Rating: 
Summary: Fast moving
Review: This is a fast-moving story all right, and a nice, entertaining
one, but, unhappily, the complex aspects of the story line
fail to connect all the time.
The story is, basically, that of a lawyer who is hired to help a
troubled businessman get back his young daughter who was
kidnapped by the non-custodial mother and spirited back to a
Germany that refuses to honor the custodial judgments of other
countries.
The mother is a strange, ego-driven opera diva who never seemed
interested in this child, so the mystery deepens as the lawyer,
and his own troubled female assistant, search for the child,
and then who has to also search for the reasons for all the
trouble they encounter along the way.
We, as readers, travel from N. Carolina to New York, to several
regions of Germany, then to London, and we are plunged into
the nether regions of opera and its managers and practitioners,
as well as those areas of medicine affecting several of the
characters.
As said, a very complex story that moves ahead with a nice
speed that is only interrupted by some lapses in logic as the
main "good" characters frequently seem to lose all reason to
plunge into extremely dangerous situations with no regard for
their safety. These nice, smart, capable people suddenly race
into obvious physical danger, disregarding all normal caution,
and our own logic is challenged by their abrupt, impetuous
behavior.
Even "love" is in for some strange bumps along the way, asthese characters engage and disengage with each other as
the story progresses.
An odd mixture of a story, but one that moves along with speed
and interest.
Rating: 
Summary: NOT TOO PLEASED
Review: This is my first book that I've read. I felt Davis was just too overly descriptive and found this book too boring. I felt that I kept missing something and had to ready the same thing over again. I hope his other books aren't like this.
Rating:
Summary: NOT TOO PLEASED
Review: This is my first book that I've read. I felt Davis was just too overly descriptive and found this book too boring. I felt that I kept missing something and had to ready the same thing over again. I hope his other books aren't like this.
Rating: 
Summary: Mr. D I get a bonus
Review: Winner Take all is an awesome example of courage and boldness. The beginning for me was a little slow to get me interested but about half to three quarters of the way through it got more intense and exciting. Since Bunn is a christain author I do think that he could of added a bit more of Jesus, But to an extent he did show how much evil is in the world and how good always prevails. Even in the hard times. I would read another of Bunns novels.Definately
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