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Summary: Filling Time
Review: A reunion at Stonecroft Academy should have been a happy and joyous time. But for the honorees it has become a nightmare.One is killed before the reunion.One is abducted and thouhgt to be dead, another is tormented by faxes that have to do with the past. All the male honorees are suspects. A murder twenty years ago enter twines with what is going on . Two new murders take place during the reunion. A student currently from Stonecroft is a great help to the detectives. When the owl is revealed you'll never have guessed who it was.
Mary Higgins Clark has to many suspects. Hard to keep tract of them. She does keep you guessing.If you want something to fill your time with pick it up.
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Summary: Fun Read....But Could Be Better
Review: Clark's latest outing, Nighttime Is My Time is a fun page turner with a solid concept. A 20 year high school reunion reunites students from the prestigious Stonecroft Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Funny enough, of the main characters, all of the geeky high school boys turned out to be highly successful in their careers. Seems as though the popular boys had a rough go of it in adulthood. Anyway, one of the returning classmates is taking out his adolescent anger on the girls that always made fun of him in high school. The Owl has methodically killed all but two of the popular girls who sat together at the infamous "lunch table" over the past 20 years. Seeing as though all of these men were ridiculed as teenagers, the list of suspects is pretty large.Nighttime is a fun read but there are way too many suspects involved to even remotely keep track of who might have what grudges against the others. Each possibility is touched on but not really expanded so when the killer was finally unmasked, I found the whole experience anti-climactic and wished I knew more as to what made this suspect tick. Nighttime does have the suspense, the storyboard for a great novel, but in the end falls just a tad short of expectations.
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Summary: Weak effort
Review: This book seems highly contrived and not up to the usual standards that i would expect from one of my favorites.
I am glad that i checked it out from the library and did not purchase this book. The way you are continuously supplied with reasons for EVERY man in the book to be the killer makes me feel manipulated. I will not be adding this to my collection!
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Summary: This may not be Oprah's book club
Review: but for the cost of these books, you'd better believe I'm going to be picky about plot and characters. MHC used to be one of my favorite writers but I've noticed a disturbing trend in the lack of good writing in her recent books. Her latest effort, Nighttime is My Time, sadly confirms the point. This book is certainly not worth the sticker price, nor the 3+ hours it took to finish the thing. While the premise is an interesting one, it wasn't well developed. Too many characters, many boring, are confusing. Too many "plot conveniences" are in place simply to keep the story going ... blah! Stick to her earlier works.
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Summary: may be next time
Review: while i always enjoy reading mary higgins clark, this time i was disappointed. as i read "nighttime," i kept finding similarities to one of her older books, which for the life of me i can't remember. i always have a hard time remembering my "who did it list," and this time was no different. but the one i thought for sure did it, didn't. the one i thought didn't, did. isn't that what mystery is all about
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Summary: Nighttime one of her best
Review: My my my. Could the reader reviews of this book BE more negative? It seems a lot of readers tend to second-guess an author. Why not relax as you're reading? Instead of assuming you know who the killer is right off the bat, go with the flow of the story. Be entertained. Be surprised. Don't be so picky about the plot and characters. This isn't Oprah's book club.
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Summary: Excellent page-turner
Review: What a wonderful thriller this turned out to be. Our book club recently picked three books that we thought were exceptional reads, and NIGHTTIME IS MY TIME was one of them (the other two were "BIRTH OF VENUS" and "THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD." And while all three were excellent, Clark's was the best. I can't recommend this book enough.
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Summary: Not what you expect from MHC
Review: I think people are giving this book a negative rating, not because it's a bad suspense story, but because it's not a Mary Higgins Clark suspense novel. MHC stories are about the heroine taking an active role in her own destiny. This story was not about Jean triumphing with the help of the hero, the standard fare of an MHC novel, but rather it was more about Jake solving the crime or even more about the villian. I am a Mary Higgins Clark fan and I was let down. I wanted an MHC story and I didn't get it.
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Summary: Not her best but good.
Review: I think that she has run out of ideas and a lot her books repeat the same concepts and thoughts. This one was like that. It's better then some and keeps you interested but I must be honest I could guess the killer's name long before I got to the end of the book. Simply by noticing which character she talked about the least. Try it. You'll see. It's not fun.
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Summary: "WHO" In The World Wrote This???
Review: I cannot believe this book was written by Mary Higgins Clark. Where is her fabulous writing?? Certainly not in this book. If it wasn't for Jake, the high school reporter I wouldn't have bothered to finish it. There was no depth to any of the characters and alot of white space. Sorry I wasted my money on this hardback.
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