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Summary: good but lacks the sizzle that Linda Howard usually provides
Review: I was disappointed in this book. I remembered John from Kill and Tell and my expectations were probably too high. He seemed like a very flat character in this book. The heroine Niema was brave and spunky but there was not the usual sparks that Linda Howard usually brings to her stories. Hopefully the next novel will be better!
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Summary: Will the "REAL" Linda Howard please return!!!
Review: I decided to reread "All the Queen's Men" again because after reading so many mixed reviews I thought maybe I missed something that the 5star readers picked up on-NOT. I don't get it. I started reading Ms. Howard's books with the first paperback she wrote for Harlequin. Over the years she has never written a book that I didn't buy or like until now. I am truly disappointed and if she reads those 5star reviews and feels that this book was really of that caliber and she continues to write novels similar to that then she will lose a very loyal following. Just ask Jude Deveraux if her hardcover books sell as well as they did when all she wrote were paperback novels. Authors who crossover to the hardcover audience should never forget the ones who made it possible for their novels to be in such demand. I have not given up on Ms. Howard as I did on Deveraux(I don't buy Deveraux novels now until they do appear in paperback), but I certainly hope that Ms. Howard will not be fooled by some who will give a book a 5star rating just because it has her name on it. I own the original copies of all of her previous novels in paperback as well as those in hardcover. I am a true fan, and I will continue to buy her novels, however if they are like "All the Queen's Men" I won't think twice about waiting until they appear in paperback before I shell out more than $20. for a book that is not worth it. PLEASE let her next novel be better than this.
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Summary: AWESOME! Suspense and romance.
Review: This book hooks you from the beginning. You feel the sizzle throughout the whole book. John is a multi-dimensional hero. All the characters are very "real" especially Laure. You want a good ending for her. You even develop a sympathy for her father. You want the heroine to quit punishing herself and get on with life. Ms. Howard's books are never simple. You want more at the end and she leaves it to you to fill in the "epilogue." If you liked this book, you will also love Catherine Coulter's "The Edge".
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is my first Linda Howard book, and I like the suspense, mystery and romance in it. I'm taking note of the other reviewer's suggestions of other books she has written. It is a refreshing book from the other thrillers that I've been reading which details gory deaths and too much bloodshed. I plan to read more of her work.
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Summary: GLAD I BOUGHT THE HARDBACK!!
Review: ANOTHER GOOD BOOK BY LINDA HOWARD. I HAVE READ ALL OF HER BOOK AND THE ONLY ONES I NEVER CARED FOR WERE HER VERY FIRST ONES. THE ALPHA MALES WAY TOO ALPHA FOR ME. SHE CONTINUES TO PUT HER TREMENDOUS TALENT INTO WRITING....KEEP DOING IT LINDA---I AM ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR CHANCE MCK.
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Summary: Excellent read - but not her best
Review: I love Linda Howard's work, and I loved this book. I am disappointed that so many readers are so inflexible that they cannot cross genres with her.The plot was well-worked, and the body of the book rocked, but I agree with other reviewers that the end was lackluster. The characters were very interesting, and I would love to see a story for Ronsard.
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: I just finished this book and am already re-reading my favorite parts. I would like to read more about these characters (including Marc and Karen Chastain).
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: I just finished reading this book and am already re-reading my favorite parts. I would like to read more about these characters (including Karen and Marc Chastain). I am eagerly awaiting the Chance MacKenzie book.
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Summary: Testosterone has total recall? . I don't think so
Review: People! Even if this book had signed off as "Anonymous" I'd know it was written by a woman. I hate to be a male chauvinist but an expression like "Now, five years later, their paths cross again and John, whose love for Niemi has only grown over time, is determined to keep her in his life for good. Having spent the intervening five years living a solitary, staid existence...." Gals, give us a break! This John Medina is a banana that rolls around the world in a population of - what? Three and a half million females now? He's lost it five years over ONE? In the real world it would be more like five MINUTES after the lastly spoken "Goodbye forever Ms. Burdock" that he's easing prostatic impaction and clearing his head rolling among a nest of nubiles, or, as the the title might suggest, a gaggle of RuPaul's groupies. Some righteous catharthis. Like nature intended ! People! Read THE ALTERNATE - or WHITE TRASH - or A CAT'S FULL NINE. No, wait; it's pointed out the men cry a lot in A CAT's... Maybe I don't know that I like that either. At any rate, the way Medina's presented here borders on the unnatural. Howard could have had a lot stronger plotset if she'd put him on as having become a stalker.
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Summary: Another romance author fails her fans
Review: Why is it that when romance authors reach the pinnacle of fiction...the NYTimes Bestseller List, they suddenly feel they have to write suspense?? Is there some rule that says "Oh, you've got all these fans, and we can't have straight romance on the bestseller lists, so write suspense now." I like suspenseful romance, not the "romantic suspense" being served up by many of my favorite romance authors nowadays. Editors? Where are you? Are you publishing anything written, good or bad, just because you can slap their names on the cover and "count" on the resulting sales to unsuspecting fans? Won't work, guys... ATQM was too short, had no depth, and the ending was so abrupt I kept turning the pages to find the "To Be Continued" line. I've bought every Linda Howard book ever published, but I'm waiting for the paperbacks from now on...and I'll look in UBS first.
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