From fun to say what?

The fun was "There's Something About St. Tropez" by Elizabeth Adler. I've never read one of her books before but this was a pleasant summer read. Mac Reilly, a private investigator with a reality television show has decided that he and his partner, Sunny Alvarez (she says he proposed so she's his fiancee) need a vacation so he books a month at a private villa in the South of France - St. Tropez to be exact. Only trouble is, so did several other people! They've been scammed and the villa is a dump. Luckily there are rooms available at a lovely Hotel of Dreams. Mac and Sunny take this group of "Misfits" under their wing and attempt to discover who ripped them off. There is the Texas widower and his eight-year-old daughter who wears tutus so her mother will know where to find her from heaven; a British woman on the run from her Russian mobster husband; a young woman from Kansas who went on a cruise with her boyfriend - that she paid for - only to find him in bed with another woman; a New York banker who needs to find a life and an eleven-year-old boy who's been dumped at the hotel by his mother for the last month. Luckily, all of these people with the exception of the gal from Kansas seems to have money to spare. There's a bit of mystery, a bit of romance and a lot of designer name-dropping but it was a pleasant way to spend a couple of summer afternoons.

The "Say What" label goes to Julie E. Czerneda's "Rift in the Sky". When the author has to have a character explain the series' title - Stratification and hurries the end up to the point that I don't know what's happening or why - I lose faith in the author. Then the complete departure from this people's way of dealing with others was going just too far. I'm not sure why the Om'ray became the M'hiray, why they lost their memories, why they used antiquities to pay their way or why I should read any further in this series.