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Summary: Great Suspense, Good Thriller!
Review: 'In Dark Places' is a wonderful thriller. The characters are interesting and believable. The story doesn't weigh you down with facts and scientific gab, yet still gives you enough information for a believable plot. Just when I thought I had the 'bad-guy' pinned down, the plot shifted and the 'hero's' became the 'suspects'. This is a book that will keep you on your toes and turning pages.
Rating:
Summary: Great Suspense, Good Thriller!
Review: 'In Dark Places' is a wonderful thriller. The characters are interesting and believable. The story doesn't weigh you down with facts and scientific gab, yet still gives you enough information for a believable plot. Just when I thought I had the 'bad-guy' pinned down, the plot shifted and the 'hero's' became the 'suspects'. This is a book that will keep you on your toes and turning pages.
Rating: 
Summary: Outstanding achievement
Review: A rip-roaring, bloody, disgusting, gritty, ludicrous-speed paced, darkly humorous, mind-f*ck of a ride through the minds of the most twisted and perverse people I have ever witnessed. No one is decent in this novel, no one can be trusted. Everyone has their own sick agenda and thier own traumatic past. This novel will knock you flat. This is not for the light of heart or people who are easily offended. this book will offend you no matter what. It may even cause you to have a convulsing of the stomach or a rapidly fast heart-beat.You care about these characters and you want them to be okay. you want so bad to trust them, but you know their nature and you find that it can never be possible. Everything that is said is a game or diversion that is ultimately leading to a larger scheme of things that will selfishly benefit themselves. I may be over-exaggerating, but I could feel the pain and the blood splatter that went on in this novel. Every emotion took a life of it's own as I hung on to every word. Read this book. you WILL NOT regret it.
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Summary: Give me a break
Review: I cannot comprehend why any (somewhat intelligent) reader would Like this book. Perhaps this book was beneath my reading standards. I found it irritating and poorly written. I am usually kind to authors, especially when it's my first book by that author. This book,it's story line, plot were predictiable and trite, the pathetic nature of the characters, was very DISAPPOINTING. I bought this book, hardcover full price due to reviews, well I say shame shame reviewers, what a rip off.
The characters who were purposed to be intelligent and emotional, were... well.... Quite... STUPID, UNREALISTIC and I have seen more emotion in a rock, more intelligence in a Ham. I do not wish to attack Mr. Prescott's writting, and I so hope that his other books are more substancial. Yet this book I have to say is well NOT EVEN OKAY (to me that is).Give Me Break!
The senerio, the research the premise, well my opinion is , HATED IT. Perhaps for a simple reader it is acceptable. Wouldn't recommend to a fourth grade reading level prison inmate. Sorry!
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Summary: in dark places very good book
Review: I read the book in dark places. This book is an incredible book, it makes you get focused, and want to keep reading it. If your a person that likes suspense and thrill, this is the book for you. I dont like to read but this book was interesting and i liked it a lot. I would recomend anyone to read this book, you will like it.
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Summary: A Thrilling Read
Review: I stumbled upon Michael Prescott by accident and read Last Breath. That was so good that I decided to read all his books. In Dark Places is a fast-paced read. The plot is creative with lots of twists and turns. It will keep you guessing until the very end.
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Summary: Fast Paced Read
Review: It has been quite a while since I've read such a fast paced, thrilling read. The urge to read straight on throught to the end is virtually irresistible. Robin Cameron is a psychiatrist who has created a device that can heal criminals, by intervening in the area of their brains that deals with old angers and that consequentialy cause their criminal behavior. Her most promising patient is the serial killer Justin Gray, who murders high school girls. As he doesn't torture them, nor abuse them and is an alcoholic as a means to deal with the killings, he's considered one of those who can certainly be healed. There's also a LAPD sergeant called Alan Brand, who confessed having murdered people. When Gray escapes and soon after Robin's daughter is kidnapped, the psychiatrist doesn't know whom to blame for the kidnap and suspects both the cop and the killer. While searching for her daughter she's going to meet the worst of the human nature. There's great suspense through the story and no character can be trusted. All of them were involved in some violent situation. Things get more and more twisted until the surprising end comes.
Rating:
Summary: Fast Paced Read
Review: It has been quite a while since I've read such a fast paced, thrilling read. The urge to read straight on throught to the end is virtually irresistible. Robin Cameron is a psychiatrist who has created a device that can heal criminals, by intervening in the area of their brains that deals with old angers and that consequentialy cause their criminal behavior. Her most promising patient is the serial killer Justin Gray, who murders high school girls. As he doesn't torture them, nor abuse them and is an alcoholic as a means to deal with the killings, he's considered one of those who can certainly be healed. There's also a LAPD sergeant called Alan Brand, who confessed having murdered people. When Gray escapes and soon after Robin's daughter is kidnapped, the psychiatrist doesn't know whom to blame for the kidnap and suspects both the cop and the killer. While searching for her daughter she's going to meet the worst of the human nature. There's great suspense through the story and no character can be trusted. All of them were involved in some violent situation. Things get more and more twisted until the surprising end comes.
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Summary: DARK AND DEADLY
Review: Prescott is turning into the "Stephen King" of psychothrillers, and that's a compliment. IN DARK PLACES is a strange mixture of psychological terror, serial killer mania, and dirty cops! Robin Cameron, coming out of an abusive childhood, is a psychiatrist who wants to believe that any person can be "rehabilitated" and return to a useful role in society. This is severely challenged with two of her patients: a self-absorbed serial killer named Justin Gray, and a cop on the take, Alan Brand. Prescott pulls out the stops in giving us several suspects, and manages to pull off a couple major surprises.
The book moves at a good pace, and there are several exciting scenes.
Well worth the read!
Rating:
Summary: DARK AND DEADLY
Review: Prescott is turning into the "Stephen King" of psychothrillers, and that's a compliment. IN DARK PLACES is a strange mixture of psychological terror, serial killer mania, and dirty cops! Robin Cameron, coming out of an abusive childhood, is a psychiatrist who wants to believe that any person can be "rehabilitated" and return to a useful role in society. This is severely challenged with two of her patients: a self-absorbed serial killer named Justin Gray, and a cop on the take, Alan Brand. Prescott pulls out the stops in giving us several suspects, and manages to pull off a couple major surprises.
The book moves at a good pace, and there are several exciting scenes.
Well worth the read!
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