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Summary: Another Excellent Cameron
Review: Aiden Flynn, NYPD detective, accidentally finds email addressed to his upstairs neighbor while checking his own email on his neighbor's computer. The email is from a woman in London, Olivia Fitzdurham, who is a freelance photographer. Apparently, unbeknown to Olivia, she has accidentally captured on film something that others would prefer not be revealed. Olivia is being followed and threatened and is writing to Sam Ryan, who also happens to be a copy, about the situation. Aiden writes back to Olivia, posing as Sam Ryan his neighbor, and encourages her to come to the United States where he will help her. Aiden meets Olivia at the airport and the chase begins. Aiden and Olivia both become criminals on the run thanks to Ryan and his partner who set them up and implicate them in a crime. Ms. Cameron has a tendency to make her heroines rather drab with little confidence in their own appeal; sometimes I find this a bit boring. Olivia falls into this category and I found myself losing patience with the character. Olivia reminded me a great deal of "Paris Delight" Ms. Cameron's heroine in her novel "Pure Delights". Be that as it may, I found Glass Houses to be an entertaining read and would recommend it to all Cameron fans
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Summary: A great sequel
Review: All I could think of while reading this book was: gosh, I hope nobody knocks on the door! Aiden Flynn, from Key West, is the featured hero in this romantic suspense novel and Olivia FitzDurham the flighty British heroine. The premise of the story is that Aiden accidentally manages to view an untrustworthy colleague's e-mail inbox, and intercepts some troubled messages from Olivia, who thinks she is writing to an online friend, "Sam" for help. The problem? There is no Sam. Convinced that his fellow cop is up to no good and that an innocent woman is about to be dragged into danger, Aiden displays some of his white knight characteristics and tries to rescue her by posing as the fictitious "sam." The two soon find themselves up to their necks in bumbling thieves, murderers and villians. I loved this story, for the often humorous characters and dialogue, though the plot got a little bit confusing at times. I personally thought it was much better than Key West. For newcomers to Stella, though, I wouldn't suggest her newer books, but any of her older ones, like Pure Delights or True Bliss (I think those are the right titles). Even her historical Rossmara series is wonderful. Happy hunting!
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Summary: FOUR PLUS STARS!
Review: An extremely enjoyable and entertaining book. I loved Aiden, a real heck of a guy, and Olivia, although sometimes she tried too hard to hide her lights under the bushel. Suspenseful and interesting characters throughout. I will go for "Key West" next and any other book by Stella Cameron I can find.
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Summary: FOUR PLUS STARS!
Review: An extremely enjoyable and entertaining book. I loved Aiden, a real heck of a guy, and Olivia, although sometimes she tried too hard to hide her lights under the bushel. Suspenseful and interesting characters throughout. I will go for "Key West" next and any other book by Stella Cameron I can find.
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Summary: Poor
Review: Before Glass Houses, I had read one Stella Cameron book (The Best Revenge) and although I hadn't been too impressed I decided to give her a second shot. I was *very* wrong to have done so. I slogged my way through GH and ended up skim reading the last quarter of the book so that I could finish and forget about it. Not only was the plot and writing very poor, the characters were trite and cliched. Speaking as an Englishwoman, I was appalled how Olivia was portrayed...
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Summary: A great page turner -- Highly recommended
Review: Curiosity keeps NYPD detective Aiden Flynn heading upstairs to tend orchids belonging to a man he doesn't like. Ryan D. Hill's upstairs apartment benefits from sun and money, keeping both his plants and his computer in top-notch condition. So when Aiden's computer's on the fritz again, it seems logical for him to check email on his neighbor's machine. Ryan's also with the NYPD, but his nefarious activities quickly come to Aiden's attention when he snoops in Ryan's email. Using the handle Sam, Ryan has befriended photographer Olivia FitzDurham. When she relates some rather suspicious circumstances, Ryan's email encourage Olivia to fly to New York, leaving behind the dangerous men intent on some photos she took for a London magazine. At a loss as to why anyone would want the photos, Olivia flees when a man fails in an attempt to push her from the tube platform to the tracks below. Aiden pretends to be Sam, and aids in finalizing her plans to come to New York, meeting Olivia at the airport. Soon Ryan convinces his superiors that Olivia and Aiden are violent criminals and leads the chase after them. The resulting cross country chase intersperses danger with romance as Aiden and Olivia race against the stacking odds against them in a quest to prove their innocence. GLASS HOUSES weaves the ridiculous and the dangerous in a taut plot guaranteed to keep the pages turning. Bumbling bad guys, one who delights in feeding crumbs to the rats in his pockets, and a nymphomaniac woman give the novel an offbeat flavor. As the heroine struggles against the machinations in which she's become an unwitting part, her unexpected shows of strength result in a powerful character. In addition, the hero with the police dog with iron teeth, are reminiscent of the classic Columbo character, resulting in the perfect foil for this fun heroine. GLASS HOUSES comes highly recommended.
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Summary: Not Stella Cameron's best effort
Review: Glasshouses falls down for me in the rather cliched (American)portrayal of Olivia as a supposedly eccentric Englishwoman. She calls her parents 'Mummy' and 'Daddy.' Ick. Honestly, who does this past the age of 5 to 7 years today? The numbers of adult people who do this today must surely be getting smaller...some UK upper class, some southern US states? The rest of us just cringe. Add this to her poor clothes sense, and being considered 'wacky,' and it adds up to a sense of her as someone to whom you want to say 'grow up!'
The dialogue is corny as another review has noted. Not only for the English characters, but also the New York cops. Olivia's mother says, for example, that she is 'bemused' by Olivia. It just doesn't read as something most people in the English-speaking world would say today.
The dialogue and characerisations give a cliched and somewhat old fashioned view of English people (twee upper class dialogue, darling) juxtaposed with a cliched view of New York cops.
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Summary: Confunsing 2
Review: I do not recommend this book at all! Don't buy this book! The first reviewer says it all. I, too, was left confused and irritated. Th character of Olivia was stupid. She was an airhead with no confidence who wouldn't listen or follow directions. You don't want her to be a wet noodle but you would like her to have some sense. This book was better than Key West, the heroine in that story really made me crazy.
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Summary: Sorry, Stella; not up to par
Review: I have always really enjoyed Stella Cameron's books and so when this one came out in hardback I paid the price thinking I'd have a keeper. Not so! It goes in the trade/yard sale pile.I found the plot incoherent and the characters unrealistic. I just kept slogging through it waiting for the story to get my attention: didn't happen.
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Summary: Stella has lost her groove
Review: I have read all of Stella Cameron's books and seen a downward spiral in the last few. However, she's really done it this time: chapters dealing with "bad guys" were unintelligible and those dealing with Aiden and Olivia were boring. Try harder, Stella!
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