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Summary: Another great one
Review: I have read just about every Sandra Brown book and even though this book was different than her usual style, it was a great story. Sandra Brown never lets you down.
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Summary: Thrilling and Fun...
Review: This is the best Sandra Brown book I've read, thiller-wise [her sections of romance are rather blunt, which is actually a 3-star, in my opinion]. Everything in this book has a lot of loose ends and are tied up at the end. There are many twists and turns and Envy was a fun read. Maris and Parker and all the other characters were really developed and seemed realistic. Praise to Sandra!
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Summary: A Clever Romantic Suspense
Review: Sandra Brown is one of the first romance authors I ever read, and she is also one of the finest.ENVY is what every aspiring romantic suspense writer should strive to achieve. Sandra Brown combines her obvious mastery of the English language with clever, make-me-sigh prose. Her character development is superb. The romance is not eye-rolling and the plot is crisp and page-turning. There are few best-selling authors who come close to her expertise in the writing craft. ENVY kept me up until 3:00 AM on a Saturday night. At 10:30, I planned to put it down. Ha! How rare it is that I read a book that gives me such pleasure, more from plot than from romance -- though the romance was plenty satisfying. It should be no surprise that the lure was the work of Sandra Brown. I won't waste words on a brief synopsis. If you want that, just read the other reviews. Just don't pay any attention to those that call it "predictable" or say the villain is "cruel" without "justification." Don't confuse predictable with a storyline so intriguing, it lulls you along. That you are thinking ahead is the intent. Furthermore, a villain with too much "justification" is not a villain. The profile of a killer is anything but "justified." A killer is inadequate psychologically, and that's exactly what you get in ENVY. Like I said; clever. Congratulations to Sandra Brown. She deserves nothing but high praise for this manuscript. ------
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I wait for Sandra Brown's books to come out and "Envy" was defintely worth the wait. I only gave it 4 stars because there wasn't a whole lot of unexpected turns like most of her newer books. The book was great, but you always knew what was going to happen. I defintely recommend this book to everyone and even have my friend reading it who already loves it. The main characters Maris and Parker are different then most of her couples and it kept the story from following the same patterns. I loved the revenge plot that underscored the book and the ending did keep me in suspense. This book is worth the read!!
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Summary: Novel within!
Review: This was an excellent read. ENVY is a 'can't put it down kind of book'. From early on, I was trying to figure out the plot. I was hooked. And then, once, I got it, the plot still had several unexpected twists. Sandra Brown, the author, does just what Maris, her lead, an editor, demands of her writers......she develops the characters so extensively that they become real.
Outstanding.
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Summary: Totally predictable, but fun
Review: I really enjoyed this book, despite the fact that I knew exactly where it was going from the beginning, and was a little disappointed that it was so predictable. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the ride, and the book-within-a-book was a fun twist. I agree with someone else who said the villain is too evil.....I think it would have been a stronger book if he was a little sympathetic. However, this is just what it is, purely entertaining, a page-turner.
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Summary: Sandra Brown - You've Outdone Yourself!
Review: 5 stars are not enough! I have every Sandra Brown book published, her works have always drawn me, but this book blew me away. Strong, but vulnerable, Maris captivates our attention throughout the book. Noah is sinister, and you can't help but turn each page to see what he'll do next. Parker is so layered that it takes the entire book to peel those layers away and see his soul. Even Maris' father takes center stage with his insight and courage when he avenges his daughter. Truly, envy is the catalyst for Parker and Noah's actions throughout the book, but it all comes full circle as the book reveals how the lives of these characters are drawn in and affected by it. You will not put this book down! I want to see Sandra Brown do more of this!
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Summary: hard to put down!!!!
Review: i buy all of sandra brown's books with out reading the cover so i know nothing fo the plot when i start reading.. this one had me hooked from the first chapter. the book within the book was something new..just when you think you have it solved,you find out through an amazing twist you were totally wrong.too bad "the vanquished" is not a real book sounds like my kind of story. another great one from sandra brown.
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Summary: Satisfying Thriller
Review: "Envy" is definitely a can't-put-down suspense thriller that contains a story within a story. The main character, Parker Evans, is writing a book that Maris Matherly-Reed is editing. The book that Parker is writing is the second story within "Envy." The reader is just as interested in the characters in Parker's novel, as in the romance that develops between Maris and Parker. In the hands of a less capable writer, this could have wound up as a muddled mess. However, Brown is able to keep the stories neatly paralelled, even as the two plots begin to converge, and the past that Parker's novel chronicles begins to catch up and engulf the present that he and Maris share. "Envy" has a few flaws. Besides being able to predict the ending, the villain in "Envy" is unduly evil, bordering on cartoonish. While I won't give away his identity and risk revealing a key plot point for those who haven't read the novel, some of the villain's actions were unnecessarily cruel and without justification. Maris's role in "Envy" is equally unclear. When Parker lures her to a remote island in Georgia to edit his novel, it is apparent that he has ulterior motives and that Maris is part of some larger scheme of his. While it can be understood the scheme might fall by the wayside when Parker falls in love with Maris, Brown doesn't really follow up on it, and has Parker briefly explain himself in a couple of sentences at the end of the book. With all the suspense that the paralell stories had been building up to, the ending was kind of flat. However, "Envy" is Brown's best book in the last three years and it will definitely keep you hooked until the end, where it mildly disappoints.
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Summary: Envy
Review: Sandra Brown is an excellent author, she is so good that I always buy her books as soon as they come out. However, I was very disappointed in this book, it did have a good plot but I was turned off by the excess use of profanity and descriptive sex scenes that bordered on being pornographic, they definitely didn't do anything for me except make me skip over some of those pages. When her next book comes out I will take the time to review it before putting down the bucks for a hardback that I have no wish to keep.
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