Book 57: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

NUMBER: 57
TITLE: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
AUTHOR: Cathy East Dubowksi
STARTED: August 16, 2005
FINISHED: August 19, 2005
PAGES: 275
GENRE: Movie Tie-In

FIRST SENTENCE: Katrina - Is the tape on?

SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] Jane Smith is charming, sexy, successful, and intelligent, a rare combination of domestic goddess and savvy businesswoman. Although she and her equally perfect husband seem to be the ideal couple, the spark has faded from their marriage. That is, until they win free sessions with a counselor. What they keep hidden from their therapist and each other, they confide in the journals they've been coaxed to keep.

John Smith is wealthy, daring, athletic, and smart, a guy who drinks his scotch the way he's climbed to the top of the construction business: straight up. Although he and his equally perfect wife seem to be the ideal couple, the spark has faded from their marriage. That is, until they win free sessions with a counselor. What they keep hidden from their therapist and each other, they confide in the journals they've been coaxed to keep.

Jane and John Smith are actually hired assassins working for rival organizations - and their next assignments are... each other! And so begins the kind of cat-and-mouse game that attracted Jane to John in the first place - a roulette dangereuse that will either lead to a rekindled passion most married couples can only dream about... or to cold-blooded murder.

REASON FOR READING: Saw the movie and thought the book would be better.

THOUGHTS: The book and the movie are almost exactly the same. They have the same tone, the same snappy zest, and the same lines. Since I saw the movie was I was reliving it in my head as I read the book. I liked the diaryish set-up of the plot. I only wish that the novelization was meatier than the film.

MISCELLANEOUS: Brad Pitt... mmmm.

KEEP/SHARE/CRINGE(?): Putting on paperbackswap.com
RATING: 5/10 [I didn't particularly like it or dislike it; mixed review]

CR: Sex, Lies, and Vampires by Katie MacAlister
RN: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks