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Summary: A Slightly Different Sharon McCone Mystery.......
Review: Some Sharon McCone readers may be put off by the plot for this book. Set in Hiawaii, it has many elements not commonly found in the McCone series. The storyline somehow manages to become McCone, herself, since many readers will figure out the ending before they reach it. The book does introduces the reader to some interesting characters. As McCone romantically teeters back and forth, fans will be tempted to pull for one suitor over the other. I found the author's different approach to this book a good read once I decided I liked the plot. I am glad things ended the way they did. Like McCone, I hate things left unresolved.
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Summary: More Like A Walk Through Boredom
Review: Someone's trying to sabotage the making of a documentary. I thought it might be interesting. I'm sorry, I was wrong. Unfortunately, the book was downright predictable. In some areas, it was just plain contradictory. The characters lacked depth and the plot was extremely weak. When you see this book on the shelf, just keep walking.
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Summary: A mediocre read from a great series
Review: The decision to begin a novel with offensive language on the first page is questionable. I almost did not read past page one! Why risk turning a percentage of readers away with an opening that some readers may not be comfortable with? I continued to read and found the plot fairly tight and the story well-written, and McCone's ever-maturing personality believable. The story is good, but the opening language leaves something to be desired.
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Summary: Muller trips in time warp & emerges as a gothic romancer!
Review: What on earth happened here?! One of my favorite writers, Marcia Muller, has converted one of my favorite characters, Sharon McCone, into some sort of lame-brained "damsel" victimized by her lusting hormones, conniving acquaintances, and short-circuited brain cells. I grew up reading way too much of this genre -- the "Gothic romance mystery" of the '60s & '70s was vacuous and insulting to the reader's intelligence then and this book proves it still is! Most readers will have figured out more than half the "mystery" before they've read half the book; but reading isn't really necessary or desirable. This book is perfect for the Summer Beach Reading category, the type you can just skim and not miss a thing in doing so.Please, Marcia, promise us this McCone entry was just a brief summertime aberration and that you'll be bringing back the intelligent, independent and forthright Sharon we all know in your next book. I promise not to give up on you just because of this one disappointment!
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Summary: Muller trips in time warp & emerges as a gothic romancer!
Review: What on earth happened here?! One of my favorite writers, Marcia Muller, has converted one of my favorite characters, Sharon McCone, into some sort of lame-brained "damsel" victimized by her lusting hormones, conniving acquaintances, and short-circuited brain cells. I grew up reading way too much of this genre -- the "Gothic romance mystery" of the '60s & '70s was vacuous and insulting to the reader's intelligence then and this book proves it still is! Most readers will have figured out more than half the "mystery" before they've read half the book; but reading isn't really necessary or desirable. This book is perfect for the Summer Beach Reading category, the type you can just skim and not miss a thing in doing so. Please, Marcia, promise us this McCone entry was just a brief summertime aberration and that you'll be bringing back the intelligent, independent and forthright Sharon we all know in your next book. I promise not to give up on you just because of this one disappointment!
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