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Summary: A Great Romantic Suspense
Review: This novel is written at an excellent pace that held my attention from page one. Kept me guessing who the killer was. Just when I thought I'd figured it out, I was wrong. Really enjoyable read and highly recommended.
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Summary: Romantic suspense novel
Review: Paris Gibson is a late-night DJ who works hard to forget her unhappy past. Her fiance was injured in an unfortunate car accident and Paris faithfully visited him in a nursing home until his death. She dispenses friendly advice to her listeners when they call in, but her advice backfires when a girl she talks to decides to break up with her boyfriend. The boyfriend, calling himself Valentino, calls Paris and threatens to kill both the girlfriend and Paris. The police are called in on the case and one of them, Dean Malloy, proves to be a man from Paris's past. Adding to the complications, Dean's rebellious son Gavin has come to live with him and he is soon in trouble with the police. Brown manages to untangle the web she has woven and throws out a lot of red herrings before the eventual murderer is identified. This is not as scarey as some books of this genre, but it's still a pretty good read.
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Summary: She baaack!!!
Review: I love S.Brown's books. I have read all of her books although she last few books had me a little disappointed so I almost did not get this one until I read the reviews (majority rules!!!).I have about 3 chapters left to read and I can't wait to finish them tonight. I have enjoyed this book very much. This is true SB style. I love it!
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Summary: Sandra Brown Rules!
Review: I have long been a fan of Ms. Brown. Although I liked some of her former books better, "Hello Darkness" is still an entertaining read and one worthy of 5 stars, in my opinion. Ms. Brown is the best at romantic suspense and I always look forward to her next book.
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Summary: would like to give more stars
Review: I agree with the last review. This was a great book
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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK AND I CAN NOT BELIEVE THE BAD REVIEWS
Review: THIS BOOK WAS ONE i COULD NOT PUT DOWN. i LOVED IT.
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Summary: A letdown
Review: I hate to keep doing this. I panned The Standoff because it was really bad, but I thought it was an anomaly. I may have been wrong about that. While Hello, Darkness is definitely a step in a better direction, it is still not up to Sandra Brown's previous standards. I have usually been able to relate to the main female character in Ms. Brown's books, but Paris Gibson remains an unsympathetic, self-absorbed, affected, one-dimensional woman I cannot care about no matter which way I look at her. Ms. Brown doesn't do much to help us flesh her out, when the deepest insights we get into her character are descriptions of her various facial expressions. I was disappointed by the author's use of a method employed by less experienced writers who think the way to mystify the reader and keep them wondering "who done it" is to introduce a whole cast of potential perps, each with his own complete matched set of disturbing childhood baggage, and then play a sort of shell game with the characters - is it this one, how about this one, or is it this one. We jump from inside the head of sexually dysfunctional suspect number one, to the thoughts of porno addict number two, to the subconscious of female abuser number three, to the mind of incest victim number four, to the suspicious behavior of teenage boy number five - did I miss anyone. This certainly saves the author from having to employ her craft and cleverly weave in clues for the reader to follow. But it leaves us as spectators, not participants, as we wait for her to stop the game and lift the final shell. The "Play Misty For Me" plot could have worked (Paris actually plays Misty on her radio show, maybe a nod to the original) but every chance for nail-biting suspense is missed with plot derailments. There is a considerable investment of time made in developing interest in, if not sympathy for Janey Kemp, a modern-day Lolita with her own Sex Club, trashy website, and sicko lover, and whose life is on the line as a 72-hour countdown toward murder begins. Then, just when the suspense begins to accelerate and we reach for our seat-belts, Janey is removed from the picture, almost casually. The whole effect is as anti-climactic as running out of gas on the home stretch of the Indy 500. After that, the book never really recovers from a deadly case of trite. So, here I am again, on the one hand feeling guilty for saying I really hated it, and on the other hand feeling ticked off because I spent full cover price on the hardback. Still love ya, Sandra, but before you publish the next one, get a few people to critique it who are not relatives or friends or business associates.
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Summary: A major disappointment -are these characters for real?
Review: I am a die-hard fan of S. Brown, I have every book she has written, including her early romances. I enjoy her current novels far more than the romances -more depth, more story. I anxiously awaited the release of this book - set aside a Saturday to curl up to read it. Should have painted the bathroom instead! I didn't like Paris or Dean or his son - I never felt close to any character. And that is at the heart of a good book, I think. You want to root for the hero/heroine, feel for them, BECOME them. Not happening in this book. While the subject material is very disturbing; lechers who pray on young girls, teens who have orgies in the back seats of cars, men who take pornographic pictures of 15 year olds - I can handle that; it's not "nice" reading, but if the plot is good, I'd let it go. In this book, the story IS the lechers & the perverted sex, not Dean or Paris. The characters get overshadowed by Ms. Brown's efforts to shock the reader. I'll wait for the next one, and hope for another like The Witness or Fat Tuesday.
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Summary: Big disappointment
Review: A Delilah-like radio program, affluent teenagers with too much time on their hands, parents without a clue, and a dull hero and heroine. That's all that pretty much makes up HELLO, DARKNESS. I usually like the romantic suspense books that Sandra Brown writes, but I found this one to be a big snooze. The characters were either weird or dull as dishwater. I wanted to like it, I really did, but it was excruciatingly boring. Toward the end, I was just skimming to put me out of my misery.
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Summary: Sandra Brown's books are becoming very disappointing
Review: Just as I have become more dissatisfied with each new novel from James Patterson, I am now beginning to feel the same with Sandra Brown.
I have been a huge fan of Sandra Brown's novels and have run out to purchase her books the day of their release. My personal library includes every book that Sandra Brown has ever written. I don't know if I will continue to keep her on my list of favorite authors in the future. Hello Darkness was very poorly written. I knew who the villain was very early into the book. There was no emotional attachment to the characters. Actually, it seemed as if Ms. Brown hurried this book along without giving much thought to the plot. The only mystery about this book is the fact that it is receiving good reviews. The best part of this book was the last page. I was grateful for this idiotic story to end. This book is not an example of Sandra Brown's talent. I will have to go back and reread some of her earlier suspense books in order to get this bad taste out of my mouth.
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