NIGHT SINS

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Summary: Keep Them Coming Tami!!!
Review: A rating of "10" hardly does this book justice. I believe it's one of the best I've read!! (I read approx. one book per week)! This is definitely a book you will want to read in one day! Tami keeps you in suspense throughout the entire book - to the end and beyond. My friends at work and I have recently acquired the book - a few have seen the movie based on Night Sins. We have done nothing but discuss this story - I could have read it in one day! (I read it in two!) It's not often you find an author who can keep you in suspense with a truly believable storyline and characters that are real in your mind - Tami Hoag was able to accomplish that and more. I just began Guilty as Sin - it already sounds wonderful! There are very few "truly gifted suspense authors" - Tami Hoag has not only accomplished this goal, but has surpassed it!

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Summary: One of the decades best crime susepense novel.
Review: Hoag draws the reader into an dramatic world of crime and passion. With many twist and angles leaping at the reader from every page. Hoag brings the story through an amazing rollercoaster ride, only to leave you hanging on the edge of your seat for the next installment

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Summary: RIVETING THRILLER
Review: It has been quite a while that a book has come along which not only kept me glued to my seat, but sent me on a search for every other Tami Hoag book in print. The characters in Night Sins were totally believable and identifiable. I especially developed a great affinity with one of the lead characters Agent Megan O'Malley.The story line was one that brought every human emotion into play. The search for the young child Josh created the cold dark terror that only a parent can know. You agonize every step of the way with Josh's parents because everything appears so real.This book was made into a T.V. mini-series and rightly so. Tami Hoag deserves many accolades for this incredible heart stopping book

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Summary: Not so good
Review: I too kept thinking "I'll keep reading, maybe something exciting will happen". The book was way too long and I really felt taken when I reached the end only to find you have to buy another book to find out the details of what really happened

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Summary: A disappointing and cliche-ridden suspense novel
Review: This is a book that started out promising to be an interesting read, but quickly degenerated into one of those "I know I'm wasting my time, but maybe something interesting will happen in the next chapter" books. I was especially disappointed in the ending, where the conclusion became a promo for Hoag's sequel novel. I'll pass on the sequel. The characters were cliches of characters from bad TV series: The tough but tender-hearted cop with a secret in his past, the tough but vulnerable female cop who falls for the tough but tender-hearted cop, etc. Hoag tries to spice it up with some mild sex scenes, but in the end you wonder what these two cops see in each other -- with as many hang-ups and pieces of emotional baggage they're carrying, it's a wonder they're able to function

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Summary: Had me, then lost me!
Review: Night Sins by Tami Hoag is a suspenseful as well as a typical novel. The beginning is a twisted mass of information that finally (half way into the book!) comes to a common point that ends in the dissapointment of finding you have to purchase the sequal book to find any closure. Not a good move by Ms. Hoag. She had me hooked half way through, but now has lost me as a follower of her writing by pulling this stunt; good writer, bad technique

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Summary: A well written page turner.
Review: Night Sins is one of the best written novels of its genre. The characters and their dialogue seem quite realistic. It is a page turner that deserved more than one week on the best seller list. It is every bit as good as the mysteries of some of the more well known authors

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Summary: Worth reading. Disappointing ending.
Review: The story was a page turner. Character development was fairly obvious. Unfortunately, the whole book was simply a "to be continued." Save it for TV

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Summary: Not Finishing Your Book isn't innocence but SIN!
Review: This isn't Tami Hoag's greatest novel by a long-shot. I didn't hate it like I did Dust to Dust but I didn't love it like I do Ashes to Ashes or Cry Wolf. One thing I've noticed about Hoag's work is that the mystery AND the romance often take backseat to every characters' sad memories, traumatic life expirences, and sordid pasts. No book quite highlights Hoag's tendency to weave angst and depression into a massive tapestry of despair quite like Night Sins.
In Night Sins, a young boy is abducted after hockey practice. His mother was busy preforming emergency surgery, and his father was busy screwing the neighbor's wife. These two characters spend a lot of time being guilty and angsty. Heading the search for Josh are Megan O'Malley, a female field agent from the BCA with a chip on her shoulders and daddy-issues, and Mitch Holt, a police chief whose very depressed about the death of his wife and son. These two characters also spend a lot of time being guilty and angsty. Who could have done such a thing in the perfect, perfect town of Deer Lake?
I'll get to the book's biggest flaw first. It's ending is very, very poor. Nothing is really resolved. Sure, the kidnapper is caught but we are given no indepth insight into why he did it, but the ending does make it clear that there is one or more accomplices still on the lose. After spending many hours reading over 500 pages I feel cheated. I think that Hoag probably could have shortened this novel by about 200 pages if she took out some of the angst. Then maybe I wouldn't feel so cheated. I also would recommend the abridged audio book version of Night Sins because it prunes out a lot of the endless angst.
Like I said before, the angst eclipses the investigation into Josh's abduction. There were times when I seriously questioned Mitch's ability to be police chief early in the novel. He was very very insistant that this COULD NOT be a case of kidnapping because crime doesn't exsist in perfect, perfect Deer Lake. He was also very hesistant to question any of the locals even though they did some things that made them look highly suspicious. I mean Megan was the only one who really seemed serious about the case half the time. It seemed like every time she tried to prusue a possible lead, Mitch would try to stonewall her. I felt really sorry for Megan. It seemed like everybody was trying to undermine her all the time. From Mitch, to the sherriff that was feeding critical info to the press, to a nosy reporter out to make things difficult, Megan couldn't make any sort of move with out being criticized dispite the fact that she was the only one trying to crack the case.
On reflection, very little happens during the investigation. Just about every gain the police make is because the kidnappers want them to have this piece of evidence or that piece of evidence.
Despite my criticism, I still enjoyed Night Sins. Not the best book ever, but this two parter isn't the worst capitalistic grab by an author I've ever seen. That honor goes to Laurell K. Hamilton for trying to pass off an teaser from her crummy Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Novels as a short story not once but twice.

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Summary: Nights Sins is good
Review: The book Nights Sins was a very interesting book to read. Tami Hoag is a very good author. Nights Sins is about a kidnapping that happens in the small town of Deer Lake, Minnesota. This town however, has not experienced anything like this so the townsfolk don't know what to do at the beginning. Hoag does a good time with keeping you interested in the book and developing the characters. However, the author goes off on little tangents that can make you put the book, down, or lose interest. If you can get past that then you'll see that it's a good book.
Night Sins is an interesting book that makes you want to see what happens at the end of things. The author puts twists and turns in the story when you least expect it. For example, the story opens up with kid playing outside of a hockey rink since their practice was over. One kid is left behind since his mom is busy dealing with her work at the hospital. Then the story goes to when Megan O'Malley, BCA's first female field agent, first visit the police station. She is taken to see the Chief of Police, Mitch Holt, and sees him and other officers playing around in their long johns and making a jerk of themselves. Also during the kidnapping, Tami Hoag puts in plot twists when she makes the kidnapper toy with the town. The kidnapper leaves the victims jacket and bag at key spots in the kidnapping. This seems to tighten things up pretty well.
The author does a good job with developing the characters, as well as telling their pasts too. You find that the main characters have to face their past and the troubles they have before them. One thing that Megan and Mitch have to deal with is the fact that they have to resist the fact that they want to rip each others heads off at every turn it seems. The author reveals their past pretty well without making the story too boring or anything, but there are times when she goes a little too far and you begin to wonder where the story is going.
The times that the author does go off are few, but they are there. When she has the main characters travel down their sad path, it seems that its almost the same really. Megan O'Malley dealing with the fact that she has to be headstrong and determined to get the right to stay as a field agent for the BCA. Mitch Holt's burden was something he could have prevented, but he didn't. he now just lives with his daughter. Also the parents that had their child kidnapped also deal with their past and each other too.
Overall the story was really done well. The author keeps you interested in the story for the most part, she also develops the characters in the story as well. The only thing that was keeping this book from a 5 out of 5 is the trailing off into characters past. This book is still a must read.