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Summary: Romance, Action, Suspense - This Book Has It All
Review: This book is a great read, one that is hard to put down until you've finished it. The characters are both interesting and believable, and you care what happens to them. Coulter brings her excellent descriptive and action style to this novel of romantic suspense, and keeps you on the edge of your chair and guessing until the end. She neatly wraps up all of the details with a very satisfying and hard-to-predict conclusion. Coulter is one of those writers who rarely disappoints, and she hits the bullseye with this one!
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Summary: Good Read!
Review: This is an enjoyable read....no heavy philosophy, no deep agendas, just a contemporary to enjoy with enough mystery to keep you guessing.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is Catherine Coulter's finest modern romance, her most recent offerings leave alot to be desired.
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Summary: Romance yes, Suspense its not...
Review: This is my second Coulter book and I only read it because I had hoped, no, actually I had prayed that my first book(Devil's Embrace) was a bad example of her work, but this only intensified my opinion of her and I am a little surprised she is a New York Times Best Selling Author. I am not going to get critical of all the flaws in this book, but I will say this, romance it was, but a suspense it was not.The story is a long and drawn out portrayal of a woman who is gone from ugly duckling to supermodel. The blurb on the back of the book states it is about a woman who becomes a model and is being terrified and stalked by some maniac, but who is it? Someone from her past? What is she hiding? I will tell you, nothing...she is hiding nothing,. She is brutally attacked by her sister's husband when she is 18 in France. Her family treats her badly and her father especially hates her. They all blame her for her loser brother-in-law's brutal rape. Lindsey(the heroine) years later becomes a supermodel named Eden. She is popular and is beginning to get on with her life until her sister comes back into it to stir the pot. Somewhere in here (I assume) Coulter was trying to bring some tension and suspense into the story by adding the hero of S.C Taylor, Lindsey's bodyguard. For what, I'm not sure, Coulter never makes that clear either. After some unnecessary chapters where nothing happens but Taylor falling for her, the story gets off-track and you're not sure where the stalker is or if there IS one at all.
Taylor must sort through her messy past and try and win her trust, while keeping her meddling family at bay. He succeeds and then by the last 10 pages or so, the stalker is revealed and I was left wondering,....why? This story was lacking in true suspense and it was choppy to the point of not understanding what the plot was. If you like a good romance, this was ok, but I would steer clear if you're looking for a good romantic suspense story, it is poorly written in that department...
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Summary: Good story line, nice romance
Review: This is the first book I read by Catherine Coulter... I borrowed it from a room mate, and now I'm reading more of Coulter's books. I thought the story really evoked emotions from the reader... you get very angry at Linday's family, and you feel so envious of Lindsay because she has Taylor... what a great guy. The romance is tasteful, and I think he's the kind of man every girl is looking for. Other readers were put off by the rapes in this book, but it part of the story and is what forms the characters and their actions.
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Summary: First time Coulter book, won't be the last
Review: This was the first Catherine Coulter book that I have read. It was easy to get hooked. There were many twists and turns that kept me wondering. I loved Taylor. What a guy. Isn't this who we all want? I was very pleased and surprised with this book. I love finding a new author to explore!
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Summary: Incredible story
Review: When I opened up "Beyond Eden" to begin reading I was expecting a romantic suspense/thriller as it had been categorized. It was heavier on the romance and not so much the suspense, but I think even those expecting a lot of suspense couldn't be disappointed in this book (although I see there have been a few negative reviews surprisingly). It was absolutely wonderful in my opinion. The format is just slightly different in that it begins in the present day but then goes back in time to when Lindsay Foxe was about 16 and then a couple years later when she was 18, the time where she was brutally raped by an Italian prince who just happened to be her half-sister's husband. This is a graphic scene but necessary for the overall story. We also learn about Taylor, the hero, and how he ties in to the story even then in these background chapters. The story continues through the years until again we reach present time (althought not until 300+ pages into the book [paperback edition]) where the story had originally begun. Without giving away any spoilers, I will just say that is an incredibly touching and poignant journey of a woman as she tries to come to grips with her past and the brutality at the hands of someone she thought she admired and could trust, and on top of everything, being told she was the one at fault. Through this journey she finds strength to stand up to the family that has tried to keep her down and finds love with Taylor, a man originally hired to protect her and a man she eventually comes to trust and love and know wouldn't hurt her for anything. When they finally make love, it was very passionate and beautiful. These two characters were meant to be together and it's hard not to fall in love with them. This is definitely a story I will read again.
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Summary: Beyond Eden is a wonderful book
Review: When Lindsay Foxe's brother-in-law rapes her, at first I was shocked, then I got angry at both him and Lindsay's sister. Years after the assult S.C.Taylor meets Lindsay, the once ugly duckling-turned-swan model, calling herself Eden. Even as her hired bodyguard, Lindsay was still scared to death of Taylor and any other man. The fact that they fell in love still surprises me. You can read this book for yourself and find out why Lindsay/Eden needed a bodyguard in the first place.
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