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Summary: Women Meets Sexy Man, Marries Him and Lives to Tell!
Review: Killing Me Softly was an engrossing novel of psychological obsession expressed as sexual obsession. Sort of a 9 1/2 Weeks light. I read it in a day and 1/2 and I'm trying to forget it so I can read it again! Alice, the heroine, is smart, brave and adventurous. She did the things women would love to do but don't really have the guts (or the heart) to do. Would you leave you nice boyfriend, comfortable life, college mates and parents for dream man? Many women have been tempted to go for it, but take the safe, expected route instead (bummer). I enjoyed reading about a WOMAN taking a huge risk, going over the edge, ENJOYING IT and living to tell about it! Adam the mountain man was also a mysterious, sexy treat. I found his character to be intriguing, sympathetic, needy and very, very,very sexy (if you don't mind the ropes!!!).Women will love this book!!!!!!
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Summary: Excellent psychological thriller
Review: Anyone who knows Alice Loudon envies the young woman's near perfect life. Her boyfriend is handsome, nice, and treats Alice with respect. Her job as a research manager at a London-based pharmaceutical company pays well and is challenging. However, her idyllic, seemingly established life abruptly changes due to a chance encounter while crossing a street. The eyes of Alice and mountaineer Adam Tallis connect. That evening Adam waits for Alice to leave work. He invites her to accompany him, which she does. They share the best sex of Alice's life. Over the next two months their relationship intensifies until they marry. Alice begins to neglect her work and friends. However, she begins to realize that the paragon she married has dangerous flaws. She learns former girl friends have died and now she is the target of his newest obsession. KILLING ME SOFTLY is one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. The story line centers on an intelligent female enslaving herself to a dominant male even as she begins to question why. Adam is an intriguing but frightening character. However, this novel belongs to Alice, whose brilliant metamorphosis demonstrates the talent of Nicci French. After reading Ms. French's first time ever in America novel, sub-genre fans will obsessively clamor for the publisher to deliver her other two tales (only released in England). Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Thrill
Review: I am used to reading casual romances - I have read suspense and mysteries, but never a thriller such as this. I enjoyed the book very much and I only hesitate in giving it 5 stars in that I don't have too many thrillers to compare it to - otherwise, however, it is excellent. Alice, I feel, is amazing and real. Her choices and what she does - they are logical; insensible, immoral, yes, but they make sense, as does her endurance of Adam in his violence. And Adam - to the end of the book, I can see why she loved this man. And it's amazing that the book allowed that understanding. I am sure, if one is up to the deeper connotations of violence (which have nothing to do with guns, knives, or gangs), anyone will enjoy this book.
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Summary: Good, but a little short of Brilliant
Review: Killing Me Softly kept me engrossed until the last page - and the ending was as solid and suspensful as the story. It's a novel of psychological obsession where protagonist, Alice, falls for mountain climber, Adam, who hides a dark secret. She leaves a safe relationship to live with Adam but her suspicions are gradually aroused until it becomes apparent that her lover plans to kill her. What made this book a page-gripper was the way that Nicci French gradually, gradually unravels the plot - like peeling away multiple wrappings off a cookie. You know something isn't right, but you don't know what it is. Adam was somewhat less believable but nonetheless an interesting character. An excellent read for the genre, though Nicci French's 'Under the Skin' is better.
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Summary: - kill me -
Review: Well..It wasn't as thrilling as i expected, but it was quite good. I was kinda bored in the middle...and then when I got near the end...I couldn't put it down. It's pretty good, worth reading.
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Summary: well-trod path
Review: Nicci French is a very good writer, unfortunately that doesn't prevent the reader from getting a feeling of deja vu while progressing through this story of a smart woman who succumbs to the charms of a handsome young man who is not what he appears to be. Perhaps not even someone like Anita Shreve could have made this story fresh. It didn't help that she held back on the sexual details, vaguely hinting at the horrors her female character was subjected to, or that the injuries she sustains at her new lover's hands are forgotten by the next chapter. The story is partly redeemed by the last few chapters, specifically a friend's casual betrayal and the woman's final revelation (which barely escapes sounding contrived). A good beach read, nothing more.
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Summary: Luscious Erotic Thriller With a Twist
Review: Who among us hasn't looked into a handsome stranger's eyes and imagined or fantasized a forbidden tryst? Alice is crossing the street one mundane day in her mundane life and sees Adam, a devastatingly good-looking man. Adam's gaze matches hers and the fireworks begin. She's in his bed being deliciously and skillfully ravished before you can say "fatal attraction". I will admit that parts of the story were unbelievable, but the plot twists and love scenes more than made up for it. A teriffic tale of sexual obsession, love and murder. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Tale of Obsession
Review: *Killing Me Softly* is a tale of a young woman who gives up everything for a lustful, obsessed, sexually desirous relationship with a stranger she happens to run into on the street of London. Alice Loudon lives a life many envy: a job that brings in huge bucks, a stable loving relationship with her boyfriend Jake, a warm circle of friends she calls Crew. Yet everything changes the day she meets a stranger crossing the street. Impulsively Alice wrecks this old, safe life for an obsessed affair with Adam Tallis. She plunges into a deep realm of sexual pleasure and eroticism, into an insulated world that revolves around only herself and Adam. All ties are broken as if she no longer needs anyone but Adam Tallis. Ironically, Alice knows fairly little about her new love besides his body. As she unveils, layer by layer, Adam's troubled past Alice also found out about how this sudden obession has threatened her safety, sanity and life. Thriller. 3.8 stars.
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Summary: Intensely Passionate Read.
Review: Picked this book up on a recommendation, not my usual cup of tea. Couldn't put it down, one of those stories that make wonder how someone could do that. Then you find yourself wanting to know more. Very intense at times, scary. Sometimes gave me a queasy feeling. I don't think I can handle another story like this. I tend towards easy reads, fluff, romantic fiction and the such.
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Summary: Thrilling Me Slowly
Review: Author Nicci French's KILLING ME SOFTLY roars out of the starting gate like a ball of fire. A novel 'built on obsession', the reader is immediately intrigued by the main character's (Alice's) decision to give up her stable lifestyle for something and someone more daring. Halfway through the novel, French looses steam as the storyline grows tedious. By the end, KILLING ME SOFTLY just sputters to the finish line.
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