The Target

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Summary: Better than Great
Review: This was one of the best mystery novels I have read. Maybe it is because I was a single parent dad, but Judge Hunt's desire to protect Emma really touched me. His romance with Mollie was wonderful, and the mystery was superb. You must read this.

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Summary: Not as good as other Coulter books
Review: After reading The Cove and The Maze, The Target was a bit disappointing. It was not very believable and somewhat slow. The other two books were real page turners. I kept waiting for more of the cliffhanger chapters to come, but they didn't. A good read, but a bit disappointing.

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Summary: Very Good
Review: I'm a big fan of Ms. Coulter, so I looked forward to reading this book. It was a very interesting read and definitely kept my attention. I loved the relationship between the heroe and the little girl and found their ability to work as a team and trust one another interesting. The eventual, father child relationship was the evolvement of a friendship formed out of tragedy which becomes something very precious. That being said, I think the wonderfully evolving relationship of our protaganist and the child was very well developed, but it seems that it was at the expense of developing the relationship between the heroe and the child's mother. I don't quite believe (based on the way the relationship between them is developed)that this is a real love match. By the end of the book, although it was clear that they were in love, the relationship was never fully developed enough for me to reach that conclusion on my own. The other problem I had with the book were the number of subplots. It did become a little confusing and the tie-ins at the end were not always plausible. I did enjoy the well placed humour between the two and would definitely recommend the book to others. While it's not as good as Ms. Coulter's best books, it's still a Coulter book, which makes it pretty darn good.

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Summary: Grips Your Heart
Review: The subject of the novel The Target can really grip your heart and keep your attention. Coulter does a fine job of setting up the emotional bonds between the characters. She tells a story by painting descriptive pictures that set the mood of each scene in the book. She promised a surprise ending, and I think she delivered. This is my first Coulter novel, and I'm wondering why more time was not spent on describing the past lives of the characters. It seems that I was supposed to already know the "Judge", but the characters and situations create real entertainment anyway. A good read.

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Summary: NOT BELIEVABLE
Review: THIS IS NOT MY FIRST COULTER NOVEL AND PROBABLY WON'T BE MY LAST, BUT HIS BOOK JUST DOESN'T SMACK TRUE....THE PREMISE IS NOT BELIEVABLE, ....PUBLISHERS ARE SO AFRAID TO TRY A NEW WRITER - THEY'D RATHER KEEP AN OLD ONE EVEN IF THE STORIES ARE GETTING TIRED, LIKE THIS ONE WAS... I RECENTLY READ AND LIKED THOSE WHO TRESSPASS BY O'REILLY OF FOXNEWS...AND TOURIST IN THE YUCATAN BY BRUMFIELD. BOTH WERE ENTHRALLING STORIES - ABOUT TIMELY TOPICS WITH NEW TWISTS AND TURNS....GIVE US SOME NEW BLOOD...I'M ALSO NOT GOING TO READ CLANCY WHEN HE COLLABORATES...SIGNED DANDEE FROM APTOS

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Summary: A great suspense novel
Review: I found this book to be addictive. I have read the other reviews that say that a Judge finding a girl in the woods would have immedietely called the police and I disagree. From the beginning the book explains how "different" Ramsey is. He is not a typical Judge and he has a very deep character. I actually loved the storyline. I started this book in the afternoon and would not go to bed until it was finished. I thought that all the characters were wonderful and easy to identify with. I will recommend this book to all that I meet. It is nice to have a book centered around suspense and not just romance. Great Job!

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Summary: First and Last Coulter
Review: I thought, a judge finds a sexually abused girl in the woods and calls no one? I must be missing something. So I read on. It got no better. This was such a poorly conceived book, I couldn't make it past the halfway point of the story.

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Summary: the target
Review: I found the character Ramsey totally unbelievable.And Molly seemed inconsistant.It made a fairly good read, but not up to her normal excellance.

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Summary: Ludicrous.
Review: This book is truly unbelievable. None of the characters are even remotely realistic. A federal judge who finds a child in the woods, beaten and sexually abused, and DOESN'T involve the feds or even the cops? In fact, he "kidnaps" the girl himself. A six year old child who is smarter than an adult? Some of the responses this child made to questions or situations that arose made me shake my head and wonder if Catherine Coulter could possibly have any children of her own. How about a mom who singlehandedly rescues the child and confronts the "kidnapper" all alone? How about a rock singer father who just happens to stop existing as soon as the story needs him to? How about a maternal grandfather who....I could go on and on, but it's not worth it. In fact, this book was so ridiculous I didn't finish the last chapter. A total waste of money and time.

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Summary: Hearing is Believing
Review: I listened to this book during a long road trip. I loved it! In fact, I started it about 3 hours into my return trip (12-14 hour drive). I wasn't done with it by the time I returned. For the next three days I found myself driving around so I could finish my book. I was surprised to see that it got such bad reviews by the reading public. I like books where I am a bit uncertain how the characters will react to new situations and where I am equally as uncertain about what is going to happen next. Although some of the events themselves were predictable, how they came about was not. I like that. I encourage those who decided against this book to consider listening to it on their next road trip. I listened to the unabridge version. The only drawback was that the book was recorded on all tracks individually (you had to listen to each side twice but switching the speakers to either right or left depending on where you were in the book). As far as a child acting like an adult. When something like that happens to you at that age, unless you live the rest your life scared of every person and every thing you have no choice but to grow up fast when it comes to coping with a horrific incidents such as being raped and abuse when you were child. It's inevitable that the newfound maturity will spill out into other aspects of the child's life. I think the author handled it well by not explaining the process of how Emma coped but by setting up the environment in which her healing took place,just letting the healing happen and manifesting those changes in Emma's actions and conversations throughout the book.