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Summary: book within a book unique!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Brown's latest book, "Envy." I thought it wonderful that Ms. Brown chose to portray an individual with a handicap as such a major character. The character is both victim and hero--and oh so human. Thanks for showing that people with handicaps can be strong, independent, loving, creative and heroic! I found the book hard to put down and enjoyed the ending the most. I highly recommend "Envy" for hard core and cozy mystery lovers, as well as those who like romantic novels.
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Summary: Her Best Yet!
Review: I have read several of Sandra Brown's books and enjoyed all. This one I loved. Deep down I figured out most of the mystery and then some, but it was great fun along the way. Parker Evans' dialogue and repartee were excellent, Mike was great,......and Maris was good too. All the players were well defined.... Some of you may be offended; Sandra never holds back. All in all, it was a terrific read, especially in the last few days when we all needed a distraction once in a while to postpone reality!...
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Summary: chasue2from PA.
Review: This is the best book I've "read" ever! I was mesmerized from beginning to end! I've been a fan of Ms. Brown's for quite a while now - but this book.... well, let's just say that she's going to have a tough time topping this one!
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Summary: I have to admit, I enjoyed this.
Review: I'm not much for romance, mysteries-thrillers (because of the romance, bleah :-) but I will make the exception for this one. This is the kind of read that you can't put down until your eyes begin to close. I'm also not much for reading books that are over 400 pages, but before I knew it I was a quarter of the way through it. For those of you who really enjoy these kind of romance books, you will find yourself getting lost within the pages. The description and the reviews were right on target. A perfect book to spend a rainy day with.
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Summary: You won't be able to put it down....
Review: As an avid Sandra Brown reader, I eagerly awaited her newest novel, and I was not disappointed. "Envy" was an original book within a book.Maris Matherly-Reed is an editor at Matherly Press, a publishing company owned by her father. Her husband, Noah Reed, is also employed there, as well as being a best selling author. One afternoon, Maris is going through a pile of manuscripts, sure she will be sending rejection letters to all, when one catches her attention. It is only a prologue, entitled "Envy." There is no cover letter, or even a return address. Just three initials and a mention of a remote island off the coast of Georgia. But the story is so intriguing that Maris decides to seek out the author. She finds Parker Evans, a crude but extremely talented man who captivates her interest--in more ways than one. As Maris reads more of his novel, she begins to learn that perhaps it isn't quite fiction. She delves deep into finding out Parker's secrets only to discover she's at the center of it all. Sandra Brown's newest thriller does not disappoint. It is as intense and romantic as it is funny and crude. The characters are well-developed, and the writing is eloquent and sassy. If you've never read anything by this author, let this be the first.
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Summary: Mediocre at best...
Review: As an avid reader of the romantic suspense genre, I was excited to read Sandra Brown's latest work even though I felt her last few books have not packed the punch of her earlier novels. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in what started out as an interesting read. The book was both predictable and slow. Halfway through I started to skim pages just so I could finish the book. In a nutshell, great premise, bad execution.
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Summary: The Very Best of Sandra Brown
Review: The characters are worth knowning (most of them) and the ones that are not make the story the terrific suspense that it becomes. Maris Matherly-Reed is a successful editor. Her father is the owner, as was his family before him, of the publishing house that Maris works for. Her husband is the No. 2 man in the publishing house having ingratiated himself with Maris' father and then having married Marris. Marris has only begun to suspect that her husband might not be all that he seems to be when she receives a prologue to a manuscript from a writer who identifies himself only as P.M.E. Marris becomes intrigued with the prologue and sets off to find the author and as she becomes involved with the story of the book we find that "Envy" is a book within a book within another book. There is a relationship between the mysterious author and her husband Noah. The plot of both "books" is beautifully crafted and a must read from cover to cover.
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Summary: PRETTY DARN GOOD!!!!
Review: I was pretty disappointed in "Envy" when I first started to read it. The first few chapters seemed to drag, save for the installments of Parker's "book." But once it got rolling and we were introduced to Maris and Parker's relationship...it all changed. I really enjoyed this book, as I do most of Sandra's books.
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Summary: Back on Track
Review: One of my first reads was Sandra Brown. I so appreciate her use of persons with disabilities as part of the story - not an add-on.
Frankly, her last few works have been weak. But I really enjoyed Envy. As someone who (like millions of others) wants to write the great American novel, the storyline adds the right amount of spice. Hey, tell bookstores and those who inform us of new books that Sandra Brown is not another Joan Collins. If this were true I wouldn't be writing this review
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Summary: Really tiresome and tedious....
Review: Sandra Brown is an excellent story teller and I usually enjoy her "mysteries', but I have come to find her writing tiresome. Her vulgarity and crudity gets old after a while. While I know she is trying to make a point that the bad guy is really bad and the good guy is in a lot of emotional pain, there is a way to convey this without all the vulgarity and crudity. I also did not find the magnetism between the man and woman in the past two books she has written that I have found in books written before them. I could of cared less if they ended up together. Quite frankly, I found the book tedious and I rushed through it only to get it over with. This will be the last book I buy of Sandra's unless she can seem to find a way to get the point across without all language.
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