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Summary: Not so Orthodox
Review: If you have avoided this series because the emphasis on Orthodox Judaism in the first few volumes turned you off, try this one. The focus here is on Pete Decker's daughter, Cindy, now a cop herself who manages to get caught up in one of Dad's open cases. The plot kept me guessing who the bad guy would be, and while Peter and Rina are still practicing Orthodoxy, it's not crammed down your throat in this book. I think it's one of Faye Kellerman's better efforts.
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Summary: Stalker
Review: I thought this book was very captivating. I really enjoyed every page of it. It kept me guessing all the way to the end. I thought it was written very well and many people will enjoy it.
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Summary: SLOW AND BORING
Review: It took me over a week to read this book. I would pick it up, read a few minutes and then think of something I'd rather be doing. The next night I would pick it up again, with the same results. I'm one of these people who starts a book and tries to stay with it, hoping it will get better--this one never did. I also hate the unrealistic endings to many books these days. Are they writing to try to get a movie contract, or what?
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I have read most of Faye Kellerman's books and have really enjoyed most of them. However, Stalker was a major disappointment. By the middle of the book, I was so tired of Cindy's whining and complaining I didn't care what happened to her. Very boring effort this time.
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Summary: Made me lock my door!
Review: I eagerly await all of Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus mysteries and this one was well worth the wait! This was the scariest of her novels I remember--I even got up to lock my own door after Cynthia's apartment incident...Really liked the development of Decker's daughter in this one...the only criticism is that there was a little too much talk of Cynthia's biological responses to fear--enough is enough. Sweat talk aside, this was a totally enjoyable read--couldn't put it down!
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Summary: READERS MAY BE DISAPPOINTED IN THIS ONE!
Review: At first glance, the reader finds what begins as an exciting book; however, mid-way through the book the plot loses its steam and takes the long route to no-where. The book had the potential to be a great read but the plot simply never developed to that point. Most of the characters, however, are well-written and held there own, with the exception of the main character, Cindy, (Peter Decker's daughter) a rookie on the police force. The reader is caught between two aspects of the plot which intertwine but do not mesh together well. Peter Decker is working on a series of car-jackings while his daughter, Cindy, is being stalked. Clothes have been re-arranged in Cindy's dresser drawer, a picture is moved and someone trashes her home. I found the scenario and the character of Cindy very amateurish and childish in nature; a scenario already repeated so many times in books and movies that it has become mundane and devoid of suspense. First of all, with a vast assortment of victims, suspects and witnesses, one had to keep referring back to previous pages to remember "who did what" and the relationship between one character and another. Secondly, while I respect everyone's religion, if one is not Jewish in faith the religious terminology in Rina's dialogue loses meaning because it is not understood. Perhaps the religious aspect should either be clarified or left out altogether if it is not pertinent to the story. In this case, the religious connotations had absolutely nothing to do with the plot, nor did they add anything to the story but confusion. Some readers who are devote fans of Faye Kellerman may find the book worth reading, personally, I did not. To the author's credit, she has a great writing style but that style did not shine among the pages of this book. "Stalker" had great potential that fizzled out in mid-stream.
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Summary: The cool part is the new character focus.
Review: The focus on new policewoman Cindy (Decker's daughter) is a great way to breathe new life into the series. She has many interesting entanglements and character flaws that are sure to provide the talented Faye Kellerman with a good subject around which to hang her police procedurals. Peter Decker himself is nearly "finished"-- there've been so many books about his relationship with Rina now that there's very little left to work out and Kellerman would have to resort to increasingly outlandish plots (we saw the tendency in Jupiter's Bones) to keep the interest level up. His involvement in this book is both peripheral and pertinant-- just at the level that it should be to provide familiarity without losing the attention to Cindy. The not-so-cool part is that the plot doesn't hang together as well as it should. In general, Kellerman doesn't need to use something as obvious coincidence to drive her plots, but she relies on it here to the great detriment of the book. Still, while it may be less polished in some ways than _Jupiter's Bones_ I found it a refreshing change and hopefully it represents a change in direction that will bear fruit in a more fully realized Cindy Decker novel the next time.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've read all of Faye Kellerman's books and was looking forward to this one, but I had to force myself to go beyond the first 30 pages or so. It sounded as if she started writing the book without knowing where it was going. The plot was confusing. The cop language sounded forced. Do cops today really still say "grub", as in "lets get some grub" ? which appears more than once in one form or another. I also find it hard to believe that a college-educated cop is such a rarity on today's police force.
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Summary: Stalker
Review: This is the most stupid book I have read lately. I don't know what happen to her writting(maybe she ran out of ideals). I was tired of all of the "cold nervous sweat" by page 50. I don't believe that Cynthia Decker is the only college educated police officer in the LAPD. I know that she was a rookie, but good lord, how many time can someone break into a "cold Sweat".Please go back to her Dad Peter Decker and move Cindy somewhere else.
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Summary: Slow
Review: This was a slow "cops talking to cops" book. While I respect any author's wish to experiment, I found this a less successful entry in the series. I also missed the religion element that first attracted me to these books. I also found Cindy's behaviour somtimes exasperating: If an officer of the law does witness a shooting episode, as she did before the action takes place, wouldn't that officer report this? -- Per
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