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Summary: CINDY LOSES IT
Review: Well, here we go again. Like a fellow reviewer, I'm finding myself with a "love/hate" relationship as far as Faye Kellerman's Rina/Peter Decker series. For instance, Faye, who in the world was responsible for Rina's attempted carjacking---talk about loose ends!!!
Anyway, here Faye focuses on Cindy Decker, Peter's newly initiated rookie cop. In previous novels, I have found Cindy's impetuosity and energy refreshing and likeable. Boy, has she changed. What words can describe her? SNOBBISH. KNOW IT ALL. IMPETUOUS. BITCHY. MANIPULATIVE. INSINCERE. Hmmm...maybe not all the time, but these qualities tend to lessen one's admiration for her character. Like when she goes to Belfleur to look up the people who invested in a sham property deal. She finds one name right away and immediately assumes it's the only one...not thinking to look at the whole list! Also, she acts like she doesn't want to fit in with her fellow cops, and the chauvinism of her fellow male cops is a little exaggerated and over used.
Rina's not in the book much this time, but she still comes across as super mom and super everything. She doesn't seem to have any flaws now. Also little daughter Hannah has turned into a whiny, spoiled brat.
The main problem, however, with this book is despite a couple of tense scenes, the book drags and one gets tired of all the landscape descriptions; what furniture is in any house or room, and also the romance between Scott and Cindy is way too impractical and unnecessary.
NOT A BAD BOOK, BUT SHE'S DONE BETTER (AND WORSE).
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Summary: Exciting and suspenseful
Review: Cindy Decker, a new rookie cop based in Hollywood, is finding it hard to cope with the job as she is being constantly hazed by her male colleagues who resent the fact that she has a college education and even more resentful that her father is Lieutenant Peter Decker. When suspicious things start to happen to her, she is determined to go it alone and not seek advice or help from her father...big mistake, as things escalate to downright frightening. It's a great cop story with lots of twists but I couldn't help but feel that this girl who is supposed to be a mature, gun carrying police woman, needs a good slap around the legs for being so obstinate and just plain stupid!
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Summary: Tight, Grim and Gritty
Review: I am at a loss to understand why reviewers did not like this book as much as I did. Like all Faye Kellerman novels that I have read, I found the story strong, the plot gripping, the mystery mesmerizing, and the ending full of heart-pounding suspense. This particular book focuses on Peter Decker's older daughter Cindy, now a rookie cop. Cindy is not a likeable character--in fact, through most of the book, I could not stand her. But she is compeltely believable--an obnoxious, loudmouth, arrogant young woman with a huge chip on her shoulder--who also happens to be a marshmallow about her family and her secret self. During a fairly routine hostage situation, Cindy the rookie upstages her own sergeant, not the best of all situations. Although she solves the hostage problem with no blood spilled, she becomes something of a pariah in the tight-knit cop brotherhood. It's not enough that her daddy is a homicide lieutenant, but she is college educated, mouthy, and doesn't know her own place. Or so they think. But is that enough to make HER a hostage? It seems that way, as a mysterious stalker starts to make her life intolerable...and dangerous. I stand by my opinion of this story, even though Cindy is not a likeable character--and I give it a solid five stars.
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Summary: A good premise with a disappointing character.
Review: I have been a fan of Faye Kellerman since her first Decker/Lazarus novel was published. It pains me to say that while STALKER was an intriguing story I found myself caring very little for Cindy Decker. Her character acted spoiled and self centered. Unlike her father and stepmother I found her unworthy of the spotlight. Cindy received an Ivy League education and excelled in the police academy yet she made many foolish (not to mention dangerous) decisions throughout the entire story. Someone with her background should know better. Cindy just doesn't have the depth of character necessary to make the reader care about her outcome. I hope that in future novels Faye brings the spotlight back to Peter and Rina. Until Cindy matures a little she deserves to stay in the background of her family.
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Summary: Refreshing series departure
Review: For fans grown weary of the sometimes cloying relationship between Faye Kellerman's series duo LAPD detective Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus, Kellerman's latest, "Stalker," offers a refreshing departure. Decker takes a back seat and Rina makes only brief appearances as Peter's daughter Cynthia, an ambitious, impetuous rookie cop, struggles to fit in and prove her independence from her illustrious father. Subtle disturbances, hostility at work and a feeling of being stalked, initially put down to imagination, escalate into a savage vandalization of her apartment and a dangerous chase on the freeway. Is it some not-so-innocent rookie initiation or an attempt to warn her off the investigation of the carjacking murder of a real-estate tycoon? The plot, riddled with mysteries and twists, involves intersecting investigations and in-house suspicion. Well-paced action heightens as Cindy's life grows increasingly tangled - a protective/romantic liaison with her father's colleague, clandestine investigations of her co-workers and the murdered man, a mounting log of secrets from her father and frictions at work. Quick thinking but rash, Cindy makes lots of mistakes, leading to a careening, breathtaking climax in the California hills. No angel, Cindy breathes new life into Kellerman's neatly plotted procedurals.
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Summary: CINDY LOSES IT
Review: Well, here we go again. Like a fellow reviewer, I'm finding myself with a "love/hate" relationship as far as Faye Kellerman's Rina/Peter Decker series. For instance, Faye, who in the world was responsible for Rina's attempted carjacking---talk about loose ends!!!
Anyway, here Faye focuses on Cindy Decker, Peter's newly initiated rookie cop. In previous novels, I have found Cindy's impetuosity and energy refreshing and likeable. Boy, has she changed. What words can describe her? SNOBBISH. KNOW IT ALL. IMPETUOUS. BITCHY. MANIPULATIVE. INSINCERE. Hmmm...maybe not all the time, but these qualities tend to lessen one's admiration for her character. Like when she goes to Belfleur to look up the people who invested in a sham property deal. She finds one name right away and immediately assumes it's the only one...not thinking to look at the whole list! Also, she acts like she doesn't want to fit in with her fellow cops, and the chauvinism of her fellow male cops is a little exaggerated and over used.
Rina's not in the book much this time, but she still comes across as super mom and super everything. She doesn't seem to have any flaws now. Also little daughter Hannah has turned into a whiny, spoiled brat.
The main problem, however, with this book is despite a couple of tense scenes, the book drags and one gets tired of all the landscape descriptions; what furniture is in any house or room, and also the romance between Scott and Cindy is way too impractical and unnecessary.
NOT A BAD BOOK, BUT SHE'S DONE BETTER (AND WORSE).
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Summary: stalker
Review: I have a love hate relationship with Kellerman's novels...my main problem is the many inaccuracies with which she litters her books...it is jarring. In this one, she has Rina, supposedly a supurb cook, putting in the broccali before her husband showers. Nobody does that. If it is in the details that greatness lies,she misses.
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Summary: Another Decker takes center stage
Review: Cindy Decker, daughter of Lieutenant Peter Decker, is following in his footsteps and has become a cop. Unfortunately, she has a bit of an attitude and her fellow officers are not happy about that or about the fact that her father is a lieutenant. Things begin happening to her which confuse and frighten her. First it's small things, like verbal jibes, and then it becomes things that are out of place in her apartment, and then more serious occurrences. Out of pride, Cindy tries to handle these incidents herself instead of asking for her father's help. This makes her appear more foolish than brave and certainly does nothing to endear her to readers. Things go from bad to worse until the stalker threatens her life. This is an average book in comparison to the other outstanding ones in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series and just goes to show that Cindy is not as riveting a central character as her father and stepmother are.
Rating:
Summary: Overall-good
Review: This has certainly not got the intricate story line of some of Faye Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus novels.
But it is still a well-written and entertaining read.
Cindy can be impetuous and brattish, but she also has some good qualities, for example note
The love she has for her younger half-sister, Hannah.
Cindy has a lot of growing up to do!
I like the way she skillfully weaves the religious family life of Peter and Rina's family into the
novels.
In this one we see how observation of Shabbos (the Jewish Sabbath) is a beautiful and welcome respite from
the chaotic and amoral world outside. Overall, entertaining , and flows easily.
There are however some loose ends left undone , for example we never find out who it was that was behind the attack on Rina in the park. It is also better to begin the Decker/Lazarus series with one of Faye Kellerman's earlier novels.
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Summary: Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
Review: The main vocal point of the story was very agravating and frankly i was pretty sick of reading it around the 2nd or 3rd day i think that the actors in the actually movie were ok i think that they could have use more vintage actors like Darkwing Duck or Harry Doyle. Nate Harjack was clutch in the lead role Larry Szonka and Greg Bitners attitude in the movie was just outa control with the pit stainds. I think that they need more chacthers in the book like pee wee herman or even the great Jason Bateman. Steven Segal made an appearance in the movie and it think that he could have done a little better job as Kip Peterson and Dean Kane was awsome in the hit tv show malcom in the middle
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