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Summary: Really bad
Review: Readers of MHC will be extrmemly disappointed in her new work. Considering how many best-selling authors don't write their own stuff anymore, you have to wonder if MHc wrote this or a ghost writer. Readers can figure out the entire, predicatable plot within the first 10 pages.
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Summary: Daddy's Little Girl
Review: If you haven't had the opportunity to read this book by Mary Higgins Clark then what are you waiting for? This is an excellent written book from the beginning of the first page to the turn of the last. When Ellie was young and finding the body of her dead sister, hearing the giggle voice coming from the distant way. Then years later hearing that same giggle as she struggles to keep the man who killed her sister locked away for life. It was heartbreaking when the family did split after the killing and trial but that is how things actually happen in real life. Mrs. Clark made it sound as if it all had jumped right out of the papers in today's events. I was on the edge of my seat at the end with the van and the killer meeting her face to face. With all that girl went through, she never gave up! Hurrah for her. Okay now make a movie but please go by the book. This is an absolute must read!!!
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Summary: Daddy's Little Girl
Review: I think this book is 1 of the best books written.Its about a girl named Andrea who's murdered & the killer is put behind bars. But did they catch the right guy? 23 years later he's released & Andrea's sister is searching for the truth of what really happened that night. Strange & horrible things happen to her on her search for the truth. I like this book because it keeps u guessing, who's the killer. A book u should definately read!!!!!
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Summary: Daddy's Little Girl
Review: Clark's latest damsel-in-distress is a former child witness set against her teenage sister's convicted killer when he comes up for parole 23 years later. "Ellie is such a good kid. She's not a snitch," Andrea Cavanaugh told her friends when she brought her seven-year-old sister to the garage on the Westerfield estate they used as a hideout. The good kid's failure to tell her parents about the hideout when Andrea vanished on the way home from a friend's may have meant the difference between finding her alive or dead. Years later, the girls' mother has died of alcoholism, the father, who adored Andrea but ignored Ellie, has retreated into a second marriage, and Ellie has turned into an investigative reporter who wants nothing to do with him. But the news that Rob Westerfield, the spoiled rich kid her tearful testimony helped convict, is favored for parole brings her back from Atlanta to Westchester, where she attacks his family and their team of legal eagles with everything she's got, from a placard she carries at the Ossining train station offering her phone number to recently released prisoners with anything damaging to say about Rob to a Web site on which she posts each new discovery in her case against him. Even after 23 years, there are plenty of discoveries-the reasons Rob was dismissed from an exclusive prep school, the rumors that Andrea wasn't his first victim, the family's determined attempt to blame the crime on Andrea's special-needs classmate Paulie Stroebel-and each of them brings Ellie closer to long-anticipated danger. Less mystery, more raw pain, and a tough-cookie heroine who tells her own story make this a real departure for Clark (On the Street Where You Live, 2001, etc.), and one that carries more conviction than her usual glossy fantasies. First printing of 1,000,000; Literary Guild/Mystery Guild selection
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Summary: inconsistent pace and predictable ending spoil the suspense
Review: We would never skip a novel by (mama) Clark, but this -- her 21st -- is far from her best. A good start leads into an absolute slug of a middle book, with most of the exciting action reserved for the three-page epilogue. Ironically, there is a reasonable degree of suspense to the plot, but our interest ebbed and waned so severely we might have put this down if we hadn't lined up for the hardback.The plot revolves around Ellie Cavanaugh, a 30-year-old investigative reporter, fighting unsuccessfully the parole of Rob Westerfield, convicted some 20 years earlier for the murder of Ellie's sister Andrea. Though only seven at the time, Ellie's testimony in court weighed heavily in the guilty verdict. But Rob is being sprung on parole, and his wealthy family is pursuing all means, including illegal ones, to have him retried and acquitted. The rest of the book is basically the war between Rob's antics and Ellie's fact finding, and in the end Andrea's murder plus another one from long ago are all neatly re-solved and tied up with ribbons. In between, Ellie is harassed and followed and injured, etc. yet never succumbs, like virtually all of Clark's leading ladies, no matter the hurdles or the challenges. Some all too convenient helpers bail Ellie out of more than one predicament. So what we find is not really the recipe for a whopping best seller. A dash of suspense is overwhelmed by plodding story lines, improbable action, implausible developments, and a leading lady who after all is said and done is not that easy to really care about. Clark's innately good story crafting and writing are not enough to make this cake rise and shine.
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Summary: Not the best by Mrs. Clark
Review: I love Mary Higgens Clark and couldn't wait till Daddy's Little Girl was released. I was quite disappointed. First, the killer is revealed very early in the novel and really all you wind up reading about is who is following Ellie around. I'm use to reading a Clark book and guessing who dun it till the last page. Unfortunetly this was not what this book was about. After finishing last night i was very disappointed and felt that most of the chapters had nothing to do with the storyline and were more or less to expand the book. Hopefully, this was just a fluke book by Mrs. Clark and her next will be much better.
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Summary: Skip to the end
Review: The middle chapters were long and boring, some having no bearing on the plot - just filler as they say in soap opera land.
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Summary: Ho-Hum........
Review: I kept waiting for a story to grab me like many of Mary Higgins Clark's earlier fare, but this one didn't do it, sad to say. Rather plodding and lackluster. I wonder at the proof-reading skills of the editor because on page 29 it said Ellie was 30 and on page 143 it said at the same time that she was 29 during the same incident . Also it said on page 139 that a cheese, lettuce & tomato sandwich was all that there was to eat (refrigerated items obviously) and on page 144 it said "I also did not want to empty the refrigerator" What was there to empty? (please note: I quote these pages from the paperback version). I know these are small things, but it shows how poorly the story was for me to even be able to pick up on these errors!
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Summary: big bore
Review: i absolutely hated this book. it was boring from the beginnin. half way thru i gave up, i was so bored. there were no loops or surprises that kept me hooked like a good book does. don't waster your money by purchasing this book.
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Summary: Predictable
Review: From the very beginning, you knew the ending. What puzzles me, though, is that most of the book seems to have been written by a ghost writer. Very few pages were written in her style. [For instance, she usually likes to use verbiage such as, "festive" or "fabulous" and also gets into clothing descriptions]. Actually, it was a pleasant reprieve from the usual Danielle Steel style of writing. For that, I give it the two stars. I also found the main character to be a little ditsy. Who in their right mind would stand in front of a large prison, as inmates are being released on parole, holding up a sign with her phone number on it? It wasn't believable.
I liked Mary Higgens Clark's first few books the best.
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