Ben Affleck 's character in Paycheck.

Hitchcock had his agent check his contract, learned that he had absolute control over the final cut, and refused. One of Eva Marie Saint's lines in the dining-car seduction scene was redubbed. A DVD edition was also released. The site states the critical consensus as, "Gripping, suspenseful and visually iconic, this late-period Hitchcock classic laid the groundwork for countless action thrillers to follow. Time magazine called the film "smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining. Weiler of The New York Times made it a "Critic's Pick" and said it was the "year's most scenic, intriguing and merriest chase"; Weiler complimented the two leads:.

Cary Grant, a veteran member of the Hitchcock acting varsity, was never more at home than in this role of the advertising-man-on-the-lam. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore. Although she is seemingly a hard, designing type, she also emerges both the sweet heroine and a glamorous charmer. Film critic Charles Champlin saw the film as an "anthology of typical Hitchcockian situations", and was particularly taken by the scene and suspense in which Grant's character avoids death when attacked by a crop-dusting plane in the cornfields, which he believed was representative of Hitchcock's finest work.

The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented:. Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock's sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.

Cary Grant's Roger Thornhill, the film's sharply dressed ad exec who is sucked into a vortex of mistaken identity, certainly wouldn't be out of place in Mad Men. But there's nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman Sweet Smell of Success , co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film "certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best". Horning , Robert F. In , North by Northwest was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

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North by Northwest was acknowledged as the seventh-best film in the mystery genre. In , Lorne Malvo Billy Bob Thornton passes through Bemidji, Minnesota , and influences the community — including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard Martin Freeman — with his malice, violence, and deception. To achieve this, they attempt to steal a valuable vintage stamp from Ray's more successful older brother, Emmit also played by McGregor , the self-proclaimed "Parking Lot King of Minnesota".

However, their plans backfire, and the couple soon has to hide their involvement in two deaths, including the stepfather of former Eden Valley police chief Gloria Burgle Carrie Coon. Meanwhile, Emmit wishes to pay back a shady company he borrowed money from two years ago, but the mysterious company and its employees, led by V. The fourth season will star Chris Rock , who will play the head of a crime syndicate made up of black migrants fleeing the Jim Crow South who have a contentious relationship with the Kansas City mafia.

It will be set in s Kansas City, Missouri. Production is scheduled to begin in late In , it was announced that FX , with the Coen brothers as executive producers , was developing a new television series based on the Academy Award -winning film Fargo. The series is set in the same fictional universe as the film, in which events took place in between Minneapolis and Brainerd, Minnesota. The first season features the buried ransom money from the film in a minor subplot. Following the series renewal in July , creator Noah Hawley revealed that the second season would take place in and focus on Sioux Falls, South Dakota , as referenced by Lou Solverson and others in the first season.

Hawley agreed that this takes place before the events of the film, but he believes all the stories connect: But I like the idea that these things are connected somehow, whether it's linearly or literally or thematically. That's what we play around with. Production on season 3 began in January in Calgary, Alberta. As with the film, this claim is untrue.

The first season received acclaim from television critics, and received a Metacritic score of 85 out of based on 40 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim. The website consensus reads: Club named it the sixth best TV series of The second season has been met with overwhelming acclaim from television critics. It received a Metacritic score of 96 based on 33 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". The third season has received acclaim similar to the first two seasons from critics.

On Metacritic, it has a score of 89 out of based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The site's critical consensus reads: Fargo has won 51 of its award nominations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anthology Crime drama Black comedy. Dana Gonzales Matthew J.

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