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Summary: Sure to grab you by the throat
Review: Thrillers are not my normal read, but I'd heard intriguing things about the husband-and-wife team that writes as "Nicci French" and I had a longish flight to catch, etc etc.Glad I took the plunge. Middle class, 30-ish, bright and pretty, Alice locks eyes with a devilishly handsome stranger on a wintry London street and within a few pages has abandoned her safe existence in the grip of a sexual obsession. Doesn't hurt that he's a legitimate mountaineering hero, or that his bedroom technique takes her to places where she's never been. We see the pitfalls long before Alice seems able to, but the story still comes at us dense with dread. This is not so much a horror-thriller, as a story of adult life - complete with Nick Hornby-like musings on the contradictions of modern love - that spirals down into a fairly credible darkness. Think of it as "Bridget Jones' Dairy of Death." I still have a question about the climbing rope, but what the hell... This book had me reaching for it in the spare moments when the lights were red. And you don't get THAT everyday!
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Summary: Killer book!
Review: I would have to say that this was one of the best books that I have EVER read. There is not all that much that you can say without giving it all away, its all inter-connected. This was a wonderfully written story. This book wow'ed me completly. I ordered it on-line and when I got it, I was reading another book, but I flipped through it to get a peak. I kinda cheated, but that just made me want to read it more. Then when I got to read it, I could not put the book down all day. I was falling asleep or else I would have read it in one day. This book touches on forbidden desires, only takes it to a different level. Very dark, but at the same time, its the love. The overpower of love. Love and obsession. You can almost see your self getting cought up in the same kind of situation as Alice with Adam. What would it be like to be loved like that? Adam's character was brilliant and the telling of the story......you have to read it your self. Its dark things, that are "not suppose to" turn people on, but Adam was so intense, so sincere, I was not sure what to think. I have not had a book affect so many emotions, ever. It was almost a heartbreaking story, I felt it wrench inside. I almost cried when I finished the book. I felt as lost as Alice. It really made you get in there and feel with them. I will be reading this again and consider it a prize to my keeper collection. I highly reccomend this book, but only to people who are not faint hearted. While the sex is not very detailed, there are scenes where it is violent. More the idea, but your brain knows where to take it. But, the violent sex is needed for the story. Not all the sex is violent, but enough to where more touchy types would whine about the content. Personally, I ABSOLUTLY LOVED THIS STORY.
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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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