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Summary: What a let down!
Review: This was by far the worst book by Mary Higgins Clark and I'm usually a fan of her work. There were way too many characters and they weren't developed enough so you couldn't keep straight who was who and what they had to do with the story. The ending was just plain stupid! The story ended with some of the most important characters on the verge of something important and poof that's that you don't know what happened to them. I closed this book feeling frustrated, disappointed and confused. So confused in fact that I went back and read the last chapter thinking maybe I missed something.....I didn't but I think the author did!
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Summary: This would make a great movie!
Review: Lawyer Emily Graham has just moved into her ancestral home in a picturesque seaside village when a series of murders begins. And not just any murders: They replicate to the last detail a series of murders that took place there one hundred years ago, and the anniversary of the last killing is this Saturday...who will be next? Mary Higgins Clark has created a strong heroine in Emily and filled the story with a large cast of suspects that will keep you guessing until the last minute. My favorite chapters were those narrated by the unseen killer, who may be just demented or may be the reincarnation of the original killer. The frequent comparisons between town life in the Victorian era and the present make me think this would make a lovely and suspenseful film. And the big question (has the original killer been reincarnated?) makes for fun, if creepy, speculation. Heartily recommended.
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Summary: On the Street Where You Live
Review: On the Street Where You Live
There is a serial killer in Spring Lakes. But he isn't any normal serial killer. He is a killer who is repeating the serial killing what he had done One hundred years ago. On the other words he has been reincarnated.
Emily Graham has just moved to Spring Lakes from New York after divorcing her husband. Her ancestors were from Spring Lakes. Her great grandaunt was killed in spring lakes. Her great-grandaunt was one of the victims of that serial killer one hundred years ago. Now he is back again. He is committing the same crimes he had done hundred years ago.
Right after Emily bought her ancestors house after she has moved to Spring Lakes workers had found out her great-grandaunts body who had disappeared hundred years ago and one other body which had disappeared 5 years ago at the same day when Emily's great-grandaunt disappeared hundred years ago.
The question on the book was is the killer was reincarnated or he was just following the killer who had committed 5 murders hundred years ago. Was he just repeating? Or was he reincarnated.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read !!!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. I am a commuter and spend around 2 hours a day on the train. I read A LOT of books every year and some of my favorites are by Mary Higgins Clark. This book was so good I was reading it in my car on the way home at red lights to get to the ending. Well worth the possible traffic violations.
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Summary: Okay mystery book
Review: I love Mary Higgins Clark as an author and I love alot of her other books. This one was okay, but I found that because of the whole reincarnation deal, I was starting not to care what happened or who got shot. In the end where they reveal the murderer, I was surprised because of who the person was, but the way it was written, it was less than what I like from a mystery book. Okay. ~Atalanta
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Summary: Ouch... not very good!
Review: This was the first book by Mary Higgins Clark I ever read. It will be the last. While the premise itself was interesting, I found its execution to be quite sloppy. The characters were not developed very well (I kept getting them confused, as Clark provided very few details to bring them to life in the reader's mind), and all seemed to be cardboard cut-out clones of each other. They talked the same, thought the same, even dressed the same (all the women -- even the young ones -- wore pantsuits!). The villain was dreadful, and seemed to come out of nowhere. Not enough hints were dropped that this person could be the killer, so when it was finally revealed, it was rather disorienting. Besides this, the villain was kind of over-the-top... you know, the moustache-twirler who gleefully explains his plot to the hapless heroine right before he tries to kill her. There was also a strange switch in the point of view halfway through, and the killer suddenly starts talking to the reader in the first person. All in all, I was highly disappointed, and felt like I'd wasted my time. I read this book because Mary Higgins Clark is so famous, and I want to see what all the fuss was about. I don't get it.
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Summary: Hard to follow ** uninteresting plot ** Too many characters
Review: I've been listening to the audio book by MHC of this title. I cannot finish it because it is too hard to follow. There are too many characters that are not interesting enough for me to even remember their names, and the plot has already sunk for me. Thumbs Down!
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Summary: 2nd book i've read written by her
Review: ~~~This is a another great story! Although it's a little confusing, you will get to understand it as you read on further and eventually enjoy it! All those stuff about reincarnation and ancestors' deaths really interest me, especially the part where 2 bodies were found at Emily's house. However,surprisingly, one was dead for a much longer time than the other! And this arouses Emily's curiosity to find the murderer. Bits and bits of information starts to gather along the way, and eventually leads~~ to the identity of the murderer and the danger of Emily's life... I'm now looking forward to read another one of her great books.~
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Summary: reincarnation of evil?
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It held my interest from the very beginning to the end. Emily Graham has sold her stocks she held in the company a friend owned, that had done well, and is now rich. Because of an exhausting and exasperating year: her ex-husband had tried to sue her for part of the money and she had been the victim of a stalker the year before and was also going to be starting a new job as a defense lawyer in a law firm, found she wanted to put down roots of a sort. She visited the home her ancestors owned in the 1890's and fell in love with it and had the chance to buy it and snapped it up. There was a history of the mysterious disappearances of three young women (one, a relative of hers) during the 1890s that was never solved and now the same thing seems to be happening again, and people are questioning and wondering if the evil person who caused the earlier disappearances has been reincarnated. The family, who owned the house she bought, were in the process of building a pool and Emily decided to continue with the project and, low and behold, what do they find in the backyard but the bodies of her ancestor who disappeared over a hundred years ago and the body of the young woman who recently disappeared and in the hand of the recently deceased is the finger and ring of the young girl who died long ago. Emily is determined to find out what happened to the young women who disappeared years ago and to connect the events of then to now. In the midst of all these goings on, she finds herself being stalked again by some unknown person or did they get the right stalker before? Others are murdered and we have several suspects to wonder about as the story unfolds. Highly entertaining! A good book to read on a rainy afternoon.
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Summary: Novel-reading for dummies...
Review: This is good reading for people who 1. are just learning to read English (no word is harder than "fascinating") 2. never met a cliche they didn't love 3. need to make a fire quickly, and need pulp 4. cannot read more than ten words in a sentence 5. wish Moby Dick had been a comic book so senior year could have been easier 6. are not easily nauseated 7. are writers and readers of good mystery fiction who want a good laugh (but don't expect your toleration level to go beyond the first few chapters - even a sense of humor cannot dispell the eventual gloom of plodding cynicism that arrives, suddenly, like a bloated, rotting corpse, which has nothing to do with the blandola plot). My God, can this person be making money from her enterprise? Yes, and lots of it. Because there are many word-challenged dummies who think that "Wow!" and "Oh, no!" and "Hi!" are the stuff of great writing. She has millions of boring minions. That, of course, is the reason we are forced to countenance her, smiling from ear-to-ear, in her white linen suit, gold jewelry and air-brushed, plastic face, posed in front of her large Victorian manse, on the front of every literary magazine (though you will never, of course, find her reviewed there). And that is why her junior-version daughter can also be found in those same Pepto Bismol-colored ads, where she and her MOM, like the novelist in "Loves and Lives of a She-Devil," are of one mind, which is to litter the sterile waiting rooms of dentists and plastic surgeons with their sterile stories. "She-Devil" is one of my favorite novels, I might add. Skip this crap and go directly to real literature, if you have any sense at all. Meanwhile, pass the Imodium.
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