Unspeakable

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Summary: Worth a read if you're adventurous.
Review: Brown has really done it this time. Nothing like her previous novels, "Unspeakable" is an excellent step in a new direction if she chooses to follow it. I'm a widely read individual, and Brown has tactfully mixed violence and romance together in a way I haven't seen before. If you're accustomed to Brown's usual writing style, I personally wouldn't recommend this book...but if you're up to reading something new, "Unspeakable" is the book for you. Readers should beware, however, of the language and violence - and that is tame compared to other authors I've read. Keep up the good work Sandra, it's good to see you trying something new!

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Summary: Very Predictable!
Review: Considering that this book is over 3 years old, I just ran across it about a week ago. I will say that the character's are written very well in good vivid detail. The first half of it is actually pretty good, but the second half gets very predictable. It read like a bad Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts film, really bad ones. I predicted almost everything that happened in the second half. I was somewhat surprised at the very fowl and disgusting language used by Sandra Brown. The book starts out with the intent to solve the druesome murder of a young girl over 20 years ago. The book then veers off in several different directions, with the murder being mentioned occasionally. There is an obvious attempt to make this the perfect love story. The two lovers played by Jack and Anna are rarely depicted in a bad light, while everyone else are depicted as fools, cowards, or mean-spirited. Anna is a widow who stays on a ranch with her little son and her step-father Delray. Her husband Dean died at home 6 years ago after returning home from War. Anna and Delray have a "complicated" relationship that wasn't well defined for me. Delray is written like a mean-spirited man, with like a heart of gold. He's in love with Anna, but she's not in love with him. This goes unspoken between the two of them thoughtout the book, even up until his eventual predictable death. I thought that the Author Sandra Brown contradicted their relationship throughout the whole story. It just seemed like she took the easy way out by killing him, instead of dealing with their dilemma honestly. Considering not telling Anna how he felt about her seemed to be the main thing that killed him, even if he knew she didn't feel the same, I found his eventual death kind of cowardly actually. There was a concerted effort to diminish other people in Anna's life, alive or dead, to save the perfect love story of Anna and Jack. To diminish the relationship Anna had with her dead husband Dean, who she clearly had to be in love with, so Jack could be viewed as her perfect lover, was very cowardly I thought. Love is love, why the need to make him a better lover or more thoughtful man than the first. Especially since the husband died over 6 years ago. I just thought it was uncalled for. There appeared to be contradictions thought the book. Everyone from escaped convict Carl, his ex-con brother Cecil, Carl's stupid partner Myron, Cecil's "slutty" girlfriend Connie are written with contradictions. Carl is written out to be a very smart criminal, though he's clearly an idiot, and dies like one. I predicted how the sleazy bank manager Emory Lomax would die down to the last letter. I won't give out the very neat ending. But I didn't find it believable, even a little bit. The unsolved murder part could have been left out, because it clearly wasn't needed. It actually seemed like an afterthought after the first few chapters. I don't know if this was ever made into a movie, but it has that feel to it. A very bad movie.

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Summary: Storyline tolerable...unabridged audio.. downright painful
Review: The book was predictable and I found the characters hard to like I mean geez usually a poor victimized deaf/mute would be an automatic "gimmee" but no Anna just didn't do it for me. Jack was not a drifter with no base but more like a loser with one dimensional character where's the [good looking] texans' Ms. Brown usually gives us?? Now that being said onto the unabridged audio tape it was hard to keep track of characters and then there's no lead-in on the tapes so I think I actually skipped one tape (but it didn't matter so no bigge) John Henry Cox did the vocals and the whiney whiney groanie David character was done so well I really had to rethink my opinion on corporal punishment..

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Summary: My opinion...
Review: This is my first book by Sandra Brown, I picked it up after reading the synopsis on the back cover. I became immediately enthralled in the book and enjoyed it until the very end, wondering who the killer was. I'll admit though, about 3/4ths of the way through I had a guess, and it was correct. That's kind of cool though.

Ok, I've read several reviews on this book that I am very disappointed with. I don't know if they are coming from people who have weak stomach's or what, but their comments are a little off base to me. I did not feel that this book was too gory or that it was overboard in the scenes. Sure the descriptions were down the tee, but isn't that what you want when you're reading a book? Do you honestly think that when you pick up a murder mystery book that some blood and gore are out of place? Isn't that what murder is? I just think it's unfair for those comments to deter people from reading this book that I thought was a great read.

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Summary: Not Her Best...But Worth It Anyway !
Review: While I remain a devoted fan of Sandra Brown's, I was hoping for 'UNSPEAKABLE' to concentrate more on Anna and Jack, than I was about the twisted, and perverse highjinks of the Herbold brothers. Still, the story was a deep and powerful one, and Ms. Brown painted for her readers, very clear and concise pictures of her characters. Her villianous siblings were two low-life's you just could'nt help wishing evil things on! And of course she has us rooting all the while , that true love will conquer all. While it may not be her best or most romantic book, it's well worth the read ; as are all Sandra Brown novels.