Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: Awesome Book Review: The best Sandra Brown novel since Witness. The story was riveting and characters were very well written. It was a pleasure reading.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Storyline tolerable...unabridged audio.. downright painful Review: The book was predictable and I found the characters hard to like I mean geez usually a poor victimized deaf/mute would be an automatic "gimmee" but no Anna just didn't do it for me. Jack was not a drifter with no base but more like a loser with one dimensional character where's the [good looking] texans' Ms. Brown usually gives us?? Now that being said onto the unabridged audio tape it was hard to keep track of characters and then there's no lead-in on the tapes so I think I actually skipped one tape (but it didn't matter so no bigge) John Henry Cox did the vocals and the whiney whiney groanie David character was done so well I really had to rethink my opinion on corporal punishment..
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: Chilling Review: This is a departure from Sandra's usual style of story. The trademark writing is still there however far more violent and more chiller/thriller than romance. This is the novel which started my highly picky husband reading her books after considerable convincing on my behalf that women can write the type of thrillers men like to read. He hasn't looked back since and I do believe that in the direction she is heading with novels such as this and The Alibi" she is appealing to a wider mainstream audience. There is still an element of romance in this novel and whilst there were parts that were uncomfortable to read, this book is very well rounded and highly recommended.
Rating: ![2 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-2-0.gif) Summary: Sorry book Review: This is a sorry story with sorry, unbelievable characters. They're separated into good guys and bad guys.
The bad guys, well, they're the most fun, but they're not realistic. Carl Herbold is a psychopath or sociopath or something, but he's not believable. Emory Lomax, the same thing. These two fellows have no altruistic motives, as the author admits, but even sociopaths fear God, don't they? These guys don't. They're caricatures of evil, not real people.
If you like caricatures, you find them here, and that's all you find. It makes for simple reading, because there are no complex characters who have a mixture of some good traits and some bad. Carl is worse than Satan, if you can imagine that. Emory, too. They are Satan's little helpers in Blewert County, or wherever it is.
Jack, on the other hand, is a righteous free spirit, another old Western caricature. He likes little children and falls in love with the heroine, Anna, who is deaf. Jack is almost totally on the good-guy side, except he's so lusty. Righteous and lusty, is that a Western good guy, or what?
Delray Corbett is in denial: he helped raise the two screw-up stepsons but wants to deny responsibility. He's a tough old coot, another caricature.
Cecil Herbold, you can almost feel sorry for. His girlfriend, Connie Skaggs, is unbelievable. She works in a bank? And then kills someone in a bank robbery on goes the lam with this lunatic squad? Didn't she forget her toothbrush? Don't women need clothes when they're fleeing with four males? Not Connie, I guess. Seems like she has a death wish, and she gets her wish, of course. Are there really women like that? Bonnie Parker?
Well, you will learn that American Sign Language differs from Signed English. And East Texas has tornadoes. Otherwise, you can look forward to having your emotions titillated, because that's what Brown's writing is all about, I guess. A sorry soap opera, and that's what some folks love. She's so prolific and successful, it must be that. This is my first book I've read by her, and I did get titillated, I can't deny it. But is it worth it? Well, you decide, this is what I found. Diximus.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: My opinion... Review: This is my first book by Sandra Brown, I picked it up after reading the synopsis on the back cover. I became immediately enthralled in the book and enjoyed it until the very end, wondering who the killer was. I'll admit though, about 3/4ths of the way through I had a guess, and it was correct. That's kind of cool though.Ok, I've read several reviews on this book that I am very disappointed with. I don't know if they are coming from people who have weak stomach's or what, but their comments are a little off base to me. I did not feel that this book was too gory or that it was overboard in the scenes. Sure the descriptions were down the tee, but isn't that what you want when you're reading a book? Do you honestly think that when you pick up a murder mystery book that some blood and gore are out of place? Isn't that what murder is? I just think it's unfair for those comments to deter people from reading this book that I thought was a great read.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: Not Her Best...But Worth It Anyway ! Review: While I remain a devoted fan of Sandra Brown's, I was hoping for 'UNSPEAKABLE' to concentrate more on Anna and Jack, than I was about the twisted, and perverse highjinks of the Herbold brothers. Still, the story was a deep and powerful one, and Ms. Brown painted for her readers, very clear and concise pictures of her characters. Her villianous siblings were two low-life's you just could'nt help wishing evil things on! And of course she has us rooting all the while , that true love will conquer all. While it may not be her best or most romantic book, it's well worth the read ; as are all Sandra Brown novels.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: The best Book Review: While i was reading the book The Unspeakable, i couldn't put it down. The book grabbed my attention, and it kept it. As soon as I finished one pagei couldn't wait to rad the next. Unspeakable is a major page turner. The only thing that really bugged me about this book was the way that intead of focusing on Jack and Anna, it kept going back to the Herbold brothers and the policeman. I really wish that it would have focused on one main person at a time. After a while of reading i got a little confused as to what chapter was about who until it showed someone talking, and who it was that was talking at the time.
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