Hearts on a String

April 5, 2010
In Radish's unsatisfying latest (after Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA
), five women meet, bond, and overcome personal troubles. The women meet in a Tampa, Fla., airport bathroom as a giant storm shuts down the airport. The women decide to make the best of the delay and wait it out in a luxury hotel suite. In the process, they collide with a convention of parapsychics, a sex offender on the loose, and serious personal struggles. Still, the power of sisterhood wins out in the end and the strangers become bosom buddies. Radish's writing is convoluted (“This soft and fast-moving moment is as uncomfortable to her as almost anything hard she has ever done”), and the far-fetched plot is bogged down with hokey twists—dark secrets, undercover agents, and mystical powers. Only Radish's die-hard fans might manage to engage.

May 1, 2010
Radish's latest ensemble tale (after "The Shortest Distance Between Two Women") finds five very different women stuck together in a Florida hotel room after a terrible storm shuts down the entire area. Overtly sexy Cathy, stressed-out Nan, Vegas lounge singer Patti, stay-at-home-mom Margo, and shy hairdresser Holly have nothing in common but decide to bunk together anyway. Over the next few days, as the storm rages outside, so do tempers inside as the women drop their façades and get to know one another. VERDICT Radish deftly juggles the different personalities and throws in some wacky side story lines to boot. [Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-90778-0.]

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May 1, 2010
Nan Telvid, investment banker, is in a restroom at the Tampa airport when she drops her cell phone into the toilet. The four other women in the bathroomshy hairdresser Holly, guarded lounge-singer Patti, brash executive Cathy, and exhausted mom Margo, quickly come to her aid, but as soon as they do, they hear an announcement that their flight is cancelled because of a summer storm. Driven by the camaraderie of the moment, they all agree to rent a suite at a local hotel to wait it out. Once there, the five women start to think maybe it wasnt such a good idea after all. But as the storm rages outside, the close quarters force a provisional intimacy, and they begin to realize that regardless of age, number of children, or career, there is always a common element of sisterhood between women. Once again, Radish is entertaining, this time offering an inspiring story for fans of Rebecca Wells and anyone with a strong woman in her or his life.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)