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Summary: Hemlock Bay
Review: Having read other books by Coulter, I looked forwqard to this, BUT was greatly disappointed. It was unbelievable..even as science fiction (which it should have been touted as). There wasn't any resolution, the characters did not ring true, and the F.B.I. depictions were unrealistic and oversimplified. In case you haven't guessed nt now, i thought this book was awful..and a waste of my time and money.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After reading Catherine Coulter's previous thrillers,I found Hemlock Bay very disappointing. The idea was great but the book dragged. The dialogue was stilted and predictable. Too much romance, not enough mystery and adventure. Maybe she was a little too ambitious this time. What were the Ghouls, anyway? It seems that Coulter dug herself a hole and couldn't get out of it! Even the romance was not believable...I'd recommend you read something else!!
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Summary: Supernateral Highjincks
Review: Catherine Coulter's new mystery Hemlock Bay brings back two of my favorite characters, Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, who are now married and have a child, Sean. Savich's sister,Lily, is in a terrible mess which involes her husband of 18 months,his parents and her Sarah Elliot paintings. Lily is helped by a friend of her brother's ,Simon Russo, who is an art dealer of sorts and discover's that four of Lily's paintings have been stolin and replaced with very good forgeries. Savich and Sherlock are also on the trail of the Tuttle brother's who kidnap young boys and then kill them. The Tuttle brother's are not what they seem. The supernatural highjincks involve the Tuttle's and and unknown force only known as the Ghouls. Overall I enjoyed the book. It was a fast read and fun. Ms. Coulter is getting better with her modern mysteries. I do enjoy her historical romance novels more but, I am becoming a fan of her modern mystery novels as well.
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Summary: hmm...
Review: this is my second coulter book and i'm not disappointed, but i'm not satisfied either. there was plenty of action, a little to none romance, and the dialogue was a bit sappy - reminded me of things like barney and care bears.anyway, i'm looking forward to the next - but not that much - just to keep the series going.
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Summary: Don't waste your hard-earned money
Review: I picked this book up at the library on the day they received it, since it was on display at the entrance of Borders so must be good, right? Wrong. I have never written a review before but just felt that this book was so bad that I wanted to save people the time and effort of getting it. The only reason I finished it was because it was the fastest read I have ever seen, since the language was so insipid that it was as if a high school student had written it for an English project. The two unrelated and poorly resolved plots,were not believable at all, and one kept hoping that something would happen, but nothing ever did. The author jumps back and forth between the plots so many times that you have to read the titles of the chapters or subchapters to know where you are, and after a while you don't really care! This book makes John Grisham look like a genius. THere are so many good books out there-find a different one to enjoy.
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Summary: Welcome Back-- Dillon and Sherlock!
Review: I'll confess right off the bat that I love the coupe of Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich. I continually buy Catherine Coulter's books just to keep up with this couple. I have been looking forward to this book because these two characters were supposed to play a large part of the story line. I wasn't disappointed. The story opens up with Dillon and Sherlock trying to capture Tommy and Timmy Tuttle, a pair of brothers who get their kicks out of kidnapping, torturing, and murdering young boys. They have kidnapped two young teenagers and Dillon is determined to stop them before they kill them. Things don't go as planned and Dillon ends up stopping them without backup. It is then he makes a startling discovery. It is a discovery that will continue to haunt him as he tries to figure out all the puzzle pieces. Meanwhile, Dillon receives a phone call that his sister has been involved in a car accident. Or was it really an accident? Lily had tried to commit suicide some months earlier over the death of her young child. Dillon and Sherlock fly to Hemlock Bay to check on Lily and find everything is not as it appears to be. They call in Dillon's friend from college, Simon Russo, to help solve the mystery of missing artwork and how it ties in to Lily's suicide attempts. Did I like this book? Definitely yes! Is it Ms. Coulter's best works? Sadly it isn't. There are three subplots making up this story. One could have been left out completely. I never did figure out the purpose of it anyway. That leaves the other two subplots. The story of Dillon trying solving the puzzle of the Tuttle brothers was great. I would have preferred the whole book to be about the case. It has a supernatural undertone that I personally liked. Ms. Coulter was on to something fascinating, but it ended up taking second place to the other subplot about Dillon's sister. Don't get me wrong, this plot was equally good but it didn't have the intensity of the other the other story. Lily's story could have been a book by itself. By combining the two plots, Ms. Coulter weakens the overall effect of the book. But you know what, that won't stop me from buying the next book featuring Dillon and Sherlock. I love watching this couple grow in their careers, marriage, and family. If you haven't read anything by Catherine Coulter, pick up the first book in this series, The Maze and take it from there.
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Summary: Another Masterpiece from Catherine Coulter
Review: As a mystery author with my debut novel in its initial release, I am a long-time reader of Catherine Coulter. She is an excellent writer of contemporary romantic thrillers. In HEMLOCK BAY, Savich and Sherlock, Coulter's husband and wife FBI team, are back in action. They first must apprehend some satanic child-killers and then attempt to help Savich's possibly suicidal sister, Lily. Lily has her share of problems, including a deceased child, a husband whose nothing but trouble and a handful of art forgeries, but she also finds romance with an art broker named Simon Russo. Lots of action. Great characters. A twisting and turning plot. Catherine Coulter has written a masterful book here, as she nears her fiftieth novel. I recommend this book highly, and I hope I can write this well after fifty novels.
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Summary: Leading to where???
Review: I have to say that I was sorely disappointed after finishing this book. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't a book with two unrelated storylines and no romance at all. The spark between Sherlock and Savich are toned down to the point that you don't see the great chemistry between these 2 characters. What you see is a struggle for the author to complete and tie in two unrelated storylines with too many main characters. This book is mainly about Savich and his sister Lily, but since Savich has Sherloch, Lily has to have Simon, her hero. You see no romance or chemistry between Lily and Simon until the last 20 pages. All of a sudden, there's supposedly great love between the two...wait for the paperback or just borrow this book from the library.
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Summary: Sherlock and Savich are back!!
Review: I have loved every one of the books in this series, as well as Catherine's other novels. She is able to mix suspense, humor, horror, and everyday drama into a page turning book. I sat down at 10pm and didn't put the book down until I finished it. The book proved to be better than sleep! Great read!
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Summary: Hemlock bay
Review: Very disappointing. Not one of her best. two story lines. one really out there. The other okay. I found myself skipping pages just to get to the end. Glad I borrowed it and not bought it.
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