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Summary: The Suspense Was Great-And Kept Me Guessing!
Review: I enjoy Mary-Higgins Clark a great deal, and found I enjoyed this book pretty well. It took a bit of getting into at first, but after the first couple chapters, it had my attention very well. I never would have thought it would turn out the way it did after Adam died in the boating accident. It was altogether a complete surprise. You need to read to find out what I mean. If you enjoy mysteries of suspense, this book is for you.
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Summary: Not so much about the book, as about the READER!
Review: I am frankly disgusted with Jan Maxwell's reading of this novel. Her reading is at best whiny and annoying rather than representing the strength of character that the various players in the story posess. I believe that Jan Maxwell also read another MHC novel that I heard recently and I came away with the feeling that the characters were all whiny and useless, basically just lucky to get themselves out of the scrapes they got into, rather than strong and decisive as I used to feel about MHC's characters when I simply read the books. It's definitely time to get a new reader.
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Summary: Out of the Ordinary
Review: Nell follows in her grandfather's footsteps in running for his congressional seat. But many unknown facts in Nell's husband's past may end up setting her up for a great pulicity scandal. When an explosion on Nell's husband's boat kills 4 including her husband things get much more complicated. Then as investigators and Nell herself looks into the case, much disturbing information is set out in the open.
This was a very different book that Mary Higgins Clark has written. It is a little off the beaten path when she adds a psychic/medium into the story as a help to the main character, Nell. But Clark still does an outstanding job in portraying a very first hand feeling. Her descriptions of the important facts in the book are very precise and well thought out. In doing this Clark uses a lot of figurative language and sense images, which also help in the visualization of the objects or people.
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Summary: Great Story, but lacks alot of Suspense... 4 1/2 stars!
Review: I truly enjoyed this story, but the normally large amount of suspense Ms. Clark usually throws into her novels is missing here. I did enjoy it though and thought it was really different from most of her tales.~When Adam Cauliff's cabin cruiser blows up in the New York harbor and kills him and several of his close business associates, his distraught wife Nell McDermott is left to pick up the pieces. Nell is wracked with guilt over a fight the night before and cannot seem to get over it. As the investigation into the explosion proceeds, Nell finds out more than she wants to about her husband's company dealings and the idea that this was prehaps not an accident that the boat blew up afterall. She begins to recieve disturbing messages from Adam via a medium and she tries to beat the clock to find the killer, what she doesn't know is that she is being watched very closely. When she gets too close to the truth, Nell finds herself in shock when faced with the ruthless killer bent on shutting her up for good. The identity of the killer was a little bit of a surprise to me, but it was appropriate considering the facts that are revealed. I did like this story a lot, but I wished it had more suspense instead of so much investigating into the explosion with all the politics involved. Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Bad story...
Review: The story is very weak: Nell MacDermont wants to run for congress following her granfather's example. But her husband, Adam Cauliff, suddenly opposes this idea, even though he originally supported it. They have a huge fight and a day later Adam and a few others are killed in a mysterious explosion on his boat. Nell now has to deal with Adam's death, while many facts seem to suddenly show up that he wasn't an honest man. She is also contacted by a famous psychic who claims to hear Adam's voice and gives Nell his love... But things are not as simple as they seem, and the tangled ending reveals a well planned scheme. The story line is weak and uses too many 'coincidences' for my taste, such as 2 simialar jackets... Also the character of Dan Minor is very weak and hard to believe - he hates his dad for leaving his mother and himself, while he spends years desperetaly searching for a mother who did the same to him later on...
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Summary: An interesting plot and No smutt!
Review: This is a novel that you can not put down until it is finished! You can share this with your teenagers, too. The plot, characters and story line are very interesting and suspenseful. The smutt and vulger language is eliminated which makes this very enjoyable.
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Summary: another great story
Review: mary does it again,..she writes another great story,..but i dont want to spoil it for you,..you must buy,..you'll see why
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Summary: Predictable
Review: Now I remember why I don't read too much fiction...it's not a very challenging book. Good for a plane ride home.
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Summary: MHC is great!
Review: I have liked every single MHC book I've read so far, and this one did not dissapoint. It was interesting, had loveable characters and a great plot, just like all the rest.
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Summary: Her Very Worst
Review: I am a big fan of Ms. Clark's work, but I was very disappointed with this book. It was poorly written and poorly edited. One major inconsistency was already mentioned by another reviewer, but there were many others. For example, two characters have the exact same conversation with each other only 15 pages apart. Another example that is difficult to illustrate without giving away the "surprise ending" has the "villian" thinking something to him or herself in the beginning of the book that would have been impossible for the villian to be thinking. The book had a neat idea, but seemed to be hastily and sloppily written.
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