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Summary: Silent Night
Review: I loved the novel. It was absolutely prefect. When I read the novel, I couldn't put it down! It keeps you on the edge of your seat through the whole book. Mary Higgins Clark just has a way of keeping you into the novel until you finish one her suspense-filled books. In the novel Silent Night, a lady named Catherine Dornan lost her wallet and her son. Her wallet fall out of her handbag, and her son ran after it. A lady named Cally Hunter stole her wallet and ran with it. However, when Cally got home her bother who is an escape killer, was there waiting for her. Brian, Catherine's son followed Cally home and consequently, Jimmy; Cally's bother, kidnapped him. The only thing Brian Dornan was worried about was getting back to his mother before Christmas and for him to get back the St. Christopher medal to his father, so he can get well. Risking his own life and safety...what a kid! You'll have to read the book to find out how the story ends. In my opinion, all of the characters in the novel are plausible because their actions and reactions are very believable, by how Mary Higgins Clark wrote it. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
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Summary: Good Readin'
Review: Mary Higgins Clark has done it again. Her wonderfully written novel, Silent Night, was as thrilling as a roller coaster ride in a snowstorm. The story starts out by introducing the Dornan family. Mother, Catherine, and her two sons, oldest Michael, youngest Brian. While visiting the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, Brian notices his mother's wallet drop. It is then picked up by a woman, Cally, who runs off to her apartment, followed by ten year old Brian. When at the apartment, Cally's brother, an escaped felon, takes the wallet and the poor frightened Brian. Jimmy and Brian drive(in a stolen car)to Canada, so Jimmy can escape prosecution. This horrifying ride could be Brian's last. From the beginning word to the last, there is never a dull moment in Silent Night. Author, Mary Higgins Clark's words flow from her mind to the page where her readers get hooked. Many times, Clark uses very descriptive words that are combined with great ideas. The mood through out the book is hopeful, yet depressing at the same time. Mary Higgins Clark uses innocent childern, obedient to their mother,and shoves them into a scary, yet real world situations. Many childern, good or bad, are kidnapped in this society. Silent Night shows the happy ending from a particular situation. As the book, Literary Lifelines states, "She [Mary Higgins Clark] often writes stories about childern in danger, as well as stories about woman living in isolated places." The plot seems to pour from the depths of Clark's deepest fears, joys,and opinions. Her idea of characters and their personalities were magical. "[Jimmy]Sideons has a screw loose, sir." During the car ride toward Canada, the young hostage, Brian, had a lucky medal that his ill father gave to him. "...He [Brian] closed his hand over it [the St. Christopher medal] and mentally pictured the strong saint who carried the little kid across the dangerous river, who had taken care of his grandfather, who would make his dad better, and who... he didn't finish but in his mind he could see himself on the shoulders of the saint." Clark shows the faith of a piece of medal. But, that piece of medal, will ultimately affect his outcome. The descriptive words Clark uses are imaginative and magical. "For a moment there was silence and then the quiet was shattered as the sirens screamed and wailed." Her writing suggests she has experienced these situations. Those who have been through it all are the best storytellers. If you enjoy a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat, read Silent Night. Mary Higgins Clark's magical words blend together with the real world characters plus the magnificent imagery to create a spellbinding story that ends in suspense.
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Summary: A Christmas Gift
Review: I read this book while I was sitting in my OB/GYN's office, in agony. It was Thanksgiving and Christmas was right around the corner, and I fould out that I had tumors. I checked out the book as a Christmas read, but after reading it, it confirmed the idea of what Christmas is all about. I realized how lucky I was, and was glad that my health problem had been found before it grew worse.
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Summary: Silent Night
Review: Mary Higgins Clark is an amazing author and she shows it in the book Silent Night. This book will get the reader hooked, which makes it very hard to put it down. The suspense just makes the want to read it from the first page until the last page, without stopping. The book is about a mother, Catherine Dornan, and her two boys Michael, the oldest, and Brain, the youngest. They were going to visit their father in the hospital who had been somewhat recently diagnosed with Leukemia. Brain wants to give his father a present that he had received from his grandfather. His mother was holding on to the gift in her wallet. They walked to the hospital to see all of the Christmas activities on their way. Catherine dropped her wallet trying to put it back into her purse on the way, but she did not realize that she had dropped it. Brain saw her drop it and was going to pick it up when another lady beat him to it. He followed her to her home and ended up in a room with the lady who took the wallet and an escaped prisoner. This book has many plot changes that add to the development of the story line and its eventual climax. This is a really good book and I encourage anyone who likes a good mystery book to get this book and read it. Reading Silent Night is defiantly worth your time.
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Summary: The powers of love, faith, and courage.
Review: The powers of love, faith, and courage have rarely been tied together in an exciting suspense story. But in the novel "Silent Night" by Mary Higgins Clark, she managed to do just that.The setting in Christmas Eve in New York City. After Tom Dornan arrives there to recieve a life-saving operation for his leukemia, his wife Catherine and two sons come to visit from Omaha. While Catherine and her two boys watch a musician on the street, Catherine's youngest son, Brian, witnesses someone taking her wallet without her realizing it. The wallet had a St. Christopher medal in it that saved his grandfather's life in World War Two. Brian hopes that giving it to his dad will save his life as well. Brian follows the woman to her apartment and gets caught up in something far bigger than he expected. When kidnapped by escaped murderer Jimmy Siddons, Brian find's his courage and faith tested in this heartwarming novel that is great for all ages.
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Summary: Great Holiday Read
Review: Although not a traditional fan of Mary Higgins Clark, I read the book over the holidays and found myself glued to the pages. The characters are so real, and the suspense is spellbinding. You care so much about the characters that you can't put the book down.
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Summary: GOOD HOLIDAY READ!
Review: Catherine Dornan appears to have it all--a comfortable lifestyle, a loving husband and two wonderful little boys. Then her physician husband falls ill with a life-threatening illness. The boys' grandmother gives them a St. Christopher medal--that saved her husband's life in World War II--and instructs them to give it to their father, and it will make him well. Although skeptical, Catherine Dornan does as her mother instructs and places the St. Christopher medal in her wallet for safekeeping. Little Brian Dornan however, the youngest of the two boys, is relying on that medal to make his father well again. So when he spots a woman pick up his mother's wallet from off of the ground while at Rockefeller center listening to Christmas carols, he takes off in hot pursuit. Brian has no idea what is waiting for him when he finally catches up with the young woman; and it soon becomes clear to Brian that St. Christopher may save not only his father's life--but perhaps his own. DYB
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Summary: A Night that is Anything but Silent!
Review: Author Mary Higgins Clark writes an effective but predictable, formula novel in twenty-five clever little chapters. The plot is about a little boy(Brian) who is kidnapped after he runs after a women who steals his mother's wallet. Included in it is a precious St. Christopher medal; a family heirloom, which is to be given to his sick father to make him better. This is the third Mary Higgins Clark novel I have read; I find it odd that all the ones I have read are all are about kidnappings. ("A Stranger Is Watching," "Deck the Halls") Surely, the Queen of Suspense can find more effective material to write about. Still "Silent Night" would make a decent television movie.
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Summary: The powers of love, faith, and courage.
Review: The powers of love, faith, and courage have rarely been tied together in an exciting suspense story. But in the novel "Silent Night" by Mary Higgins Clark, she managed to do just that. The setting in Christmas Eve in New York City. After Tom Dornan arrives there to recieve a life-saving operation for his leukemia, his wife Catherine and two sons come to visit from Omaha. While Catherine and her two boys watch a musician on the street, Catherine's youngest son, Brian, witnesses someone taking her wallet without her realizing it. The wallet had a St. Christopher medal in it that saved his grandfather's life in World War Two. Brian hopes that giving it to his dad will save his life as well. Brian follows the woman to her apartment and gets caught up in something far bigger than he expected. When kidnapped by escaped murderer Jimmy Siddons, Brian find's his courage and faith tested in this heartwarming novel that is great for all ages.
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Summary: A Good Book with a Good Ending
Review: I have to admit that this is the first Mary Higgins Clark book I have read. I have always known of her, but never had the chance to read one of her books. I have to say that I'm very impressed with her. Silent Night was a very well written book. Even though I'm not much of a reader, I couldn't seem to put this one down. She not only kept you interested in the story, but she also pulled on your heart strings. As I read the book I was putting myself into the stroy. I was trying to come up with some way I could help the characters in the book. I enjoy books that have a good ending. Maybe realstic is a better word than good. It doesn't have to have a happy ending, but it should end the way it would if it were to happen in real life. Clark did an excellent job of making the ending of this book. She made it a happy ending which fit just fine with the book. Overall, I would recommend this book to any one who has strong feelings towards family. I liked this book so well that I plan to read more Mary Higgins Clark books in the future.
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