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Summary: Nicely paced "run, chase, hide , is this love (?) thriller.
Review: This is my favorite type of romance thriller. I like the masculine yet sensitive men( no pun intended). I like the suspense and the way the main characters seem to grow in some depth by the end of the book. I also like the way the author deals with a very serious issue such as sexual abuse of children and shows that there is hope for those unfortunate children who have been victims. I think that ths book was not necessaily completely believable as far as the judge not taking the little girl for medical help right away, but if he had done so the story could not have progressed to the mother and he meeting and forming the tight unit that they became.Then again I don't read these kind of books if I'm looking for a reality check. I only recently started reading Catherine Coulter books. On the whole I must say I like them a lot. The contemporary ones are my favorites; they describe the type of man a woman wants in real life but never truly finds.
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Summary: Good book!
Review: The Target is the first Catherine Coulter book I've read, but it not going to be my last. I loved it. It mixed suspense, thrills, and a tiny bit of romance all into one explosive package. Here is a little summary about it.Judge Ramsey Hunt goes to his cabin high in the Rockies to escape unwanted media attention after a disturbing incident in his courtroom. But his quest for peace and quiet is broken when soon after arriving, he finds a young girl beaten and unconscious in the woods. When she awakens, he finds that she has been too trumatized to even speak. So not wanting to scare her further, Ramsey takes care of her himself, and finds trouble as men come looking for her. And also the girl's mother, Molly, who comes looking for the girl, and mistakens him for the kidnapper. But everything is straightened out, and Ramsey stays with them to help who is trying to hurt the girl.
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Summary: A Dud!
Review: As others have explained, a federal judge hiding out in the woods for some privacy finds a severly abused girl. For eight (count 'em, 8) days - until her mother comes blazing into the book - he nutures her and cares for her himself, without notifying the authorities, without taking her to the hospital, and apparently without any consideration of the fact that somewhere she has a family going crazy with worry. Of course, during this time, he tends her wounds, washing away any physical evidence that she would be carrying of her attacker. This guy is a judge??? Then, when her mother enters the picture, she *thanks* him for keeping her daugher with him. That's the worst kind of hideous fiction that I can imagine. I generally like Catherine Coulter, but I could not even go on with this book after the first 50 pages or so: The beginning bordered on "fantasy" not "fiction."
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Summary: Just another suspense novel
Review: After reading The Cove and The Maze, I was anticipating The Target to have Coulter's signature style. There didn't seem to be enough history or depth to each character in this book like her previous books with Lacey Sherlock, James Quinlan and how can we forget Dillon Savich. Judge Ramsey Hunt could have been the hero readers would have "swooned" over, unfortunately there were times when his actions were just too hard to believe! How can a JUDGE discover a child that was physically abused and not go to the authorities? Realizing the child cannot speak was a spark for the beginning of a flame, but that was quenched too early in the book. Coulter tried to incorporate Sherlock and Savich into the cast, but it seemed that by adding them in was an attempt to keep you reading so you wouldn't just put the book down. The plot tried to thicken with "Who could have done it?" unfortunately it came up with TOO many people to point the finger at. There is a GREAT story to read in the pages of The Target, too bad in never manifested itself completely.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: I loved this book!!! This is a book that you can read over and over and never get tired of it! It was sooooo good! Judge Hunt & Molly were terrific together! Now I have to read the Maze as they introduced the FBI agents from that book! Definitely a great read!
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: I loved this book!!! This is a book that you can read over and over and never get tired of it! It was sooooo good! Judge Hunt & Molly were terrific together! Now I have to read the Maze as they introduced the FBI agents from that book! Definitely a great read!
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Summary: My favorite Catherine Coulter!
Review: This book is a little different from Ms. Coulter's usual type of story. It involves the kidnap and brutal attack of a young child, but it was beautifully handled by the author. This story lacked the usual romance, but I guess I must come to grips with the fact that sometimes people marry for reasons besides love. The plotting is top-drawer and the characters are very likeable if not overly realistic. The suspense is intense, and that's what pleases me. Besides, Ms. Coulter is one of the few writers who know the difference between "stanch" and "staunch."
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Summary: Unsettling Ending
Review: The story took a turn for the worse after Molly showed up. It was just a little unbelievable (and slightly creepy) that the man was so hung up on this little girl and basically he wants to marry, not because he's in love with the mother, but because he wants to be the child's father.
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Summary: WHAT HAPPENED?
Review: I loved the two preceding novels "The Cove" and "The Maze" which were wonderfully balanced with suspense and a little romance. That can not be said for "The Target." Ramsey Hunt, a burned out judge, is renting a cabin in the hills of Nevada when he finds a little girl unconcious in the woods. He takes her in only to find that she has been abused and raped. When she wakes up, she can not speak. They learn to care and trust each other when enter her mother, Molly, with a gun. She demands that he let her child go and threatens to kill him for kidnapping her. This is when the little girl, Emma, decides to speak. She defends Ramsey and soon they are all allies in trying to find out why Emma was kidnapped. This is the slowest part of the book. After informing the police and the FBI that Emma has been found, all three head to Molly's fathers home for refuge. There we meet Mason, the mobster grandfather. Dillion Savich and Lacey Sherlock enter the mix by trying to track down the pedophile. Although the ending is a lot quicker than the beginning, this book is never ending. Ramsey is almost obsessed with Emma. The plot even points toward him marrying Molly just so that he could adopt Emma. It was insulting because even when they were making love, she knew that he married her for her daughter. It is touching to see the love that Emma inspires in everyone around her. However, I didn't like the underlining storyline. Sorry, Catherine, but this was a dud.
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Summary: Not the best int he series but not to bad
Review: In this story Judge Ramsey is taking a break from his courtroom in San Francisco after thwarting an attempted breakout of drug suspects in his courtroom. He is at a cabin of a friend high in the mountains of Colorado where one morning he finds a little girl who has been seriously abused and battered. He takes her in and takes care of her. But, at the same time he learns about himself and healing. Her mother finds them and eventually she and Ramsey work together to try and figure out why the girl was kidnapped and work through their issues together. Savich and Sherlock do make an appearance with Sherlock being pregnant and having an interesting version of morning sickness. There were some far fetched things that happen in the plot, such as not taking the girl to a hospital and not taking her to get help for a while, as well as them suddenly taking off and traveling together. But overall it was good story with a bunch of twists and turns that kept it interesting.
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