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Summary: First time reader of Ms. Robards
Review: This is my first book by this author. I felt that it was fairly easy reading. I thought it was going to be a little scarier than it really was. Her two main characters (Olivia and Seth)and their relationships were very well developed. I liked the idea of them all becoming a family again. I liked the lesson Seth taught his daughter Chloe about how everyone is different and it is not nice to tease others. Her development of the secondary characters was not as well done. In the first 30 pages or so you are introduced to an entire family ( a entire step-family that the main character has no real relation to) by name and then they dont appear to be mentioned again until later. I struggled to remember what the relation was. The poor grandfather remains in a semi-coma state the entire book. I thought that it was annoying that he was mentioned constantly but never had a real converstaion with anyone even at the end after they found out he would recover.
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Summary: WOW! I loved it, beginning to end.
Review: This is the first book by Karen Robards that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it beginning to end. The sleeve synopsis didn't do "Ghost Moon" justice; there was mystery, romance, supsense, and it envoked every emotion while reading. Little did I know, I would get a whole lot more than I was expecting. When I finished the book, I wanted to flip back and start reading from page one. Karen Robards shocked and terrified me, her descriptive of the killers simple manner carried the suspense to the shocking bitter end. The relationship between Olivia and Seth, her "cousin" by marriage, was definitely memorable. Sheer entertainment!
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Summary: ROMANTIC MYSTERY
Review: This story was very entertaining and keeps the reader guessing until the end. Highly recommend it.
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Summary: Ghost Moon
Review: This was my first book by this author.There was a lot to like about this book.I enjoyed the short chapters.I thought the author should have spent less time on what the characters were wearing and the men are ALWAYS wearing khaki or red white and blue in some sort of combination!There are alot of unesscesary characters at times and reference's to them that leave you feeling a little lost at times. Otherwise this is an easy read and a pretty good story.
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Summary: ROMANTIC MYSTERY
Review: THIS WAS MY FIRST KAREN ROBARDS NOVEL AND I LOVED IT! IT WAS TRUE TO LIFE AND WORKED ITS WAY UP TO A GREAT ENDING. KAREN MANAGES TO CAPTURE ALL THE PASSIONATE MOMENTS VERY ACCURATELY. WILL DEFINETLY READ MORE OF HER WORK.
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Summary: GHOST MOON
Review: THIS WAS MY FIRST KAREN ROBARDS NOVEL AND I LOVED IT! IT WAS TRUE TO LIFE AND WORKED ITS WAY UP TO A GREAT ENDING. KAREN MANAGES TO CAPTURE ALL THE PASSIONATE MOMENTS VERY ACCURATELY. WILL DEFINETLY READ MORE OF HER WORK.
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Summary: stinkeroo!
Review: What a waste of birthday money on this one. Having read everything by Ms.Robards, this was a real disappointment. Next time I will not buy her book in hardcover, but will think strongly about even purchasing it in paperback! Sick storyline and too many characters to keep straight. What happened to the grandfather? Did he survive?
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Summary: Heavy on character interactions--light on suspense!
Review: When Karen Robards writes good (i.e. Heartbreaker) she writes good and when she writes bad (i.e. The Senator's Wife) she writes bad. Ghost Moon, thankfully, is in between and a terrific read. I wanted to give it a five due to the wonderful story that involves a complex family. Olivia Morrison has returned to her family after several years of supporting herself and her eight-year-old daughter. She, in a moment of teenage rebellion gave up everything an affluent child could want, to run off with a cowboy who eventually dumped her. After struggling to make ends meet, she puts away her pride and returns home at the request of her aunt. Upon her return, her appearnace shocks her grandfather into a heart attack and the story takes off as Olivia and her daughter, Sara, try to make their place in this huge family. There is good romance as Olivia and her step cousin, Seth, struggle to regain the relationship they once had while Seth also copes with his daughter from a previous marriage. What kept me from giving this book a five is the suspense component. The book opens with one of the scariest abduction scenes of a child that you can read. It gave me chills. Every so often through the book, another scene of a child's abduction is repeated, each one just a little scarier. What made me give the suspense a three was the fact it is isolated and dragged out until the end of the book, then Ms. Robards tries to tie it up within the last twenty pages. By the time I got there, I could not have cared in the least about the suspense part. Anyone who reads these types of books will have already picked up on who is abducting the little girls. By putting the romance and suspense scores together, I came up with a four. It's a good book and you'll get your money's worth of entertainment out of it.
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Summary: don't bother
Review: Why did the author feel this book needed to have the child murderer/taxidermist sick storyline? It would have been a good romance without it, enough conflict and people to have supported plenty of interesting story. I felt resentful everytime the author switched to one of the stalking scenes and that it was unnecessarily brutal to include them. Does she feel the only way to sell books is to capitalize on sick titillation? Bleh.
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