Walking After Midnight (Bookcassette(r) Edition)

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Summary: Great suspense
Review: It has been a while since I read a Karen Robards book so I picked up this one and am very glad I did. Once I started this book I couldn't stop reading - the character development is excellent, the story keeps moving along and the ending is a suspenseful surprise even though it may be a little lame. The idea of a ghost or spirit moving throughout the story is a neat twist to Karen Robards normal writings. This book is a good read!

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Summary: Definitely a worthwhile purchase!
Review: Karen Robards has not disappointed me yet! Who would think that you'd choose a book which begins with a cleaning woman in a funeral parlor in the middle of the night, for a romance escape? Purchasing the book, on the previous escapes provided by Ms. Robards was yet another great choice! The book has suspense, true 'cop-loyalty', humor (as always), twists and love. A bit hokey at times, but, so is life sometimes. Not as riveting as "Hunter's Moon", but still a good read! Thanks Karen for turning them out, and allowing me to escape each evening after a LONG work day. ... Also, love how you always incorporate your husband and sons in your dedication. What else is more important? Wonderful ... like your books! Your hard work away from them is appreciated by me. My sanity restored by authors, like yourself is greatly appreciated by MY family! Thanks!

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Summary: Exciting, but not engrossing
Review: Karen Robards was recommended highly and I have read two of her books. I am not sure whether to give her another chance. On the positive side I did read the whole book and cared about the main characters. The plot moves quickly. I liked the descriptions of the outdoors in the woods and mountains of Tennessee. The dog is great.

On the negative side I found myself annoyed with the writing style, possibly because there were too many times when we were told rather than shown how the characters felt. I had trouble believing in the romance, at least in the depth of the romance, developing so quickly, even given the incredible stress that they were undergoing together. The motivations for people being in/continuing relationships often made no sense to me.

Probably the predictability of bad guys appearing around every corner also got to me, but then I am not really a big fan of this type of suspense novel. Finally it bugged me that she had to put a homophobic twist regarding the main bad guy in at the end.

This book is great for folks who really like a sort of light hearted romantic suspense novel featuring a woman-next -door heroine, a semi-hunk alpha male type and a dog with a lot of character. I'm just not quite there.

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Summary: Walking After Midnight
Review: My very first Karen Robards novel. Books usually have to grab me at the beginning or I lose interest fast--Summer's curiosity upon "thinking" she saw a dead man move on the slab at the funeral home reminded me of me! Even though I would have been terrified,I probably would have gone back for a second look too.What a unique way to meet a new man! This book only got better from there as "Frankenstein" dragged her all around town! After this one,I started reading ALL of Robards' books.

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Summary: You find romance in the strangest places
Review: Summer McAfee is cleaning the Harmon Brothers Funeral Home when she finds a nude male body on the enbalming table. Suddenly her hand is grabbed by the battered corpse as he sits up and takes notice. Frankenstein, as she dubs him, takes her captive as he flees from the good, the bad, and the ghost from his past. Forced to forge an uneasy alliance, Summer finds the stirring of passion with an unlikely companion. Will they survive long enough to live happy ever after.....? A book that grabs your attention and takes you on an adrenaline filled journey with plenty of sparks of humour and danger along the way.

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Summary: Blow-out beginning, but winds down. . . .
Review: The beginning is thrilling. You think, "Thank God, it is not one of those ridiculously sappy romances!" The heroine is an ex-underwear model turned janitor, the hero is a very bad-rep ex-cop turned corpse look-alike, and the reader is thrown head first into the story. Although the rest of the book is not bad by any standards, it is sometimes too predictable. Adding Deedee was an unnecessary and ultimately silly move.

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Summary: Frankenstein???
Review: The premise was great and the book started out good, but-----Neither of the main characters were particularly likeable. He was crude & obnoxious and she did some pretty stupid things. And if she had called him Frankenstein one more time I would have screamed! However, this doesn't stop me from being a Robards fan, you can't hit a home run every time!

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Summary: Frankenstein???
Review: The premise was great and the book started out good, but-----Neither of the main characters were particularly likeable. He was crude & obnoxious and she did some pretty stupid things. And if she had called him Frankenstein one more time I would have screamed! However, this doesn't stop me from being a Robards fan, you can't hit a home run every time!

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Summary: Lots of action, no steam...
Review: This novel captured my attention in the beginning, but failed to hold it by the third chapter. I've read several of Karen Robard's books and enjoyed them incredibly; she encorporates fantastic plots, interesting characters and ultra steamy love scenes that keep the reader turning the pages. Unfortunately, unlike the others, this novel did not set my pulse racing, and often sent me looking for something, anything else to do. If you are looking for lots of action, a very slow-developing love story, and a little of the supernatural, this is the novel for you. If not, choose one of Robard's historical romances. They are sure to please.

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Summary: Okay, but not great
Review: This was a good book as far as action goes. The characters were well developed, but I always felt a darkness about them. Like they were both portrayed as some sort of misfits in society and, more importantly, to each other. Almost to the end the heroine refers to the hero as Frankenstein. First, because he was badly beaten before they meet, (which is understandable) and second, just because she finds him to be unhandsome. Once the bruises and swelling faded, I kept hoping for her revelation in finding him attractive, which she does. Only his muscular body, still not his face. And he's described to smell terrible from body odor and kerosene from the beginning, which is never remedied. I guess we're just supposed to have a very strong belief in love being blind. Every time they were intimate I had trouble suppressing my thoughts of how terrible they must smell and look. The action keeps the reader interested in finishing the book, even though I knew exactly who not to trust from the beginning. And after the tenth chapter I was ready to stop reading and just putting the book in my "soon to be swapped" pile. This is my second experience with this author. I previously read "Wild Orchids," which I felt the same way about. I only read this one because the author was recommended by a sales clerk at a book swap so I bought 3 by her, and am determined to get through them, so I don't feel like I totally wasted my money. And what annoys me the most is the redundancy of the characters "feelings." I continued saying to myself "Alright, I get it. She's scared." It's unfathomable how many ways the author finds to say the same thing in different ways! I'm Giving this book 3 stars only because after all that annoys me, it's not half bad. I did finish it after all...