Dangerous Lady

This is the fourth Martina Cole novel I've read, and it's becoming a major chore. Having already read three of her books, the formulaic nature of them and the repetativeness is becoming more and more annoying. In fact, I doubt I shall bother to finish this one. As usual the book is packed with anachronisms and lazy research. The characters are the same in every book - the female lead who is stunning but doesn't know it; the male lead who is over six feet tall even at times in history when the average male height in tis country was about 5 foot 7; they have dazzling white, perfect teeth; as usual, there is the hard-working and wise Irish mother; yet again, we have the "hardest man in London" as the main male character... and so the list goes on. Okay, so this was Cole's's first novel, but why have all the others been exactly the same? Enough is enough - reading the same book over and over is a waste of my time, especially when there are far better on my shelves.

Gritty.. (1/1 people found this helpful)

This was such a good read..Maura was dragged up along with her brothers in the midst of poverty, grime and violence..this added the grit to the character, as I am sure is true in reality..
She proves herself at a young age when she is put in charge of her brothers businesses, earning the respect of the thugs of the underworld..

Martina uses rhyming slang which adds to the authenticity..She uses it so well that one has to wonder if she moves amongst them even now! (joke)

Read it, you will like it......

Fantastic! (2/3 people found this helpful)

I previously read the Jump by Martina Cole, and was disapointed with it. This however restored my faith in the Cole, and I really enjoyed it and could not put it down. All that is good about Martina Coles stories are in this book.

Would recomend to anyone who likes to read this sort of thing, very much addictive!

Great characters in a murky world (4/4 people found this helpful)

The development of the characters in this book is wonderful. You know that they all have evil sides to them, but you still can't help liking them (well most of them anyway!)
I've heard stories about the real 60s gangland environment and it was interesting to read a fictional account of what went on and how it changed over the decades. The author very cleverly bought in references to the Krays and Richardsons and the IRA to make the story seem as real as possible.
The grubby descriptions of day to day life were very vivid, particularly when the family were children and struggling to survive. It should be remembered that a lot of people lived like this without all of the criminality.
This was the first Martina Cole book I had read, it won't change my world and isn't a "great" book but it was a book which I keep reading at every small opportunity and I thoroughly enjoyed. I will read more of her books.

The Dangerous Lady book made me buy all of Martina Cole's novels. (3/5 people found this helpful)

I thought that the story about Maura Ryan growing up with her brother's in London who helped her join the gang to become a expert gang leader running the night clubs she owned with other business ventures. I brought the book everywhere with me in order to finish it off, the only sad part about the book was coming to the end of the novel but I have got Maura's game to continue with the story of what happened next?

Martina Cole

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Change the record, Martina (1/1 people found this helpful)

Gritty.. (1/1 people found this helpful)

Fantastic! (2/3 people found this helpful)

Great characters in a murky world (4/4 people found this helpful)

The Dangerous Lady book made me buy all of Martina Cole's novels. (3/5 people found this helpful)

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