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Summary: Based on Unabridged Audio
Review: I listen to audio books when I go for walks and this book kept me walking long after I was tired every day because I didn't want to put it away until the next day.... At first I thought there were too many characters but I then I realized they all played an important role in this story. Story is about three women who were victimized by a rapist and the club they create. The convicted rapist is killed and detectives try to find out if one of or all three victims had a role in the death. What I loved about this book is that just when you think you have figured out what is going on, another twist is introduced. I felt like I was on a very winding rollercoaster. A must read or even better, a great book to listen to on tape.
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Summary: some flaws
Review: I love a good detective story and this one was a nice puzzle. However, what irritated me was the chapter where the police were supposed to examine a prisoner's clothes and they missed the lockpick and Alka Seltzer sewn in the hem. Do we have to believe they're that stupid and incompetent?
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Summary: Love It
Review: I love all of Gardner's books! However, the language keeps getting more graphic with each one and this will be my last. I don't think women need the rough language to be entertained. If I wanted trash mouth I would turn on the TV. I think I will stick with Mary Higgins Clark in the future.
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Summary: Super Awesome Book!!!!
Review: I loved this book!! It was action packed from the very beginning and kept me guessing until the very end. Griffin was a perfect hero, and Jillian a perfect heroine!!!If you like suspense and romance, this book is for you. READ THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: Fast paced and exciting
Review: I loved this book. I will now move on to read more of Lisa Gardner's books. I could not wait to find out what happened. Just when you thought you had it all figured out, another twist would occur leaving you reeling. I had difficulty putting this book down because I was anticipating the next chapter. Awesome work, Ms. Gardiner.
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Summary: Fast paced and exciting
Review: I loved this book. I will now move on to read more of Lisa Gardner's books. I could not wait to find out what happened. Just when you thought you had it all figured out, another twist would occur leaving you reeling. I had difficulty putting this book down because I was anticipating the next chapter. Awesome work, Ms. Gardiner.
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Summary: Another winner
Review: I truly enjoy Lisa Gardner's books and hope she continues writing for a long time. Think, however, she should check her facts in this thriller. It's easy to make mistakes in a book with so many scenes. Price's getaway car was parked at Viggio's house when the bomb was discovered and miraculously appeared at Price's house when Griffin went there to save Meg. Also, Jillian never did take her mother to her sister's gravesite, and that disappointed me. Otherwise, right on!
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Summary: Actually a 3 1/2
Review: I would give this book a five for the plot. It was unique, mesmerizing with a lot of twists and turns.That said, I had two problems with this book. First, each chapter kept jumping to a different character. I enjoy books that write from the viewpoint of a few different people. But this one kept going back and forth with over a dozen characters. Which brings me to my second problem. The characters. They weren't particlarly well developed. And some of them, such as Jillian and Dan, not particularly likeable. After what happened to Dan's wife in their own house, you'd expect him to stay home once in a while. I admired Jillian for not wanting to be a victim. However, she thought she knew what was best for everyone and never stopped long enough to see if she was right or wrong. I couldn't get invested in any of them. I like Lisa Gardner and especially enjoyed "The Perfect Husband". But I'm sorry I didn't wait for this one in paperback.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I've read all of her books. This one was as good as they come. The characters are interesting. The story has everything. I'd highly recommend this book as well as her others.
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Summary: Pleasantly surprised
Review: If pressed on the matter, I would have to characterize this book as an action-adventure crime novel rather than the typical adventure-romance such as one would expect from a lady writer.
I was a little surprised that there was no heavy breathing between the two main "good guy" characters, Roan and Jillian. Not a bodice was ripped, merely exchanges of pregnant looks, supportive touching, and intelligent, emotional byplay, a refreshing approach for which Gardner gets high marks.
Gardner seems to have a good feel for characterizations, for example a villain with a touch of Hannibal Lecterism and a group of (beautiful, naturally) women rape victims who are more complex than one would estimate at first glance, with deeper agendas than merely revenge and finding Donna Karen suits on sale at half price. The protagonist, Roan Griffin, immediately reminded me of Wick, the hero in The Crush by Sandra Brown, lean-waisted, blue-eyed, super-muscular, a manly man with a tragic past, but handicapped by a hot temper- well, you get the idea. One would almost welcome an occasional balding, fat and bespectacled hero named Wally or George in a novel now and then, but lady writers surely know what their target market wants.
I found I enjoyed this book more than expected even though the plot was a bit trite in some regards and had a couple of major logistical holes in it, but overall was quite well organized. Gardner has a good handle on keeping the reader's interest with continuity of action, refusing to get bogged down in redundancy to make a point clear to those with the dullest perceptions, nor was there endless emotional venting dialogue between female characters harping on some cause de jour in which the author might be involved. Nothing irritates me more as a reader than to be repeatedly hit over the head with some author's pet obsession, whether it be abortion rights, saving whales, hanging chads or breast implants. Gardner, on the other hand, exhibits some exciting and creative wordsmithing in the course of the novel that makes one feel eager to pursue the next chapter, a sign of superior imagination and productive editing. I found only a couple of very minor flaws in Gardner's research, and in reading the "Acknowledgments" I figured out from whence they came. The boys with the badges were having a bit of fun with her, as it were, informing her that professional sniper/assassin would choose to utilize a variable-scoped semi-automatic "Winchester-Remington .223-caliber" AR15 assault rifle for a single blind pop-up snap shot at a mere seventy feet, and I suppose the perpetrators of that little joke knew any shooting enthusiast who read that would get a good chuckle. Logically, of course, very few pro snipers will ever read this book They'll be reading Guns N'Ammo while cleaning their bolt-action Model 70's or Dragunovs. But all the kidding aside, this is a very well-done novel of this type and well worth reading for its entertainment value. I hope Gardner continues to write in this vein, for I am now one of her supporters. -Barker Reviews
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