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Summary: First and Last
Review: Of the books I've finished (and there are very few that are so bad that I could not get through them) sadly, this is the worst. Perky Lily has nine lives. She has a car accident, then surgery. Is released from the hospital, then fights off an attacker, then goes on to write cartoons, the same day. That is just the beginning of her adventures. This is just one of the plot lines that strains credulity. It appears that the other stories about these characters may have been better, but it's hard to believe that the person who wrote this book could actaully write something that anyone would spend time reading. Hopefully, what other reviewers and more long time readers of the series say is true: that the author could not have sanctioned this book.
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Summary: Wooden characters and dialogue
Review: This is the first and last Catherine Coulter book I'll read. I struggled through 189 pages or so and threw it away. The characters are wooden and so is the dialogue. People I know don't talk like that. She doesn't give the reader enough to do since she lets us hear what some of them are thinking. Disappointing. She presumes I know who these people are from all her other books but I haven't read them and won't.
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Summary: Narrative - Yecht
Review: Plot line is pretty good and of course, I like Sherlock and Savich. It makes leaps from time to time over obviously edited info. Sometimes there's one crisis right after another with no relief in between (comic or otherwise). The Reader SANDRA BURR is the worst I've heard. She turns suspense dialogue in to very cutesy, sacharine sweet tripe. How you say it does make a difference. YECHT!
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Summary: They should just drink hemlock
Review: I totally agree with the first 5 reviews before mine. I love to read the reviews to see how many agree with me. I usually find similiarities to my reaction. I too got out my pencil and marked some proofing errors. I bought this at the library book sale for fifty cents and now I can see why. I have read just about everything of Catherine Coulters and can't remember any of them being this bad and unbelievable. She sure likes the word gnarly. She used it countless times to describe the road and also roots on the path. What a hoot.
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Summary: Unbelievable Plotting, Poorly Drawn Characters
Review: This book was extremely disappointing because it was so poorly written. The plot stretched credibility to the breaking point, and the characters were flat and amateurish. The only reason I could see that this book ended up in print at all, was because it carried Catherine Coulter's name on the title page.
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Summary: So bad I laughed
Review: Despite amatuerish dialog, poor character development, and contrived plots, I had to finish reading this book to see how the author would resolve the storyline of the one-armed, telepathic, mass-hypnotizing, demon-summoning, male-impersonating mass-murderer. I'd hoped for something better. It was so bad, I could only laugh.
This author does not believe in question resolution and left many large and small plot items unresolved (e.g., what was the Tammy/Timmy thing all about, was her power based on mass hypnotism/telepathy, what gives with the whirling dust-bunny demons, how did Lily's daugher die, why would the FBI have a spouses working so closely together, what prompted the FBI agent's wife to conclude that her husband could see through Tammy's illusions if he only got close enough without any example of this happening to anyone let alone her husband, what possible explanation is there that the FBI agent's sister would be able to see through Tammy's illusions when no one else could, will anyone ever explain to Marilyn the real meaning of half and full sisters, etc.). This leads to the biggest unresolved question of all, which is how a repeat author generated such trash. It's definitely not good fiction and it doesn't qualify as a spoof of the genre either. It's just bad. This book would be an excellent text to use for illustrating novel-writing pitfalls to budding writers - there are at least a semester's worth of examples. I'm inclined to agree with the other reviewer who speculated that this book was authored by a ghost-writer. No one who writes this badly could have published dozens of books. If you've got a lot of time on your hands and need a teeny-tiny laugh, this book'll do it. Otherwise, I'd encourage you to spend your money elsewhere.
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Summary: Kept my interest while captive on a plane..
Review: I usually try to read books with some literary, social, educational or cultural value. NOT THIS TIME!! That said, I did finish it and it was better than the in-flight magazine and I had already read the catalog with all the fun Sharper Image & Front Gate toys in it. So if you find this book abandoned in an airport or bus station, pick it up and read it. It's worth the price you paid and it will relieve the boredom of a long flight.
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Summary: DREADFUL
Review: If Catherine Coulter wrote this book, I'll eat it! It is the last of her books that I will ever buy. I can only agree with the other reviews in that there is no chemistry between any of the characters and the plots, sub-plots, and sub-sub-plots were absolutely so convoluted as to be impossible. I am a proofreader and, therefore, it is extremely difficult for me to read anything without proofing it. This book was so bad that I literally took out my "blue pencil" as well as a highlighter and began marking it up (so much for foisting it off on some unsuspecting used book store). Marilyn is supposed to be illiterate yet her speech is not consistent. Bad grammar where it shouldn't be is as glaring a good grammar where it shouldn't be. And "all the way to [whatever]" was too redundant and boring. All the way to her bones, glad to his soul, etc. Too much telling each other what they already knew or what they had already done or already said. With appologies in advance to Ms. Coulter's husband...did you edit this in your sleep? Maybe its because I loved Ms. Coulter's earlier books that I just found so much wrong with this one. Too many mistakes, too often. For instance, on page 201 Vincent Arbus is referred to as "bald as a Q-tip." It should have been "cue ball." The only thing that would save this book is for it to be re-written. You'll never convince me that Catherine Coulter even read this book, let alone wrote it. It had to have been "ghosted."
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Summary: Beyond disappointing
Review: If this is a sample of Ms. Coulter's writing, I will have to be convinced to read another. The plot is unbelievable, as are the characters. Lilly is assaulted on a bus by a knife-wielding assailant and after getting the best of him (in spite of having had recent surgery) goes to the art supply store to purchase supplies for her cartoon strip. Ms. Coulter should use more intellectual phrases other than "getting ahold of....". Almost everything is beyond belief but she doesn't tie up the loose ends, such as: What in the heck were the ghouls? How did Tammy confuse everyone? How did Tammy become Timmy? Who really killed Lilly's daughter and what did she see on the internet that put her in harm's way? How did Lilly and Simon go from passengers on the plane to being asleep at Savich's house. If Savich's house was so splendorous, why did they only have a cot for Simon to sleep on? Why was there no emotion (ever) between Simon and Lilly....especially when they sent him off (supposedly) to his death? By the end, I felt like quoting Rhett Butler....."frankly, I didn't give a damn!"
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Summary: simply dreadful
Review: It is hard to decide if the plot or the diaglogue are the worst parts of this book. My advice is don't bother to even start reading it. It is a really worthless book in every sense. It could have been, and may have been, written by a computer translater service of some other book, maybe "Babblefish"....only then it would have been a lot more fun.
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