WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?

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Summary: DependsOn What You Like!
Review: There were two aspects that contributed to the wellness and poorness of the quality of this book. If you are into books with a great, story that will keep you guessing this is the book for you. But if you want a well written book, charecters well described, scenes well set, you won't enjoy this book so much. I happened to like this book a lot. I couldn't put it down, although i was forced to while reading it at work. Had it been a weekend i would have finnished it in a day. The story keeps you guessing. I can still feel goosebumbs going down my back at dramatick moments. Every chapter ended with a climax, hopping you'd find out what would happen next , it would go to another part of the story, which would soon grab your attention. It starts to get irritating after a while, but is all worth it atthe end where things calm down. The bad aspect of this book was that it was horribly written. It was like reading a 5th graders story with an interesting plot. The charecters were poorly described. You didn't get to know them well enough to feel a part of the story as you would with other great works of litterature. Settings were not well set. You didn't have a real feeling of where the story takes place, and many facts put into the story were false. If I were to judge this book on the wellness of the writting i would give it at the most TWO STARS. I have chosen to judge it on the story though which I have decided to give it FOUR STARS. Although the poorness of writting gets irritatting, you want to read on to the next chapter to see howall the bits and pieces of the story will come together.

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Summary: Great Suspense
Review: This is one of the best suspense novels I've ever read (the other one was "Rebeccca" and that became a Hitchcock movie). The story kept the pages turning and I'm looking forward to reading another of Clark's novels. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery.

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Summary: A very good read.
Review: There is no doubt about it. This is a very good book. I did figure out who had done it, however, halfway through the book. On a technicality, however, Clark made me dispel my notions. Having read many of her books and always guessing wrong, I was surprised that I was correct. Tough it is a very well written book with an interesting story line, it does, at points, get a little boring. She doesn't describe her characters as well as she does in later books. This is her first book, though. Very few first-time authors write books as well as their later ones. All in all, a very interesting, suspenseful, and intriguing read.

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Summary: A wonderful suspense novel!! A must-read!
Review: This book was the best. Mary Higgins Clark is truly the Queen of Suspense! It has just enough suspense to make your heartbeat speed up and to make your eyes open really wide, but not so frightening that you it haunts you forever. Anyone who loves a great mystery every now and then will love this book!

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Summary: A GREAT book for the NON-book Reader...
Review: I do not like to read at all. In fact this is the first book I have ever read for enjoyment purposes. This book was amazing. Clark has a way of hooking you at the end of each chapter so that you don't want to put the book down. I have already bought two other books by Clark. Two of my friends have each borrowed and completed this book in just a few days sharing the same excitement. I can't wait to dive into my next book by Clark.

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Summary: VERY EXITING AND SUSPENCEFUL
Review: THIS IS A MUST READ BOOK> Mary Higgens Clark has done a great job writing it. I loved the suspence and could not put it down.

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Summary: where are they
Review: Where are the Children is a book about a young woman, Nancy, with an awful past. In her first marriage she had two children and was accused of killing them. Both her husband and her good friend went against her and said that Nancy was the one who killed them. They had found her guilty of the double murder, but the court let her go when one of the suspects suddenly seemed to have disappeared. Years after her crisis she leaves California and moves to Cape Cod. In Cape Cod she meets a man named Ray Eldredge, whom she in time marries. The two of them also have two kids. Then one day someone puts an article in the newspaper about her former life. Also on that same day someone kidnaps her two kids. The whole town believes that she is the one that has also killed her kids, but she constantly says that when she came out to look for them that they were not there, and that someone else had taken them. This book was okay. I really did not think it was that great. It had a nice story and everything but it just seemed to pass a little too slowly. It took awhile for it to get to the main point of the story. Other than that it is an interesting book, and I would recommend it to other people.

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Summary: It is a suspence that will keep you reading on.
Review: Where are the Children, by Mary Higgins Clark, was a suspenseful, mystery book. The main character, Nancy, is the mother of two children, and two others that have been missing for a long time. She dyed her hair, changed her last name, and moved from California to Cape Cod with her husband. This is because when she lived in California, with her past husband, her first two kids were kidnapped from her home. Everyone thought Nancy did it. Also, her former husband, Carl, committed suicide and Nancy was suspected for doing this too. So that was why she moved to Cape Cod with her present husband. They had two (more) kids and were living happily. One day, Nancy's husband was at work and the two kids were playiong in the back yard, and they were kidnapped. The kidnapper was a man that lived close to Nancy and was always looking in the windows. His name was Courtney Parrish. He kept the kids locked up in his house, and would not let them out. He tortured them and was very mean to them. Nancy started to go insane. The whole thing was happening a second time. She became very depressed and paranoid. Nobody really blamed her, but everyone was pretty suspicious. Everyone in the town began to investigate the kidnapping. Finally, they began to look at a house nearby, nicknamed "The Lookout." The kids meanwhile were inside, and the girl was sick. The boy called home once, when he snuck to the phone, but the connection was lost. Nancy found her girl's red mitten outside of "The Lookout" that she was wearing the day she disappeared. So she decided to go there because she just KNEW they were there. So she went, and snuck in, and found her kids. The kidnapper was her ex-husband who was still alive and had changed his name. They fought, and he ended up falling off the balcony, and died.

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Summary: Pretty good....
Review: I think this was a nicely written book, but once again, the same adjectives keep popping up. I am not especially fond of this book or a few of her others, because of the twist of using child molesting as the major conflict.

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Summary: Very Exciting and unpredictable
Review: This book keeps you on the edge of your seat; very suspenseful but she has written much better!!! Keep reading MHC!!