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Summary: Sleepless nights
Review: I hardly got any sleep last night thanks to Jeffery Deaver. I picked up A Maiden's Grave and couldn't put it down. This book has more twists and turns than a New Jersey go-go dancer and the characters practically reach out, grab hold and won't let go. I'm heading out to buy the rest of his books and looking forward to spending more sleepless nights at the hands of this master storyteller.
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Summary: Deaver works magic
Review: Tense, engrossing, believible. Just what any suspense novel should be. But Maiden's Grave is much more than just a suspense novel. Great characters, exellent plot and dialogue, a truly masterful read. If you're interested, catch the movie version, Dead Silence starring James Gardner, it's just as good.
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Summary: A very exciting, thrilling and fast moving book
Review: Jeffery Deaver does it again! I would compare him to Dean Koontz in the ways that he really gets you involved in the characters in his books. Jeffery Deaver as so many little stories going on at once with each of the characters in his books. You can really feel what the characters in his books are feeling and going through. This story was so amazing how the law enforcement has to try to feel and know the mind of the criminal to know what, when and how to act or say to them. You can feel their stress levels go up as they try to predict the criminals next moves and try to negotiate with them. Jeffery Deaver has some surprising twist at the ends of his books. You will really enjoy this book. You must read this
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Summary: Even an avid suspense fan won't foresee the surprise ending!
Review: When a busload of deaf girls are kidnapped and forced into an old building by murderous convicts within the first pages of this novel, I felt as if this book was doomed to go downhill. The police have surrounded the building, there is little or no chance for escape,and how can the police hope to coordinate a succesful rescue when they cannot communicate with the hostages?
Jeffrey Deaver manages to take what seems like a dead end, and turn it into an entertaining roller coaster ride. We watch as the hostage negotiator dances verbally with the head of the convicts to keep him from killing the hostages and as the eldest hostage uses subtle sign language to calm the others.But just as the seige seems to comes to an end, we learn that surrender isn't always a permanent thing.
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Summary: gripping drama with a great plot twist at the end
Review: In "A Maiden's Grave" Jeffery deaver spins an excellent tale of the hi-jacking of a school bus carrying 7 deaf girls to Topeka. The three kidnappers are escaped convicts who have already murdered two people. The group is chased into an abandoned packing plant where negotiations with FBI agent Arthur Potter begin. The author does a nice job of weaving all the subplots of the negotiation process together. The book is well written and is quite believable except for a lapse in logic at the plot twist. I enjoyed this novel more than any I've read in quite a while. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Excellent at every word, definitely a SIX STARS BOOK
Review: When you start reading a book and you can't put it down.
When you regret that you are not reading it because you have to do something else.
When no-part of the book is boring (here I have to accept that the last six or seven pages of the penultimate chapter (page 370-376), after the hostage release, are boring, but you must read them to understand the book's finish).
When you can't guess what'll happen in the next page.
When everything you read could be true.
When you think that the book is already finish with a fairy tale end and you have to read 40 more pages to read an excellent end.
With all these points, the book deserves SIX stars.
And I almost forget that you'll learn very important things about the Deaf people.
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Summary: Taut suspense!
Review: I have enjoyed every Jeffery Deaver book I've read, so I ordered this one on a whim. I'm glad I did--it's a real page-turner. If you've read some of the other reviews, you know the basic story--deaf girls being held hostage by bad guys. Mr. Deaver draws his characters well, and each one has strengths and weaknesses. Some of the hostages are survivors because they're always on the lookout for ways to survive, while others give up without a fight. The bad guys are really bad but the good guys are surprisingly normal. There are no supermen in the story, only regular people responding to a bad situation as best they can. And just when you think it's safe to breathe again, the suspense builds anew. That's what makes Jeffery Deaver's books so extraordinary. Sometimes I get the feeling Lincoln Rhyme is a little too superhuman, but all of Deaver's books are like intricately woven tapestries that tell stories with richly colored detail.
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Summary: Pretty good... but not the best for Deaver
Review: I, like most Deaver fans, started out with the Lincoln Rhyme series books and got addicted. I have also read a lot of other books by Jeffery Deaver outside that series and have thoroughly enjoyed them all... until I started reading A Maiden's Grave. The first 50-70 pages or so are so crammed with vital information about each and every person involved in the story that I found myself having to look back at the beginning to remember who was who. I understand that each character needs to be introduced within the first couple of chapters, but in this one, the hostage takers have nicknames and the negotiating teams can't decide whether they are going to call each other by the first name or their last.
The story itself is very interesting and I learned a lot about hostage situations and what they involve. One of Deavers best attributes is that he does a lot of research about everything he writes about which gives a sense of confidence that you know he's not stretching to truth to make his story better.
Once you figure out who everyone is and the stage is set for the negotiating, the book gets very good and I couldn't put it down. The only other thing I didn't really like about A Maiden's Grave was that I found it to be very predictable. Even the twists and turns that Deaver is so popular for I saw coming from a mile away.
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Summary: Plodding, Not Worth the Effort to Read!
Review: I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series and eagerly picked up A Maiden's Grave. Unfortunately, this novel simply isn't the same calibre of the Rhyme books. The plot involves the kidnapping of several young deaf girls who are held hostage at an old slaughterhouse in Kansas. The main character in the book is Arthur Potter, an FBI hostage negotiator; he's accompanied by the standard techno-geek, the mousey assistant who faithfully logs info on the bad guys, and the stunningly gorgeous ex-model assistant Angie. For fans of the Rhyme series, you'll recognize this Amelia Sachs-clone immediately...the only change is the hair color. The villains are interesting, but not enough is shared about them to keep this reader interested. Most of the book is spent slogging through countless scenes of tech-talk, political in-fighting, and the developing "relationship" between one of the deaf women and the hostage negotiator. This plotline alone strains the credibility of the book. All in all, it appears that Deaver has done his research, but the plot is hackneyed and too drawn out -- I've even lost count of the number of times the hostage negotiation team "bursts into applause" at the slightest "accomplishment" of the hero, Potter. If you like police procedurals, read A Maiden's Grave. If you want an engaging novel, you'd be better off reading the Lincoln Rhyme series. And for the ultimate hostage negotiation novel, check out Robert Crais' "Hostage" -- that was a phenomenal read!
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