Rating: 
Summary: Brown's Plot Is The Envy Of Other Authors
Review: ENVY is a terrific novel that has several reasons to recommend it. It is cleverly written with an ingenious plot, captivating characters, and a style that begs for rapid reading.A wheelchair-bound author, Parker Evans, submits a novel's first chapter to Maris, daughter of Daniel Matherly, CEO of a successful publishing company. Maris becomes intrigued by what she reads and travels to meet the author. She becomes increasingly attracted to Parker and the novel he is writing. That novel is being written and revealed throughout the book. The "novel within a novel" technique describes and develops the personality traits of its author. As that story unfolds the reader is forced to wonder if the novel in progress is autobiographical and, if so, is the author (Parker) lethal and a threat to Maris. The reader begins to find parallels in the novel being written and the past experiences of Parker. As the story progresses , the reader begins to figure out what has happenned in the past and who the potential victims are. As all the parts of the story start coming together, the book can't be put down until it's finished. The ingenuity and skill of Sandra Brown is very apparent. She has done an outstanding job of developing a complex plot with many sub-plots, interesting characters and relationships. ENVY will hold your interest throughout and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!
Rating: 
Summary: A good book to take on a vacation or trip.
Review: This is a book within a book. About an author
with a mission, and it is up to us to figure out what that
mission is exactly. We get to read excerpts from a book
submitted by one of the characters in the story, to a publisher
with little information about himself. She likes the manuscript
so much that she searches him out, and spends time with him
as he works on the book for her to publish. There are subplots
in this book as well, romance, and puzzling circumstances
that make this unusual book more interesting. I enjoyed it, but it took some time to get into it. I found
myself skimming through the first part, but if you have the
patience it gets better as it goes along, and it is worth
finishing. I have found other of Brown's books to grab your
attention immediately and keep you rivetted, but I wouldn't
put this one in that category. I checked it out at the library
but would not need to own this one.
Rating:
Summary: Best Sandra Brown yet!
Review: I have all of Sandra Brown's books. She is by far my favorite writer. ENVY is the best book I have read of hers to date. I could not put the book down. In fact I read the whole book in two days. I highly recommend this one!!!!
Rating:
Summary: Intriguing and Captivating!
Review: A book within a book is hard enough to do, but Sandra Brown has down it again with this great story of an editor who falls into the trap of the "prologue" which is sent by her husband's ex-best friend. As the story unfolds, Sandra does not disappoint while keeping with the novel inside a novel, keeping her characters aligned and the passion being created by Maris and Parker.
Rating:
Summary: Great book to cuddle up in bed with
Review: I don't believe I missed a chance to write a review for this book when it first came out (that's almost 5 months ago). I would have urged the reader to pick up a copy. It's the first Sandra Brown book I've read, and I was impressed. (It wasn't until later on that I realized she was a romance novel writer.) I had wondered how she so adroitly manages the emotional aspect of the novel while still maintaining a rythmic plot. I was skeptical to pick up the book at first. Reading the back cover you know it's about a gifted writer who writes the first portion of a manuscript and sends it to a (married) publisher he has singled out. The publisher soon suspects that the story being told might be truer to life than the author would have her believe (and a relationship forms). And that's just the beginning. The plot has all the key elements I look for in a suspense novel: murder, revenge, sex and a twist at the end. The author is able to give each of the characters depth in the book through Parker Evans' (male protagonist in the novel) manuscript. (I felt this was a more clever device than just flat out narrating a history.) The author makes it clear what each character is thinking and feeling. It's not just a whodunnit book like the ones Mary Higgins Clark writes. There's real character development in this book. Chapter-by-chapter a past is laid out, motives are formed and the plot crystallizes. The reader of this novel should realize that this novel doesn't have much physical action in it. Most of the action is of the emotional sort. Lastly, it turns out by reading the forewards of the author's other novels, she has a predilection for happy endings (undoubtedly from her romance novel past). I truly hope that she continues to write novels of this romance-suspense sort. FLAP rating:
F:3.5
L:4
A:3
P:4.5 * For a more detailed explanation of how my FLAP rating system works. Please read my review for The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum.
Rating:
Summary: Envy By Sandra Brown
Review: Sizzling. But reviewers, please stop giving away the surprises!
Rating:
Summary: Captivating!
Review: I just finished reading ENVY by Sandra Brown and couldn't wait to tell everyone I knew about it. Being the bookaholic that I am this story captured my interest right away. It's about writing, publishing, editors and authors. Two parallel plots surrounding a crime committed 14 years ago and the victim's plan for revenge. ENVY uses both Maris's quest and Parker's novel to create a breathtaking story of suspense, deceit and murder, retribution and redemption. From the moment you open ENVY till its spectacular finale you will be engrossed. I know, I was.
Rating:
Summary: Sandra Brown at her BEST!!!
Review: ENVY WAS BRILLIANT. IF U HAVNT READ ANY OTHER SANDRA BROWN NOVEL, THNE THIS ONE U MUST DEFINETLY READ. THE NOVEL IN A NOVEL WAS DONE SUPERBLY!! IT WAS GREAT!!
A MUST READ!!
Rating:
Summary: Brown At Her Best
Review: When you stay up until 3 in the morning because you can't stop you know it's a great book. And it's even better after you stay up that long and you're happy about it.
Rating: 
Summary: Predictable to the last drop!!!
Review: I would like to say that I recommend this book to others, but I'm affraid that would be grossly misleading. Having never read a Sandra Brown novel before, I was intriguied by the jacket-cover description of ENVY when it showed up on the "New Fiction" shelves at the local bookstore. Unfortunately, my fascination ended there. I thought Ms. Brown's book was extremely predictable, entirely too sappy, and contained sexual descriptions that left nothing to the readers' imagination. I could not believe in the characters, therefore it left me struggling to finish this story of revenge. ENVY only proved to me that "you can't judge a book by it's cover."
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