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This was a DNF for me--but i would definitely try this author again. The writing was great, the storyline was intriguing but the, "OMG You left me, OMG I had to leave you," romantic angst drove me freaking batty. On top of all that, the heroine who spent 5 years using pills and booze to 'stifle' her OMGSOSCARYHORRIBLE psychic powers turns around within 24 hours of coming home and offers to use them to help the hero/love interest catch the killer. Really? REALLY?
Book meet wall.
I have to say overall I was pretty let down with this one. So let down I almost gave this one two stars. The writing is okay but the inconsistencies really got to me. A bad girl who wants revenge but doesn't really do much to get it, a cop from the big city who doesn't really do any detective work, sex in the back yard of the house of a woman you're staying with...a woman whose husband passed away a week prior...a woman with early parkinsons shoving another woman in a closet and tying her up? ...i could go on but I won't. The more I thought about this after I finished it, the more irritated I got.
Again probably won't go down as one of my favorite Spindler books...and can't quite pinpoint how it fell short for me BUT from the author notes I"m guessing she wrote this during Hurricane Katrina and I know she had to leave her home...LAST KNOWN VICTIM is so much etter than this one at least from the standpoint of how well written it is.
Love JT and the Taylor Jackson books but not sure this one is/was a fave. Maybe because I started it, put it down for months then went back to it?? Maybe the dual stories?? Not sure.
I realize it's YA nad I love YA but ... Wow I most definitely wasn't the target audience for this one and not just because it's probably written/geared toward tweens and young teens.It was such a *great* premise, and there were some really cool aspects but it just fell short on many levels. Overall I was very disappointed--maybe even moreso becaues there were some pretty cool elements that just never seemed to bear fruit (and maybe because this wasn't anything like what i thought it would be??).
Really enjoyed this one...kind of an old-school, Queenie'ish scenario (not really a suspense novel but a big juicy romance with twists) but nearly as well written as Spindler's more recent works.
Loved this...SO Much better than Beautiful Liar and I'm so glad I gave her another shot. My one caveat for those of you who prefer everything all wrapped up in a pretty bow in the end....you don't really get that with Unger (at least not in the two books I've read). Her endings seem to be a bit more true to real life...lots of stuff gets wrapped up, lots of questions are answered but some stuff you have to accept you'll never have the answer to. It works for her (and me) but might not work for some readers...
Good story well written ESP the first person but the downside to 1st is when u get off track or wander and the author IMO did this a lot. I'd still read another book by her though :)
Hmmm this was my first Barclay book and I'm a bit on the fence about it. I love first person, read a TON of first person (Including Lisa Gardner who excels at 1st person) so I'm VERY picky about my first person. For about the first 1/3 to 1/2 the first person is very clunky and awkward :( but I stuck with it. The last half or so was better (less clunky, better pacing)--mostly because (I think) there was more dialogue than anything. Odd as my criticisms may sounds, I feel like I had a vested interst in seeing how it all turned out so I stuck with it. Keeping in mind that suspense and thrillers are my #1 genre of choice to read (meaning, I've read a lot and I'm really picky, as in, "Can you pass the Gardner test?" LOL)...There were no huge surprises here. And in the end, I'm not 100% sure I bought into all the big reveals that went on. I def wouldn't read any of Barclays older books but MIGHT maybe give a newer book a try to see if the writing/plotting/etc has improved.
Wow someone missed the class on showing vs telling (or maybe the class on where to start a story I dunno) cuz the whole first five or six pages was nothing but telling telling telling. It didn't help that this was the book club edition, and the font was extra small to fit the book club format. I gave up. Just coudln't be bothered. Maybe if it had been told better??
Lisa Gardner is an auto-buy for me...one of my last...in part because I usually cant figure out who did it...LOL. And even though I did (kind of) see it coming in the last 30-50 pages, CATCH ME is at the top of my list of favorite Gardner books.
About 1/3 of the way through. Even though I think I've 'figured it out' I'm intrigued and can't wait to see if I'm right!
wow...every time i think Lisa Gardner can't possibly top herself she does. LIVE TO TELL is scary in it's believability (but not nearly as scarily believable as SAY GOODBYE) and, at the same time, heart-wrenchingly sad--at least from the perspective of a parent.
Much as I enjoyed the first two books, this one kinda (okay seriously) squicked me out in places--almost as if the author felt she HAD to push the squick-o-meter -- by design or because she was forced. And like in her first two novels, Cain can't quite make the secondary storyline come together (or I read too fast and missed something LOL). Love Cain. Huge fan but this one ... just not my cuppa.
