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Summary: It was an okay book
Review: This book was good but it was kind of a bummer at the end.I did not think it was not worth reading but I wish it would have ended different.
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Summary: This book is a wonderful murder story
Review: This book is a wonderful murder story. I rate this book a five because it's uniquely planned and the clues just keep on adding up. It's a detective story with a perfect ending. For those of you who like mysteries and murder cases unsolved, this book is for you. I recommend this book for ages older than 10 because it's a little on the wild side.
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Summary: Just average
Review: I had high hopes for this book after the last few mediocre novels MHC put out. When she's good, Clark's books can be very suspensful and scary. When she's not good, she's just average. This book was written in the first person, a first for MHC. It had a different style to it and I almost had a hard time believing she wrote it. Unfortunately, this wasn't a good change. It wasn't any better than the last few books she's put out. I had a hard time caring about the main character. She said some rude things and was hard to care about. Many of the secondary caracters were not fleshed out enough. I don't know why I keep reading MHC since I've been disapointed so often with her latest releases. I guess I keep hoping she'll get better. Maybe she's just tapped out after 25+ books.
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Summary: Lots of Style, Little Substance
Review: Daddy's Little Girl is a stylish speed-read, but even as a plot-driven thriller it falls short. Violent but engaging in the earlier chapters, the book quickly devolves into a series of convenient close-brush-with-death events culminating in a sleep-inducing ending. People who love pictures of cute little puppy dogs and babies dressed as sunflowers should have no problem with the last two-thirds of this book, which is as patently undisturbing as the first few chapters are needlessly sensational.
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Summary: Disappointing And Dull
Review: Why Mary Higgins Clark is touted as "America's Queen of Suspense" is still a mystery to me. Her novels aren't thrilling, suspenseful, or thought provoking. As was the case with "Before I Say Goodbye" and "On The Street Where You Live", "Daddy's Little Girl" fails to thrill or chill readers. Clark's heroine here is no different than any of her others. The twentysomething woman that can uncover the mysteries of the death when the cops got it wrong during their investigation. The dialogue here seems very juvenile, as if it were a story written by a junior high student for an English project. The paper thin plot drags on and on, long after the reader loses interest. The only reason this book deserves two stars is the fact that she left out the supernatural element that made "Before I Say Goodbye" nearly unreadable. If you're a fan of other Clark novels, then it's quite possible that you'll find this book to be completely enjoyable, but as a fan of James Patterson and John Sandford, I found it to be downright dull.
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Summary: I can't believe this was Mary Higgins Clark!
Review: I love Mary Higgins Clark for her suspense, not for evoking emotion. I would not have recognized this as her writing if I had just picked it up not knowing who wrote it. The character Ellie haunted me. Bravo to MHC, she amazed me as a truly good writer with this book....after reading her for almost 10 years, this is the 1st book of hers that made me sit there when I was done feeling drained.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I was actually quite disappointed in this novel from Ms. Clark. I am an avid reader of her books and always look forward to the next. However, this one did not in any way live up to her reputation as the queen of Mystery Writers. It was suspensful, but did not end with its(story) in a conclusion other than one in a documentory.
Ellie did not encounter as the heroine the many obstacle and hairline mishaps that heroines in other of Ms. Clark's books have had to endure. This was truly an elaboration on a real crime and I can only hope this will not further lead to other stories or a trend by the author. Please go back to your usual style.
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Summary: Yippee..... A Good Story
Review: I almost didn't buy this book as the last book I read by Mary Higgins Clark was a big disappointment. However, I still had to read it since I've read all of her books. This one was not the disappointment I feared it would be. This book was different in that it was written in the first person, and while I normally don't enjoy first-person writing, I did enjoy this approach in this book. My only disappointment was that I wished Ellie's personal relationships had been developed more. The book was an easy read, though, and I recommend it to Mary's current fans and new fans.
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Summary: Keeps You Guessing Until the Creepy End...
Review: The newest from Ms. Clark and a sure winner. It was actaully based on a true story back in the '50's, but Ms. Clark took an author's license with the facts and made a truly creepy and shocking look into a small town murder of a State Trooper's 15 year old daughter Andrea Cavanaugh that happened 23 years ago. In small rural village in New York's Westchester County, Andrea's younger sister Ellie, had been only seven at the time of the murder and had discovered the body in the garage of the town's richest and most prominent family, the Westerfields'. Three suspects emerged from the fog, Rob Westerfield, a 19-year-old trouble maker and who seemed to be respected by all and was secretly dating Andrea; Paul Stroebel, a 16-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his 40's that seemed to have a special thing for young girls.
But the one that stood out had been Rob Westerfield.
Ellie had revealed to the parents after the murder that Andrea had been secretly meeting him at the garage, she was also blamed in part for her death by her parents since she never told them before and it could've been stopped.
In court Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of Rob who she was convinced was the killer. Even though he spent the next 22 years in prison, he always denied being the killer and became a pillar of the prison's inmates. Rob is about to come up for parole, Ellie, now a dedicated investigative journalist, protests his release and will do anything she can to stop it. Never-the-less, he is released and returns to Oldham, where he'd been convicted of the murder 22 years before. Ellie is determined to thwart his attempts at making ammends with society and whitewashing his reputation. She follows him to her old hometown in Oldham in where she creates a damning website showing his guilt and writing a tell-all book on his shady past. The deeper she digs, the more she finds about her sister's murder and horrifying facts come to light. With each new discovery, she is coming close to a desperate killer. Ms. Clark has us thinking one thing, then another and when you think you have it figured out, think again. Written in first person, we only see what Ellie sees and it makes for a creepy ride into the bowels of a murderer and what they will do to stop her quest for justice. Bravo Ms. Clark, I was thrilled and amazed with this latest book! A sure keeper! Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Can't believe she did it!
Review: I must confess that I've condemmed Ms. Higgins' latest effort without reading it! I can't get past the fact that she's written in the first person and revealed the culprit early on. I've read every book published by Ms. Higgins and I always look forward each Spring to reading her latest. Unfortunately, I have almost a phobia about reading first person books -- I feel as if I'm missing out on the perspectives of other characters and I can't get past that. Call me shallow; but it's a fact. Coupling that with no culprit revealed at the end of the book makes it impossible for me to even crack the cover. Ironically, I'd just sat down at the computer to order the book from Amazon and now I have to find something else to read. Sorry, Ms. Clark. I've loved your books in the past and I've always bought them in hardcover; I have quite a collection. Maybe next time....... huh?
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