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Summary: I CAN'T BELIEVE I LIVED WITHOUT TAMI HOAG FOR SO LONG!!!
Review: This was my first delve into the Hoag mysteries, and I stumbled upon her quite by accident...while searching for the new Cornwell book. Boy, am I glad I did. I started the book at 7pm one night and didn't put it down, until I finished reading it at 4am the next morning. then I spent the next 3 hours jumping at shadows. Hoag has a wonderful skill of combining nail-biting, scare a minute, who-the-hell-did-it, suspense with a touch of romance that keeps you reading long after the initial mystery *seems* solved. Do not miss this or any of Hoag's mysteries!!!
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Summary: Poorly written with little character development
Review: This book deserves to die along with the killer Ms. Hoag writes about. It is so crammed with shallow characters that you'll need to list each one's bio to struggle through this mess. And this is by third chapter. Chapter one we meet the killer, loose him through the middle, then find him again in the end. She attempts to establish a connection between the book's mob of characters, but we never get to know them---nor do we want too. So many shallow characters only fill space. The only thing worse than reading this book is to listen to it on tape. The reader only adds to the pain. Bury the book and the tape, and take Ms. Hoag's word processor away, and never use this reader again---if let loose either one might hurt someone with a similar project.
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Summary: If You Like This Sort of Thing....
Review: I had an opportunity to speak with Tami Hoag recently and found her to be friendly and funny. But I wasn't bowled over by this latest book. If you like this sort of thing I guess it was fairly well written, but the gore was really excessive and the characters only mildly involving. I don't see the need to describe the brutalization of women in such detail. On the other hand, I didn't guess the identity of the "Cremator", and there were enough surprises to make it interesting. Hoag admitted during our conversation that Quinn was based on Mindhunter John Douglas. It's not as good as Silence of the Lambs, but if you like that genre this will probably fill the bill.
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Summary: Definitely one of Tami Hoag's best!!
Review: This is one book I didn't want to put down. Very similar to Patricia Cornwell's books in style and storyline. Excellent suspense; will keep you guessing till the very end. My only complaint was that the end could have been a little stronger but I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book.
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Summary: A disappointing trend
Review: I have read all of Tami Hoag's books, and she is still my favorite author, but I enjoyed her older works more. This is a great mystery novel, with many guesome twists. But what happened to the sexy romances she was so good at conjuring up? Give me sexy Jack Boudreaux (Cry Wolf)over John Quinn (Ashes to Ashes) any day
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Summary: A DISAPPOINTMENT AT BEST
Review: AS A READER AND FAN OF ALL OF TAMI HOAGS BOOKS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE, I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH ASHES TO ASHES. I FOUND THE RESOLUTION OF THE CASE TOTALLY DISSATISFYING. I FEEL IT WAS A POORLY WRITTEN LOVE STORY WITH A SERIAL SPRINKLED AROUND FOR COLOR. AND WHEN THE KILLER JUST POPS UP - 'HERE I AM' WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPLANATION FOR HIS ACTIONS, I JUST THREW UP MY HANDS. I SINCERELY HOPE HER NEXT BOOK GOES BACK TO THE DEEP AND THOUGHT PROVOKING STYLE FOUND IN NIGHT SINS, GUILTY AS SIN,A THIN DARK LINE ETC....
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Summary: Boring, previous book much better.
Review: She spent too much time on the police rather than the crime and the perpetrator.
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Summary: Ashes to Ashes - an icy read
Review: This is by far, the deepest, darkest Tami Hoag I have read to date. Graphic scenes of torture, degradation and perversion are cooly dispatched, so sensitive readers, you have been warned. Ashes to Ashes unfolds a tale about the insidious lengths a cruel, egotistical psychopath will go to, to satisfy his insatiable needs. A psychopath who preys on the weak and vunerable to feed his power trip, a psychopath who very deliberately and methodically taunts the 'good guys', exposing raw nerves, old wounds never healed and fires still smouldering deep underground. The overwhelming theme of this thriller for me was one of despair - despair of humanity as this millennium comes to an end, and sometimes I wondered if the author was living a little vicariously through some of the characters ....
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Summary: A really good read
Review: Although it starts a little slowly, "Ashes to Ashes" does pick up speed and draw you in. By the 2nd half of the book, I was glued. I did not guess the bad guy either. One small point: the heroin is: mid-40's, white, single, very independent, involved in a string of serial-killings - and she likes to drink. Don't get me wrong - I like Kate Conlan, but there's a little bit of a Patricia Cornwell thing going on here... But then, I love Cornwell's novels, too so - that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Summary: A very intense and wonderfully written book!
Review: I am 12 y/o and I just absolutely loved this book. It was a very frightening story. I won't give away the whole story so, you'll have to go out and get it.
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