Purification Ceremony H

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Summary: Completely spellbinding!
Review: I have been trying to remember the name of this book or its author for about 2 months. Thank you Amazon.com for your Power Search feature. I heard this book on tape, and have been wanting to get my hands on the actual book. Even, if you're not into horror, this crosses over into mystery thrillers and the story is just, well words fail me, amazing. The female lead is so strong and so believable, it boggles my mind that the author Mark Sullivan (a mere male - presumably) could write such a masterpiece. I'm going to go hunting for more Sullivan fiction, but in the meantime....INTO THE SHOPPING CART with this one.

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Summary: A True Thriller!
Review: I picked this book up because it had a great cover (hard cover). I bought it because it sounded interesting and fun. You know what I was right. This is a wonderful book. I do not feel that this is a "guy" book. The main character is female, just different from most females. Diana is a strong and powerful female lead. The kind that you have to have in a book like this to make it work. I think that Mr. Sullivan did a great job in working out the plot. I was totally engrossed in this fine piece of work from the beginning. OK the author did mess up with the scalp thing. But some times that is a part of the fun. Finding a mistake that everyone missed and they get paid the big bucks! (No pun intended.) This did not take away from the story and was not important to the plot. So you are forgiven Mr. Sullivan for one little bitty mistake. I'm looking forward to more by this wonderful author. Keep them coming, Mr. Sullivan. I highly recommend "The Purification Ceremony.

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Summary: A True Thriller!
Review: I picked this book up because it had a great cover (hard cover). I bought it because it sounded interesting and fun. You know what I was right. This is a wonderful book. I do not feel that this is a "guy" book. The main character is female, just different from most females. Diana is a strong and powerful female lead. The kind that you have to have in a book like this to make it work. I think that Mr. Sullivan did a great job in working out the plot. I was totally engrossed in this fine piece of work from the beginning. OK the author did mess up with the scalp thing. But some times that is a part of the fun. Finding a mistake that everyone missed and they get paid the big bucks! (No pun intended.) This did not take away from the story and was not important to the plot. So you are forgiven Mr. Sullivan for one little bitty mistake. I'm looking forward to more by this wonderful author. Keep them coming, Mr. Sullivan. I highly recommend "The Purification Ceremony.

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Summary: A Fast Action Pcaked Read
Review: I picked up this book on a whim, and I'm glad I did. This is a fast, engrossing read. The mystery was fairly easy to figure out early on, but it was interesting to see the characters process the clues and find the answers. A very strong female main character didn't overwhelm the story but pulled it all together. A fair amount of violence is involved, so if that bothers you, you might want to skip this one.

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Summary: A Fast Action Pcaked Read
Review: I picked up this book on a whim, and I'm glad I did. This is a fast, engrossing read. The mystery was fairly easy to figure out early on, but it was interesting to see the characters process the clues and find the answers. A very strong female main character didn't overwhelm the story but pulled it all together. A fair amount of violence is involved, so if that bothers you, you might want to skip this one.

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Summary: Terrific; entertaining to the end; would be great movie
Review: I read dozens of books each year; this would be in the top 5

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Summary: Try, try again
Review: I read this book simply because it is nearly impossible to find solid novels centered upon hunting. It has always intrigued me that though millions of Americans hunt, very little quality fiction embraces the subject. Reasons? I don't think it has anything to do with the media stereotype of hunters as illiterate rubes, because well-studied statistics generated for marketing purposes demonstrate that most avid hunters have degrees beyond highschool diplomas. Rather, I believe that hunting is an exceedingly difficult topic to realistically render into good fiction. Anyone who hunts, as does the author Mark Sullivan, knows that the hunt is a visceral experience. Those of us who hunt, whether we admit it or not, have chosen to unroof instincts that, while at the very core of human existence, lay utterly dormant in most modern folk. There is precious little writing after which a hunter/author can model his or her work. If this book seems to beat the old hunter-as-psychopath-man-as-most-dangerous-predator/prey bit to death for the umteenth time, it's likely because that's the only well-established formula out there. I think Mr. Sullivan's characters seem a bit wooden, and the scenes a bit disjointed and clumsy, precisely because he is struggling to break free of this tired storyline. I hope he tries again, because he's really onto something.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I really loved this book. Very suspenseful. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Excellent characters. Worth reading again.

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Summary: Action-packed suspense thriller!
Review: I thought this book was one of the best books of suspense I have ever read. I espicallky liked the hunt scence, where the main character was tied up and left for the wolves.

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Summary: One of the ten best books I've read in the past year.
Review: I was totally caught up in this book. Mark Sullivan captures nature, and the native Indian's view of nature, in a way that, for the first time, gave me a real feel for their view of spiritual nature. A book is really good when I actually look forward to coming home from work and reading it for about an hour or two. It is a great pleasure. This book fit that category